AN: my first Avatar: The Last Airbender fic! I'm so excited! Anyway, this is purely Zutara. Oh, and I don't plan on giving Aang an appearance. And I need a Beta. Anyone interested?
Avatar: The Last Airbender did not come from my head.
Katara of the Southern Water Tribe was enslaved into service at the age of thirteen. Now, fifteen years old, she had worked on a fire nation navy ship, until two days ago, when all the workers started a riot. The firebenders, in their haste to stop the riot, pretty much destroyed their own ship. Katara had found the biggest piece of wreckage and, being a waterbender, escaped as quickly as possible. This is what led her to the pirates and, more importantly, their sinister captain. But not yet.
Lying on the cold metal from the ruined ship, staring up at the stars, Katara wished she wasn't a waterbender. It was true that her bending, however basic, had saved her, but it was also the biggest reason she was captured. The first time the fire nation had come looking for her, the last waterbender in the South Pole; they had killed her mother, but left without finding Katara. Her father, powered by revenge, left her and her older brother, Sokka, with their grandmother while he went to war. Then the fire nation came again, this time capturing her. The sole purpose of her being on the fire nation navy ship was her waterbending. The soldiers were ordered to capture as many waterbenders as possible and use them to power the great war ships.
She hadn't seen Sokka or Gran Gran since, but she hoped Gran Gran was safe in the village. She knew it was too much to ask that Sokka was safe, though. He was either dead, captured, or fighting fire nation with Dad. All options were terrible to think about, but she told her self he was with Dad. It was better than her fate, or being dead.
Katara was exhausted from waterbending to make the float go faster. She was also starving. So it was easy to fall asleep, and let the soft push and pull of the waves guide her into dreamland.
Zuko will be in Chapter One: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Prologue is boring, I know. It will get better! Reviews are very much appreciated :)
