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Chapter One: Caught

The sky was clear. The breeze was pure. And everything was perfect. Or so it seemed. Aang and Katara were walking down the market streets and everything felt right until they heard a disturbance ahead. Aang and Katara looked at each other and nodded and started running towards the area.

The scene ahead surfaced a feeling of alarm and apprehension at the pits of their stomachs. It was Azula and she'd brought what looked like 30 soldiers, maybe more. The question was, how'd she find them? As the two slowed to a stop 20 more soldiers came from behind. They were now completely surrounded.

The four took up fighting stances to match those of the guards but the guards didn't advance or attack. Azula stepped forward through the ring of guards along with Ty Lee and Mai. "Give up Avatar. There's no way you can win."

Aang felt doubtful at his odds too but refused to show it. He had to protect Katara. When he didn't answer or relax from his defensive stance Azula merely sighed and motioned for Ty Lee and Mai to retrieve the Avatar for her. Unknown to Aang and Katara this had just been a distraction as two soldiers stepped forward while their backs were turned. The two soldiers each shot a dart through a bamboo straw each hitting its own target.

Aang and Katara both wheeled around to see what had just hit them both questioning what it was that caused the small pinch.

"Now," Azula said in a bored voice. She seemed to let of the impression that it was too easy.

About ten soldiers shot fire directly at the two kids in the middle of the circle. Aang immediately bended a wall of swirling air to protect Katara and himself. Aang could feel his muscles burning as he held the shield but knew he couldn't stop; Katara was almost defenseless due to the fact that all she had was her pouch of bending water which wouldn't make much of a shield against the wall of fire being thrown at them. It was up to Aang to protect her and he knew it; he just couldn't let anything happen to her, but the longer he kept this up the more he was wishing it would stop.

"Ok that should be enough," said Azula as the soldiers ceased their attack.

Aang stopped bending and let out a soft moan as he started to fall to his knees in exhaustion.

"Aang! Are you ok?" Katara questioned as she quickly grabbed him and helped him to stand. Why was he getting so tired this easily?

The soldiers started to advance on the two but Katara started to whip as many soldiers as she could reach if they came near Aang, but she too was taken over by exhaustion and the number of advancing soldiers was too much for her to over come.

Aang fought in vein with the little energy he had as he felt is arms being grabbed and wrenched behind him and tied tightly. Azula watched and smirked at the useless final attempts the two were making to escape.

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Toph and Sokka had been sitting around in the rooms they were generously offered while in town relaxing and enjoying the downtime they rarely ever got due to the constant traveling and running from the fire nation. The idea that they could have the few last days without any problems from the fire nation seemed too good to be true, and the event that was about to take place was going too prove their theory to be correct.

The two jumped and ran outside as they heard yelling outside about the fire nation just outside the town. They started running down the streets of the small town looking for any sign of Katara and Aang but after a few minutes they decided to hold off the fire nation until the other two benders got there. They couldn't run around all day looking for help they might not have even needed so they headed off quickly to protect the town.

When they arrived at the scene they saw the soldiers leaving back towards the boats docked right outside the town. They couldn't understand why they'd leave already until something caught Sokka's eye.

"They've got Katara and Aang!"

Authors Note:

Aaaah new story. Review if u like it…should I keep going with it?