Hey, I hope you like this fanfic! Just let me warn you it is scary. You will be scared. I was scared when I was writing this! Oh and there's some blood in this. Well read on, if you dare! Oh and please don't kill me for what happens to the characters!
I stood there with his warm arms so tight around me I couldn't even budge my arms. I squirmed inside his grip, but with no prevail. I had taken a secret midnight stroll and came upon a small stream. I had been waterbending but was thrown off guard by Zuko. He had snuck up on me and grabbed my arms causing me to have no bending. So now I was caught by him in the woods with no way of helping myself.
"Let go of me." I said a little angry. "When Sokka finds us you're…"
"Oh you mean that idiot with the boomerang." he said. "I found him dead at your camp. Guess my soldiers got there before I did." he said as if it were nothing.
"Let go of me you monster!" I said both angry and sad at the same time.
"I don't think so." he said grabbing tighter.
"Get your hands off me." I said squirming yet again.
"No." he said smirking. "Now tell me where the Avatar is hiding."
"I told you once and I'll tell you again, never." I said angrily. "Now get off me!"
"You're in no position to be making demands." he said. "Now tell me where the Avatar's hiding, peasant!"
"NO!" I said anger clear in my voice.
"Then you are of no more use to me, peasant." he said.
"What are you going to do?" I said. "Kill me?"
"Precisely." he said with the evilest voice I'd ever heard.
"You're bluffing!" I said angrily.
"Oh am I?" he said smirking. "You won't tell me where he is, as your no longer scared of me, and with you it'll be one less water tribe peasant to deal with. Give me one reason why I shouldn't just end your pathetic excuse for a life right here and now." He created a fire dagger and started putting it towards my neck. He wasn't bluffing. He wouldn't lose anything if I was gone. If anything he would gain something. He could and would kill me if had the chance, just like now. I felt the hairs on my neck stick up and my heart beat drastically increase. I started breathing heavy and knew it would be over soon. Suddenly I had a flashback of when I was a little girl.
I was walking back from penguin sledding with Sokka and saw that the tribe had smoke coming up.
"Oh no." Sokka said fear in his eyes.
"Socky, what's going on?" I said scared.
"Katara, I want you to stay right here." he said. "Whatever you do don't come to the tribe." He ran off toward the tribe as I stood their confused. I sat down a little scared and looked around. It was getting dark and I was getting scared of the animals around me. Ignoring what Sokka had said I ran for the tribe.
"Sokka, where are you?" I said looking around. "I'm scared." I turned a corner and stopped as I saw my mother and a man dressed in strange armor with a white mask under his helmet. He had his arms around my mother much like Zuko had me. I watched scared and saw him make a small fire dagger.
"Please no." my mom pleaded. Before I knew what was happening the man slit my mother's throat and she fell to the ground. She started gagging and grasped her throat as she puked up blood. Before I knew it she was dead on the ground and the murderer was nowhere to be seen. I started trembling and felt a tear run down my cheek.
Suddenly I snapped back and saw the fire dagger close to my throat. "Please no." I said uncontrollably. I started crying scared of what it would feel like. I could see out of the corner of my eye that he was smirking, obviously enjoying seeing me this scared.
"Any last words, peasant?" he said as he brought the dagger dangerously close. I could feel my skin sweating from not only the dagger but fright. I was soon going to see my mother and Sokka.
Right as he was about to slit my throat I said "Wait!" he paused but didn't take the fire dagger away.
"I'm waiting." he said smirking.
"I'll be your." I said choking on the words. "Your slave." I saw he was still smirking but he slowly took the dagger away from my neck.
"And no funny business." he said staring at me. "If you turn on your word or try and help the Avatar I will kill you, no matter what you say or how much you plead." He let me go and tied me up on my wrists and ankles. He tossed me over his shoulder and started walking off. Soon we made it to his ship and he tossed me on the deck. "Did you capture the Avatar?" he asked one of the men.
"Yes sir." he said but then glanced down at me. "Uh sir, no offense but what is she doing here?"
"I was going to kill her but she offered to be my families slave." he said smirking. How I wanted to water whip that smirk right off his face but I just told myself I could do this. It was better than being dead. Or was it?
So did you like it. Did you like the little flashback? Oh and I thought that Socky would be a cute nickname you know sort of like Zuko's nickname is Zuzu. How many people were actually thought that Zuko was going to kill her. I myself thought he was going to! Well actually he was going to but she said something just in time. Now Azula is going to really annoy her and eventually Katara explodes on her. Oh whoops! Did I just say that out loud?