I had some important business to do. First off, Sokka, Suki and Toph were all missing. Second, I had almost gone missing when I went to town one day and someone jumped me and tried to stuff me into a bag. But fortunately, they weren't benders, so I easily beat them. I needed to know what was going on. Every time I saw Zuko, he would be staring at me like there was something wrong, but he absolutely never made eye contact with me like he used to.

But maybe right now wasn't the best time. It sounded like Zuko and Mai were fighting again. But what exactly were they fighting about? I leaned against the giant door and pressed my ear against it. At the moment, I really didn't care that it was rude, I just needed to know what they were always fighting about. Especially since Zuko's rooms was right next to mine and I could hear them for hours on end yealling and shouting. I had lost over 30 hours of sleep because of it, I kind of had a right to know what the heck they were talking about.

"Why don't you just face it, Zuko?" It was Mai.

Face what? I thought.

"I've got it all figured out, Mai. You have to remember that I'm the leader of this country and you're not." His voice was like steel. He never even mentioned that. This had to be something that he didn't want to talk about this subject.

"Three of your friends are missing, Zuko. You have to do something. Why aren't you doing something about it? Trying to find them?"

"Because if I don people will find out about it." He explained, not making any sense to me, and Mai's next comment gave away that she did really either.

"What people?" she asked. "Who are you worried about? Wait… you're worried about Katara aren't you? Sokka is her brother and Suki's practically her twin sister, just from another mom. And Toph is her little sister. You need to loo for them. Do you know what it will do to Katara, if she finds out that you didn't do anything?"

Whoa, I never knew that she was that worried about me. I considered her a slight friend who I could have a conversation with, but only about things like clothes or current events or something like that. Now, she was worried about what would happen to me if I found out, which I already did.

There was a long deadly silence in there for a second. Then I heard Mai scream. Oh, my gosh!! What was Zuko doing, this didn't seem like him. I opened the door and barged in. But Zuko wasn't standing anywhere near Mai, they were about twenty feet apart. In between them there was about 7 men, big and bulky. There was another five or six around them. One of them had Zukos hand pinned behind him, so he couldn't fire bend very easily.

I took all the water from the small water fountain just outside his west window. I froze all the men in between them and made a big title wave towards Mai. I didn't mean to hit her, But I had to because there was no other way to separate her from the men pinning her down. They all went up, in a big surge of water. I looked Zuko who had actually manages to knock two guys unconscious and had almost another guys down. He didn't need his bending, he had his physical strength and stamina.

"Katara!" He shouted staring straight at me, his eyes were almost blood thirsty.

"What?" I said, mad that he was interrupting me.

"Watch out!" He pointed above me right before someone almost fell from the ceiling, me breaking his fall. I winced as the man kicked my head.

I looked at Zuko, hoping that he hadn't seen that, he would be going crazy if he noticed it. I didn't need him to stay focused on his men, while I got this punk off me. Good, he wasn't even looking in my direction. I kicked the guy in the nuts, stood up on my knees and then grabbed his arms and flipped him over my head. He stared at me, stunned.

"But you're a-

"Girl? Yeah, face it. You're not all that strong." I cut him off.

It looked like I had ticked him off big time. Oh well. He tried to push me over by kicking me in the stomach, still on the floor. I bent over for a mom, ready to puke, but my fighting instinct took over. I slid to the side just when he was about to kick me again. Made a big pointy piece of ice and then chucked it at him. I flinched when it stabbed him in the throat. All the other men looked at me and started retreating.

Why were they leaving? I was glad that they were leaving, but I had expected them to put up more of a fight. They all jumped out of the window and disappeared as quickly as they had came. I looked back to Mai who was rubbing her shoulder and blinking really hard. She seemed okay to me, although she might be sore because she had crashed into the wall, but no life threatening injuries. I would have to apologize for doing that. And I would make it clear that it was an accident.\, which it was. I would never do that to Mai. Well, not anymore. I did hurt her a few times before the end of the was, but only because she was on Azula's side.

I looked at Zuko, his jaw was stiff and he looked really mad.

"Um, are you guys okay?"

"Yeah." Replied Mai. "Thanks for watching my back."

"You're welcome." I turned to Zuko. "And you?" I was pressing, especially since he usually lied about when he got hurt.

"I'm good." He replied.

"Really?" I muttered under my breath.

"I think he has something he has to tell you." Mai glared at him.

"I'm fine okay?" He snapped, pretending he didn't hear Mai.

I looked down and almost choked. The guy wasn't breathing and I could feel a pulse anywhere. My eyes widened and I looked at both of them. They were both staring at me like there was something wrong with me.

"Katara?" They both asked "what-

I was gone before they could ask me anything.

Welll here's what was gone; I had just killed someone.