Katara lays there, breathing shallow. She jumped in front of Zuko so she would get struck by the lighting and not him. "Katara!" Zuko screams in fear and disbelief. "Why would you do that?!" He looks up to see Azula snickering which enrages him further. "Now now ZuZu, are we going to cry over the peasant?" With rage radiating off him he lunges at her throwing fireball after fireball.

As Katara lays there struggling to breath, she holds her abdomen.. The same place she shot Aang. Aang.. She wishes she would have kissed him on the balcony, wishes she would have told him right there of her feelings, war be damned. But instead she filled his heart with doubt and lies. Tears brim her eyes and begin to fall. She closes her eyes and she can almost feel his arms around her, his breath on her neck... How she wishes these things would come to pass. She couldn't let Azula take Zuko down, Zuko is the fire nations only hope.. She can't even try to heal herself, she hadn't the strength. Her world goes dark, faces and special moments flash in front of her eyes. Aang, Soka, Toph, Appa, Suki, her mother, her father and her village. Again, the fear of never really kissing Aang, holding him.. Never seeing anyone again, fresh tears wash away the old tears.

"I will KILL you Azula!" Zuko shouts. Azula laughs at him, "Oh look, your watertribe filth is crying. Do you think she's scared? Whats the matter? Afraid of death are you supposed fearless watertribe master? Is that some kind of joke? Hah! Ahah ha ha ha!" She taunts as she tries to approach her. But Zuko wouldn't have it. He runs over to Katara and stands over her protectively. "Stay the fuck away from her." He seethes. Azula tilts her head to the left with a wicked grin on her face. "And just might I ask, what are you going to do to stop me?" Once again he lunges at her throwing fireball after fireball, fire kick after fire kick. He has her on the defensive, which he relishes. The moment however is short-lived. Azula has him on the defensive and soon she has him by his hair on his knees in front of her. She looks down upon him grinning madly. "Daddy will be so pleased!"

"KATARA!" Both Azula and Zuko turn their heads to see Aang flying down on his glider. Horror and fear fills the young avatar's heart. He lands swiftly and runs to her. He falls to his knees and looks her over in a full panic now that he realizes she is hanging on by a thread. "Ka-Katara," he sobs, "What happened?" Zuko, refreshed with new hope gets out of Azula's hold and runs to Aang. "Aang!" He shouts as he makes his way there. Aang looks in the direction his name is called, barely there. "Zuko, what happened?!" Zuko's eyes are also now fresh with tears. "Aang, I-I couldn't stop her! Azula, she tried to shoot me with lightning, but she leaped in front of me!"

With those words his eyes and tattoo's began to glow. He looked down at Zuko and with the voice of his and all his past lives combined he said, "Zuko, I know your not to blame. Get Katara out of here! Get her to a healer fast! She is barely hanging on..." Zuko's eyes brows furrow in confusion but sheer fear from seeing Aang like that puts his confusion aside as he picks up Katara and flees."

Azula looks up infuriated. "So, is the Avatar state suppose to scare me? Bring it little boy." Aang stomps his foot sending Azula twenty feet in the air, then sends blast of water, wind and fire at her. She barely escapes each blast. Aang in a fury flies over to her at a fast speed throwing rocks at her to bind her hands feet and mouth so she couldn't attack him. He slowly approaches her seething with anger. He comes within an inch of her face before seething, "If Katara dies, I will kill you. Right now a worse punishment for you would be to take your bending away like I did your father." For the first time Azula shows fear. What does he mean take my bending away? No one can do that. Just then Aang places his right thumb on her forehead and his left on her chest. Within minutes the glowing lights fill the sky. Red and blue the same, then red dominating then blue. This went on for a few minutes before Azula was consumed by Aang's blue light. Aang took a few steps back and released Azula from her bindings. Azula in utter shock that he released her, not believing a word he said about taking away her bending tried to launch a full-scale attack. She tried firebending, nothing. She tired to create lightning, nothing. "Ahhhhhh! You can't! I will kill you!" She screams as she charges the Avatar. He air blasts her backwards as he comes down from the avatar state. "You will never be able to hurt anyone with your bending anymore and will spend the rest of your days in prison!" Azula smiles to herself for a brief moment. Aang catches it. "What could you have to possibly smile at?" "Ahaha, you may have gotten me, but I took out your precious peasant." Aang falters in his step a bit. Katara... I have to go to her! He raises some earth from the ground to create a stone prison. "Stay tight, the guards will be here soon to transport you." Azula begins laughing like a madman.

Aang runs to his glider and takes off to find Katara. She can't die! She just can't! His heart swells with dread as he remembered what shape she was in when Zuko took her away from here. A single tear ran down his face, "I WILL save you Katara!"

A/N:

This is my first fanfiction ever. I love ATLA and have been wanting to write one for sometime. I know this chapter is really short, but I wanted to get some feedback before continuing. Let me know what you think! Thank you for reading:)