Katara awakened to the smell of smoke. She sat up and scratced her messy hair...wait scratched? She looked at her wrist and whole body- was she free? She carefully walked out of the bamboo shelter and saw zuko sitting down looking at his bandaged foot- his armor was gone he only wore grey cloths. Katara walked over to him her hands at her side. "Why did you cut the ropes?" She asked softly.
"Did you want them on?" Zuko sounded annoyed. Katara huffed. "No! I was just asking!" She sat across from him and said firmly. "Did you send a signal yet? To say we are down here?" "What do you think the fire is for?" he glared. Katara got up and stormed off. "I'm going to find me some food!" She screamed and walk over to the bamboo forest. She saw some worms eww, orange berries- ok, mineral rocks, and some strange nuts. She put them in her pouch and walked back to the camp.
Zuko had melted the top of his first cantina to place water in itand he set it over the fire. Katara sat in her spot again and opened her pouch. She poured the inside substence on a big leaf she found next to her.
Total Result For Katara 5 - Orange berries 2 - mineral rocks 6- strange nuts.
She split the big leaf in half and placed 3 berries,1 mineral rock, and 4 nuts on her leaf and handed the rest to zuko on his leaf. He looked at her wrist, it had rope burn, a cut, and a hand bruise...one that he place. He grabed his share and ate some off the nasty foods. Katara then looked at the cantina, she dared not grab it- unlike Zuko who just reached in. She gasped as he put the water down and told Katara once it cooled to just take sips. She nodded and once cool took tiny sips but still wonderd how Zuko could have reached in to the fire to grab the pot.
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3 days later
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Still no sign of help Zuko blinked a couple times, He mostly sat when he couldn't take pain anymore. Katara couldn't help look at his bumpes,bruises,and dry blood. She crawled next to Zuko and looked up at him. "What's wrong with your foot?" She whisperd and touched it gentely. "Ow! Nothing- leave it alone!" Zuko steamed and turned away from Katara. She sighed and turned him back around.
"Stay still..." She brought Zuko's foot up to her lap and she withdrew a bit of drinking water from the carved bone. Almost magic her hand surrounded her hand with a glow. Her hand gentely placed on his foot "It's going to hurt a little..." She warned and he hissed. His eye's closed for a moment then he opened them, his foot was not bruised and the cuts fanished.
She smiled her eye's closed then frowned. "What's wrong?" Zuko asked stareing at her soft lips. "Nothing...how long do you think we will be here?" Zuko shruged.
He moved the strands of loose hair out of her face, notecing water droplets at the cornors of her eyes. "Don't cry..." The prince genetly wiped away the tears.
"I just miss my brother...and Aang..." She sighed. Her face turned to the side to avoid the prince's hand.
Katara stood up and marched away from Zuko, "I will be back...I'm just going to walk around..."
Zuko nodded as he went to the river when looking inside for fish. They only been surviing on heated water, nuts and berries. "Zuko! Zuko!" A girl screamed. Zuko turned around. Katara came running out of the bamboo jungle fallowed by a huge snake beagle. Katara triped and she looked behind her the Vipers mouth open wide ready to engulf her in one swallow.
The prince took off with all the streagth with a big force jump he kicked fire at the viper's eyes. The snakle beagle turned to Zuko he went in for the kill, diving into the ground mouth wide. Katara acted quickly by grabing a shard of bamboo almost as big as a dagger (how surprising) she ran up the long back missing the wings, sat on the snakes head and stab the eye. The moster screeched, throwing Katara off, and slithered into the river.
"Ahhh!" Katara screamed waiting for her body to hit the gorund. Quickly Zuko caught Katara. She stared up at him shocked, "Did you catch me?" She cocked her hand to the side. "You didn't want me too?" He asked as he put her feet on the ground. She keept looking in his eyes, she touched his scar gentely. He grabed her wrist and huffed.
"Don't touch my scar." His lips brushed against hers. She gasped. "What was that?!" She snaped. "Don't worry." He pushed her into his chest, arms wraped around her back. "Zuko- Stop!" His lips hit her's roughly.
She didn't know what to do, his tounge made his way in her mouth, she gave in quickly. Their tounges tangled. His smell filled her nose, she moaned lightly. Slowly pushing him away Katara took a step back. "I- I ... I can't I like Aang not you." Katara quickly ran in to her bamboo hut and cried on the moist floot leaving a stun Zuko.
