Captured part two- by Aang-mega-fan

Aang was walking down a long, dark passage way lit by red flames. All that he could hear was his echoing footsteps and his breath. He turned one corner after another until he came to a tall, black door. Engraved on the door was a flame. He pushed the door open and saw a figure standing in the shadows.

"I have been waiting for you Aang." The figure stepped forwards and Aang recognised him at once. It was Monk Gyasto.

"Monk Gyasto. Why are you…?"

"You must escape Aang. You must find the way out."

The figure changed into Zuko.

"Where is Katara?" Aang shouted. "Where is she!"

Zuko laughed at him.

"You are to late Avatar. We have already disposed of her. You left her behind. You left her unprotected."

Aang stood stunned. He was paralysed. Katara was gone; forever.

"No." Aang could hardly speak. "You…you haven't." He was shaking all over.

"Oh we have Avatar. She's gone for good."

The figure disappeared. Aang could hear Katara speaking in distant voice;

"Promise me that we will stay together through this. Promise me Aang."

He heard his own voice reply.

"I promise. I wont let you out of my site. If they take me away, I promise I'll come back for you."

He had lied to her. He had lied to his friend. His best friend. He fell to his knees, his hands over his face.

"How could I have let them take her? Why did I leave her!" he shouted. His voice echoed around the room.

Suddenly, twenty guards came into the room they surrounded him. He remembered what Master had said. He had to escape, but there were to many of them. He was out numbered. The guards closed in around him. There was no escape. Guards came up behind him and tied his arms behind his back. They led him into a room where a man sat behind a large flame. Zuko stood next to him, a huge smile of pride on his face.

"Here is the Avatar father." Zuko said to the man. "He's all yours."

"Very good, Prince Zuko." The man said. "Now you will finally meet your end Avatar." One of the guards pushed Aang down onto his knees. The man stood up and walked towards Aang. Aang knew that this was the end. He closed his eyes tight, heard a sword being drawn and then…

Aang woke with a start. He was covered in sweat. His breathes were short and quick. Aang looked around him. He let out a sigh of relief. Katara was laying at his feet, safe and unharmed. He calmed down and let his breath go back to its normal speed.

"It was all a dream." He said to himself. "Just a dream."

Aang could not feel his arms or his legs. He felt numb all over. Katara soon woke up. At first she did not seem to know where she was, but she soon remembered.

"Has anyone come in during the night?" she asked him.

"I don't know. I've been asleep just like you have. Oh, my back." A searing pain went up Aang's spine. Katara stood up and looked at Aang more closely.

"Why are you wet? What's happened to you. Your looking even more pale than you did yesterday."

Aang did not want to tell her his dream, because he knew that this would worry her.

"Nothing. It's really hot in here; that's all."

Katara did not question him any further. However, she did not believe that nothing was wrong. He was soaking wet and he was deathly pale. She decided that she would find out what he was keeping from her.

"I dreamt that I was falling into a volcano last night. I suppose that that's because the temperature in here. It's quite warm in here."

Aang looked at her. He could see that she wanted him to follow suite, but he was not going to tell her about his dream.

"I never remember my dreams nowadays. I always forget them when I wake up."

Aang could see that Katara suspected him. He sighed and decided he could not keep it from her forever. He told her his whole dream, but he missed out the fact that she had been killed by the firebenders. Instead, he told her that she was still being held hostage. As Aang came to the part of the dream where he was brought before Zuko's father, he let his head hang. Katara did not interrupt as Aang told her his nightmare.

"Dreams don't always come true do they? I mean, they wont really… well… kill you will they?" Her voice got gradually quieter as she asked the question.

There was silence.

"I don't know." he replied. "But I wont let them keep you here. I'll make sure that you escape before they do any thing to me. I promise."

Katara could not help but admire Aang's bravery and loyalty. She gave him a cuddle and stood next to him for a while. After going through all this with Katara, he did not feel embarrassed that she was so close to him. He felt reassured by her presence.

"Why haven't they chained me up as well?" Katara asked him. "I've been thinking about that since last night when we arrived here."

"I'm glad they didn't though." said Aang. "If they had, you wouldn't have been able to stand next to me or… comfort me." Aang blushed at the last two words. Katara smiled. "He may be brave," Katara mused, "but he's very easily embarrassed."

Katara was very tired as she could not sleep for most of the night. She wanted to just fall to the ground and be dragged into the deepest sleep. That would make her relax. Not to have any worries or be in any danger. Then Katara thought of what might happen to Aang if she was not there to protect him. Anything could happen to him. When Aang had told her his nightmare, she became very frightened for him. She told Aang that she would not sleep until they were free when he told her to rest. Katara also refused to leave Aang's side. She stayed standing there even when Aang told her she should sit down, because she was not chained standing up.

Aang was very worried about Katara as well. Even when he told her to sleep, he did not want to be alone. He wanted to be near Katara forever and never leave her side. Aang wondered silently whether the dream would come true or not. The one part in his dream that he dreaded to come true was not him being killed, but the fact that he had left Katara and in doing so, had allowed her to be killed by the firebenders. His heart stopped when he pictured Katara dead in his mind. He closed his eyes. He could not bear the site. At that moment a guard came in with water and bread for them. he left it near the door and left. Katara left it there. Aang would not dare eat it. He did not trust the firebenders at all. He would not put it past them if they had poisoned it all.

Aang thought about Katara and how she might be able to escape if they could beat the guard when he came next time.

"We should come up with a plan for you to escape." Aang told Katara. When the next guard comes, you might be able to run and get help."

"What! I'm not leaving you. Ever." Aang did not expect that response from Katara.

"You've got to escape Katara. I'll be fine here. I'm sure I can come up with some way to escape."

Katara stood in front of him so that her face was only a few inches from Aang's.

"I wont leave you. You promised that you wouldn't leave me, so now I'm promising that I wont leave you. I'd regret it my whole life."

"But what if I escape unharmed?" Aang asked.

Katara stayed silent for a few seconds lost in thought. Her head dropped down.

"But what if you don't?" she whispered. "What if they…"

Aang interrupted her.

"Then I don't escape. But at least I'll leave this world knowing that there is someone here to defend it in my place." Aang told her. "Look at me." Katara looked up into his eyes with her tear filled blue ones. "I'll be fine. I'm the Avatar. I'm sure I'll think of something."

Katara's lip quivered and her eyes filled with tears again. The tears started to create a river down her cheeks.

"I love you Aang. I-I don't know what I'd d-do with out you!" She put hers arms round his neck and cried into his shoulder as she had done yesterday.

"I don't know what I'd do without you either, but… you've got to get out of here. I would prefer to know that you had a chance to break free, rather than knowing that you could end up staying here without anyone to protect you." Katara lifted her head from his shoulder. Her eyes were red. Aang leant forward and kissed her on her forehead. "Come on. We've got to come up with a plan." Katara did not argue, but inside her, she was broken hearted.

End of part two