Burning Love

Book One: Heart, Chapter Two

By JadenXJesse lover

A/N OMG I'm back! Sorry for the EXTREMELY late update, I've been on a long school holiday and had major writer's block. I've been thinking that I've lost my writer's touch so after this chapter, if you think I shouldn't continue just say so in the comments and I'll leave these two chapters up and finish there. I'll listen to the majority vote.

Zuko and Katara regrouped with Sokka and Aang outside, subtly hidden by a fight between a guard and a new prisoner. Though it was meeting between friends, due to the circumstances, Zuko and Sokka had to act with some brutality and force, to convince the uncaring public they were guards.

'AANG!' Katara lightly shouted as she had not seen him since they were entered in to the prison. They were kept and isolated in prison cells farthest apart. 'I've missed you so much! How are you? They haven't done anything to you have they? I swear I'll kill them if they've hurt my Aang!' she hugged him tightly, carefully hiding the events which happened the night before between her and Zuko.

'I'm fine Katara, I'm fine. It's you I'm worried about! Some of the prisoners have been talking about a Bloody Puppet Witch around your quarters. I hope that... that... MONSTER didn't get you!' Aang kissed his girlfriend and one and only true love.

Katara attempted to recover with a weak, worried smile, the kind you may find on a character in a sitcom when they're trying to hide something.

'Ok, you guys, enough chit chat. We need to make a plan on how to get out.' Zuko looked around suspiciously, searching for any eavesdroppers. Nothing. Good. 'Right, Sokka and I have out lined a rough idea: tonight's going to be a full moon so Katara and Aang,' he quietly whispered, 'your water bending will be at its most powerful tonight so we can make the most of it.'

For the following thirty minutes, the former Fire Nation prince and the mastermind behind the attack of the Fire Nation capital on the day of an eclipse confided their plans with Aang and Katara. They reasoned and concluded the details of the plan along with the problem of finding a decoy for the patrolling night guards. At first Sokka suggested that Katara blood bended them, but Aang and Katara explained that the guards patrolled in threes and that Katara can only blood bend two people at once.

They searched for a desperate escapee and easily found a small, timid man with more power than his fragile image portrays. His name was Chin and was jailed for a rebellion act against the Fire Nation. He was the group leader and was personally sentenced by Ozai himself. It was also easy to convince him as soon as Aang revealed himself as the Avatar.

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Night dawned and the plan began. Sokka roughly escorted Katara towards Aang's side of the prison, where Chin's cell is also located at. Meanwhile Zuko opened the door of Chin's cell as three guards were nearing. He grabbed Chin roughly and tried to hand cuff him. As was practised, Chin began to shoot fire at Zuko and was immediately spotted by the patrolling guards. 'I want back up! This prisoner's gone wild!' Zuko acted as he and Chin continued their mock fight. Soon the guards were at critical distance from Chin as they were about to fire, Zuko ambushed them with his fire, which glowed a light multi-coloured flame (which he gained from his enlightenment from the dragons). The guards screamed but soon Chin (who was still mesmerised by Zuko's mystical flames) melted their helmets in to their mouths, forever silencing them.

'C'mon you guys! We haven't got long 'till the next group of guards come!' Sokka warned

'We have 15 minutes 'till they come! So Katara put on this guard suit and help me put the bodies into the cell.' Zuko ordered

Now three of the five, Zuko, Sokka and Katara, were in guards' outfits. They escorted Aang and Chin who acted like a true prisoner being sent for punishment, along the corridors and towards the cable cars, the only way in or out of this hell hole.

Their plan was going smoothly until they met another group of guards on their route. They remained confident like any staff at work would be. One of the guards seemed very suspicious about them. 'Have I seen you somewhere?' he pointed at Katara with a tinge of nostalgia, 'Wait a minute...' he said with a sudden realisation. 'Is that really you? Katy? Oh my! It really is you!' the guard hugged her tightly as if he'd seen an old love of his, whilst Aang and Zuko filled with annoyance and irritation. 'It's me, baby, Herbert! Wow, you never told me you went back here!'

'Uh... yeah, I joined last... I think Thursday...' Katara acted, incredibly well if I may say so myself.

'Well? Aren't you going to tell me how the restaurant business was?' The eager guard asked

'Great, magnificent! But then we got rat-frogs – A/N Since we're in the Avatar world and all the animals are hybrids I thought this would make a perfect pest – and the agency shut us down, but we had some good times.' Katara said, now on the edge of haste as the moon would soon be at its peak.

'Aw, unlucky! You were a great cook; you made some awesome things when we were together! Ok then, I see you've got some prisoners in your hands, I'll let you get on.'

'Ok then, thanks... Hey! Be sure to call me!' She finished convincingly. The two groups went their separate ways and all was well again.

'Man you're good!' The others simultaneously whispered, she smiled, half-embarrassed.

They reached the cable cars and saw around 15 guards. 'Fifteen against five, how unfair,' Sokka whispered, 'for them!' Zuko and Chin sent a wave of flames at them, catching them off guard and wounded them. Aang and Katara water bended the boiling water from the lake surrounding the prison engulfing the guards and knocking out most of them. Though most had fallen, one was still up and strong and had sounded the alarms. In the blink of an eye reinforcement came and surrounded them.

Fortunately Sokka had sneaked into one of the cars and started one up, as the group was handling the first 15. Katara blood bended the one remainder from the 15 to her bidding as the rest of the escapees climbed aboard the car. 'C'mon Katara! Get on!' But she was to engulfed in the power blood bending brought to her, she used two guards mercilessly and more cruelly now, as she first used them to shoot fire balls and when she saw Herbert she made a sharp ice sword out of one of the guards and shot him at Herbert. He was hit, but Katara kept going, now using her cruel powers to make him rip his own heart out. Katara was, undoubtedly changed.

'KATARA!' Aang and Zuko shout simultaneously with tears of worry and love in their eyes.

She snapped out of her strange 'possession' long enough to see the horrid blood bath she had caused. She felt sick and nauseous as she and the group left in the cable car. Though deep, deep somewhere inside of her, the monster that lay waiting, loved the gruesome image. So confused was she that she didn't notice when Aang, Zuko and Chin were screaming. She didn't notice that the cable car had been cut off. She didn't notice that they were falling to the boiling water...

Yey! Finished the chapter! So please review and if the majority hate this, I'll cancel this story.