Hey all you readers out there. I'd just like to say thank you for reading my story and even if you didn't like it thanks anyway. Now enough with the chitchat on with the story!
A/N: sorry this took so long to update, I'm on a family trip and the computer is just ugggh.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Avatar characters. Still katara's Pov
I sit in my cell, digesting my meal for the day. In the fire nation prisons you are fed only one meal each day, they do that to keep your strength down. My cell is next to one of the few windows in the prison, so I am able to see daylight and hear the birds chirping every once in awhile. It gives me some comfort during this miserable time in my life. At night the prison is almost completely dark and imagine that this how Toph must have felt like, opening your eyes and seeing nothing but darkness. It is midday now because the guards bring meals at midday.
That night, a figure lurks in the shadows of the city, stealthily making his way towards the prison. "Hey, did you see that?" says one guard to the other. "Yea look there he goes again." Says the other guard as the shadowy figure darts behind a wall. "Halt who goes there?" Yell the guards in unison.
"FWWAACHAP" a whip of water slashes out from the darkness hitting one guard and knocking him to the ground.
"WHHFOOM" a blast of water flies out and knocks the other guard out. "Heya!!" the other guard shoots a fire ball at the dark figure. But he simply blocks it with a shield of water; he then submerges the man's head in water until he passes out. The masked man grabs a torch on the side of the gate and proceeds through the prison.
Guards voices and footsteps rouse me from my sleep. "Quickly he went this way." I heard one of them yell. "Fwwaaashoom." That sound, what is it? "Stop right th- waah!" "Plloofff." It sounds so familiar. "Flsweesh, flsweesh" "Aaah!" Waah!" "Gwah!" Where have I heard that sound before? I look over to the source of the noise but I see nothing but the fallen bodies of the prison guards.
"Flshwink, flshwink" I turn my head to the sudden noise at my cell. A man stands at the entrance to my cell, cutting down my cell bars with… Waterbending. The man is wearing a crudely carved wooden mask with two eye holes and only a circular hole where the mouth would have been. He runs into my cell and proceeds to freeze the chains around my hands and feet. "Who are you?" I ask him weakly. "No time for questions, I'm getting you out of here." I was surprised at how deep his voice sounded. He broke the chains that held me to that cage and picked up the torch which he had put down earlier. "Quickly, follow me." He told me.
He grabbed my hand and pulled me through the corridors of the prison. "He's freed one of the prisoners!" I could hear a guard yell. As we were turning a corner we ran into another guard at the end of the hall. "Hmmph." The guard shot a fireball at us, but the masked man deflected it with a wall of water. Then he froze the water into four icicles and shot them at the guard. The man was pinned against the wall by the icicles as we ran past him.
As we ran through the hallways, a thousand thoughts raced through my head. Who was this guy, How can I trust him, and most importantly how is he a water bender? We rounded another corner, then ran down a flight of stairs. Halfway down the staircase we ran into two more guards who shot columns of fire at us. The masked man pulled me onto his back and jumped into the air. "Aaaahhh!" the two guards were washed down the stairs by a wave of water. I feel so helpless, having to put my faith in a mystery water bender who I don't even know.
When we landed we started running again. We finally made it outside, the outside how I longed to breathe in the air and use my water bending again. But there was no time for that and I had to remind myself that I was not free yet. We ran into the town disappearing behind a building. "Where are we going?" I asked the mystery man. "To the beach, I have a ship there we can use to escape." He replied.
As we neared the hill flames flew over our heads. I looked back and saw firebenders shooting at us. "Katara run to the beach, when you near the water's edge you will see parrot monkey on a rock," Said the man while protecting us with a water shield "In the water next to it will be a small submersible ship get into it and stay there." I did as I was told and soon found the strangest looking parrot monkey I have ever seen. I stepped into the water and almost lost my footing because there was a deep pit in the sand. I could see the small ship but it was underwater and the only way to get to it was to, bend the water.
"Alright Katara you can do this." I told myself. I started by making simple waves in the water, then I moved more of it outwards. "Screech, screech, screech!" screamed the parrot monkey, but I ignored it. I focused all of my energy on the water until at last the hatch of the ship was above the water. I climbed into it and let the ugly parrot monkey inside as well, then let the water overtake the ship.
Meanwhile the masked warrior was holding back the firebenders. Once he saw that Katara was in the ship he drove the firebenders back with wave after wave of water. He then set up a wall of water and froze it, the masked man then ran down to where the ship was.
I waited in the ship for a few minutes when I heard the hatch open. The masked man then appeared in the ship and closed the hatch back up. "Hold onto something." Said the mystery man. I did as he told and grabbed onto a rail on the side of the ship. The masked man then put his hands together and made a motion to the back of the ship. Suddenly I felt the ship lurch then blast off through the water. The man in the mask kept moving his hands to the back of the boat in a circular motion. "Where are we going?" I asked him. "You'll find out when we get there, we have a limited amount of air so we can't be talking." He replied. So I sat there not knowing anything as this mysterious man took me to some unknown place.
So who is this mysterious masked waterbender, some of you may have figured it out others maybe not. Anyways all will be revealed in the next chapter.