Suddenly everything was moving so fast. She was at home with her mother when her father came bursting into the room, and that was all Katara knew. Panic filled the air, and it scared Katara. She just wanted everything to go back to the way it was just 5 minutes ago. Instead, she just watched her parents rushing around, grabbing whatever they could. If they were saying something, Katara couldn't hear them, the screams from outside finally reached her ears.

Afraid but also curious, Katara started to head towards the door to see what was going on, but before she was able to take a step outside, Sokka was at the door, pushing her back in.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" He snapped at her. He'd never looked so angry before.

His anger made her step away, back into their apartment.

"Dad! They're getting closer! We have to get going." Something about Sokka had changed. He was no longer Katara's goofy older brother. He was serious. Almost as if he was a real leader like he always pretended he was.

"Honey?" Hakoda looked at his wife, who nodded in return.

"So it's true? The virus?"

"Yes."

Katara reached up to her mother, who picked her up. Virus? Wasn't that what the evil man Ozai was talking about on the TV the other day?

"All our friends-" The rage inside Hakoda could no longer be contained. "They never received jobs for Sozin's Comet. All of them? They were test subjects. And now-"

He didn't need to finish, Kya understood.

"We'll leave through the back entrance."

Sokka took the lead, carrying a club, while Hakoda took the rear with his gun, leaving Katara and Kya safely in the middle. They were going to all make it out of here.

"We can go to my mother's. She lives in the south. It's so cold there that these monster won't be able to survive."

Kya nodded in agreement. "What about the others?"

"I told them to head there." Sokka shouted from the front.

While traveling in the building, they remained safe, but Katara could see outside. She saw them. She saw the others who lived in the building fighting off these grotesque-looking things. They looked like they should be dead. Some of their hair was missing. Some even had a body part missing. But the one thing Katara noticed the most were their eyes, they looked dead. It was through realization that she recalled the newscast and the name of the virus: Waking Death. They were clearly dead, but somehow awake at the same time.

Kya noticed her daughter looking out the window, and quickly covered her eyes. "Don't look."

It was a short trip to reach the back entrance, but it was not as safe as they had planned. The area still had the infected. While the front had the most of them, some had made their way to the back door. It didn't help that they were attacking and infecting more, if they were able to survive. It looked like the infected were trying to eat the people they once called family, as if they were animals. Kill in a way that was too horrible for Katara to watch, yet she couldn't look away.

Sokka was busy clubbing one of the infected, trying to kill it and keep it away. Luckily Hakoda stepped in with his gun.

Slowly they began to notice that the ones who weren't killed were becoming infected as well. They were turning against their own families, attacking them. The infection was spreading.

Katara stood there, paralyzed by fear as she watched people she knew, people she considered family, feast on others. She couldn't look away.

It was then that Kya realized that her daughter was not by her side. The feeling that ran through her was so indescribable, but it was the worst feeling Kya had ever felt in her life. She turned to find her daughter, spotting her right away, while an infected was making his way toward the little girl.

Kya rushed over to her daughter, pushing her out of the way, toward Hakoda. Katara fell to the ground, but Hakoda was there to grab her and pick her up.

Everything became a blur. Hakoda was running. Katara could barely see anything behind her tears. But there was one thing she did know. They got away. Somehow, while Katara was crying, they got away.

"Honey?" Kya's voice came from behind them. Her tone scared Katara.

Hakoda turned to face his wife and right away he knew what was wrong. He saw his wife. He saw what she was looking at: a bite mark on her arm.

"No." Hakoda said as he set Katara down.

Sokka quickly rushed to his sister's side. He knew too.

"We'll find a cure, we have to get-"

"No." Kya stopped him. "You saw everyone else. They started turning once they were infected. I'm going to-"

"Don't say it!" Hakoda was already in tears. "We'll save you."

"You're not going to save me. You have to…" She didn't say the word, not in front of Sokka and Katara.

"Mommy?" Katara called for her.

Kya took a step toward her daughter, but then turned back. It was already beginning. She was turning.

"Come on Katara." Sokka pulled Katara away.

Katara tried to stay put though. She still didn't know what was going on, but Sokka dragged her away. She tried to push him away, but once she noticed the tears in his eyes, she followed.

The two walked away and waited. Sokka even had them climb a tree. "Just in case." He warned. And there they waited. The only thing that could be heard were the muted screams from their home.

Then there was a gunshot.

An hour later, Hakoda finally returned. He looked so different from before. The light in his eyes was gone. He looked so lonely.

Katara didn't ask where her mother was. She couldn't. Not when her father looked like that.

"Come on," he said. All the joy in his voice was gone. "We're going to the South Pole."