That battle with the Fire lord was much harder than I ever expected

That battle with the Fire lord was much harder than I ever expected. The whole battle was like he was toying with me. I didn't understand. I should have been able to beat him. I mastered all four elements like Roku said, yet I failed miserably. Zuko had taught me everything about firebending there is to know. How could I not understand why Fire Lord Ozai's fire was so much stronger, faster, and better than any firebending I had ever seen?

Everyone expected me to win that day, but I lost.

I remember when I was battered and beaten laying in my own blood he came over to me. I was sweaty, dirty, and I had burns all over me.

He looked down at me and smiled, "Seems you have lost Aang. Oh but don't be scared, I'm not going to kill you."

My eyes widened. No going to kill me? What was he going to do?

"You see as strange as it sounds I need you." His crooked grin grew. "You see I realize how much the world needs."

I was tired and losing consciousness, "What do you mean?"

"The Avatar has been known as the mediator of the Four Nations. But, if one nation has control of the Avatar there would be a dramatic shift in power."

I spoke up, "I'll never help you!"

He laughed hard, "You don't understand. I don't want you, I want the Avatar. You are the last Airbender, correct?"

I nodded.

"And if you die it will go on to a Waterbender?"

I nodded again.

"Then Earth?"

"Yes, then fire then back to air. What are you getting at though?" I had lost him since the very beginning.

"Well if you die the Avatar cycle and the Avatar with cease to exist when it returns to air and there are no Airbenders left. That is why I need you alive. I am setting the Fire Nation for a grand future."

"You think the future Avatars will follow you?" I was angry at what he was saying. They would never fight for him!

"But they will not know any better. Once we win this war, the message I will teach of the Avatar will be altered slightly. Instead of fighting for the balance of the nations they will fight for the Fire Nation. But there will be no more Avatars if the Airbenders end. That's why we need the last Airbender so the world can have more Airbenders."

I wrinkled my nose in disgust.

He nodded, "Yes, I do believe that doesn't sound pleasant for this point in time, but you'll come about. I'm not a total barbaric, you'll wait till you're older and you can choose your wife. But I have to say it is crucial that the world has more Airbenders. So I won't let you die not yet anyway."

I had nothing to say. I was disgusted and angry that the Fire Lord was going to use me to complete all us his plans.

The Fire Lord realizing I had no more to say yelled for his guards, "Take him to the dungeon. Make sure his wounds are catered to. However, make sure he is not healthy enough to escape. We wouldn't want that now would we?" As the guards hoisted me up the Fire Lord gave me one final look and said, "I hope you enjoy your time here. For you will be here for a long, long time…send him away."

The guards didn't care if I was in extreme pain or not. They dragged me holding me up with my shoulders. It was a long and excruciating drag down to the dungeon. My body was already on fire from the burns, now bruises and scraps had been added to the list. My legs were mangled, they could be healed and I would walk again. Yet, the very sight of them was enough to make your stomach sick.

We finally arrived at my cell. It was made of pure metal and only one opening: the door. I really wish now that Toph would have taught me to Metalbend when I had the chance. They flung me into the cell. I didn't know why they didn't chain me up or put shackles on me. I was already in enough pain; hanging from a wall wouldn't have made it any better.

I laid in agony for a good ten minutes before the door opened again. This time there was one guard with medical supplies and a couple pouches of water, which he careless tossed at me. The other had a girl which he shoved in.

Once the girl was in he spoke, "Heal him or else. We'll be back soon." He slammed the cell door and walked off.

I didn't even try to look up. My neck hurt and my eyes stung from the soot that gathered in them. The girl gasped. It must have been at the state I had been in. I was mangled, battered, torn up, and was bleeding. My bleeding had died down a little, but was still trickling out…I could feel it.

Finally the girl spoke and I realized who she was, "Aang!" It was Katara. I could recognize that voice anywhere.

I answered back weakly, "Ka…ta…ra. Katara." My voice was hoarse from lack of use.

She was then immediately at my side. She turned me gently over onto my back. I tired to smile for her, but I couldn't.

"Oh Aang!" Katara embraced my broken body in a fierce hug. I flinched at the pressure on my body. She must have noticed for she released me from her hold. Now she focused on my wounds.

Katara used to healing abilities to close my cuts and gashes first. She had the most trouble with the one that went down my left leg. It was huge and it followed my arrow. She said I would probably have a scar for the rest of my life. Unlike the others she couldn't fully heal it. Katara gently bandaged it taking time and care to cause me the least amount of pain possible.

Next she worked on my burns. A few on my legs, a few on my arms, a lot on my torso, none on my face, she said I was lucky. The ones on my legs and arms were healed easily just like when Zhao first burned me. Katara had just discovered her healing abilities. The burns went away like magic. One huge burn covered my whole right of my torso. This one wouldn't heal up as well. It was much lighter than it was, but it still stung. Katara spread some burn cream on it and bandaged it. Lastly there was a burn on my left shoulder, same deal as my right torso. Wouldn't heal all the way and was bandaged up.

When I was fully healed, to the best of her ability, we began to talk. She went first, "So what happened in there?"

I shook my head, "I don't know. He attack and I was off guard and it was all down hill from there. I was bombarded with attacks. I couldn't deflect them and I couldn't dodge them. I was just out skilled and I failed the world…again…what happened with you guys?" I gave her my full attention.

Her eyes filled with sadness, "Azula was a tough fight. Sokka defeated Ty Lee and Zuko and Mai gave up fighting. It was all us against Azula and we thought we had it won. But I guess something happened with Toph and the others, for the Fire Nation soldiers came with an unconscious Toph and Haru and the Duke was tied up and a soldier was just carrying Teo." She stopped for a moment trying to recollect her thoughts, "Azula told us to surrender or the rest would get it. We yielded knowing we would most likely lose anyway. We were surrounded on all sides. At least 200 Firebenders and soldiers were there. Why should we lose lives if we were going to lose anyway?"

"Then you ended up here?" Katara nodded.

"Is everyone okay?" Katara nodded again.

"What do you think will happen to us?"

Katara answered, "I don't know."

I sighed. I didn't know either and we were all in constant danger as long as we stayed here. I spoke up, "We have to escape."

"How are we going to do that? You are in no shape to travel, we don't even know how long they are going to keep is alive, and even if they did keep us alive we don't even know the way out of here!"

I was at a loss, "I don't know, but tell the others. We need to find all of our friends and get them out of here. But our first objective for now is to stay alive."

I heard footsteps coming. I grabbed Katara's hand, "No matter what they do we must stay calm and strong, got it?" She nodded.

The guards opened the door and grabbed Katara. She yelled my name. I tried to get up, but was only kicked back down. I could only give her these words of advice, "Katara you'll be fine…and I'll be fine. Find the others!"

The door was slammed shut. I was stuck in this dark cell all by myself. I had never felt so alone in my life. Yet, I was not alone for long. I looked through the bars of my cell and saw a jailer come walking up. He spat at me then opened the cell door. He went in cuffed me to the back wall. He chuckled and said something about my jail keeper coming soon.

That was the last night for weeks that I saw Katara. I will see her tonight. But that is only because they say I'll need her. That's mean I'm probably going to be beaten. The only reason they let me and Katara together is for her to heal me. They know of her healing abilities. They still want to torture me without killing me.

They use her the way they will use me. A world where people use people. That is a sad world…yet this is what the world has become. And with the Fire Nation at the head of this knew world…it will only get worse.

AN: I'm not really working on this story right now, but I thought I should give the people, who wanted to see more of this, a look of the story. Not much and I don't think I'll be continuing it for a while. Please read and review. It was already written and I found it. Hope they like it.