Hey I'm Ruby of Raven and once again I do not own any part of the Avatar the Last Air Bender show and cast.

Chapter 2: The Battles

'I can't believe my next hour is with Zuko and knowing my luck I'll embarrass myself in front of him and the whole class,' I thought to myself on the way to bending class in Gym C.

When I got there Toph was sitting on the first bleacher row with Zuko and an old guy. Five rows above them sat Aang and Azula. They were on opposite sides of the row.

Aang saw me and waved for me to come over and sit with him. So that's what I did since neither Toph nor Zuko asked me to sit with them but that was fine by me because who would want to sit by some old dude that was probably our teacher.

I sat down next to Aang and asked,"Why is Zuko and Toph sitting next to our... teacher?" I didn't really know if that old guy was our teacher but he probably is, right?

"Oh, their some of the bending teachers. Toph is the best earth bender in the world since she can bend metal. Zuko is just a firebending master," Aang answered.

"Really?" Aang nodded. Before I could say anything else the old guy stood up and asked for every bodies attention.

He said,"Hello, I'm Master Pakku. I will be the waterbending instructor. Toph will be the earthbending instructor and Zuko will be the firebending instructor." Zuko and Toph got up and stood next to Master Pakku. "We will be teaching the elements. Now I know some of you think you're a master at your element. This may be true but you are not a master until you understand and know certain things about each element. Now we-"

Azula cut him off. "I'm a master at my element and you know it! I should be up there instead of Zuzu! After all I can bend lightning and he can't!", she shouted down to them.

"This may be so, but your brother knows more than you do about the other three elements. Plus, he is less likely to kill a student in battle."

"But-"

"No buts! Now sit down or I will send you to the office!" You could tell Pakku was losing his patience. This made Azula shut up and sit down on the bleachers.

I feel sorry for Zuko. He has to live with this bitch.

"As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted by Miss Sozin, me and the other masters are going to see what you can do. This means you each will chose a master to fight against and judging on how good you fight will determent how far you have to go to be a master. This year, since Zuko is here, you can chose to fight a martial arts master or a swords master. But I warn you, he is just as good at fighting with his element as he is with swords and martial arts. So choose carefully. Now we will start the battles in alphabetical order."

Finally my turn came. I chose to fight against Zuko.

I almost won my fight against him when I trapped him under some ice up against the wall. But ten seconds later he blasted out of the ice. I was a little shocked at this because usually no one can get out of that but he did. Then for some reason, I just couldn't stop myself from staring at his biceps and abs because he had his shirt off. So that's what lost me my battle. While I just stood there starring at him, he blasted fire at my feet which made me jump and I landed on my butt instead of my feet.

Then next thing I knew Master Pakku said "That's enough. Good job Katara. Although, you still need some work but that was very entertaining." Then Zuko helped pull me to my feet. When our hands met I got this electric shock. I wonder if he felt it too. I know I sure did.

After he had pulled me to my feet he said,"You almost won. I hope to do battle with you again sometime, Katara." Then he walked back to his seat and sat down.

I sat next to Aang again. He told me,'I did a good job.' But I didn't really hear him or anyone else because I was lost in thought thinking about what that little shock meant.

"I pick Zuko and he will fight me using swords." Hearing his name snapped me back to reality. I looked up to see this guy, with long brown hair and a mustache with all green on, pointing at Zuko.

"Interesting choice Haru," Master Pakku said.

Haru went down to the gym floor and over to where Zuko was waiting to begin their fight. Zuko had two twin swords, one in each hand.

"Wait just a minute before you begin. I've invited the sword class to come see a master at work," Master Pakku told them. Then as if on cue, the sword class entered the gym and sat down on the bleachers next to us.

Sokka sat on the other side of me. He brought a friend with him that sat next to Azula. He had brown hair and was pretty handsome, not as hansom as Zuko though. Then he kissed Azula! I mean, how can any one like that damn bitch that much? Sure she's pretty but she seems just so cold. Is she even capable of caring about someone?

"This is going to be sweet! Zuko is totally going to kick Haru's ass!", Sokka almost squealed.

"Um, yeah. So who's this?", I asked gesturing to the kid next to him.

"Oh! That's Jet."

Jet turned around at the sound of his name to look at Sokka. "Jet this is my sister Katara, the one I was telling you about."

"So this is the Katara I've heard so much about."

"Uh...hi," was all I said to him.

Then before Jet or Sokka could say anything else Master Pakku shouted, "Let the battle begin!"

So the battle started. After about a minute Zuko had almost made his way over to where Haru was standing. Zuko had sliced through countless numbers of rocks thrown at him and dodged countless more. Before Haru knew it, Zuko had a sword at his neck.

"Game over Haru," Zuko said with a smirk. But Haru was smirking too. "Why are you smirking?"

Haru pointed above Zuko where a huge boulder was hovering over his head. Zuko looked up and his eyes seemed to widen to the size of a bowling ball. He looked back at Haru who just said,"I win." Then he let the boulder fall on Zuko.

There was a large gasp from the bleachers.'OH MY GOD! How could Haru do that! Zuko can't be dead or hurt or whatever. He's alive right?' We were all shocked.

Meanwhile, Haru did a little victory dance. He was so happy about beating Zuko that he started to sing and dance 'Oops I Did It Again' by Britney Spears. It was pretty funny to watch but no one was laughing because Zuko could be crushed right now, so they weren't even paying attention to him.

"AH!" Everyone turned to the direction the noise came from. I was Haru, he was cringing in fear because Zuko was right next to him. Apparently Zuko had scarred Haru and now Haru thought that Zuko would want revenge on him or something.

Zuko was all in one piece with no cuts or bruises and he was smiling too. That meant Zuko was okay!

We all clapped and whistled. We were so happy that he was okay and that this battle really turned into something exciting.

Master Pakku stood up and said,"Very exciting, nice work Haru and Zuko. But next time Haru, don't underestimate your opponent." Then he looked at his wristwatch. "It seems it's time for you to go to your next class. We'll pick back up with the battles tomorrow. Good Bye for now then." Then everybody got up and left for their next hour still excited from the awesome battle.

I wanted to tell Zuko that he did great but he had already left for his next class. Sokka, Jet, and Azula left together. So me, Aang, and Toph went to our next hour together.