AN: HI. I am in such total shock at the response this is getting. This was just something I began writing one day as a response to some drawings I did. Much love to all my readers but please review and tell me what you think! It's frustrating to just get faves and alerts but no opinions. Thanks much! Also, this is the first action scene I've really written so let me know how I do. Oh! And one more thing. Since some people were confused, yes this WILL eventually be Azutara. That's yuri folks. Don't like don't read.

Katara sighed as she ate the scarce meal in front of her. Money was becoming harder and harder to come by and it seemed that every day there was less on their plates. Times were hard in the Earth Kingdom and, she wondered absently how things were elsewhere. Like back home.. She was about to say something to try and liven up the silence when suddenly Tophs head shot up.

"Weapons." she said quietly. "Now." Sokka and Suki moved quietly over to the sofa where their weapons were stashed beneath the cushion. Katara quickly put Mikomi into the back room.

"Hide and seek honey." she whispered soothingly. Giggling, the toddler sat down and put her hands over her eyes. She went back to the main room closing the door behind her. Here she found the others already in battle positions. Suddenly there was a knock on the door. They all held their breath until a second later the door flew inward. In that very second they all flew into attack. The first soldier to set foot in the door was immediately skewered by Sokka's sword. It was withdrawn just as quickly and ready to strike the next one. Toph slid forward causing the ground leading to and out the door to rise sweeping about half a dozen of them back and into the alls across the street. Suki's fans shot out the vacated door decapitating two more soldiers. They then boomeranged back where she caught them expertly. Katara sent a series of ice shards out catching one in the thigh, two in the chest and four more right through their heads. The wounded one was quickly cut down by another shot of Suki's fans. For a second everything was still.

"Is...that it?" asked Sokka lowering his sword. Just in time for it to be shot out of his grip by a small metal blade striking his hand.

"Shjt…Dai LI!" cried Suki as a dozen more flew through the gaping door. Most harmlessly hit the wall but one slashed across Katara's leg, and both of Suki's arms causing her to drop her weapons as well. Katara looked up when she heard a scream. Apparantly one had caught Toph dead on in the face, as the right side of her mouth was slashed open all the way back to under her ear. Toph's hand shot up covering her face as she continued screaming. While they were distractedly looking at her, the typical earthen manacles shot in binding them all to the walls except for Toph who lay helpless on the floor, completely defeated. The others could just glare on as four Dai Li entered the house.

"Search the place. The Fire Lady says there should be one more." Katara's eyes widened. Surely she couldn't know about her…

"Hey, look what I found!" Katara's worst fears were confirmed as Mikomi was carried out, giggling in the arms of her captors.

"Good. Now take them out. She wants the water bender alive." They last thing Katara heard after the blow to her head was her daughter giggling.


Katara came back to consciousness very slowly. As she did, she realized that she was in the type of cell that Hama had described to her all those years ago. The only difference was that this one was walled in rather than a cage. She was trying to figure a way out of this that didn't involve blood bending when the cell door opened.

"Oh good. You're finally awake. Have a nice nap?" At the voice of the Fire Lady Katara jerked against her restraints. "Now now, that's not very nice. Especially to the new caretaker of your daughter." Another jerk. "Don't worry. I haven't hurt her. Nor do I intend to. Actually I should thank you. You see I had this problem. See, someday, a looong time from now, I will die. And when I do, an heir will be needed to take over. And as I have no intention of producing one, I had a bit of a dilemma now didn't I. But then you came along, with my darling brother's adorable little bastard. And poof, problem solved."

"You can't have her, she's mine!" Katara strained as hard as she could against her bindings.

"Now now, none of that. Maybe if you're good I'll let you visit her. And you're other little friends too. Oh I see that look on you're face. Yes They are alive. I even fixed the little blind girls face for her. See how nice I am?"

"Why… why are you keeping us alive?"

"Because I want to figure out just what is so special about you. After all, you have been a whore to royalty." Katara growled but didn't respond. "For now however, I believe I'll leaeve you to think about you're new position in life. And your daughter's."