Chapter 4
Katara and Zuko decided to sleep in separate beds that night. They figured that another run in with Toph, would cause trouble that they wouldn't be able to get out of. Zuko woke up to feel someone shaking him. It was Sokka.
"Zuko WAKE UP!" He was screaming, with tears streaming down his face.
"Sokka calm down, what's up?" Zuko yawned.
"Katara's missing. We can't find her anywhere, all we could find in her room was this." Sokka held Katara's Mother's necklace up to Zuko. Zuko's eyes widened in fear. There was only one person who could've known where they were and how to get to him. Azula.
"Sokka, I know where Katara is but you're not gonna like it." Zuko shook his head sadly.
"Where is she?" Sokka grabbed Zuko's shoulders.
"Azula, she must have captured her last night." Zuko told Sokka.
"Let's go." Sokka ran to find Aang, Suki and Toph while Zuko put some clothes and shoes on and ran to where the gang was supposed to meet. As soon as everyone was assembled they jumped on Aqpa and left the Western Air Temples in search of Katara. Zuko was flying Appa seeing as he would know where Azula would have taken her.
"Where do you think they took her?" Sokka asked.
"There is only one place they could've taken her. Ba Sing Se." Zuko told them.
"Why Ba Sing Se?" Sokka asked.
"Because... It's complicated, but just trust me okay?" Zuko exclaimed.
Everyone became silent. Everyone was scared and everyone, except Aang, was thinking about what would happen if they didn't find Katara in time. They flew for hours on end, no one getting any sleep all worried sick about Katara. Sokka the most. He didn't know what he would do with out his little sister. Little Katara who he used to go penguin riding with, snowball fights, always the target of her water bending, he always hated it at the time but now, he wished he could go back and relive every moment with Katara.
"We're here." Zuko announced
Everyone jumped out of Appa.
"If we split up we will cover more ground." Aang said.
"Ok I'll go with Sokka and Suki, and Aang you go with Toph." Zuko suggested. Everyone replied with an okay and everyone went in separate directions.
After an hour of searching for Azula, they met back up in the town square.
"Anything?" Sokka asked Aang. Who shook his head sadly.
"Uh huh. Zuko are you sure Azula would have taken Katara here? Would she have taken her at ALL?"
"Yes Aang! I'm positive! Who else would have-Katara?" Katara walked up to Zuko.
"Hey Zuko, Aang, Sokka, Suki, and Toph! What have you guys been up to?"
"LOOKING FOR YOU!" They all shouted.
"Me? Why on earth would you be doing that?" She laughed.
"Katara are you alright?" Aang asked.
"Yeah why wouldn't I be?"
"Because Azula took you captive? You know away from us..." Katara looked confused.
"What are you talking about? No she didn't. She's my best friend. She has been since we were young. I only met you on one of your travels to the fire nation..." Katara said.
"Katara, what? You are not Azula's best friend! She attacks us all the time! You know? Remember?" Sokka said.
"No I don't. Why would she attack me? This just doesn't make sense. Are you sure you have the right girl?" Katara replied.
"Of course I do! You're my sister!"
"No I'm not me and Mai are sisters." Katara stated.
"What?" Everyone was in utter shock.
"Katara? Shouldn't we be practicing fire bending." Azula came up and put a hand on Katara's back.
"AZULA! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HER?!" Zuko yelled.
"Nothing, simply gave her, her rightful place." Azula smirked. "Come one Katara let's go."
"See ya later guys." Katara waved.
"I think we have a big problem." Sokka whispered.
"Everyone use what ever means necessary to take down Azula right now." Zuko whispered. Aang air bended Azula into the air. Zuko took a huge bolt of fire and shot it at Azula. Azula made a wall of fire and blocked Zuko's attack. Zuko shot himselft into the air and fire bended like crazy at Azula. Finally after five shots hit her Toph sent a rock flying at her.
Then a bolt of lightning hit Zuko, who redirected it to the heavens. Everyone looked to Azula who was lying unconscious on the ground. Everyone looked a little behind her, at Katara who was in a fighting stance with her hands stuck out and steaming.
"One more move and you all get fried." She exclaimed.
"No..." Katara was a fire bender. "NO!" Aang yelled. He ran over to Katara and grabbed her by the shoulders.
"KATARA! REMEMBER YOU'RE A WATER BENDER! YOU AND I WERE MEANT TO BE! PLEASE REMEMBER! YOU ARE FROM THE SOUTHERN WATER TRIBE! KATARA! IT'S ME! AANG! THE AVATAR!" Aang yelled.
"Get off of me! And wait did you say you're the avatar?" Katara asked while shoving Aang away from her.
"That's right. Remember?" Aang sobbed.
"Yeah I do." Katara said. "I REMEMBER I HAVE TO KICK YOUR BUTT!" Katara threw fire balls at him. Aang just couldn't fight back. He just dodged her.
"Aang get on Appa!" Sokka yelled. Aang air bended himself up to Appa.
"We'll figure this out." Zuko offered Sokka and Aang.
Suddenly Zuko saw Mai come up beside Katara.
"What happened? You alright?"
"That was the avatar." Katara said.
"Ok, sure Katara." Mai laughed.
"I'm serious!" Katara yelled.
"Ok, jeez, come on let's go home." Mai said and led Katara to her house.
"How could she not remember? How is she fire bending? How is this possible?" Suki went on.
"We don't know, but this is horrible we NEED to get Katara back." Aang said.
"I know EXACTLY what happened to Katara." Zuko stated.
"And you wait until now to tell us?!" Everyone started protesting.
"Do you want to know or not?" Zuko replied.
Everyone was quiet.
"Azula has an amazing power that she doesn't deserve. She can control others brains. By taking control of Katara's brain, she changed her. She changed the control of bending in Katara's brain and made it fire. She also messed with the control of her memory. She planned all of this. Her and my father. Since Katara and I went to find the man who killed her mother. You see when we found the man who we though was the man who killed her, she... did something to him... I think she bended the blood in his body. She could kill anyone in a heart beat with that attack. So my sister told my father who figure if she was on the fire nation side she might be able to take over the avatar, and kill him making the entire world fire nation."
"So what do we do?" Suki asked.
"Well there is no way to regain her memory and she will never water bend again so I think there is only one thing we can do..." Zuko trailed off and looked away.
"No... I won't never." Sokka raised his voice.
"Sokka, I know it's hard but we have to." Suki said.
"NO! She's my sister how could I do that to her!" Sokka's eyes welled up with tears.
"Sokka, I think you should know. Katara and I were, were, were..."
"Zuko don't I know you guys were together it was obvious. I was just waiting for Katara to tell me, but that's not the problem at hand. How can any of us agree to do this to Katara there has to be another way."
"I'm lost Sokka, do what to Katara?" Aang asked.
"Aang I'm sorry but we have to kill Katara." Everyone broke down.
