Ok, The yourney continues, and Zuko has a good chat with Katara. But the next day, the engine is having troubles, and the ship explodes… What's going to happen now?

Chapter 4

The engine

Zuko was been talking to Katara for an hour by then, and he noticed the sun going down.

'It's getting late if you ask me.'

Katara stared at the sun and nodded.

'Propably. But I don't really care, you?'

Zuko shrugged and looked at Katara with a grimace on his face.

'Oh, I don't. But It's bedtime for little girls, don't you know? I should bring you to bed and read you a sweet story.' he teased.

Katara roled her eyes.

'Very funny, mister senior!'

Zuko laughed. He knew she was insulting him, but he didn't care.

He sighed and leaned against the railing.

'Ok, you're not a little girl. Better?'

Katara smiled.

'Much better!' she said.

They both didn't say a word, they just stared at eachother for a while.

Katara just couldn't help staring at his muscles. His chest was completely covered with them, just as his arms. His eyes were colored in such a deep gold, that she could hardly believe people could have such amazing eyes. He looked handsome in the pose he stood, and his eyes seemed to stare of in the distance. She followed his gaze and stared at the sundown as well.

Zuko peaked at Katara from the corner of his eyes, and his gaze followed the shape of her beautiful body. Her hair was tinted in such a pretty brown, that he turned his head to her to see it better. His gaze fell lower, at the necklace on her neck, and he felt his cheeks turning red when he stared at her most female properties…

He averted his eyes after a while, swallowing something down his troath.

'Not bad for a little girl…' he thought. He wiped those thoughts away, it felt wrong to think that way about someones body.

They both noticed the silence and sighed.

'Maybe we should go to bed.' he said, but he added something more to the sentence when he noticed how pervited that sounded.

'I mean, we should try to get some sleep.'

Katara nodded.

They both went to the bedroom, where Aang and Sokka were sleeping already.

They crawled in bed, trying to avoid eachothers body.

However, later that night, they both crawled closer to eachother.

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The next day, Iroh opened the door and yelled.

'Everybody wake up!'

Sokka fell out of his bed by suprise, Aang bumped his head at the covert standing next to the bed, and Zuko and Katara opened their eyes, meeting eachothers gaze.

Iroh ran around in the chamber in panick, and Zuko tried to calm him down.

'Relax, uncle! What's going on?'

Iroh grabbed Zuko by his shoulders and shook him back and forth.

'The engine! The engine!'

Zuko gasped and pushed his uncle away.

'What? What's wrong with the engine?'

Iroh shrugged.

'I don't know, it sounds like there's something in there.'

Sokka lifted an eyebrow.

'Something is in the engineroom?'

Iroh nodded.

'Yes, indeed! We have to find it, maybe it can cause an explotion!'

Zuko pulled Sokka along.

'Sokka, you're brave enough to come with me, right?'

Sokka swallowed and nodded slowly. Zuko smiled and pulled him to the engineroom.

They stood in front of the solid door, and Zuko slowly opened it. They stared inside, both swallowing something down their troath.

Sokka coughed and followed Zuko inside.

'Hello? Is anybody here?' he asked.

Zuko frowned and his gaze went from the one side of the room to the other one.

And then, he saw something moving in the shadow. He pointed at the spot where he saw the movement.

'There!' he said.

Sokka pulled his knife, and Zuko held his hands ready to bend.

Something jumped out of the shadow and attacked Sokka. Sokka screamed like a girl and his knife flew from the one side of the chamber to the other.

Zuko sighed and stopped Sokka.

'It's Ok, Sokka, It's just a rat.'

Sokka was breathing heavy and stared at the animal on his chest.

Momo.

Sokka laughed and caressed Momo.

'This isn't a rat, it's a lemur.'

Zuko roled his eyes and Iroh came in. Iroh gasped and pointed to the shadow.

'There it is!'

Zuko shot fire to the shadow automaticly, but didn't hit anything. They remained silence for a while, and Iroh slapped Zuko.

'You fool! Why did you shoot fire? That spider was completely harmless!'

Zuko gasped and stared at the charcoal on the floor, what used to be a spider.

'A spider? You panicked for a stupid spider?!'

Iroh nodded, gasped again, and pulled him and Sokka out of the engineroom.

Just as they jumped out of that room, the engine exploded. The repercussion of the explotion made them crash against the iron wall, and the engineroom started to burn.

Zuko stood up and helped Sokka and Iroh. They ran away, to the deck, where Katara and Aang were.

They stared at the trio, running in their direction.

Iroh and Sokka pushed Aang in the water and jumped in it theirselves, to escape the explotion.

Zuko grabbed Katara by her waist and they jumped in the water as well.

The ship exploded and the refugees swam away, not knowing where they were going…

(Alright! Now I can start adding new chapters! No more updating the old chaps, it's time to write!:D)