A/N: thnx for the reviews guys, this chapter is gonna shed some light on some other parts of the story.
Disclaimer: I don't own avatar but I'm working on a deal with Nick, jk lol
A wall of fire nation soldiers surround me. I use my water bending to strike them down, but I every time I take one out another takes his place. Then the fire benders transform into a roaring barrier of flame all around me. I try dousing the flames but it has no effect. The heat is so intense, all of my water starts to evaporate. I fall to the ground choking on the smoke. Looking up past the fire I see a figure illuminated by the light. It is the Aang, the young Aang staring at me. Wheezing, I yell at him "Aang help me!" he stands there and then hits his glider on the ground, mounts it, and flies away. "Aang! Aang!" I scream after him, as the flames start to engulf me his outline becomes fainter by the second. Then flames have almost completely overtaken me and then-
"Katara"
"Katara!"
"Katara wake up!"
I open my eyes, my heart is racing and I have broken into a cold sweat. I see Aang and momo hovering over me.
"You scared me for a second there, are you alright?" He asks me as I sit up. I can barely remember anything from last night.
"What happened?" I inquire.
"You cried yourself to sleep last night, I figured you were tired from the journey so I laid out your sleeping bag and covered you up." He answered me. In truth I was tired from everything that happened last night. He seems to notice the sad look on my face.
"Hey, did you have a bad dream or something? You were moaning in your sleep." He tells me. I can still remember the fleeting image of him flying away on his glider.
"I need answers." I tell him defiantly. He sighs gets up and walks towards the cliff wall.
Only a few steps later he looks back and says "First we'll have brunch and then we can talk.". I look at him strangely as he walks away wondering why he said brunch. Then I look upwards and notice that it is almost midday. How long was I asleep?
As I get up to follow him I feel Momo jump onto my shoulder. He lovingly starts to lick my cheek. I smile and pet him then say "It's nice to see you too Momo.". I can see Aang standing by the cliff wall next to what looks like a staircase made into the wall.
As we start to ascend the staircase I notice how smooth and well carved the staircase is. Aang's skills as an earth bender have improved a lot since I saw him last. When we reached the top of the staircase I saw Appa hiding in a small cave. When he saw me he ran over and licked me with his giant tongue. "Hi Appa." I said to him.
After we had brunch, which was absolutely delicious compared to the prison gruel that I was fed, we sat awkwardly for about ten minutes. Then I finally broke the silence by saying "Aang, I need to know, why did you abandon us during the invasion?"
He looked down "I never wanted to abandon you, I was fighting fire nation soldiers left and right. When I turned around I saw that you guys were being surrounded. I tried to fly over and help you but they were shooting fireballs at me. I couldn't dodge them and I couldn't get to you guys. I wanted to save you but I knew that if I tried I would be killed, and without me the world could never be the same again and that the Fire nation would rule forever. I couldn't let that happen so I ran away and I promised myself that I would return one day and save you all." At the end of his speech he was almost in tears.
And that's when it hit me. I realized just how stupid I was that I could harbor this hate for him. How could I think that he would just abandon me and the whole world. It was at this time that all of my hatred, all of my anger towards him disappeared. I crawled over to him and hugged him.
"I'm so sorry." I said burying my face in his neck. This is when I realized that Aang had grown taller than me.
"Why are you apologizing, I'm the one who left you to die." He said looking down on me.
"I'm sorry for not having faith that you would return to save us. I'm sorry for hating you so much." I told him.
"It's okay, I should have come to rescue you sooner." He replied.
"Why didn't you?" I asked.
"I needed to learn fire bending before I could attempt to save you. Also I knew that the fire nation would be on high alert." He said to me.
This surprised me "You can fire bend now!?"
"Sort of, I can only fire out blasts and not controlled shots." He said to me.
"Oh, well how did you learn?" I asked him.
"I remembered what that rogue fire bender taught me and just channeled my emotions and boom instant fire." He answered. We sat in silence for a few more minutes until Aang said something.
"Katara, last night you said that Toph had died." He stated.
"Yes, she died trying to save us. When you flew away we had no choice but to try and retreat back to the ships. She insisted that we should go on ahead and that she would catch up with us. We tried to talk her out of it but she forced us to go to the ships. She held off the fire benders as best she could but in the end they defeated her. When I was captured I could see them taking away her body, it looked like over 90 percent of body had been burned." I said to him.
"It's all my fault." He said.
"No it's not this is the way she would of wanted it."
"Maybe, but I swear that I will not let another innocent life be killed at the hands of the fire nation." He said.
"Do you know where Sokka is?" He asks me.
"He's a slave at the fire lord's palace, why?" I reply.
"Because tomorrow," He says standing up "we're going to rescue him.".
A/N: I know there wasn't a lot of action in this chapter, I promise there will be in the next one. R&R guys thanks.