Blackness
I can't stand it. I need to know, now.
I follow her down the street, watching her hips sway as she walked, bags hanging at her side.
She turns a street corner, and I jump at my chance.
Walking up behind her, I grab her wrist and pull.
She jumps and turns around, bags dropped on the floor, hand on her panteen.
When she sees me, she relaxes. "Oh, Zuko, it's just you. You scared me."
She turns and picks up her bags.
I look at her. "Sorry."
"Oh no, it's fine. What do you want?"
I decide not to answer that. Who knows what would come out of my mouth. Instead, I ask her if I can show her something. Katara smiles and says sure.
I lead her down a maze of allies until we arrive at the designated place.
"Zuko, it's beautiful," she gasps, taking it in.
A small garden sits in front of us. It's lush and green, overflowing with nature. Flowers grow in every inch, birds sing. A small fountain spews water in the center, vines wrapping up it. One singular white bench is to the side. I look at her, taking in her features.
"Yes, it is."
She looks at me and smiles.
I fidget and rub the back of my neck.
"Katara, I want- no, I need- to tell you something."
Katara looks at me quizzically. "What?"
"I think-"
"Aw, Zuzu, taking your girlfriend on a date?"
I know that voice. It's been the object of my nightmares for years.
We whip around. There she stands, in her psychotic beauty, smiling sweetly at us.
"Azula. What are you doing here?"
"Just checking up on my favorite brother," she answers, examining her nails. She looks up and grins. "Making sure you aren't up to anything."
"Are you here to talk, or fight?" Katara says, standing in fighting stance.
"Now now, peasant. Contain yourself. I'm just here for a friendly chat with Zuzu."
Anger wells up in me. "What do you want?"
"To take you back to the Fire Nation, of course. Daddy has requested to see you."
"LIAR!" I yell.
"Calm down, Zuzu."
I send a fireball at her. She deflects it with a wave of her hand. Katara takes the water from the fountain and uses it to make a huge wave, which she throws at Azula.
Azula neatly dodges it, and with a twist of her wrist, throws a bolt of blue lightning at Katara.
It seemed too easy. We'd barely begun to fight, and she'd already won.
Everything goes in slow motion. The lightning makes its way across the garden. I see Katara's face, so beautiful in its fear, and I know what I have to do. Running across the short distance, I throw myself in front of Katara. I feel the lightning running through my body, and then everything stops. I stare up at the sky. Everything lapses in and out of blackness. I'm deaf. Nothing meets my ears.
I don't know how much time passes.
Then Katara's leaning over me, sobbing. I try to tell her that it's all right, that I'm here, but nothing responds.
The last thing I see before everything goes black is Katara's face, stained with tears, forming words I can't understand.
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A/N- That was a really bad fight scene, I know. Way to short. And I never wrote from Katara's POV in this chapter…
Tell me what you think- I can always change it. ;-)