Disclaimer: I still don't own Avatar...yet...
AN: Yes, the title is true. I learned it in Seminary last year (one of the benefits of waking up at five in the morning every school day.) Besides that...enjoy!
Apocalypse Means Revelation
Katara knew better than to seek Spirits-- though she knew he was human. Though her companions wondered, but couldn't make herself pause.
There he was! Sleeping, draped on the uneven ground, that familiar mask smiling at her through his dreams. An ethereal groan resonated from its shadows; she leaned closer.
In the subtle turbulence of sleep he shifted, and the mask fell.
She saw the Earth Kingdom's warrior, the Water Tribe's hunter. A Spirit. A Demon. An enemy. A friend. A prayer answered. A curse fulfilled.
Her gasp roused them all from sleep.
And Zuko's familiar, haunting golden eyes opened.
AN: I don't like doing this...but here's an explanation before I get some confused questions in my next reviews, which I'm not up to answering individually: As he chased them through the Earth Kingdom, he spent his time fighting, against them, against the Warriors of Kyoshii, against practically everyone he saw. In the Water Tribe, he was more concerned about hunting Aang down than fighting. He never actually worked for either nation.