Tea Time: Rematch

Pairing: Zutara

Rating: T

Genre: Romance

Summary: Decided to write a second part to Chapter 5 – Tea Time. Katara and Zuko got thrown into the cave and now Zuko wants his rematch.

A/N: I'm sorry for the long delay, but I was quite busy during my summer holidays, I went to England.

About the fic: I added a small lake to that little cave since obviously a fight between Zuko and Katara wouldn't be possible otherwise.

Katara was standing in the middle of the cave they had been thrown into, furious. After the odd events of that tea shop she had stumbled into she had been in a rather good mood. But now… Now she was locked up inside that cave without having an idea where her friends were. Just as Katara wanted to sit down, some kind of door suddenly opened and someone landed beside her with a pained groan.

When the person looked up, Katara gasped.

"Zuko? What are you doing here?" she exclaimed, rushing towards him.

He sat up when she reached him, rising his eyebrow.

"Katara… Did your Avatar business involve getting captured by my lunatic sister? Or was this just a nice addition?" he mused with a smirk on his face.

Katara just rolled her eyes at him. "Yeah, sure. You know, it was fun to fall down here, you know."

Zuko chuckled. "I'm sure it was. But seriously, what are you doing here?"

Katara sighed. "Long story. But to cut it short, the Earth King was controlled by his advisor, we solved the problem, I was left here to settle everything. Then your sister appeared disguised as a Kyoshi warrior… And the rest is clear, I suppose."

He nodded, then rose to his feet.

"So… now that we're here. You still owe me a rematch, you know."

"You can't be serious. We are trapped in here and you want a rematch?"

"Well, there's nothing more interesting to do, so, yes, I do want one. But you might as well surrender now, you'll lose anyway."

Katara glared at him, then rose to her feet as well, putting some distance between them.

"Try me…"

Zuko smirked at her words, his body moving into a fighting stance, his eyes challenging her.

"With pleasure."

With those words, he bowed to her in a mocking yet respectful way before launching of his first attack.

Katara easily dodged the fireball that came flying at her, spinning around to gather some water from the small lake inside the cave. Then she sent it racing towards Zuko in a wave, causing him to crouch down, his arms shielding his face while his foot kicked through the wave with the help of his firebending.

"Cute," he smirked, jumping up in the air, spinning around and kicking fire at her before landing in a crouch again.

Katara raised her eyebrows in surprise at his onslaught, her hands hurrying to form an icy wall between herself and the fire. Still, it wasn't quite enough. The fire melted the ice in almost no time, causing her to jump back swiftly, putting out the fire that had caught her clothing.

"Not bad…" she stated with a grin.

Zuko was still smirking. "Not bad at all," he replied. "Let's see how you handle this."

Quickly, he kicked another ball of fire at her, then rolled to the side, repeating the action from a different angle until he was almost halfway around her.

Katara bent the water into a circle around her, tentacles shooting up in time with her graceful movements, blocking each and every single of Zuko's attempts to hit her.

"Is that all you've got?" she asked teasingly, then launched of an attack of her own, forming tiny drops of water into sharp icicles that she sent flying at him.

Zuko's eyes widened at the icicles, his foot quickly shooting up, forming a semicircle in front of him, fire protecting him. Still, he didn't manage to catch the icicles on the outside, one of them ripping his shirt and lightly piercing the skin at his shoulder. Quickly, he melted the ice by increasing his body temperature.

"Nice one," he said with a grin before forming whip-like strings of fire he sent racing towards her.

Katara jumped back quickly, forming her water whips to defend herself against Zuko's attack. But before their whips could connect more than a few times, a loud crushing sound could suddenly be heard. An instant later, two figures walked through the destroyed wall of their prison – Iroh and Aang had come to their rescue…

When Katara let her water whips die down and walked past Zuko, she couldn't hide her grin at his whispered words. "Until next time, waterbender."

THE END