Pre-Chapter AN: (If you want to make it cooler) Look up "The Dragonborn comes" By Maluka or Christina Grimmie when it get's to the song (I personally like Christina's version better but that's just me)

Katara bent away the sweat that streamed steadily down her face. She'd been working on Zuko's wound for hours, but it seemed completely unaffected by her healing abilities. With an exasperated cry she threw the water she'd been using into the drain.

After releasing a few angry huffs, she turned back to her patient; who, she'd just noticed, kept shaking and shuddering in his sleep. Her anger vanished and fear replaced it as she placed a hand on his forehead, but not a second later she ripped it away at the scalding heat that met her finger tips. She looked at her hand to see that it had actually been burned, she gaped in horror at the tender flesh and healed it immediately with her other hand; both of them shaking in fear. Even if he was a fire bender, that kind of body heat was unnatural.. and deadly.

Once her hand was healed she looked at him with fear. She had no idea what this was, or how to fix it.

"Z-Zuko?" She asked, her voice wavering as she reached a hand to him slowly; and finally resting it on his shoulder, "Zuko please, I don't know how to help you," she whispered, tears blurring her vision. He stirred under her touch and opened his eyes a crack to look at her.

"Katara," he choked, his breathing coming ragged and uneven.

"Zuko! Please, do you know what's doing this to you?" She asked, frantic to get any information she could before he left her again. He looked up at her with suddenly wide eyes fear glazing over them.

"Katara, they knew."

"Who knew? What are you talking about?!" She asked desperately, he'd never shown fear to her. And now that he was, it scared her more then anything.

"They knew I would try to save you, that's why they made the arrow to effect a fire bender." He closed his eyes as he said it and Katara read the anguish in his expression.

"What do you mean 'to effect a fire bender'? How?" She was nearly yelling now. If she was going to save him, she needed to know what she was fighting against. He looked up at her with sad eyes, ones that said 'I'm sorry'. He pulled her down to him by her sleeve so that her ear was hovering over his lips.

"Poison," he whispered. Katara's heart stopped.

Of course.

It all made sense now. Poison. The one thing that couldn't be healed by water bending, Katara pulled back and looked down at him in terror. She couldn't help. There was nothing she could do. She felt so helpless, so useless. She saw his eyes growing heavy and planted a quick kiss on his steaming forehead.

"I'll be right back, hang in there," she whispered into his ear before bolting out of the room. She ran to the door to the basement and threw it open.

"Whose there?" She heard the women call up from the shadows.

"Please, hurry! I need your help!" Katara yelled down, the women immediately was running up the steps and Katara told her her discovery.

"No," she whispered, covering her mouth with her hand in shock.

"Yes," Katara answered solemnly, before casting a glance back at the kitchen and reminding herself that she was running out of time, "Please, I need you to find Suki. She knows more about poison then any of us, and on your way back tell as many people as you see to pray to the spirits. We'll need all the help we can get."

She stood to the side of the room and watched as Suki and a few other Kyoshi warriors stood around Zuko. They'd been working for hours, simply trying to understand what poison they were dealing with. Suki had put a few different powders and syrups on the wound that brought down his temperature and seemed to slow the poison's work, but it was still there, killing him slowly.

The women of the house still hadn't returned and Katara hoped that she was delivering the news to all those who dwelt in their safe haven. Although, it obviously wasn't as safe as they'd thought. It troubled her how, not one, but two people from their enemies land had infiltrated their defenses within two months of each other. It was a sign that the inevitable battle was approaching. The one where she would die for her people.

Her death had been whispered through legend and prophecy, for the longest time she hadn't even known what it was. And she wished now that she'd left it alone. Only her father, borther, Suki, and Toph had know the prophecy, but Katara had demanded that she know too. Now she knew her death was approaching and only one person could save her, the only problem being, that she didn't know who it was. The prophecy had said that the only one who could save the, "daughter of ice", was the "Dragonborn". But no one here had any ties to the dragons. Perhaps her hero wouldn't come.

Katara watched her friend bend over and squint at the wound for the hundredth time, only this time her eyes widened.

"There it is," she heard her mutter under her breath.

"What? What is it?" Katara asked impatiently. Suki beckoned her over with a wave of her hand and gestured for her to look. Katara bent over and looked closely at the injury, but all she saw was torn muscle tissue and blood.

"Do you see it?" Suki whispered from next to her.

"No," Katara huffed, straightening back up. But Suki pulled her back down.

"It's not easy to see, Kat. That's the point of poison, to be hidden."

Katara squinted and thought about what she'd said.

To be hidden.

Then there it was, a swirling fiery mass, seeping bit by bit into Zuko's blood. She had no idea how she could have missed it, it practically glowed; but then she realized it was glowing.

"Suki, what is that?" She asked, not taking her eyes off it. She heard her friend sigh and felt a hand on her shoulder.

"It's not just poison, Katara. It's a curse," Katara felt something inside her shut off, "Only the spirits can help him now." Katara stood up and walked out of the room, not bothering to explain where she was going. She walked to the front door and stared out into the night; there was a tint of pink on the horizon, signaling the coming day. She knew the tears were there, but didn't acknowledge them; it seemed like she hadn't stopped crying the past few days.

At first she'd been crying for what she'd lost, and for he that betrayed her. But now she cried for the one who sacrificed his life that she might live. He'd given himself up, he knew he would most likely die, but he saved her anyway. She stared at the ground and thought of what Suki had said.

"Only the spirits can help him now."

She looked up suddenly at the sound of voices and noticed for the first time the multitude of people that sat around the small house, Katara stepped out onto the porch to see them sitting in masses. It looked as if they were like that all the way around the house.

"I told them to pray that the spirits would spare him," She turned to see the women she'd sent out sitting off to the side of the porch, "I suppose the spirits led them here. And do you here that Miss? They're singing Earth Kingdom songs of blessing and healing, but it seems like they are searching for one particular one." The women's eyes trailed through the crowd as she spoke, as if she too were searching for something.

Then, out of the crowd rose a voice above the others. It began singing something, even Katara, had never heard before. As the person spoke through the words, more and more people joined in singing the song, until the whole of the people was singing.

Our Hero, our Hero, claims a warrior's heart
I tell you, I tell you, the Dragonborn comes
With a voice wielding power of the ancients of arts
Believe, believe, the Dragonborn comes
It's an end to the evil of all the worlds foes
Beware, beware, the Dragonborn comes
For the darkness will pass and the legend yet grows
You'll know, you'll know, the Dragonborn comes

Dovahkiin, Dovahkiin
Naal ok zin los vahriin
Wah dein vokul mahfaeraak ahst vaal
Ahrk fin norok paal graan
Fod nust hon zindro zaan
Dovahkiin, fah hin kogaan mu draal

(Translation of above)
Dragonborn Dragonborn
By his honor is sworn
To keep evil forever at bay
And the fiercest foes rout
When they hear triumph's shout
Dragonborn for your blessing we pray

Katara's eyes widened in shock, in disbelief, in amazement.

Zuko is him. Zuko is the Dragonborn.

"It's an old Earth Kingdom legend," the women attempted to explain to her as the people continued singing, "That the Dragonborn will save our people," Even the women looked shocked at what her people were singing, "It's him, and that mean-"

"Katara! Come quick!" She whipped her head around to see a Kyoshi warrior disappearing back into the house, she dashed after her and found herself back in the kitchen with several equally astounded women next to her. Before them they watched as Zuko's wound glowed the color of gold; they all were forced to look away as the light overpowered them. The light made a quick flash before it vanished, and when Katara looked back she saw something she couldn't believe.

"It's gone," she whispered. And it was. There was hardly a scar where the gaping injury had once been and it appeared that the fire bender was breathing normally again. Katara crept toward him and placed her hand on his head, nearly shouting with joy when she felt no massive amounts of heat.

"But how?" Suki asked no one in particular as she ran a finger over the line of his scar, the only thing that was left to prove that he was ever hurt. Katara closed her eyes as tears of joy streamed down her cheeks and a smile spread across her face.

"He's the Dragonborn."

I hope you guys liked it! It's really starting to get into the thick of the plot and so I'm taking a little more of a magical turn with more of "The Prophecy" and stuff involved. So let me know if you like that idea or if I should just keep it like it is.

And I'm sorry this wasn't up sooner! Lately I've just been relaxing and playing cheesy facebook games instead, so I apologize.

I got the poison idea from GingerSpice, a guest reviwer, and so you can thank them that this chapter even exists because otherwise this whole thing would have never happened and ALLOT would be missing from future chapters. So Thank you GingerSpice!

Cookies to Ryan Skyw for finding the Disney princess movie reference!

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