Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.


They looked up. Koh smiled down at them. The centipede's body was woven through the tangled branches of the canopy, armored talons clicking menacingly. "Hello Fire Lord, or is it Fire Lords? Mother did make things rather complicated, didn't she?"

She ignored Koh's barb; still stunned by the boys' revelation moments before. The full implications had yet to hit her. Instead, Katara focused on something familiar, protecting her friends.

Wringing the water from the forest undergrowth, Katara again coiled the water tightly around her hands. While the attack had proved ineffective last time, she hoped this time would be different.