chapter six
To all of my fans pleasr revew and tell me what this story needs because i think it needs more pazaz. I have lots of ideas for this story but i want to know what you want to read. And to jesus freak i do refure to you as the girl who freaked out. but thats ok because little things like that make you who you are.
Everyone gave their congradulations including Aang then everyone started to ask questions.
After breakfast Kenshio and Katara made the annoncement to the whole city and sent a message to the Southern Water Tribe. Then they went to the throne room. The room was gigantic and everything was blue, but in different shades and there were streams of crystal clear water on either sides of the room. Katara was amazed by the room and said to hetrself that she would never see anything as beautiful. Katara snapped back to reality and noticed something.
"When would the wedding be?" Katara asked her future husband
"ummm on my birthday in three days" he answered nervously, for he did not know how she would react to how soon the wedding would be.
"Well thanks for telling me sooner" she said sarcastically "I'm not mad I'm just nervous" she quickly said after seeing Kenshio's face after her first crack. Kenshio pulled Katara into a passionate kiss and spoke.
"It's o.k. I'm nervous too" and he pulled a scroll out of one of his pockets and unrolled it. "There is a lot to do before the wedding and i think we should start on this list" he said and gestured to the scroll
"I think we should too, the sooner the better right" she said smiling at Kenshio
"You know one thing that I love about you is your optimism." he said smiling back. All Katara could do is blush. "oh and we will be attending all the meetings together so you won't have to worry about anything." Kenshio said and they sat down on the thrones. Then a bunch of old men walked in and sat at a table that was set up in the middle of the room. All of the rules and laws were explained to the two of them. It was the usual stuff about a king has to be married, and there shalt not be any destruction of cabbage carts and all that good stuff. About fifteen minutes later a law about woman and water bending came up and Katara payed close attention as one of the old men spoke.
"As you know my prince it is forribiden for a woman to practice water bending unless she is to become a healer, on to the nezt law..." as she listened to what the man said she felt a little bit confused the meeting ended about half an hour later and as soon as evreybody left Katara freaked out.
"Why didn'tyou tell me it was against the law for me to bend?"asked Katara in an angry tone of voice
"because i kind of figured this is the way you would react. Now your father got the bestwater bending master, master Paku, he will be teaching you and Aang and i will be joining the both of you" he then paused
"But" Katara began and Kenshio put his fingers over her lips
"listen i have a plan, because legally i'm not allowed to change any rules until twelve months after i become king. Now Master Paku doesn't know that i'm engaged, because he doesn't want to know anything that happens around here. So be yourself and everything will play out how i want it to, just trust me." he stopped talking and Katara pulled him into a passionate kiss and told him
"Kenshio, i would trust you with my life" Kenshio just smiled and they went to meet Master Paku. After a while of walking through the city they came to a giant ice building and Kenshio opened the giant icy doors for Katara. She walked in and found herself in a giant room filled with about two dozen pools of water spred out upon the space. Aang was already there and he seemed mad, and Sokka was standing in one of the corners. Katara went over to him and started to talk "Hey Sokka whats Aang so mad about?"
"Because he likes you,likes you and was going to ask you to marry him this morning after breakfast but Kenshio got to you first." he explained
"Oh that makes everything ocuard but he'll get over it." she said then returned to Kenshio's side. He took off her necklace and placed it in his pocket then took Katara's mother's necklace and placed it around her neck, not tying it to tight."What are you doing"She asked
"It's part of my plan, just go along with it and don't say anything about us getting married to Paku because that will make everything worse. Kenshio let go of Katara just as Paku entered the room "go stand next to Sokka and wait until i signal you over and remember be yourself!" Paku walked over to Kenshio "Hello master Paku" Kenshio said to the old man.
"Ahhh i see you have decided to join my classes again hopefully this time you won't give up that easily." Paku calmly stated to Kenshio and Kenshio finally broke a few moments of silence.
"Ummm this is Aang, the Avatar." he said signalling Aang to join him by his side. Aang then bowed respectfully to Paku "And would it be o.k.if a friend of mine joined the three of us?" he said and gestured over to Sokka and Katara
"Of course my prince" Paku said thinking that Kenshio was talking about Sokka. Katara walked over. "I'm sorry miss, but i believe you are in the wrong class. The classes to learn to be mothers, wives and healers are acrosse the street." Paku told Katara gently.
"No, I'm in the correct class " she said happily and as she said this all of master Paku's student, the begginers, intermediate and advanced walked in hoping to see the Avatar learn his bending along with the tribes beloved prince. Katara looked at all the guys walking in and saw Kenshio's friend from the garden. And as everyone entered they were all looking at Katara and Paku standing in the middle of the room. Then half the city waltzed in also hoping to see the Avatar bend. All these people came in and took places against the walls and watched Katara and Paku talk.
"I'm sorry but i do not teach girls" he said
"Why? Is it because i'm not smart or built like a man? Or is it because you and all the sexist men in this city are pigs and beleve that half the worlds population are good for nothing but keeping beds warm and tending to every mans need and wimb?" Katara said trying to stay as calm as possible, but she was easily loosing her cool.
"Because it is against tradition you foolish girl" Paku was getting very angery and Katara was getting testy.
"Teach me!" Katara demanded
"NO!" boomed the man "and if you don't leave i will and i will not teach the Avatar!" Katara sttod her ground remembering to be herself. The man started to walk to the door and Katara made a ball of water from the nearest pool.
"A wise good friend of mine once said 'arguing will not solve anything, actuion will' and he was right"Paku stopped trying to think what the girl was trying to say for he didn't get how that quote would relate to his current situation. As he was thinking Katara took the time to look around and she saw Aang and he was smiling, and Katara knew why because she had just complemented him and said that he was a good friend. Hearing this from Katara made him feel a bit better. Then Katara looked over at Sokka and Kenshio who were standing next to eack other. Sokka looked clueless and Kenshio looked as if he knew exactly what was going to happen. Paku was still thinking and was still confused but he never turned around and was caught off guard as Katara formed the orb in her hands into a whip and his the man with it very hard and it looked like he was going to fall but he didn't.
"Ahhh so that is what you mean, i see you are into philosophy" he said calmly
"I'm a girl, not stupid" Katara snapped back
"All I have to say is Arguing will not sole anything, actions will" he got into his stance and so did Katara. They stood there for a few moments and Katara was mad that he used Aang quote. Then Paku started the battle by bending a blob of water into a ball of ice and throwing it at Katara, but she dodged it by doing a back handspring. Sokka and Aangs mouths just dropped as Katara did this.
Katara made a giant wave of water and turned it into ice right before it would hit him, but he bent the ice and turned it back into water before he was hit by the wave. He tried to knock Katara to the ground but she dodged all of his attempswith a series of flips and handsprings. She then bent water on to her feet and froze the water "Ther now you can't knock me down" she said to Paku
"I don't need to" he stated and bent a huge wave and turned to ice as Katara tried earlier and tried to hit Katara with it attempting to simply plow her out of the way but she move out of the way before it hit her. They then threw around a few whips and Paku said "Oh getting tired little girl" in the most snobbish way in the world
"Are you kidding I'm just getting warmed up!" Katara answered just a little out of breath, but she hid it trying not to show any signs of a weekness. She concentrated and whispered to her self as Paku stared at her wondering what she was doing but he did not say a word and Katara whispered "o.k. Katara get serious, you can't loose by to much. Now concentrate!" "She looked up, made a wave, turned it into ice then stopped it from hitting Paku about three centameters before it hit him. She skated up and over the wave, landed on the opposite side and sprayed Paku with water until he was pressered up against the walll of the wave. She then sprayed him with more water and froze it then aded more and more layers of ice onto the man. She then stood back thinking that she covered him with ice enough times, but got into an attacking position in case he broke free.
"Very clever, for a girl that is" he then turned all the ice into water "but not clever enough" he then wiped her with some water and she then fell ane slid to the other side of the room. She quickly got up. She whiped water at him using both hands hoping that she might hit him a few times but he dodged all of her attemps and whiped her back. She dodged it and was down on one knee breathing hard. She looked around at all the people who looked impressed at the fight. She ended up saying shit, damn and fuck under her breath a few times when not one single idea accompanied her, but she was careful to not say anything to loud for there were lots of young minds in the room who's minds still needed to be molded. Although there were a few students of Paku's that red her lips and staryted to laugh at her. But all the people that she knew didn't seem to notice.
She then got up and started to throw giant chunks of ice at the master. He countered all of them and Katara dodged them as they all came back to hit her. She made a whirlpool in the air and as she was spinning her hair partially fell out and was very messy. But it was still pulled back none the less. The whirlpool hit the master and he fell to the floor.
"Enough of theser foolish games child and let's finish this" he said then he made a huge block of ice. He then took a whipe and cut it in half trying to hit Katara with both pieces but she moved out of the way. She then thurned a whole pool of water into ice and raised it out of the ground. She then cut the ice into razor sharp slices, which she flung at him. He moved out of the way of most of them but onew of them cut off part of his allready short beard and another cut off his pony-tail. He then took another giant block of ice and cut it inti long, sharp, pointy pieces. He flung them straight down on Katara and trapped her in a labrenth of large icy toothpicks. One of them cut off her mothers necklace. Katara watched as her necklace went flying towards the door. Paku frowned at her, turned and headed to the door to leave.
"I'm not done with you" Katara said struggling to get out of the ice "come back here" She yelled at him as he picked of the necklace
"My necklace "he whispered to himself, or so he thought because Katara heard him say that.
"That's not your necklace it's mine and i want it back." she yelled at him
"Your necklace? I carved this for Kana, how did you get it girl?"he asked
"It was my grand-mother's, she gave it to my mother and my mother gave it to me! Now give me my necklace!"
"How could I not see it?"he said "You're the splitting image of Kana" he then set Katara free Katara then thought 'Kana' that was her grand mothers name.
"How did you know my gran-gran?" she asked Paku
"We were set up for an arranged marriage when we were young. I loved her very much, but she didn't love me. She ran away with your grandfather the day before the wedding and she broke my heart." he explained and gave the necklace back to Katara. he then whipered in her ear "i will teach you if you tell know one."
"Thank you" she whispered back
"I'll see you at dawn" he said and left but stayed outside the door and waited until everyone left then he watched Kenshio and Katara
"I told you it would work if you would just be your self and it did." he told her putiong her mothers necklace on her wrist and putting his around her neck. They then shored a simple kiss
"Thank you" she said and they went to diner. After diner and after telling everyone what happened today, they went up to Kenshio's room.
"you know you were really impressive out ther today." Kenshio said "where did you learn to do that?"
" i learned some from a scroll i stole from a bunch of pirates on the way here, I was hoping to find the owner but i havn't yet. And i learned the rest from watching Aang air bend and Huru Earthbend and Prince Zuko fire bend, because the tequniques are a lot alike in some ways." she explained it was a few hours later and Katara finished the tale of how she got to the Nothe Pole.
"that was a great story" Kenshio said
"Well our session starts at dawn tomarrow and i think we should get some sleep" Katara said and they went to sleep.
chapter sevens really long so it will take me a while to type and add detail and again please review!