Chapter 2: The Battle

AN: This is where it gets good! Beware! There is one and only one word of mild language in this.

Disclaimer: I really wish I owned Avatar: The Last Airbender, but I don't. If I did, the new season would be aired ASAP. I hate this waiting thing!

Zuko stared from the bushes at the sleeping group. He had noticed two things from this spying:

One: The Avatar was exhausted and would be easy to take down.

Two: The group had some sort of powerful medicine. He had seen the girl leave the camp to go down by the river. He noticed she had some rather large burns on her arms and realized he had probably given them to her. Zuko almost felt bad about what he had done until he remembered that she was his enemy and probably deserved it. Moments later, she returned but with no sign of the burns! Not one blister, not one scratch, not even a scar. That kind of medicine could certainly help his Uncle get better. The night sky grew even darker and Zuko put into action his plan.

He quietly crept into the camp. Luckily, the Avatar slept closer to the bushes than the other two. Zuko picked up a large, nearby rock and slipped closer to the sleeping boy. The kid would have a large headache when he woke up, but that wasn't his problem. He soundlessly knocked the boy unconscious and threw him over his shoulder.

Now all he had to do was find the medicine. He silently looked through all the bags around camp but found nothing. He was starting to get desperate until he spied something glowing in the moonlight; the Water Bender's necklace. That must have been how she was healed so quickly. The girl was sleeping peacefully with a slight smile on her face. Zuko stared at the innocent and fragile picture before him. He leaned down and started to tuck a stray lock of hair behind her ear and then stopped when he remembered his mission. "I have to heal Uncle." Zuko thought sternly to himself. His hand changed course and reached for the necklace. He almost had it in his grasp when her eyes fluttered open and she saw him. At first she continued to smile at him but then realization sparked in her eyes and she let out a loud scream.

Sokka immediately sat up, boomerang in had and looked around franticly. Katara looked around too and when she saw Aang draped across Zuko's shoulder, she dropped into her fighting stance.

"What are you doing here Zuko? Why won't you leave Aang alone?" Katara yelled.

"You wouldn't understand water peasant!" Zuko yelled back.

"Aang was the only person that actually wanted to save you back at the North Pole. He rescued you! Is this how you repay him! Did the North Pole teach you nothing!" Katara practically screamed. Zuko glared and was practically spitting fire as they circled each other, waiting for the other to make the first move.

The first move actually came from Sokka. He shouted and threw his boomerang with deadly accuracy at Zuko. Zuko ducked quickly, saving his head but loosing the Avatar in the process. Aang had slid off Zuko's back and was rolling down the hill toward the river bank. Zuko forgot the fight with the other two and sprinted off to the river. Sokka ran after him and the two began to struggle, but even with his warrior training, Sokka lost. Zuko kicked Sokka into the gut and sent him sprawling into a nearby tree. Sokka slumped to the ground unconscious.

Katara had been watching the battle from the top of the bank. After seeing her brother knocked unconscious, she became very angry and forgot her water bending training. She charged down the hill and head butted Zuko in the stomach. The two tumbled into the river. Zuko's image of the fragile innocent girl was shattered and in its place stood a ticked off teenage water bender. He sent out a flaming kick that sent her on her back into the river. She was singed, dripping wet, and mad as hell. If she wasn't trying her best to kill him, he would have found her appearance very funny. She rested in the water gathering her strength for her next attack. She didn't notice that her hands had started to glow blue…

She launched herself at his back and jumped up on him. She wrapped her glowing hands around his eyes. She only meant to disorient him but then…

The visions of his banishment and the long years of his futile search flooded both of their eyes and Katara watched with horror as the memory of Zuko's Agni-Kai with his father played in her mind's eye. As quickly as it came, it all vanished. The scar absorbed the healing power and broke up, completely healed.

Katara slid slowly off his back into the shallow river. Zuko cupped his face in his hands and shook. Katara felt tears stinging her eyes and felt them slowly trickle down her face. She shed the tears that Zuko could not. He stood there just shaking with his back to her. Suddenly he turned around and stared at her with an intense look of pain, anger and relief.

"What have you done?" He whispered slowly. "What-have-you-done?"

gasp! yes, she healed his scar! Ooooo...how sneaky! Read and Review...If you like what I did, I will post the next chapter. If not...well...I'll just go cry in my room and wait till the next season comes out like the loser I am.