Escape?
AN: Thank you to all my nice reviewers, especially Iced Tea, for telling me the Princess' name, and being such a good friend!Sorry for the long wait, I was rough drafting the entire story on my notebook! I won't keep you reading my author's note forever, so here's the chappie! Also, this whole story was written BEFORE The Waterbending Master, so Zuko still has his crew and he's not on Zhao's ship, and Katara, Aang, and Sokka haven't reached the North Pole—of course, because Katara's still being held captive on Zuko's ship!
Zuko walked into the monitor room. "Head toward the nearest town, we need supplies, and once you're there, notify me for further instructions."
The guards looked at Zuko for a second, but did as he ordered Zuko went back to his room.
Haru stared at the soldiers, blinked, and said, "Er…I'll just be going now." And he backed away.
The biggest soldier looked at him, raised an eyebrow, then shouted, "GET HIM!" and his men charged.
Haru lifted up the earth around him to form a wall, and then ran for it. He felt searing hot pain reach the skin on his back, and he screamed and collapsed.
The soldiers took a rock and hit Haru hard on the head with it to make sure he was unconscious, then tied him up and dragged him off. (AN: Poor Haru! Sorry, but if Katara doesn't get together with Zuko, she should get together with him on the actual show!)
"Appa's tired, and so am I. Could we please stop and rest for a bit?" Aang pleaded with Sokka, who had been trying to break a rock in half for the past hour out of boredom.
"Here, I'll steer, so you can sleep, and Appa's a ten ton bison, I think he can handle it." Sokka said, his voice squeaking.
Aang sighed and switched places with Sokka, lying down.
What is taking the Avatar so long? Doesn't he need his precious Katara? Zuko thought to himself Ah, well, in the meantime, I can enjoy her company myself! And I should take her necklace so that if she escape's—which she WON"T!—I'll have something that she has to come back for! Zuko smirked as he entered his room to find Katara asleep.
Meanwhile, Katara had had just awakened—and scolded herself for knocking herself out—and thought about last night's events. She heard someone coming, so she lay back down and pretended to be asleep.
She knew that it was Zuko's eyes she felt upon her as the footsteps got closer, or maybe she just knew it was him because the only other person that would have entered Zuko's room was Iroh, but his footsteps would be heavier, and he would be having tea and talking to himself randomly.
Katara rolled over to herself so that she wouldn't give herself away as Zuko walked over to her.
Katara felt his hands touch her neck, and she thought frantically, Oh, crap! What the hell does he think he's doing? Hey—he's taking my necklace! NO! Katara almost jumped up to scream at him, but that would embarrass Zuko, and an embarrassed Zuko would likely be an angry one—Katara was getting tired of being unconscious.
Zuko left the room, taking Katara's necklace with him, and waited for land to come.
…
"Sir, we've spotted land ahead, but there might be Fire Nation in it, we aren't sure. What do you recommend?" the guard said, looking nervous.
"Set course for that town immediately, and ready yourself as an extra precaution." Zuko commanded, and took out Katara's necklace, staring at it endlessly as they approached land.
Katara snapped her eyes open the moment Zuko left, and she had heard the last of his footsteps. She went over to the door, put her hand on the knob, turned it, but felt resistance.
"Damn it!" she almost yelled, and stomped over to another door. She opened it easily—but it was just a closet with about ten pairs of Fire Nation clothes and metal armor. She slammed it shut and ran over to the third door, opening it to reveal a bathroom (yes, I know Zuko's room has only one door, but I wanted to put that in here, so oh well!).
A bathroom, huh? Katara thought to herself, with an abundant supply of my element—water! This is perfect! I'll just wait until that spoiled Prince comes back, and I'm free! But there's one problem. We aren't anywhere near land, so I won't have anywhere to run off to! Darn! Oh, well, I'll just wait.
She didn't have to wait long.
A few seconds later, she heard footsteps coming down the hall, and Zuko stormed in. Looking at Katara, he said, "We're getting supplies at this island, and you are to stay here. My uncle will bring you food, and you can use my restroom that I see you've discovered." Zuko stalked out, and Katara took a deep breath, pulling water out of the basin, and performed the water whip on him.
Zuko whipped around—Katara had hoped the water whip would have a bigger effect, but he had hardly staggered—and looked furious.
She freaked out, spilling the basin of water onto the floor, and it splashed everywhere. Then an idea came to her, and she took a deep breath in, and blew out, freezing the ice, and pinning Zuko to the wall.
He looked more enraged then ever and immediately started thawing the ice with fire.
DUH! Hello? Firebender! Katara shouted mentally to herself, finding her feet and running for it. She ran out of the room, through the halls, across the deck, off the plank, and into the forest.
She kept running away, until she bumped into someone. They grabbed her wrists as she fell back, and saying in a voice that Katara knew only too well, "Well, well, well. Look at what we have here, boys."
AN: Cliffie! How was it? Who do you think the mystery person is? I hope it's not too obvious! You'll find out in the next chappie! Read and Reply! )