Back for the Worse

AN: First of all, yes I know my titles are really lame, but I don't care! Secondly, WHY DO YOU ALL HAVE TO BE SUCH GOOD GUESSERS!

Anyway, most of ya'll were right. Oh, well. Here's the new chapter!

Katara said incredulously, "Jet!" (There you go!)

"Got that right, baby." Jet said, and in a flash, had tied Katara's hands behind her back.

He picked her up and slung her over her shoulder like a travel bag, and held onto her butt.

Katara for once wasn't unconscious or asleep for once, and she was constantly banging Jet on the head with her hands tied together.

"Would you quit that, it's really annoying, and if you aren't careful, my hands might just "slip up"." He said cruelly, pulling out the assassin's knife he had once tricked her with and holding it over his shoulder for her to see.

She said, "Hmph!" but quit banging him on the head.

Jet brought her to the other side of the island, and then threw her into a boat, and put a gag in here mouth. He and his men got in, and they sailed across the clear ocean for another hour towards who—knows—where.

After a while, they pulled onto shore, and she was picked up again, and they walked into the forest.

Katara was thrown into the ground hard, and after regaining the breath she had momentarily lost, she glared up at Jet and said, "What do you want? How'd you get here?"

By the looks of it, Jet had been planning this entire speech, and he spoke, "Right after you, your idiotic brother, and that twelve year old fucking Avatar left, the stupid Fire Nation troops came into our forest after us. We were forced to flee, and could hardly take anything with us for the lack of preparation, so, naturally, it was a very hard journey here. But when we finally arrived, we tried to rebuild a tree house again, knowing we would never be able to go back to our old home. When we finally completed our tree house, we came to this island because it would be closer to where you told me you were heading, and it made it much easier on us that the perfect solution came wandering to our open hands!" he finished, smirking at her before him.

Katara had never been more scared before, as she knew Jet too well to think that he wouldn't have mercy. After all, he had tried to sacrifice an entire Earth Kingdom city just to rid the area of the Fire Nation, and had lied about it all to her. Katara wished she could be back on Zuko's ship, where he at least wouldn't hurt her because he needed her to get Aang.

Jet picked Katara up again and slung her over his shoulder, and tugged on a string that pulled them up to great heights. This was nothing like the last time they had soared upward together, when Katara had thought he was close to perfect.

Once up there, Katara found herself surrounded by another enormous tree house alike to the other one.

Jet untied her hands, and then tied them over a low branch, so that her feet hardly touched the wooden plank below, and she almost hung there. Her legs were tied together, and Jet put a gag in her mouth.

Katara tried to call out for help, but she couldn't.

Jet leered at her, and went off to go plan more ways to torture her or whatever stupid thing he needed to do.

"Are we there yet?" Aang asked desperately, stretching from his nap.

"So much being so tired—you slept for about FIVE minutes!" Sokka stated, looking annoyed. "And no, we aren't any closer than we were five minutes ago, or so it seems."

"Ugghh. What do you think Zuko's doing to her right now?" Aang asked Sokka.

"I don't know, and don't want to either, but the sooner we get her back, the better." Sokka stated finally.

Haru was tossed into a cell, still unconscious by some angry firebenders. Then they left, leaving someone top guard the door.

…

Haru had started to awaken, and when he had fully awakened, he stretched, and sighed, not exactly surprised at his surroundings.

"Why exactly am I here?" he inquired of the guard.

"You violated many rules," the guard stated, looking pleased that he was the lucky one who got to tell the prisoner what rules he had "broken". "Firstly, you stole from this island's supply of earth, changing it so that you could use it for your own benefit. Secondly, you challenged members of the all powerful Fire Nation, and then you fought them. Lastly, you did not even report to the capitol of this island and receive permission to be here in the first place, and then you stayed anyway. Now, do you think we should release you?"

"Umm…yes?" Haru said timidly.

"Well, that's too bad for you, then!" the guard said finally.

Haru sighed and went into the corner and rested some more.

Zuko was enraged. Not only had he been beaten by a Water Tribe peasant, but he had lost his bait and pride.

"Uncle, I'm going after them, stay here and don't come after me." Zuko said to his Uncle.

Iroh nodded, saying, "I'll get the cook to prepare you some food for the journey."

Zuko rolled his eyes, and went to retrieve the thing he would need most to get Katara back.

AN: Thank you, thank you! Now, I'll update soon, and before you leave, try to answer this riddle!

If you are in the here and at the now, are you (A) in the beforehand of the future, (B) in the past's present's future's past, or (C) the future of the past's present and the future after that?

Now, I made this up myself so DO NOT COPY IT! And when you answer, don't just guess, tell me why you think that, and I'll email you personally telling you the answer, but I'll also say the answer at the end of the entire story, which might be a while! Please don't forget to review the actual story, too!