Chapter 9

The Hunt for the Scrolls

Iroh walked up towards Luna's room and saw her still asleep, praying to Agni that she will not wake up while he searches.

He looked through her drawers and found two, looked under a pillow case of a seat for meditation found another. Taking the scrolls he left the room and headed to his room, placing the scrolls on his desk, he read them one by one:

'Luna,

Good you made it into the palace, now it should be simple, remember if you don't kill the Fire Lord soon, your village shall be slaughtered, anyways I suggest you to poison him."

Your Master.'

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'Luna,

You have 2 weeks before I get rid of your pathetic people, kill the Fire Lord! Maybe gain his trust and kill him when you must.'

Your Master.'

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'Luna,

Consider this a warning: Murder him soon! You have already been there for a week! If you don't kill him soon, trust me I'll find your brother and your two other friends and murder them too along with your village!

I know you traveled with the Avatar, but tsk, tsk, I don't give the dam, and I'll kill his bison too, and use its fur for a rug, his lemur's head to hang on my wall, I have no clue how to kill that pathetic airbender friend of yours but it will be easy killing your brother along with your village, and if I am lucky your father will be there and I can throw him in the murdering plan too! Then you will be alone, trapped in my horrible wrath, becoming my slave doing everything for me, doing everything I say, leaving you helpless sad orphan, but yet again tsk, tsk, I don't care, I am willing to murder all of your dear friends and families, and if I am lucky I will murder the North Pole too! Then you will be known as the last waterbender Katara!

Tsk, tsk Katara, I like your secret name better!

Your 'Future' Master.'

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Iroh read the last scroll again and gasped, "So it is the Waterbender eh? Katara, the Master Waterbender, no wonder she couldn't protect herself, she would've blown her cover, she probably didn't want to face Zuko's wrath."

'But yet again, who is this Master? Why haven't she killed Zuko yet? She obviously doesn't want to kill anyone.' Though Iroh and stood up taking the scrolls with him and passed Jazzy's and the other girls room and heard,

"To kill Iroh, tomorrow morning we will put poison in his tea, and then put food poison for Zuko."

Iroh hurried away from their room and thought, 'Now they want me dead too?'

Iroh bashed into Zuko dropping the scrolls everywhere and rubbed his forehead and looked at Zuko then pulled him close for him to whisper, "Zuko you are in danger, we are in danger!"

"What are you talking about?" asked Zuko.

Iroh passed him the scrolls and replied, "Luna is under \cover along with the other girls."

"Undercover for what?" asked Zuko.

"To murder you and me, but…let me explain how I found these scrolls…" began Iroh.

"Alright uncle you begin."

"I was happening to check on Luna when I saw her waterbending, and healed herself, then I saw this strange bird fly into the room and dropped a scroll in her hand and flew out, she read the scroll and started weeping and threw it out of the window.

"Then I went into the garden and took the scroll, cause that was where it fell so I read it, I got interested and snuck into her room and found three more scrolls, but this one here, I think you should read yourself." Replied Iroh as he handed Zuko a scroll and watched his nephew read it.

Zuko gasped, "It's Katara!"

"Yes, I am afraid so, I heard that she suddenly disappeared after being in the marketplace with the avatar somewhere. These scrolls are threats, to kill the Avatar, her brother, and her whole tribe."

Zuko was quite for a moment and whispered, "Katara doesn't want to kill me, I can see it in her eyes, she doesn't want anyone to be hurt, she hates seeing her people being slaughtered."

"I know, I hate seeing that myself, but who is this Master?"

"I don't know, but we'll find out soon enough."

"Should we tell the Avatar?"

Zuko thought for a moment and nodded, "Yes, maybe he can help, and she will need her brother's comfort even though he is an idiot!"

Iroh chuckled and replied, "Oh and Zuko, one more thing, skip your meal tomorrow, we'll go to the market place instead, the other three girls were planning to food poison you, and tea poison me."

Zuko nodded and took the scrolls and head to his room, he sat at his desk and read the other scrolls twice and whispered, "Don't worry Katara; you will be safe with me."

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Disclaimer: Okay, so now we know who Luna really is, she is Katara, just with a different name! Okay moving on!