Chapter 8

Break Away

Katara waited for the perfect moment and untied the knot and removed the gag from her mouth then the blind fold, and found her captor was missing, probably because it thought she was tied up securely, ha yeah right!

Running out of the cave she ran into the forest and hid behind trees every so often and swiftly ran.

The sun looked like it was setting.

"I have been kidnapped for that long! Holy shitt! Sokka is going to be so worry!" she hissed as she ran towards the palace.

Back at the Cave….

"You better have not gone far, not with your condition damnit, oh well this should be easy."

And ran off of the cave…

Back with Katara….

Katara ran swiftly and began to loose her consciousness, 'Ocean, where is the ocean…?'

She collapsed into the snow as the Artic Wolves approached her and nudged her, she didn't flinch.

Nudging her onto their backs; they carried her to the ocean and put her in the water where the Ocean Spirit could heal her.

Her body ached from the frost bites, she shivered from the cold; she could feel her skin grow cold, as she could see her skin turns rather frosted.

Her captor walked out of the forest following the footsteps and saw wolves' prints and looked over at the ocean and smirked, 'Your water can't save you this time…'

The wolves stood around her to guard her as the Ocean Spirit slowly dragged her into the ocean curing her from the cold.

The crystal barrier suddenly came active and shot her to the surface and glared down at her captor and landed on to the beach and scowled, "You have a lot of explaining to do."

The captor stared at her and growled, "Look hand yourself in and no one will get hurt."

"Look, you are the one who's going to get hurt, so beat it! Guards!" commanded Katara.

Guards suddenly attacked the captor and chained him up and began, "My lady what would you like to do with him?"

"Take him to the prison, the private prison; I don't want him communicating with the others."

"Others? What are you talking about?" scowled the captor.

"Trust me, I found your gang, you are unable to talk to them period, any questions?"

"Yes, why capture my gang bitch?"

"Well they work with you, the guards found them sneaking around the palace and village for the last few weeks, so I think you know exactly what's going on, guards take him away!"

The guards took the captor and heard him call, "THIS ISN'T THE END! I WILL GET MY REVENGE!"

"Ha, you wish!" sneered Katara as she walked back into the palace as her captor was taken to the prison cells.

Katara went to her room and went into her bath and sighed heavenly of the hot water.

After having her relaxing bath she got changed into her white strapless dress and brushed her hair and headed down the stairs fiddling with her blond hair.

Reaching the prison entrance she went inside and walked over to the private prison and entered viewing the guards she began, "Guards, please wait out side of the door."

"Yes my lady."

Katara waited till they were out and walked over to the cell that her captor was in and began, "Alright speak up, I want information, why did you try capturing me?"

Her captor stared at her and asked, "What's with the fancy clothes? You look like you are going to a ball of something."

"No, I am having a feast with my family."

"Family? Your married, I knew that necklace meant something."

"Oh shut up, I am not married and the necklace once belonged to my mother. What I mean is family my brother and gran-gran."

"Small family, where's your father?"

"Fighting against your pathetic Nation that nearly slaughtered all my people."

"Hey well I have no interest in slaughtering-"

"Well what's with capturing me?"

"No, that was my own mission I came up suddenly, but-"

"Who crept on land and tried to sneak in the palace ha, I don't think so, more like a kidnapping."

"Look-"

"Look what was your mission then? Why were your men in my palace, and first of all, why were you in my room?"

"What? My men, I have no men, I came alone."

"Then who are those soldiers?"

The captor was quiet thinking and muttered, "My father's, he sent them to murder you to get you out of the way so that he can take over the Southern Water Tribe easily."

"Then what is your excuse?" snapped Katara, "Plus I want your name and age!"

"I am Prince Zuko, I am 20 years old, happy?"

Katara was silent and crossed her hands behind her back and began avoiding eye contact and began, "So why did you come to the South Pole?"

Zuko eyed her strangely and asked, "Before I answer that, what is with hiding your hands behind your back?"

"What?" she stuttered, "Just felt like it?"

"I highly doubt that." And tried to see around her back as she laughed nervously, "I got to go, uh see ya I guess…"

Zuko watched her go and saw something she dropped and yanked the chains and reached for the object and grabbed it and looked at the object and at the door and whispered, "Kamiah?"

Katara walked down the halls and looked at her bracelet and gasped, "Oh no, I dropped it!"

Turning around she hurried back to the cell and hurried into the private cell and saw Zuko leaning over on the wall looking at the bracelet and looked up at her and asked, "Where did you get the bracelet?"

"Uh, a friend from the Fire Nation?" she began nervously and reached from outside of the cell trying to get the bracelet from him and he began, "Who from the Fire Nation?"

"I kind of forget…" lied Katara.

"Lying isn't going to get you anywhere Kamiah."

"What?"

"You are Kamiah, the one I met by the beach 2 years ago, and I gave you this bracelet before I left."

"No, I am not Kamiah-"

"Then who are you then? Lied about your name obviously." snapped Zuko.

"Want to know why I lied? I had to protect myself, if your Nation found out who I really was things would've gone chaos! My brother and grandmother told me I had to lie about my true identity to be safe, want to know who I really am? The one that wiped out your men on the first day you step on our territory, the one who defeated your highest rank general."

"Then you are Katara."

"What?"

"Don't be stupid, that's your true name, your brother told me two years ago during the tour that you were his sister, I grabbed some information about you that you are the most powerful waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe, people call you lady because you treated them so kindly, anything I missed?"

"No, pretty much everything."

"Plus he told me why you hated the Fire Nation so badly, they killed your mother."

"Yes, she taught me everything I knew then, if I just practiced on my healing skills more often back then, she would've been alive right now…" her voice trembled and quickly replied, "Now I must do what is right to protect my Tribe, without your Nation destroying us all."

She left the cell room as she spilt her tears of the memory of her mother's death and went to her room and stayed there for the rest of the night.

Zuko sat on the bench in his cell and looked at the bracelet and closed his eyes and clutched to the bracelet tightly as he closed his palm and held it to his heart and went to sleep…

Disclaimer: Oh how romantic and heartbreaking!

OMG I NEED SOME CHOCOLATE!