Chapter 3

Blood Line Sharks and Back at Fog Valley

Katara walked down the hall that evening as she walked towards her room and opened her doors and closed them behind her and sat down to meditate as she closed her eyes and began breathing in and out, in and out, in…

Suddenly blood hurled screams filled the air.

She snapped open her eyes and hurried to her window and saw her father's men going out to fight, they have been attacked.

Zuko looked out his cell window watching bloody creatures attacking the village.

"Daemons!" exclaimed a guard across his cell and got to his feet and saw a bunch of guards crash into the room and gasped, "The Blood Line Sharks are here!"

"Them again?"

"Yes."

"Hello? Blood Line Sharks? What the hell are those things?" snapped Zuko.

"Furious daemons; they float in the air even though there is no water here, other wise you wouldn't be able to Firebend, but they are attacking us constantly, we don't know why though."

"What kind of nation are you anyways?"

"Water Tribe."

"WATER TRIBE?" exclaimed Zuko, "There is another?"

"Well since the war was getting so bad; the Southern Water Tribe wasn't safe, and we were sailing and found this place and made it our home." Then the soldier quickly added, "Some people are still living there though. The Chief is planning to go back since we heard the war is over; who won?"

"The other Nations." Answered the guard, "I heard that the Avatara lead the battle but suddenly disappeared back to the Air Temples."

"Oh, interesting…" replied Zuko as he snatched the keys without the guards knowing and watched them leave the cell leaving him all alone as he smirked with pride and unshackled himself and ran out of the cell and through the palace.

With his Ninja skills of the Blue Spirit he managed to get through into the halls as the servants were fleeing as some sharks were after them.

Flaring flames at the creatures and watched them fall to the ground leaving a puddle of blood on the floor as the maids ran past Zuko as he made his way through and found some soldiers and guards dead in the halls as he hurried through the halls; this place was already creeping him out.

Dashing down the halls he bashed open a door and saw the princess in war paint; holding a hand made sliver sapphire sword and slashed the sharks killing them swiftly.

Blood was all over her as she was about to slash another shark when Zuko took care of it for her and knocked her out as he found some rope and tied her up and threw her over his shoulder and jumped off the balcony into the city where dead bodies and half alive bloody bodies laid and ran towards the entrance of the village and began climbing the mountain that had the exit from the village; he could've taken the path way, but too many soldiers were fighting, it would've made him too obvious.

While climbing the cliff one of the soldiers happens to take noticed and shouted, "HOLD BACK THE SHARKS! YOU MEN SAVE THE PRINCESS, SHE'S GETTING KIDNAPPED!"

"You don't know how to keep your mouth shut do you?" growled Zuko as he made it to the top and was surrounded by the guards as the others fought against the sharks.

Zuko rolled his eyes, "This is way too easy."

"Release the Princess, and nobody gets hurt!" ordered a guard.

"That what everyone says, and they always break their promises. Whatever, I don't have time for your pathetic stalling." sighed Zuko shaking as if they were nuts and shot flames at the guards and made his get away.

Grabbing the princess he ran into the freezing cold water and began his way through the mist, and was surprised the sharks haven't followed him…yet.

Dragging the princess through the water he saw her little raindrop crystal jewel glow and released the princess for a second and noticed it cleared away the fog and snatched the princess as he thought, 'Something is special about this girl, now what could make this girl special? So far all I know that Raindrop Crystal has some sort of power…'

Since the fog cleared up he could see that this place was a swamp, the water was clear though; out in the distance stood a mirror reflecting the aqua blue water, taking a glance at the girl to make sure she's unconscious and continued to drag her through and felt his cheeks getting cold as he hurried to get to the mysterious mirror continued drag the princess through the water and struggled to get on shore and noticed the fog returning as he heard shouts, "My Lady?"

"WHERE IS THAT DAMN FIRE SCRUM?"

"WE'LL GET THEM LATER, RIGHT NOW LETS GET RID OF THE DAEMONS!"

"Yeah, they can't get anywhere in this fog." Replied another shout as the voices faded and returned to being the once before silent swamp as he threw the princess on to the shore and noticed for the first time she was bitten by the shark on the arm leaving a trail of blood, not only that on her other arm there was some strange blue markings of some kind of vines in a curve that had little crystals symbols on the vine stems.

Throwing her over his shoulder he weakly ran to the mysterious mirror and touched it with his hand as his hand went in, curious he step in and was sucked into the mirror, similar to the portal he was taken into.

Mean while back at the Palace….

Prince Sokka sat on his throne as his father came walking in and began, "Sir Bato, what happened to my daughter?"

"She was kidnapped, she leaves a trail of blood leading into Fog Valley; we believe she was bitten by a daemon, then was kidnapped."

"But who kidnapped her then? That fire scrum is shackled in the cell, he couldn't have escaped."

"Don't speak too soon father." began Sokka as a guard came panting in and gasped, "The Firebender escaped!"

"Told ya!" exclaimed Sokka, "I knew it! I knew that firebender would escape!"

"He kidnapped the princess! We saw him run into Fog Valley with her; he wiped out half of my men."

"He is a powerful bender indeed; as we evacuate this place and return back South, we'll send out a Navy towards the Fire Nation, where else could a firebender go then?"

"Uh, dad..."

"What is it Sokka?"

"I have a feeling I heard about this firebender before, I have a feeling he was the one who defeated Ozai with the Avatar."

Haroko looked over to his son and nodded, "No, it can't be him, I believe he is dead."

Sokka furrowed his eyebrows and began, "I am going back to the Southern Tribe now."

"Sokka, bring Sir Bato with you."

"Yes father, Bato; go and pack up, we are going home."

The two men left the throne room as Haroko rubbed his forehead and groaned, "Why Katara, why you?"

Disclaimer: Finally, although this isn't the longest chapter, I am trying to make it longer, wish me luck and don't forget to review!