Nobody's Listening
Chapter 13: Losing Grip, Part 2
By KirariSoldier

It is impossible to wait anymore than this We're so close, don't let it end I want all that you are

After the slide that we two were in between gently slid downwards what was revealed to us was a pearl

Struck by that look my mind became clear through to the core Repeated for thousands of years love is a mysterious war.
The moonlight of love from you,
if bathed in it, I will start to change vividly, secretly, la soldier

To go on like this is painful but of a parting we will exchange with joy please don't hold any promise

"La Soldier" (Sung by various artists for the Sera Myu musicals)

Beams of morning sunlight streamed through the branchs of the sukara trees over Katara's head. She had been out in the park all night, thinking about the night's pervious events. She started to limp back to the Inn when she spotted it. Zuko and his army of fire benders had shown up in Elysion and had set fire to many homes, shops, etc. Children, mothers, fathers, aunts, brothers all ran for thier lives. Zuko stood atop the tallest building, laughing evily at his destruction.

His eyes seemed to be glazed over with evil, and his aura was glowing red. "ALL BOW DOWN TO ME!" He said evily as he hurled more fire at a group of small children and women. All of whom screamed loudly with fear. Katara started for the Inn, which was 200 feet dead away. She ran with all her might, pain welling in her leg. Her face wrenched in pain every time her foot hit the pavement.

"AANG! AANG!" She yelled, search for the avatar. Zuko spotted Katara, and gunned her down with an immense blast of fire. She fell to the ground, and screamed in agony as the flames licked against her skin.
Zuko laughed. "Stupid girl, you dare run from Zuko!" Zuko lept off of the building and to where Katara lay. When he got a better look at her, he realized who she was. "YOU! You are one of the Avatar's travling companions!" He said as he snatched her up by her neck.

"LITTLE WENCH! WHERE IS THE AVATAR!" Zuko spat as he clenched his hands even tighter around her throat. By this time she was gasping for air. "USELESS WHORE!" He said as he threw her to the ground.
Katara choked on air as she hit the ground, knocking the wind out of her. Katara lay on the cement, tears of blood leaked from her eyes, and her aura grew to a steady moonlight color until she was fully engulfed in the calming light of the pendent.

When the light recedded, her pyhsical apperance was not that of what it use to be. Hair seemingly darker, grew about four more feet, eyes glowing like that of Aang's when his avatar is activated, anf she bore the celestial robe around her neck, and yet her tattered clothes were unchanged. "What in the seven hells is going on!" Zuko spat as he watched Katara slowly come to her feet. Aang soon appered by her side, his Avatar had been activated,
and his aura too was glowing like that of Katara's.

"So you want to play that game, huh!" Zuko asked in anger. HIs aura grew from red, to black, and finally to gray. Aang and Katara joined hands, and closed thier eyes. "You can't take power... Power is created..." Katara said in a heavenly tone. "And in cannot be created alone... Nor can it be used alone..." Aang added his voice suddenly more muscular. Katara's amulet started to glow, and swirling teal energy formed at Aang's fists. Katara clamped her eyes shut, tightly, and placed her hands on his shoulders from behind. 'Come on Aang! Please... Show this evil what junketsu is...' She told Aang mentally. Suddenly her vocie swarmed his head.

'Katara...' He said mentally. 'Thank you...' He said as he fired a blast of the aqua colored energy at him. When it reached Zuko, he simply absorbed it. "Is that all you are worth, Avatar?" He questioned. Soon the world over was engulfed in a mad swirling vortex. All living beings had been turned to stone. When the vortex came into contact with thier bodies,
they where smashed into thouasands of peices. "NO! THIS HAS TO BE A NIGHTMARE!" Katara screamed as she shook her head widly in disbelief. Alas, it was no dream.

Zuko's being was glowing red, and he was laughing evilly. "AHH! THIS FEELING IS AMAZING!" Zuko said as he threw his arms to the heavens. "SUCH POWER! I MUST HAVE MORE!" A vocie that was not his said as he lapt into the air, and to were Katara and Aang stood. She took hold of Katara by the neck again, and started to drain away all she was worth. Katara screamed in agony as all of her power was being absorbed into the evil being. "No... Please... No..." She said faintly as she wrapped her hands around Zuko's wrist. Suddenly an amazing amount of power, too much for his body to bear, began to infuse him.

For a split second, he froze, eyes wide. Then he began to eat away at the power, increasing his own. "Your'e attempts are futile, wench"
He spat. Once again Katara was thrown to the ground. Aang stood, watching the whole spectical. And then he felt power welling from deep inside. The power to destroy all who came in his way. This time the Avatar had reached it's peak, and could not be reaversed.
"How dare you! How dare you slay somthing as pure as Katara!" Aang spat as he ran toward Zuko with grear speed. His fists glowing once more.

Soon Aang's fists came into contact with Zuko's stomach, and he had penetraited it. Zuko's being froze again, and all movement stopped from his body. Blood covered Aang's face, Zuko was covered from head to toe, and a giant puddle of his own blood around his feet.
The evil entity which had posessed Zuko had dissolved into the atmosphere. Zuko slumped to the ground, and was scracliy bleeding. Aang to fell to his knees, and crawled to Katara's side. When he got as close to her as he could, he was about four inches from her. "Katara..." He trailed as he took her hand in his, fingers in twinded. "Katara... You are warm..." He said as he lightly tighned his grip on her hand.

Katara gave a forced laugh. "I love you, Aang..." She said. "And I would face hell it's self to be with you..." Aang propped himself on one elbo. "Hell? ...It dos'nt suit you..." He said as he stroked her cheeck with a blood soaked hand. Katara gave a weak smile, and drew a final breath. Aang to passed out from the immense pain that wracked his body.

To Be Continued...