Its 2 o'clock in the afternoon and i still feel tired. Well im outa ideas. Seriously im all out. I really should have thought this through before writing. Oh well im going to try. So here it is...
I do not own Avatar the last airbender.
Chapter 10
life on Zuko's ship wasn't so bad anymore. She was allowed to roam freely aboard the ship now, but only escorted by a guard. But there wasn't anything to do anyway, mostly she spent her time just looking out over the ship watching the sea go by. She looked forward to tea with Iroh, which had become the only thing to look forward to. And while she still hated Zuko for kidnapping her and taking her away from Aang and Sokka, her feelings toward him had changed. The kiss she had given him that one morning over breakfast was just a way to say thank you, she didn't mean anything else by it. Zuko however, after this kiss, had tried to avoid her. He started to feel quite nervous was he was around her, and didn't like the feeling. Katara thought that maybe he had thought that the kiss had meant something more than just a way to say thanks, and for that reason was avoiding her.
But this wasn't true, and she wanted to clear it up immediately. When she was done with her tea with Iroh, she went to find Zuko's room. Finally once she remembered where it was, she knocked on the door of his room. No one answered, she knocked again, still no one answered. She was about to knock a third time when the door opened.
"what do you want! I was meditating!" yelled Zuko
"I-I just want to say that the kiss I gave you was only to say thank you and it meant nothing more!" said Katara.
"why would you think I thought it would mean anything else?" said Zuko looking slightly relieved.
"I don't know, its just, you've been ignoring me and well thats just what I thought." she said.
"well thats not what I thought and why would I want to spend time with a water tribe peasant?" Zuko said.
"you know your sending very confusing thoughts! First you ask me if I would like to walk to lunch with you, then you completely ignore me!" she yelled.
Zuko didn't look like he had any thing to say at this point.
"WELL?" she said impatiently waiting for his reply.
Zuko slammed the door in her face. Shocked and annoyed Katara marched off. Oh that pompous jerk, he thinks he's so superior just because he's some stupid prince! I should give him a piece of my mind! But then he did save me... and that would be the second time... Katara felt an unusual lurch in the pit of her stomach. Why does that keep happening! Katara pondered that thought as she walked to the top deck to watch the sea.
Aang:
"Aang we've been flying for two days straight. We need to rest." said Sokka.
"No, we're almost there." said Aang absentmindedly.
"Where Aang, we haven't seen anything even resembling a fire navy ship anywhere!" said Sokka.
"I DON'T KNOW SOKKA! ALL I DO KNOW IS THAT WE'RE CLOSE!" yelled Aang tired of Sokka complaining.
Sokka didn't say anything else, he didn't want to get on Aang's bad side.
"I'm sorry Sokka, I just miss her." he said sincerely sorry that he yelled at him.
"I miss her too Aang, and we will get her back." he said, he missed his sister dearly too.
None of them said anything else for a while. Tired and exhausted they continued looking around their surroundings for a sign of Zuko's ship. Then, finally, they saw something.
Katara:
Dinner should be ready soon... Katara thought still looking longingly out at the sea. She wondered what they would be having, probably just fish again. She had to admit, eating fish, fish, and more fish was a little aggravating. Of course there wasn't much else to eat when you were out at sea. Katara just sighed and kept waiting for dinner, Iroh would come to get her soon. It was getting dark and she decided to go to dinner early, and began to walk toward the door leading to the inside of the ship. But as she was about to open the door, Zuko came out.
"Dinner's ready." he said and turned and walked back down the hall.
Katara followed without a word. She hated that he could be so calm when he was around her, while she on the other hand, felt faint. At the dinning room she resumed her usual seat at the spot by Iroh, and began eating the fish. Dinner was unusually quiet this evening, so Katara decided to break the silence.
"This fish is exquisite tonight." she said at an attempt to start a conversation.
"It's the same fish we have every night." said Zuko in his usual short-tempered voice.
"She was just trying to start a conversation Zuko. Why do you always have to be so short-tempered?" said Iroh as if he had just read Katara's mind.
But Katara just sighed, she could tell were this was going and took another sip of tea. But before the cup even reached her lips the ship took an unexpected lurch forward. The furniture of the room shifted forward and and whatever was once on the table was now on the floor.
"Wait here Katara." said Zuko getting up from the floor and running out of the door, and Iroh followed. And Katara not wanting to do anything Zuko told her to do at the moment, got up and left the room also but careful enough that Zuko or Iroh wouldn't notice her leaving. She slowly walked up the hallway wondering which way they went and saw guards rushing toward the top deck. Katara followed them still careful that none of them saw her. She hurried to the door leading to the deck, but before she opened it she heard, faintly but still clear enough to know who it was, a familiar voice. "where is she! Where is Katara!" yelled the voice and Katara burst through the door.
"AANG!" she screamed as she ran toward the small boy.
"KATARA!" yelled Aang in return and forgetting about the dozen guards that surrounded them, and raced to her with open arms and embraced in what seemed to take an eternity. But Zuko who was amongst the guards sent a fireball aimed at Aang. Katara seeing what Aang did not pushed him out of the way of the fireball and held her arms in front of her face to block some of the fire that hit her full blast. Katara screamed in agony and fell to the ground unconscious. Sokka (finally appearing) jumped off the saddle on appa and ran as fast as he could to Katara to help her, Aang meanwhile barely able to take in what just happened, through a great blast of wind at Zuko and the other guards. Most of the guards were blown overboard but Zuko had narrowly dodged the blast and sent another fireball at Aang.
Aang dodge it and twirled his glider stick which sent a funnel shaped blast of wind at Zuko which spun Zuko in circles and landed him against the railing of the ship, rendering him temporally unconscious. Aang taking advantage of this rushed to appa and blew himself on appa's head, where Sokka was tending to Katara's wounds in the saddle.
"yip yip!" said Aang in a hurry to get out of there as fast as he could and appa took off in an instant.
Zuko regaining consciousness looked up just in time to see the giant bison flying off into the distance.
"NO!" he yelled as loud as he could, as his uncle which had been absent during this short battle rushed to his side to see if Zuko was alright.
"Zuko...Zuko...are you alright?" he said panting.
"What does it look like uncle! The avatar escaped again!" he screamed as he sent hundreds of fire blasts into the night sky.
Katara:
It was a dream. Just a dream. She had dreamed that Aang had finally come for her. Katara blinked her eyes open, expecting to see the metal ceiling that was her cell. But there was no ceiling, and there was no cell. Only the morning sky, and open air. She sat up immediately, It wasn't a dream! Aang came! He finally came! But these happy thoughts soon left her as she felt a sever pain in her arms. She yelped out in pain which awoke two sleeping boys.
"Katara!" yelled the boy in water tribe clothes. It felt good to hear his voice again. And she received a tight hug from both boys. She yelled out in pain again, her shoulders were burned too and they had just received a tight hug from two over joyed boys who were glad to see her awake. When they heard her yell they let go immediately knowing she was in pain.
"Can I get some water please?" she said happy to see them again, but wanting to heal herself.
"Sure!" said Sokka passing her the water canteen. She bended the water to form a glove around her hand and healed her arms and shoulders and she took a deep sigh of relief. Once healed she hugged each boy in return, a very emotional hug, but when she got to Aang she gave him a kiss on the cheek thanking him for rescuing her. A very shocked, but happy Aang told her your welcome. But after this, Katara had thoughts of Zuko, and when she kissed him.
"I'm so glad to be back guys." she said truly happy to be back, but couldn't get thoughts of Zuko out of her head.
"We're glad your back too, Katara and we are sorry we took so long to find you, but we got lost." said Sokka trying to explain.
"Thats ok Sokka, what matters is that I'm back now." she said not wanting to her brother to think she blamed him. But she still couldn't keep the thoughts of Zuko out of her mind.
My god its 12:18 A.M. But it is new years eve so w/e. Don't worry people Zuko isn't out of this story, and he will return with a better plan to capture Aang. Yaghn... boy am i tired! I need sleep. Staring at the computer screen all day is not doing my eyes good. Well i hope i update soon too. Cause as for right now i have no idea. Oh yea i almost forgot, this story is not decided yet. It could still be a Kataang or a Zutara. Not sure yet. Im just making up stuff as i go along ppl. They have the weirdest shows on at midnight. Love love!
The ever cheerful Shojo Butterfly
