Chapter 9 Zuko's secret revieled

Katara looked up and saw a wall of flame coming towards her. She knew that if they stayed any longer arguing about her safety it wouldn't matter if she were all right because if they were hit there wasn't anything to protect. She looked around for anything to get her and her friends out of this tight situation. And by the looks of things she didn't have much time.

Ember walked away smiling to herself after the fire hit the group. She knew that she was the only heir left to the throne of the Fire Nation. All she had to do was wait for her father to give her a suitor and she would be able to rule part of the Fire Nation as the first female ruler ever. Even though everyone knew her mother was the true reason for her father's success at some points.

"Of course Mom was always weak, just like Zuko, she cared for him too much and what Dad thought of her." Ember did a quick skip to show how happy she was to having dispose of her brother.

A fireball whizzed by her head and she turned around to see Zuko standing on his her ship. He had another fireball in his hand and he was tossing it up and down in a very dangerous way.

"Don't you ever talk about mom that way again." Zuko snarled. He then shrugged. "Of course you wont get to have a chance when I'm through with you. You'll be lucky if you can walk… let alone be able to have my nieces and nephews."

Katara smiled. He was starting to sound like Uncle. She started to giggle slightly but a pain her ribs kept her from laughing harder. When Ember had shot the fire at her she had grabbed the boy's arms and jumped off the side onto the deck. Zuko and Aang had helped the two water tribe members up after they fell some five good feet.

Sokka was impressed with Zuko at the time. He was sticking up for someone he cared about. Even though if it was another fire bender. He pulled out his boomerang and threw it at Ember's head. It circled around once before hitting the girl in the back of the head.

Ember looked mad. She then whistled and Zhao appeared next to her side almost like a puppy being called to its master. Both of them glared at the Avatar and the banished prince.

"Brother I think it's time you and I have a little talk. After all you're at the age that you can have sex…" Ember smiled as Zuko dropped his fireball that he was holding. His face went pale and he quickly glanced over to Katara.

"Shut up!" Zuko yelled launching an attack full force at Ember.

It was blocked despite the force of the attack. She knew something that she wasn't suppose to know. And whatever that something was it wasn't going to get out of her big mouth. He ran behind her and did a low kick hitting her in the back the leg and causing her to fall down. He wasn't about to give up. Especially since he wanted that throne more than anything in the world.

Zuko glared at the fire princess and decided to go with the basics that Iroh had taught him when he was first starting out. He launched a few flames from his foot sliding it across the deck at Ember. He didn't know anything much about his sister, but what he did know was that she couldn't master down the basics that well. And without the basics of fire bending the rest of your attacks just fell apart.

"Try all you want with your simple attacks brother." Ember snarled. "None of them will work because what I want is the life of your girlfriend."

Katara glared at Ember through her mask. She didn't care any more about her condition. She just wanted to see Ember dead. Raising her hand up she launched a powerful wave over their heads hitting both Zhao and Ember dead on. She wasn't going to give up. Even though Iroh had hired someone to help her master water bending she still didn't have all the moves down straight. There was one that she really didn't get to learn very well but she had the basics down good enough. And according to Iroh that was good enough for any attack.

Zhao launched a fireball at Katara but her anger was so great that she was able to block it. She was ready to take Zhao head on even if she had her own life endangered.

"Give up water peasant. You're weak and you're boyfriend is going to die." Katara glared at the Admiral. He was going to eat those words.

"I'll show you weak." Katara muttered concentrating her energy on the ocean around her. She wasn't going to let either herself or Zuko die any time soon. And she was also going to prove how strong she was now that she almost mastered Water bending. She threw her hands in the air and slammed them down causing a burst of water to hit Zhao knocking him to the ground.

Sokka and Aang's eyes widened at the water bender's strength in the attack. Sokka couldn't help but offer a smile to his sister. Being out to see with the old man did wonders for her temper. And she seemed more like a fire bender than normal. Sokka was ashamed with himself for even trying to arrange the marriage when Katara felt so strongly about him. Sokka shook his head; he wasn't about to give his sister up to some fire bender, especially some prince.

Katara didn't back down on the attacks until Zhao was hanging on the edge of the ship. Katara walked over to Zhao and stopped an inch in front of him. "I'm surprised you lasted this long. How could a coward like you survive against Zuko?"

Zhao eyes widened as Katara stepped on his left hand. He started to lose grip on the deck. "I can't swim." Zhao whimpered as he was left hanging with only his right hand.

Katara smirked. "That's all right." She paused. "I heard cowards float." She remembered that quote being used by Haru's father during her travels with Aang. She stepped harder on his hand causing him to fall down into the water.

When Katara turned back to the two boys she shrugged and put on an innocent smile. Sokka and Aang suddenly began to talk with excitement at the same time.

"That was great!"

"Can you show me how to do that?"

"Remind me never to make you angry again." Sokka finally said.

Katara giggled and ran over to where Zuko was fighting. She stood at the edge of the fight and looked up at Zuko and Ember's fight. Both her brother and Aang appeared next to her.

"He'll be able to fight her Katara." Aang reassured the water bender.

Katara fell to her knees and took in a couple of deep breaths trying to get rid of her hangover. She still had a headache. All she could think of that her hangover could have been worse than it really was.

"Katara you shouldn't be here. You should be resting." Sokka said helping her up.

"I know but Zuko needs my help right now. And all I can do is watch helplessly by as his ass gets kicked." Katara flinched as Zuko was flung across the top of the helmsman's hut.

Zuko kicked his sister in the stomach knocking the air out of her. She stumbled backwards a bit giving a chance for Zuko to get out of his bad position. He ran behind the fire-bending princess and smiled hitting kicking her in the back.

Ember stumbled a bit before smiling. She was still clutching her stomach when she said, very audibly, "I can't wait until you're out of the way. Then I can kill both your girlfriend and unborn child."

K15: Gasp! Yeah anyway there you go. What's Zuko going to do about Ember revieling that he got Katara pergnant (sp?). What about Sokka? All I got to say is that you have to read the next chapter and find out what happens! It's going to be big. Well at least I hope so. The next chapter deals with the defeat of Ember. Then all that leaves is the conclusion to the story and then the final fic in the trilogy. I'm going to call it Redeeming a Prince. Or something along the sort. The next chapter should be up about next week sometime and the last chapter next week also. School starts soon so yeah. So keep an eye out for it. Later. K15