Chapter 10

Katara's face lost all its color when Ember told her the news. She was right; Zuko did take advantage of her while she was drunk. She looked over at Sokka. He looked like he was ready to kill someone; or ready to kill Zuko at the least.

"How did you find out?" Zuko hissed.

"Very easily when you were making so much noise a last night. Plus I spied on you." Ember chuckled. "Surprise?"

Zuko narrowed his eyes and tossed another fireball at Ember's head. His anger was getting the best of him. His eyes looked over to Katara. In her eyes he saw hatred and betrayal. He moved his gaze back towards Ember. He couldn't stand to even hear his sister talk any more. She had no right to be on his ship that late at night. She also had no right to give away his private information. Especially to the two people that he didn't want to find out about what he did.

Katara couldn't help it any more. She lost her temper, she conjured up a powerful wave and it hit both Zuko and Ember. She was furious with Zuko for using her. But even more mad at Ember for telling it for the prince. She pulled a water whip out of the water and hit the girl on the head. This was now her battle too.

"Stay out of this Katara." Zuko warned bringing out a flame whip. "This doesn't concern you."

"Well tell it does now." Katara snapped at the boy. "You brought me into this by having sex with me." She threw the water whip on the ground. "So I suggest you back down before I turn on you."

Zuko smiled and laughed slightly. "I brought you into this because I felt that you didn't love the Avatar. And I wanted to make a difference."

Katara glared at the boy. "Yeah you made a difference all right. And you're going to regret every minute of this."

Zuko shrugged it off. He turned to Ember. "Since you're so keen on ruining lives. I'm going to ruin yours." Zuko focused on his energy. He pulled this attack out on Ruko before but he wasn't sure if it would work on his sister. After all she was a much better fighter than two would ever be.

The air around Katara began to heat up. She knew that Zuko was getting ready for one of his bigger attacks. Even since the last battle she saw him against Ruko she had been cautious about his attacks and making him mad. But she wanted to finish this girl off. She looked at the water and focused some energy and when Zuko shot out his attack she had her water wrap around Zuko's flame. At first she was worried about the two attacks extinguishing the other but they didn't. They seemed to combine into one.

Ember was too shocked at this attack to do anything to block it. Like she could anyway. The water-flame hit the princess knocking her into the water below. It seemed like this was the end of the royal family line except for one prince who needed a wife.

Zuko fell to the ground from wasting most of his energy. He shouldn't have done two major battles less than two days away from each other. He looked up and saw Katara steaming over him. He shrugged nervously before getting a question from the helmsman.

"What do you want me to do?"

"Dock at the shore!" Katara yelled back. "Then you and the rest of the crew are free to go back home." She looked back down and glared at the prince. "I've got my own problem to deal with."

A few minutes after they had docked at the shore and the ship left. Katara was staring at the boy. She couldn't help but be mad at the prince. And then there was the factor of her brother.

"How dare you!" Katara yelled advancing on the prince. Zuko actually backed away in fear of the girl.

"I told…"

"I don't' care what you told me! I told you the first night you came back not to!" Katara yelled throwing her hands up in frustration. "I could just kill you right here!"

Sokka was glaring at the prince also. The only one that didn't seem upset about the whole thing was Aang. And the Avatar had his own reason for not being upset. "Hey you guys calm down. Zuko's a hormone driven teen. He still has an excuse." Aang walked up to Katara. "Katara don't worry about it. Now you don't have to marry me."

"I don't want her to marry that pompous pig!" Sokka interrupted the Avatar. "She's going to marry you Aang and there's no, ands, ifs, or buts about it."

Zuko walked up to Katara and whispered something in her ear that only she could hear. Katara looked up at the boy with a confusing look on her face. "Are you serious?" She asked.

Zuko nodded. Katara calmed down quite a bit than walked over to her brother who was now in a fight with the Avatar. "Sokka." He still wasn't paying attention. "Sokka!"

"What?" He asked turning towards her.

"He didn't have sex with me."

"Wait what about what Ember said?" He asked.

"She lied. I couldn't come to myself to actually take the girl that night. If I did according to Fire Nation laws she would have to marry me." Zuko smirked as Sokka calmed down.

"Prince Zuko, I'm sorry. I didn't meant to blow up in your face like I did." Sokka said looking at the ground. "If you want you can marry Katara. It seems Aang doesn't want to marry her after all."

"Only because I can see that Katara's happy with Zuko." Aang smirked. "I give them three hours before they actually…"

"Okay Aang now that we've got that straighten out how about we get back to Zuko's mini ship." Katara interrupted the Avatar.

"Actually call the bison and I think there is a port that my uncle had conquered that has required some Fire Nation ships. Thought they're not as big as one would like." Zuko shrugged.

Aang nodded and took out his Appa whistle and blew into it. Appa came by and all four of them bored up onto the flying bison.

(Sometime after. After they bought the ship.)

Zuko paced the deck of his ship. He wanted to talk to Sokka about what happened earlier. "You look like you're going to wet yourself if you keep pacing like that."

"Sorry, look about earlier."

"No need to apologize. If you love my sister tell her. But I've been talking to your uncle." Sokka said walking up to the railing.

"About what?" He asked raising his eyebrow.

"Children." Sokka replied flat out. "And we both agree that we want nieces and/or nephews from you and Katara."

"Wait, are you giving me permission?" Zuko asked.

"Yes go ahead you'll like what you see. Just walk into your room. Katara's waiting." Sokka said sighing. "Oh and I find out that you hurt Katara I'll kill you."

Zuko smiled and patted Sokka on the back while walking off to his room. He wandered around for a while forgetting where he had chosen his room. A few times he would walk in on uncle. It took him about ten tries to get to his destination.

When he opened the door he found Katara sitting on the bed with his mother's dress on her. Her hair was left down and she wore a smile on her face. Zuko couldn't help but smile back.

"Hey I hope you're not tired." She walked up to him and petted his hair. "This was actually Sokka's idea."

Zuko leaned down for a kiss. Pushing her back towards the bed his hand inching up her thigh slowly. "Yeah I know. And for which I'm grateful." He answered dimming the candles a bit before throwing his armor off to the side.

K15: I've got to stop right there other wise it wont fit guide lines for rated PG-13 any more... -shrugs- anyway. Here's another chapter. Just keep thinking about everything that went on in this chapter you will be tested later. Ha ha... just kidding. Anyway I'll try to update soon. Later. K15