Katara ran toward an opening out of the burning forest. She coughed as she choked on smoke, and jumped over a burning log and out into the open. She ran up to the first guard she saw near the Marketplace.

"Sir! The forest is burning down! You've got to help us! Ple-" Katara screamed and the large man picked her up and slung him over his shoulder like a sack of poetatoes. "What are you doing?" She shouted. "Put me down!" She slapped the man's head and he threw her on the ground. Katara scrambled to get up but he grabbed her wrist. She quickly wrenched it from his grip before starting to run. Then he pulled the ground Katara was standing on out of the earth so she was standing on a piece of the ground in mid-air. She grabbed a loose gutter of a near-by shop and used it to fling herself to solid ground again and continued running down random streets. "Help!" A man stared at her from a cabbage cart, shrugged and continued doing his shopping before he jerked around and shouted.

"It's her!"

Katara's eyes widened as about twenty more villagers started chasing her. That was a really bad idea. She panted as she rounded another corner only to meet up with another two hundred pound guard in a dead-end alley. She changed directions at the speed of light only to be blocked by the mob of people. Help, help, help! Aha! Katara bended some of the rainwater from the shops gutter into a whip. "Get away from me." She growled. "Now."

"I'm afraid we can't do that." The first guard smirked and pulled out a scroll from beneath his uniform. He cleared his through as he began to read. "You're under arrest." He said shortly. He started to put it away before Katara grabbed it from him.

"Let me see that." She glanced at it. It was hand-written in fancy script.

By order of the Council of Knoshiwama

We, the council have hereby declared by the order of Danielle Lillian Doeage, that to abide by the guidelines set in the order of Decree 64364-A under paragraph C, that the Avatar and all those associated with him/her must be arrested and exiled immediately.

Don Marty GreemanKriastia Doli Goliab Amelia Li Goldmaner

Danielle Lillian Doeage

I don't know any of these people…

The water splashed to the ground as Katara held the scroll loosely at her side. "Wait, this means, what exactly?"

The guard sighed exasperated. "Do I have to spell it out for you? We," He pointed to himself and the guard on the opposite side of Katara. "Are to take you," He pointed at her. "To the palace." He pointed to the castle. "Got it? Now either come quietly or we'll take you by force." He got in a combat stance and Katara placed her free hand on her hip smirking.

"Oh, I'm not going easily. You're going to work." She quickly jumped and grabbed hold of the gutter, which broke trying to hold up her weight. The crowd was quickly splattered with water and in the quick second they had taken to react, flung herself on the roof, and out of their reach. "Now, you're forest is burning. I'd worry more about what's going to happen to your houses then what's going to happen to me." She ran and started to jump across the gap between the two houses only to be grabbed and pulled down by her ankle, and who did it wasn't a guard.