HEY PEOPLES!
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Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: the last airbender.
I'm really sorry for the wait, I couldn't think of what to write!
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Edoc'sil's eyes widened as he saw that his blast of flame was headed straight towards Katara.
Katara did some fancy waterbending trick to stop the fire. She then turned around to Zuko and took all of the water in her little gourd thingy and went to go splash it on Zuko, but he blocked it with a wall of fire that caused a lot of steam in the hallway.
Zuko growled and walked blindly through the mess of steam.
Katara, on the other hand, immediately ran towards where Edoc'sil was last seen. Edoc'sil, sensing another presence nearby, backed up and freed himself. He spotted Katara, turned around, and started banging on the wall to create a large enough hole to escape. And create a hole he did.
On my back, quickly! Edoc'sil thought to Katara.
Katara grabbed the saddle that Katrina usually used to ride Edoc'sil and jumped on the dragon's back. She winced as she felt the scales of the black dragon rub and cut the skin on her legs.
Edoc'sil crawled over to the hole and squeezed through it, dropping through it, dropping quickly towards the water.
Here we go, Edoc'sil thought to Katara joyfully. Katara grinned, despite the serious wounds on her legs from the scales.
Prepare yourself! Edoc'sil thought.
Katara nodded and the leathery black wings of the scaled beast shot out and Katara braced herself. Edoc'sil caught the updraft and both the dragon and the girl painfully riding it where jerked upwards.
Edoc'sil roared his freedom, again, and flew in somersaults. Katara laughed, and then winced. She looked back at the shrinking ship and saw Zuko run up on deck and point at Edoc'sil and herself.
Katara realized with a start that the catapults where aimed at them.
She screamed and Edoc'sil flew quickly away from the sight.
What Katara didn't know was that Zuko stared at her until she was out of sight, and only then did he shed a single tear.
(division mark)
Katrina bought a larger black cloak and a straw hat with a large rim that, if pulled down, would cover her eyes and forehead, while the cloak had a collar that covered the rest of her face. Her other cloak had been give to someone on the street who didn't have anything for the rain that was now coming down.
Katrina walked to the beach and watched the rain on the water. It was a light rain, but hard enough to keep almost all people off the street.
Katrina sat down on the sand and played with the millions of grains with her feet. She found a shell and held it out to the rain to wash it off. It was actually quite pretty.
While looking at the shell, she heard a sound and looked up. There, in the sky, was a dream come true for Katrina.
It was Edoc'sil.
"Edoc'sil!" Katrina shrieked. The black dragon seemed to smile and landed next to the girl.
Katrina ran up to the black dragon and hugged his neck tightly. The scaly beast swung his head around and looked at the girl with joy in his eyes.
Only then did Katrina notice Katara on the dragon's back, gasping in pain.
"Katara!" Katrina screamed, both delighted and shocked.
Katara managed a little smile before toppling off of Edoc'sil. She looked down at her legs and groaned. The pants she wore were torn and her legs were extremely bloody and ripped almost to the bone. She gritted her teeth.
Katrina looked at her legs with a knowing nod.
"You didn't use the saddle, did you?" Katrina asked.
"I didn't have time to put it on," Katara answered.
"We need to get you to a shelter so we can wash and heal your legs," Katrina said, pulling Katara to her feet.
Katara gasped and immediately sat down again. "I can't walk," she told Katrina.
Said girl nodded and walked over to the huge black dragon. They talked to each other for a few minutes and Katrina put the saddle on Edoc'sil's back.
She got on and Edoc'sil sprung up into the air, twisting quickly into the sky.
Katara felt betrayed. They were leaving her! Suddenly she felt something wrap around her waist and it took her a second to realize that it was Edoc'sil's claw. Katara quickly scolded herself for thinking for even a moment that the two had left her. The iron claws around her waist were gentle, but firm.
(division mark)
Meanwhile, Sokka was still being held against his will. He struggled against the ropes that held him to the ship's main support pole.
He thought about Katara and Aang. He thought about Katrina and Rayna. But mostly he thought about how he would escape from this stupid ship. He took a dagger from his belt and sliced through the ropes.
He stood up and ran to the window of his cell. Water. Water. And more water.
Good thing I can swim Sokka thought.
He broke through the window and squeezed through. And then he fell.
He took a huge breath and landed in the water with a large splash. And then he promptly hit his head on the bottom of the sea.
It took Sokka a while to realize that they hadn't left the dock yet, so the water was very shallow. He shrugged and set off towards shore.
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"NO! I REFUSE!" Katrina promptly shouted into the doctor's face.
"But miss, you need your shots! Riding with a dragon is dangerous and you might need to go into battle soon and you need shots!" said the doctor.
"No! No no no no no no no no no!" Katrina shouted, shaking her head.
"Katrina, please. The doctor is right; you need to get your shots. Would you want to get sick? Then you wouldn't be able to ride Edoc'sil," Katara reasoned.
Katrina stared at her, amazed by how much she sounded like your mother. She nodded numbly, the words still playing in her head. Then she seemed to realize what she had agreed to.
"You tricked me!" Katrina cried dramatically, pointing at Katara.
Katara shook her head, smiling and allowed herself to be wheeled away so her legs could be bandaged up.
(division mark)"SOKKA!" Aang shouted, running towards his friend.
"Sokka!" Rayna shrieked, running towards said warrior and giving him a light peck on the cheek.
Sokka looked terrible. His clothes were drenched and ripped in a couple of places.
"Do you think you could sew these?" he answered to the looks given to him by his friends.
"Me? Hell no," Aang replied.
"Not you, idiot. Rayna!" Sokka said, whacking Aang.
"I don't know, I guess I could try!" Rayna exclaimed, excited. "Go behind Appa and give me the clothes you want sewed. Hurry up!"
Sokka did as he was told, and soon all he had on was his warm, fuzzy winter coat, thankfully handed to him from Aang.
Rayna, on the other hand, had gotten Katara's supplies for sewing from Appa.
She took one look at the complicated pattern given to her and the sewing needle and the tiny thread that she was supposed to stick inside that tiny hole on the needle and decided that she would have to improvise…
TBC MAN TBC!
Sorry I haven't updated in forever, but I have decided that I may or may not include Azula and the blind bandit (don't know how to spell her real name). Thanks for reading, please review!
-ZK
P.S. Just about 5 pages in Word, be happy!