Not All Firebenders Are Bad
Once Katara and Sokka were in the galley, they sat down to talk to who they just figured out was Zuko's uncle.
"So what were your names again?" He asked them as they waited for their food to come.
"I'm Katara, and this is my older brother, Sokka." Katara wasn't sure if she should answer but she couldn't help it.
"Ah, I see. So you are the two who were at the North Pole." He looked at them both.
"Mmhhmm," Katara said softly trying not to remember what had happened that day at the North Pole before they left.
Just then two guards came in with three huge plates filled with all sorts of food that were unfamiliar with Katara and Sokka.
Sokka looked at the food as though he could already taste it in his mouth.
The things Sokka would probably do for food…
Katara tried not to giggle at the thought.
"This is supposed to be a snack?" Katara looked at the food wide-eyed.
"Eat what you can, it's actually more of a treat." Iroh looked out of a small window in the galley trying to see if Zuko was near.
"What do you mean?" Katara stared at him and started cutting a slice of bread to eat. After she glanced over to Sokka to see him already on the third to last thing on his plate.
"Well as you probably already know Prince Zuko wouldn't exactly be happy to see me taking you out to eat here." He said checking the window once more.
"Mmhhmm, I shee." Sokka said with a large piece of some sort of meat that was being served in his mouth.
" I don't get why you would let us out against what he says. Wouldn't he get furious if he found out?" Katara looked at him.
"I'm sure he would, which is why…" But before he had a chance to finish the door to the galley swung open and in front of it stood Prince Zuko.
"What are the prisoners doing in the galley!" His face turned red with anger. Never had his uncle seen him so mad which as Katara and Sokka saw frightened him.
Talk about furious…
Sokka thought and put down the food he was eating.
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"I think we went the wrong way Momo, I don't see anything this way." Aang thought as he turned to the opposite direction of where he was already going.
Katara, Sokka, I hope I find you soon before it's too late…
He hated being alone with nobody to talk to. He did have Momo, but he couldn't talk back to him anyway. He was by himself, without his friends to be there with him.
Just as he was thinking the airbender spotted land in the horizon. It was a much bigger island than the island they had been on before but didn't seem to be abandoned like the other one.
With the sun starting to set, he decided to head for the island and stay there for the night.
But little as he knew, the ship was heading back towards the island.
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"Why would you let them come out and into the galley! You know I told you that they would stay in their cells!" Zuko raged with anger at his uncle.
"They were hungry, and they had been in their cells all day," His uncle argued.
"We're heading back to the island to get rid of them and capture the avatar, they aren't allowed here anymore." The prince's rage calmed, as he knew they would get rid of them.
"It wasn't their fault, I told them they could come out and eat in the galley with me." Iroh now putting the blame back to him.
This put Zuko back into an angry displeasure.
"Once again uncle, they are prisoners! They have no right to be even near the galley!
"They were just bored, I won't let it happen again." Iroh lied.
"It won't have a chance to happen again, because we're going back to capture the avatar. I'm not letting him slip away anymore." With that, the prince left the deck.
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"I hate being back in here," Katara said quietly to herself as she moved her bed back in place to sleep for the night. But when she began to pull the covers down off of the bed to sleep, the door handle turned.
How she had wanted to see Iroh's face at the door smiling at her and letting her come out for a cup of tea. Thinking about this, she walked from over near the bed to the door.
As the door opened, she was upset to see it wasn't the fun old man that they had talked and laughed with earlier that day, it was Prince Zuko.
Startled, Katara backed away from the door.
This can't be good, if only I had water left in my bottle. I could freeze him and run out the door. Then we could make an escape…
Katara looked up into the angry prince's eyes waiting to be yelled at again like earlier that day.
Trying to act fearless, she tried to stand up straight. She knew this wasn't making her look much brave since she really did feel a little nervous without her bending or any weapons but she wasn't sure if he could tell.
"What do you want?" She said in a brave tone.
"To let you and your idiot brother know that your friend, the avatar has until daybreak to come to the ship. And if he fails to come, we'll be returning to the island to search him out and take him to the Fire Nation where he belongs. But you and your brother will be left on the island to stay."
Katara shuddered at the thought of being stranded on the island.
