Memories

By: 7Katara7

"Katara, what happened here?" Aang asked. Katara looked up as if he was asking her to do the impossible. "Sorry, I was just wondering what made you upset." Aang told her. Katara looked up at him, "I-I will try to tell y-y-you." She chocked back tears and told him of her memory that haunted every night.

Flashback

Her tribe had just moved in after recovering from the first attack. The building was big; to Katara it seemed untouchable and safe. Sokka got his room and Katara stayed with her mom. Late that night, the screaming began. Katara's mother shook her awake. "Mommy, what's going on?" Katara asked. Her mother pulled her out of bed. "Where's Sokka?" Katara asked. "He is with your father, safe from here." She responded quickly pulling her child down halls and across rooms.

They stepped into one room and saw bodies and blood everywhere. Katara's mother gasped. "They are here, closer than I thought." Her mom exclaimed. "Who?" Katara asked. Then the distance, Katara saw it; a dead fire nation soldier and many Water Tribe soldiers around it. Katara screamed. Her mother cupped her daughter's mouth with her hand. Katara's mother pulled her in a room where fire nation and water tribe fought viciously. "Oooo, a mommy and daughter!" One of the Fire nation soldiers purred turning to look at them.

"Don't hurt my baby!" Katara's mother cried. Katara stood near the exit in shock. "Katara flee! Run! Leave me you will have a better chance!" Her mother yelled leading the soldier away. Katara turned and ran, doing as her mother wished her to, tears rolling down her cheeks. Then she heard a defeated scream. And it belonged to her mother. Katara turned to stop then remembered what her mother had said. She kept racing through the building.

She tripped and fell but got back up and continued. Then a hand shot out and pulled her into a room. "Shhhhh." Sokka whispered holding his sister. They got out of there and ran to their father. "Where's you mom?" Katara looked away, tears streaming down her face. Then they and the other survivors fled the place to a safe shelter. The next the day it was over and Katara, her father and her brother, walked inside seeing no life. Katara stood next to her mother. She bent down and unlaced the necklace around the dead women's neck. Katara held it sobbing. She handed it to her father. "No keep it, it belongs to you now." He told her refusing to take it. Katara looked at it and then put it on. Katara smiled, this is how mother will still be with me.

End of Flashback

Aang looked sad, "That's how it happened." Katara said finishing her story. Aang held her tighter, "What's done, is done. You can't go back, so stop thinking about it." Aang told her wiping away a tear from her face. He stood and then helped her up. She felt so close to Aang, his arm wrapped around her shoulders, she felt…. safe. Katara looked around the room and smiled, from now on she would remember the past, live in the present and look towards the future. Katara took a final glance on there exit and sighed happily, no more memories.