This one is for AirGirl Phantom, because of all of the awesome reviews she has been giving me! Hope you like it!
Mother's Day
'Today was mother's day' she thought numbly as the hot tears spilled down her cheeks. 'Things like this weren't suppose to happen on mothers day' She watched blankly as the stretcher was brought slowly to the raft on the waters edge. In the stretcher was a body of a woman. She wasn't moving.
"Katara, hurry" her mother screeched, a look of panic in her eyes, while her face fought to be calm for her daughter.
"Wait. I have to find my necklace!" Katara yelled back, tears welling up in her eyes. She couldn't concentrate. She couldn't block out the terrible noises she heard, the screams of pain, crackling of fire, and the terrible, terrible smell of burning flesh.
She was rushing around the house trying to remember where she had last put the necklace her mothergave her. Her mind was in a frenzied panic."Go without me!" she screamed "I'll come later. I know the way to the 'safe place' without your help!" Her hands were now scouring the tables knocking over brushes and bracelets. 'Where was that necklace?'
Her mother still stood at the doorway, waiting for her child. Katara ran into another room and began her search once more. She didn't have to look for long though and she quickly found the necklace, her hand grasping the cool medallion.
Then she heard another scream join into the hectic chaos around her. This one though was closer and familiar. Her mother. She gasped in panic and turned around to face the doorway where her mother last stood and was greeted with a horrible sight. Her mother was burning, with blood running down her body.
Her screams of angry pain filled the house with a raw animalistic sound. Katara couldn't move. She was transfixed by the sight. Everything else was forgotten. She couldn't hear the screams anymore. She couldn't smell the burning anymore.
She could only stand their while her mother burned, while she watched the light go out of her eyes as she crumpled and fell to the floor. Katara still watched though, slowly reclaiming control of her limbs and senses. Everything came rushing back, but instead of running to her mother's body, she just ran.
She ran though the door, past the snow and the trees, until she couldn't feel her legs anymore. She tried to run away from it all but all she managed to run to was the 'safe place'. She wasn't the only one their either. Many people, including her brother, want to the 'safe place' once the trouble started. She didn't know how long she stood their, numb in the snow, but the screams slowly subsided and all she was left with was a terrible silence.
They slowly placed her mother's bloody, burnt body on the raft with the others and then pushed it out to sea. After this most of the people attending the funeral retuned to the village to help repair it.
Katara was left their watching the raft as it began to sink, slowly returning the people back to the water where they were born. 'Today was mother's day' she thought again 'Things like this shouldn't happen on mother's day'
My longest one yet…wow. Well, review please.
-Alina
