It's Called Water Bending Chapter 1: Womanizing for Dummies, an avatar: last airbender fanfic

It's Called Water Bending

By:

The-x-love-x-of-x-your-x-life

Disclaimer:

I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Summary:

Through an unfortunate event Katara is captured and taken prisoner by Prince Zuko. The firebender hopes that through this he can catch the Avatar, learn how to waterbend...and make Katara love him?

Somewhere on the outskirts of the Fire Nation...

"Time to hit the sack guys."

"Yeah it is getting kind of late," Aang admitted to his crush Katara.

"I'm tired," Sokka said and laid down on his pallet.

As Katara laid her head down on her sleeping bag she said, "Goodnight Aang, goodnight Sokka. See you in the morning."

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Chapter 1: Womanizing for Dummies

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"The fire nation is attacking," Katara screamed a little too late as a whip of flame almost slashed across her face. The waterbender cried out in pain as the fire stung on her cheek and made a purple bruise on the tan skin. Despite the great sudden waves of heat from the small army of firebenders Katara threw back even more powerful waves of ice cold ocean water. Aang cried out.

"Katara leave them! Appa is ready!"

Aang threw a gust of air at the pursuers and hopped onto his giant flying bison. He made an impatient yet worried gesture at the older bender and whispered the magical words that got the usually lazy Appa going.

"Yip! Yip!"

Katara leaped onto the huge bison and felt the relief she always felt when escaping the fire nation's attacks. Then that's when she saw him.

He ran up to the hill on which the annoying creature ascended and held up a necklace. A thin piece of leather with a precious sapphire attached that had the water nations symbol was in Prince Zuko's calloused hands. Katara gasped.

"I have something you want waterbender."

The firebender's tone was almost teasing. He stood on the hill waving the necklace in his hand as Appa soared higher and higher. Katara pinched her thick lips together as Prince Zuko got tinier and tinier.

"I won't let him go! I'll get back what is rightfully mine!"

With that Katara jumped off of Appa and used the water to propel her forward safely straight into Prince Zuko's retinue. She used her waterbending skills to land onto the hill and blast each fire nation solider in the face with water. She could get her necklace back, she would! It was 4 years after Katara had found Aang and now she had more power than she did when starting out as a waterbender. The 18 year old girl ran right for the royal firebender and collected a ball of water into her right hand.

Prince Zuko stared at the incoming waterbender and couldn't help but to smile at the girl's foolishness. When will the stubborn girl realize that even though she was a powerful bender, he still would be stronger and better than her always. When Katara reached Zuko he grabbed her right wrist and flashed a hot flame of fire in her face...

..hellopaco..

"No!" Aang cried when he saw how Prince Zuko mercilessly attacked Katara. The female waterbender was now on the ground unmoving and Sokka cried out in rage.

"You bastard," the 19 year old man cried as Appa flew higher and higher until the ground was nothing but a tiny spot. The monkey Momo climbed on Aang's shoulder trying to comfort the Avatar.

"We can't go back," Sokka regrettably cried.

"We have too!"

"Katara made me promise that if anything happened to her or me that we would seek your safety before our own! We can't go back, not now or they will kill us!"

"I don't care if they kill me or not!"

"Aang, you are the Avatar! We cannot risk you to the fire nation."

The Avatar knew his friend was right but he could help feel a deep pang of guilt and pain at their betrayal to Katara...hell they didn't even know if she was still alive...

..hellopaco..

Prince Zuko looked down at the moving pile of ash that was the hurt waterbender with a annoyed glance. His uncle, Iroh, walked slowly up next to him.

"What can I do with that? I wanted the Avatar to act, not the foolish waterbender. She is useless to me, kill her."

Uncle Iroh held up a old wrinkled hand signaling the solders to halt. He turned to his nephew.

"For someone related to me, you sure don't have my smarts...or my good looks."

Zuko ignored the last part of the comment and raised an eyebrow at the first part of his Uncle's babble.

"What can I do with her?"

"Well my dear nephew. One you can hold her hostage so the Avatar will have to come back to recuse her. Two you can break her through investigation for the Avatar's secrets. And third, you can probably make her teach you waterbending if you crack her hard enough."

"Waterbending? Why would I want to know that useless skill?"

"So maybe you can have another skill to fight the Avatar with."

"True. Men collect her and take her to my home on the border of the Fire nation."

Two soldiers came over to collect the weakened Katara and received a surprise.

"Holy shit! My fucking eyes!"

"Ah! My nose I can-can't breathe!"

The two soldiers fell to the ground withering about like worms on a hot sunny day on a sidewalk. Katara stood up and blasted the two soldiers next to Prince Zuko. Water flowed down the girl's slender form and she attacked.

"Give. Me. My. Necklace!"

Zuko narrowly avoided getting hit in the face. He grabbed both of the waterbender's hands and flipped them around so he had both hands behind her back. Fire flowed through all of Katara's veins and she fell to the ground unconscious. Passed out and not harmful the soldiers hesitantly took Katara away to Prince Zuko's home.

..hellopaco..

The brunette didn't feel the need to ask "Where am i?" when she awoke because her answer was staring directly at her from across the room. The "dungeon" Katara was placed in was really a small lavish guest room in Prince Zuko's small yet comfortable house. The walls where a deep navy blue and the carpet was a creamy white color. The bed which Katara was on was decorated with baby blue silk sheets and pillows. Katara gazed around the room adoringly. Then she noticed the fire prince and the object he had yet again teasingly in his hand.

"Give me the necklace," Katara cried and jumped out of the bed.

"It was this stupid necklace that got you into so much trouble three days ago," the prince said standing up from the dark golden chair in the corner of the room.

Katara was suddenly struck by a wave of intimidation. Zuko had towered at least 8 inches over her!

"Please just give me back the necklace."

"Why should I?" The prince spat out even though he was enjoying the waterbender's pleas greatly.

"It was mine! Never yours! It belonged to my mother who your evil nation attacked and murdered! First your people murder my mother then rob me of her belongings. The fire nation is no better than barbarians!"

The room was silent before it happened, like the clam before a storm. Then it hit, or should I say he hit?

"Ow!"

Zuko had never smacked anyone physically in his life, especially a woman. But this, waterbender, had awakened a rage the firebender had not known was in him. The female fell to the ground surprised and Zuko immediately pounced still angry.

"How dare you speak of my country so? I shall kill you woman!"

The prince sat on Katara and grabbed a fist full of long silky brown hair. Katara fought and tried to punch the prince in his face but it was useless.

"Zuko!"

The firebender fell off of the young waterbender when his Uncle Iroh stood menacingly in the doorway of the room. He looked shocked and appalled at his nephew's behavior.

"You should be ashamed of yourself! Never in your my or your father's life had we ever hit a woman!"

"But Uncle she disrespected our country—,"

"As would most raging women who don't know where they are and are afraid for their future. Women often say such hurtful words yet you do not go around hitting them as punishment!"

"I can't believe this," Zuko raged as he yanked himself off of Katara, "I get in trouble but she doesn't? What kind of prison is this?"

"Katara here is our guest not our prisoner," the uncle said before turning on his heel and walking off.

The firebender looked at the waterbender with burning eyes full of rage before he too turned and left.

..hellopaco..

"Uncle what was that about?" Zuko yelled as he walked at a fast pace down the dark ruby red halls of his own house.

"Jeez Zuko you really don't know women."

"What does that mean," the prince shouted as his uncle and he walked into the garden and was instantly surrounded in red bright colorful flowers.

"The girl doesn't feel safe here, maybe if she felt some safety and protection she might slip up and tell you something of the Avatar but hurting her and abusing her mentally is not going to make her talk. She's just one of those women. I want you to apologize to her."

"What?"

"Here give her this," uncle said and plucked a beautiful red rose from the garden vine and handed it to Zuko.

"What the hell do I do with this?"

"I said give it to her and apologize!"

..hellopaco..

'Wow. Uncle can be scary sometimes.' Prince Zuko thought to himself as he entered the room in which Katara was kept. The young woman was sitting there on the bed staring outside of a small square shaped window sorrowfully thinking of Aang and Sokka.

"Waterbender," Zuko said hesitantly.

Katara turned to him.

"They said I'm not allowed to do anything unless you accompany me to the place where I wish to go."

"Well..."

"Some guest I am."

God what was her name? For all the riches in the world—no! For the Avatar he could not remember her name! Then he remembered it.

"Katara you are a guest but you are a prisoner too despite what my uncle says. I am here to apologize for my rude behavior earlier. We can go where you wish."

Zuko bowed to hide his massive frown. He hated this woman, he hated apologizing, he hated acting all nice, and he hated acting like a servant!

"I wanted to go to the baths to wash up."

The firebender flushed red at the girl's bluntness until he saw that she too was blushing and embarrassed.

"Uh...Yes of course. Oh and this is for you, I plucked it on my way back to you."

"That was nice of you...Prince Zuko," the waterbender accepted the rose suspiciously.

"Call. Me. Zuko." The prince gritted through his teeth when he turned around to take Katara to the bath.

..hellopaco..

"Do you think Katara is still alive Sokka," Aang asked once the sun fell and the moon rose high above the horizon.

"Yeah I do, she's strong. Almost as strong as you are. Much stronger than me."

"And what if she is alive?"

"The fire nation will probably use her as a hostage," Sokka replied matter-of-factly.

"And will we rescue her?"

"Aang..."

"Yes Sokka?"

"Go to sleep."

"Okay Sokka, I was just..."

But Aang's need of comfort was ignored by Sokka's loud and long snores. Earlier in the day the water warrior said they would deal with the problem of Katara in the morning. He had been saying that every night so far. Yet Aang heard Sokka crying in the bushes used as latrines. The Avatar was worried. Her didn't feel Katara die so she must have been taken away as a prisoner to the evil Prince Zuko.

As Aang stared off far into the night restless, he wondered of the awful things the fire prince was doing to the waterbender he loved...

..hellopaco..

Despite herself she laughed, she actually laughed! Katara mentally kicked herself as Zuko accompanied her back to her rooms. On the way he had made a joke about his uncle and Katara just happened to laugh.

Zuko allowed himself to play the role of prince charming like all of the other young men his age did. But it did not mean he liked it one bit.

"Hey Katara," the prince finally said as the moonlight showered them both with amazing white light.

"Yes Prince... I meant uh Zuko."

"I will give you back your necklace for it is not rightfully mine."

"Really," Katara cried out and impulsively hugged the firebender.

"Only on one condition." the prince led Katara into her room.

"Yes?"

"That you teach me that stupid skill of bending water."

The room went deathly quiet and Zuko mentally swore.

"GET OUT!"

Water hit the firebender's pale face as Zuko was hurled out of Katara's room. The girl stood angrily at the door with her hands in fist.

"But," Zuko said weakly.

"No buts you asshole! Get out of my sight!"

As Zuko got up Katara placed her hand on the door handle and said, "It's called water bending." and slammed the door shut...

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Fin...

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