It's Called Water Bending Chapter 4: Then the Stork Came Screaming, an avatar: last airbender fanfic

It's Called Waterbending

By:

The-X-Love-x-Of-x-Your-X-Life

Disclaimer:

I do not own The Avatar.

Important Note:

Sorry beloved readers but my internet was all messed up for like EVER! And my dad was being an asshole and wouldn't drive me to the library or let me use his! So I am proud to present CHAPTER 4 of my story.

Chapter 4:

And Then the Stork Came

"What…oh my god Katara where you kissing him," Sokka asked his mouth still hanging ajar. The warrior's tough appearance disappeared immediately at the scene before him.

"No I made her kiss me," Zuko quickly lied for his future wife. The fire prince didn't know why he was covering for the waterbender but he did. Maybe it was the look in her older brother's eyes that made him lie but he seriously didn't know why.

Maybe it was because Sokka was going to get angry at Katara if he knew that she kissed Zuko willingly?

"Aang," Katara whispered standing up weakly. The stare the young man was giving Katara was mentally killing her. He looked so hurt, so betrayed, so heartbroken. His life with Katara seemed to flash before his eyes and crumble into millions of glass pieces.

Suddenly Zuko grabbed Katara by the wrist and pulled her back down with him. Sokka regained his dangerous posture and stepped forward.

"Let her go Zuko."

"Why should I? She's mine."

"I said let her go."

"No."

Then, predictably, Sokka lunged for the fire nation prince. Zuko pushed Katara on the other side of him (he told himself he was just protecting his possession) and blew fire into the water nation's warrior's eyes. Sokka cried out but managed to hit Zuko's forehead with the weapon he always carries. The firebender yelled out curse and put his hands to his head. The prince felt like his forehead was caving in and fell back onto the floor.

The whole time Aang just stood there with a broken look on his face.

Sokka roughly grabbed his sister's hand and yanked her up to him. She cried out a small no but moved closer to the duo. Aang turned around and immediately started walking back to wherever Appa was. Sokka tried to yank his sister forward but she wouldn't move.

"Come on Katara! Before he gets up!"

Then, Zuko spoke still in pain:

"Don't…go."

Katara cried out loudly as Sokka grabbed her by the elbows and pulled her out of the room. She wanted this didn't she? She wanted to be rescued and rejoin her brother and Aang right? So why now was she crying in horrible pain? Sokka forcefully threw her on Appa the giant flying bison and then sat himself down next to her. Aang was already on Appa's head whispering yip yip. His voice sounded cracked. The warrior thought that his sister's tears where tears of joy.

"We finally got you Katara! We finally saved you! It's just going to be you, me, and Aang again from now on!"

For some reason this made his sister cry even harder.

YIPYIPPACOYIPYIP

"You fool you lost her! To the Avatar no less!"

"Give the boy a break Ozai it wasn't completely his fault."

"Not his fault? Are you kidding me?"

"What happened to the guards he posted? Why didn't they come to his aid?"

"He can't take on the Avatar and a water nation warrior?"

Zuko clenched his hands into tight fists but said nothing. He hadn't uttered a word since a guard came in to find him in a now ruined room. The prince had cut his hair, as if in mourning, and had dressed in the simplest clothes he had owned. He knew that his father was not truly mad at him for losing Katara; in fact he seemed quite the opposite—happy. Maybe he knew how much pain Zuko was in.

Maybe the only thing about this situation that made him bitter was the fact that it reminded the king about the time his own wife had run out on him. This made Zuko smile only once. The next words his father said to him wiped the smile off of his face.

"Zuko I am disappointed in you (this didn't really bother him since his father said that all the time) and to punish you for losing your very valuable fiancée I am taking your house."

Zuko shot up madly.

"You can't do that! This is not on Fire Nation land!"

Fire Lord Ozai laughed cruelly and said:

"That didn't stop me from taking Omashu."

Zuko and Iroh stared at Ozai as if the Fire Lord had just lost his mind.

"Omashu," Iroh stuttered questioningly.

"You seem so surprised my brother."

Zuko frowned and slowly started to back away from the room, he did not like where this conversation was going. Apparently Iroh knew this too and also gradually stepped back. Then the Fire Lord spoke again.

"And now I'm afraid Zuko and you are trespassing on my land. The penalty for that is death!"

Suddenly the firebender stretched his two arms and blew fire at his son and brother. Zuko took that moment to jump out of the room and started running to the nearest exit. He didn't know what happened to his uncle but he hoped the old man was safe. Seeing the exit to the forest Zuko ran for it. He wasn't stopped by anyone even though he knew they where there hiding.

'At least some of the soldiers are still loyal to me,' the prince thought and ran faster.

Once the prince reached the dense green forest he smelled something. In horror the young man turned around and saw his house on fire.

"No," Zuko cried and stepped forward as if he where going to go back. The prince choked back the tears he knew where coming and turned back to the forest. He would go to the Earth Kingdom. He would not let his father destroy the rest of his life. He would get Katara back.

'First my heart was crushed and now my house,' the firebender thought sadly.

With that thought, the prince turned and ran deeper into the forest. Maybe, just maybe, he ran closer to Katara.

Or not.

YIPYIPPACOYIPYIP

Katara was still crying.

Sokka looked from her to his best friend Aang, what was going on between those two? Aang not once came to hug Katara and welcome her back; he just sat there on Appa's head looking at the scrolls the king of the water nation gave him. The water nation warrior did not know why his sister was still crying when she was finally rejoined with him.

Katara lay on the ground in the spot where Appa landed with her face down facing the ground. The fancy sapphire-colored robe she wore was getting extremely filthy but she didn't care. The waterbender touched her mother's necklace and burst out into new tears. Her hair was disarrayed and her eyes where puffy and red.

She just couldn't choose which one. She just couldn't.

Aang meanwhile was in his own little state-of-fucked-up-mind. He sat on Appa's back straight as a board. At first the rescue mission had some type of meaning, now...(he took a chance to look at Katara's frail form)…it meant nothing. It meant absolutely nothing if Katara did not love and praise him. He got to the scene before Sokka did. He saw Katara respond back to Zuko and it wasn't a negative response either! Aang unintentionally banged Appa's head and the bison roared and threw the young man off of him.

"Sorry boy," Aang said and Katara risked looking at him.

He stood there now rubbing Appa's side in apology. The brunette watched as he moved his hand back and forth in a slow gentle motion.

'Zuko touched me like that last night,' Katara thought and instantly burst out crying fresh new tears. Why couldn't she get the firebender out of her mind? Why should it be so hard to choose him or Aang? Did she really like (the waterbender refused to use the word love now) the evil prince?

Sokka silently watched his sister sneak-a-look at the Avatar and frowned. What the hell was going on? The young warrior's brown hair was out of its usual knot and he was only in white shorts. He looked down at his dark hands ashamed, why was he suddenly prying into Katara's love life? If she was having a fight with Aang (which she must be having) then why was it his business? He answered his own question out loud:

"It isn't."

Aang turned around at the sound of Sokka's voice. He couldn't be mad at Katara's brother when the man was so dense he didn't know his sister was in love. Aang grimaced, but not with him. Instead out loud he asked:

"What did you say Sokka?"

The water nation warrior turned to him and shrugged his shoulders and replied, "I said isn't it time for us to be moving on? I don't like the fact that we are so close to the fire nation."

Sokka didn't hear it but Aang did. He looked only once in Katara's direction and then said, "Yeah I think it is."

There. There was that sound again. The sound of Katara whispering to herself.

"Well where should we go, we already went to Omashu and you know how that worked out," Sokka stated matter-of-factly.

"I think we should rejoin the earth nation people we helped escape that day," Aang said touching one of the many arrowed-shaped body art on his skin. Sometimes Sokka just wondered what the arrows felt like, he never bothered to ask. Instead the warrior faced his sister.

"What do you think Katara?"

"If she can think," Aang mumbled from his seat besides Appa. The airbender was surprised he felt so angry at Katara. He didn't know why he was saying these things or feeling so ill towards her.

Maybe because his heart was crushed?

The waterbender looked up from the dirt she lay on and tried to smile at her brother. She was so emotionally confused right now that she didn't give a damn where they went.

'I need to forget Zuko,' thought she, 'The whole time I was with him I was probably imagining my marriage to him would have been all happy and romantic! Who was I kidding? It would have been horrible! Life with a firebender? Maybe I am lucky that Sokka and Aang rescued me.'

With that thought stuck in her brain Katara released a wider genuinely happy smile.

"I don't care where we go, as long as it is as far away from the fire nation as possible! Ugh! I never want to be stuck there again! And I want to thank both of you, I didn't last night…I was in too much shock. But seriously thank you both."

Aang looked at Katara like she was crazy, she seemed normal enough. Now she smiled at the Avatar like nothing was wrong. Was she telling the truth? Was she just in shock last night or was his theory right? Was he just imagining her responding back to Zuko? Blinded by puppy love the airbender decided that Katara didn't respond back to Zuko, she was genuinely happy to be back with the two.

"Well let's go find those travelers!" Aang said releasing his own smile. With their help, Katara got onto Appa's back without hurting herself.

YIPYIPPACOYIPYIP

"Who are you," the group of people asked circling a travel weary Zuko. He had walked and ran all night and all morning further south into the deep forest. Around 1 or 2 PM he was captured by a group of ten men, all in earth nation garb.

"I am Lee, a weary traveler who has just escaped from a fire nation prison," he lied quickly but didn't have to fake when he weakly fell over on his knees.

"Poor man," said an old female voice from the crowd. Wait, a crowd—what? Zuko looked up and saw that the group of men he had first encountered now where surrounded by old men, women, young women, and small childern. No young men in sight. The old woman who spoke must have been a very well respected person because everyone moved out of her way so she could see Zuko.

"I am Lee," he lied again and raised his hand so the woman could shake it. Instead the old woman took the hand, and with amazing strength, picked Zuko up and turned back to the others.

"This young man is very tired and needs to rest. Put him in a cot for now and then he will eat."

Suddenly people scurried around to do the woman's bidding. While everyone hurried, the woman looked down and smiled at Zuko. She had amazing long white hair and entrancing eyes. She looked at everyone with love even the prince. Someone called out that the bed was ready and the woman took the firebender to the makeshift bed and set him down upon it.

As Zuko closed his eyes sleepily, he heard the woman say:

"Sweet dreams boy."

Why did her voice sound awfully familiar?

…

"Damn more visitors," an earthbender with almost no hair loudly complained spotting Aang, Sokka, and Katara. The earthbender was short, swanky, and had a pot belly. He wore a green shirt and green shorts. Sokka, Katara, and Aang decided to walk the last few miles so they wouldn't scare the earth nation refugees.

Katara, still dirty and in that robe, was in the middle of the two boys.

"I am the Avatar and these are my friends Katara and Sokka. We want to talk to your leader," said Aang.

"Sure thing, I remember you when you helped us at Omashu," the guard said.

"What did you say earlier about visitors," Katara asked as the quartet walked down forest paths with intense greenery and flowers. The waterbender marveled at the sight of so many plants and flowers. It was beautiful—a perfect place to get married. The young woman almost choked.

'No! I said I wouldn't think about that anymore!'

"Yesterday there was a young man who came. He was a traveler see and he didn't let no one but Shaman Lee touch him."

"Was the young man a boy with long hair and a scar on the side of his face," Aang asked his mood suddenly turned sour.

"No. This young man was dressed in dirtier clothes than I, he had short brown hair, but he did have a burn scar on his eye. He said he was a prisoner of the fire nation and has more scars on his body."

The airbender looked at his friends. Katara was looking at her hands and wildly shaking her head back and forth as if reassuring herself and Sokka…what could he say about Sokka? Suddenly Katara looked up at Aang and smiled.

"It's probably not Zuko. Don't worry Aang."

Not exactly the words the Avatar wanted to hear.

…

"Ah! My name is Lee! Who is this Zuko you are talking about?"

Aang found the weary traveler Lee aka Zuko.

"Stop lying to these people, you are Zuko from the fire nation! You think just because you cut your hair I wouldn't recognize you!"

"I'm not this Zuko…I'm not from the fire nation! I swear it," Zuko yelled faking fright and hysteria. He faked the shaking from his body and he faked when he fell over into a puddle of mud. What he didn't fake was when he saw Katara and tears sprang to his eyes. The Avatar thought that these where tears of fear.

Aang never saw Zuko cry and knew if it really was Zuko the fire prince would have attacked him. So the airbender said:

"If you are this Lee where are the body scars you talked about?"

Zuko inwardly smile, if he ever saw Azula again he would have to thank his sister. Unsmiling, Zuko took off his shirt and let everybody around see the burn scars he had on his back and the one on his chest and there was the one Katara gave him on the neck all which she saw before.

'Oh no! Oh no it is him. Should I say something? I…I don't know,' she thought and suddenly looked away from Zuko's body feeling sick. Aang saw Katara's reaction and thought that she out of any of them would know what Zuko's body looked like.

"I am sorry. It appears I was wrong and you are this…Lee. Hello I am the Avatar—my name is Aang." The airbender held out his hand and was surprised when an equally strong hand shook his back.

"Please to meet you sir," Zuko said to Aang smiling.

"This is my friends Sokka and Katara," Aang replied.

"Hey," Sokka greeted

"Hey," Zuko said eager.

Katara said nothing and just stared at Zuko her eyes full of tears. He reached down and picked up her shaking hand.

"Is something wrong ma'am?"

The waterbender and firebender looked at each other and slowly Katara slowly shook her head.

"No. It is nice to meet you," she answered and then looked away.

"It is very nice to meet you too."

…

It was the next morning. Aang and Sokka stayed up all night long and talked (more like interrogated Zuko thought) and Zuko found out that he had a lot of things in common with the Avatar than he thought. The prince was becoming nervous because he was actually starting to like the Avatar as a…friend.

Now it was the morning time and Zuko was bathing under a crystal white waterfall. There was some movement to his left so Zuko opened his eyes.

There, standing in knee deep water was Katara in the now cleaned robe.

She stopped moving under Zuko's piercing glare.

"Why did you go with him," he hissed

"Why not," Katara replied back.

"You...you could have rat me out yesterday but you didn't."

"I really like your new hair cut," Katara whispered

"I cut it because I was crushed."

"Crushed?"

"I should have never kidnapped you!"

"Why not," Katara yelled moving forward so her head reached Zuko's feet.

"Why not? (Zuko cried yanking the waterbender up from the clean pool of water. He pulled Katara close and inhaled her scent) Ever since you left my heart feels broken. You're crushing my heart!" Zuko flipped Katara over on her back and started to kiss her neck. The waterbender cried out but clutched the firebender's back needingly.

"Zuko," she moaned

Why did he make her feel like this?

Why did she make him feel like this?

"Back there," the prince suddenly commanded pointing behind the gentle waterfall into a dark cave.

"No! It's scary," Katara replied but was dragged behind the massive body of water anyways. Once inside the cave the waterbender cried shocked. The water inside the cave was luminously glowing and the rocks looked like they where made of ice. The peasant touched one and was shocked when she saw that it was really ice. Large solid chunks of ice.

"Oh my god, it's so beautiful," the waterbender cried putting her hands to her cheeks. Zuko peeled Katara's robe off of her tan skin. She shivered and he wrapped his hands around her abdomen probing. He buried his face into her hair.

"I want myself inside you Katara, I want you as my future wife, but most importantly...I want you for you."

"I don't know," the young woman said turning to the prince, "I just don't know."

"You don't know? I have been so upfront with you and you—has Aang (Zuko frowned when he said the Avatar's name) been this bold with you? Does he tell you he loves you? Does he want you?"

"No but I'm sure—"

"Bullshit! Are you really?"

"No," Katara admitted.

"Well listen to me. I love you, for the rest of our lives. I don't even know why I love you but I do!"

With that the fire nation prince grabbed the waterbending female and gave her a passionate kiss on her lips. Then, one thing lead to another and Katara found herself losing her virginity.

Meanwhile Sokka sat in another chamber of ice listening to the whole thing...

Fin!

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