Wow okay I'm rather surprised I got this chapter up.

Sorry again if there are any grammatical errors. No beta other than my cousins who are busy.

Since I'm on a roll next chapter will be up soon.

disclaimer: Don't own Avatar: the Last Airbender

Chapter 4

The Frozen City

Year 3055- Anahita

On a balcony high above the winter city rested a young beautiful girl sitting on top of the railings. She kicked her feet out and leaned forward to catch the beautiful sight below her better.

How she wished she was down there with the rest of the city enjoying the festivities.

Unfortunately, she was cooped up in her room until later tonight because her Father had important dignitaries from Eden coming to the capital today. She really disliked these kinds of things. Every high class society person always had an ulterior motive, she knew that from personal experiences.

A frown marred her beautiful face before she shook her head to chase away the dark thoughts. She turned her focus to the blue lights below her as they shone brightly under the many moons . They reminded her of better times.

With her.

The young girl let out a sad sign as she heard a knock on her chamber doors.

"Come in" she said loud enough from her position.

The doors opened and five of trusted servants walked in carrying blue formal dresses.

" Let me guess. The dignitaries are here?" she said with a deep frown .

The five other girls laughed as they smiled at their mistress.

" Yes princess Katara, they arrived five minutes ago and your father, High Chief Hakoda requests your presence." one of the girls spoke up. Her name was Ling, she was the oldest among Katara's treasured friends.

"Alright girls. Let's get this over with so afterwards we can join the town!" Katara said with a raised fist.

" You never know Princess, you may meet a cute Eden boy" said Ming. She was Katara's age and she always tried to hook Katara up with boys especially after her first boyfriend .

"W-What no way!I'm not interested in any r-relationship...especially after-"Katara stammered as heat rose to her cheeks.

" I'm just messing with you Princess. We know all about a certain tall dark and handsome man" Ming said with a soft smile to reassure her mistress.

The other girls giggled and after 15 minutes Katara was ready. She wore a dark blue chiton that went well against the baby blue scales along her body. As soon as her friends left there was another knock on her chambers and Katara said a quick enter.

Katara turned to the person that entered and shot a grin at the person.

" Hello Sokka" Katara said with the grin still plastered on her face.

Returning her grin with his very own crooked one.

"Hey baby sis! Dad wants me to escort you to the ball" Sokka said with an exaggerated bow. Sokka wore the standard military uniform worn by the higher officers. It was a high collar dark blue long sleeve vest with matching pants. It concealed the dark blue scales along his body except for the ones along his cheeks and hands.

Scowling at him she replied indignantly " I hate when you call me that. I'm old enough to do what you do!"

"That's not true Katara. Girls can't do what boys do" Sokka shot back in a sing song voice.

"That's not true! Just wait until I get my hands on y-" she was interrupted by a another voice clearing their throat. She looked around Sokka and found her grandmother standing there. "Gran-Gran!" shouted Katara as she rushed to hug her grandmother in a tight hug. She hadn't seen her grandmother since she went to visit the Northern Fortress a couple planets away.

"When did you arrive?" Katara asked.

"Just recently Katara" she replied back before she looked at her grandchildren both with disappointed shakes of her head. " Why can't you two get along? I leave for a couple months and you two are still at each other's throat. You both remind me of squabbling panther-wolfs."

They both looked on in embarrassment at their grandmother before they realized they were going to be late to their fathers gathering. Seeing the look on the two children's faces Kanna released them.

" Go, before my son starts worrying" she said.

Both the kids gratefully nodded towards their grandmother and left in a hurry.

When Katara and Sokka reached the gathering they noticed their father right away near the throne talking to two members of the Eden quadrant with a solemn look on his face. They walked towards him and he immediately turned to them throwing beaming smiles at his children.

"Sokka! Katara! I would like you to meet General Hong and General Cheng ." High Chief Hakoda said.

The two dignitaries bowed appropriately to the royals and the two totals returned the bow.

"High Chief Hakoda as I was saying-" General Cheng started until High Chief Hakoda cut him off with a smile.

"Now General Cheng! This is a gathering. Let's not talk business yet . Go have fun and mingle . You just got here and I bet your tired . We will continue our discussion tomorrow after breakfast in the War Council room." High Chief Hakoda said.

"Why I suppose your right. These old bones need rest and relaxation . We will speak tomorrow then." General Cheng said.

He walked off with General Hong following behind him.

The High Chief turned to his children.

"Now come here and give your dad a hug" he said with a smile.

The two rushed into their fathers arms and held him longer than what was appropriate for the royals, but they didn't care as they basked in the warmth of their father.

They eventually pulled apart and started to talk to their dad about everything and nothing that went on today. The High Chief was eventually called away to speak to some more arriving dignitaries. Leaving Sokka and Katara by themselves with Sokka finally seeing the buffet table ready and he dashed away leaving a smoke trail behind him. Now Katara was by herself.

After a few hours of greeting a few dignitaries herself and eating at the buffet. Katara was about ready to go until she felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned around and had to look slightly up into the person's eyes. She let out a small gasp as she realized who stood before her.

Just great. He's the last person I wanted to be here. She groaned in her head.

"Hey beautiful, did ya miss me?" the tall dark and,dare she think it, handsome boy said as he towered over her.

" Hello Jet," Katara barely held back her anger at seeing the nobleman and continued in a cool tone "I didn't expect to see you here. Or anywhere in Anahita."

"Ouch Kat, don't be like that, I came for you babe." he said in a smooth voice that would've made her swoon back then. However, she wasn't going to be fooled again by his charm.

" Sure you have Jet. Where is she by the way?" Katara asked. Not really caring .

" There is no one is Kat. I'm for real about us." Jet grinned sexily at her.

Crap

Katara felt heat rising up to her cheeks and before she could say something probably unintelligible. She was saved by her brother in shining armor.

"Hey Jet! How's it going Buh-uh-dy" Sokka said as he clapped Jet on the back hard as a prolonged the work buddy.

"Sokka… how's it going. " Jet said biting back a growl.

" Oh you know, well enough ,but it could get a whole lot better if you'd back away from my baby sister." Sokka said in an overly cheerful voice.

"I was just leaving anyways." Jet turned to leave and walked off. But stopped and turned to wink at Katara.

" The nerve of some people!" Sokka hissed as Jet walked off.

Katara giggled and reached up to touch her brothers arm. " thank you Sokka , I really appreciate your help."

Sokka turned a wide grin on her and said

" What are big brothers for! You'll tell me if that jerk tries anything right?" he asked.

"Of course Sokka, but I can take care of myself ." daring him to go against her words.

Sokka wisely said nothing but nodded and smiled.

"So wanna get out of here? We could go out into town and join in on the festivities." said Sokka.

" Yes let's go!" she agreed.

As they strode into Town they saw a lot of food stands and carnival games and mages perform their water manipulation techniques. They played games and Sokka ate food at every stall. They walked around the Town for a couple more hours before Katara spotted a jewelry shop and dragged Sokka inside.

" Ugh Katara, I don't want to shop for all these girly things. What will my squadron think of me if they saw me here?" complained Sokka .

" They will think you are a fine young man taking your sister shopping." said Katara stifling a giggle.

Sokka just grumbled things about girls being stupid and shopping .

When Katara didn't see anything she wanted so she turned around to get Sokka's attention but stopped when she noticed the old jeweler staring at her with wide shocked eyes.

Katara finding the starring unsettling, looked around her to take her mind off the old jeweler. However, when she looked in the spot where the old jeweler was she was surprised to find her gone.

Wait what?

She turned around to again get Sokka's attention when she let out a soft gasp to find that the old jeweler was right behind her holding a silver chain necklace with a silver ring with an azure rock inside it. She also noticed that there were some strange engravings around the ring. It was absolutely beautiful. She opened her mouth to ask how much when the jeweler interrupted her.

" It's free for the beautiful lady!" said the jeweler as she raised the jewelry even closer to Katara.

" F-Free? I can't take something like this for free. It's to beautiful." Katara said as she shook her head.

Sokka got interested at the word "free" and immediately decided to look at the jewelry the jeweler held up.

"Wow… it is rather nice Katara."he said as he shook his head before continuing " you said free right lady?"

The jeweler shook her head vigorously while Katara look at her brother in mortification.

" Sokka you can't be serious! I won't take this for free. It's too beautiful to just simply take it. Please ma'am let me pay for it."

The jeweler smiled then agreed and asked for 25 silver Arans which Katara gladly gave her. Finally she and Sokka left the jewelry shop.

After arguing over the purchase both brother and sister walked back to the capital to go to sleep.

But neither of them noticed when the ring on Katara's neck glowed a faint blue.

A/N: hmm...:D

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