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He knows, he remembers who I am. I have to get out of here, but where do I go? What do I do? Where do I go from here? The only answer to all of these questions is to fight and see who is the last one standing.

Zuko circles around me and each step he makes is making me want to fight him even more. Everything about him pisses me off, his great hair, his beautiful smile and most of all his high and mighty attitude. When he speaks to me the only thing I want to do is to punch his daylights out, but I have to wait until he makes the first move and than I will be ready to take him on. My hands reached into my jacket and feel my other half with me, my extension of my arm, my lethal water bending sword.

Zuko comes up behind and I feel his breathe on my neck. "How long has it been Katara since my family burned down your village? Is it six years? Is it seven years?" He knows how long it has been since his family burned down my village, he knows how much I hate him, he knows all the emotions he is stirring up are working. I must do something, I cannot stand here and listen to him berate my tribe, while he and his almighty family are not able to feel the guilt that my family and my tribe have gone through. "How are you feeling Katara? Do you need to sit down and want me to make you feel any better?"

After hearing what he just said. My lips started to form a full smirk. "You know Zuko, I never thought you would be the type of guy to have a humorous side. You really think after all the shit you put me through that I would actually let you make me feel better. Don't try and make me laugh." I feel the rage inside of me and I have no idea if I can control it anymore. Zuko knows that I will do anything to avenge my tribe and my family and he is right. He will not escape the nightmare that I will lay upon on him and once his nightmare begins, my nightmare will finally end.

"katara, let me just say to you, emotions are a weakness. These emotions that you feel right now are going to be the reason for your demise. What do you think is going to happen to you when you lose all of your emotions? Nothing, there will be nothing for you to hang onto and that will be the reason for your demise like your family and your tribe believed in this little emotion called hope and when our battle is done then your hope will be at the bottom of hell where the rest of your family and tribe are at."

With him behind me I knew it was time for me to strike. I swiftly turned around away from his grasp and knew that the time has finally come. I gazed into his dark eyes and took the sword out of my jacket ready to attack. "Just because you say something does not make it true, you may think you can beat me, but just remember who you are and what you have done to my people and your's as well, and maybe you will see the truth and horrifying acts that your family has done."

I gazed into his eyes and once more and knew that the battle was about to begin. The problem is I won't be able to attack with any water because there is no water for miles and my stamina at the moment is at its worst. I will have to battle with all of my head and with close combat and if I don't then everything will be screwed in the end. Zuko takes three steps forward and his hands light on fire, he jumping into the air and with so much flight starts to throw so many fire balls that I could't even count. Moving back and forth and side to side I was somehow able to avoid all of them. I looked up at Zuko and seen that he left big opening, he won't be able to defend himself, I rushed forward and all of sudden he was gone.

"Where did he go?" I whispered. I looked up and down and all around and Zuko could not be found. "Come out Zuko, don't be coward, be a man and face me like a warrior." I yelled at the top of my lungs.

"Darling, are you looking for me?" Zuko announced to me and what it seemed to be the world.

I looked up and seen Zuko standing on top of the roof, what a coward, he now wants to fight on the roof, well if that is what he wants, then being on the top of the palace will be my way of showing who the best really is. "Zuko stop with all the games, lets end this!" I flung myself on top of the palace and took my stance and was ready more than ever. I flung myself towards Zuko with my sword swinging back and forth, but nothing was getting towards Zuko. My stamina was starting to run out and there was no lakes near by to help me towards my goal. Dammit, what do I do? Everything I try is not working out.

"You know Katara, you could just give up." Zuko suggested to me. Does he think I am stupid? Giving up is not in my nature and it will never be. I will never give up because this fight is for my family, for my tribe and most of all for myself.

"I will never give up and I will never give in. Do you think I am stupid? You want a fight Zuko? You got one, no bending and no swords just straight up fighting with fists, what do you say Zuko?" I said with confidence. "Oh, are you scared you might get beat by water bender?"

"To answer your question, yes, yes I think you are very stupid to want to go up against someone like me. You want to fight with just fists? That is fine with me, but don't come crying to me begging for me to spare your life."

I threw my sword to the ground and put my long brown hair into a secure pony tail. I looked up into the dark sky and thought of my brother and suki, my dead family and my tribe. I will not give up and I will not give in. Zuko and I started each other down and I felt the animosity running through my veins. We both ran towards each other with the rain finally coming down and getting in the way of my vision. I threw my fists as hard as I can towards him and all he did was deflect with his own. His kicks and my kicks were in sync, everything was in sync. I backed away from Zuko to the edge of the roof, I needed a new strategy to defeat him, fighting and deflecting each other's attacks is not going to work. What do I do? I could attack from the side or from behind, but where would that get me? Nowhere, Zuko is fast, he would know right away what I was planning. Zuko was running towards me so fast that I am pretty sure he was faster than a cheetah. Think, Katara, think, what would Zuko not expect?

"Zuko, what's wrong? Is the rain starting to slow you down?" I yelled at him. "Us water benders don't have to worry about the cold."

"Are you trying to piss me off Katara? Because at this point I wouldn't recommend it. You are on thin ice and one thing I hate more than losing is someone mocking me." He yelled so loud.

"Why should I care? You are the one who has ruined everything and I am going to be the one who ruins everything for you." I demanded.

Zuko's mouth was twitching and his eyes were definitely darker than before, he looked like he was going to explode. "Zuko, you and your family destroyed my tribe and destroyed my brother and I's family. You don't understand the loss of losing someone you love and for that I can never forgive you for destroying my family. You don't know what its like to feel the pain and the suffering of losing someone close to you and for that you don't understand human emotion and love between individuals." I felt the tears coming out of my eyes and knew that what I was saying was from the heart and not from the head.

"You think you are the only one who has lost someone you cared about. You think you and your brother are the only ones in this world who lost family members? Well guess what Katara? I know those feelings of pain and suffering and because of those emotions they made me weak, they made me turn into a weakling who was not able to defeat their very own father. Guess what? I lost my mother because of my very own father, I lost the only person who believed in me, so don't say that I don't understand." Zuko yelled at the top of his lungs.

I looked up and couldn't believe it, was Zuko crying? Or was it the rain that was falling down disguising the truth? Behind every person there is a backstory that no one wants anybody to find out and when it comes to Zuko, he doesn't want anyone to find out about his mother. We actually have something in common and that is we both have lost people we have cared about. If he only knew that emotions and love were not a weakness but what are actually can make us stronger.

Zuko came flying towards me running and started punching me from the stomach to the face, so much pain and so much suffering was behind each punch that I cannot believe that one person is able to deal with it for so many years. Every punch had a different force and different emotion behind it and each emotion was the same as mine. I couldn't fight back, all I could do was stand there and take everything in. We both fell to the roof's solid rocky bottom, blood coming out of places that you would never thought blood could come out of. My sword sitting across the room probably full of sweat and tears. I glanced up at Zuko and seen he was just as shaken as I was. So many thoughts running through my head, was he not the one who did the attack on the water tribe? Was it actually his father and not Zuko? What do I do? What do I say?

I tried to stand up, but there was to much pain from my throbbing head to my scrapped up feet and looking at Zuko he looked about the same. Zuko was crawling towards me, what was he doing? I didn't understand what his intention was, as he got closer something was happening to me, it might have to do with the rain, maybe I am getting a cold. As he got closer my heart started to thump more and more. I looked at Zuko and when we both made eye contact we both fell to the ground and collapsed.

The next day I woke up and I was in a bedroom by myself, not in my regular clothes and wondering what the hell was going on? My sword was sitting on the brown round table across the room and there was at least five or six paintings of Zuko. What happened to me? The last thing I remembered was fighting Zuko and then I passed out on the roof.

"Well look who decided to wake up." A voice said across the room.

I turned my head to where the voice was coming from, and couldn't believe who I saw. "What the hell are you doing here? Where am I? What have you done to me?" I exclaimed.

"First off I am here to look after you, second of all you are in my pesonal bedroom and thirdly I have done nothing, my maids took care of you, by helping you with your clothes." Zuko explained to me.

I had to get out of here, who knew what he was going to do to me. My sword is across the room and I have no way to sneak past him and grab it. "What do you think you are doing Zuko? Drop the nice act and let me the hell out of here." I ranted to him.

He give me one of those smirks that pisses me off, "well here is the thing, you cannot leave." I am almost laughed right on the spot, is he being serious? There is no way I am staying in this hell that they call a palace.

"Excuse me, you are keeping me here? There is no way in hell I am staying here, you must have hit your head when we fought because you are being delusional. I am not staying here."

"Well if you want to protect the rest of the water tribe and your brother, then you will." Zuko said without hesitation. "If you promise to stay here, I won't send my troops toward your land and promise to let go all of the water tribe prisoners."

He cannot be serious, the guy who was crying about his mom is now keeping me prisoner, but this maybe a blessing in disquise, if I promise to stay here I will be protecting my people but will have more a chance to kill Zuko with my bare hands.

"You promise that you will not protect my land and will let all prisoners go?" I asked.

"I promise, I won't hurt your people, your land, and let the prisoners go." Zuko said to me.

"You have a deal then." I said to him, but if he only knew the truth of what is really going to go down.

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