Note: Aw thanks for that correction!!! How could I misspell boogers? What idiot does that? Well apparently me, but enough with my idiot self, on with the story! Sorry my chapters so short by the way; also if there are errors sorry because I didn't proof read it this time.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Avatar: Last Airbender characters or the story line.

Chapter Six

"You heard me!" the wolf growled his yellow eyes focused one single target, the prince's tender throat.

"Who are you?" Zuko demanded his temper raising as a strong wind blew his short hair furiously

"Let her go," the beast repeated advancing toward him, low to the ground, "The water bender belongs with us."

"What are you talking about?" Katara's sapphire eyes were puzzled, "How'd you know I am a water bender?"

"I know a lot about you, Katara of the South Pole," the black wolf stopped growling, but his teeth remained bared, "And of the fire scum."

"But how?" her eyes went to Zuko; he could tell she was planning something.

As if reading his mind about whether he should attack or not the wolf snarled at him, "If you attack I will kill her."

A large wave swept the creature to the right and imprisoned him in a cage of ice; Zuko's eyes went to Katara who's arms were stretched out in front of her, a smirk on her face. The dog growled darkly as the ice around him melted to water then bended so that it knocked Katara off her feet in one swift movement.

"What the…" the fire bender's words were cut off by the advancements of the canine whose destination was inches away.

A searing pain exploded in Zuko's right arm as the wolf's sharp ivory teeth embedded themselves in his soft flesh. The magnitude of the pain seemed to blind him for a moment, when his senses came back to him he allowed fire to be emitted from his body; dodging the flames the wolf jumped to the other side of the meadow.

"Zuko are you okay?" he heard Katara yell over at him.

"Yeah, its just a minor bite," he lied taking up a defensive position just in case the dog tried to attack again as blood dripped from his arm staining the ground below crimson.

"Kara!" the dog yelled at her angrily, "Why are you helping him?!"

Zuko glanced at Katara who had dropped her offensive position and was staring at the dog in disbelief as well as shock

"What is it?" Zuko inquired not dropping his guard.

"Who are you?" she practically screamed at the dog through her teeth clenching her fist ignoring Zuko's question.

"Have you forgotten me so quickly?" the wolf's yellow eyes were warm yet cold as they gazed at her figure, "Kara."

"Don't call me that!" she hissed, "You don't call me that."

Her hands went up to her head, she gripped tightly as if she just remembered something so heart breaking that it made her head ache at the pet name that the wolf had used.

"What's wrong?" Zuko asked taking a step toward her.

The wolf jerked his head around, and with a ferrous growl, "STAY BACK!"

Both the canine and the prince watched as she slid back to the ground repeating as she did so "Don't call me Kara."

The wolf stopped growling, trotted to her, nuzzled her face, then in an apologetic tone replied, "You don't remember me do you?"

Lifting her tear-streaked face, she answered, "How am I suppose to remember you when I don't even know you?"

While wolf was distracted with the weeping Katara, Zuko decided that it would be a good time to attack; he formed two fireballs in his hands and yelled, "Get down!"

Once she had, he threw his attack at the beast watching, frustrated, as it dodge another one of his attacks giving Katara enough time to run to the aimless prince. When she was beside him he attacked with all he had sending several of his strongest advances at it. The wolf ran at his blind side, he jerked around just in time to see Katara grab it with her water whip, slinging the wolf back across the meadow. It jumped up as they attack some more dodging Zuko's fire and stopping Katara's water with ease and even so much as grace.

It stood across from them it's eyes flashing crimson, "I didn't want to have to do this but you leave me no choice."

From behind them rose a great water serpent; it enclosed Zuko in water by the back of his unsuspecting head, jerking him into the water.

I can't breath! He screamed in his mind out of panic.

"Let him go!" Katara yelled sending icy razor blades at the wolf.

"Have you forgotten who he is? Who his people are?!"

"Shut up!" she sent more of her frozen attack desperately wanting to save her own savior before he drowned.

The wolf glanced at her, and then melted into a puddle of water, just as quickly as the wolf vanished and a sixteen-year-old boy appeared. The boy looked at Katara, as she stared at him her mouth ajar, her eyes wide with shock and her water splashed to the ground as Zuko clawed the water before passing out from the lack of air.

"Caine?"