A/N: hey I might be working on pairings… not sure what everyone favours, so in your reviews could you add which pairing you like the most, would be very appreciated and there will be a SHOCKING twist, depends on which pairing though…
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Chapter 4
It was a dull day. Like always.
The sky was blue, the clouds white and translucent. Merchants and mercenaries, assassins and associates, partners and people. None-the-less this village, the western city of Hitachi wasn't very different, the trapped civilians increased their pace as several fire nation soldiers walking in line, their weaponry and armour of red, metallic silver and black gleamed in the afternoon sun,
the commander signalled to three of his soldiers and they split up heading down three different arch-ways,
"what are you doing?" asked the mayor,
the fire nation commander growled angrily, "under orders from princess Azula herself. The Avatar was seen in this village" he explained in his grumbled tone,
"Sir!" shouted a scout, "we've found them!" he exclaimed, the commander grinned evilly,
"excellent".
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Aang held his staff, Katara a water whip rose from her water skin pouch, Toph and summoned a good sized rock for combat, Sokka drew out his club and a boomerang and Karr stood there his hands flexed out straight, blue fire rose into the air, it slowly hovered on his arms, a stream of fire, the group was surrounded,
"hold your fire!" was what they heard as a man in large armour, a minimum of three times Aang's size
"Avatar! Surrender or we will kill you!" he shouted, Aang just grinned as he unleashed an armada of Air and Earth bending tactics.
All the commander's soldiers law sprawled on the ground, Aang held his staff high, before slamming it into the ground, the earth around the commanders rumbled before a casing of earth boxed him in a square,
"nice work" said Karr punching him (hard) in the arm,
Aang held in the pain and rubbed his arm softly as if it were a china tea cup, they saw a rather large crack in the prison casing of earth before it finally exploded,
earthen chunks fell around the ground, the commander stood triumphantly. Free from his prison. "it'll take more then that to beat me" he mocked, the commander began to inhale violently, he placed his hands together, and formed a large gap as crimson red and violent flame sprouted,
"Oh no" said Karr,
the commander laughed menacingly before exhaling as a giant wave of fire exploded from his hands, as it travelled along the ground, taking over the pathway, so there was no chance of escape.
Karr leapt forward his hands pressed upon the fire, he screamed when it came in contact, but he held his grief, the fire was tough, it was charged and powerful, but Karr managed to hold it back for long enough, he began to inhale as motioned is hands, moving them around in circles, the fire began to followed, soon he had the entire wave of fire in the palm of his hand,
the commander scowled angrily, "my turn" Karr said grinning, as he moved his feet around and his hands followed and he found his stance,, the commander impatiently ran forward kicking hard but to find to hands pushing it back with ease, the man combine his fists and slammed down only to have missed as shards of earth shattered around him, striking his face,
reluctantly he recovered only to find a combination of kicks and punches strike forward, knocking him back into a the trunk of a tree, he groaned and Karr stood there a cheesy smile fell upon his face,
then he heard a light and small voice, he immediately recognized him, "Kari…" he halted
Zuko stood there, two guards with broad swords held towards her, he moved his attention to his friends four fire nation soldiers held them by the neck, as they struggled angrily,
"let my sister and friends go!" he shouted violently creating a sphere of blue fire that hovered over his palm,
"don't be like that" grinned Zuko mockingly, the guards slowly motioned their swords toward the innocent girl,
"please let them go" he cried out, Zuko smiled broadly, evil and plain like always,
"now why would I do that?" he asked playing with his opponent's mind, like a fragile toy,
"now you're coming quietly" he said, Karr hesitated,
"oh and just to remind you, some of my men killed your mother… her cancer was annoying to everyone" he confessed,
Karr tilted his head hanging it low before agreeing, suddenly he lashed out at the guards only to see Zuko react, drawing out two of his own broad swords and stabbing his sister skilfully with both and drawing them back,
Karr halted in horror, as he watched Zuko kill his only family, Zuko began to mock his by cleaning off the blood on his sister's corpse, Karr couldn't move, he was full of emotion: anger, horror, terror, pain, the emotions at once was too much, he felt the pressure of being the only surviving heir to his family, it wasn't fair in Karr's eyes,
"what's the matter?" Zuko asked once again trying to toy with Karr's mind, "cat got your tongue?" he asked going to stab his enemy but a giant sphere of flamed erupted around his, melting the swords completely, Zuko scowled before driving his fist through only to have a wave of blue fire knock him back,
the fire shrank into streams of fire circled around his, "you're going to regret every being born!" Karr shouted furiously, all they could see were tears and fire around the boy, the powerful boy, Zuko struggled to stand, a final tear streamed down to his chin, a fire nation princess had killed his father, a fire nation prince had ordered his mother to be killed and he had killed his little sister, she was innocent, helpless, but none-the-less, it was the pain of war.
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Karr watched painfully at his sister's limp and dead body and turning to the one he hated so much.
"Don't move, or we kill you friends!" shouted Zuko hoping to stop the ferocious and anger filled boy,
"go ahead!" shouted Karr, it was like another voice was entwined with Karr's, Katara pondered in her thoughts, 'it's like a demon is inside him' she thought,
Zuko raised a hand, the guards held out their fists, preparing to fire, all Karr could do as he walked forward, Zuko ordered them to fire, but the guards failed miserably,
we can't lord Zuko!" cried one,
why not!" shouted Zuko over the cracking of fire,
"he's stopping us from fire bending" shouted another soldier
Zuko turned and punched, nothing came out, "what's the matter, cat got your tongue!" shouted Karr his voice combined with the other, it echoed throughout the silent Zuko,
Karr unleashed an armada of fire waves, all of them semi-exploding when it came in contact with anything, the guards screamed as the fell backwards, the only things left were a kneeling Zuko, an angry Karr, and a shocked, Sokka, Aang, Toph and Katara.
"Everything you've done" Karr started,
"my father, my mother and my sister!" he shouted giving a roundhouse kick to the injured Zuko, watching him collide with a tree, he continued through, smashing into a mesh of rock, watching him recover and flee;
Karr snapped out of his trance and knelt down, "shit…" he moaned before falling on his back. Awake. all the energy inside of him was drained, he only had enough to breath, thankfully,
Katara ran over quickly extracting water from her pouch, "where doe's it hurt?" she asked,
"hands" replied Karr, the burns from the wave had taken it's toll, the splinters of fire lurked all over his palm,
Katara placed some water on both, they immediately began to heal, "thanks" he said sitting up, the remaining team members sat next to him,
"what a day" he said, watching the sun set, it was blood red, the clouds formed to match, "tell us, what just happened" Sokka asked curiously,
"it's none of your business" he snapped standing up angrily and he began to slowly walk over to his sister's limp body, he knelt over, examining the wound, before making his way to her face,
her eyes were wide open in stun and shock, Karr slid his hands over her face, closing her eyelids, the pain began to sink in, he shouted and cried.
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"Man… what is with that guy?" Sokka asked
only to have two fists punch with, Sokka winced painfully rubbing it "can't you see what he's been through!" Katara screamed at a whispering tone,
Sokka shook his head, "how would you fell, if our dad died and I died as well as mom?!" she asked furiously,
Sokka halted and pondered before finally getting the idea, they all listened to the wailing and moaning coming from their friend,
"I'm not sure he's fit to be a teacher" sighed Aang hanging his head low, the sun had finally set, Karr returned finally,
"Katara, no it's not a demon, Sokka you're an idiot, stay out of my business and Aang, nothing's going to stop me from teaching you" he said,
the three friends stuttered shocked "how'd you-" stuttered Katara,
"it's a little trick" he said,
"but I mean, you can read my mind!" she shouted,
"yep, and that before yeah, that's not all I read!" he laughed,
"you better stay out of my head!" snapped Sokka,
"okay, okay I'll stay out of your people's privacy" he said giving a slight laugh
"oh Sokka can I show you something?" Karr asked,
Sokka shrugged, only to have a fist send him flying into an earthen wall, "that's for asking what's wrong with me!" he snapped,
Aang paused before blowing on his bison whistle, "he should camp here with night" Aang said, Karr, Toph and Katara nodded confidently agreeing with Aang.