Disclaimer: I own nothing. Wait! I do own something...my braiinnnn! Oh crap. Zutara has taken over that, so no. I really don't own anything.
This...was probably one of my HARDEST challenges. It was from deliberate mistake, and I must say...wow...good challenge.
Here is the challenge, and it is from Katara's point of view. Yeah this sorta bashes Aang kind of...(I'm sorry) and only Zutara if you squint. And yeah, kind of angst and depressing...sorta...and pessimistic. But not everyone can be optimistic 24/7. (excluding Ty Lee.) But this challenged my dead-zutara-eating brain.
This takes place on where Season 2 left us off.
NOTE: I have no idea if this is ANY GOOD at all. Or makes any sense. sigh Personally, I don't know if I should even upload this. The challenge was...challenging. xD
When you first wake up and the one good eye focuses on my face, I only ask if you understand where you are.
Do you know where you are right now, Zuko?
A ditch. You are in a cold, dark, and horrible hole. Doomed until the day you ask for help.
There is a reason to why you are trapped, to why you cannot escape. Unless you learn to remove the trap, we cannot help you. I believe, that one day, we will be there to reach in and help you out. But I can't do that, until I trust you. Until you are fighting right next to me, on my side, for the sake of the world, I will not trust you. For you have a barrier, blocking your only path to escape this torture.
Do you know what that barrier is?
It is your honor.
It's choking you silently, creeping up on you when your not looking. You foolish boy! Can you not see that you are blind? Your honor, is nothing but a silly lie. A word. A disease that has spread through your body and is clogging the veins that your very life depends on. But one day, I promise, I will be there to heal you of this pain. For that is what I do. I don't care if I have to hold you down or fight you, I will heal you. I swear, one day. But not until I can trust you.
I can see it in your eyes.
There is a glint of that old Prince Zuko still there. Just waiting to jump out at any moment. I beg you, make him disappear, for the person I saw in the catacombs of Ba Sing Se, was not that man. That jerk who chased across the world for a single person, to feed that demon of honor in your veins, was not the person you really are.
Aang. I will never understand your pursuit for him, but I wish to know.
He is considered the hero of our world at this very moment. And only the Spirits know how he is able to carry such a burden on his tiny shoulders. I have faith that he will win, and all in the world will be good. But...there is always that tiny voice in the back of my mind...with that one thought I hate.
What if we fail?
I am not saying that we will, but that is something else you must learn to understand.
Failure, happens.
What matters is that you get back up, and fix it. I am not asking you to change your life in one moment and become a hero for everyone. That is not what I am saying. I just ask you to look in your heart and do what it tells you. Do not let your honor whisper those lies into your ear, and ignore the truth inside of you.
If you do fail, all that will matter is that you did what you truly believed in.
Not the honor that tricks you, or the lies that have been forced inside your mind.
But what your heart says.
Remember, we might fail. I might fail. You might. Aang might. But let us not think of that.
But don't you ever lose hope. Don't think that your hope can only be found in Aang, our small hero of this desperate and lost world. He is not your hope. He is not the reason you are still here. The Avatar is not the answer to your honorand your existence. Or for a lost title, that is nothing but a name that wears you down.
As I wait for that day when I can truthfully trust you, remember this.
He is not the one to determine your destiny.
Do not let your honor be the fate of your life. For you are more than that. So if you fail, get back up, and we will help you up. But do not think we will wait forever, you must move that barrier, and I will be here, waiting to heal you. Again I say, Aang maybe a hero to the world, but that does not mean your honor and the Avatar is what will determine your path of this short life.
He may be the hero of others, you, myself, the sake of the world, and the peace between all nations.
Just because, Aang is a hero. Do not let him be the reason to why you are unable to move this drastic barrier of honor.
Before him, before we knew of his sheer existence, he had never once crossed out minds.
He has not always been, our hero.
People everywhere, young and old, were already dreaming of heroes.
Bold lines were challenge lines.