Chapter 2 Zuko takes my hand looking up at me in confusion like he doesn't know whats going on. He got up off of the sand and I waterbendering a big bubble around us and we walked into the water of the beach. He slowly let go of my hand as he was looking around in amazement from all of the creatures around us.
As we walked he saw an old boat that I was going to take him too as a surprise to cheer him up. As we walked up to it I felt this grumbling under our feet. We both thought it was an earthquake thinking Why would an earthquake be underwater? We swam up to the surface and swan to the beach as the grumbling still continued. Then suddenly out of no where a huge slug monster thing came out from underneath me and landed me in the water knocking me out. I got tossed into the water and I couldn't do anything. I was sinking. "KATARA!" Zuko shouted as I went down more and more.
Zuko dived into the water and saw me sinking more and more down to the bottom. He swan deeper down to get to me. He wrapped his arm around my waist and started swimming to the shore.
Once he got up to the shore on the sand he laid me down and the slug monster was still wiggling around from the hole it was in. Zuko made a huge fireball in his hand and chucked it at the slug monster and it screeched and fell to the ground dead.
Zuko turned back to me and sat on his knees. "Katara?" he said with tears forming in his eyes. I started coughing and I took a deep breath and coughed some more. His face suddenly got bright and gave me a big hug "Don't scare me like that. I got really worried."
"Wow. The famous 'no emotion' Zuko suddenly became a softy! Who knew?"
Zuko broke from the hug and looked at me deeply into the eyes. He pulled my hair loopies out from my eyes and took me by the neck and he leaned in and kissed me. At first I resisted and then I got more into it realizing that I DO like Zuko.
When he released from the kiss he suddenly got really red Oh my god did I just do that? he thought to himself.
He got up and started walking towards the forest when Aang busts through the trees landing on his feet. He looked around all funny like and when he saw me sitting on the ground stunned and zoomed right over to me and said "Katara what's wrong?! Is everything okay?" he said looking at the expression on my face.
"Y-yeah Aang I'm fine. Don't worry about it." I said looking over at Zuko.
"Oh, okay. Well can you stand up?"
"Yeah I should be fine." I said standing up as I wince from the pain in my side. I grabbed it to make it stop hurting. "You don't LOOK to good. Here sit on this air bubble and let me take you back to the camp." Aang said as he formed a little air bubble on the sand.
I sat on it and we made our way through the forest. By the time we got back Toph was sitting on a log, Sokka was SLEEPING on a log snoring away as usual. But just as we had got there I saw Zuko enter his tent.
"I knew it! HA! You owe me 2 silver coins Sokka!" Toph shouted at Sokka and he woke up abruptly frowning at Toph. "UGH! I can't just get some sleep and win a bet for once CAN I?!" he shouted at Toph.
I slowly landed on the ground and asked the question "What bet are you guys talking about?"
"I bet Sokka that you would come back injured but he didn't believe me he said 'No Katara is a tough girl and won't come back with ANYTHING' but boy did I tell him! Now pay up mister!" shouted Toph as she laughed cynically.
I just shrugged and rolled my eyes as I limped to my tent. Before I went in I looked over at Zuko's tent. I could hear him talking to himself "UGH! That was so stupid! Why would I do that?! We barely know each other! Ugh! Now she thinks I'm some perv who just want to kiss girls all the time!"
I chuckled and I entered my tent, crawled into my sleeping bag and closed my eyes waiting for another day to start.