Chapter 5
Imprisoned
Look at the map at she, Appa and Momo landed in the forest to rest, "There should be a village near…Momo will you stop that?"
Momo looked at her and ignored her as he continued to smashed a nut.
WHAM!
"What the hell was that?" exclaimed Katara and heard the loud noise again and peaked over a log and saw an Earthbender and called, "Hi, I'm-"
The Earthbender didn't let her finish as he fled the area making his get away.
"Hey wait!" called Katara as she ran after the Earthbender, "Come on Appa, you too Momo!"
Katara saw the Earthbender run into a shop and saw him talking to the woman at the counter and began, "Hey, why did you run away like that?"
"I uh…"
The woman quickly closed her shop and closed her windows and out raged at the boy, "You were Earthbending? How many times do I have to warn you not to?"
"Um, is he not allowed to Earthbend M'am?" asked Katara.
"No, the Fire Nation is capturing all of the Earthbenders; my husband was taken away because he led a rebel army to stop the Fire Nation from taking over the town."
"I haven't seen my father in four years ever since." muttered the Earthbender.
"Oh, well my name is Katara, the Avatar; I mastered waterbending and was trying to find an Earthbending teacher."
"Oh, well my name is Haru, and this is my mother-"
"Shhh! The Fire Nation soldiers are here." Hissed Haru's mother as she opened the door and the guards began, "Time to pay your taxes m'am."
Haru's mother walked over to a shelf and opened it and gave them the money and began, "This is all I have left."
"Thank you miss." and left.
Haru closed the door and Katara asked, "How long have they been here?"
"Four years." muttered Haru's mother.
"Hey Katara how would you like to stay at our house during your stay, I could show you some simple Earthbending."
"Thanks." She grinned walking out of the shop with Haru as they walked into the forest out of town as she called, "Appa! Momo! Come on guys!"
The fluffy beast and the little lemur followed Haru and Katara to their shelter for the night as Haru opened the doors to their barn and began, "You guys can stay here."
"Great, thanks." Grinned Katara as she began to unpack her sleeping bag and some food and looked up at Haru as he asked, "Want to go for a quick walk before it gets dark?"
"Sure!" nodded Katara getting to her feet as she walked side by side with Haru as he began, "I walk through this path everyday, my dad and I used to go together and watch the sun set after training, and how I keep my memory of my father is by Earthbending."
"My mother died from a Fire Nation raid, I was too young to fight, I was only 8. My mother didn't want me to get killed or unleash my destiny to the Fire Nation, or else they would've killed me right then." As she touched her necklace, "My necklace once belonged to my mother; she gave it to me before she died."
"I'm sorry."
"You don't have to be, if this war never existed, I would've been alive right now."
"Oh, well we need to get back home now." Began Haru as Katara nodded as agreement.
Slipping into her sleeping bag she blew out the candle and went to sleep…
KNOCK!
KNOCK!
KNOCK!
"Coming, coming, WILL YOU STOP THAT?" yelled Haru's mother as she opened the door and gasped, "What do you want!"
Haru came up behind her and asked, "What do they want mother?"
"YOU! That's the Earthbender who was Earthbending in the valley this morning!" exclaimed an old man.
"What! NO! Don't take him!" cried Haru's mother as they pushed her over and took Haru with them…
Katara woke up and took a water pot and began waterbending the well to put the water into the pot and picked it up as she saw Haru's mother looking at the distance and turned to Katara, with tears streaming down her cheeks.
Katara's eyes widen and dropped the pot as it shattered and gasped, "No, how, when did they take him away?"
"Last night, at midnight." cried Haru's mother as she ran into the house.
Katara clutched her fists angrily, and stormed back into the barn and began packing up while Momo and Appa stared at her and she looked at them and began firmly, "Listen up you two, we are going to free those Earthbenders. Here's the plan…"
After explaining to Momo and Appa what to do Appa groaned and Momo caught a fly and ate it.
Katara and Momo saw the Fire Nation guards doing their shifts by walking around the village and were coming towards them and saw Katara trying to Earthbend.
Kicking the ground she lifts the boulder off the ground as Momo swung his hands in the air and a guard gasped, "LOOK! The Lemur is Earthbending!"
"Fuck no you idiot! It's the girl!" scowled another guard, "Get her!"
Katara swung the boulder at the guards and ran trying to make it obvious for them to capture her and purposely ran into a dead end and surrendered as the guards took her away and led her to the harbour and took her on a boat taking her to the prison.
When she got there she was thrown into the prison and heard, "Katara? What are you doing here, you got here captured too?"
"No, I purposely Earthbended in front of their eyes, I am going to free you all!"
"It's impossible Katara, anyways I would like you to meet someone, Katara this is my father, dad, this is Katara…" and whispered, "The Avatar."
"You are? Shocking well take a seat Katara." And passed her some soup want some?"
"Uh…no thanks." She replied putting the bowl away.
The man laughed and replied, "Don't worry, it's disgusting at first, but you'll get used to it eventually."
Katara nodded and asked, "Why haven't you tried to escape yet?"
"We lost hope, no one has hope nor faith left." Replied a woman beside Haru where he sat and continued, "We all have been trapped here for so long that we lost hope."
"The I'll do something about it." Snapped Katara as she took a pan and stood on a table and hit the pan for attention, "Attention all Earthbenders, we can fight our way out, do not loose hope, the Avatar have returned, and will help us all escape this…"
A guard and its captain stopped and listened to Katara as she spoke and the guard asked, "Should we stop her?"
"No, the Earthbenders are heartbroken, she can't cure them." Sneered the captain and continued to walk.
Katara looked at the people hopelessly and got down from the table and the woman said, "I told you so!"
Katara shot a glare at the woman and walked over to where she was supposed to sleep, on a mat and blanket went to sleep…
Appa and Momo flew to the Prison as someone jumped off of Appa and tapped Katara on the shoulder and whispered, "Katara, Katara!"
Katara opened her eyes as she was pulled out by Momo and stopped before she was able to jump on Appa and gasped, "Sokka, what are you doing here?"
"What are you? I saw you get captured Katara-"
"No, I did that on purpose, I want to free them all." snapped Katara.
"Look…" he began as they ducked from a watch light, "See that smoke, follow me."
Sokka led her to a lidded cage and began, "Down below there are vents, if we shut close all of the vents, the coal will explode out and the Earthbenders will have something to fight with."
"Sir, sir!" gasped two guards as they ran up to the captain.
"What is it?" he scowled.
"We saw something."
"Like?"
"Something fluffy!" exclaimed a guard.
"Fluffy thing? Do you know what it is?"
"It's fluffy!"
"And big."
"And fluffy!"
"And round."
"Round?"
"And big!"
"Let me get this straight, you saw something fluffy that was round and big?"
"Yes, fluffy, round and big, with a big floppy tail and a small thing with BIG round eyes…"
"Beg you pardon?"
"IT WAS BIG!"
"AND FLUFFY!"
"WITH A BIG FLOPPY TAIL!"
"THEN WE SAW A SMALL THING!"
"WITH BIG BLINKING ROUND EYES!"
"Do you know where these things are?"
"No."
"Then get a brain!" scowled the guard and threw the two guards into the water below as a guard began,
"Those were our crew workers sir."
"Got a problem becoming one?" and walked off.
"Alright, Momo should've have-"
"Hey you!" began a guard.
Katara and Sokka went back to back and looked around as the Earthbenders woke up and gazed at Sokka and Katara being surrounded with spears.
Suddenly the ground began to shake and suddenly coal came exploding out of the cage making the guards flee from Katara and Sokka as Katara picked up a rock and stood on the table and began, "HERE'S YOUR WEAPON! NOW LETS FIGHT FOUR OUR FREEDOM!"
"Ha, ha, ha! You think they are going to listen to you? They are fools who play with dirt."
Katara lowered the coal as her eyebrow twitched with anger and withdrew the water from the ocean and slashed it at the captain and snapped, "Never mess up my confident, never destroy my courage in my heart and most of all never destroy my spirit!"
The wind picked up as she shot water and air, with a bit of Earthbending and threw the captain into the walls and glared at all the Earthbenders, "YOU WILL FIGHT! YOU WILL FIGHT FOR YOUR LOST LOVED ONES! FIGHT WITH ME!"
"Men attack!" commanded the captain as he and his men began Firebending as Haru and his father led the battle for the Earthbenders as Katara and Sokka attacked the captain.
Haru and his father made a earth ball gathering all the Fire Nation soldiers and dropped them into the ocean as they grabbed the captain and asked, "Any last words?"
"I HATE WATER!" cried the captain as they dropped him in the ocean.
Katara laughed as she hugged her brother as he got on to Appa with Momo as she got on a ship having her final talk with Haru's and his father.
"You were very brave Katara." Grinned Haru.
"You are a hero Katara, be proud of that." Added Haru's father.
Katara flushed and laughed, "Well it was nothing really, thanks."
"Katara you have no idea how much I appreciate you for helping freeing my father and our people, I wish I could give you back you mother."
"No, I know she will always be with me…" as she reached to touch her necklace she gasped, "My mother's necklace! It's gone!"
While she began panicking about her necklace, someone picked up her mother's necklace that lay on the ground and looked down at the jewellery and looked out into the sea watching the sun set after a long day….
Disclaimer: YA! Katara freed the Earthbenders! Hurray for Katara! Yip, yip, hurray!