Previously:
"Whoa. What happened?" Asked a small voice she'd never heard before.
"Who are you?" Katara asked still blinking her eyes.
"I'm Aang. What's your name?" The voices owner chirped.
"Katara. I have to get home. Now." She said stumbling backward.
"I can give you a ride back." He said.
"That would be nice." Katara said as she saw a huge flying bison being the little boy.
"Let's go. YIP YIP!" he yelled as Katara got into the saddle on the bison's back.
"It's the only little village with a port. Right there." She said pointing out her home. She thought flying wasn't that bad it was just landing.
When the two arrived back to Katara's village, people were screaming at Zuko accusing him of using the two children to raid the southern water tribe.
"What's going on?" Katara demanded.
"They think I'm trying to raid you and I'm here to try to make a difference in your lives. A good one at that and I'm nothing like my father. If I were to take the throne now there would be no war no fighting in the other nations. It's taken so much out of the world. All I want is peace for the first time in my life and I think the same for you." Zuko asserted.
"War there was never a war and there was only peace in the world. What happened?" Aang asked.
"We've been at war for one hundred years. Well at least. The fire nation tried to kill off the air benders. But every so often a few air benders stumble through here." Gran-Gran said. "The fire nation thinks the avatar is dead and so they have been warring for as long as any of us can remember."
"You mean I was in that ice burg for a hundred years." Aang asked incredulously.
"Yeah" Katara mumbled. "Zuko we will help train him until he surpasses us then we will get him a master. For now, we dine." Katara mumbled, smelling the food from the kitchen.
Supper came and went and before long it was time to sleep, for our quartet would be leaving at dawn. However during the night Katara had a horrible nightmare of fire consuming her mother. She woke up screaming, waking everyone up from peaceful slumber. Zuko, the first one to her side had wrapped his arms around her to reassure nothing was wrong. He thought otherwise as she told him of how a raid came looking for all of the water-benders and her mother was brutally killed for protecting her. By telling him that story she also told him how she got her necklace.
"I'll protect you by any means, so will your father and brother. See if you have any problems you should come to us about it. Katara we all love you, just not the same way." Zuko reassured her.
"Zuko I love you." She blurted out. All he did was stare at her as if he heard angles sing a small smile stretching his lips.
"Dawn is in about an hour from now, do you think that you will be able to go back to sleep.?" Zuko asked.
"Probably not." She answered pulling her down to lye beside her.
In an hour the four traveling companions were already saying their goodbyes, thinking it was too soon for them to part but Sokka, Katara, Zuko, and Aang all had to go and protect the world, or undo some of the wrong things the thing the fire-lord had done wrong to the people of the earth kingdom and water tribes.
"Dad I'm going to miss you a lot, so will Sokka when he stops eating." Katara mumbled while hugging her father, secretly not wanting to leave him.
'Katara I know you don't want to leave but we have to. We need to train Aang. Let's go.' She heard in her head.
"Sokka let's go!" Zuko yelled.
"Coming, I just need to grab a few things first." Was all Katara and zuko heard before they heard a large crash and Sokka walking out of their fathers hut with a huge bag of food. All Katara did was shake her head and glanced at her father who by no means broke out in laughter.
"Sokka do you really need all of that food?" Hakoda asked quizzically.
"Is that a trick question?" Sokka asked in response.
"Get on the bison Sokka, you and Katara have a long journey ahead of you I suggest going to one of the air temples, preferably far away from here. We don't need any fire nation soldiers thinking that we have anything they desire." Hakoda told the four youth.
As they flew away from the South Pole Katara looked at Zuko and was astonished by what she saw. She looked at him and found that he was looking at her wide-eyed.
'Katara are you pregnant?' she heard.
'As far as I know, no because I'm still a virgin, why do you ask?' she wondered
'You were just talking to me.' He replied smugly.
'Shut up.' Katara thought aggressively.
"What's with the dirty look, Katara?" Sokka asked.
"Oh it's something Zuko said." Katara replied.
"Whatever." Sokka said then everything was quiet again.
After hours of flying the four finally came across the southern air temple. "Katara, I'm hungry. Feed me." Sokka complained.
"In a minute, Zuko and I have to even the score." Katara growled after seeing the smug smile and his constant picking. All she did was send a huge wave of water and soaked Zuko before he had time to react. Soaked Zuko looked innocently and astonished of how hard that she hit him. "Well that hurt." He mumbled.
"It wasn't meant to hurt. Sorry." Katara said apologetically, walking over to him with a glowing hand. When she saw the extent of the damage he looked burnt. She immediately began to try to heal him but nothing was happening. "Zuko did I burn you or was that wave cold to you?" She asked him.
"That wave was so cold it felt hot." he replied.
"What do you think it was?" she mused more to herself than the injured boy beneath her.
"Remember what I asked earlier and you need to find out if you are or not. Not everything can be based off of myths and legends." Zuko said bluntly. "Oh by the way Sokka and Aang are wanting you to make dinner." He mumbled earning a glare from Katara. "If you weren't a water bender you would be a fire bender." keeping her glare.
"Fine." She grunted and ran to the kitchen and began to prepare for the group, about thirty minutes later supper was done and the group sat down to eat when Aang made a statement. "I don't eat meat."
"Give it to Sokka." The lone girl said. 'Zuko im going to bed.' Katara thought as she left the group for her room. Once there she just wondered 'sometimes I wish there was another girl with us.' Suddenly she heard a few quick raps on her door making her jump. "Come in." she simply stated.
"Katara you barely ate, what's wrong?" Her brother asked.
"Sokka I'm fine I'm just a little tired. So let me go to sleep, good night. We leave for Kyoshi island tomorrow. Make sure everyone knows." Katara told her brother before he left and she fell into a deep sleep.