Title: Flow
Author: jewelsong
Word Count: 193
Challenge #53: Line
Comments: A longer, alternative version of this has also been uploaded. It's called Stumble. The link to it is in my profile.


Zuko let out another irritated yell as slammed his fist into the spring beneath him. Why did his uncle have to make this lightening reflecting move based off the waterbenders? Why couldn't he have just used firebending?

After snarling at the clear water, Zuko tried to focus his mind on the task at hand.

Flow…flow…like water…

"You're as stiff as board, you know."

Whipping his head around, the banished prince glared at the Avatar's brown skinned female companion. His waterbending companion.

Torn between asking her for help and telling her piss off, Zuko turned back around and glared at the water beneath him, getting ready to go through the motions again. He heard the girl(what was her name? Katara?) slip into the water with him and saw her smile slightly, no fear in her face whatsoever as she came to stand in front of him.

"You're thinking like a line. Think circle. Shift through the stances and the water, or in your case, the lightening, will shift with you."

A small smile tugged at his lips as she placed her hands on his, moving with him and the water beneath them.


: "The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world." - Lao-tzu :