I know it been a while since my last update but I've been very busy with other things. I started writting this last night, after this idea just randomly popped into my head.

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Hoplessly Lost

"Aang, Sokka, Toph, Zuko, Haru, Teo, The Duke, Suki, Dad, WHERE ARE YOU!", I called as I desperately scanned the huge, vast meadow before me. I had somehow found myself separated from the whole group a few hours ago and had been searching for them since then, with no such luck.

The fire nation was just so large and vast and covered in dense, thick forests. I had just wondered off for a few minutes to take a breathier when I came upon a lake. Being a waterbender and having not seen a large body of water in a long time, decided to stop and practice my bending. After that I sort of lost track of time. That was a huge screw up on my part and when I finally stopped and headed back I got lost and most likely went in the wrong direction. I called and called with no answers for must have been hours until I came upon this huge meadow.

So now I sat on a hill somewhere in the middle of this vast meadow. Despite my current predicament I had to stop and admire how breath taking this place was. Wild flowers of practically every color: yellow, blue, red, pink, white and purple, covered the meadow and swayed in the gentle breeze. Then up beyond the valley on the hoizon was a huge mountain somewhere in the forest. The tall mountain seemed to sparkle in the bright sun light.

I gave one more desperate call this time calling the first that came to mind since I was to tired to yell for everyone "AANG!".

My cry echoed through the valley and into the hills in all directions as the wind carried it away. I let it fade into nothing and I stood hoping, praying for an answer but none came. So I collapsed on my hands in knees in exhaustion knowing there was nothing else that I could do. I could yell till I was blue in the face but no one would hear me, just the birds and various animals in the woods.

I was hopelessly lost in this firenation wilderness all alone and with no one but myself. For all I knew everyone could be miles away by now and most likely, and hopefully, searching for me.

'They have to be searching for me by now', I thought 'They'd have to know I'm gone and there probably out searching for me as I sit here. I probably have them very worried especially dad and Sokka. They must have gone crazy when someone realized I was missing'.

But the real question is how far away, are they? And how long will it take? Hours? Days? A week?

'I wonder if Aang's worried?', I suddenly found myself wondering 'I mean I know he likes me, a lot and more than just a friend either. Otherwise he wouldn't have . . .have kissed me'.

I felt my face grew warm as I remembered our little talk aboard the submarine we had. How he mentioned the possibility of never coming back and I was mortified and scared at the very thought of never seeing him alive or ever again. Of course I didn't show it but that's how I was feeling. As I was going to tell him otherwise and assure him, he kissed me. Not on the cheek but full on the mouth, a real kiss.

I was shocked of course but as I started to kiss back he pulled away and flew off to face his destiny, without another word. I was just left standing there. Watching him go and disappear into the horizon, I had the weirdest feeling ever in my stomach. A warm fluttery sensation, which also was filled with dread and despair. The truth of the matter was I didn't want him to die, I wanted him to come back alive.

'I wonder if it meant anything', I wondered.

Yeah pretty silly of me a boy kisses me and I wonder of it meant anything! I guess I'll have to ask him someday when the moments right.

But right now I lied down on my side and sighed picking some grass. I lied in there for who knows ow long before I suddenly found myself becoming sleepy. I my eyelids began to droop more and more until I couldn't hold them open anmore and soon everything went black.

Aang pov.

"Were is she?", I asked myself over and over desperately as I searched the ground for any trace of her from Appa. Everyone else was split up searching on the ground while I road Appa and searched from the air.

It had been about a day since she had disappeared and I was scared, scared something bad had happened to her. I feared she had been kidnapped, beaten or worse.

I tried to push bad thoughts out of my head as I flew over a vast meadow. I tried to push thoughts in my mind about her lying somewhere in the wilderness, beaten and all bruised up and covered in burns.

As Appa flew over the meadow, I looked down and noticed a small figure lying on the ground in the middle of the meadow. I lowered Appa so I could get a better look and when I looked again, I knew immediately who that person was.

It was Katara!

I felt my stomach drop in dread and a knot of fear and concern weld up in my throat, as those horrible thoughts entered my head once again. And as soon as Appa had landed, I had already jumped off his head and ran towards her yelling her name:

"KATARA!"

I dropped to my knees by her side and looked her over. She seemed fine no cut, burns or bruises, torn clothes, blood anything. She was breathing slowly and was mostlikely fast asleep. But I was going to make sure she was ok, so I placed my hand on her shoulder and began shaking her gently and saying her name over and over again

"Katara? Katara please wake up, Katara"

There was no response from her what so ever and I became scared, I felt tears coming and I said again my voice shaking and pleading "Come on please wake up Katara, please, please wake up Katara you have to wake up?".

When she didn't wake up at first I felt tears prickling the sides of my eyes and some fell slowly down either sides of my face. But when she moved and turned over on her back and slowly opened her eyes, I was overcome with joy.

Katara pov.

I awoke to the sound of someone calling my name, I opened my eyes slowly and stared up at the blue sky and blinked a few times in the bright light.

'Was it all I dream' I wondered.

But when I heard a voice on the side of my cry happily "Your ok!", I knew I wasn't dreaming.

I looked over to my left to see a happy and what looked like a very relieved Aang kneeling by my side.

I groaned as I sat up and rubbed the back of my head and said half sleepily and unsure

"Aang is that you?".

My answer was a huge bear hug that nearly nearly had knocked me over. But once I got over the shock, I hugged back tightly. I felt tears of relief and joy slide down my cheeks.

"I was so worried about you Katara, I thought you'd never wake up", he whispered miserably into her hair "You've been missing for a whole day and I had feared something terrible had happened to you".

Once we had pulled away I looked him in the eye.

"Don't worry Aang I'm fine I just got lost and somehow ended up here where I fell asleep", I replied reassuring him softly that I was fine and nothing seriously, horble had happened to me.

"Are you sure?", he asked concerned and I smiled and replied "yes I'm positively sure I'm fine".

After that I saw relief wash over his face and he pulled me into another hug, which I happily accepted. I let this one linger because, one, I was relieved to finally to be found, two, I actually felt nice and safe in his arms and third, I plain outright didn't mind in fact I kind of enjoyed it. I knew he did to.

When we finally pulled apart Aang suggested we that we should get back. I whole heartily agreed and with that he helped me up and we walked over and onto Appa.

As we flew away I began to wonder what would've happened to me if Aang hadn't come along.

Well whatever it could've been, it certainly couldn't be as bad as the lecture I'm going to have to face from my older brother and father once me and Aang arrived back at camp, especially when I tell them I had wandered off and gotten lost that way

'Yeah' I thought, 'That's not going to be fun'.

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