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A girl's mission
Summary: A king, a girl and an impossible mission. How will she resist, how will she survive and how will she succeed? Zutara.
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The letter fell for a second time. The advisor left the room knowing that Azula better could be alone.
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"What was her reaction?" Smellerbee stepped forwards to Ozai.
"She needs time to get over it. Only we know that the letter was fake. Zuko and Katara may never reach the palace, Azula will be a better ruler." The girl nodded and left the room, using a secret passageway.
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Azula stayed for 2 days in her room. Ty Lee knocked on her door and entered. The princess sat on her bed with tears in her eyes. "The last thing that I told him was that he was a moron, because he had destroyed my dress by spilling wine on it." Ty Lee lay her arm around Azula's shoulder.
"It's okay, we al miss them."
"You saw it. How they captured him, but you couldn't do anything." A tear rolled down her cheek.
"Yes, Jet held my arms in a painful grip. He knocked me out when I started struggling." Ty Lee hugged Azula.
"Try to get over it. I know that I will be hard, but you can at least try." The princess nodded.
The two girls sat there for the rest of the day, thinking about the past; the moments that she cried, smiled or was angry at her brother.
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"Now, you shut up, the palace is 4 miles away from us and I'm certain that the rebels will be checking the areas around the palace." Katara turned around to look at Zuko.
"Why would the rebels check near the palace?" The prince didn't understood.
"I didn't told you, but you should know it." She came closer.
"I need to know what?" He took her hands in his.
"Your father works together with the rebels, he showed them the secret passageways and asked them that they would capture you. He would send an inexperienced hunter. I was first a slave, but you're father made me a royal hunter." Zuko couldn't believe it.
A clapping sound made them aware that their was someone else around.
"It looks that you found out. Ozai was wrong with sending you, you're an experienced hunter." Smellerbee came from behind a tree.
"You!" The prince let go of Katara's hands and took his twin swords, Katara took her sword.
"Do you know what happened at the royal palace?" Smellerbee didn't make a move to get her knives.
"No, maybe you want to tell us." They still stood ready to attack.
"Ozai wrote a fake letter, Azula thinks that you two died. She stayed days in her room, maybe it's time to make the letter reality." The girl took her knives.
The hunter and the prince attacked Smellerbee. She avoided the twin blades and the sword. Her knife cut in Katara's arm, when Zuko saw this. Well, he became furious, mad, outraged.
"You worked for 8 days with a whip on me and now you try to kill us, you went to far." He made a complete turn, swords held up in the air.
Smellerbee's head fell in the ground. The hunter held her arm and looked at the prince, she smiled.
The girl used the last cacoa-cream and bandaged her arm.
"Look at us, the bandage-team." Zuko laughed about her reaction.
"We better go and try to be unseen." She nodded.
They began walking again, when they arrived in the palace city they saw rebels on every corner of the street. The prince pulled her in a shop and held his hand before her mouth.
"They know how we're dressed." Whispered he in her ear.
He took the hair-tie out of his hair and gave it to her, she putted it away in her pocket. The shop where they where sold clothes.
Katara searched a red robe and pulled it over her normal clothes, she placed the belt over the dress. Zuko took a black shirt and black pants.
"Luckily they didn't took my money." The boy took coins out of his pocket.
"How much?" Asked he to the owner of the shop, he pointed towards Katara and himself.
"That is 10 gold pieces and 5 silver coins." Zuko took the money and gave it.
The hunter pulled her hair up in a ponytail and had already new make-up on.
"Lets go." They stepped out of the shop, hand in hand.
Not one rebel recognised them. They walked towards the palace. "How do we get in?" Asked the girl.
"There is a secret passageway that my father even doesn't know about." He pulled her towards an other shop. "Take a piece of clothes and follow me." She took a pink skirt and followed the prince.
He pushed on the wall in the back of the shop and an entrance became visible, when they were in the hall the entrance closed.
"Where does this path leads to?" Was her question.
"My sisters room." She nodded and followed.
"Here it is." He wanted to push the wall but she stopped him.
"I had to save you and make sure that you arrived safely in the palace. I go first." She pushed on the wall.
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"You know Ty Lee, if I could change the past then I would, so that my brother would still be alive." Azula sat on her bed, her advisor stood in the middle of the room.
"Everybody wants to change the past, but nobody can. We have our memories, and our memories make us who we are. Zuko and Katara died, but they made a record. Jet is dead and they didn't die in the camp of the rebels." Ty Lee looked at Azula.
"So we died?" Katara and Zuko came out of Azula's bathroom.
"Zuko!" The princess jumped up and hugged her brother, he hugged back.
" Princess Azula, you better don't hug him to hard, his scars are still sore." The warrior looked at the shared hug.
"But we got a letter that you two died." Said Ty Lee.
"The letter was fake, Ozai works with the rebels. That's how they got in to the palace, prince Zuko was to be captured and kept prisoner. Ozai would send an inexperienced hunter, but he took the wrong person." Azula looked in her eyes and saw nothing but truth.
"Katara killed a man to get in the camp, then she killed Jet and set me free. After we escaped she healed my back, we stayed for two days in the cave. Then we had to walk five days and Smellerbee died at my hands." Zuko looked at his sister.
"Smellerbee died?" Everybody looked at Ozai who stood by Azula's door.
"A girl with knives, and another girl with a sword and a boy with twin blades. How will it end?" The hunter came towards Ozai.
"Working with the rebels, that's such a bad idea." She took her sword.
"It will become time that somebody else will rule. Somebody that doesn't works with the rebels, a person that would never give up his or her children." Katara attacked Ozai.
First his arm got hit, after that a hollow cut in his cheek and at least did the sword split his heart in two. He fell in the ground, dead.
She took him up and carried him to the balcony that stretched over the entire Fire Nation. She dropped him, his body fell on the street. Everybody could see the dead body of the Firelord. The rebels knew what this meant and ran away.
Katara turned around and looked at Zuko.
I don't wanna say I'm
sorry
Cause
I know there's nothing wrong
Don't be afraid there's no need to
worry
Cause my feelings for you are still strong
Hold me in
your arms
And never let me go
Hold me in your arms
Cause I
need you so
I can see it in your eyes there is something
Something
you wanna tell me
I can see it in your eyes there is
something
that you hide for me
Is there a reason why
There
is something, something you wanna tell me
I see it in your eyes,
there is something
That you hide for me
"Katara, I need to tell you something." His eyes showed her that he hided something for her.
I don't wanna say I'm
sorry
Cause
I know there's nothing wrong
Don't be afraid, there's no need to
worry
Cause my feelings for you are still strong
Hold me in
your arms
The hunter walked to him and hugged him. He closed his arms around her body.
Hold me in your arms
And
never let me go
Hold me in your arms
Cause I need you so
I
can see it in your eyes, there is something
Something you wanna
tell me
I see it in your eyes, there is something
That you hide
for me
Is there a reason why
There is something, something you
wanna tell me
I see it in your eyes, there is something
That
you hide for me
"Katara, I…" She looked up, his amber-coloured eyes glowed in a strange way.
"Just say it, I have already been trough a lot." He sighed.
"I think that I'm in love with you. You helped me, healed me, fought for me, you have-" Zuko closed his eyes and let her. The kiss let him knew everything he had to know.
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Zuko became the new Fire lord, he and Katara married on his coronation. Ty Lee and Azula were best friends and the kingdom was ruled in peace.
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I know, it's been awhile before I've updated but I had a writers block. Sorry for that.
This is the end of the story.