Chapter 5

Planning and Plotting.

No one slept well that night. Sokka and Zuko got up and started talking.

"Why would you two think I was going to flip out if you two were together?" Sokka asked.

"Well you're very protective of Katara." Zuko replied.

"Yeah, but I also encouraged you to go talk to her and work things out."

"Why was Aang involved when you came to talk to us?"

"Because he didn't want to believe it was true, he would've excepted it but he didn't want to believe it."

"I understand. That is why he yelled, "you and I are meant to be together Katara!"

"I believe that to be true Zuko. What are we going to do. We can't kill Katara there has to be a way to reverse the mind control."

"The only person who might be able to reverse it is the Fire Lord but I cannot just go back there. I told him "I'm going to join the avatar and I'm going to help him defeat you." I can't just show back up in the Fire Nation ready to be a true Fire Nation prince."

"What about Mai, could she help us?"

"I can't see how, and even if she could, why would she?"

"That is true but Zuko how are we going to fix this?"

"I just don't know. I guess I could try to go talk to Katara in the Fire Nation."

"I'll come with you."

"Sokka no offense but you don't fire bend, and you don't have a Fire Nation name."

"Zuko I'm going to tell you something, that I have never told anyone else before."

"Okay."

"I'm a water bender. I can bend water. Katara wasn't the last water bender. My mother and father told me that only one of us could start water bending, in case the fire nation came. That way they would have a less of a chance of figuring out who the water bender(s) were. I told Katara that she should water bend. I could always follow Dad and become a warrior."

"So wait a minute do you think if you had a proper teacher or if you could figure it out on your own, you could possibly water bend fairly well?"

"Yes. I do. I know I could, I've even practiced on a few occasions. Remember that Water Bending Scroll Katara stole a few months back?"

"Yes."

"I snuck out before she did and learned every move on that scroll and figured out some more."

"Sokka why didn't you tell us?"

"I don't know Water bending was something Katara was amazing at, I didn't want there to be any sibling competition. If we fought, people might take sides and that would inevitably split up the group."

"Sokka, you need to get really good at water bending so that maybe you can change Katara into a water bender again, you see, the little loop hole with Azula's gift is that she can only change things in someone's brain that are connected to her. If you learned that power you could most likely only change Katara back to the way she was."

"Would she remember anything? About this? About Fire bending?"

"I don't believe she would, but the group is never going to let us go back. Aang is to upset to even speak to me right now, and I think Toph is plotting."

"Then we need to get back to the Fire Nation Zuko. Just you and me."

"When Sokka? How?"

"Tomorrow when we land. I can water bend us through the ocean to the Fire nation."

"Sokka, do you know how long that would take?"

"Not long at all, Katara could only make a bubble move under the water. I can make a bubble move very very fast under the water. It should only take about 20 minutes to get there."

"Then that is what we will do. What will we do when we get there?"

"You need to sneak off to Mai's and try to "charm" Katara so she is distracted. I'm sure I can talk to Mai and get her to help us."

"Sokka she won't help us. She is my ex girlfriend."

"Then I think it's time to make her my "girlfriend"

"How are you going to do that?"

"We need to fight, over her. In front of her so she can see how much I care for her." Sokka said sarcastically.

"Okay? How am I supposed to charm Katara? I mean now to her I'm just someone who has hurt her so called best friend."

"Just do it the same way you did before."

"But I didn't do anything before! She and I just clicked!" Zuko yelled.

"Zuko calm down, deep down she is still Katara and I think that no matter how hard Azula tries you will be able to get something through to Katara."

"Ok, now let's just say this all works. How will we keep it from Azula and how is Mai going to get my father to talk?"

"Simple if Mai helps us we will ask her to keep the secret, and I'm sure she can offer something to your father in return. I got it! She can say she knows the location of the Avatar, the spirit world he is hiding there and plotting. She can say she knows of someone who can get into the spirit world and control Aang's mind so he will never be able to get back to this world. If that happens, the fire lord will tell her how to control one's mind. After a few days she can go back saying that something went terribly wrong and that she needs to know how to reverse it so that they can re-control his mind."

"Sokka that might actually work, let's get some sleep and tomorrow before we leave for the fire nation, we'll get you some fire nation clothes."

"Alright that sounds like a plan."

Sokka and Zuko went to sleep, unaware that Aang had heard their whole conversation.

Hey guys I'm really sorry it took so long to update chapters 4+5! Please Read and Review. I probably will not update again for at least a week. Oh and sorry for the cliff hanger :)