LADIES AND GENTLEMEN I'M SORRY I'M LATE I GOT LOST ON THE PATH OF LIFE, ANYWAYS HERE IS CHAPTER 6, I'M SORRY I HAVEN'T UPDATED LIKE I SAID, BUT LIFE GETS IN THE WAY AND I'M FINISHING UP HIGH SCHOOL AND MY BETA IS ALSO WORKING 2 JOBS GOING TO SCHOOL SO SHE DOESN'T HAVE A LOT OF TIME EITHER, I AM STILL WRITING I'M WORKING ON PART 9 RIGHT NOW, SO HOPEFULLY I WILL HAVE 7 AND 8 UP SOON, I'M ON SPRING BREAK JUST STARTED TODAY SO I WILL TRY TO UPDATE AND SOON AS I CAN, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR ALL THE REVIEWS AND FOR READING IT JUST MAKES ME :), I KNOW I LEFT YOU GUYS WITH A PRETTY BIG CLIFF HANGER, BUT THIS CHAPTER SHOULD HELP CLEAR SOME STUFF UP, AND KATARA IS FINE, SHE'S NOT LIKE DYEING OR ANYTHING, (AS FAR AS YOU GUYS KNOW) MAHAAA, *CLEARS THROAT* OK WELL HERE IT IS.
"Wait just a minute here." Zuko paced back and forth, while everyone else was gathered around the fire.
They had woken up Katara up earlier and informed her what happened. After about 20 minuets of yelling of who's fault it was, and words like, 'bender stealing' 'ass tard' and 'psychotic water bitch,' had been thrown around, Katara and Zuko had finally calmed down, well slightly.
"Just do it." Katara snarled, she was so angry; he stole her bending.
"I only did it that one time, besides it could have been you." Zuko said panicking.
"Just try it so I know what to kick your ass for." Katara yelled, Sokka placed a firm hand on her shoulder trying to calm her down.
Zuko took a deep breath and looked at the water he concentrated hard. 'This isn't going to work' he thought to himself. The water then slowly moved with the motion of his hands, and everyone's eyes widened, though not as much as Zuko's.
"You did steal my bending!" She yelled. Sokka held her back as she tried to get up, but Zuko wasn't even listening as he moved the water gently. He could feel the fire inside of him pushing and pulling, but he also felt something new; the water was everywhere in the ground in the river even in the air, and he had to admit it was pretty amazing.
"Uncle how is this?" He stopped and looked at the old man who was casually sitting on the ground and stroking his beard; he was the calmest of them all; well maybe for Aang who was just sitting there with wide-eyes.
"I have theory." Iroh said suddenly, and he stood up and went over to Katara. "Dear could I test something?" When she nodded Iroh lead her away from everyone and pointed to a piles of leaves. "Now dear, I want you to look at these leaves and concentrate very hard. Think of your inner fire and then release it."
", I don't have inner fire." She said a little crossly. Sokka then coughed loudly and Aang looked away.
"Wait uncle, you really don't think she will fire bend, do you?" He was shocked, 'this couldn't be happening, he needed his fire that's' what kept him going.'
"I'm not sure nephew, now just try to contrite." He said, turning his attention back to Katara. She sighed and closed her eyes, she imaged a fire it made her very nervous, she never had liked fire, but she moved her hands and tried to focus, but nothing happened; she tried again nothing, and Zuko let of a breath of relief.
"I knew she didn't have my bending, besides I don't think she could handle it anyways." Zuko mused quietly to himself.
Katara's face turned bright red.
"Oh crap." Sokka mumbled 'not again' .
"YOU SON OF A BITCH, YOU STOLE MY BENDING, HOW DARE YOU, I'M SO... WHY DON'T YOU JUST CRWAL BACK INTO THAT HELL HOLE YOU CALL A FIRE NATION AND LEAVE US ALONE." As she screamed her hands swung wildly into the air.
Iroh was the first one to notice the tree behind her start smoking. "Um miss Katara-" Iroh tried.
"DON'T GET INVOLVED IROH, YOU KNOW…DO YOU THINK YOUR SO ALL SOOO GREAT THAT YOU HAVE TO STEAL OTHER PEOPLES BENDING TO IS FIRE NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU PARASITES YOU ALL SHOULD JUST…"
Everyone's eyes widened when the tree finally bust into flames behind her.
"KATARA." Sokka yelled.
"WHAT?" She screamed back, Sokka just pointed his finger, and a confused Katara turned around to see the tree up in flames. After staring in shock for a moment, Katara did the first thing that anyone in that situation would do.
"TREE ON FIRE, TREE ON FIRE, PUT IT OUT, PUT IT OUT, PUT IT OUT!" She yelled as she freaked out and ran in circles. Zuko was standing perfectly still but she and Zuko were both thinking the same thing, 'It can't be.'
Aang was the one who leaped into action, and threw water from the river onto the tree. Smoke filled the air and, everyone stood there speechless. They weren't sure what to say, but Sokka was first one to speak up.
"So does that mean we're not getting any dinner?"
Once again everyone was gathered around fire; only this time everyone was silent. Katara was holding her head in her hands, and Zuko was sitting next to his uncle still in shock; she had his bending and he had hers.
"Maybe it was that weird water we drank?" Katara mused while looking at Zuko.
"I don't know Katara." He said, he wasn't really listening anyway.
"How did this happen, I mean who could do something like this?" Zuko said, Iroh began stroking his beard again, thinking hard.
"I've never heard of anything like this happening before, but the only force on this earth powerful enough to do something like this would be a spirit, but its anyone's guess."
"Yeah it has to be." Aang agreed, then stood up.
"I'll go to the spirit world and find out what's going on." He placed his hand onto Katara shoulder. "Don't worry, I'll figure this out."
He then went off onto the hill, far anyway from everyone before he got into position. It took a few minutes, then his tattoos began to glow and he was there.
Three house had past since Aang has disappeared into the trees, and It remind Zuko of when they were in the north pole and he had fought Katara to get to the Avatar, he glanced over to her, she was resting her head on her brothers shoulder watching for Aang. He remembered he had felt bad after their battle, and he had even thought about going back to make sure she was all right. In the end she ended up saving his life again. He took a deep breath in frustration, why did she always get to be the saint and why was he so bad at being good or doing the right thing? Then when he would finally give up and decide the wrong choice was easiest it would ultimately bite him in the ass. His sister was pure evil and everything went so smooth for her life, and now he was a water bender, he put his head in his hands 'can a guy not catch a break?' He thought angrily as he looked at the water tribe siblings; they had it perfect, they rarely seemed to fight, and Katara did everything for that tard she was always caring and kind to them, and yet he couldn't get her to tell him the time of day. It made him very jealous of her brother and Aang, she looked out for them, couldn't he find someone anyone to do the same? He did have his uncle but that was different, he wanted someone to miss him when he was gone, he sighed again and looked for the Avatar who was still nowhere in sight.
"How will we have to wait?" He growled to his Uncle.
"Things like this take time, remember time there is different then time here." Zuko sighed and fell back into silence. After about another two hours everyone had almost fallen asleep, when siddenly Aang stopped glowing and he came down from the hill.
"What happened?" Sokka asked, waking Katara who rubbed her eyes and looked at Aang.
"Did you find out anything?" She asked sleepily, and Aangs face fell and he looked exhausted.
"I asked Avatar Roku what was going on, but then I ran into all these sprits; they were having some kind of meeting. they didn't let me inside but I could her them yelling and shouting and heard them talk about you guys and then they all got really angry about something. The whole place started to shake, and then after a while Avatar Roku came out, he looked very angry, I have never seen him like that, and then he told me to stay out of it and that there was nothing I could do and it was up to fate, and then he sent me back here. I swear Katara I tried everything, but they wouldn't listen I-" Katara stopped him and pulled him into a hug.
"Its ok Aang, you tried and that's all that matters."
"I don't get it why would they switch Katara and hotheads bending what's the point? Its not right." Sokka said.
"I guess some of them felt the same way." Aang said rubbing his heavy eyes. "I heard they say something about how stupid it was and how it wasn't right to get involved."
Zuko shook his head "Involved with what, the war?" Zuko asked.
Aang just shrugged. "I don't know."
Zuko sighed in confusion. "Why didn't you demand to be in there? You're the avatar for gods sakes." He snapped at Aang.
"They wouldn't let him in were you not listening?" Katara snapped, quickly coming to Aang's defense.
"Its seems the spirits are doing something to you two and who knows what it is. Aang may be the avatar, but he doesn't have that kind of power nor does he have the power to change it, but then I wonder why they would feel the need to switch your bending…" Iroh mused thoughtfully.
"I don't know, all I know is they are not telling me." Aang said.
"We need someone that can understand them, but without them knowing about it." Sokka said rubbing his head.
"What about Aunt Wou?" Katara said Sokka just snorted.
"Yeah like she really knows stuff." He rolled his eyes as Katara placed her hands on her hips.
"She does too, she predicated that no harm would come to the town."
"Yeah because I saved them." Sokka waved his arms in the air. "Besides that's clear in the other direction, and we need to find Aang an earth bending teacher soon."
Katara sighed, he was right Aang came first.
"We can't just ignore this, ther're doing something to us, and I want to know why." Zuko shouted.
Iroh then spoke. "What if Miss Katara, Zuko, and I headed-"
"NO!" Sokka snapped. "She's not going anywhere with you." He glared at Zuko who returned it.
"Well what are we suppose to do then? Aang needs to learn earth bending and we have already wasted enough time." Katara pointed out.
Sokka just shrugged.
"Guys I can still find a teacher, but I think we need to find out what's going on with your bending, I have weird feeling about it." Aang said as he looked at Iroh and Zuko.
"You guys can come with us to see Aunt Wu, that way maybe she can tell us something, and maybe can find a teacher on the way. Besides, we can't forget that Azula is still tracking us, and who knows what she'll do when she finds us, so I think its best we all stay together." Everyone nodded, Aang was always the peace maker.
"Ok, well then what do we do in the mean time, it's going to be kind of hard to ignore the fact that Katara can now fire bend, oh and Zuko can water bend. People are going to start asking why the banished price is traveling with the Avatar." Sokka said.
"We will just have to lie low until I find someone to teach me earth bending, and I guess I can head back into the spirit world tonight, maybe I can find out some more stuff."
"No Aang." Katara said pulling her head up; everyone looked at her.
"But Katara-"
"No, not tonight, your tired and hungry, I don't want you going in there un prepared."
Zuko shot her a deadly look. "He's fine" Zuko snapped. Katara was about to yell at him when Iroh interrupted her.
"No Zuko, she's right, he'll need all his strength to complete the process and find out all the details."
They all nodded in agreement, even Zuko who sighed.
"Ok I still don't like the idea of two fire benders traveling with us, but I can live for now, so what do we do now?" Sokka said.
"We need to get some sleep." Iroh said. "And tomorrow, we will head into town, get a room a good night sleep and figure out what's going on."
Aang nodded "That would be best guys, then I can go into the spirit world and get your bending back." Zuko and Katara looked at each other, as they all agreed.
The next morning Katara woke up right as the sun was coming up, she tried and tried to go back to sleep but ended up getting up anyway. Everyone was still asleep, Sokka was snoring loudly, and Aang and Zuko were sleeping silently, both were far away from Sokka. Only Iroh was awake, he was sitting by the fire poking it with a stick, and she went over to him. He smiled kindly at her and offered her a seat; she bunched up her long sleeves and pulled them up.
"I'm glad to see that shirt is working out." He laughed as she blushed and fixed it.
"Thanks again, I didn't really have time to grab mine." She said glancing at Zuko. He was perfectly still breathing steady.
"I take it my nephew didn't leave you a lot of time to grab it." He laughed and Katara blushed again.
"I was going to take a bath," she said in low voice, it seemed so silly now.
"Ah well I'm sure it was a much needed bath." He laughed; they sat there in silence for a moment before Iroh broke it. "Zuko is a very complicated boy," he said Katara looked at him, intrigued at the new conversation.
"No offense but your nephew is an ass." She finally said. Iroh just chuckled.
"He has quit a temper, but then again, so do you." He said looking at her, she opened her mouth to speak but then closed it again.
"He just makes me so mad." She finally said, not wanting to start an argument about Zuko.
"Well, he has that effect on people, but what most people don't know is that Zuko is very determined, and I don't know what happened out there, but-"
"He held me hostage." She broke in quietly, Iroh didn't say anything and she continued. "When we were fighting with Azula he just took me hostage, told them that he would kill me if they didn't let him go. He was trying to cut a deal with her, by using me." She said silently and Iroh's eyes widened.
"She declined the offer though, and then we started fighting, I got that knife chick and the chi blocker in ice, and Azula was busy fighting Zuko, she almost had him, and then I saved him, but only because he saved me. Zuko said he wouldn't let anything happen to me and that he just panicked but I don't know if I believe him and now our bending all switched and-" She placed her hands on her head, she was hungry, tired, and confused; this had been an insane few days, and she took a deep breath and tried to calm herself.
"The world has a funny way of trying to explain things to us." He said softly, as he patted her shoulder. "I wasn't there Miss Katara, but I do know that Zuko doesn't think things through all the time, its one of his biggest flaws, but I'm sure that it wasn't his intention to hurt you in any way."
Katara scoffed.
"Just think about it like this Miss Katara, if things had been switched and it had been your brother what would you have done?" She was taken back she looked at her brother, his butt was high in the air, and he was snoring and mumbling about something 'most likely food' but she could not picture something like that happening to them, he would never put her in that spot or try to kill her like she had seen Zuko and Azula do earlier. A pang of sadness went through her; Azula did try to kill Zuko. she sighed
"But you must not worry young maiden, Zuko is strong and I'm sure he is sorry even if he won't admit it." Iroh said, Katara glanced at him again, he was still sleeping calmly, she would try to get along for now.
"Here." Iroh pulled some berries out of his pocket and handed them to Katara. "They're not much but they should keep us going until we get to town to get something to eat." He smiled.
Sokka then sat up like lightning, all while not opening his eyes. "Food?" He asked, his closed eyes looking at them, they both just stared at his disillusioned look, and he then fell back down falling asleep again.
"Now all were missing is tea." Iroh said cheerfully, while eating some berries. Katara smiled, as they sat there the rest of the morning, but what they didn't know was that Zuko was holding back tears from previous there conversion. 'I guess I can be nice for now anyways'. He sighed and then turned and tried his hardest to go back to sleep.
It was about noon when everyone finally decided to get up, and although no one really slept a whole lot, no one wanted to wake up and face the day, or two very angry benders. Everyone was working silently eating the berries Iroh had found and were getting ready to head into the village. Katara had tried to go back asleep after talking to Iroh, but nothing worked, it was like some force was telling her body no, so she got up again and spent the morning talk to Iroh. They discussed tea and she told him stories from growing up in the South Pole. He seemed to be very interested about the water tribe, and he had asked countless questions about water bending styles, Iroh had even joked about Zuko becoming a master water bender. It made her nervous to think of never having her water bending again, she might die if she had to live the rest of her life as a fire bender. The idea made her shudder.
"Hey Katara, maybe we could learn fire bending together, I mean after I'm done with earth bending." Aang mused, gathering up a pile of leaves and sticks.
"Hopefully I don't ever have to learn how to use it."
"Yeah, the last thing we need is a fire breathing Katara, she's scary enough without it." Sokka laughed and Katara raised her eyebrow. "I- I.. ah I mean… oh look Momo." Sokka said, quickly getting away from Katara. Aang bust into a fit of laugher, and Katara rolled her eyes at her idiotic brother, thought she was a bit fearful about the idea of breathing fire.
"Don't be ridicules." Zuko said. "It takes years to learn how to breath fire, and even then most people couldn't even get close to that, you can't just start breathing fire you have to know your basics." He stated.
Katara looked at him. "Can you do it, or I mean could you before?"
"No, but my uncle is one of very few who can breath fire, the closet I have overcome is dragon breath and that takes up a lot of energy." He glanced over at Katara, she looked fascinated, he couldn't help but see the wonder in her big blue eyes, it was almost hypnotic.
"Hahahaha." Sokka laughed loudly, breaking Zuko and Katara's eye contact. "You really expect me to believe that you fire benders can breath fire." Sokka nearly fell over laughing. Iroh who had been standing there very amused tried to hide the smirk on his face . "Come on Katara, he's full of crap, no one can breath fire, they're not dragons."
Iroh then took a deep breath and then released the fire, sending a puff of fire through the air. Sokka jumped back, although the flames were nowhere near him, while Katara and Aang stood there wide eyed.
"What the- how did you?" Sokka jumped up and put his hands in front of him, afraid of being burned.
Iroh just chuckled. "And who says wear not dragons." he mused. Zuko rolled his eyes, it was just like his uncle.
"You have to teach me that!" Aang was practically jumping in his seat from excitement.
Iroh laughed harder and walked over to Appa. "Oh my, I haven't done that in awhile." Iroh said, still very amused with himself. Sokka was still horrified.
"Come on guys, let's go before we burn down the forest." Katara said, patting her brother on the shoulder. Aang jumped up and ran up to Iroh asking him more questions on fire bending.
"Katara if you ever learn how to do that, I'll tell people were not related." Sokka said, angrily grabbed his boomerang, and heading to Appa.
She giggled at her brother and stood up and fixed her very large robe. The sleeves were way to long and it was almost a dress on her. She blushed thinking how ridiculous she looked 'oh well better then topless I guess' she thought. Then turned redder thinking she was topless trough the whole fight with Azula. She awkwardly bunched up her sleeves trying to get her hands free when someone grabbed it.
"Here." Zuko said he pulled out a knife and grabbed her hand, she flinched back a little when his cold hands touched hers.
"Relax." He snapped. "I'm going to cut these sleeves so there not so long." She relaxed a little, and he took the sleeve and cut it unevenly so that they hung right below her hands, when he finished she smiled, happy to have her hands free again. He looked at her face again, she was very dirty, although he wasn't one to talk. She looked sad about something but he supposed they both wear sad about the same things. "Don't worry." He said. "We'll get our bending back." He sounded confident, but deep down he was thinking the same thing she was..
"Yeah." she agreed and looked at him. "I know." His face was calm it remind her of when they were in the cave, she quickly looked down and blushed; he was still holding the knife, the letters on the blade shined in the sun, and she was about to thank him when they heard Sokka's voice.
"Hey you guys coming? Come on I'm starving." He complied loudly, she turned away from Zuko and headed to Appa.
Zuko stood there for a moment just looking at her 'she is something else' he thought, not sure if it was a good think or a bad thing; but it was probably a bad thing.
"Are you coming Zuko?" He heard Iroh say, he quickly averted his eyes and headed towards the beast.
Sokka used his arm to stop him before he reached the flying bison, he had not stopped glaring at him since Katara came over. "Watch you step." Zuko looked down and saw that he was about to step in a hole, Sokka held his eyes with his, they were blue too although a much darker shade. 'Katara's are better' he thought. Sokka looked at him and then up at Katara who was chatting with Aang in the drivers seat and then back at Zuko again. Zuko narrowed his eyes he knew what Sokka thought.
"Thanks." Zuko said dryly, not wanting to be responsible for another fight, and he walked right past the water boy and onto Appa.
"Oh my you kids look like you've been trough a lot" The women at the inn gasped when she saw the odd group of kids come in. She was old, her hair was black with a tint of gray, and her bright green tunic matched her bight eye shadow.
When they finally made it to town they realized that they only had enough money for either supplies or a night at an Inn. After yet another arguing match, they had finally agreed to stay at then inn for a night so they could rest and eat and then figure out what they needed to do next.
Zuko had been furious that they had to wait, and even more angry that they were blowing what little money they had on an inn. Even Katara sided with Zuko auguring that it was a waste of money and they needed to head to Aunt Wus. Sokka and Aang wanted the inn, well more like they wanted the hot meal and nice beds, but it was Iroh making the finally decision. He said that they needed the rest more then anything,and so they found a small inn at the center of town.
They left Appa and Momo in the care of a farmer who had a supple barn full of hay, but what the farmer didn't know was that it was going to be gone by tomorrow.
It wasn't a very big inn but it was nice sized place, the old women almost dropped the pot of noodles she had been holding when they walked in. It was an odd sight, two water tribe siblings, a monk wearing a hat to cover up his tattoos and a long coat , an old man, an angry boy with a scar on his face, . They were also all dirty beyond words.
"Good afternoon, we are traveling, and we ran into some trouble with our luggage. We were hoping to get a couple of rooms for the night." Iroh said smoothly, the old women cracked a huge smile.
"Of course, we have everything you need here, I'm Ling by the way I run this inn with my husband Lee and my son."
Iroh smiled happily. "I'm Musi, this is my grandson Hachi, my nephew Lee, his wife Amarante, and her brother Daichi." Everyone froze, Zuko smacked his head 'why do I let him talk to strangers' he thought. He looked at Sokka whose mouth was hanging wide open and Katara looked like she was going to faint.
"Oh how wonderful how long have you been married." Ling beamed, Katara and Zuko just started at her wide eyed.
"Yesterday." Iroh said, before Sokka's eyes nearly popped out of his head.
"Oh how lovely I'm sure you two are very excited, oh I remember when I first got married, I was such a young thing." She mused.
Iroh laughed. "Yes well you can't separate these two." He smacked his arm around his stunned nephew who looked like he was about to murder him.
"Well since it's your wedding night, I'll set you two up in our finest room on the second floor."
Sokka burst into the conversation here. "I don't think so-"
Katara grabbed his ear. "What he means is we can't afford another room." Katara laughed, although dying sounded good too.
Ling lifted up her small hands. "Nonsense, I will give you an extra room for free." Sokka looked about to ague when Aang stepped in.
"Thank you ma'am." Aang didn't really a problem with it, it wasn't like they were really married after all.
"Oh my, what an interesting hat." Ling said, admiring Aang. Sokka was busy glaring harshly at Katara who was pleading with her eyes for him to keep quiet.
"Thanks ma'am." Aang smiled widely.
"Well let's get you to your rooms, and you guys can all wash up." She lead them down the hall to two rooms that were opposites in the hallway. She opened the door to one room, and revealed it to have two beds, a desk, and small window. "Here." She handed the keys to Iroh. "This one is for this room, and your other room is just right across. It;s a bit smaller, but I'm sure you won't mind. Now there is bathroom down the hall, so help yourselves. You two, come with me and I'll show you two to your room." The old women giggled, and Sokka shot up looking ready to protest his sister leaving with Zuko, but Iroh grabbed his arm.
"When you two get settled come back down we need to talk about some things." Iroh said, Sokka settled down as Ling lead Katara and Zuko upstairs.
"So how's married life working out for you two?" Ling asked, leading them to a large door at the end of the hall. Zuko swallowed loudly and Katara blushed fiercely.
"We haven't um really, um" Katara stumbled.
"Go on dear." Ling said.
"Well you know, we're not and well…" Ling raised her eyebrow as Katara continued to stutter.
"What my wife is trying to say is that we really haven't gotten a whole lot of time, you know alone." Zuko said saving Katara.
"Oh, I see now, well no worries I promise you two will have the whole night to yourself." She whispered, causing Katara to blush further.
Ling then opened the doors to a big room, the carpet was red looked so soft almost like velvet, there was a large painting hanging on the wall, and there was a huge window straight across from the door, it was lined with soft red curtains hanging from it, and in the center of the room a huge king sized bed sat. It was covered in tons of pillows, and Katara's mouth dropped open.
"Wow." Was all Katara could mutter.
"Ah yes, it's our best room, and its all yours for the night." Ling was happy and grinned when she looked at Zuko and saw he was bright red.
"Well, I'm sure you two want to freshen up and get better acquainted with the room, I'll just be down stairs of you need anything." Ling winked at Zuko and headed down the hall, her skirts swaying.
Katara was to busy looking at the room to see Zuko's horrified face at Ling's comment.
Katara ran to the bed and hopped on it. "This is great." She said, while Zuko went to the window.
"Look we get a nice view of a torn down house, and a hobo, oh look, a puddle in a pot hole, that's just lovely." Zuko mumbled.
"Don't be such a wet blanket." Katara said, while lying on the bed.
Zuko turned and looked at her. "Oh sorry I forgot that was your job."
Katara sat up and glared at him, and then her face softened. "You know what, I'm not letting you ruin this for me." She rolled away from him.
"I guess it could be worse." He said, looking at her he let a smile come across his face as he watched her.
A knock on the knock on the door broke his stare. Iroh opened the door Aang and Sokka followed both wearing white robes, Sokka then whistled when he looked around. "Damn, I call dibs on this room, it's way bigger then ours and Iroh's, I mean Musi, combined."
"Dream on Sokka." Katara mumbled, her face was buried in the pillows.
"Wow Katara this place is great." Aang said going to sit next to Katara.
"You better make room Katara, I'm sleeping in here." Sokka added, looking around.
"If you want this bed you're going to have to pull my cold dead corpse from it." She added not moving. Zuko smirked
"Yeah, yeah, well anyways be have business to discuss." Sokka pulled out a map and set it on the desk next to Zuko.
"Now we need to decide something, are we going to see Aunt Wu, or find Aang an earth bending teacher?"
"Aang come first." Katara said sitting up. "We need to find him one were running out of time."
"What about our bending?" Zuko said angrily. "The sprits or whatever it is, is doing something to us, and on top of that we have Azula hot on our ass, we need to figure this out sometime soon." he argued.
"Well why don't you head out and distract her?" Sokka added, Zuko came close to him.
"Knock it off you two." Katara said in an annoyed hushed tone. "Now what do we do." No one said anything and silence took over for a few moments.
"I have an idea although some people are not going to like it." He looked pointedly at Sokka.
"Me, Avatar Aang, and Sokka head to the next town over to look for an earth bending teacher and Katara and Zuko head to Aunt Wu's."
"No." Sokka's voice was stern and simple.
"Sokka." Katara argued although she wasn't crazy about the idea either.
"It's out of the question, I don't care if they go, but your staying with me." He crossed his arms and looked down at the map.
Katara sighed. "Sokka we can't just do both, it will take to long and we don't have that kind of time plus Azula-"
"I don't care, I wouldn't care if we only had a week you're not going by yourself." Sokka said, he was very calm, and this worried Katara.
"Sokka-"
"Katara, no, were not discussing this anymore." He didn't even look up at her as he spoke, and even Zuko looked a little scared.
There was knock on the door making everyone jump. An old looking man with a long beard and mustache was at the door holding a basket of what looked like soap. "Well it seems that our guests are getting settled, come on then, Ling's cooking up something good."
"Princess." Zhao came running up to Azula; he had angrily woken up with a killer headache that was still pounding in his head. Azula was standing over a small pond with greenish water and she was thinking very hard about something.
"General, any sign of them?" She asked, still looking at the gross water.
"No princess but we have reason to believe they will lay low and separate in the next few days." He said as Azula bent down and picked up a piece of blue cloth it was torn and wet.
"Do you recognize this general?" She held it up go him, and he nodded.
"That belongs to the water tribe girl."
"Yes, when we fought she was missing her shirt, you could only guess what her and Zuko were doing alone the forest." she scoffed.
"I didn't know he had it in him." Zhao added lightly.
She smirked to herself. "General, take this and find a tracker, I'm sure they went south, but you can never be too sure. I'm going to head north, the trail might be cold but I need to check every lead. If you happen find the Avatar or his family you know what to do."
"What if I find Zuko or that crack tea drinker of an uncle?" He asked.
Azula smirked. "Oh you know what to do Zhao, just don't let me down." Zhao bowed and headed off to find a tracker.
Azula was looking over the pond when Mai came up behind her.
"Ty Lee's hands are almost better." She said dully.
"Good, because we move out soon." Azula said, not looking at her friend.
"Azula, why did you give Zhao that piece of cloth, I thought you wanted to capture the Avatar, why not just send him after Zuko?" She asked in confusion.
Azula stood there for a moment in silence. "Because I want to be the one who takes down Zuko," she added dryly.
ALRIGHT HERE IS CHAPTER 6 I HOPE YOU ALL LIKE, STAY TUNED.
THIS CHAPTER SONG IS, Lacuna Coil- TO LIVE IS TO HIDE.