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"I'll get you, Ozai. Mark my words. I'll get you for this."
"It's been a good run."
"We should be there in the morning." Zuko told Katara as he pulled the coveres up to his chin.
"Good." She said snuggling against him. "Today was so hectic. That Commander was ridiculous."
"Mm hm. Tomorrow should be better, right?"
"Yes." She mumbled. Snuggling deeper into his arms.
The next morning Katara helped Zuko put on layer after layer of Water Tribe clothes. When they were done she giggled at how big the clothes made him look. She did, however, love the way the blues and whites brought out his eyes. She stood on her tippy toes and planted a small kiss on his lips.
Zuko found it hard not to laugh when he saw his parents and most of the crew covered in the clothes and of course his laughter stopped when his mother scolded him for 'not respecting other cultures'.
Katara was immediately glomped by her brother and friends. Her parents greeted Zuko's and some of the crew even came down to meet the tribes people.
"How is it there, Katara?" Kya asked.
"Everything is going well over there. How about here?"
"Great and the Maria's delivery went very smoothly." Kya smiled.
"Oh, really?" Kya nodded and called for Maria to come over. "Oh, Maria. He's beautiful." Katara said as Maria allowed her to hold the young the boy.
"Hello, Zuko." Hakoda greeted as the prince came up beside Katara. Zuko bowed out of respect before placing his arm around Katara's waist.
"Here, Zuko, you hold him." Katara said passing the child onto Zuko. He wanted to protest, but she had already pushed the small body against his chest so, he took his arm from her waist to under the body. He used his other arm as a wall. He smiled down awkwardly.
"He is so your son." Ursa whispered.
"What? Please. I wasn't that awkward the first time I held a baby."
"Ozai, dear, you were terrified!"
"H-hold his head like this," Ozai instructed, taking a step towards his son. Zuko breathed out a small 'oh' before positioning his arms in the right way.
Ursa rolled her eyes and smiled at the two.
"Awe, isn't he cute?" Katara asked snugging against Zuko.
"Well, thanks." He said smiling.
"I was talking about the baby." Katara said crossing her arms.
After a while of talking, Zuko passed the baby back over to his mother and Katara introduced Zuko to her Gran Gran.
After breakfast and lunch Katara pulled Zuko to the side to go penguin sledding. After rolling down various hills, they came across one that had a kayak at the bottom.
Katara recognized it as the old one Sokka and her used to go in. Katara helped Zuko in before showing him how to paddle. She took this as a good chance for Zuko to spend from time with her as well as Sokka.
"Hey." They both said shaking hands. Sokka sat in the middle while Zuko was in the back and Katara was in the front. Sokka showed Zuko and better way to hold the paddles while Katara toyed with the water.
"Kay, Katara. Ready to go fishing for dinner? Just like old times." Sokka said opening a bag of bait. Katara nodded and started to water bend the kayak along.
After of while Sokka and Zuko were getting pretty comfortable about each other and Katara was entirely focused on water bending, but that didn't mean she went deaf.
"Sokka, shut up!" She said after hearing him saying something totally inappropriate.
"What? It's true." He shrugged.
"It is not, Sokka! Lets see you live in some foreign land without mom and daddy for as long as I have! It's not that easy!" She snapped at him, turning around.
"Well, they feed you, don't they? I don't care as long as I get me some food."
"Oh, please. Because that's ALL you care about!" She yelled placing her hands on her hip. Zuko clinched his teeth as he attempted to steer the small boat away from an ice berg. Fail. Epic fail.
"What is your problem, Sokka? I just got home. I figured you'd miss me!"
"Well I figured you miss me too! I didn't get anything, Katara! Nothing! Not a single letter or anything! I know you're live is completely surrounded by Zuko now, but come on!"
"Don't talk about him like that!" She yelled, pointing at her brother. "You don't even know him! You don't know what I go through there, Sokka! I have to plan for a wedding that I didn't even want, I have to wear clothes that I'm not used to, it's sering hot over there, and there's these people who try tell me how to talk, walk, eat, EVERYTHING! SOKKA!"
"Uhh...Katara." Zuko pointed to the ice berg behind her.
"Not now!" She barked at him. "You get to live here and do what ever you want, Sokka! I don't! There's certain things I have to live up to now!"
"Well, at least you have something to live up to!" Sokka said crossing his arms. Katara's arms shook. Sokka was jealous!? No, he was blind!
"Sokka, you idiot! No one is holding you back!" Now, she wasn't yelling out of fury, she was yelling out of love, but she was still pretty pissed off. :/
"Katara," Zuko warned. Sokka looked over his shoulder at Zuko and raised his brow. Zuko pointed and Sokka followed his finger to the crack in the ice berg.
"Uhh. Seriously, Katara!" Sokka was the one warning now.
"What!? What. What? What do you want?!" She screeched, throwing her arms up. She gasped and jumped into Zuko's arms when she heard a loud crack behind her. She saw the ice berg flip and twirl. It flipped over onto it's side and everyone saw how the ice berg was glowing.
"Whoa," Sokka said, astound.
"Oh, it's just blue ice." Zuko assured.
"No, I think it's something else," Katara said standing up and crawling onto a flat part on the ice berg.
"Katara, be careful!" Zuko warned, standing at the edge of the kayak.
Katara snatched the club from Sokka's hand.
"Oh my gosh, I think somebody's in there!" She exclaimed.
"What? How?" Sokka asked.
"I don't know. It looks like they're frozen in there...who ever they are." Katara said walking to the left of the ice berg.
"KATARA!" Sokka yelled when his sister took the club and hit the side of the ice berg with it. "Stop!" He demanded when she hit it again.
"What? What if some one is in there?" She asked, stopping.
"Yeah, what if they're dead? Some birthday present...oh, yeah..happy birthday." Sokka said crossing his arms.
"Well...than we give them a proper burial." Katara said hitting the ice berg one last time before it shattered into a billion pieced. "Whoa!" Katara dropped Sokka's club and ran to the body.
She took the child into his arms. He was so cold...but...warm. She gently rubbed her hand over his cheek and smiled when he heard him moan.
"Ugh." She heard him groan from deep inside his throat. His eyes slowly fluttered open.
"Hello." Katara greeted with a smile. Zuko walked up beside Katara and crossed his arms.
"Heh...heh..." Katara titled her head. It sounded like he was trying to say hello back, but at the same time it sounded like he was about to.. "Heh-CHOO!" Katara fell backwards when a gust of air flew from the kid's lungs, sending him into the air.
"Whoa!" Katara repeated. "You're an air bender!" She said being helped up by the prince.
"Yes?" The child seemed confused. "Is that bad?" He asked whipping his nose.
"Well, no, but...I just...we just..everyone...you don't know?" She asked looking down at her hands. Was this some kind of dream?
"What are you talking about? What happened?"
"The Fire Nation killed all of the air benders." Sokka said bluntly.
"Sokka!" Katara scolded while Zuko glared at him. Obviously, they hadn't.
"What are you talking about? I was just gone for a couple of days." The air bender said scratching his head and looking around, searching for something.
"Rawr." The new kid turned around and gasped.
"Appa!" Katara gasped and jumped right back into Zuko's arms when she saw the beast walk out from behind a part of the ice berg.
"What IS that!?" She asked taking a step forward.
"This is Appa...my flying bison.." The child informed. Katara walked up to it and placed a hand on it's head. He was soft. She smiled and started to pet the beast.
Sokka rolled his eyes and sat down. Zuko raised his brows and took a step over after noticing a pool of water starting to form from the ice he was causing to melt.
"What's going on here?"
"You tell us! How did you get into the ice?" Sokka said poking him with his spear. "And why aren't you frozen?"
"I'm not sure," The kid said pushing Sokka's spear from him.
"Okay, this is ridiculous," Sokka started. "Flying bison's...people shooting out of ice bergs...'air bending'. I'm going home..where stuff makes sense." Sokka turned and stopped when he saw that the kayak...their only way home had floated off into the distance.
"Appa can give you a ride home, if that's what you need." The kid floated onto Appa's saddle. Sokka crossing his arms and looked up at the child. He glanced over at Zuko who was also standing with his arms crossed, but he was carefully studying the kid.
"No way am I getting on that thing!" Sokka threw his arms down.
"C'mon, Sokka. We need to go home." Katara said helping Zuko up onto the saddle. Sokka took a second to think about it. He looked around and figured he didn't have any choice but to go on that thing.
Sokka sat crossed armed next to Zuko and scowled at the kid. He rolled his eyes and huffed when the animal attempted to fly. Yeah, right. That thing is REALLY going to fly. Mm hm.
"You know," Katara began, resting her arms on the saddle. "We never caught your name."
"Aang." He said turning around and looking at her.
"Oh...um..being an air bender and everything...do you have any idea what happened to the avatar?"
"Uh, no." Aang said scratching his head. "I knew people who knew him, but I never knew him..why?"
"Well...originally, he was supposed to be the one to end the war...to save the world from the Fire Nation...but Ozai already has that covered." Katara blew out her nose. How could someone just forget about their family and friends? About their nation...about the world?
"What? What war? I was- he was suposed to do what? What's this war you guys keep bringing up?" He asked fully turning around to face her.
"Well, a hundred years ago..Sozin started a war...and Azulon, his son, continued it, but Ozai, Azulon's son, ended it. The avatar is the one who is supposed to keep balance in the war, not the Fire Lord." Katara crossed her arms, defending Ozai.
"What? I have friends all over the world. Even from the Fire Nation!"
"Aang...how long were you in that ice berg?"
"A couple days, I guess."
"Well, it sounds like you in there for a hundred years!"
"All of my friends...if I was gone for a hundred years..."
"There has to be some kind of bright side to all of this." Katara said leaning down and placing a hand on his shoulder.
"I got to meet you!" He smiled. She sat back and smiled. Zuko wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her to him, kissing her forehead. He looked up and smirked when he saw Aang trying not to scowl at him.
"Katara," Zuko whispered. "He's an air bender...the last air bender. That ice berg was glowing and when the avatar is in the avatar his eyes glow...the avatar can only inter the state when he's in life threatening circumstances or under some serious stress...when his emotions are exploding. The avatar was born into the air nomads and as far as we know...no avatar has been reborn yet."
"What are you saying?" She whispered back.
"This kid's the avatar." Katara sat down and rested her head on Zuko's chest. She studied Aang. She sighed and played with the water. She smiled when a fish swam up the stream she had made.
"Here, Sokka." She said and dropped the fish in front of him. He smiled and immediately removed it's head with his dagger he kept in his boot.
"Hey, your a water bender!" Aang said looking over his shoulder.
"Mhm. Maybe you could teach me some sometime." She said trying to trick him into blowing his cover.
"Oh, uh, well," He stuttered. "I don't know any water bending moves...I can only air bend..I'm an air bender."
"Oh," Katara said, disappointed.
"But, maybe we could go to the North Pole. I'm sure there's some water benders there!" Katara's shoulders dropped and she looked over at Zuko. He shrugged his shoulders.
"Um..maybe, be we can't stay very long." She shook her head.
Katara continued to water bend during the trip and by the time they arrived back at the village they had at least ten fish. Zuko helped Sokka with the fish and Katara guided Aang into the village.
There was already a fire started and Hakoda and Bato began to skin the fish.
"Mom!" Katara called. Kay came over and introduced her self to Aang. Katara told her mother about how the wanted to go to the North Pole to learn water bending.
"Um, Katara, dear. I don't know if that's the best idea." Kya said looking around.
"Why? If he is the avatar," Katara whispered after Aang walked over to show the little kids a trick. "Then he needs to learn water bending."
"Yes, dear, but the war is already over."
"Well, I want to learn water bending, too!"
"Katara," Kya warned.
"I wanna go." Katara said, dropping her shoulder.
"Well...alright..I would speak with Ursa and Ozai first, since you do have a wedding to attend to, you know." Katara smiled and hugged her mother.
Katara asked to go and of course, Ursa nodded with a smile. Ozai said he would grant them a royal ship to escort them on their way. Katara smiled and began to eat her dinner.
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Snow steamed off Ozai as he growled and turned around. He had been hit in the back of the head with a snow ball. He let out a small gasp when he saw Ursa standing there, with a hand on her hip and the other one tossing another snow ball up and down. With a smirk on her face she threw the next one. Ozai bit his lip and gathered his own snow ball. Ursa laughed and ducked. She tackled him and snuggled against his warm chest in the snow. She straddled his hips and grabbed a hand full of snow, rubbing it on his cheek.
"Ugh." His teeth chattered. "It's so cold." He said rising his body heat.
"It's snow." Ursa said laying down next to him, laying her head on his chest. He smiled and rubbed her back. "Love you, Ozai." She said after placing a sweet, seal jerky tainted kiss on his lips. He smiled lightly.
"Ursa," He pointed. "Look it." Ursa turned.
She gasped. "The lights." She said sitting up next to him. He smiled and put his arm around her, resting his hand on her knee and lightly running his fingers over her lower leg.
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Everyone was off the ship that night, looking in awe at the lights. Everyone, even the cell guards....
A chuckle echoed through the empty ship that night. Droplets of some kind of liquid landed into a bottle of red wine...the Fire Lords favorite.
Footsteps pitt-patted across the metal floor and the bars of a cell shook and squeaked, being closed slowly.
Shackles rang, being slid back on....
Gosh. Freaking NOTHING BUT dialogue in this one!
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Pay no attention to the new things at the beginning.
....if Aang was born after Roku and Sozin is the one who started the war and Sozin and Roku knew each other...wouldn't Aang had already knew about the war? Surely the Air Benders would have known, since the avatar was born an air bender next, so they would have told him earlier...unless Aang was older than Sozin and Roku....MAJOR HOLE. Explain, please.