Avatar Drabbles
A/N: So, here we go. The start of a drabble series. For those who are confused, this is before The Southern Raiders but after The Boiling Rock. Characters might be slightly OOC, and ignore the slight crack-fic feel. READ AND REVIEW PLEASE! I hope you like it. :D
The chapters will be named after colors and emotions they represent. Thus the first - red is normally associated with anger. No explanation needed.
Red is for anger
Katara was angry again. As she walked through the temple with a cloud of doom above her head, she barely noticed the Duke's yelp on seeing her, Haru and Teo quickly skidding back into the room from which they had just emerged. Sokka was foolish enough to stand in her way, saying something about PMS, and was immediately frozen to the wall. She ignored his yelps and proceeded.
Aang came up behind her and began to unfreeze Sokka. His firebending had really improved, no thanks to that JERKBENDER. Aang started a sentence before Toph clamped her hand over his mouth. Katara turned around, the cloud of doom moved over Aang and he gulped and looked up nervously before squeaking something. "Nothing, please continue," he said, then clutched at his throat and tried a deeper tone. But by then Katara had already stomped on. Toph looked at the Powerful and All Mighty Avatar trying to get his voice to go deeper. "Twinkletoes, that was an epic fail."
With a few strategically placed rocks pushing Sokka courtesy of Toph's disgust at Aang's failed attempts (both at a deep voice and getting Sokka out of ice), the ice shattered and he collapsed on the floor, shivering. "AAAANG," he whined. "Heat me up!"
Meanwhile, Katara continued on her path of destruction. Was there no one brave enough in the temple to stop her? Someone who could save the land? Where was this valiant person? It certainly wasn't Sokka, who lay on the floor complaining about the cold, or Aang, who was failing to use his firebending to heat Sokka up. Toph was laughing too hard to care, and the Duke, Haru and Teo were cowering in one of the rooms of the temple, which ruled them out effectively.
Zuko turned the corridor to see a very angry Katara heading towards him. He peeked around her, and saw the remains of the people she had left behind. This was bad. Trying desperately to think of what he had done and coming up with nothing, Zuko decided repentance was the way to go. "I'm sorry!" he said, as Katara approached him with the cloud of doom above her head. Nope, no savior of the temple here.
The cloud glanced between Katara and Zuko and slowly but surely transferred itself to stay securely above a very nervous Zuko. The cloud was now giving out slight rumbles, and soon rain began to fall from it onto a disgruntled firebender. "Um, Katara?" he asked grumpily, looking from the cloud to Katara's thunderous face.
Katara seemed to explode, and the rain began to fall harder and harder on Zuko, until he was soaked and being pelted by industrial size raindrops. "WHY are you apologizing when you didn't do anything? WHAT DID YOU DO?" she yelled, a small muscle twitching above her forehead. For some reason, this seemed to scare Zuko more than the cloud above his head. "Er, nothing?" he ventured, making it sound more like a question and cursing the day he decided to be good and teach the Avatar firebending.
Katara was not pacified. "I know you've done something Zuko, and when I find out, no one in the Air Temple will be able to protect you! I warned you, one slip up, one sign you might change your mind and I would end you. Don't give me a reason," she warned. (A/N - She says this exactly as she said it at the end of Western Air Temple)
Zuko glowered for a second, and then glanced uncertainly at the destruction behind Katara. "Look, Katara, I have done enough to make you trust me. I helped bring your father back from a fire nation prison, I taught Aang firebending, I was even Toph's slave till her feet were better! I don't know what your problem is, but I think you should get over it. You certainly aren't protecting them from me, I should be protecting THEM from YOU!" Zuko's voice had risen steadily throughout the speech and by the end he was yelling at a dumbfounded Katara, who had never had him stand up to her before.
All the observers of the scene had frozen in shock as Katara had, except Toph, who remained serene. "Is Zuko screwed?" Aang whispered in awe. "Wait for it..." Toph said.
Everyone watched, mesmerized, as the cloud suddenly produced lightning (not enough to kill her, enough to give her a shock to make her hair begin to stand up) and zapped Katara. Zuko looked up in terror at the cloud for betraying him like that. "Now he is," Toph said contentedly as Katara chased Zuko down the hallway.
A/N2: Who else loves how Toph knows everything despite blindness?
NEXT CHAPTER PREVIEW: "So, I should...seduce Zuko?" Katara asked uncertainly. "Exactly," Toph smirked. EEK!
Recommendations for fics to read: Zutara Week '08 (Jade Sabre) and A Matter of Honor (Adridere). Amazing Zutara fics, but the second is rated M for a reason. Don't read if you're not old enough.
Ps: The previous chapter was a gift by MizJoely for the 400th review, not the 100th!
I found the perfect picture on deviantart for this story. It's not mine and was not made for the story, but I love it :) http://rockie-roadeDOTdeviantartDOTcom/art/Avatar-A-chance-of-showers-84300494
