Gyatso and Kara: Prodigies of an Avatar

Chapter 4- Fun's over

Gyatso ran around the fire nation palace courtyard with his 11 year old best-friend, Iroh, Zuko's oldest son. "Hey, Iroh! What are you doing?! Wait, is that your mom's favorite flower?" Iroh laughed and turned around. "The Jade Lilly! My mom has millions of these. I'm just giving one flower to somebody" Gyatso stopped on his tracks. He looked at Iroh. "Who would that be?" Iroh turned around. "At the right moment, I'll give it to a friend" "Why the Jade Lilly?" Iroh ran to the cherry blossom tree and sat against it. "Jade Lillies never die. I want to save it for a friend so they know I'll remember them forever if they move or something." Gyatso went of to the small pond and looked at the small ducks swimming around.

He slowly started water-bending while Iroh fire-bended around him. "Hi guys!" Kara came in walking on her hands while moving her legs in a circular fashion. "Look what Ty-Lee taught me!" she said laughing. Iroh flipped around when she tapped him with her foot. "Ahh! Karaa! "Iroh screamed falling into the pond. A pout painted his face. Kara flipped down and crisscross sat on the grass. "Sorry, Iroh" she said apologetically. "Have you seen Topaz?" Iroh sat up and walked out of the pond holding the flower. "Nope" The jade colored petals and dark brown stem attracted Kara. "Ooh, that's a pretty flower. Who-" "Nobody" Iroh stated quickly shaking some water out of his almost black hair. "So," she sighed "What have you guys been doing?" "Nothing" Gyatso sighed sitting down next to Iroh. "Guys, Your moms said that dinner's ready!" Topaz yelled. Kara flew up. "I've been wondering where you were!" She ran with the boys into the palace.

At Night

Gyatso's eyes opened and he rose from his covers at the sound of ruffling in the room him and Iroh shared whenever he came over. "Iroh," he whispered. "Are you awake?" No answer. He climbed down the ladder of the bunk-bed, and saw a medium sized out line in the darkness. It was about as tall as Katara. "Mom?" he asked. "Who?" The voice spat out. Then, the body snapped their fingers and produced fire like and held their fingers like a candle.

A woman with sparkling, or flickering in this case, golden eyes looked at him with the light. "Who-who are you?" Gyatso asked getting paler when she made the fire white enough to see her entire body. Now that he saw her, he noticed that her eyes were the identical color of Zuko's. They were exactly the same except for a lining of hate in her eyes, unlike Zuko's who had a lining of softness and sternness. Her hair was the same dark brown/black as his also. It was tied up in the traditional Fire Nation bun. "Who are you" Her lips were a light pink that was more mischievous than soft. "Gyatso of the Water Tribe" he choked out as she examined him.

He looked around the room to see that Iroh was no longer on his bed, but tied up on the ground. "Iroh…" he choked backing up to their closed door. The woman glanced at where he was looking and smirked lightly, turning back to him. When she had looked at Iroh, Gyatso cracked the door open and started to walk out of the room.

"You think you're slick, don't you." she said walking towards him.

He backed up even more and started to run.

Run . . . run fast . . . run faster. . Run, he thought.

"Where is the water in this place!" he thought aloud as he dodged the woman's frighteningly accurate fire balls. He was almost at Aang and Katara's room, when he smelt burned paper . . . or cloth. Cloth, he thought. He turned over and looked at his red and yellow robe and saw a piece of burnt cloth that ended right below his waist.

He tried to open the door, but it was locked. He banged on it harder and harder each time that his fist hit the metal door. "Dad! Mom! Help! Help! Help! " No answer. He turned and looked at the woman bracing her hands for a dangerous fire bending move. He ran again dodging the move by an inch.

Soon, he was out of places to run.

"Help!" he yelled running into the nearby courtyard.

"You have nowhere to run, Gyatso of the Water tribe." She said to him when they were face to face. He backed up to the pond. "What are you going to do to me?"

"I'm going to kill you," she said bending a thick amount of fire at him.

He couldn't escape the fatal blow, so he did what he had been doing since the day he showed Kara their mother's water-bending exercises- he water-bended.

"What" she whispered.

Now she could see this kid's strategy. "Gyatso!" A male voice came from the entrance. The woman turned. "The avatar. . ." she whispered. Then, she looked at Gyatso. "What does this boy mean to you, Avatar?" she asked curiously. "What's it to you. Why are you here, Azula?" "Nothing, I guess I can just kill him then" she raised her hands in position, before harsh winds blew them down. "You won't kill anyone." "Who is the boy?" she urged more.

Then another body came into the courtyard . . . this time it was a woman. "Katara, get back inside." "I'm not going to leave you alone"

Azula finally got it.

She looked at Aang and Katara, then at Gyatso. It was easy to see the family resemblance. "Oh . . . so he's your son." Time almost stopped.

"Let him go" Katara said with a bit of begging in her eyes. "It's us you really want."

"I'll get to you if I kill him."

"Fine," Aang said getting into bending position. "If it's a fight you want. . ."

Finally got that done! I had written this on paper and the paper got out of order and I had like 100 pages of work. So I decided to make it up as I went along for this chapter. I knew it wouldn't be horrible because I know the whole plot of this book by memory. This might be the closest to action I'm getting. Review, please. And, sorry for not updating in God knows how long.

God Bless,

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