Updates have been really slow I know. I've just been swarmed with school work, college, and after school activities. That and I've actually forgotten about Avatar for a long time...yeah...I suck


((Brianna's P.O.V))

"Are you crazy, Katara? You're not gonna win this fight!" Sokka told her as we followed her down the stairs. Katara didn't listen to her brother and threw her coat at Sokka's face.

"I know!" she yelled out in frustration but continued to stomp down the stairs. "I don't care!"

"You don't have to do this for me" Aang told her, "I can find another teacher."

"I'm not doing it for you," Katara shouted. I rolled my eyes. She was being really selfish again. Luckily for me she didn't notice. Probably because she was too pissed off. "Someone needs to slap some sense into that guy!" She stomped down the last step just as Pakku came out from the temple. Aang, Sokka, and I stayed up on the stair case. We didn't want to get stuck on the battle field. Especially with Katara as pissed as she was. "So, you decided to show up?" Katara asked him but he just walked past her. "Aren't you gonna fight?"

"Go back to the healing huts with the other women where you belong," Pakku said, not even bothering look at her. Katara made a fist before she started bending a small string of water. She took it in her hands and whipped it on the back of Pakku's head. He stopped in his tracks as the water whip broke and mixed in with the snow. Pakku turned around and wiped the water from his hair.

"Fine, you want to learn to fight so bad, study closely!" Pakku took water from two small pools behind him and formed the two waters together. Like an idiot, Katara charged at him and got hit. Pakku bent water around them so it formed a circle around them. The circle rapidly shrank, forcing them to have to move closer to each other. "Don't worry I'm not going to hurt you," Pakku taunted. The whirlpool almost caused Katara to fall, but she quickly gained her balance and sung her arms that sent the waters away. The water flew back into the crowd and knocked Sokka off his feet.

"Ouch" I winced, "that looked like it hurt." I laughed at the sight of Sokka's head in the snow, but the sound of water bending match called for me to watch. Katara tried to charge at Pakku again, only to prove that a head on attack was useless on him. Pakku made a frozen wave above him giving Katara the chance to use it and slid to the bottom of stairs. Unaffected by her move, he unfroze the wave and sent to at her. Katara quickly took on a stable stance before freezing her feet to the railing and deflected the water with her bending.

"You can't knock me down!" Katara shouted before she melted the ice on her feet.

"Go Katara!" Aang shouted as the crowd behind us cheered.

"Anything new happen?" I heard a familiar voice ask. I turned and saw it was Rebecca with Yue and the chief behind her.

"No nothing," I said a bit disappointed. Rebecca nodded before turning her attention to observing the battle. Katara had ran up to Pakku and tried to attack him, but he created an ice wall blocking her attack. Katara then bended the ice back to the ground before swinging punches at him. You'd think with Katara being younger she could beat Pakku up, but it seemed Pakku's old age hadn't affected him much. He was able to block all her attack with his hands or just dodge them. Once he had enough room, Pakku formed another wave of water and caught Katara in it. I heard Katara struggle to break free but Pakku threw the water into a pool before she got a chance to. Of course that wasn't enough to bring Katara down and she quickly got back up on her feet. Despite her breathing heavy, she looked fired up and ready to fight some more. The crowd around us began cheering more at the sight, but Katara was too focused to hear. She formed a frozen flat circular platform from the water using it to shoot thin sharp sheets of ice at Pakku. However he was able to break every frozen discus thrown at him. There was one that almost hit him and just missed his face. While he dodged, Katara found enough time to jump out of the pool and shot water at him. Pakku took the attack to his advantage and used it to form a bigger and stronger wave. He pushed his hands forward making the water collide into Katara and she fell into the white snow. She didn't move for a good three seconds. She was breathing deeply and there were strands of hair all over her face, but she didn't care. All she wanted to do was beat Pakku. Anyone could see that. Once she was able to catch her breath she quickly jumped back onto her feet and let out a battle cry. She spread her arms and made the snow pillars behind Pakku fall. But before they could collapse on top of him, Pakku was able to scatter the solid structure into small forms of snowflakes.

"Well, I'm impressed. You are an excellent water bender." Pakku finally admitted as the snowflakes continued to fall.

"But you still won't teach me, will you?" Katara asked, knowing that it would take more than talent to impress this man.

"No," he told her and his smile disappear. She let out another cry and bended the snow from underneath her to formed it into a rolling carpet. She flung it toward Pakku but he jumped into the air, dodging the attack. He formed a tall frozen iceberg for him landed on then made it into snow and charged it at Katara. Before it could reach her Katara made a stream of water and destroyed the snow structure Pakku rode on. It looked like Katara had won, too bad for her that it wasn't the case. Pakku had jumped onto the stream she had made and froze it in order to slide at her, attacking her head on. The tackle made Katara collided to the ground while Pakku gracefully slid across the snow and onto the edge of the pool. Now Katara hair was completely down and complete mess, but she was so worked up she didn't notice. She was even too worked up to realize that her necklace had fallen off after the collision. Her drive to get this guy was crazy but not enough for her to immediately jump back on her feet. She had little to no energy and struggled to pick her herself up. She looked like she was even struggling to breath. Before she was able to get completely on her feet, Pakku took this chance and bended a huge whirlpool and circled it above her. Katara managed to gather enough energy to get to her feet, but Pakku attacked before she could make another move. The water above dropped down then froze into giant thick needles trapping her arms so she couldn't bend.

"This fight is over," Pakku told her as he walked past her.

"Come back here," Katara shouted, struggling to break free. "I'm not finished yet!" Her screaming didn't affect him and he continued to walk.

"Yes, you are," Pakku said uninterested. A second after Pakku spotted something on the ground that made him stop. His eyes widened as he picked the object up Katara's necklace. "This is my necklace," he said staring deeply at the carving.

"No it's not, it's mine!" Katara protested. "Give it back!" Her threatening tone didn't reach him as he continued staring at the necklace. His eyes grew soft and sad, as if he was in a trance.

"I made this sixty years ago for the love of my life, for Kana." The memory of his loved one caused the ice trapping Katara to melt, setting her free.

"My Gran-Gran was supposed to marry you?" Katara asked in both amazement and confusion. I heard chuckling from behind me and saw it was Rebecca.

"Oh the irony, you've got to love it" she said sarcastically before turning to the crowd. "Alright people, the fight is over. There's nothing to see here!" She motioned everyone to leave area and surprisingly they did as they were told and slowly left, leaving just our little group there plus Pakku, Yue, and the chief of course.

"I carved this necklace for your grandmother when we got engaged. I thought we would have a long happy life together," he explained. "I loved her" he said with a slight pause.

"But she didn't love you, did she?" Katara asked. Judging from his silence it must have been true. "It was an arranged marriage. Gran-Gran wouldn't let your tribe's stupid customs run her life," she said as she walked closer to him. "That's why she left. It must have taken a lot of courage." Yue suddenly burst into tears and ran away from the scene. Aang glanced over at Sokka and gave him an encouraging nod before he ran after her.

"Go get her," Aang cheered Sokka on. The chief looked over at Rebecca looking rather confused as to why his daughter was crying.

"You know Yue," she said with a shrug. "She's very emotional." It was as if she had known Yue her whole life. "She'll calm down eventually" she assured him.

"I understand but I'd like you to stay close to her," he told her, but it sounded more like an order than a request. Rebecca didn't seem to mind and just nodded. "Thank you."

"Sure thing," she said thinking nothing of it and went after Yue.

"With her watching over Yue I feel somewhat at ease," the chief mumbled to himself before walking back up the stairs. I watched as Rebecca walked away until she was barely visible.

"Yeah I can understand why," I said with a smile. I jumped when Katara cry out and jumped for joy. She hugged Aang and thanked Pakku.

"Looks like she's in," Nyoko said with a laugh.


I'll have a break coming up soon. So I'm going to try and update at least one chapter of the next episode during that time.