Wanting to be loved (Zuko)

9.

We were in the woods and the only food Sokka could find were nuts but that we heard a loud noise and then again we decided to see what was making the noise. We saw a boy earth bending. 'We should say hi to him' Aang said 'No we have to approach him carefully he could be dangerous' Sokka said, for him everyone is dangerous and an enemy.

Katara didn't listen to him 'Hey, I'm Katara. What's your name?' she asked then the boy turned around and dropped the rock he was holding then he ran away and blocked the path. 'Well nice meeting you to' I said and stood by Katara. 'He must be running somewhere. Let's follow him' Aang said. We saw a little village and Aang was trading some nuts for a hat so you couldn't see him arrow and then I saw the boy from earlier walking the a shop 'Guys that is the boy from earlier' I said to them and Katara immediately went to the shop 'You're the kid we saw earlier he one who was earth bending' she said and the woman wo was inside looked panicked and quickly closed the windows and the door.

'They saw you do what?! You know how dangerous that is if they find out you're in trouble' and then there was a knock at the door Sokka looked through the window 'Fire Nation, act natural' and we all took a place somewhere. I stood facing the wall so if the men were the men from Zhao they couldn't recognize me. They were saying that the taxes got higher and the women has to pay more when the men received the money they went. I sighed, luckily that went well.

The women explains that the Fire Nation are here for five years already because of the coal mines. 'But Haru can help, he can earth bend!' Katara says trying to convince Haru's mother. 'What can they do what they haven't done already?' Katara asks frustrated 'They can take him away like they did with his father!' his mother said angry. The Fire Nation is really ruthless wiping out the air nomads, taking away the water benders in the southern water tribe and even forbidding the earth benders to bend.

Haru lead us to a barn where we could sleep for the night. Katara took off with Haru and I decided to walk through the village for a while and think. When I got back it was already getting dark 'Were have you been Miku, it's way too dangerous to go off on your own!' Sokka began when I came back 'Don't worry, I can handle myself and nothing happened.' I sighed. We laid down to go to sleep and Katara told us what happened at the mine 'From what I hear he is a great earth bender it's a shame that he can't just practice his bending' I said 'Yeah, yeah but we should go to sleep we leave at dawn' Sokka said uninterested 'At dawn? Can't we sleep in for once' Katara said annoyed 'This village is full with Fire Nation! If they find out who we are eating fireballs for breakfast. Goodnight' and he turned around. 'Night' I said and got comfortable and soon I fell asleep.

When we were packing the next morning I heard a pot fall and then Katara came running in 'They took Haru! And it's all my fault! I forced him into earth bending!' she said panicked 'When did they took him?' Sokka asks 'His mother said they came for him at midnight' 'Then it's too late to track him down' 'We won't have to track him down because they're going to arrest me for earth bending.' She says and Sokka gives her a weird look 'I will go with you Katara' I say to her this way I can protect her a little because we don't know where we are going and maybe there isn't any water near.

We're going to use the air shafts from the mine to fake earth bend. We lay a rock on top and then Aang has to earth bend the rock in the air.
Sokka and Aang hide behind a rock and Katara and I pretend to fight than she gives the signal and the rock is lifted in the air 'She is earth bending' a guard says then I gave my signal and my rock lifted in in the air 'They're both earth bending, get them!' the guard says again. Two guards came our way and took us with them I managed to look behind me and saw Sokka give his thumps up.

They took us to a ship and we drove away to a platform in the middle of the ocean, at least there is enough water for Katara. We stood in line and some creepy old man was giving a stupid speech 'Good day' he says at last and we are forced to walk through a gate. We arrived in an open place we started walking 'Katara, Miku?' we heard Haru say and we went to him. Haru took us to meet his father and he gave us some food which tasted disgusting.

I was looking around to look for some weak spots that we could use for our escape. Katara was asking if they had an escape plan but they don't have one. 'I'm sorry, we're powerless' Haru's father said 'We'll see about that' Katara said as she stood up and hit on something to get the attention of everyone. Katara then gave her speech but everyone was too scared to get up and stand with her. I walked to her and put my hand on her shoulder 'When Aang comes I'm sure it will give hope to them' I say 'Yeah I hope so' she says defeated.

At night Aang comes and wakes us and leads us to Sokka and Appa 'You're twelve hours are up where's Haru?' he asks. 'I'm not leaving, I'm not giving up on these people' Katara says with a fierce determination 'Then I will stay here to' I say and we talk things through 'Okay but we have to hide' Sokka says and we hid behind wooden boxes. 'I wish I could make a hurricane' Aang suddenly said 'And how will that help us?' I ask him 'Well it will scare the warden away and then we take his keys' he said as if it was the most logical thing on earth and I gave him a small smile 'Yeah that would be fun but we have to think of something else now that will work' I say to Aang.

Sokka came up with an idea to use our little trick to get caught as earth benders in the reverse since there is a lot of coal inside the platform. 'There are the intruders' some guards say as we were surrounded. Then the creepy ward came and told us we were making a big mistake. The guards started to close us in as we heard rumbling in the shaft and then the coal came out as did Aang. The earth benders started to back away from the coal. Then the creepy ward began rambling again and when he turned around I threw a piece of coal to his head 'You really have to stop talking you're hurting my ears with your nonsense' he didn't like that and blasted fire in my way but for I could get away a wall of coal stood in front of me I turned around and saw Haru's father made it and nodded at him as a thanks.

The guards got in their stance 'Show no mercy' the creep said. They blasted fire but the earth benders protected themselves with a wall of coal 'For the earth kingdom' Haru's father said and everyone began to fight. I took a spear of a guard and started to fight the guards. Haru and his father blasted a hole in the wall and the people were running to the ship. They floated the ward and some guard to the ocean and let them drop. Everyone got on the ships and we were going back I sat on Appa when I heard Katara 'My mother's necklace its gone' she said panicked, I knew how much it meant to her and gave her a sad look knowing we couldn't turn back.

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