A Different Nation a New Code (Zutara)

Chapter Five

•••Zuko and Katara's perspective•••
Zuko landed the Airship in a valley, it was now night and he was tired from the voyage. He didn't want to risk chances of them crashing. He got up from his seat and looked at Katara. "I'm going to bed" he mumbled. He took off his shirt leaving it on the chair.

Katara looked at his chest where the stab wound was. It needed to be attended to. "Zuko wait. Your wound...let me go find some water" she said and got up.

He turned around and looked at her. "No, just come in my room and do it while I lay down or something" he said and walked into his small cabin closing the door. He did not want to spend time with Katara at the moment. She really had hurt him earlier.

Katara's face dropped as he left. She looked at her reflection disappointed in herself for hurting him in such a horrible way. It worse than any physical pain. She compared him to a monster. The same monster who left a scar on him and banished him, his own father.

She grabbed her small pouch and walked out the Airship door rather slowly. Her body ached from being thrown around but there was nothing she could do about it. This was the sort of pain you just had to wait out.

She could barely see. The moon wasn't out and it was completely pitch dark, even in the open valley. She tripped upon rocks and numerous other things.

After walking for what seemed like eternity but had actually only been thirty minutes she heard a small water source up ahead. With her advanced knowledge in water she figured it was a stream. And as she approached, she was right. It was a stream.

She kneeled down beside it and gathered some water into her pouch. She sat there peacefully for a moment to long. She turned her head hearing someone walking real close.

Before she could react she felt something hard hit her head and she fell face first into the water. Whoever it was they were angry because they held her head under water. She tried holding her breath but her mouth opened and water engulfed her lungs.

With all her willpower she managed to kick the person off of her. They fell backwards and she took her head out of the water. She wobbled to her feet coughing up water. Her vision focusing in and out due to losing oxygen.

The person, a man, got back to his feet and looked at her. He was a bandit and he was ready to fight. What he didn't know was he was facing Katara.

Katara stared him dead in the eye. "How dare you?" She said in a rather devilish voice. "You nearly killed me...do you know who I am?" She didn't wait for an answer. "Katara, does it sound familiar?!" .

The man's facial expression changed as he realized he picked a fight with the wrong bender. "J-just let me go" he cried out.

"Oh and by the way I'm with Fire Lord Zuko" she laughed. Between Jet, Zuko and now this guy trying to kill her she was sick of people's shit. She made a water noose and suffocated the man to death. Once his breathing stop she let him fall to the ground. "Hah...kill me" she mumbled.

And at that point she realized she killed someone. She had never killed anyone before. She ran a hand through her hair. "Oh God..." she whispered. She didn't know what to do with him. She grabbed him by the arm and pulled him down the stream until she came upon a waterfall and she let him go, she watched as his body went over the edge.

She then ran back through the valley making her way to the Airship. She walked inside but at this point she was trembling from being wet. The sky was open and the valley had nothing in it. It was hot in the day but freezing at night.

She walked into Zuko's cabin and looked at him. He was still awake. She sat next to him on the edge of the mattress and placed her hands on his chest starting to heal him.