A/N Hey guys!
ITS THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THIS BOOK!
So sorry this is late by the way I never meant it to be this late, I had it written and then I read y'alls comments and was like OH SHEET 😂 hope it was worth the long long wait!
Thank you all for your amazing comments, it's so nice to see that people enjoy my book! (Even if it's only 5 chapters long)
K A T A R A
I sit up like a bolt.
What?
My head shoots to Azula,
"Where is you mother and father?"
She looks up and snivels,
"Watching,"
I look to Mama,
"Sokka and Father?"
"Doing the same as Azula's parents,"
Fear attacks my sternum as I throw my legs over the side of the bed and grab a parka. Shoving it on and buttoning it up Azula and Mama look at me like I'm insane, muddled and have schizophrenia.
"You want to watch?"
Looking Mama in the eye I raise an eyebrow.
"I want it to stop, so I will take the lashes myself."
Mama once again looks to Azula.
"I have not raised my beloved child to take LASHES! You are my daughter Katara! Not a slave! I will NOT let you take those lashes! No I absolutely forbid it!"
Running to her I put my hand on her shoulder and press my forehead to hers.
"I'm sorry."
And with that I'm out the door, sprinting across the ice, flying over unsteady lumps as I desperately try to reach the Casat in time before Zuko takes the lashes.
Before his back and legs are completely destroyed for no good reason whatsoever.
I can here Mama's sobs and strangled cries as my home disappears into the mass of village tents, I can see Azula charging after me, to either go with me or pull me back.
Bounding over the ice pools and cracks in the ice I finally have the Casat in sight.
Casat, Wateral for slaughter, Firedal for Place of Pain, it was where punishments where held and was rumoured to be haunted by the souls that had died there.
Hopefully I or Zuko will end up like those souls.
Still sprinting I reach the Casat and almost rip the door off, Azula right on my tail as I grasp the cold metal handle that's only feature is the rust that spirals around it.
"I, Chief of the Elders, Chief Elder Ishmael Tuziany, commence 40 seconds of lashings to Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation!"
Looking around I see a belt hung up on a wooden wall, its once polished finished stained with blood, a stick leaning against the wall, the colours of brown and red are prominent all along it. I see Zuko's back, once pale and clear, now blue and goose skinned, his clean, shaggy hair hanging in his face as he kneels against the stone block imported from the Earth Kingdom around 200 years ago, that too was stained red and brown.
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Arranged marriage: Zutara
Fanfiction'We need you to marry Zuko, to keep alliances straight, the earth kingdom is getting fidgety with secret letters from Queen Lu Su Qian being sent to warehouses in the lower ring, the deaths have increased there and we want to keep you and Zuko safe'...
