*Well hello:D Originally this was to be a oneshot, but I got so many people asking me to update it and such, I decided I would! So here's the first update! Please review it so I know what I can better myself at, and so that I know people are actually reading it. Otherwise, I probably won't update it. Thanks and enjoy!*
~ = change in POV
"Well, I'm off to pick up our little team, are you coming or staying here?" Zuko asked her.
"I think I'll stay," she replied, "I'll get everybody's rooms ready and make some dinner for when you all get back."
"Okay, well I should be back by sundown." He said, "I love you, Katara."
"And I love you too, Zuko." She said smiling as she kissed him, and then he smiled that goofy little smile she loved so much.
And with that, he climbed aboard Appa, grabbed his reins, and shouted "Yip yip!" And with that, Zuko, her lover, rode off into the morning sun. And so she began her day, first by tying the betrothal necklace her prince had given her around her neck. She suddenly realized that the red part of the necklace folded back into the blue one, forming a locket. And with that, she smiled.
He had been riding on Appa for hours, and the only thing below him was the big blue ocean. "It's so beautiful" He thought to himself, "It's just like Katara. It seems to be so simple on the surface, but when you gaze in deeper, you realize that it's full of life, complex, beautiful. Just like her."
Suddenly, another thought occurred to him, and he groaned, as he said out loud, "How am I going to break it to Aang? Or Sokka, for that matter?"
"Sokka." He thought, "I'm going to need his approval to marry Katara, but how am I going to get it?" But before he could formulate an answer in his mind, he heard the shouts of a certain twelve year old Air Nomad avatar calling to him and Appa.
"Appa!" Aang shouted, "I missed you buddy! How've you been?" he said as he hugged his gigantic pet. 'Hey Zuko!" he continued, "Ugh, where's Katara?"
"Not now, Aang," he replied, "Where's Sokka?"
"Ugh, I think he's in his tent sharpening his boomerang." Aang replied, "Why do you need to talk to him?"
"It's nothing, Aang, it's just about Katara." As soon as he let those words slip past his mouth, he regretted them greatly.
"What about her?" Aang asked, worried.
"It's really nothing, Aang. She's safe back at the new hideout. Now come on, pack your things. I told her we'd be back by sundown."
"Well okay, if you insist." Aang replied. And with that, Zuko began to walk towards the tent, unsure of how he was going to break it to Sokka.
"Ah," Sokka said to himself as he held up his now sharpened boomerang, "Perfection! I love you boomerang!"
"Sokka, you in there?" he heard a voice from the outside call.
"Zuko?" he said back, "Yeah, I'm here. Come on in!"
"Hi." Zuko said as he stepped into the tent.
"Hey!" he replied back, "So, did you and Katara that man?"
"Yes," Zuko replied, "We did."
"So did she," Sokka stopped as he gulped, "You know," he continued, "Kill him?" He hated to think of his little sister slaughtering a man, no matter how cruel he was, even if he was Fire Nation.
"No," Zuko replied as Sokka sighed in relief, "She let him live. But she seemed pretty upset about it. We began talking, and after a while, we sort of, um, how do I put this…"
"Zuko," he interrupted, "I know where this is going. And let me tell you, I'm perfectly okay with you and Katara being a thing. That is, as long as you can answer a few questions for me."
Zuko was shocked, he didn't expect this to go this well at all. In fact, he expected Sokka to at least try to hit him. "Sure!" he replied, "What do you want to ask?"
"Well, first!" Sokka shouted as he enthusiastically spun around to face Zuko, "How serious is this 'thing' going to be?"
"Very," Zuko said as he chuckled, "Very serious indeed."
"Good." Sokka replied, "Now, how long do you plan on being with her?"
"Honestly, Zuko, I think I love her. I really do want to spend my life and more with her."
"Uh huh." He continued, "Now last but not least, would you do anything to protect my sister?"
"Yes." Zuko said, "She means everything to me, Sokka. I hope you know that."
"Okay Zuko, I give you and Katara my blessing." He said, as a smug little grin came across his face. "Where is Katara, anyway?"
"Oh, she wanted to stay behind at the new hideout. I told her we'd be back by sundown, so could you and Suki and Toph please pack your things so we can leave soon?"
"Sure thing, Zuko. Sure thing."
Little did either of the men know, that just outside the tent, a certain Kyoshi warrior and blind earthbender were eavesdropping on their conversation, and they had heard everything.
Katara stood on the beach. She had just finished cooking dinner, and now she was watching the sun set and the moon rise.
"You rise with the moon. I rise with the sun." She could still here the coldness in Zuko's voice when he said that as he attacked her at the North Pole.
A rare phenomenon was occurring right before her eyes. A full moon was rising, yet the sun was still shining brightly as it began to set. The light of each reflected off the other, sending colorful waves of light dancing across the sky.
"The spirits of the light!" Katara thought to herself. She remembered her mother and gran-gran telling legends about these spirits to her and Sokka when it was time for bed. Legend has it that the spirits always make their appearances the night after a Water Tribe member found the love of their life. She remembered the night after she, her brother, and Aang escaped Kyoshi Island. She had been convinced that Sokka and Suki were meant to be together, but Sokka quickly denied it, saying it was "just a legend."
"But now look at them," she thought, "Sokka and Suki are happily together, they're stuck like glue, they're in love!" She then watched as the sun finally set, and the full moon took its rightful place in the sky, to rule the night.
"But could Zuko really be the right one for me?" she thought to herself as she began waterbending the ocean water.
Push and pull. Tui and La. Locked in an eternal dance. Total opposites, yet one cannot survive without the other. Together, they make something more beautiful than you will ever know.
"I do love you, Zuko. I do, I do, I do. Maybe together, we can make something beautiful happen. No. No, I know we will make something beautiful happen." She said to herself, just as she saw the silhouette of a flying bison descend onto the sands of the beach.
*Yay! Chapter Two is done! Please review, and let me know what you think Hopefully it wasn't bad. Hope you enjoyed!*