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Katara was picking another fight with Zuko at the Western Air Temple, who was reaching the end of his rope.
As if he didn't feel guilty enough for what he did to her and the others; now she has to try and make him feel worse! Zuko sighed and headed to the courtyard to practice with his dual dao swords.
At the campfire that evening, Yue, who recently joined with Zuko, noticed how exhausted he looked.
She knew that Katara was mad at him, but this is taking it way too far.
He's been nothing but kind to everyone since he arrived and Yue thought Katara was just intent on making him feel worse than he already does. 'I'm surprised that he hasn't snapped yet!' Yue thought to herself as she sat next to the ex-prince.
The Southern girl's eyes grew cold as ice with barely concealed rage and hatred. She had been picking fights with him because she thought he was going to betray them.
But, it was Katara who betrayed Zuko, not the other way around. The Water Tribe girl was just too stubborn to see how anyone but herselfwas at fault, but she was going to get a wakeup call and a reality check whether she liked it or not.
- "Hey, Toph?"
- "Yeah, Sparky?"
- "I think something bad is about to happen. I'm not sure what, but I feel something trying to merge with my spirit. And I don't like it."
Toph was worried about the teammate that she considered an older brother and the father figure that she's always wanted after hearing that.
But before she could ask what he meant by that, an Ultra Wormhole opened and out of it, a jellyfish like creature appeared. Toph, Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Zuko put up a good fight to hold it back, before it's true target was made known.
It was zeroing in on Yue, but Zuko was faster and managed to knock her out of the way and let the beast kidnap him instead.
He already lost his mother and was unable to save Azula when they were kids, Zuko couldn't afford to lose the girl he loved as well; he couldn't take it. Zuko ran over to his crush and screamed, "YUE!!! WATCH OUT!!!!"
Yue felt something hard push her down to the ground and heard a screech of pain. She looked up and watched as the floating jellyfish wrapped its tentacles around Zuko.
"ZUKO!!!!" Yue screamed as she watched the creature take away her crush. Zuko, before being taken away, said with a defeated smile as he let the beast take him away, "I love you, Princess Yue". With that said, they disappeared into the Ultra Wormhole.
Everyone stood in place shellshocked at Zuko's sacrifice to save Yue; Katara especially.
"Zuko? Zuko? No, ZUKO!!!!!" Yue screamed in horror as a couple of tears flew out of her eyes.
The poor white-haired princess collapsed on her knees in horrified shock as glittering tears welled up in her light blue eyes, when Zuko's confession rung in her ears.
"I love you, Princess Yue."
Suddenly, Yue's teary eyes widened in surprise as she thought about it. Wait, Zuko loves her?! It would explain why he's so protective of her all the time.
"Zuko...." Yue whispered to herself.
Aang walked up to her and said, "Don't worry, Yue. We're going to find a way to save Zuko."
But, Yue wasn't sure how they were going to find him.
Katara scoffed and sneered, "If you ask me, he should stay right where he is. Now, we don't have to worry about Scarface betraying us. The traitor probably deserved to be kidnapped by that thing. He probably only saved Yue for attention. The nerve of him!"
The rest of the Gaang stared at Katara in disgusted and incredulous disbelief and Yue surprised everyone by slapping Katara in the face, and kicking her in the solar plexus, knocking the wind out of her.
She glared at the girl from her sister tribe with orbs of cold, hard ice as tears poured down her face.
"HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT, KATARA! HE SACRIFICED HIMSELF TO SAVE ME! FOR THE SAKE OF TUI AND LA, KATARA, LET GO OF YOUR HATRED FOR ZUKO AND OPEN YOUR EYES! HE SUFFERED FROM THIS WAR AS MUCH AS THE REST OF US! HIS FATHER GAVE HIM THAT SCAR, HIS FATHER BANISHED HIM AND HIS MOTHER, HIS FATHER BANISHED AND SCARRED HIS SON AT 13 YEARS OLD!! HE WAS THE SAME AGE AS AANG AT THE TIME! A CHILD! A CHILD FIGHTING HIS OWN FATHER AND TREATING ZUKO LIKE THIS AND PICKING FIGHTS WITH HIM, YOU'RE NO BETTER THAN OZAI IS!!"
Yue panted after pausing her rant, looking at the brunette who was staring at the Northern Princess in shock.
"HE'S NOT ONLY THE PATERNAL GREAT GRANDSON OF FIRELORD SOZIN, BUT THE MATERNAL GREAT GRANDSON OF AVATAR ROKU!! HE CHASED YOU BECAUSE HE WANTED TO GO HOME!! IS THAT SO WRONG?! HE WAS SCARED AND CONFUSED HIS WHOLE LIFE! JUST LIKE SOKKA, HE WAS TIRED OF BEING PUSHED ASIDE SO THAT HIS LITTLE SISTER COULD TAKE THE LEAD! WHEN WILL YOU LET YOUR BROTHER AND ZUKO HAVE THEIR TIME TO SHINE INSTEAD OF DEGRADING THEM?! ZUKO SAVED ME BECAUSE HE LOVES ME!!"
Yue broke down into uncontrollable sobs after she ranted at Katara, who looked disgusted and ashamed of her actions.
She didn't know that Sokka was jealous of her, but he was and she was too blinded by pride to notice. Ever since she was little, the whole village doted on her and she let it go to her head. Sokka was ignored, everyone favored his little sister and he was pushed aside.
Just then, a giant lion like creature appeared and put them on his back and disappeared.
Right then and there, they were gone.