Fan Fiction ❯ Lies & Love &Fate ❯ The Dream ( Chapter 1 )

Katara tossed and turned restlessly in her sleeping bag. Sweat dripped from her face and her skin was unbearably hot.

 

Katara's Dream:

She stood in the center of a steel room. She looked around and realized that she was on a Fire Nation's ship. She gulped down a lump in her throat as her thoughts were filled with regret.

 

A hand reached out and touched Katara on the shoulder. She jumped and turned around. She could see a faint outline of a man, but he was standing in the shadows, hiding his face. “Soon,” the man spoke, “you will learn what you really are, who you are to become. Not long now, till you will remember…till you will learn.” The man paused for what seemed a lifetime and then finally spoke again, “my daughter…my little Katara…soon.” She jumped in shock. The man she saw wasn't the father she'd known. It wasn't the same man she saw putting on armor and leaving to war. She shivered, who was this man who claimed to be her father. Suddenly he grabbed her shoulders and pushed her towards a corner in the room. Katara stared in surprise at the man.

 

Katara blinked and there was another figure standing next to the man. The figure looked more feminine. Katara gasped as she stepped out from the shadows. She hesitated and then spoke out in a raspy whisper, “Mom?”

 

Her mother took a few steps towards her and stopped. A sweet smile crossed her face as she looked at her Katara. Her sweet Katara. She reached out and touched the stone that hung on the necklace around Katara's neck. Katara looked down at where her mother touched and yelled in surprise. Her stone…it had changed. It was now a swirl…a mix of red and blue. She continued to stare at it, at its beauty when her mother spoke. “Soon…” Her mother stepped back into the shadows.

 

Katara tried to run after her mom but couldn't move. “Mom? Mom! Wait! Please, don't go. Not yet! Please Mom, come back! Mom! Mom!”

End of Katara's dream.

 

Katara sat up in her bed and screamed out, “MOM!” She opened her eyes and looked at her surroundings. She was no longer in a steel room but laying in a clearing on the grass. It was just a dream, she thought as she began to pant. She felt her face and it turned to disgust when she realized she was dripping with sweat. All though the air was freezing, her sleeping bag was sweltering hot. She climbed out of it and walked towards a stream a ways off. This was the second night the dream had come, but it had never gone as far as this. She shook her head. She couldn't understand why she couldn't sleep. Katara's 15th birthday was tomorrow. Maybe she was just excited. Yah, that's right, she was just excited. She sighed and put her hands down into the icy cold stream. She cupped a bowl of water and splashed it on her face and clenched her eyes shut, the sweat stinging her eyes as the water washed it into them. She shook her head and opened her eyes. She leaned over the water and saw something different…her reflection was different. She looked closer. Her hair, her eyes…they were different. Her once auburn hair was now streaked with hints of red and black. Her eyes widened. Was this some joke Sokka and Aang had pulled on her in her sleep. She then turned her attention to her eyes. “No…” She gasped. She leaned down closer to the water, inches away from the surface. Her once beautiful blue eyes were now speckled with gold. “How?” She asked herself a loud. The gold in her eyes reminded her of Prince Zuko. She'd never payed much attention to his eyes but she would always remember the color. She looked again at her eyes. She smiled slightly, the gold actually made them look even more beautiful. It looked like an ocean of blue with gold flakes resting on the sand below the water's surface. Then something else caught her attention. Her necklace. She noticed something different…yet familiar about it. She reached behind her neck and unclipped it and brought it to her face. She shook her head in disbelief. It was just like in her dream. It's normal blue was gone and it was now a swirl of amber red and ocean blue. Was…was that dream real?