He Said, She Said – Part 1

What would have happened if Aang hadn't recovered Katara's necklace?

“Katara’s necklace!” cried Aang. “Give that back!”

“Come and take it!” shouted Zuko as he kicked a blanket of flame toward the Avatar. The younger boy dodged nimbly out of the way, but the prince pressed his attack and released more blasts, all of which missed.

While the two boys fought – or rather, while Zuko chased Aang, who kept hopping around and staying out of the Firebender’s reach – Katara and Sokka fought Zuko’s bounty hunter, June, and her monstrous shirshu. For some reason the old Firebender who always accompanied Zuko did nothing but watch the fight. Perhaps he was too old to fight, or perhaps he was waiting for an opportune moment to join in. Whatever the case, Katara didn’t have the time to ponder the situation. June and her pet were already hard enough to fight on their own. Please don’t let the old man join the fight, thought Katara before she refocused herself on the battle at hand.

Luckily, Sokka was quite good at thinking on his feet and had quickly grasped the potential of the jars of perfume that the nuns had stored in the courtyard. “Katara, splash this stuff on that giant sniffer animal thing!” said Sokka as he tipped over the jars. Without hesitation, Katara grabbed the perfume and waterbent it at the shirshu. The smell overpowered the creature, causing it to lash out wildly at its surroundings. June was quickly paralyzed by her own shirshu’s poison tongue while a surprised Zuko suddenly found himself unable to move after the shirshu tagged him on the way into running into a wall and knocking itself out.

“Prince Zuko!” shouted Iroh in concern. “Are you all right?”

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