The Destruction of Isabella's Treasures

Isabella and Mowgli walked across the rope bridge to the cottage. Mowgli was covering Isabella's eyes.

"Mowgli, why can't you just tell me what this is all about?" Isabella asked curiously.

"You'll see! It's a surprise!" Mowgli said with a smile. When they were all the way in the cottage, Mowgli uncovered Isabella's eyes and pointed ahead. Isabella gasped. Standing in the middle of the cottage was the statue of Phineas.

"Oh, Mowgli! You're the best!" Isabella exclaimed happily as she gave Mowgli a hug. She then went over to the statue and walked around it. "It looks just like him! It even has his eyes!" Isabella said. She then giggled and said "Why, Phineas, run away with you? This is all so sudden!" Isabella then laughed and spun around in joy! But she stopped and gasped when she saw a shadowed King Tulio in the entrance with an intent look on his face.

"Daddy!" Isabella exclaimed in shock.

Mowgli hid quickly. Baloo was a few feet behind Tulio. He had his head down in guilt.

"I consider myself a very reasonable king! I set certain rules and I expect those rules to be obeyed!" Tulio said angrily.

Isabella bit her lip and began to explain "But, Daddy, I--"

"Is it true?" Hakoda interrupted. "That you saved a fire bender from drowning?"

Realizing now that Sokka had ratted her out, she tried defending herself. "Daddy I had to-"

"Katara contact between the fire nation and water tribe is strictly forbidden! You know that! Everyone knows that!"

Katara swam closer trying to reason with her dad "But he would have died!"

"One less fire bender to worry about then!"

Katara narrowed her eyes angrily at him "You don't even know him!"

"Know him! I don't have to know him! They're all the same! Just like those spineless, savage, barbaric monsters who took your mother from me! Incapable of any feeling or-"

"DADDY I LOVE HIM!"

Katara covered her mouth and quickly backed off, realizing what she just said. Sokka and Toph gasped and covered their mouths as well. Hakoda stood in shock at his daughter's outburst. "No..." he stared at his daughter who tried to avoid eye contact. Suddenly he realized she was missing something. "Where is your necklace?" he asked in a dangerously low voice. Katara's face flushed as she tried covering her neck but didn't answer. As the realization of everything sunk in, Hakoda's anger returned to him tenfold and he swam toward Katara and grabbed the spyglass from out of her hands.

''This is where you belong! For once, just listen, will you?That savage brute would kill you in the world above!''

"He's not what you think daddy! Please!-" Katara pleaded trying to take back the spyglass, which Hakoda held out of reach.

''Don't try that same old song! I'll have you grounded 'til next year! Am I clear? Don't go near that world above!''

"I'm not a child anymore! I should be able to be with whoever I choose!" Katara cried out.

"Have you lost your senses completely!?" Hakoda shouted. "He's fire nation! You're water tribe!"

"I don't care about that! It doesn't matter!" she said defiantly.

Hakoda scowled and threw down the spyglass. "I have done everything I could to keep you safe and away from that wretched surface world. Yet you continue to disobey me!" he said pointing at her "So help me Katara, I am going to get through to you. And if this is the only way...so be it." Raising his scepter high, he knew the time had come for drastic measure

<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;line-height:16px;text-align:left;">''I'm still the king here - my word is law! This filth you bring here is the final straw And push, my daughter, has come to shove! I'll make you obey 'Til you do as I say I don't care, come what may! But I'll keep you away From that cruel, harsh, cold, vile world above!''

<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;line-height:16px;text-align:left;">Bolts of lightning sprouted out from the ice scepter and started destroying all the objects inside the grotto. Katara watched in horror as all of her treasures that she spent years collecting were being destroyed right before her eyes.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;line-height:16px;text-align:left;">"Daddy stop! STOP IT!" she pleaded as she tried to grab the scepter. Realizing she had left the spyglass and crown unguarded, Hakoda pointed the scepter at the two objects. "DADDY NOO!" Katara shouted as the objects were obliterated into pieces.