Chapter 2: Big Fire meets Little Fire.
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Part 1
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Zuko’s P.O.V
I’m 1 now. My mother Ursa is 3 months pregnant and whenever she visits me she gives me the oddest look I have ever seen.
I listen to her when she tells me stories of Avatar Roku and his dragon Fang. She also told me something that even I didn’t know; my mother was apparently the granddaughter of Avatar Roku.
My father However rarely ever checks up on me and even when he does all he does is come to my room to see whether I’m alive or not.
My daily life usually involves me crawling all around the palace and discovering its interiors. I know most of the interior of the palace ant that took me 2 months to complete. I also watch when my father is practicing his fire bending and usually practicing very advanced fire bending forms. My father dislikes when people disturb him while he’s training but I swear I saw him giving me an approving nod when I tried to imitate him.
Once while I was wandering around the palace, I ran into a fat man dressed in royal clothes. I at once concluded that he was my uncle Iroh who was the heir-apparent. My uncle was fat and was balding but he had the most magnificent beard I have ever seen and I don’t mean to brag but just about everyone in the palace has beards except servants, there was once a guy who had wolverines beard but he was just a new recruit.
Well anyway, my uncle was apparently very amused at the sight of a baby crawling about with servants running around to find him because he started laughing so loud it made me want to cover my years.
‘This fucker thinks this shits funny I’ll show him.’
I looked around the room and found a pot of tea and chucked it at his feet. Now he was jumping around clutching his foot and yelling.
‘Hah. Take that you bitch.’
Iroh’s P.O.V
I was summoned by my father fire lord Azulon and was just leaving when I noticed my nephew Zuko bump into me, just as I was wondering what the hell he was doing here, I heard cries.
“Young master Zuko, where are you!!??’[Servant 1]
“Young master Zuko!! Where are you!!??”[Servant 2]
I look towards my cousin and notice he’s looking over his shoulder with a very annoyed look on his face.
“Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!” [Iroh]
I couldn’t help but burst into laughter after seeing the look on his face. Now he looks pissed at me for laughing at him.
“Ahahahahahaha!!! This is hilarious!! How can a child make these kind of faces!?” [Iroh]
Hmmm. What’s this burning smell? Where is it coming from? I look at me and notice the spilled tea pot, It smells burning but for a fire bender of my level its nothing but a tingling sensation, but this child is SCARY!! If I don’t act hurt he’ll probably find something that can hurt me. So I pretend to act hurt and start jumping around while holding my foot yelling random nonsense.
OH SHIT!!! I forgot about the meeting with father, so I run of towards father’s chambers.
Zuko’s P.O.V
Look at that fool running away scared of this mighty toddler. Hah!! That’s what you get for laughing at the future fire lord.
“Young master Zuko, where are you?”[Servant 1]
“He’s over here!!!”[Servant 2]
Damn they got me, well whatever I am pretty tired so I better go take a nap. After that the servants took me to my room and after getting in bed I fell asleep.
Part 2
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Iroh’s P.O.V
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I made it in time to reach my father’s chambers. As soon as I entered< I kneeled.
“First son Iroh greets fire lord Azulon.”[Iroh]
“Rise my son.”[Azulon]
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“So what have you called me for father” [Iroh]
“Before we get to business I would like to ask your opinion of Ozai’s first born, Zuko.”[Azulon]
“Father from what I can tell he’s but an adventurous child but….” [Iroh]
“But... what?” [Azulon]
“His intelligence scares me.”[Iroh]
“What do you mean by that?” [Azulon]
“What I mean to say is that the child possesses intelligence beyond his age and from our brief encounter I felt he was trying to analyze me.”{Iroh]
“I see….” [Azulon}
I could tell my father about the type of behavior the child possessed but that would just result in something drastic happening to the child.
“Very well, then let us proceed to the real reason I called you here today.” [Azulon]
“Yes, father” [Iroh]
“I want you to leave in two months time to conquer Ba Sing Se with your family.” [Azulon]
I don’t want to but refusing father would not be good for my family
“Yes, father.” [Iroh]
Part 3
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Zuko’s P.O.V
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Today’s the day; today I will finally have a little sister. My mom is in the operating room with the doctor and father. The Avatar books were wrong about one thing, my dad may be a shitty father but he is one caring ass husband. My mom also loves him.
I can hear the screams of my mom coming from the operating room and thank sweet merciful Buddha, I wasn’t born a woman.
I suddenly hear a baby crying and rush into the room to see my little sister. I enter to see my mother holding Azula.
“You shall be called Azula” [Ursa]
I saw something in my father that I hadn’t seen since as long as I’ve lived affection towards children and here I thought the old bastard hated children.
“Bring Zuko over here.” [Ursa]
The maid took me towards my mother and sat me down beside her. I brought my hand close to Azula and she grabbed my finger with her tiny fist although mine weren’t that much bigger.
The doctor than asked mother to rest and told the maids to attend to Azula in the nursery in the palace.
Father and I left and he ordered me to come with him. He took me to his room by carrying me. Now you may be wondering why the cruel and mighty Ozai would carry his children instead of letting the servants carry me, I learned that after watching the process of child birth he had developed affection for his children, apparently someone only got to my birth after I was already born.
Father carried me over to his room and put me down in front of him and gave a lecture that would make one think what the hell is he talking about to a child.
“My son, now that you have a younger sister you must treasure her, you must be the perfect role model for, and you must protect her from the hungry and ravenous beasts that are men. You must excel in all fields be it fire bending, studies or martial arts.” [Ozai]
At this point I was thinking what the hell is he on about?! Was he seriously expecting a one year old to understand and remember all this stuff and was he asking me to protect her from lust. I just nodded along hoping to all kinds of gods he wouldn’t go into detail.
He then carried me to my room much to mine and the servants’ surprise. He was laughing at the mere fact that he had two children. His change in personality really surprised me.
He left me in my room but the sound of laughter could still be heard.
After all this drama I was pretty tired and just went to sleep.