YAY! The firstest day of InspiredByFyre! Week is here! :D As such, I kinda sorta decided to make Fyre happy and write an IBF! story. Just a warning, I have pretty much no idea where I'm going with this, so strap your seatbelt and try your best to gracefully deal with plotline bumps. Even if they're like, HUGE.

And since Bananas is sick of me shoving his profile full of desserts, FREE BOTTLED WATER FOR EVERYONE! See? They have leetle flames on them for IBF! Week!

…even though it's water. Maybe I should offer to set people on fire for free instead.

OH! Right. Anyway, ENJOY!

Main idea: what if Ursa was a bender?

Day 1: what if Zuko and Azula were twins?
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"Happy birthday, Zuko and Azula… Happy Birthday to you!"

"And many more!" Cousin Lu Ten chimed in, which made several of the young ladies present giggle and swoon obnoxiously.

Ten-year-old Azula rolled her eyes then looked away innocently when Ursa sent her a stern glance. But as soon as one of the guests diverted her mother's attention with a question about the kind of cake, Azula made eye contact with Mai, sitting in the back of the room, and made a face that clearly said, "death would be a nice alternative to this party."

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY AZULA AND ZUKO!" Ty Lee cheered, and squeezed both siblings in two overly ecstatic hugs, ignoring their squirming. She produced a shiny, pink-wrapped package decorated with little pictures of baby saber-tooth moose lion cubs.

"Open mine first!" She said, clapping her hands and bouncing excitedly.

Sensing her mother's watchful gaze again, Azula managed with a little effort not to wrinkle her nose at the wrapping paper as she took the present from Ty Lee and began to tear it open; Zuko leaning expectantly over her shoulder.

Still, she couldn't help the face she made when she pulled out Ty Lee's pink and yellow gift.

"What is it?" She demanded.

"It's a scarf!" Ty Lee said, throwing it around Azula's neck. "I made it myself! Isn't it pretty? I think it really brings out your and Zuko's eyes- and look! I made one for Zuko, too!" She said, pulling a second from out of the box.

Zuko paled and recoiled in horror. "I am not wearing that!"

"You could wear it like a ninja headband…" Ty Lee suggested hopefully.

Ursa hid a smile. "Zuko, Azula, say thank you."

Zuko snatched the scarf from Ty Lee's outstretched hand and muttered something unintelligible and most likely unflattering.

"I think she right though, Zuko," Lu Ten teased, "It does bring out your eyes."

Zuko turned as pink as his new scarf ninja headband while more giggling and swooning ensued.

Azula just rolled her eyes again, whether or not her mother was watching, and dropped her scarf onto the table with a look of loathing. "Can we get to the cake already? It's starting to melt." She added distastefully.

Ursa frowned a little bit at her daughter's impatience, but turned to Lu Ten anyway. "Yes, of course. Lu Ten, would you mind lighting the candles?"

Lu Ten opened his mouth, most likely to say something witty, but was drowned out by his giggly fangirls.

Normally Azula would have insisted on lighting her own candles- normally she would have insisted on doing anything to show off her firebending skills- but her father, Prince Ozai, was not present at his own children's birthday party. Something about a war meeting and burning to the ground that he had mumbled on his way out the door earlier.

Uncle Iroh was absent, too, which meant that her party was mostly composed of old men who were somehow important or acquainted with her parents and some distant relatives that, for all she knew, could have just wandered in from town.

Lu Ten snapped his fingers to create a small flame and then swiftly lit all nine candles- technically speaking, there should have been at least ten candles, or even twenty since they were both turning ten today- but apparently either someone forgot about that or ran out of candles. Or had really, really poor math skills.

Azula didn't wait to make a wish before starting to blow out the candles, mostly because wishes were for babies and because Zuko was doing it, which gave her a head-start on him. She was already about halfway done when he shouted out, "Hey! No fair!"

"Azula, let your brother blow some out." Ursa scolded instantly.

The little princess crossed her arms impatiently. "He's getting spit all over the cake," she complained.

"Azula!"

She sighed huffily and glared as she watched her brother lean forward intently, ready to blow out the last candle- and then it occurred to her that she could easily flick that candle out with firebending before he even started puffing. Imagining the stupid look on his face, she smirked and casually flicked her wrist.

The little yellow flame on the birthday candle, instead of vanishing, decided instead to become ten times bigger because it thought it would be more fun- and that's when Zuko's shirt caught fyre.

"AAAAHHH!"

Zuko screamed, Azula screamed, one of the old men fell over- the majority of the rest of the party just shrieked and started running in little uncoordinated circles. One of the giggly young ladies swooned again, but probably out of fear this time.

Meanwhile, Zuko was rolling on the floor and screeching in pain while Azula wached in horror as the flames increased and began to spread to her brother's arms. Ursa was standing a little ways away, completely still and mouth open in shock. Azula turned toward her and shrieked desperately, "MOM!"

Ursa locked eyes with her, terrified and completely helpless. But then something flashed in her eyes, and she stepped forward toward her screeching son. Taking up a stance, she waved a single arm in one sweeping motion and Zuko's flames extinguished, leaving a gasping, smoking prince and a distinct burnt twin brother smell.

Ursa turned back to her daughter. "Azula, send for a doctor."

Both of her children just sat and stared with their mouths open.

Ursa scooped up the crispy prince and swept out of the room without another word while Azula remained frozen in her chair, shaking with a new kind of shock.

Because Ursa had never, in ten years, ever mentioned- let alone demonstrated- that she was a firebender.

TA-DA! :D For the original ideas, go check out Fyre's Guide to Creativity by Forever Fyre and GO DO SOME IBF! FICS! :D

P.S. LOOKY! A BUTTON! What does it say on it? GASP! Why, I believe it says REVIEW! ;D