The Strength of Love
Hi! This is my first Fanfic! Hope you like it and follow. It begins right after the first time Zuko and Iroh docked and spoke to Zhou, like about three days after that. I will be keeping the following couples (Katara and Aang, Sokka and Suki), and I will probably be adding a few more people, like boyfriends for Toph, Tai Lee, and even Mai and Azula (SHOCKING, right?)
Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender. If I did, I guess this wouldn't be here, it would probably be part of the show. Please enjoy and review.
Zuko:
I couldn't believe it. After three years of seemingly endless searching, I had finally found the avatar and captured him as well! But that triumph was short-lived, seeing as those two water tribe peasant children snatched him out of my grasp. The boy even had the nerve to hit me in the head as I had done to him! Even the Avatar teased me, saying I should try fighting with fun! How childish! But then again, he is a child, so it makes sense that he would think that way…. Gah!
Oh, they better believe they haven't seen the last of me yet. I swear that I will... grrrrr!
In all of my rage, I hadn't realized the ship had changed course! Now we were preparing to dock. Three guesses who gave the men orders for that. Of course Uncle would do this!
Uncle wouldn't let me even get a chance to yell at the men for obeying his orders on the course of the ship instead of my own. Now, while I'm walking through this little forest, I am attempting to come up with a new plan to capture the avatar.
"Maybe I could kill the Bison in mid-air! ….. No, no. That would kill the Avatar too, and my father wants him alive." I growled. I can't believe how hard it is for me to capture a thirteen year old boy! I throw a fireball at a rock in my frustration.
Just then, it began to glow, first a blue color like the beam the Avatar had made, and then the glow turned green. The ground began to shake. I stumbled, but managed to land on my knees and see what was in front of me.
A crystalline structure appeared then began to break while they ground shook. Then, at the top of the crystal, I saw a person. The crystal cracked, and then glowed brighter, then…. It disappeared!
The person, a girl, started to fall! I ran forward and caught her, just to make sure she wouldn't be killed of course. I lay her on the ground, and find she is not injured, only unconscious. I brush some of her golden hair out from in front of her face, and find myself gazing into the most beautiful emerald green eyes looking back at me. I realize my hand is still resting near her cheek and she could freak out at any moment, so I drop my hand, and back away, preparing to stand and leave.
Cornelia:
I was chasing Aang that night, to protect him so he wouldn't get himself killed. Our parents definitely would kill me if my brother died while I was in charge of him.
He had just found out that he was an Avatar, so he soon will be taken to meet our parents, if he isn't too heartbroken by becoming separated from Gyatso.
I wish they had waited until he was sixteen, like they had for me. Just this previous year, I had turned sixteen, and they told me I was an Avatar, and that my and Aang's parents are the King and Queen of the North and East Air temples.
That made me Princess of the Southern Air Temple and Aang was Prince of the Western Air Temple!
They told him too early! He still had too much of a family bond with Gyatso. Of course he chose to run away!
I began having trouble keeping up with Aang on my glider. I was being tossed this way and that. Then I saw Aang and Appa fall.
I tried to reach them, but I only got myself to fall into the water, about forty feet from them. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't reach them, and I was tossed further from them. As I began to drown, my arrows glow a bright blue, assuring me that Aang was safe, then they turned green and I went into a partial Avatar state and felt everything just freezing in place.
It's strange, how just a warm hand awoke me.
When I felt it, I opened my eyes, looking straight into the golden eyes of the boy who awoke me. He dropped his hand suddenly, as if he thought I was going to go psycho on him and call him a pervert or something. I stayed there for a moment, as he got up, before jumping about thirty feet in the air, as a stretch. I let my arrows glow, to finish trying feel normal.
Zuko:
She looked into my eyes, staring straight back at me. Then she surprised me even further.
She jumped Agni-knows-how-high. When she did so, arrows appeared on her and began to glow a mix of that blue and green from earlier. How could this be?
Could there really be two Avatars? I ask myself. Either way, I am not going to just leave her here.
She will be coming with me.
Cornelia:
"Thank you! Thank you so much for freeing me!" I say to the boy.
"What is your name?" he asks, not so nicely.
"Cornelia."
"Are you an Avatar?"
"Yes, my brother should be somewhere around here, hopefully."
"Brother?"
"Yes, brother, his name is Aang; so what's yours?"
He looks at me, skeptically, before he answers. "Prince Zuko, the Prince of the Fire Nation."
I feel like I should be sarcastic, but I keep that in and reply decently, "Well, if we are going by titles, then please call me Princess Cornelia and my brother Prince Aang."
He seemed to be lost in thought, and just before I got to ask him what he was thinking about, something finally caught on in his mind and his eyes flashed.
"Aang?!"
He doesn't give me the chance to reply as he grabs my wrist and starts to run.
We end up in front of a ship, and an old man catches his attention from whatever he is thinking.
"Oh, Zuko! You must try the tea here! It is fantastic!"
Then he must notice this boy is holding my wrist and says, "Oh? So you have finally brought a lady-friend home, have you, Zuko? She is very beautiful!"
Lady-friend? He thinks we're dating?
He obviously is meaning it as a joke, because he is smirking; I just know I like him immediately.
"NO Uncle! She is our new prisoner! She is the sister of the Avatar, and she also IS an Avatar!"
Uncle?
This guy is the nephew of him?
Prisoner?
Wait- what?
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold up!"
This gets both of them to look at me. "Prisoner? I thought you just knew where Aang was! If you want me to be your prisoner, you are going to have to fight me!"
Good thing we are near water, now I can use both of the elements I know against him.
I bend a water whip to make him let go of me.
He then charges at me, shooting fireballs while I attempt to trip him with puddles and strong winds. He reaches me, and we begin to fight using hand-to-hand combat. He underestimates me for a second as I jump, kicking him with both feet, sending him seven feet away.
He jumps up, apparently really angry, and shoots a series of fireballs at me. As I continue dodging them, his Uncle calls out to him, distracting us both.
"Zuko! Stop!"
He said it too late, I realize, as a fireball reaches and hits me.
It hit my side and I instantly screamed at the burning pain!
For a brief moment after I collapse to the ground, I see the boy who hurt me, Zuko, running to my aid with a look of complete horror and worry written on his face.