Chapter One
The Burden
Being firstborn and not a boy was a burden for my father, Firelord Zuko. My little sister Ursa also sharing the burden with me. No male to take father's throne, so it goes to the first born. Me, a girl, and my father was none too thrilled with that.
My mother Mai named be Kaya for my sparkling blue eyes and my rich dark brown hair. A watertribe name, my father laughed and said it was perfect, saying since I look the part why not have a name that proves it even further. Then my mother died when Ursa was born and I miss her terribly with my father favoring her and pretending like I do not even exist.
I am just like him though my personality, the anger, the hate and stress over little things, resenting being like him. I took up my fighting from him, he gave me dual dao swords for my birthday one year, saying wouldn't they look great up on the wall. So everyday I practice to prove him wrong to prove to him that I can be great. My firebending is incredible or so my master says a true prodigy. My father on the other hand is so hung up on always yelling at me, making sure I have perfect form, and if I slip up just once or make one error I hear about it. He hates me, and I know it, and he knows it. Does that make him care? No.
I spend time with my grandfather who is locked up and only talks nonsense about a comet. I know exactly what he means by it that I should let him out but he is crazy. Iroh on the other hand actually loves me, takes care of me , but he is getting old and will die one day. I feel like I only have the two that love me Ursa and Iroh. Other than that I am just a burden for not being a boy and not being a better firebender. This is my story.