Six Flags: Ba-Sing-Se
Chapter One
Rude Awakening
By: Kohroxmysox
A/N: This is an AU Zutara fic. The Avatar crew is off to Six Flags for a field trip! There's going to be super awesome roller coasters (The only Six Flags I've been to is Magic Mountain. If any readers have been to other Six Flags and have a favorite roller coaster they'd like to see featured, let me know the name of the roller coaster and a description. I'll give you credit for it!), a stop at Red Lobster-Shrimp, and a lot of flirting. Main ships are Zutara, George, Taang, and maybe a little Smellershot. I can probably find a way around it, but rating may change to M in later chapters. If anyone has a problem with that just let me know and I'll work around it, no problem. Please R&R!
Edit: There will be no rating change. The plot bunnies wouldn't allow it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar, and I don't own Six Flags. I did own 2,000,000 pounds from the European Lottery once, but my mom wouldn't let me claim it since we live in the US.
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It was 4:59 am, and, naturally, Katara Kuruk was sound asleep. She had no idea what was about to happen in her life. She knew a portion of her class was going to Six Flags to study things like velocity, and acceleration and she knew they were going to the beach afterwards to observe life in the tide pools. She knew that this trip was also just an excuse for the teachers and students to get away from doing real work for a little while. What she didn't know, was that the next few days would change her life. Hers, was just one life that would be affected. In fact, probably every student in their small group would change in some way or another over this trip. Katara had no clue, that, maybe, the greatest adventure of her life would start in ...five...four...three...two...one...
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"Hey girl, you know you drive me crazy
one look puts the rhythm in my hand
still I'll never understand why you hang around
I see what's going down."
Katara moaned as her alarm started blasting "Face Down" by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. She didn't care that her science class was going on the biggest trip of the year in just an hour and a half, right now she just wanted to sleep.
"Cover up with makeup in the mirror
tell yourself, it's never gonna happen again
you cry alone and then he swears he loves you."
"Yes! I love this song!" Sokka cried from the hallway. The next thing she knew, was that he was in her room singing along to the chorus and doing his goofy spaz dance.
"Do you feel like a man when you push her around?
Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's going to end
as your lies crumble down, a new life, she has found."
"Sokka, shut up!" Katara cried, "It's too early." She buried herself under her ocean blue covers, in hope of finding some quiet.
"A pebble in the water makes a ripple effect
every action in this world will bear a consequence
If you wade around forever you will surely drown
I see what's going down."
"Come on sis! Today's the big day! Even I don't want to crawl back in bed!" Her brother exclaimed proudly over th loud rock music. "So come on! Up, up, up!" He yelled throwing of her covers.
"Hey! Sokka!" Katara screeched, sitting up. "Ugh!" she groaned, grabbing her pillow, "and put a shirt on!" She said throwing it at him.
"I see the way you go and say you're right again,
say you're right again
heed my lecture."
"What are you so excited about anyway?" She asked calming down and rubbing her eyes. "It's just Six Flags, we've been there before."
"Uh, nothing." Her shirtless brother stuttered.
"Do you feel like a man when you push her around?
Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's going to end
as your lies crumble down, a new life, she has found."
Realization flooded over Katara as she gave an evil smirk. "Oh, I get it. You're trying to impress someone, like, I don't know, Suki?"
"No! No, of course not!" He stammered, blushing.
"You like her, don't you?" She said mockingly.
"Me? Like Suki? Heh, heh, Woo! Ya, right." Sokka said nervously.
"Face down in the dirt, she said,
this doesn't hurt, she said,
I finally had enough.
Face down in the dirt, she said,
this doesn't hurt, she said,
I finally had enough."
Katara looked at her brother knowingly and crossed her arms. 'He has the lamest excuses.' she thought to herself.
"Ok, I do, please don't tell her!" Sokka begged.
"One day she will tell you that she has had enough
he's coming round again."
"Do you feel like a man when you push her around?
Do you feel better now as she falls to the ground?
Well I'll tell you my friend, one day this world's going to end
as your lies crumble down, a new life, she has found."
"Chill Sokka, I can keep a secret." Katara said leaning over to turn her alarm off.
"Oh, um, well, thanks Katara, I owe ya one." her brother stated, letting out a sigh of relief.
"Uh, huh." She yawned.
An awkward silence filled the room. The Kuruk siblings seemed to be at a loss for words without the background music of The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.
"Well, get out! I have to change!" Katara yelled at her older brother. But, then added a smile to show she was breaking the silence,
"Okay! I'm leaving!" He said, closing the door on the way out.
Katara smiled to herself. She had to have the weirdest older brother in the world.
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At the same time Zuzo Sozin and has sister Azula were sound asleep. Unfortunately, they didn't get the opportunity to wake up to the rock music of an oddly named band. Nope, their uncle Iroh had something different in mind for them...
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Iroh Sozin opened the door to the guest bedroom where his niece and nephew were staying. They had a big day ahead of them, actually, he did too. Chaperoning a bunch of teenagers? Well, of course, he hadn't actually gotten around to telling the two yet, but, well, they'd find out soon enough. He looked down at the two siblings and smiled. They looked so innocent when they were asleep, when they were awake was a completely different story. While Azula was manipulative Zuko was rash. She would think things through down to the smallest details; Zuko would act without thinking. He had to admit, he had a stronger connection with Zuko than Azula. His niece, never seemed to need advice, he gave it anyway though, but she rarely listened. Zuko, on the other hand, needed advice, not that he would say it. When Iroh gave him advice, he would listen. Azula had plenty of guidance from Ozai, who favored her. Zuko really had no one to guide him, then Iroh moved back to the city, after losing his son, and started bonding with Zuko. They had gotten even closer when Zuko came to work at Iroh's tea shop earlier that year. Iroh was really the only one in the family who loved Zuko.
The elder Sozin snapped out of his trance remembering the task at hand. He gulped, almost scared. Waking up two teenagers was bad enough, but when it's five in the morning, and the two teens are Zuko and Azula, there was a good reason to fear for his life.
'Well,' Iroh thought to himself, 'here goes everything.'
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Azula slept soundly in her uncle's guest room on her twin bed. It wasn't the most comfortable thing in the world, nothing like her bed back home, but that didn't matter. Azula was a perfectionist, she was a bit picky at times, but she didn't act like a princess. She liked playing football with the boys, like Jet and his gang. Or, when Aang and his friends joined. When the Kuruk boy would play, Ty lee would join in too. She was fast and was a great wide receiver, but would only join if he was with them. On day's Jet's girlfriend would watch, she and Mai would sit and talk to her. Azula would sometimes stop to talk with them too. On days that Zuko joined, Mai would play. Mai was actually an awesome quarterback. She had great aim and always threw the ball strait. Azula was the strategist on the field, she could easily see gaps and weaknesses of the other team and would find a way to use them to her advantage. She could also play every position on the field, so, depending on who her teammates were, could fill any gap there offense or defense had. Because of her all-around talent, she was nearly always picked first. Nearly, because the first few times she played, Jet's gang and the others didn't think she could play. She got the hang of it in the first few days and was soon better that most of the boys playing.
Yup, Azula didn't need much, but she did need her sleep. Tell that to uncle Iroh though.
"Azula," the old man said nudging her shoulder. She closed her eyes tighter and rolled over on her side while pulling the covers over her. "Azula, time to wake up. You have a big day ahead of you."
Azula moaned out a quick, "Five more minutes." in a sleepy voice.
Iroh then turned to her brother on the matching twin bed next to hers. "Zuko, it's morning. You're going on a big trip today." He said kindly to his nephew.
Zuko pulled his covers up and muttered, "It's too early."
Iroh sighed and talked to them both. "Come on you two, don't you think it would be better to start the day with some breakfast and meditation."
The Sozin siblings moaned in response.
The elder Sozin tried again, "Don't you think you should start off this grand adventure with some nutrition?"
Both teens managed to utter out, "No."
Iroh was beginning to get aggravated, that is, until he got an idea. Time to change his approach. "Now I'm not going to have to sing am I?"
Both siblings eyes shot open. Azula voiced what they both were thinking. "You wouldn't dare."
"Just watch me." Their uncle said smirking. It was rare he got an idea so evil he had the opportunity to smirk. He then started to sing a song he heard once from a group of traveling hippies:
"Two lovers, forbidden from one another,
a war divides their people,
and a mountain divides them apart."
Azula scurried out from under her covers and stood on the red and black carpet on the hardwood floor and announced, "I'm up!"
Zuko stood up next to her half a second later and queried, "So, what's first, breakfast, or meditation?"
Both siblings stood with a smile plastered on their face and eyes wide. That had to have been one of the best plans Iroh had ever thought of, now if only telling them he was chaperoning was this easy.
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A/N: There you have it! The first chapter of my first story is up! I think I got the whole "Azula plays football" thing from a comment I heard somewhere. "American football and rugby are the closest things you can get to war." Things will get more interesting later. In the next chapter or two I hope! "Face Down" may be a reoccurring theme in this story, so if you haven't heard it, you need to. Best song ever! Oh, and the first part wasn't supposed to come out like a song-fic. It's just Katara's radio. Please review!
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