The names Emilisa and this if my first fanfic! Please feel free to comment on any mistakes so I can fix them thxs!

Chapter one

Punishment undone

What a dreadful way to live out the rest of your use -to-be royal life…huh couldn't say I feel sorry for the people in my past that got hurt; they should have seen it coming. Well... maybe a little... I shouldn't have done those things trying to kill the avatar, his friends, for god's sake even my own brother! Blinded by family power I wanted to help carry on the legend, to be the next great fire lord but….. Look where it's landed me.

Some great power I have.

I am… ashamed.

After the war, me and father were sent down to the darkest of dungeons by the NEW fire lord my brother Zuco , to maybe wallow in our own darkness, to change are paths in life he said. It's been six months but it was in the first few weeks I started losing it, throwing my given food at the walls and guards, howling and scratching the walls so hard my nails cracked and bled, cried hysterically when I was left alone too long. I had lost. I couldn't change it.

I have to get outta here.

~ (Emilisa Fade) ~

The wall of the great Fire nation palace was no longer cold and lonely like it was before the war, now it was... brighter the aura was softer or pinker (Tai Lee!)One would say but it was something greater, a something so great that it now bounded everyone together like it should have always been. It was the kind of day that had you relaxed and care free, young children practicing their bending in the open fields, their parents taking a break in the newly made tea shop the " Jade Dragon " Owned by a very jolly man who in fact didn't have a care in the world. The shop was getting quite the tourist attention with his famous tea mixtures, hand crafted from down the line of the family.

It was a busy day for the tea shop owner but it was these days he liked the most; it made his old heart happy to see life finally settling down. No matter if the day was busy or not he still made time to chat with his new little friends and engage in their teenage fun.

"Hey Aang remember when we broke you free from that iceberg?" Recalled Katara

"Oh yeah! I remember because Sokka thought he was going mad when he saw Appa!" Aang chuckled from the the memory. Sokka heard his named being spoken but not in the oh!-sokka-so-awsome way it was the lets-make-fun-of-Sokka way which he was NOT going to let happen in the lest. "Hey, hey, hey, whatta we talkin 'bout here?" he in your face questioned. Katara rolled her eyes at her brother's dramaticness "calm down we were just talking about the day we found Aang, that all" she declared raising her hands to show her innocence. Sokka eyed the both of them and with a curt "fine" he walked off.

As soon as he was back at his seat, paint brush back in hand he continued on whatever he was painting, problebly a big mess smirked Katara she knew he was a terrible painter, everyone else thought so too Sokka just wouldn't admit it. At that moment Iroh and Zuco walked in the small room in the top half of the tea shop where all the new friends like to hang, Zuco's face was serous must be talking about some important stuff. Aang laughed his goofy laugh that she loved so much and called the two over to their table, they smiled and took a seat. "Whoo! it feels good to relax for a while, all the hustle and bustle of the tea shop over joys me but I get tired on my feet you know?" breathed Iroh with a smile.

"So guys how have things been?" Zuco asked hoping nothing good, he didn't like missing out on the excitement. Things have been what he has ever wanted when he had been crowned Fire lord instead of Azula, but cleaning up a hundred years of hatred, and destruction was A LOT of work but it had to be done, that why he wasn't around much though he still took time to catch up with his friends. "Nothing much just hang' in out as usual, oh! But I have been getting quite artsy if I do say so myself" Sokka mused and with pride he held up his painting he has been working on. What Sokka got wasn't praise it was hoots and howls of laughter, his painting had twisted faces and what looked like Turtleducks with heads of Roasterpigs.

" Sokka you have really out done yourself!" Howled Iroh with a deep belly shaking laugh.

"The greatest yet!" came Katara high pitched voiced wheezed from laughing to hard.

Sokka just stared at the scene around him taking in the criticism like a man, crossing his arms he leaned back in his chair waiting for everyone to finish up with the wise cracks on his painting. Just as everyone whipped their eyes and took a deep breath Sokka opened his mouth to voice HIS opinion when the door flew open with a bang, in came a prison guard tripping over his feet and out of breath. Zuco jumped to his feet followed by everyone else, Zuco was the first to speak "What's going on? Are we under attack?" demanded Zuco knowing to always prepare for the worst. The guard looked Zuco in the eye with shock and fear "No my lord its Azula she has escaped"

hope you enjoyed! took me for EVER to work up the courage to write this story 3