Rise of Obsidia By El Shaddai
This is an avatar the last air bender fan fic that is centered on Zuko, I do not own avatar
The story begins at the North Pole after Zuko's fight with Admiral Zhao.
Zuko could hear the fire nation call in a full retreat but he could not see anything Zhao had stuck him in the face with fire and blinded him. He did not know where his uncle was or where he was, he was in a dais his head was blank all that was on his mind was the voice of an unknown man telling him to fallow and tugging his hand. Zuko fallowed blindly (literally) as the man led him onto a fire nation ship. As the ship was leaving Zuke head a loud thud then everything seemed to be going very smoothly the man took him to the infirmary where burns on his face where treated then the man sat Zuko down in front of a fire and introduced him.
"My name is captain Cheng" the man said rather softly "mined telling me watt happened to your eyes?"
"Zhao" Zuko replied (fun fact Zhao means helper)
Cheng replied "ahhh Zhao ah trust me when I say this where all better off without him. So what, did you talk back to him?"
Zuko's head was beginning to make sense of everything when he asked "why did you help me?"
Cheng looked confused for a moment although Zuko could not see it "what was I suppose to do leave a young, blind, fellow solder stranded on that hunk of ice? By the way going into an active war zone without your uniform was pretty dumb even for a new recruit."
"New recruit!" Zuko thought to himself "this guy must be pretty stupid but then again the burns over my eyes are probably covering my scare and I do look fire nation.(now out loud) I guess I was to exited about my first battle I forgot I think that might have been why Zhao was so short with me." Zuko lied.
"Heh" Cheng chuckled "you must not have known Zhao, he was short with everyone "Just then Zuko heard the door open and a solder burst into the room and say
"Sir the hall of the ship has been breached the ship is going down"
"What are you waiting for?" Cheng replied "abandon ship!" Cheng then grabbed Zuke by the arm and yanked him up out of his seat. "Fallow me" and he guided Zuko to one the river bouts.
Nothing was said as the river bout was lowered but most of the men new that there was now land for miles and even less that would treat them friendly, to make maters worse the hall was breach where the food was kept so the supplies where minimal at best.
During diner the next evening one of the men spotted a small island to the south Cheng said it would be a great place to spend the night after they spent the last one in the crowded river bout. That night woke up suddenly he heard a low pitch voice calling out to him "Zukooooo Zzzuuuukkkoooo."
Zuko hadn't told any of the men his name then he thought "it must be my uncle" he quickly got up and be gain walking towards the voice but was careful of the sleeping men. Soon Zuko found himself at the water's edge where the voice then began to speak to him.
"Zuko! Prince of the fire nation! Is it you!"
Zuko responded "yes it is me."
"My name is Bao-Zhi, and you should not be so open with your name considering who you are, foolish boy! "
"Then what should I call myself?" Zuko asked
"There will be a name given to you soon enough but for now you must now this you have a great destiny about you one that will change the world for ever and I will give you the power to do so!"
Zuko could not see it but he was talking to the island itself that was in fact a giant alligator turtle. The turtle touch Zuko's forehead and he could feel his soul itself changing as he fell asleep.
Ah Bing
When Zuko awoke the next morning the crew was happy and joyful Zuke could hear the men laughing and celebrating, Zuko cried out for cheng who quickly came.
"Cheng!" Zuko cried out.
"Well look who decided to rejoin the living" Cheng replied
"Cheng, what is going on?" asked zuko
"You see … oops forgot you can't" Cheng said jokingly "we can see land from the shore and the waving the fire nation flag, we made it back"
"But I thought we were now where near home last night and where still on the isla…"
"Don't question it boy just be happy."
The crew got back into the small river bout and set off for the nearby fire nation colony had they not been so happy and joyful the mite have knottiest the island slowly disappearing under the waves.
When they came ashore they learned they were in Ah Bing village
"Wait Cheng, it takes over a weak to get from the North Pole to Ah Bing on a fire nation ship and twice that on a river bout but somehow we made it in less than two days."
"How do you know so much about this stuff "ask cheng
"Because I've done nothing but travel sints I got….. I mean in listed." Zuko lied again.
"Oh" Cheng finally realized he isn't a solder "I see"
Cheng turned around and said to his men "we are in Ah Bing village only a half a day's journey from the rendezvous piont so rest up because tomarow we heading out." to Zuko now "you and me nead to talk boy."
Cheng led Zuke to the edge of town at the base of a mountain "alright boy it's time you told me who you are"
"ok" Zuko siad quickly tieing to think of a good lie "I stowed away on one of the ships I'm not even from the Fire Nation I'm from the Earth kingdom collonese" Zuko new he could not pull off the solder lie any more, but something was bothering him to mutch to think on where he was going with this story.
"and?" Cheng replide impatiently
"and what?" Zuko replide still thinking back on what he saw.
"why did you stowe away on a fire nation vesle headed into battle at the north pole!"Cheng was starting to lose his temper.
"I didn't know where it was headed I just needed to get off land." Zuko now focusing on the task of lying at hand.
" huh" Cheng sighed "why where you trying to get off land?" Cheng asked more comely
" I got into some truble with some eath benders"
"what kind of truble?"Cheng asked.
"well they payed me tosneak them into a fire nation for but they didn't know the fire nation had payed me to set up an ambush"
"so, what did some of them get away?"
"no" Zuko reply having alredy thought this part through "the Avatar broke them out of prison".
"I see" Cheng siad "so thats why you didn't know anything about Zhao, but how do you know about navigation"
"this wasn't my first time on a fire nation ship, I've goten free rides all over the world I was even on Zuko's ship for a time, wow am I geting good at this Zuko thought.
"Zuko's ship? Know that must have bin bad, I here that guy is a real jerk"
Zuko clenched his fist and was about to start yelling at Cheng but just then there was a low rumbling sound and Cheng grabed him and yelled avolanche before trying to run but then fell to the grouned along with Zuko. Zuko's hands hit the ground first and in that molment Zuko had the the same senstion he had ealyer (the one that was bothering him that I didn't explian) it was like he could feel the world around him, just by tuching the ground! Zuko could feel the avolanche coming twards him and Cheng as well as the the rock Cheng had triped over and nocked himself unconscious, the avolanch was so close that there was nothing Zuko could do it was going to kill him but more importantly it was going to kill Cheng a man that hed put himself in harm's way multiple time to help him some one whos name Chang never even new. Zuko just wanted to stop time and save Cheng and just as the avolanche was about to kill them both Zuko in his desperation threw up both his hands and yeld "Stop" and for a moment he thought it had worked but then he felt Cheng breathing and realized it wasen't time he had stoped but the avolanche. "But how" he thought "i'm not an earth bender" this was strang but then Zuko felt the rocks staring to move agian and quickly picked up Cheng and ran away as the racks hit the ground behind him.
