Welcome to the sequel of My Dear Cousin. Just as I asked there please review so I can improve my writing. Also just enjoy, have fun with reading and if you have something to complain about tell me. Ideas, suggestions, commentary (good or bad), please just tell me so I can do something about it. More sequels are following.
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Colour Of Her Eyes.
Princess Ymee had left on a dragon in the middle of a storm. As a reminder of her she had taken of her hair ribbon and had thrown it on the ground. For prince Zuko and General Iroh. The storm laid down. Zuko ran outside if he could only find a small glimpse of where his cousin had gone. But not a trace was to be found. Only her hair ribbon. Zuko picked it up. Totally soaked with water he stared at it. The last remembrance of her was right in the palm of his hand. Why did she had to leave?
General Iroh still was standing in the control room. He was looking outside with a thinking look. He was deep in his thoughts while picking his beard. He stood there for a couple of minutes. While still picking his beard and still in deep thoughts he walked outside slowly. Eventually he was outside and there stood prince Zuko. Zuko was staring at the sky. Unbelievable was just happened. He had noticed that his uncle stood behind him. Something that he also had noticed was what the dark shape was. Or at least what he thought it was. A water dragon. A living water dragon.
"That shape….was it what I think it was?" Zuko said because the silence began to annoy him.
"Very interesting…." Iroh said.
Zuko looked at his uncle. It looked like his body was here but his mind was wondering off somewhere at the top of the sky.
"Uncle?"
"Most interesting…." Iroh said again.
"Uncle!"
Iroh shook his head. Like he was awaking from a dream.
"Huh…what?"
"It's nice when you stay on the boat when I speak to you. " Zuko said a little annoyed.
"Oh I'm sorry there. I was thinking about….." he just cut of his sentence.
"Yes…..?"
"What do we exactly know about that cousin of yours?" Iroh asked.
"Uh….she's around 15 years old. Her name came from the name of a flower, the Ymari. Ymari means 'the moon and sun'. Ym-sun, aria-moon. My father send her to train when he discovered that she was a born firebender. She was about, I don't know, 6 maybe 7 years old when that happened. She used to love flowers because also her name came from one. She has blonde hair which is very, very rare in the fire nation. They say her eyes are green which is also very rare. Loyalty, friendship, honour and rightfulness was always something very important to her. Her mother died when she was too young and her father also died 3 years ago in a fight. She despises Azula since the day they met. Her powers as a firebender are most incredible for her age. And she is able to conjure a dragon out of fire to aid her. There's much more of course…."
"As long as you stay loyal and rightful, the aid of the dragon stands by your side…." Iroh whispered in a strange tone. Could this even be possible? No….it cannot be….this is completely not possible! Or could it….
"Uncle…what are you saying?"
"Come with me. We need to speak private about this." And Iroh just left towards his chambers. Zuko looked confused. He had better things to do than listen to his uncles private talking sessions. But…he looked very serious….almost figured. For this time he would go with him.
In Iroh's private chambers the conversation continued.
"Listen. This is something that stood on a scroll. The scroll was old. Very old. I found it a couple of years ago. Immediately when I read it I burnt it. The information that stood on it was to important to let it fall in the wrong hands." Iroh paused for a moment to take a deep breath. Then he continued.
"Thousands of years ago there were more than the fire nation, the air nomads, the water tribes and the earth kingdom. With more I mean 1 more nation. That one nation was destroyed. That nation was the nation of the dragon formers. Out of every element they could create a dragon shape. Water, earth, wind, fire even lightning. But they would only be able to form one if they kept themselves to a simple spell.' As long as you stay loyal and rightful, the aid of the dragon stands by your side. ' " Iroh said. He sat on a small chair with his arms over each other and was looking down while frowning. Zuko was looking at his uncle with his eyes wide open. He had never known. Incredible. But also so weird because he didn't have a clue why his uncle was saying this. Though he did wanted to end this conversation, he was also quite curious about what had happened to that certain nation.
"You just said that that nation was destroyed. Who destroyed it then?" Zuko asked.
"Four nations together can achieve big things. The destruction of one nation is one thing they can do. They saw the Dragon Clan as a big threat to the safety of the four nations. The Dragon formers were very strong when using their powers right. But they weren't dangerous. Only when really your enemy. But then their spell wouldn't be in affect and the dragons would abandon them. Together they destroyed the fifth nation. The scroll said that, it was said that some families escaped the horrible fate that had been put on them. They escaped to other nations."
"So it is possible that Ymee belongs to this so called Dragon Clan?"
"Not possible, it is much likely that she belongs to it. As you said when we were outside, her blonde hair and her green eyes are very rare in the fire nation. The logic explanation is that she is not originally from the fire nation. That our own princess a descendant is from that powerful nation!"
In the meantime the girl, who was talked about so much, was walking in a city. Not alone as you might think. Together with Aang, Katara and Sokka. When the Water Dragon had picked her up the other three were also on the sea. They were flying over a sea on Appa. A storm had come up. Appa was not so bad in flying in bad weather. But because he almost got hit by a lightning bolt he crashed down right into the sea. None of them had been able to prevent this. Luckily Ymee was there to get them out as soon as possible. Ymee and the Dragon brought Katara, Aang and Sokka to the shore. Appa swam himself. Because they were friends Ymee decided to join them for the time being. So they were walking around in a small town. The food supplies had gone poof (gone) again. So they needed food again. The bad news was that the three of them were completely broke. Not a single bronze coin to be found. The good news was that their saviour, who also happened to be a princess but they didn't know this, had quite some gold coins in her possession. Only with 2 coins they could buy a whole new stock.
When they had loaded on the food on Appa they returned to their intention, taking Aang to the north pole.
Because they were of opinion that Appa had deserved some rest from flying they walked. They had to walk through an entire forest. Sokka was as usual complaining as hell. But Katara, Ymee and Aang saw it as a good exercise. They walked the entire day. The evening started to fall. When Sokka's complaining really started to get annoying they reached a river. With an open spot, which was a perfect place to stay overnight. They made camp, collected firewood and made fire and last but not least made dinner. The night was peaceful and quiet. Nothing dangerous things that attacked them, no poisonous food and no annoying Sokka complaining about he blisters on his feet. Which were as he had said it "big, very red and also very painful".
The next morning they had a quiet breakfast. Around 10.00 hours they packed everything again and just wanted to get on Appa to leave. When a voice stopped them from packing.
"You're not going anywhere Avatar!"
'I know that voice' Ymee thought. They all turned around. All were shocked. But none as much as Ymee. There, in front of the four, stood prince Zuko and his men. Zuko was walking towards them. He fired. Katara and Sokka ran to Appa because they couldn't stand against a fire attack. At least not against that fire attack. Aang sat on Appa's head. Ready to leave. Ymee deflected the attack by absorbing the fire into her hands.
"I'll keep him busy! Get on Appa! I'll be right there!" She yelled.
"But what about you!" Katara yelled back.
"I'll be fine! Just get on!" Ymee yelled back again.
When screaming the last sentence towards Katara a couple of flames hit Ymee on her right shoulder. She screamed and fell on 1 knee with her left arm on her right shoulder.
"Ymee!" Katara, Aang and Sokka yelled.
"GO! GO!" She yelled again.
Appa began to fly with the other three on his back. Zuko ran towards Ymee, pushed her down on the floor and grabbed her hands. With irons he bounded her hands behind her back, while his men were firing at Appa. But they couldn't hit him because he was already too high. Zuko pulled his cousin up by her arm. Letting her scream out of pain. The tears of pain rolled over her cheeks. But Zuko didn't seem to care very much. He forced her to walk towards one of his smaller ships that now was docked at the shore of the river. It was lucky for her that he didn't push her by her painful shoulder. For the flames had burnt the fabric of her clothes by her shoulder. A burn mark was left there, right where the flames'd had the most impact. She walked the route Zuko wanted her to walk head down. Zuko shooting at her and hurting her like this when the day before he tried to comfort her when uncle Iroh had been so harsh. This could not be good at all.