Behind Rebel Lines
"THE GUNFIRE AROUND us makes it hard to hear. But the human voice is different from other sounds. It can be heard over noises that bury everything else. Even when it's not shouting. Even when it's just a whisper. Even the lowest whisper can be heard - -over armies... when it's telling the truth. That is why we fight! We Are the Truth! We are the people who make the grains and the iron! We will overthrow the government! All working Men, Women, and Children unite!" announced a young teenager reading from a newspaper that carried the word of Pheonix Arizona. A revolution is starting. Earthbender, Firebenders, Waterbenders, and Airbenders were joining together to rebel against the oppressive Fire Nation. They took up arms, Klashnikovs and Galils, and bore the Communist sickle and hammer over their faces to conceal their identity. Young and Old joined in.
Pheonix and Zuko had a meeting with the royal family of the Fire Nation. Both of them concealed their real faces with Communist flags. Zuko picked up the Galil that Pheonix gave him on the 3rd anniversary of his banishment. It was something special. He was a rebel. A real Communist Revolution rebel fighting alongside the people whom he cares about. He had a uniform that fit his position better than the old Fire Nation Armor. Pheonix dressed in her best, her dress with a Communist flag covering more than half her body leaving only her dominate hand, the right, free. But her angry piercing eyes could be seen a mile away. Pheonix put her hand on Zuko's shoulder and nodded to him as they walked into the Fire Nation Palace.
They walked up the stairs that led to the Fire Lord's War Room. Azula , Zuko's half sister, rose and whispered something to Pheonix.
"The Fire Lord is blaming you for starting the revolution," she whispered and showed her Communist Flag that was hidden under her uniform and hid it again.
"You need not to worry about the Interhamwe. They are civil enough not to cause unnecessary violence," Pheonix reassured Azula.
"There have been rumors about the Interhamwe?" Zuko asked.
"Yes, Father is saying that the bomb that exploded last week was planted by the Interhamwe," Azula said.
The Interhamwe was the name of the army that the rebels named themselves. They all knew that the Interhamwe was the name of the Rwandan army, but they all felt like as if the Rwandan genocide was happening to them.
"I don't think I can hold out undercover very long, Father found the Manifesto in my room," Azula said
"Tell him that you were just studying the reasons why the rebels are fighting," Zuko suggested
"I did," Azula replied.
"As much as I want to continue with this conversation, but I think the Fire Lord will make you if we don't start this "important" meeting," Pheonix implied. Zuko and Azula nodded in agreement.
Pheonix and zuko seated themselves in the War room. Zuko tried to hold back the urge to bow, as he was usually accustomed to. Pheonix, of coarse, refused to bow before a Fascist.