silence greeted his question. "where is my mother!" firelord zuko asked again. Ozai grunted. "how am i supposed to know? it's been years." a lone rat scuffled across the cell floor. For a moment father and son just stared at each other until zuko broke the silence by snapping his fingers. a guard leaned in through the door. "yes firelord zuko?" he asked. "stay here in case my father needs some encouragement." ozai narrowed his eyes. "fine, last i knew of her she was living in a town a little ways away from serpents pass." zuko took a quick intake of breath. " thank you guard that will be all." he said in a unatually high voice. after the guard had left zuko glared at his father before standing up. He took one last look at the once great firelord ozai, before muttering "monster." and slamming the door behind him.
zuko's head was spinning; his thoughts all jumbled up. but one kept repeating itself in his mind, he knew where his mother was and he was going to find her. Before he knew where his feet were taking him he was standing in the courtyard of the house where his three friends lived with the avatar; his best friend. Zuko heasitated before knocking. Could aang really help him? He awnserd his question a heart beat later. if anyone could help him it was aang. zuko knocked three quick times and the door creaked open. what had happened?
The houses interior was in shambles. a wall on the right side was crumbling in. all the furnitire was broken and scatterd all over the ruble, and in the middle of the room his clothes in shreds, cuts and bruises all over his body was aang. Aang was slumped over a peticularlly large rock. His eyes were closed and his chest rose and fell very slowly. however zuko saw as he knelt beside aang that his tattao's were glowing like they did when ever he was in the avatar state. zuko searched the house but there was no sign of gataria, saka, touph, or even momo. Zuko returned to aang his mother and her location fogotten. Aang had stirred and he opened his eyes when zuko sat down beside him. zuko noticed how they struggled to focuse on him. aang made a sudden move to get up and let out a gasp of pain, so zuko pushed him back down again. " aang what happend here?" zuko's voice cracked with the effort of restraining aang who seemed to be frantic. He gasped for air clearly trying to stay awake " A-attack... b-bending go-ne... couldn't s-save them..." he trailed off his eyes rolled back in his head and he lay'd still again.
