HEY EVERYONE! Nice of you all to read my horrible horrible story... the song is from vocaliod 'Secret'.
I DO NOT OWN THE LYRICS TO THE SONG OR AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER IN ANYWAY!
I don't know if I am a boy.
I don't know if I am a girl
I don't know when I was born
I don't know who's my mother
I don't know when I became so alone
I don't know how I got mad
I don't know how I got mad
I don't think I should go back
The tribe of the sun stood in a circle watching a chained young black dragon with a red under side snarl and snap at any who drew near with swishing her long tail like a whip while the tribe members minded the razor end.
The dragon was different from the usual dragon's known around the nations. While most were long and snake like with two arms this dragon was more giraffe shaped one with four legs it walked on, a long neck with a long swishing tail to go with it. There were silver like accessories on her neck tail and wrists each equipped with spikes. It also had six large horns three resting on each side of its head almost as if they were a crown with a few more sharp spines went down the neck but stopped halfway, the eyes were baby blue witch would have made it look innocent… that is if it wasn't acting so feral and mad snapping and roaring wildly and even breathing black/purply flames now and then but soon the dragon's rage was cut off when two louder ones resonated from the two peeks.
The black one's head snap up with a snarl showing no fear what so ever when Ran and shaw busted from their caves despite the great size difference. The Blue and Red dragons flew a bit doing the dance of the dragons and then went down to see their great great…( A LOT OF GREATS!)… great great grandchild in a fury and slammed down to the ground in front of the black dragon.
"CYNDER DO YOU KNOW WHY YOU WERE TOLD TO COME HERE!?" Ran roared while the black dragon just chuckled.
"no grandad why don't you tell me?" Cynder chuckled mockingly flicking her tail enraging her grandparents
"DO NOT PLAY DUMB YOUNG BLACK DRAGON! RAN MAY BE MERCIFUL BUT I'M NOT! YOU ARE HERE BECAUSE YOU DESTROYED THE LAST OF OUR KINDS NESTS ALONG WITH THE PARENTS! YOU EVEN DESTROYED COUNTLESS VILLAGES WITHOUT REMORSE SLAUGHTERING ALL WHO LIVED THERE WHEN THEY DID NOTHING TO YOU!" Shaw roared his mouth directly over Cynder's head as she just shook off the slobber.
"…why grandchild?" Ran asked as Cynder just looked them both dead in the eyes.
"because I was bored. None of the humans I come across can put up a fight and so I thought why not fight my own kind? So I hunted them down so I could fight them. but I got carried away, but the egg nest was destroyed in the process." Cynder said this enraged the twin dragons as they took off into the skys and circled the area she was in creating black clouds making the tribes people run away knowing the dragon failed judgement.
"VERY WELL GRANDCHILD! YOU DON'T WANT TO BE BORED!? WE WILL DO TO YOU THAT SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN TO ANY DRAGON!" Shaw roared as Cynder smirked
"Oh yeah? What's that?" she said when Ran roared what any dragon feared the most.
"LOSING YOUR WINGS AND FURTHER MORE YOU MAY NEVER RETURN TO YOUR TRUE SELF UNTIL YOU HAVE LEARNED YOUR LESSON! YOU ARE NOT WORTHY BEING A DRAGON!" with this a bolt of lightning came down from the red and blue dragons hitting the black one dead in the back making it roar in agony with bolt after bolt came down in an endless painful barrage until it felt its bones twisting and snapping into a different shape while it's scales started being replaced by skin and the tail and beautiful sliver horns grew smaller and smaller along with her blood red wings.
Soon nothing was left of the dragon but a naked teenage girl with medium long black hair with a purple hue that stopped just past her shoulders, there was smoke coming from her back she was sure there was an ugly burn mark from the lightning.
"W-what….?" Cynder said looking over her new self in utter shock as Shaw just turned away and flew into his cave while Ran came down while holding something.
"I am only doing this to give you a handicap. Take these clothing and search for general Iroh tell him fire masters shaw and ran sent you. He'll understand…and Cynder if you return here prematurely from your lesson. You shall be killed on the spot! BE GRATEFUL WE AREN'T DOING SO NOW!" After saying that Ran flew back into his cave while Cynder scoffed and grabbed the clothing they was a red shirt with black trimmings and a white shirt to go under it with black pant and sandals, she fiddled a bit with the human clothing but figured it out and then walked down the steps to see the sun people who brought her here by command of her grandfathers they all watched with wide eyes at the girl who came down from the dragons place. She scanned them all with her light blue eyes and then randomly pointed at a man.
"YOU!" she said quickly making the man flinch. "You will tell me where I can find this Iroh person."
"H-he's at the fire lords castle with his brother f-fire lord Ozai!" the man said shaking as Cynder sighed walked off away from the sun tribe and went to the beach to find transportation of sorts. She kicked up a bit of dirt and sighed to find nothing and went to a jagged black rock that peered a bit further into the ocean and she sat there while throwing a rock into the air while catching it getting used to her human hands and legs, they were sorta like her old arms and legs only she walked on her hind legs and she had a better grip on things. With a sigh she tossed the rock into the ocean and sat down while she thought of a way to-
SQUUUUUUUUUUIRT!
A giant stream of water pummeled Cynder's face making her gurgle and cough the water making her growl and look around to see what did it she saw a flying dolphin happily swimming around the place and jumped into the air with its "wings" flapping to give it more leverage for a flip.
"A flying dolphin! They can transport people and are gentle creatures! And even easy to ride~" Cynder cheered as she made some clicking noises with her tongue while the dolphin did the same following her to the beach and came as close to the beach as it could get. the dolphin seemed young and made whistle noises while Cynder came out and gave it a slight pet on the head making it make a noise of glee.
"I need your help friend, I need to find a man named Iroh. Will you help me? I could go myself but I'm a human now and they aren't that… sturdy you know?" Cynder said even though she couldn't understand the animal… hell the only animal she could understand were reptiles and dragons.
The dolphin just squirted water in her face once more making her just look at it through her bangs. "I say that's a… yes?" Cynder asked as the dolphin nuzzled her with a squeak.
"cute… now lets go." Cynder said as she walked with the dolphin until they both were in waist high water. "Okay now I gotta mount you so we can set off. so I need you to- WOAH!" Cyder gasped as the dolphin went down and between her legs ready to go to find iroh.
"Okay then let's go!" Cynder said with a grin while the dolphin squirted water from its mouth into the air and took off away from the island of her grandfathers.
Two years later
Cynder watched the sea where her flying dolphin Squirt was swimming freely as she wore her custom fire nation armor with dragons emblazed on the chest and back with a kimono like under attire. It has been two years since she has started her punishment and she is now on a ship, with general Iroh, and his nephew Zuko…. On a wild goose chase after the avatar.
Cynder snickered at the whole thought of the avatar being alive, everyone knows the avatar is dead. He's dead dead dead. Been dead for the last 100 years and will be dead for more to come.
"I see your friend is getting frisky from the cold water." Iroh said walking up to Cynder she nodded as the flying dolphin flipped in the air.
"yeah he's enjoying the south pole unlike a certain prince we all know." Cynder said jabbing her thumb in Zuko's direction as he peered through his telescope for a bit before getting frustrated and finding nothing.
"ahhh yes, he has been getting more frustrated as time goes on. But don't worry he just needs something to distract him." Iroh said as Cynder just looked at him.
"Like what Iroh?"
"…. I have no idea… maybe he'll like to play some Pai sho with me~" Iroh said stroking his beard as Cynder shrugged.
"well If he won't I'm up for a game… mostly since I got nothing else to do and you're fun to be around." Iroh smiled at this and went to get the game while Cynder looked over to Zuko again and rolled her eyes seeing he was still looking through the telescope. Even though she's been on this ship for two years with these two and the crew the only one who knew what she truly was was Iroh since she trusted no one else with the fact she's was a dragon since she's afraid they might take her seriously and try to kill her since it's "honorable" to kill a dragon. But really it was just showing off how strong you can be like a game of moxy it disgusted Cynder to a fault along with many other human traits.
"I got the game Cynder~ come sit." Iroh said with the game in his hands while Cynder smiled and came over, she liked this guy he seemed to make her feel at ease and not full of rage and subdued her urge to shed blood for some reason… maybe it was his positive personality.
While the two were in the middle of the game the two failed to notice a bright light shoot up into the sky unlike Zuko.
"Uncle, Cynder look! Do you know what this means?" Zuko said pointing to the beam of light Cynder sighed and moved her tile to a different spot ignoring the fire nation's prince.
"that we won't be able to finish our game?" Iroh stated making the dragon chuckle only to stop midway when Iroh broke her defense with his white lotus tile trick making her pout and think of a new strategy while the two zuko snapped at Iroh for something silly and cynder finally joined the conversation.
"dude calm down and drink some tea. It'll warm and refreshing, besides with us at the south pole it really helps with the cold." Cynder said while pouring herself another cup.
"I DON'T WANT ANY TEA! I want the avatar damn it!" Zuko shouted making Cynder bristle in response and let out a low growl while turning slowly.
"Cynder, don't." Iroh said quietly but firmly knowing full well what Cynder was thinking of. She stopped midway and clenched her sharp teeth and snatched her cup of tea and slowly drank it trying to calm her nerves.
"and also Cynder." Iroh said with a grin after Cynder made her next move. Then noticed her mistake on the board and silently sighed in defeat after Iroh made his winning move. "try to pay attention to what piece you're moving sometime the smallest of moves make the biggest difference." Iroh said as Cynder nodded in understandment.
Cynder watched Squirt that night eat his newly caught fish. She sighed feeling envious at how he was able to stay his normal self while he came up to the ship letting Cynder reach down to pet him on the head with a smile.
"you sure do like that flying dolphin don't you?" a voice said as Cynder looked up to see Zuko leaning on the railing to see Squirt squeak a bit at his presence as if saying 'hi'.
"well he and Iroh are my only friends here. But squirt was my first friend." Cyder said with a smile only for it to go away when a stream of water was splashed onto her face once more. When she heard Zuko give an almost silent chuckle she moved her bangs out her hair quickly to see Zuko stop smiling and look away.
"I saw that smile Baldy." Cynder said making zuko's eyebrow twitch.
"for the last time…. I'm. NOT. BALD!" Zuko snapped as Cynder rolled her eyes.
"grow more hair man, then we'll talk." Cynder said as Zuko just scoffed. "Besides you'd probably look hotter with more hair anyway." Cynder finished with a flirtatious wink making Zuko's face go red.
"W-what!?" he stuttered looking around to see if anyone heard that only to hear Cynder make a weird noise before bursting out laughing.
"Y-you really thought I meant that!? Bwahahaha! That's to good! If anything you're not that good looking at all" Cynder kept on laughing as Zuko's blush disappeared and was replaced with the look of rage.
"It's not like you're so good looking either!" Zuko snapped before stomping off Cynder looked over at him confused while she slowly stopped laughing.
"I was only pulling his leg. What's wrong?" She said to herself as Squirt just looked at her with a whistle as she stood there not knowing what she did wrong.
"Iroh? You awake?" Cynder said knocking on his door.
"yes I was just about to hit it how can I help you?" Iroh said as Cynder explained not understanding why Zuko was so upset with her leg pulling.
"*Sigh* Cynder, you must understand that prince Zuko is self-conscious about his appearance due to his scar. When you started laughing and such he thought you meant he was ugly due to the scar on his face and he got upset. I know you are still learning about us and still need time to learn some things but you shouldn't try to take things that far. Understand? Now I think its best you apologize to prince Zuko" Iroh explained as Cynder felt more of her dragon pride committing suicide as she slowly stalked off to Zuko's door that was down the corridor.
She stood there for a moment only to start walking off again then made a frustrated sigh when her newly acquired human emotions made her turn around and knocked on the door twice.
"Hey Zuko, you awake? Or knocked out? Please be asleep so I don't have to go through this." Cynder muttered the last part as Zuko opened the door with a deadly glare
"what?" he said with venom laced in his voice as Cynder took a deep breath.
"Ok at first I didn't understand why you were mad when I was joking with you earlier then I realized why and I didn't mean you were ugly from the scar. I was just trying to pull your leg without taking that into consideration so… I'm sorry ok?" Cynder said as Zuko blinked not knowing how to respond but nodded.
"ok ummmm, just don't do it again alright?" Zuko said as Cynder just nodded while mentally rolling her eyes in annoyance at how she's being bossed around.
"well good night then Zuko." Cynder said waving as she left while she heard a faint good night from behind her and the iron door shutting.
Cynder opened her eyes to the sound of the sound of stomping above her. She dead panned knowing it was Zuko with his fire bending training… AGAIN! Why did she have to get the room that was right under the deck?
She tried to go back asleep and ignore it but was so loud she just made a growl of annoyance and got up to start her day. It was normal day, Iroh training Zuko while Cynder stayed in her room and learned how humans fire bended while she also sharpened her own fire bending skills in said room from Iroh instructing Zuko while she listened and tried to do the same even if she couldn't see what they were doing she could tell what steps they were taking since she learned these long ago when she was younger and still a dragon.
So this was like retraining and strengthen herself in case she ever went back prematurely and had to fight to survive, she also needed this training to keep herself alive amongst the humans since the only thing she has left from being a dragon is her blue eyes and her sharp teeth… sure they were still human but her canines were longer and sharper making it a bit easier for her to bite into things.
soon Cynder found herself watch her black flamed candle grow and shrink while she breathed in and out with her sprawled out not sure on what to do at the moment iroh was taking a nap, Squirt was fishing, and Zuko was still on deck with the telescope…. So she really had nothing to do.
Soon she grew bored and put the candle down on her table and left the room. When she went up to the deck as solider was going down nearly getting knocked over.
"hey Zuko-"
"well you were fast Cynder. Perfect timing I just found the avatar as well as his hiding spot." Zuko said as Cynder just looked at him and shut the door to the deck went back to her room. Only when she sat down cross legged on her bed did it all sink in.
"WHAT THE F-"
Chapter end.