Infancy: Twilight Children

Chapter 1: Dawn of War

Disclaimer- Avatar the Last Airbender does not belong to me and neither does Mika and Kenai, they are property of Nick and Zutara-shewolf777, respectively. But the dumb shit I make them do dats' all me baby. Lol Also this fanfic contains some foul language. If you are offended by this then- Fuck You.

It has been years since the end of the Fire Nation's Imperialist World War and the world is on the rough road to peace. Zuko is now Fire Lord with Katara as is Lady. They have started a family with Kenai, the mischievous waterbender as their first born son, and Mika, the reserved but kind firebender. Despite the constant meetings, councils and negotiations, the royal family has lived a comfortable life. But all good things must come to an end. And not everyone wanted the war to end the way it did.

"Yahhhh…" Kenai yawned while walking to breakfast with Mika.

"You okay?" she asked. "You sound like you didn't get much sleep last night."

"Yeah, I just had a nightmare." Kenai answered her as if he a just gotten out of bed.

"Really? It must have been really bad to keep you up all night."

"I was being chased by a saber-tooth moose-lion."

Mika immediately began laughing.

Kenai snapped at her in a serious tone, "It's not funny."

Mika still laughing, "Yes it is."

"I'm serious. This huge saber-tooth moose-lion was chasing me down a forest or something and he was snarling at me like," and he tried to make growling and snarling sounds causing Mika to laugh even more. Kenai continued, "And all night long he was chasing me down a forest or something. And you know when you're being chase by a killer or a beast in the dream they can go as fast as they want but you can't fuckin'. It's like, 'AHH, COME ON. I CAN'T MOVE!' But the damn thing was like, 'gnarl sne, sne graackk, gnarl some more, sne.' And lightning was shooting out of his eyes and he was wearing loafers or something. I don't know.' All night long..." Kenai's words trailed off after that. Mika was laughing the entire time.

Just then, Iroh passed by. "Good Morning."

Only Mika replied. "Good Morning Uncle." That's when Iroh saw Kenai's tired expression.

"Are you alright? You seem very tired still."

"Sorry Uncle. I just had the weirdest dream."

All concerned he asked, "What was your dream?"

"I was being chased by a giant saber-tooth moose-lion."

"What? Are you serious? Hold on." With that Iroh reached into his sleeve to pull out a small, light blue book with a crescent moon and cloud on the cover. He opened it and started flipping pages.

"Uncle, what are you doing?" Kenai just had to ask.

With a matter-of-factly tone Iroh replied, "I have a dream book. I'm looking up saber-tooth moose-lions to see what they represent."

Mika and Kenai watch curiously as their (great) uncle kept flipping pages.

All of a sudden,"AH! Here it is, okay…saber-tooth moose-lion…chasing you…" Iroh stopped to stare blankly at Kenai and say, "You're gay."

Mika instantly busted out laughing.

"WHAT? But what about the lightning?"

Iroh continued to flip pages. "Okay, here we go. Lightning: emphasizes the gay. That's what it says. If there's lighting coming from the saber-tooth moose-lion then you're super gay. That's what it says right here." Iroh then raised the book and pointed the words super gay. "He wasn't wearing loafers was he?"

"OH NO!"

"Because that would mean that you are ultra, mega gay, like a superhero gay."

Mika just kept laughing, "Wait till Dad hears about this."

Kenai darted back, "You shut up, this coming from the girl who still goes to sleep hugging her stuffed koala-otter."

Mika suddenly stopped laughing and punched her brother in the shoulder and ended the conversation. With that little event behind them, they continued for breakfast.

Zuko and Katara continued down the hall toward the main board room, it was unusual to have meetings so early. Meanwhile, Katara sensed Zuko's feelings of annoyance and irritation.

"Is something the matter?" Katara asked her husband.

Zuko did not stop to reply, "How can you tell?"

"We've been married for seventeen years. You think I would know these things." She replied as a-matter-of-factly as possible.

"I'm getting tired of these meetings, and now we can't even have breakfast with the kids. It's just a bunch of old gas bags rambling on about nothing and I'm sick of it." Zuko was getting frustrated, quickly, which (as many of you already know) was not a good thing.

Katara stopped him, turned his head to face her, and put her hand on his shoulder, "Hey, I know it's hard and I'm just as upset as you are that we're losing time with our children but this is important." Like she had to reinstate the obvious, Zuko thought. Katara continued. "Not just for the Fire Nation or the world but for us. Once Aang passes the treaty, World Reconstruction will end and we'll have our lives back. We'll get to restore the Fire Nation and spend time with our children. I know it's difficult but trust me," she gave him a reassuring kiss. "It'll be worth it."

Zuko smiled, "It already is," and kissed her back. Whenever Zuko had doubts or was irritated by something, Katara always gave him strength to continue and make things seem less difficult or more rewarding.

They continued on to the main board room, standing proud, like royalty should.

Mika and Kenai finished breakfast and decided to go about to rest of there day.

Kenai

Kenai decided to get back at the old general who made his parents miss breakfast. Most of Kenai's friends (other Fire Nation nobles' sons) decided to help him because, "If you're not helping him, you're probably his target."

They were in the gardens, standing in front of the hallway with several barrels of fruit punch. "So, what did you have in mind Prince Kenai?"

"Yeah, what does the waterbending faggot prince and his squad of sorry excuses of Fire Nation Nobility doing today?" and ended with a smug laugh. Everyone turned to see a muscled, short-haired, arrogant teen wearing a black, no sleeve shirt and a scar across his face.

"Aw crap," were the first words that escaped Kenai's mouth. "What do you care Kazuma?"

"I don't, tell me anyway." Kazuma was the heir to one of the highest ranking nobles in the Fire Nation. His noble family was the one of the ones who supported the war from the beginning saying that it shows the superiority of their clan and the Fire Nation. As you can guess, they're not exactly favored during times of peace.

Kenai sighed, reluctant to tell him, "I'm gonna pull a prank on one of the old generals and these guys are helping me, so-"

"Another prank? Why don't you do something more productive like splash around with that sissy waterbending shit of yours?"

Kenai got angry. "You know, every time you interrupt me your penis gets smaller."

All the guys began to laugh when Kazuma put his legs together. "Screw you guys. I have better things to do then hang out with a bunch of pussies."

"Whatever." They all watched him leave. "All right guys, let's gets back to work."

Mika

Mika decided to catch up on some meditating since her parents were busy, and she didn't want to hang out with her brother's friends, or the other noble girls. She decided that the gardens (a different one, not the one Kenai is in) would be the best place to clear her mind and think.

Mika sat down with her legs crossed. She slowly began to close her eyes. She looked around and took note of everything around her, something Aang once told her to do before meditating. The turtleduck pond, the cool breeze, the lamp lit in the hallway, the soft grass beneath her, the girl yelling behind her…wait, what?

"Mika!"

"Eeek!" Mika turned her head back to a see a girl in a noble's dress with long glossy black hair. Oh, it's just Xiaoyu, she thought. "What is it?" she asked without sounding mean.

"I didn't mean to interrupt you but, well, umm…have you seen your brother around?"

"He's with his friends in the west garden." She turned around to continue meditating.

"Oh, thank you." Xiaoyu bowed and then took off.

She had scared her a little bit, but Mika decided not to think into it and continue meditating.

Kenai

"Okay, could you run this by me again?"

"Alright here's my plan. I learned how to make black ice a little while ago, so I've put black ice all around the floor of this turn here in the hallway, so when he comes over here I'll bend the ice into water and send him this way."

Still confused he asked Kenai, "That's part one, right?"

So Kenai continued, "Yes. Part two is why I asked you guys to get me all this punch." Then, Kenai bend the punch into several thin sheets of ice standing in front of the hallway.

"Okay, so when I send him coming this way you guys use firebending to melt the punch and that son of a bitch will taste payback in six fruity flavors."

The guys started laughing at Kenai's joke but stopped when they heard footsteps. "He's coming."

"Okay, here it goes." When Kenai saw the shadow he bended the black ice and sent the figure towards the ice punch sheets.

"Eeep!"

"Why did I hear a girl's 'eep' instead of a guy's 'whoa?'" But it was too late. The guys melted the sheets and Kenai stared in horror as a girl was sent threw the barrage of delicious fruity liquid.

The girl calmly stood up and with a confused look asked, "Did I do something wrong?"

"You didn't. He did," and pointed at Kenai.

"Xiao, I'm so sorry. I just…you weren't…but…uhh…enjoy your punch?" he asked nervously.

Xiaoyu looked as she was about to cry, but got angry instead. "You're such a jerk." And with that, she kicked him in the shin and ran in the other direction, crying.

"Oww." Kenai picked up his leg and started hopping in pain. "Wait!" Then he fell to one side. He decided not to get up. He was too ashamed at what just happened.

Zuko and Katara entered the board room expecting some good news and reports of progress with the Earth Kingdom. They were so wrong.

"My lord and lady we have a situation."

Zuko and Katara gave surprised looks and suddenly got a very bad feeling. "What is it?"

"Well all our forts on the southern coast of the Earth Kingdom have conquered several Earth Kingdom villages."

Zuko was furious, "That's impossible. I'm never authorized such actions."

The nobleman continued, "I know, but they have been putting down there Fire Nation flags in place for this one." He handed Zuko a small black flag with an insignia that showed a fiery skull with horns and an X over it.

"Send troops immediately to get rid of whatever or whoever is doing this." Zuko ordered with an enraged zeal.

"No." Katara interjected. "Sending troops and starting battles may harm civilians in nearby villages. If this happens the Earth Kingdom will see this as an act of war and could cause an international backlash against us denouncing the treaties and negotiations sending us back to square one."

Damn, she's right, Zuko thought. Just then, a general entered the board room holding several scrolls in his arm.

He kneeled, "My lord and lady," and got back up. "Intelligence reports of someone buy massive quantity of weapons and supplies. There is even one report stating a purchase of an enormous warship."

Zuko took the one of the scrolls and continued to look through them. "Who is doing all this?" There was a troubled tone in his voice.

"We don't know," the general continued. "But we suspect whoever is doing this, may want to restart the war."

Zuko and Katara exchanged glances. Katara asked her husband, "What are we going to do?"

Zuko started thinking. After a while he came up with an answer.

"We will send a small team to go and gather more in-depth intelligence on these war-starters immediately. We must stop this before it starts. General, gather a crew and a ship."

"Right away sir, but who is going to lead this mission?"

Zuko began to pace back and forth, "Someone we know, someone we can trust completely."

Katara also began to think for suitable candidates, until,

"I have an idea."

Author's Comments

Okay, it probably looks weird I don't know why it just does.
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Here it is the first chapter of me fanfic. I know it might not be too exciting yet but this is just the first chapter. Trust me it'll get better.
I got the whole saber-tooth moose-lion dream from Dane Cook's "Super Gay Crab Dream." So there I give him credit.
Please comment with your HONEST opinion. I'm not gonna lie to you so don't lie to me.
And (because I'm bored) here's something else-
CHARACTER THEME SONGS FOR InfancyTwlight Children

Zuko & Katara-"Blurry" by Puddle of Mudd
Kenai-"Original Prankster" by The Offspring
Mika-"Snow (Hey Oh)" by The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Thanx.