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Prologue

P.O.V-Azula- 9 years after the Comet

Azula was flying through the air, or that's what it felt like to her. As she looked down at the ever-swirling sea, it looked more welcoming than anything she'd ever seen.

The rocks, that held steady against the crashing, churning sea, were to her a loving embrace, a kind word or an opening to a heaven she had never been part of.

When Azula jumped off the cliff, she felt free. That word was a comfort she had never truly known…But now, now, she was soaring through the sky, as if celebrating her revenge, that to her was all too sweet.

As the waves opened their deathly arms towards her, she looked up at the glowing speck in the distance, seeing that all of the pieces had formed perfectly; she gave one last odious smile at the thunder clouds that gathered around a small glowing figure.

The Avatar.

It had taken months, but her plan had worked even if she was insane; who says the insane can't form their own revenge plan?

B.O.T.P

Fire Lord Zuko was standing alone in his mother's garden, arms folded as he meditated.

Giving him time to think for the millionth time about that hot summer day: he'd been so nervous- -it had been all for nothing in the end- but excited at the same time; he could still feel the stone in his palm. Waiting, waiting….waiting for this person, this woman, this Katara.

It had been nine years since the Comet; six years since that day that seemed like a lifetime ago. Zuko remembered her standing by the archway, panting slightly as if she'd hurried here, as if there was some danger.

He still remembered her long blue traveling clothes and slight beads of sweat on her forehead as she came closer, until she was standing next to him, placing a comforting hand on his shoulder smiling as her worried look drifted away.

Zuko could still feel her soft hand on his shoulder. Instead of her lightly placed hand, which had become a ghost of a memory, the jagged nails punctured his skin.

Just as realization dawned on him a harsh breath whispered mockingly, "You're still not depressed about that water peasant refusing your offer of marriage, are you Zuzu?"

Zuko shot open his molten eyes as he turned around to meet a matching set.

Zuko's heart started to race at those words, nobody ever knew about his proposal to Katara apart from Katara herself and one other, and Katara had not been in the Fire Nation since then.

Zuko swallowed thickly at this; Azula didn't look like the insane sister in her cell that he was used to; she looked like she used to before the Comet. With her hair pulled tightly into a topknot, red trousers, and her gold armor on, she looked like what she was; a princess.

As if sensing his unease she unclenched his shoulder and stood to show her full, tall form. Looking down at him with a calculating look.

"It's fine Zuzu; we're totally alone. Because you like to be on 'your own' when you're think of her." Azula smiled happily at her unflinching brother. "She never came back to see you after…well you know what I mean. Shame," Azula said flicking imaginary dirt off her nails.

Zuko fully turned around to face her, making his face into a stone mask. "How come?" he asked folding his arms

Azula looked up to stare directly into his eyes, a unpleasant smile now playing on her lips. "No reason, it's just you won't see her now."

Zuko's spine tingled unpleasantly. Azula always lies, Azula always lies. His wild thoughts were tangled up in what she was saying to him.

Azula never took her eyes from him as she circled around him, slowly pulling out a slightly burnt blue ribbon; hanging from the ribbon was a stone carving. Katara's necklace.

Zuko's eyes couldn't take in what he was seeing, Katara's necklace…Azula..Katara's necklace- something Katara never took it off.

Zuko took a faltering step back, tripping over a tree root in the process,making him fall flat on his back and knocking his head on the stone side of the pool.

Azula bent down, taking out a small glass bottle, saying, as she cupped the back of his head,"You should know I've been planning this for some time. At first I was..well, mad. I just remember being tortured from the inside and of course you visiting me. It was when you sent that man to help me get better. Do you remember?"

Zuko's eyes opened groggily from the impact, before trying to get away from his sister,but he couldn't move his legs, arms, or anything. He eyes opened wide as he realized what had happened.

"Of course you do, you thought it didn't work, but it wasn't too hard to deceive you."

Azula let his head drop back onto the ground as she walked around his body. "Oh and before you ask, I drugged the tea. Just to make you feel more...relaxed. As it is, it's quite a shock that I've not only taken you, Katara, The Avatar,and most of your dreary gang down, but all of the Fire Nation as well." Azula smiled at her brother before un-bottling the small green container.

"And you know the best part?" Azula laughed as she knelt down beside her brother, "The best part is that no-one can ever save the world again, and the rest of the world will fall apart."

Zuko looked up at Azula and no longer saw his sister or a young, mad woman in her cell, but a murderer. For he saw in her eyes that it was all true.

His friends were dead, his waterbender, his Tara was dead.

Azula's eyes flickered down to his wrist where a stone carved bracelet nestled into his maroon shirt sleeve, she hurriedly unclasped the stone bracelet that was around his wrist and dangled it above his head, before leaning over him and whispering into his ear, "I burned her to the ground Zuzu; I burned her to ash."

"The best part would have been when I sent a burned lock of her hair with a small note to the Avatar, announcing that his precious waterbender was killed by the Fire Nation. By us Zuzu."

Azula looked at his horrified face as the whole plan dawned on him. Tipping his head back, she sent the green poisonous contents into Zuko's mouth. Then she kicked him into his beloved pond and turned around as she saw the last breath that her brother inhaled come up to the surface.

AN: Thank you so much to Ana-DaughterofHades for helping me edit this chapter. You really helped. :)