This is a little A.U. fic idea I had banging around in my head for a week so I finally decided to put it on paper. Zuko decides to help Aang and Katara down in the crystal jail cell in Ba Sing Se instead of Azula.
A Change of heart
The 4 combatants stood, Azula and Zuko facing Aang and Katara.
"Please I need you brother."
"You don't have to do this!" Aang said desperately.
A few seconds pass in silence every one staring at Zuko.
"You're right… I don't." He turned toward Azula and punched a fireball at her face.
"You'll regret this!" She yelled as she executed a low kick aiming for their feet.
"No I won't." Zuko said determinedly punching more fireballs at his sister, when suddenly he felt a hand clamp painfully onto his feet.
"What the…?" He turned around while Aang created hurricane force winds to repel Azula's attack.
"The Di Lee!" Katara hissed as tons of them marched into the cavern.
She summoned a tidal wave in an attempt to hold them off. The Di Lee summoned an Earth wall out of the ground and the wave crashed harmless against it.
Zuko ran forward and did a low kick similar to Azula's trying to make the Di Lee lose their footing.
Meanwhile Aang had been desperately holding his own against Azula. His winds crashed harmlessly against the fire and he had to leap out the way. "Uh-Oh!" He said aloud as she started to summon lightning.
He recovered just in time and created a wall of crystal. The lightning smashed into the crystal and it exploded in his face.
"Arg!!" He screamed as he flew backwards into a wall.
Zuko kicked out again to keep them from earthbending and Katara froze them on the spot.
"Arg!!" Katara heard Aang's earsplitting scream and turned around to see him crumpled against a wall.
She turned back to the Di Lee. More were pouring in by the second. She gathered all the water she could and sent it hurtling towards Azula. Azula turned at the last second, they were now icy daggers. She created a shield of flame in front of her a second too late, a single dagger sliced into her arm.
"Ahh!" She yelled as she staggered back in pain.
Katara ran over to the pile of rocks that was Aang. "Uh…" He moaned from under the rubble. "Hang on Aang!" She yelled as she tried to shift the rocks. "Where's Toph when you need her?" She said angrily.
Zuko was starting to get overwhelmed by sheer numbers. He took a glance over his shoulder and saw Katara digging through the pile of rocks Aang was trapped under.
"Hurry up!" He yelled as he dodged a rock glove. But there was no need because just then his uncle appeared at his side and joined in the fight.
"Katara…" Aang said quietly. He was fading fast and she couldn't move these rocks. Conveniently Kuei Bosco Sokka and most importantly Toph ran down into the catacombs a few seconds later.
"Toph!" Katara yelled before she could jump into the fight.
"What happened Sugar Queen, broke a fingernail?" She asked jeeringly as Katara kneeled by the pile of rocks.
"Aang's trapped under here I need your help getting him out." She said gritting her teeth against the insult.
"Well that's different." She said apologetically while the boulders lifted off of Aang's crumpled body.
Azula had recovered from Katara's attack, "She wont be able to see it coming." She had heard the reports of the mysterious blind girl being uncannily strong but had disregarded them. She aimed her good arm at Toph and let loose a lightning bolt.
Toph felt Azula get up again and sidestepped her attack easily. As she felt it crackle by she adjusted the ground under the Azula's feet so she fell flat on her face. She laughed at her to make her feel stupid then encased her in rock.
"That's the last of them." Zuko said quietly as the badly burned Di Lee moaned at his feet.
The group gathered around the fallen airbender and watched anxiously as Katara pulled some water out of the underground stream to heal Aang.
"I've healed all of the injuries on the surface, I can do no more." She said sadly as the water stopped glowing.
"We should put him in a bed or something." Sokka said after a few moments.
"You can all stay in the palace." Kuei said warmly as they started walking back up the shaft Aang had made.
"Wait! We forgot some one." Toph said and walked over to Azula, she then proceeded to make an earth cage and drag it back over making sure it bounced over every last bump in the ground. "What about the Di Lee?" Zuko asked curiously.
"Let them rot." Kuei said rather viciously as he continued up the tunnel.
"Uh…" Azula moaned from inside the cage. Toph dragged it all the way up the shaft and hung it from the palace wall for all to see. Sokka laughed at Toph's brutality to the fire princess while Zuko just sighed.
I'll probably have the next chapter up tomorrow and maybe chapters to colors and Eyes of Stone Heart of Air too because I have nothing to do. Review!