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"Where is my mother? Tell me!" Zuko asked angrily.
"You didn't really think I will answer you that, did you?" Ozai smirked at Zuko's question.
"You..."
Knowing this visit was nothing but a waste, Zuko turned back and left the royal prison. It had been a month since his groups separated. Aang and Katara went traveling all over the word, Sokka and Suki went to Kyoshi Island and Toph returned to her home, to her parents. Zuko started to find the last people of his precious family, his mother, Ursa...
To find her, Zuko did everything he could, asking all the old maids and servants in the palace, finding every single clue about her banishment, asking all the members of his mother site and Ozai. But he couldn't find anything...
He even sought his uncle's help. Iroh told Zuko that he would make every members of The order of white lotus to find her and Zuko didn't have to worry. But how could he not worry? After all these years, he eventually had the chance to get his mother back.
"There must be something about her in the palace... There must be!"
Zuko said as he went into the palace and then, he saw Mai was standing at the stairs to the second floor.
"Zuko!" Mai called his name loudly.
"What's wrong?" Zuko asked as he came near to his lover.
"You have a guest. Your uncle. He is in the Fire Lord's chamber." She pointed at the biggest door with a Fire Nation's emblem on it.
"What? He came all ways here from Ba Sing Se?" Zuko surprised.
"Yeah. And I don't think you should make him wait for long." Mai smiled.
"You don't need to tell me that."
Zuko smiled then he ran into where his uncle was. The only reason his uncle came all way here must be...
"Uncle!?" Zuko burst into his chamber.
"Hello, Fire Lord Zuko." Iroh smiled as he looked at his nephew and put down the tea cup.
"I missed you so much..." Zuko ran into Iroh and hugged his uncle tightly.
"There there, we just met each other last two weeks. Don't act too overly emotional." Iroh patted at Zuko's back.
"So, did you find my mother?" Zuko released his uncle and asked joyfully like that a kid asked for gifts from his father who just returned home.
"Phew, somehow I know this will happen." Iroh sighed and smiled. "I have news, but you won't like it, don't get too upset."
"You have no idea where she is, right?" Zuko looked disappointed.
"No, not really. I said I have news... But the thing is... It is hard for me to give it to you." Iroh said sadly as he took out a red scroll from his sleeve.
"What's that? And why it is hard for you to give it?" Zuko pointed at the scroll.
"Do you remember the secret chamber which had several scrolls about the royal family's history?" Iroh looked at the scroll and said slowly.
"Yeah. Is this one from that chamber, too? But why is it so wrinkled-up? I remember that all of them were kept in good shape."
"It's because this one was taken from the chamber a long time ago." Iroh answered as he looked at Zuko with his sad golden eyes.
"What!? Who dared do that? And why do you have that scroll?" Zuko asked rapidly as he pointed at the scroll.
"Because..." Iroh sighed before going back to talking "I was the one who took it."