Once again ladies and gentlemen I am afraid I must remind you that the first Star Saphire was a villainess so ergo it can apply to Azula. Further more this story takes place in the Green Lantern history after Sinestro is kicked out but before he becomes empowered by the yellow ring. There will be no Blackest Night lanterns outside of the ones I have already established, not that I blame any of you for expecting them, my own fault really, I really should have picked a better title. start the fic.
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Zuko took a hit in the torso from Azula's powerful laser beam, sliding across the ground on his back.
"You know Zuzu, it's so good to be home. My bending doesn't work like it should in space! It was all over the place!"
"Space?" repeated Zuko.
"That's right Zuko, how do you think I got out? An alien species called Zamarons, basically old bitties with a warrior culture, they appoint a queen from the ranks of mortals, each woman selected was called a Star Saphire. They heard about how I nearly became Fire Lord and were impressed, they broke me out and gave me this gem on my forehead so I could become their new Star Saphire!"
Zuko struggled to get up but the pain from his injuries was so great he simply could not, he merely kept falling back down.
Azula started to walk towards him at a brisk pace, her gem glowing brighter and brighter. "But now, because of them, I can finally put you in your place."
Her smile turned cynical "Six feet below the ground! ! !"
The gem on her head flashed a brilliant saphire color before firing a much larger laser beam than those that she had fired previous.
Sokka continued to ride his eelhound until he had found a very unusual sight indeed. On a small rock, sprawled out and bleeding on it, was what looked like to be some kind of giant bug. But this no ordinary giant bug like he was once forced to consume in a certain swamp, for starters this bug was easily as large as he was. And for another it's blood seemed to be orange of all things. And while this unnerved Sokka, it was still in pain, maybe even dying. He couldn't turn his back on it.
As Sokka got closer to it, an astounding thing happened, the odd insect spoke. "W...wh...who's...there...?"
Normally most people would have run away when a large injured insect spoke to them, but Sokka could only feel pity for the bleeding bug, especially since he had seen weirder things with Aang. He hopped off Eely and turned the bug over onto his back to reveal not only the open wound he was bleeding from but a uniform. A green uniform with the symbol of a lantern on his chest was what he wore.
Sokka propped his head up. "Just hang on! You'll be okay! We'll get you to my sister and she can heal you..."
"No..." coughed the alien insect. "It is...too late for me...the only important thing now..." the ring flew off his claw and flew out into the horizon for a moment before looping back stopping just short of Sokka's face. There it floated, hovering as if it were waiting for something.
Sokka wasn't sure if it was possible but he could have sworn the large insect just smiled, quite an acomplishment considering it had pincers for a mouth.
"Unbelievable... out of everyone...on the planet...it chooses the one...that came to it..."
Sokka knew it would probably be a bad idea but a large part of him really want to touch this ring; to grab it, to wear it, and he had no idea why. "What is this thing?"
"The ring is a complex tool, that...is used by the green lanterns...an elite galactic force...each lantern is in charge... of patroling one of... thirty-six hundred galaxies of the universe."
Sokka looked at the ring then back to the alien with a fierce determination. "I'll be sure the Avatar gets it!"
"No..." wheezed the odd creature. "The Avatar could never use such a power...he is too bound to this planet...a green lantern must do his best to help...all if the universe..."
Sokka furrowed his brow "Well then who am I supposed to..."
"The ring is yours...you must wear it..."
Sokka's eyes widened to the size of saucers "What?" he shook his head to regain his composure. "No no no, there must be some kind of mistake. I can think of a ton of better people who are..."
"It chose you...for a reason..." Sokka frowned.
"In case you haven't noticed, I'm not a bender, I don't know how to make things fly around let alone use an alien ring...which won't stop hovering in my face for some reason." It was true, said ring was glowing brightly and hovering annoyingly close to Sokka's face. "I"m just a guy with a boomerang."
"It's b-b-better that way... the ring is a bad choice... for your p-planet's benders. Their powers comes from the planet of Elementia and the sun that it orbits..."
"B-But...I..."
"Take it. It is yours." Sokka was told gentally.
Sokka steeled himself and made a grab for the floating ring but it quickly dodged his hand only to put itself on to his finger. In a blinding flash of green light Sokka had been adoned with a uniform similar to what the insect was wearing.
The injured lantern winced as his breathing suddenly became a lot more rapid and uneven. "Whatever you do..."
He was starting to cough blood now, and all Sokka could do was look on with concern as the insect grabbed his hand brought him down closer.
"Y-Y-Y-You must not use it in your w-war..."
"But...the war is already over."
It was the insect's turn to have his eyes widened, but he did so out of what Sokka thought looked like joy.
"R-Really? I'm...h-happy to...know that..."
With that the odd insect creature had breathed his last, his lifeless body collapsing in Sokka's arms. Sokka was about to carry him back to his eelhound when suddenly the body started to glow in a faint green light, when it envolped the body entirely it dispersed with the body nowhere to be found.
"Well that was more than a little strange!" commented Sokka.
Just when Sokka thought his day couldn't get any stranger, a large green laser beam blindsides him from his left. The force of the blast sent Sokka skipping across the ocean water until he hit the sands of a shore. As he started to get up he saw four other aliens descending from the sky, all wearing similar uniforms with green rings on their fingers. One like some odd combination of fish and bird because he had a fin on his head and a beak on his mouth, the second was a woman with blonde hair and pointed ears, and the last one was a large pink one withe a heavy build and had lagre flat teeth sticking out of his mouth.
Before he could utter a single word the pink one made Sokka fall to the ground roughly, he kept him down by keeping his boot pressed against his head while two of the other lanterns materialized green energy cuffs around Sokka's arms and legs made by their rings.
The pink alien kept Sokka pinned down while he lit up his ring showing a hologram of a human dressed similar to Sokka. "Hal, we gotta problem over here with a human. I think you should pop by, we already sent Chip out to keep looking for Azula."
To Sokka's surprise the hologram spoke back. "Another human huh? I'll be right there." And with that the hologram disappeared back into the ring.
"I don't understand, what is going on here?" said Sokka.
The pink alien quickly glared at him. "Let him tell it to you straight then! Azula is our figuitive, our scout is missing, and YOU pooser..." the alien brought his shining ring down to Sokka's face making him shrink away as much as he could. "Are in a lot of trouble!"
Don't you just love cliffhangers? Although I will say that I can't help but feel as though this story is lacking some fine tuning, but...what'cha gonna do? I decided to update because I'm looking forward to the Green Lantern movie that's coming.
