My father has been making me take this wedding very seriously, and leaving me to make all the arrangement s myself. So for the past couple of day I have had servants at my heels asking me the most ridiculous question. Do you want color scheme? Do you want snow falling from the ceiling, when you enter? What kind of fish do you want? Fish… I freakin' hate fish! And the worst part is, they don't even listen to me. I say no, they say yes, I say right, they say left. It sucked.
The only thing worse then the wedding, is the groom. Sangok is a total idiot, he can't even waterbend well.
Currently I'm at the fitting for my wedding dress. Yue, as my maid of honor, is supposed to be with me, but she wouldn't stop talking about a certain Sokka. So I gave her the day off.
So I walk into a room completely made of ice. Like almost every other building in this town. So the designer sends me to the back to try on the dress, it was a strapless sweetheart neckline, the color of snow. I walked in trying not to trip on the dress.
"Wow, Princess, it's beautiful." The designer said walking up behind me, as she and several other people tailored the dress to make it fit better. I didn't think it was horrid, but I didn't hate it. Then one of the people came in, puts a full length, white fur coat on me. Fur coats were a huge fad in the Northern Water tribe, considering the intense winter here, but I was never cold. Even in the most brutal parts of the winter season, I was fine. It was like my own little fire, burning inside me.
"Princess, your father and husband want to see you now." A servant walked in and said.
"Not my husband yet, I'm not even engaged yet." I stated proudly. "See, no betrothel necklace."
I almost feinted. Here he was, Sangok, putting a hand carved necklace around my neck. A betrothel necklace.
"Well, now that its official-"
"Father this isn't fair!" I cut of Sangok; I don't care what the bitch had to say. I felt anger overpowering me, I saw red.
"Kya, it has to be done." Father said.
"C'mon Kya, let's go." Sangok put his hand on my shoulder.
"Don't touch me!" I pushed him away, and as my hand made contact with his coat, a hole burned right through to his chest. It was like time froze. Now I wasn't only mad, I was scared. What did I just do, what just happened? Tears leaked down my face, I watched them fall to the floor, as soon as they hit sheet of ice that was the floor, steam appeared. I looked at my feet the ice was slowly melting. I looked up; Sangok was looking at me with confusion. My father was looking at me with fear, and a hint of guilt.
I didn't know what do, so I ran. I needed to think and I knew I couldn't do it here. I stormed out the room; I could hear the splashes of puddles beneath my feet.
I run around the tribe looking for somewhere I could be alone; I found an old abandon building. I broke the wood that was blocking the door. Now that I was alone, I didn't know what to do. I was lost, in more ways than one. I thought about what just what went down in the palace, I had a couple of idea's bouncing around my head but only one made sense, and I needed to know if it was true. I extended both of my hand in front of me. I thought of my father, of Sangok, of the engagement. Two small flames erupted from my hands. My chest was heaving…I just firebended. This couldn't be happening to me. I was already different enough, now I'm a firebender! But how? Yue or my father weren't even waterbenders. I didn't know much about my mom…
As much as I didn't want to, I knew I had to talk to my father. I walked out of the building then I saw just who needed too. Four of my father's servants carrying a palanquin. I never really abused my power as princess. But now it felt necessary.
"You guys! Get me to palace, NOW!" I climbed into the palanquin. I arrived at the palace. I marched into my father's throne room, I was going to yell, but then I saw that the whole tribe was in here. I made way up onto the block of ice that Yue, Master Pakku, and Sangok were sitting on. I sat between Yue and Sangok, My chest still heaving.
Young men in our tribe were walking up to my father, receiving the warriors mark. I looked at Yue.
"What's going on?" I whisper to her.
"The Fire Nation, there preparing an attack." Yue let out a small whimper. I looked back at my father he was giving the mark to the boy Yue was talking too on her birthday, it was Sokka.
"It will be ok, I promise."
After everyone left I kicked Pakku and Sangok out of the room. I wanted only family in the room, I knew whatever was going on it was bigger than just me, so Yue has the right to know.
"Father, I need to speak to you."
"Not now Kya." He wasn't even looking at me.
"Why can I firebend?" I just blurted out. My father stopped dead in his tracks.
"You can firebend? Why can she firebend?" Yue looked panicked.
"You both have a right to know." Father sounded distant.
"Yeah, we do." I crossed my arms. He took a deep breath in.
"You both know your mother and had an arranged marriage." We both nodded. "Well, I didn't love her, at all. But two years after our wedding, while traveling I meet a girl. We meet, we clicked, we-"
"You had an affair." I finished his sentence.
"It was a very brief, but you were born due to it." Brief? It had to be longer then nine months! "We tried to make thing work after you were born, but it never did. She told me she was from the fire nation, I told her to get out, and she left. So here I was with a beautiful newborn baby girl, with fire nation blood in her. I couldn't just leave her there, I told your mother." He looked at Yue. "That I found her on the outskirts of the tribe. She took her in happily. A year later, Yue was born and your mother died…"
I was speechless, apparently so was Yue. I couldn't stand to be in the same room as father so I left. Pakku and Sangok were standing causally outside, obviously listening in, but I didn't care. I stormed out of the palace, entering a tribe that I would never and could never call my home.