The legend of Ursa

Being the wife of the world's greatest foe is not an easy task. Being the mother of his children is not an easy task. But being in love with that horrible dictator is the most simple part of my being . This is my story, my life, my love and my memories.

Crush

When we were together I was truly happy, he showed me his books, told me stories and we were making memories together. Our play dates became far more frequent. It started off with one date a month but it soon turned to several dates in one week. The afternoons I spend in the royal palace seemed to less forever. Ozai showed me around and every time I discovered new things of the palace and of Ozai.

In middle school, my feelings for him stared to develop even more. My school was co-ed and it was quite rare that children from a privileged background were schooled with different genders. Still it was kind of logical since the school(Roku middle school for the élite) was becoming more of a dating area. Children met each other and parents subtitle tried to arrange a marriage between them. Of course I was left out of the system because I already had groom.

But one day, the second week of the first semester came a new student. It was Ozai, he was in my class. According to Queen Ilah, it was important for a prince to socialize with the new generation. Still it was very awkward. Centuries, members of the royal family were giving private lessons inside the palace walls. Apparently Queen Ilah was the first, together with Ozai to break this tradition.

Being in class with my future fiancée was exactly kind of nice. Ozai looked very cute in his uniform it showed more of his boyish body than all the ropes he wore in the palace. Ozai was pretty smart and the second best in our class. I was the best of course. My mother always said to me that pride was the drive force for a man, so with other words it would be good for Ozai to get the best grades in the class. But I thought that real pride should be something that you must deserve. So I played always my best game at school and Ozai never beat me. There was just one subject he was better than me, that was literature. I liked reading stories about war but Ozai liked romance novels. When we wrote reports about our books he always used difficult words and made beautiful sentences with it. Even for a prince, he was quite poetic. He was so kind and sweet. The only problem was that he could not interact with the other kids. Probably through his protected upbringing. So I made it my personal mission to made sure that Ozai would fit in the group. It was very important because those kids will be the next generation of nobles and warlords.

After school I went to the palace with Ozai. I loved this part of the day the most because we could talk to each other without any one hearing or interrupting us. We usually did our homework in Ozai's chambers. The Queen usually came with some refreshments and always made sure I felt at home. We were not the only one in the palace. Sometimes I saw Iroh(Ozai's older brother) and even rarer his girlfriend. Well Iroh was in his mid-twenties, she was just in her teens, she was only a few year older than me. Nevertheless I never really cared about those two, all my attention was on Ozai when he told me an other romantic story that he read in his books. When the sun was setting my mother came to pick me up. She was always happy and proud when I went to the palace. She called me always her little princess. I just wish that my father would be equally proud. He was still with Zhao at the military camps. So at home it usually was just my mother and me. I started to like my mother more and more when I became older. She wasn't as withy as I thought but surprisingly smart, always asking me questions about school and if the prince already kissed me. It was sort of embarrassing. But I wish he would. It was against the etiquettes to make as a woman of lower status the first move. Ozai was cute and very nice to me so I would not mind if he would steal my first kiss.

Maybe I had a little crush for him, everyone expected it, but he was my best friend could this really work out? And if it could and I would be crowned as the second princess could I be happy with that?

note: Ozai is the second prince so Ursa would be the second princess and i will introduce Iroh's Girlfriend/wife in the following chapters,P