What happens when Aang actually fails and the Fire lord succeeds at his plans?

Who will be the worlds last hope at stopping the Fire lord? Or is there anyone at all?

Rated T for now but will later on be rated M for the content that I don't wish to reveal as I don't what to spoil it J

Please be kind at rating and commenting as this is my first story.

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Chapter Two: Ba Sing Se

Zuko woke as he could feel the sun rising, filling him with its energy. He sat up, wincing slightly as his scar on his stomach still seared. He looked around and soon realized he had fell asleep sometime during the night. He quietly rose up to his feet and began walking to where the others where.

He arrived to where he left everyone and surprisingly everyone was up.

"There you are Zuko!" Katara ran up to him. "We've been worried about where you have been."

Zuko looked around and noticed they packed up all of camp and must have been waiting on him. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you wait. I'm surprised to see you guys up so earlier."

Katara looked down. "I don't think any of us was able to sleep."

"Oh."

"We better get moving if we plan to get to Ba Sing Se today." Sokka stated as him, Sukki and Toph climbed on top of Appa.

Zuko and Katara then followed.

Zuko pondered for most of the trip, about his Uncle Iroh, who he hoped was able to free Ba Sing Se and stop it from burning to the ground once his father reached it. He knew his uncle was strong but he had his doubts, since the Avatar was no matched for him. He also thought of her again.

"I wonder what she will do or how she will react to the new....or how will she even act around me?"

He was broke from his thoughts when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked up to see who it was.

"Katara?"

Katara sat down next to Zuko.

"Sokka says we are almost to Ba Sing Se." She took a breath and carefully sat down next to Zuko. "I was wondering, how is your scar?" She looked down at his scar that was still exposed through his shirt.

"It still burns a little"

"I can give you a healing session if you like once we land."

Zuko shook his head. "Thank you but I don't think it would help any. Last time the only person that could stop the searing..." Zuko placed his hand on face.

"So uhh…" Katara quickly changed the subject. "This girl that we are going to try to find….once we find her, she will be able to stop the fire lord as soon as possible?"

"Well, the last time I saw her, she was only master of water, and I doubt she has become a master of the other elements without a teacher. Either way, I don't think we should rush her like we did the Avatar. I don't think my father can do much more damage, so allowing her more time to prepare herself will be a huge advantage."

"But we can't just stand by either has he enslaves people."

"You have to think Katara, if we loose her, there would be no one else left to stop him and free everyone." Zuko felt his heart slightly sink at the mere thought.

Katara lowered her head.

Zuko felt as if it was his fault that the Avatar was gone. If he hadn't betrayed everyone in Ba Sing Se none of this would have happened in the first place.

They both sat in silence.

Sokka turned to look at the two and wonder only to quickly turn back around.

"Guys!" Sukki gasped.

"What guys! What is it!?" Toph questioned as she pushed her self in between Sokka and Sukki.

Zuko looked over Appa's saddle to see what all the commotion was about and saw several plumes of smoke rising from the outskirts Ba Sing Se.

"Ba Sing Se….its…." Sokka fell to his knees.

"Uncle…." Zuko felt a desperate urge to run into Ba Sing Se.

Appa slowly flew over as they looked at the city from above.

"I guess it looked worse than what it really is." Katara noted as most of the houses towards the inner part was untouched.

Zuko pointed to some white tents that was all to familiar to him. Sokka began to maneuver Appa to a clear spot.

Zuko was the first to slide off of Appa letting his shoes hit the ground. He looked around and in the distance he could see a young woman attending the wounded.

*Flash back*

Zuko walked down the halls of his ship listening to his own foot steps echoing through out and found himself quietly knocking on a door. Something that he didn't normally do, since it was his ship and he would do as he pleased. He heard foot steps getting closer to the door. The door open and she peeped her head through the door.

"Oh! Prince Zuko! I wasn't expecting you!" She opened the door and invited him into her quarters.

Zuko looked around, and saw all sorts of scrolls laying about with many forms of bending. Fire particularly.

"I see you like your new accommodations."

"I do, thank you as being kind enough to allow me to stay in something more comfortable." She bowed.

"I see you have collected many fire bending scrolls." Prince Zuko picked up one and began to look at it. It appeared as if someone was dancing with a dragon.

"Yes, I've tried to collect many among my travels so I can teach myself." She began to walk over to Prince Zuko to see which scroll he was looking at "Oh! The scroll you are looking at now" She carefully reached up to Prince Zuko's hands and had him bring it down so she could explain better "Is the form called "The Dancing Dragon" It's an ancient form of fire bending that is thousands of years old. It comes from the Sun Warriors who were originally the first fire benders."

Prince Zuko laid the scroll back down. He noted to himself to be more careful with the scrolls.

"I've come to tell you that when we make dock again in a couple of weeks, that you are free to go."

"Thank you, Prince Zuko." The girl bowed and the prince turned around and walked out shutting the door behind him.

*End of Flash back*

"I'm going to look for my Uncle." The others nodded at him.

"We will see what we can to do to help as well." Katara replied.

Zuko approached his uncle's tent pulling the curtain to the side to see his uncle with a few other members of the White Lotus sitting. His uncle looked up and noticed his nephew and instantly his face lit up. Iroh almost ran over to his nephew hugging him.

"I'm so glad to see that you are okay."

"Its good to see you too Uncle." Zuko patted him on the back.

Iroh then parted.

"I'm guessing things did not go well with the Avatar and my brother."

Zuko lowered his head. "No, they didn't." Iroh motioned for Zuko to sit next to him, and offered him some tea.

"We all assumed as much, when we saw my brother in the distance approaching Ba Sing Se, with every intention of burning it to the ground. Luckily, it didn't."

"How did you manage to stop him, Uncle?"

Iroh sat his tea cup down.

"When me and my men saw the flames approaching the city, we knew that all we fought for was in vein and there wouldn't be much that we could do to prevent the city from burning to the ground, other than evacuating the people that we could. The fires soon reached the outer rim of the city and began to burn it down, but something miraculous began to happen. I turned and looked to the inner part of the city to see something that was a blue glowing globe that seem to expand engulfing the city, and once it reached me, I realized it was water. Someone was bending all the water in the city to form a bubble around Ba Sing Se. But it was too much for the bender to hold for to long as the bubble collapsed and rained water down on all of us. The fire lord had stop raining fire down, but had jump down from the air ship to battle the powerful water bender. When I reached the inner city, I realized it was Lynn that was the powerful bender. It was an amazing battle, through all his punches, he could not gain an upper hand in the battle. In his rage, he let out a powerful blow that stuck Lynn knocking her down. The fire lord turned and saw that I was a spectator and lashed out at me as well catching me off guarding striking me with lightning which resulted in my death."

Zuko gasped! He couldn't believe his uncle had died along with strike Lynn.

"But, if you died…" Iroh cut Zuko off.

"Lynn brought me back to life, and I owe her great gratitude."

"Is she okay as well?"

Iroh nodded.

Zuko thought for a moment. "Wait! If she could bring Uncle back, she can bring back the avatar!"

"Uncle, I have to know where Lynn is! She might be able to bring the Avatar back to life!"

"She is outside with the other members of the White Lotus, healing the wounded."

Zuko stood up and bowed before his elders and exited the tent quickly and began to walk among the wounded.

He then saw her sitting at the side of an Earth Kingdom citizen crying out, as she healed him. He walked slowly, and he felt his heart race has he approached her.