The Spare Chapter 2
The metal door rang as it slammed back into its frame leaving the two Fire Nation Royals inside.
"What are you really doing here, Izrah?" Zuko demanded
"Unlike you, I actually have duties to the Fire Nation." She said. "I have just finished fixing up the damage left at one of the smaller colonies when Azula commandeered my Airship seeing as it's already prepared and ready for departure. And she thought that it would be a great idea to bring me along for the ride. The better question would be. What happens now? Are you going to prove dad right and betray me and the rest of your nation? Or are you going to drop me off in some seedy Earth Kingdom town where I will most likely be killed on site?"
"I'm saving my country." Zuko exclaimed. "The other nations don't see the Fire Nation as great. The People of the World hate us. Don't tell me you believe the war is what this world needs."
Izrah turns silent and looks away.
"You know I'm right."
She glared at Zuko and exclaimed "Of course, I know. This war is breaking families apart. Uncle lost his son. I can't remember what mom was like."
She looked away from Zuko her lips in a firm line. "But when I think about the alternatives."
"What alternatives? The war needs to stop. Causing Fear and Pain."
"After a hundred years of war, do you honestly think that the Earth Kingdom will just let us leave without any kind of revenge? General Fong of the Earth Kingdom would rather see the entire Fire Nation buried under rocks before he'd let us leave just like that. And with the rest of the Earth Kingdom Generals imprisoned by Azula They'd be right behind him. And what about the avatar's precious water bender."
"Katara?"
"Azula told me all about her." Izrah said. "and I've done my own research. The Last Southern Water bender. She lost her mother to the Fire Nation. She's angry."
"Of course, she is." He said. "Weren't you when Lu Ten died?"
"I can barely remember mom. How do you expect me to remember a cousin who was gone for two years before he died?" She demanded. "Katara doesn't need the war to stop. She needs revenge. She has the Avatar's trust and his ear at her disposal. Let's say that the War is over. Father is defeated. Yes, peace will spread. No more fighting, no more armies. But when that is not enough. People like her will start it. Our armies not on guard, people will die, Zuko!"
"Katara is not like that." Zuko defended. "The Avatar wouldn't let that happen."
"The Fire Nation destroyed his people. His Culture." She said. "Do you honestly think he wouldn't be angry too?"
"You haven't met the Avatar, yet." Zuko protested. "He can barely muster enough anger to throw a proper fire blast."
"Never underestimate the anger of a Master bender." She said. "I see how it affected Azula. I see how it changed you."
Zuko groaned pinching the bridge of his nose. "That is different."
"Isn't it?" she asked. "the Zuko I remembered wouldn't just leave. He wouldn't just betray the Fire Nation. He wouldn't have left me."
Zuko looked away. And she looked at him betrayed. "Especially, when I just got my brother back."
"I was trying to protect you."
Izrah raised her bound hands. "That's hard to believe."
"I don't know what to tell you to make you believe me." Zuko said. "But I'm doing this to save my country. The world is out of balance. The Avatar needs to defeat the Fire Lord before the Comet arrives. Or there wouldn't be any world left to save."
"What?" she demanded. "What are you talking about."
"Father wants to burn the Earth Kingdom to the ground. He believes that from the ashes, the World will be reborn from the ashes where all people are Fire Nation."
"That is stupid." she said. "Why wasn't I informed of this plan."
"It was in the all-day war meeting."
"That's what Azula was so happy about?" she demanded. "Burning the world to the ground!"
"Now you know." Zuko said. "I cannot let it happen. I couldn't speak out against his plan. But I can do what I must to stop him. Even if that includes teaching the Avatar firebending. We need to restore balance back in the world. We need the Avatar to defeat the Fire Lord."
Zuko looks at his sister. "So, what's it going to be?"
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Once they were nearing the mountain ranges of the Western Air Temple, the entire airship suddenly jarred violently.
"What's happening!" Sokka exclaiming running into the control room where Suki and Chit Sang were trying their best to battle the turbulence.
"I don't know." Suki exclaimed checking all the buttons and dials on the control panel.
"What are you guys doing!" Zuko demanded running into the Control Room with Izrah at his heels.
"Why did you let her go?" Sokka demanded.
"She said she'll help."
"There wouldn't be any Fire Nation left to save if we let Father destroy everything good in the world. The Spirits will destroy us and not even the Avatar would be able to save us." Izrah said practically. "Who's in the Engine room. The Fire has gone out."
"We just threw enough Fuel to get us miles away."
"It wouldn't be enough to keep us afloat in the mountain climate." she explained looking over the dials and buttons. She pointed to Chit Sang. "You and Zuko go relight the flames before we crash into the mountains!"
"How sure are we you're not just splitting us up to take over the Airship." Sokka demanded pointing his sword at Izrah.
"Because I don't want to die in a giant Airship with you either." She said she looked at Zuko and Chit Sang. "Go!"
"I'll go with them." Hakoda said. "You kids handle the controls."
"Guys!" Suki said. "We're about to hit that mountain!"
"We need to change the direction of the Flap." Izrah exclaimed through Sokka's panicked exclamation. "Get a grip water boy! Go over that side." She said pointing to a panel of levers and buttons.
"On the count of three you and I will pull down the lever for the flap. That would let the airship move upward rather than just forward."
"One. Two. Three!"
They both pulled the lever and the entire ship tilted to the left.
"Wrong lever!"
"Sorry!" Sokka exclaimed pushing back the lever to place and pulling the lever beside it. The Airship evened out and was going above the Mountains and into the Western Air Temple Territory.
The entire control room team sighed in relief. The two older teens looked at Izrah with a sudden gratitude.
"You saved our lives." Sokka said in disbelief. "How did you know how to drive a Giant Airship?"
She shrugged. "I found the captain's manual a few months back."
"I don't know if you're more like Azula or Zuko." Sokka said. "And at the same time I feel like you act like neither of them. You don't explode like Zuko does, and you don't have Azula's crazy fire bender thing."
Her eyebrows furrowed. "Thanks, I think?"
Suki slapped Sokka's arm. "Sokka!"
"What?" he demanded.
Suki just shook her head and focused on the skies. "Zuko said you're going to help."
"Yes." Izrah said. "Is it very hard to believe that there are people of the Fire Nation who do not want the world to be burned into the ground?"
"Kind of."
"Well I don't." she said. "What happened at the Northern Water Tribe can happen again if the spirits are angered. I can tell you some speech about destiny and fate. But to tell you the truth, I just want the world to be in peace. So that maybe, my broken dysfunctional family might find some semblance of peace."
The two older teens were silent as they flew towards the Western Air Temple.
PULL THE LEVER! (I hope you get that Reference)
:D A good friend of mine recommended that scene when i mentioned that the character name is Izrah which was like a mix of Iroh and Yzma. :D
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