Chapter 2 : Were is my Mother?

" Rememeber this Zuko. No Matter how things may seem to change, never forget who you are." those was the last word his mother told him.

He and his mother had been sitting by a pond on the palace grounds feed trutle ducks. That day he wanted to show off to his mother how he'd learn to feed them by watching his older sister Azula..As he and his mother sat their. It had been the perfect day, No clouds in the sky the sun was shinning bright..and his mother had told him that a mother always protects the young when they face danger..As the sun drew to a close late in the afternoon. He and his mother had walked hand in hand back inside the palace..As his sister and her friends was still out practicing cartwheels...That night was the last night he would of seen his mother till the end of the 100 year war.

Zuko had just been 7 years old when his mother was sent away by his father...His mother Ursa was the only one who had stuck up for him...His whole life, his father had put him down saying he would never amount to anything...and his sister; Well she always bullied him and belittled uncle Iroh had been away at war in Ba sing se and morning the death of his own son..So he didn't have a male role model in his life..

Walking down a narrow hall barely lit, Zuko grab a torch off the wall. Walking to the end of the hall he put his hand out and pressed a brick that sat loose in the wall. A large door slide open just long enough for Zuko to walk though. Ounce on the other side the door slide closed again. and he step down the first stair..As he kept walkind down the stairs into the dark underside of the palace he was lost in thought..

It was a night like this and he had been sleeping in bed..Back in the palace after he regained his a light knock had come at his the room he opened the door to find a Fire Nation Scroll..Untieing the black ribbon and reading what was wrote...He had no ideal how his life would revele a dark secret about his family past...Following the clues, he had found himself sitting in the scroll after Scroll he read about his Great Grandfather...He had found him self reading the last will and testament of the his Great grandfather Fire Lord Sozin..

Hitting a dead end when the reached the end of the scroll when he relized the ending of the scroll had been no one read how it really had ended..He had know the only person he could ask what had happend was his Uncle Iroh..who had now sat in jail below the palace..Leaveing the scroll room he ran down the dark hall to the entry door to the jail..Getting to the jail cell he grabed the bars of the cell while yelling..

" YOU SENT THAT SCROLL DIDN'T YOU OLD MAN."

From the darkness Iroh crawled out of the dark and to the front of the cell. " Yes."

" WHY OLD MAN. I ALREADY KNOW BOUT MY GREAT GRANDFATHER."

" Yes, Your Father's Father Fire Lord Sozin."

" Yeah and."

" I meant your Mother's Grandfather Avatar Roku."

Nearly Screaming " WHAT, ARE You talking about."

" The reason you feel angar and a lack of sense of what to do is," Reaching though the bars touching Zuko on the heart. " Is Cuz your have both good and evil inside of you."

Reaching into the dark his uncle had pulled out a small object wrapped in silk unfolding it he held out a small golden medal hair peice..while saying " This is suppose to be worn by true fire nation it Zuko left the prison with out a word..

As Zuko neared the bottom of the stairs..He took a deep breath and walked over to were his father now sat in the same jail cell his uncle had..Walking to the bars he rested his hand on the lower bars..A shadowed cumpled figure sat in the corner of the cell..

" Ummph what did I deserve to get a vist from the Fire Lord him self?"

" I came here to ask you a question."

" Yeah well maybe I have a answer for your Lord Zuko." Spit his father

" I want to know? Were is my mother at?"

" She's Dead." Ozai said with a sly tongue

Steaming mad Zuko stomped his foot on the ground " Don't Play Game with me.. I know she is still alive."

" Now were is she at?"

Suddenly without warning his father srpang across the cell..with his head ducked and his long hair straying into his eyes..

" You will never find her as long as you live BOY."

Fire flashing though his eyes Zuko took a deep breath " That were you are wrong, I will find her; and when I do."

" AND WHAT."

With that Zuko turned and headed back up the stairs. As a evil laugh came from in the dark..Zuko felt in his heart that his mother was still alive..he knew it, he dreamt of it. And when he would finally find her..That would be the best day of his life.