Iroh was sitting in his room, sipping a cup of tea, when suddenly his two nephews burst in. "What a pleasant surprise, what can I do for you two today?" Iroh greets pleasantly. Instead of answering, the two hide in the closet. Iroh watches confused.

"Uncle, have you seen my brothers, I wanted to talk with them?" Azula asks, walking into the room. Iroh turns and smiles at his niece.

"Nope, sorry."

Azula bows. "That's OK, uncle. Goodbye." Azula waves as she leaves, closing the door.

"You two can come out now." he says. Sephiroth and Zuko peak out the door and sigh. " What are you hiding for?"

Sephiroth sighs and looks at Iroh. "She wanted to use us for target practice, and father was agreeing with her on the idea. He said that since she was our sister, she wouldn't hurt us. She laughed and stated throwing fire at us, and we ran as fats as we could. She is a fucking nutcase."

"Oh, I understand." Iroh replies, frowning. "I need to talk with Ozai about that." Iroh mumbles under his breath. "Is their anything else you two need?"

Zuko nods. "I had a strange dream last night. I saw myself, except the other me had a nasty burn mark on his left eye. He was warning me about a few things. One was not to go to a war meeting today, we where going to convince you to let us in but we decided against that idea. The second was to ask you to personally train me. The last was a warning not to trust father."

Iroh looks at Zuko and smiles. "So you where also visited by the phantom as well. He gave me a few similar warnings, and one demand. He wanted me to take you as far away from the fire nation as possible." Zuko gasps and Sephiroth smiled slightly. "He wanted me to train you to help take out the fire lord and stop this war."

"Are you insane?! That is treason to even talk that way. We can't just up and leave, just to train and come back to kill father. Besides he won't let me leave. I'm one of the two crown princes." Zuko whispers, fiercely.

"But we could sneak out. I don't think father would try very hard to find us, since he still has Azula." Sephiroth pipes in. Zuko looks at his brother, shocked. "But first, uncle, do you think we could coax out the phantom that visited your dreams. Maybe he could help us out a little."

"Maybe, but it would be difficult. Meet me at the fire temple at sundown." Sephiroth nods and smiles at Zuko.

"Come on brother, we need to prepare for a long trip."

Zuko follows, shaking his head. "This is insane." he keeps repeating under his breath.

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Xin Fu just stared at the ten year old blind girl in front of him. "You...want to join Earth Rumble III." he asks perplexed.

"Yes, you have a problem with that?" she asks, temper flaring.

"Well, it's just, we don't want you to get hurt. I mean your blind and...tiny." the girl glares at him.

"Why not test my skills?" she replies, smirking.

"Fine, follow me." he says. He walk towards the arena and the girl follows. When they reach the arena, he sees Fire Nation Man and Wild Man sparring. "Hey, Fire, we have a potential member that needs to be tested." Fire Nation Man looks from him to the little girl.

"You're kidding, right?"

"Nope."

The girl leaps onto the stage and smiles. "You have a name kid? We need something to put on your tombstone."

"Just call me the Blind Bandit. And I wont need a tombstone, you on the other hand..." she trailed off, smiling. Fire Nation man stomps the ground, encasing the Blind Bandit in stone. Suddenly the rocks crumble and she fires hundreds of rock shards at him. Fire Nation Man dodges to the side in time to meet with a large rock in his groin.

Xin Fu whistles in surprise and stars at the Bandit. "Your in. Where did you learn those skills?"

"Badger Moles. So when is the tournament?"

"Three months."

The girl smiles and leaves the arena.

Xin Fu looks back and sees Fire Nation Man rolling on the ground, whimpering. "I guess your out of the tournament, huh?" he asks, before walking off.

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Sephiroth and Zuko enter the fire temple and meet the head priest. "We are here looking for General Iroh."

The priest looks up and smiles. "He is expecting you two. Follow me, he is in the dragon bone caverns." The priest leads the two to a large fire nation symbol on the ground. He bends fir into it and a stair case appears. The group go down into the caverns. Zuko looks around in awe as passes threw the cavern, lined with dragon skulls. Soon they reach a door that resembled Fire Lord Sozin. The priest puts his hand on the door and bends fire into, making it look like Sozin's mouth and eyes are made of fire. The door opens and the priest motions for the two to enter the room. The door closes, Sephiroth and Zuko see Iroh sitting n the middle of the room.

"Welcome, nephews." Iroh greets.

"Why are we here, uncle?" Zuko asks.

"This is the most private place in the fire nation. Nobody can spy on us. We need to contact the other you, and get some better instructions. Zuko sit in the middle of the room and concentrate on the figure you saw in you dreams." Zuko nods and starts to and Iroh watch Zuko for a couple of hours and soon start to talk.

"So uncle, what do you plan on doing?"

"We need to get Zuko out of your father's influence. The other Zuko showed me some images that scared me, a lot."

"What did he show you?"

"The first we avoided today. He showed me an Agni Kai against Zuko and Ozai, for speaking out of turn in the war meeting today. That is where the scar came from. The next few images where of him chasing down the avatar in hopes of getting Ozai's love back. Some of the last images he showed me was of Ozai destroying the sun, then transforming into a fearsome half phoenix, burning the world to ash."

"What?"

"He used an ancient weapon called the 'Agni Kai' to destroy the sun, and create a new world based on his new power, the black phoenix."

"Did he show you anything else important?"

"Actually he showed me som happy moments. They all involved a water tribe girl he fell inlove with. Those moments with her where some of the few happy moments in that life." Sephiroth looks at his brother and notices a strange blue glow around his left eye. Iroh turns and smiles. "It's time."

Here is chapter 2. Sorry it took so long, but I have been busy lately. I will try and update the story every monday from know on. Review and tell me what you think.