Chapter 4

Author's note: I am very sorry for the wait. My computer had some majoy problems, but now they are fixed (hopefully for good), so now updates will come every 2 weeks as planned.

We rested for three days before we were healthy enough to continue traveling. Iroh and I mounted the dragons and falcon and took off.

"Cobra, why didn't you tell me you could fuse?" I sighed. "Because I didn't know myself Iroh." He gave me a confused look. "What do you mean? It seems impossible to be unaware of having that kind of power."

I was silent for a moment. I didn't know how to answer. I finally decided I should tell Iroh about how I had found my powers. (Author's note: I'm not retyping how he got bending. See chapter 1 if you want to read it)

"So that's how you got your bending. Wow. Who is that man you described?" "I don't know, but I suspect he could be the original Hintro." Iroh thought about this for a while and was silent the rest of the day.

We reached a clearing and slept in our tents. It was morning before the next event happened. We were packing our stuff up and had just put out the fire, when I saw something in the sky.

"Iroh, come here" He came to me. "What is that?" I pointed to the thing in the sky. He strained his eyes and gasped. "What?" He put his hand on my mouth.

"It's a hot air balloon. Probably from the fire nation. We have to leave right now."

I moved his hand off my mouth and spat on the ground. "First of all, have you washed your hands since we met?" He looked from side to side.

"No." I barely managed to resist the urge to set him on him on fire and watch him burn. I sighed. "Secondly, we can't keep running. If were being pursued, we have to face the danger head on." I closed my eyes and my tattoo started to glow.

"Stop it Cobra!" I opened my eyes and my tattoo stopped glowing. "Why?" Iroh gave a small smile. "You'll never be able to attack from here. Get on the falcon and fly to the balloon." I smiled back. "Right." I got on the falcon and took off.

When we were within 100 feet of the balloon I closed my eyes and focused into my tattoo. I felt my body change. I am Zinkro Milantro. When we were 30 feet away, I saw that the driver of the balloon was a boy with a huge scar on his eye.

I unsheathed the Blerion sword and leaped at the balloon, landing in the basket of the balloon. I stood in front of the man, who I realized was my age. He looked terrified at the site of me.

"Who are you and who sent you after me?" I was surprised by his question. "I should be asking you that. If you serve the fire lord you know who I am." He seemed to relax.

"Clearly we have a misunderstanding. I left the fire nation. I intend to join the Avatar. My name is Zuko."

I recognized the name from my torturers. I had frequently been compared to the banished fire nation prince. If I was to believe him, then I had Zuko and Iroh, uncle and nephew, brother and son of the fire lord. There was only one way I could make sure he was not lying.

I held the Blerion sword up to Zuko's neck. "Land the balloon and do not leave it. I have to make sure you are telling me the truth." I saw panic appear in is eyes. He pressed some spots on the engine and the balloon began to descend. I jumped out the balloon and landed on the falcon, which had been patiently flying next to the balloon.

I stroked its neck and edged it to land as the balloon did. It cawed happily as I continued to stroke its neck. When we landed Zuko got out of the balloon. "If he tries to leave, peck his heart out." I whispered to the falcon, who placed it's head on my shoulder and nuzzled my head. I smiled and summoned lightning from the sky. I walked into it and vanished.

I reappeared in front of a shocked looking Iroh. That's called lightning jumping. It's a skill only Hintro had. "Zinkro, who is it?" I sighed. "He claims to be Zuko. I am not sure if I believe him though."

Iroh closed his eyes and stroked his beard. "Can you take me to him? I traveled with him for a few years, so I believe I can identify him." I sighed.

"We'll have to take the dragons. I do not know what will happen if I try to lightning jump with a non lightningbender." It was Iroh's turn to sigh now. We mounted the dragons and flew to where the balloon had landed. When we were 250 feet away, I realized it would be best for Zuko to see my true form.

I focused on my wrist and I changed back. I'm Cobra Hintro. My tattoo reappeared. I looked to Iroh who was shaking his head. As we landed he said "No matter how many times I see you transform, I will never get used to it." I had to laugh. I doubted I would ever get used to transforming either.

As we landed, I saw that Zuko was cowering in fear of the falcon. We got off the dragons and went to where Zuko and the falcon were. As soon as it saw us, the falcon puts its head on my shoulder. I rubbed it and glared at Zuko.

"Who are you?" Zuko asked. I sighed. "I'm the guy who threatened you." He laughed. "No your not. That guy was dressed differently and was much stronger then you are, kid."

I placed my hand on the hilt of the Blerion sword. Unfortunaly Iroh saw me. "Cobra! No. He didn't mean it." "I will not be called week ,Iroh!" He sighed. "Cobra, if I didn't watch you slay that army of eleven hundred, I wouldn't believe you were strong either." Zuko gaped.

"Eleven hundred?!" The falcon growled. I turned to Iroh. "Do your check. If he isn't Zuko, I'm going to stab him repeatedly." Iroh went up to Zuko. Zuko looked oddly at Iroh. "Who are you?" He asked. Clearly he didn't recognize Iroh, which was understandable seeing as how Iroh now looked much younger.

Iroh smiled. "It's me Zuko. It's Iroh. Cobra here did something and made me younger." Zuko gaped (he does that a lot). "Is he really Zuko?" Iroh faced me and nodded. "I have examined his scar and he is definitely Zuko." I nodded and at last sheathed my sword.

I walked up to Zuko. "Hello Zuko. My name is Cobra. Cobra Hintro. Nice to meet you." I reached out my hand and Zuko shook it. "I'm sorry I didn't believe you." "It's ok. I would have done the same if I were you." He looked me over with his eyes. "Is what I heard about you true?" "What do you mean?" He was silent for a moment before asking. "Can you really control the elements of the legendary Hintro?" I grinned. "Why don't I just show you?" I turned around and took three steps forward.

I focused darkness into my right hand and formed an orb, which I threw at a nearby tree. It ripped tight threw the poor tree. I looked at Zuko, and saw him gaping. I sighed and turned back around.

I formed an orb of light in my left hand and threw it at another tree. It exploded and destroyed the tree. I didn't have to turn around to know Zuko was probably gaping.

I focused lightning to pointer finger and pointed at the ground. Black lightning, or shadow lightning, shot out of it. I faced Zuko.

"What about fusion?" Zuko asked. I smiled. "Your uncle looks young again right?" He nodded. "Eleven hundred men attacked us three days ago. We were about to be beaten, when I fused us, creating the form you saw earlier today. The power of the fusion was strong enough to kill all eleven hundred of the men."

I lifted up my right wrist and showed Zuko the tattoo. "When we defused, I gained a new type of fire, and Iroh gained some youth. I can now change back into that fused form whenever I want, without having to actually fusion."

That conversation would probably have lasted a while longer. If not for the eleven men that suddenly charged in. I noticed them immediately and jumped to the left. It was no use, they surrounded us.

One of the men stepped forward and started speaking. "Cobra Hintro. Iroh and Zuko of the royal family. You are all under arrest." I couldn't help it. I burst into laughter.

"Hahahaha! Hahaha!" They let me laugh. I started to cry. I finally got myself under control. "Please. Eleven hundred of your men couldn't take us down. Do you really think eleven of you can?"

He stepped forward and tried to slap me, which I avoided. He started to laugh, and I backed away slowly. When he finally stopped laughing he said "Those fools were our underlings. We are the fire nations royal destroyers. We each could destroy half that army. You will fight us all starting now!"

He jumped forward and slashed me with his sword. I dodged backwards and unsheathed my own sword. I looked at my chest, and saw he had still managed to cut me. These guys were tough.

"Haha. May as well give up Hintro." The leader said this. I became furious. "Relax. Don't give up!" The voice said. I forced myself to relax and swung my sword.

The battle seemed to go one for days, when in fact it was probably an hour. I had just killed the fifth man. When I was slashed on both my arms, effectively stopping my bending.

"Aarg!" I yelled out as blood poured out of both my arms. "Cobra!" I looked and saw Iroh, in nearly as bad a shape as I was. He had a huge cu on his head that was leaking white fluid.

A soldier stopped in front of me. He kicked me between my legs and I fell to the ground coughing. "Do you give up? Or do I have to take you head and arms to the firelord as gift?"

I looked right at him. "I will never give up! It's time for round two!" I focused my energy into my tattoo. There was a flash of blue light, and I felt myself change. I stood up. I am Zinkro Milantro.

"Haha! Idiot boy! We've been expecting this!" I heard laughing from behind me. I turned and saw the five men I killed getting back up.

"What?!! Impossible! I killed them!" I focused and formed a boomerang of dead lightning (the lightning firebenders can use) and threw it at the men, who dodged and surrounded me. The second round had begun.

I formed a dark aura around my body and charged the six men. One by one I cut there heads off. Until I came to the leader.

I was bleeding, and in shock. Even with the power of my fused form I was no match. I glanced behind me to see Iroh on the ground out cold, almost dead, and Zuko being attacked by the other five men, and looking as bad as me.

I jumped with all my might and leapt over the head of the surprised man and landed behind Zuko. We stood back to back. His scar was badly damaged, making it look like he had no eye there at all. We were both panting heavily. We both knew we couldn't take four men, let alone six.

The six man entered the circle. "Hintro and Zuko. If you continue to resist we will be forced to kill you both. What will you do? The dragon of the west can no longer protect you. He is dead." Zuko was silent. I forced myself to look at Iroh and saw he had a sword threw his chest. I lost control.

"You bastards! We will never join you and we will never give up! Ever!" "Yah! Burn in hell you asstards!" I can't take credit for the second part, that was Zuko. The man laughed. "Have it your way then!" He snapped his fingers. "Destroy them! Attack to kill!"

The men charged at us. I blocked the sword of one only to be cut by and burned by the flaming sword of another. It was then my armor chose to give out. With a loud bang, it shattered, leaving me only in my bloodstained blue cloak.

Zuko slashed at the two men who attacked him, and was cut in the chest. We both collapsed to the ground, drained of all our energy. "Join us now or die!" I looked at Zuko and saw a look of respect in his eyes. My body flashed purple for a second and suddenly I was myself again. I am Cobra Hintro.

I gasped. "You're better off killing us!" He frowned. "As you wiiish!" He slammed his sword down on me. I rolled to dodge and barely succeeded. He laughed. He was playing with me.

"Prince Zuko, you are the shame of your country!" He snarled. "No! you all are! Your war gains nothing! You are all so blinded by blood you can't see the truth!" I smiled. Even in the face of death Zuko was strong.

"Die!" Two swords found themselves suddenly embedded deaply into my chest. "Die!" Two sword were slammed into Zuko's chest. "Aaaah!" I couldn't bear the scream Zuko yelled out. I focused all my energy, my very soul, and suddenly found myself standing up.

"So the freak still has some fight left in him eh? Exterminate the traitors!" They began the final charge at me. There was only one thing I could do now. Fuse with Zuko.

I ducked down and grabbed his arm. "Zuko! We are going to fuse. Focus on me and we can't lose." He nodded his head shallowly, gasping and coughing up blood at the effort. I pulled with all my existence and focused my life force into the fusion. Suddenly we were bathed in a golden light and everything stopped.

A figure walked out of the darkness around us and smiled. It was the man from my past. I still didn't know who he was. He walked up to me and put his hand on my shoulder. "Congratulations my young friend. You have achieved the second greatest level of fusion. True fusion" I was puzzled.

"What do you mean true fusion? I though I already had true fusion?!" He shook his head. "What you had was physical fusion. You fused with Iroh, but your minds were still almost separate. True fusion is what you have just achieved. When your mind and body is completely in sync with another, you truly fuse. As you have seen, physical fusion is strong, but can be beaten. True fusion is twenty thousand times as powerful. The benefits afterwards will be chosen by the both of you. The tattoo will be around your heart. It's time to do it now. Grab Zuko's hand and place it against your own. Then push with your other hand and pull with the first hand."

He started to disappear. "Wait! You said second strongest level of fusion! What is the first?" As he disappeared he said, in a grim sounding voice "Let us hope you never find out". He left me angry and wondering as he faded away. I realized now was not the time to be mad at him. We had to fuse, and we had to fuse now.

I placed Zuko's left hand on my right. I pushed with my left hand against his right. I focused all my existence into the fusion. A golden aura surrounded us, and suddenly we were pushed together, fusing us.

I was dressed in black and yellow armor. A violet shirt and a pair of white parent underneath it. I am Suino Wrekon. I am the true fused form of Zuko and Cobra.

The six men surrounding me had terrified expressions on there faces. Clearly they had not expected a fusion of Cobra and Zuko. I smiled and picked up the Blerion sword off the ground. It was covered in blood. I snarled and in the blink of an eye had sliced off the head of the man closest to me. I grabbed his handkerchief from his pocket as he fell and used to wipe off the blood from the sword. "Thanks for the handkerchief." I whispered.

The chief man looked terrified. I shrugged my shoulders. "I needed a handkerchief. That's what you get for dirtying my sword." He regained his composure. "Do whatever it takes! Kill him!" I laughed and relaxed into my fighting stance. The battle was one.

I ran at the men and focused darkness and fire into the sword, causing it to shoot out sparks of black flame, or hell fire. Hell fire is an evil type of fire because it can destroy even metal and is impossible to put out, meaning you have to be very careful when using it.

I smiled at the blood that flowed out of the men's bodies as I beheaded them one by one. Finally, it was only the leader and myself remaining. I approached him. He backed against a large rock in the area. "Stay away from me! Please!" I reached out and picked him up by his throat and held him in the air.

"Did you show us mercy? Did you stop when we asked you to?" I tightened my grip on his throat. "No. You did not. Now it's time to die. I'll see you in hell you bastard." I tightened my grip as much as possible. I grabbed the sword he held in his head and sliced his head off with it.

I tossed the body aside, picked up the head and stabbed it threw with the sword. I went over to Iroh, who lay on the ground and began to cry. "Iiiiiirrrrrrrooooooohhhhhh!" I placed a hand on his chest. That's when I heard a shallow breath pass his body. He was still alive. I heard the voice in my head "Focus heart lightning, light and white lightning into his body. If he is still alive he will be completely healed." I closed my eyes and called upon heart lightning, pure light and white lightning. I focused them all into his body. His wounds healed before my eyes. His heart beat quickened and breathing became slow and strong. He opened his eyes.

"Who are you?" He asked. I smiled. "It's me Iroh. Cobra. Cobra and zuko. We fused together and created the warrior you are seeing right now." He smiled. I put my hand on his head. "Rest for now Iroh. You need your strength." He nodded slightly. "How did you do it? How did you save me? I was sure I was going to die. I even saw god. He had great tea." I slapped him lightly on the head.

"You jerk! I was worried about you dieing and all you can think about is tea?! What is wrong with you? Are you senile or something?" His smile grew even wider. He placed his hand on my arm. "I just had to make sure you were in there Cobra." I sighed. "Please get some rest Iroh. I healed you by combining heart lightning, white lightning and light. I used the energy resulting from the combination to restore you." He smiled and closed his eyes and fell asleep on the grass. We defused right then.

Suddenly I found myself standing next to Zuko. We were surrounded by light. We both heard a voice say. "Pick your benefits! You get two benefits each!" Zuko immediately announced his first benefit. "Rid me of my scar!" His scar healed right before my eyes, leaving his face without marks. I announced my first benefit. "Heal us both and give us increased healing speed!"

All of the injuries on our bodies healed instantly and our clothing repaired itself. Zuko faced me and actually smiled. "Thank you Cobra. Now I will repay that debt." He faced forward.

"Give Cobra the power to firebend!" I gasped as I suddenly felt immense power flow through me. I formed a ball of fire in my hands. "Thank you Zuko. Now I'll get my last benefit." I thought for a moment before smiling. There was something I had always wanted to do.

"Give Zuko and me the power to turn into dragons and back again at will!" It was Zuko's turn to gape. Suddenly we felt a warm sensation spread throughout our bodies. "It is done! Use your benefits well!"

We suddenly appeared back infront of Iroh. I felt a stinging on my left wrist and golden tattoo with the name Suino Wrekon on it appeared. Zuko and I and nodded to each other and packed up our stuff which we then put back onto the dragons and falcon, which had flown away during the battle and had come back when they saw me and Zuko fuse. I used the handkerchiefs from the soldiers as well as to big sticks to make a stretcher. After putting Iroh onto the stretcher and securing it to Bleria. Zuko climbed onto the falcon and wetook flight. After twelve minutes of flying we saw a mountain ahead. The strange part was that it looked like it was a temple of some kind.

I strained my eyes as we approached and was able to make out a white shape. It was moving. We had finally found the avatar.

Author's Note- I hope you enjoyed chapter. R and R please. I listen and try to respond to reviews. Now it's poll time, if you want to vote you can. This pole will remain open until my next update in 2 weeks (or later sadly if my computer messes up again).

Poll: Who should cobra be with? (I have someone in mind, but if you guys say you don't want the person I am thinking of, I'll try to make who you do want as his love interest)

Ty Lee

2. Azula

3. Toph

4. Oc (A new character I will make from scratch)

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