This story is about what would have happened to Zuko if, when his mother was banished, she took him with her

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Zuko turned red when Katara introduced him as her 'new best friend'. He had never had a 'best friend' but did his first have to be a girl? He attempted a smile. "Yeah, she's my new best friend too." He wasn't about to tell these peasants that she was his only best friend.

"Hey Zuko, this is my brother Sokka, he's six too!" Katara's voice interrupted his thoughts.

Zuko looked Sokka over, Sokka looked a bit weird, and Zuko thought that he felt a little better being Katara's friend, she could protect him from the weirdoes. "Um… Hi, Sokka," he said.

Katara ran over to an old lady. "Grangran, can Zuko and his mom stay at our igloo tonight? You are going to live in the village aren't you?" she added to Zuko.

"Of course" Zuko and Grangran said in unison.

Katara burst out in giggles.

Now where did his mom go? Katara thought to herself. Aha! There she is!

"Mrs. Zuko's mom, my Grangran agreed that you can stay at our igloo tonight while you get ready for your own." Katara called out.

"Wow" Ursa looked surprised at the Water Tribe's hospitality. "Thanks, and my name is Ursa by the way."

"Follow me; our igloo is right over here. It was the only one left standing before The War of Frozen Flames. The rest of the grand igloos were melted or smashed to pieces. Ours, thankfully, only had a hole as big as a penguin melted in the side, easy enough to fix." Katara explained.

"This war, was it recent?" inquired Ursa.

"Very, it happened but a week ago," answered Katara. "It was against the Fire Nation, when they invaded they slayed my mother. Well actually they mortally wounded her and she died overnight of blood loss and when her blood froze in her veins."

"I'm so sorry for your loss Katara, I hope that never happens again" Ursa said, putting a comforting hand on the little girl's back.

Zuko listened to all this with an astonished expression on his face. The Fire Nation couldn't be that cruel, could they? He mused.

They came to the icy igloo and he stared at it, never having seen anything of the like before. Katara pulled back a slab of ice with a knob of some sort on it and entered the igloo. Ursa and Zuko followed behind her, not expecting it when the temperatures rose considerably inside the icy structure.

"Wow," Zuko exclaimed. "It's warmer than outside in here!"

Katara looked at him strangely, "Of course it is, haven't you been inside an igloo before?"

"Actually," explained Ursa, "he hasn't. He was born by the equator where there are no igloos. People there live in sod, wooden, metal, or stone houses. It's not cold enough to have an igloo, or even for it to snow."

A whole land without snow or igloos, Katara mused, I want to see that place someday!

Katara brought them to a spare room in the six roomed igloo and took some blankets and pillows out of the whalebone linen cabinet, giving them to Ursa. "Here is your bedding. The south wall is closest to the stone chimney so it is the warmest. The south wall is also made of stone so that it doesn't melt when it gets warm!" Katara giggled.

While Zuko and his mother headed back toward their temporary room to set up their beds, Katara went outside to watch the celestial lights. The Water Tribe had a legend that told how the lights came to be that her mother had told her many times as a bedtime story, she recalled it.

Once upon a time there lived a Fire Nation peasant and a Water Tribe princess. He met her one morning when he came to get water from a stream. She was there, practicing her bending, the ghost of a smile on her perfect face.

Then she saw him "Who are you?" She asked.

"My name is Zulu," He answered. "Who might you be, beautiful lady?"

"I am princess Jaina of the Southern Water Tribe." She answered.

"I am but a Fire Nation Peasant" said Zulu.

Neither of them knew it, but each was in love with the other for Zulu was handsome and Jaina was beautiful.

"I have to go, but I really like you" they both said unison. "You do?" They both said again.

Both of them knew that they could never be together because of the feud between the two nations. They met there thrice more and on the third time…

"I love you so much, but my folks are getting suspicious about me going here every day. My parents would become horrified if they found that I was meeting you here." Jaina told him.

"My folks are getting a little suspicious too and this is the last time I can meet you. I'm sorry." Zulu said back.

They departed with a kiss and went to their separate homes, never to meet again, or so they thought…

The fire spirit and the moon spirit visited the princess and the peasant in their dreams and asked if they would give up their lives on earth to be with the one they loved. They both answered yes and suddenly their beds were empty.

They found that they were in a swirly ribbon of colors high above the South Pole. They giggled with glee and found that they were spirits, the spirits of the celestial lights.

Katara sighed at the romantic story and saw that it was getting really late. She returned to her igloo to find that all her family had already gone asleep.

There were a lot of sick people sleeping in her room so she took a blanket and a pillow from the linen cabinet and went into the room that Zuko was sharing with his mother. She settled down in the far corner, snuggled deep into her blankets and sighed softly as sleep overtook her.

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