Author's note
Round 4, season 4
Word count: 950
Prompts: Silver, posing, and only one character has dialogue
Team: Capital City Catgators
Position: Airbender
We had to write a story where one character was missing or different or whatnot.
Everything is taken from the Show Avatar: the last Airbender
Everything went wrong
Since the age of nine Ozai wanted to be the Fire lord, but at the age of seventeen he decided he needed to be fire lord. Once his older brother's wife gave birth to Lu ten he thought the throne would never be his, and once his own wife had a son he knew he wouldn't be called Fire lord Ozai.
The night the palace received word that Lu ten died he silently rejoiced. He could finally enact his master plan to take the crown. He requested an audience with his Father and ordered his wife to make sure his children were ready.
He watched as his fire bending prodigy daughter, Azula showed off her advanced moves. Ozai knew he made a good choice in naming Azula after Azulon rather than Zuko. His son was less than ideal and when the idiot stood up to fire bend Ozai made a note to discipline him later.
He dismissed his family to make his genius proposal to his father, He didn't notice his children duck behind some tapestries to listen. He didn't think anything posed a threat to his plan.
"Azulon, My father, my Fire lord, I come to you with an idea" Ozai watched intently at his father's face for any change of emotion "Iroh has lost his only heir and since my son is now his heir I believe that I should become next in line over Iroh. Zuko is my child, and Iroh will need time to mourn. I am not sure he will mentally be able to rule the Fire nation in his state. Please consider my offer to be your heir once you have passed."
The next thing Ozai knew was that his father was calling for someone to escort him out. He had been banished. The fire in his hands was out of control, burning everything in sight. A blast of fire made its way to where the children were hiding. The last thing Ozai saw before he was pushed out of the throne hall was his son on the ground holding his left eye.
Zuko stood at the helm of his ship looking over the ocean. Thoughts of the day he was banished came flooding back. Azula had slipped out of the meeting while their father threw his tantrum. When Azulon had discovered him unconscious he ordered that the child be banished once he had healed. Iroh and Ursa tried to get Azulon to change his mind so they too were banished. The Fire Lord had sent his son and grandson to search for the avatar for a chance at regaining their honor. He forced Ursa to leave one night so Zuko wouldn't know where she went; Azulon wanted nothing to do with her. He believed the woman had corrupted his youngest son's mind.
Aang didn't know how he felt about killing an old man. Fire Lord Azulon should have died of old age a while ago but he clung to life, which made the Avatar's life difficult. It was morally wrong to kill someone, that's what the Monks taught him. But to protect hundreds more the Fire Lord had to go. Zuko had to take the throne.
Azula had won over her Grandfather and persuaded him to wipe out the Earth kingdom. She was truly evil which concerned everyone. What would they do about the young girl? Killing her would be worst than killing Azulon. Yet the comet approached, nothing was stopping it. Aang had to make a choice, a terrible choice
The past few months made Zuko wonder what would have happened if his father had succeeded in taking the throne. Zuko never learned where his parents ended up. Although he could care less about his father, he missed his mother. Some nights he would dream of a world where he wasn't burned, Iroh had taken the throne, Lu ten was alive, and his mother hadn't left. Those nights were hard but they kept him going.
They had locked Zuko's Grandfather in jail after Aang took his bending away. They tried to make the last of his life not so horrible. The man had died after a few months in the prison.
Zuko had gone out in search of his mother once he had become Fire Lord. His sister was safe in a mental hospital where he visited as much as he could. Everything was piecing itself together into a nice picture.
The only thing that bothered the young Fire lord was his father. He was sure the man would have come out of hiding to take the throne from his son, But Zuko hadn't seen him. It was getting to the point where he could barely remember his parent's voices. It kept him up at night, the guilt.
Several years passed before Zuko heard those voices. He had finally found his mother and welcomed her and her other family to the palace. The same night he took a walk through the city as the silver beams of moonlight lit his way, a beggar came up to him. Zuko had always made a point to try and help everybody. Once the man had uttered the words "My dear Fire Lord do you have anything to spare" Zuko knew his father had returned.
The young man wasn't sure if he should help his father out or banish him again. Could his father be trusted? Zuko handed the man some money and told him to never show his face again. He wanted to yell at Ozai for scarring him, ruining his childhood, taking everything from him, but he restrained himself. He turned back towards his home ready to forget about the man behind him forever.