That day, it was supposed to be the happiest day of the crown prince Iroh of the Fire Nation, but now, in the midnight, no one in the Fire Palace can say anything when see the look of murder he'd been wearing since returning from the party. As he walked toward to the Fire Lord's chamber, the murder aura around him became heavier bit by bit. Reached to the chamber's door, Iroh did nothing but burst the door with a huge fire blast. His father, Fire Lord Azulon was sitting in the middle of the room and acted normally as if nothing out of the ordinary.
"Oh, isn't it my beloved Iroh? You come here to drink some calming tea?"
"I don't need any calming tea! What is the meaning of that!?" Iroh shouted furiously as he came in the room. His fists started to be covered by the orange flame.
"That? What are you talking about, my son?" Azulon asked but instead of having a surprised look on his face, he was wearing an evil look which made clear that he knew very well what the crown prince was talking about.
Iroh's face become much angrier as he shouted at his own father "I heard from Master Zhou, why did you insist on making Ozai become Ursa's husband!?"
The general started to think about when he went to the doorstep of his master's mansion, prepared to return to the palace. But right before he stepped on the palanquin, a familiar voice called his name and a familiar girl ran to his side with tear ran on her cheeks. Seeing that, Iroh knew that something bad was happening. He ran to her and hugged her to calm her down. "Ursa, what's wrong"
Ursa burst into tears as she hugged Iroh tightly. "Iroh… We… I…" She tried to talk but she couldn't say anything as she began crying harder. After telling Ursa to wait, the general ran as fast as he could into inside the mansion to find out what happened. In the mansion, a message from his master made his heart broke to piece. And it also made him went to confront his father with such furiously mood.
The Fire Lord stood up and began walking to the window of the chamber. As he reached to it, he looked at the sky and asked a question quietly. "Do you really want to know?"
The crown prince answered in doubt as he looked at his father closely. "Yes, explain it, now!"
Instead of giving an answer, the Fire Lord suddenly turned back and firebended a fire blast into his own son without hesitating. But as Iroh already predicted it when seeing his father quickly made a firebending form, the fire blast narrowly missed to the left side of him. Making himself a firm form, Iroh shouted. "What is the meaning of that, father?"
Azulon didn't say anything as he began promptly charged to his son with lightning started to spark on his fingers. Right before getting too close to his son, the Fire Lord shot an incredible bolt of lightning at Iroh. The young firebender quickly remove his firebending form and swung his arm to catch the lightning. After letting the lightning ran to his other arm, Iroh thrust that arm forward and redirected the lightning on the window's direction, cause the wall to be destroyed.
After redirected that bolt of lightning, the general backed a few step and his head became dizzy. But before Iroh could recover from it, a hand quickly grabbed his face and pulled him down to the wooden floor. "This is the answer, prince Iroh." The old firebender released his son's face and said with a cold voice which can even made the general shiver.
"What…?" Iroh tried to stand up as he asked his own father about what just happened. About how could that fight was an answer.
"You have become so weak. And it was all because of that little girl, she turned you into a weakling who couldn't even beat an old man like me." The Fire Lord said as he looked at his oldest son who was wearing a disapproval face while trying to stand up. Seeing that face, the old firebender frowned and he pulled his son down to the floor one more time in an instant. But this time, the force was so strong as to make the wooden floor break when Iroh's head crashed on it. The mind of the crown prince became fader and fader as he heard some words from his father. "This will teach you how to rule this nation. You can't become the fire lord while being such a weakling. I should have changed my mind if you redirected lightning at me just now."
The Fire Lord turned his back to his son after finishing the cold line. Iroh's eyes closed… That time, it was the first time he lost something to Ozai and it continued until Ozai robbed everything he knew and… everyone he loved.
