It was dark out as I snuck out of Zuko's room. I knew he had heard me but I wasn't trying to escape. I opened the deck door and walked to the end of the deck. I looked up to the moon. It was just a little slit. By tomorrow night, it would be gone. I breathed in deeply, trying to get as much power from the moon as I could.
"Mesi, and Huo," I prayed to the Fire and water gods. "Give me the strength I need to defeat my father. Give me the hope I need. Give me the wisdom I need. Zhao was just a warning I've noticed now. A warning to whatever my father has instored. Please, help me."
I heard light steps behind me. Zuko was quiet for a fire bender. He stopped 4 feet from me. I sighed and stared up into the sky not wanting the moon to go. Then, I started singing to the moon as if it were a child.
"Seconds, hours, so many days, you know what you want but how long can you wait? Every moment lasts forever, when you feel you've lost your way. And what if my chances were already long gone, I started believing that I could be wrong, But you gave me one good reason, to fight and never walk away."
"So here I am still holding on," Zuko mumbled.
I turned back surprised. I thought only water benders knew of that song. It was a song we sang to the moon goddess if ever we needed help. I just stared at him wondering. He cme to my side and looked up into the night sky.
"My mother used to sing that to me when I was a child. She had learned it from her friend who was a water bender," He stated. "I still remember her singing it. She would always sing it in times of trouble.. I still don't understand why though."
"The moon is powerful even to non-water benders. It helps everyone. It has no favorites. It is loving, forgiving and caring just like all water benders should be. Unfortunately, because of this war, you will rarely find a water bender who is like the moon," I told him. "When there is no moon to be seen, your strength is weak but your heart still knows it's there and waiting to come out again. The moon likes change, that's why it has phases. If it didn't have any phases, just stayed full, then water benders wouldn't be as forgiving as they are."
"You're bored on this ship aren't you?" Zuko asked.
I shrugged. "I like to think deeply about things. Even when I was with the Avatar I thought about things that no one would ever think about."
"Like what?" Zuko asked looking at me.
"Emotions really. Love, hate, sadness, anger, nervous," I sighed. "But I thought thoroughly about the elements."
"What did you figure out?" He questioned again letting something drop into the sea.
"Well, I never got to finish my thoughts on the elements but emotions are truly a strange thing to think about," I answered. "Hate is just another figure of speech, just like death. No one can hate, just dislike or strongly dislike. When you say you hate someone, it means you want them dead and I think no one should die. Not even the Fire Lord. Sadness is as real as love. Actually, love and sadness are related. When you're sad, you think about the things you love or the people you love. When you're in love you think about the troubled times that made you sad. It's really a remarkable thing to think about."
"Have you ever been in love?" Zuko tembled to say the word love as he still looked in to the sky.
I sighed. "Once but that was a long time ago."
"Can you tell me about it? If you don't want to it's okay. Telling personally things to the Fire Nation Prince that has been trying to find and capture your friend for almost 2 years is not what I would want to do," Zuko whispered.
"No, it's fine," I said quietly. "His name was Conley. He lived right next door to me. He loved watching me water bend. He thought water bending was a marvelous power. He would teach me all that he knew about fire bending. He loved to think deeply. He could tell things aboutyourself that you didn't even realize until he told you. I taught him the ways of the water benders. I loved the way that he made me feel, like I was his best friend, like I was the only girl on the face of the planet. But, my Father didn't like him. He had told his parents that the fire nation had come to take Conley under their wing and join the military. They were thrilled and they took him. Little did I know, just a year after his training, my Father killed him in an Agni Kai. That's why I think deeply into plenty of things. I could tell you what your exact feelings are right now. That's what he did with me," I laughed at the thought of Conley saying I was in love with him. Then I stopped. I looked down to the sea. "I do this in memory of him."
"Millennia, I am truly sorry for your lose," Zuko mumbled the words.
I looked at him puzzled. "Why are you being nice to your prisinor Prince Zuko?"
He looked at me with his golden eyes. Usually they were filled with anger but now, they were filled with love, sadness and understandment. "I feel your pain."
"Your mother," I mumered.
He stared at me in surprise. "How did-"
"Father is an Emerald. Remember? He tells my brothers everything that Ozai tells him," I replied sitting on the railing.
"What did he say?" Zuko asked.
"I didn't hear the whole thing but I heard Fire Lady Ursa was gone. That's it. Then I got in trouble for breaking something that I didn't break," I sighed. "I was always getting in trouble."
"Millennia,"
"Yes?" I asked
"Do you still want to know why I'm being nice to you?" He questioned.
"Yes," I answered except I already knew the answer. I just wanted to see how much of the truth he was going to tell me.
"It's nice to have someone you can talk to and they'll understand your pain," He said. Well, he got a quater of it right.
"So, you want to know the truth about why you're being nice to me?" I laughed and jumped down off the railings.
He raised one eyebrow. Then, his eyes got big and he understood what I was going to say.
"Do you want to say it or should I?" I chuckled.
He sighed and turned away.
"I guess I will then?" I asked.
"I love you," Zuko mumbled and turned away from me.
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