A New Life
Chapter 9
Teaching Him Fire Bending
This month she got hooked up on reading these amazing books. So now she walked through the street and entered the huge library. She walked past the receptionist and stood, taking in the were shelves on all parts of the building with scrolls and books of different genres. Fancy chandeliers hung above on the ceiling with bright dancing flames. The walls were the color of a light crimson unlike most official buildings.
Aura scanned through a lot of the shelves and picked out a few scrolls. One of the scrolls she found was about the different kinds of common spirits. Aura had a feeling these kinds of scrolls were rare since she didn't see any other scrolls like that. Along the way she found a scroll about Avatar Roku and also a few scrolls about the different Firelords in the past. She also found a few novels that seemed pretty interesting.
She put the scrolls down on a table and scanned through them, again. She put away one of the novels because it seems boring, and she hated being bored.
She walked to the receptionist and put the scrolls down in front of the lady. "Um, can I take these books out?"
"Yes, of course." The lady said as she took the scrolls and wrote the names of it on a piece of paper. The lady took the scroll about the different kinds of spirit. She creased her eye brows and scanned the scroll. "I never saw this book in here." The lady said.
"Oh, are you sure? 'Cause I saw it in one of the shelves." Aura pointed to the shelf she got it from.
"I don't know. Maybe someone accidentally put it there. Anyway, you can keep it, it doesn't belong to us."
"Ok, I'll just take all my scrolls now." Aura muttered and stuffed all the scrolls in her purse. She walked out of the library to home.
The next day, Aura was at the palace garden with Ty Lee, Azula, and Mai (as usual). This time she was sitting under the tree with one of the novels she borrowed from the library, while Mai sat beside her looking pretty bored.
Suddenly, Azula came and snatched the scroll from her hands. Aura shot up, "Hey! What was that for!"
"Let's practice our fire bending! There's a test the day after tomorrow. Remember?" Azula said as if she didn't just snatch the scroll from Aura.
"Just give it back!" Aura swung her hands to the scroll trying to get it from Azula, but Azula moved it up over her head.
"Not until we practice!" Azula taunted.
"Fine!" Aura stomped over to the middle of the garden where they always practiced. Azula calmly walked beside her but then she took a peek at the door (that leads to the inside of the palace) and smiled.
Aura just stood there looking confused at her friend's behavior. But instead of questioning why she was doing that Aura just asked, "So, which form are we doing first?"
"The one where we spin in the air." Azula replied.
"But we've already done that weeks ago!"
"Yeah, so? Lets just do it!" Then Azula muttered, "Zuzu is coming."
"Zuko is coming? Oh! So that's what it's all about! You just wanna show off." Aura looked at her friend with a smirk. She knew exactly why Azula wanted to do that. Azula just wanted to show off her bending to her older brother so that she could make him feel bad. Suddenly a thought occurred to her. Zuko is coming. She felt like slapping herself in the face! Zuko was coming! Inside her mind she was panicking but outside she stood there trying to look annoyed.
"Let's just practice it!" Azula snapped.
"Ok, whatever." Aura rolled her eyes. Her heart was beating really fast.
They went into their usual stances. "Ready?" Azula asked. Aura nodded.
They jumped high into the air and spun as they unleashed a jet of fire. Both landed in a kneeling position.
Aura turned to look at Azula and behind her friend she saw Zuko. He looked really annoyed. "Hey Azula, when your done go to mother. She called you." Zuko said.
"Why should I listen to you?" Azula said.*
"Because I'm your big brother."
"How can you be my brother, much less my big brother, if you can't even fire bend."
"Excuse me? I can fire bend very well, alright! I can prove to you that!"
"Then show me the same move we just did." Azula said calmly.
"Ok, I will!" Zuko stomped over to an empty space by Azula. He jumped into the air, but he spun halfway only throwing out a few weak jets of flame. He landed on one foot which got bent and he fell in a heap on the ground. Zuko groaned.
Azula laughed at him. "Useless! I shall tell father what a failure you are."
Without a word Aura ran over to Zuko and helped him up. She felt sorry for him, he was always taunted by his sister. "You okay?" Aura whispered.
"Yeah I'm fine, thanks." Zuko dusted himself off. On the inside Aura's heart melted into a huge puddle of happiness. Zuko said thank you to me and nobody else. On the outside she just smiled a Your Welcome at him.
"Why did you do that?" Azula folded her arms looking down at Aura with this glare.
"What else am I supposed to do?" Aura glared back. This went on for a while until Zuko said in defeat, "Go and meet mother, ok?" He walked out of the garden.
Aura felt the need to follow him and comfort him so she decided run after him.
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"Hey." Aura said casually as if the whole incident never happened.
"What do you want?" Zuko grumbled.
"Huh? Nothing, I thought you might need some help in fire bending." Wow where did I get that from?
"I don't need your help."
"Wow, when I picked you up outside, you were so much nicer. And now, look at you. So angry!"
"Whatever, you've annoyed me enough. Now you may leave me."
"Nah, I'd rather follow you." There was an awkward pause as they walked on. "So, where are you going?"
"To the training grounds."
"To practice your fire bending? That's great!" Aura grinned. Zuko shrugged.
"You know, I could help you."
Zuko sighed, "I said I don't need your help."
"If I helped, you would learn the moves faster."
"Whatever."
They finally walked in the training grounds. Which was indoors with walls made of wood. How atypical. At least the place is huge and it had a few windows.
Zuko ignored Aura and went on to practice his fire bending. He tried the same move but with zero improvement. He tried it several times but each time he fell on his butt and couldn't spin the flames. Aura sat on the floor watching Zuko struggle.
"You know you should-" Aura tried giving advice but each time Zuko cut her off with, "I don't need your help!"
Finally Zuko got fed up and he stomped over to Aura. "I need your help." Zuko hung his head in defeat.
"So now you want my help, huh?"
"Yes."
"Ok, but what's the magic word?"
"Please?"
Aura stood up. "You what I think you should try?"
"What?"
"I think you should first try to do the spinning part on the ground and then try doing it in the air."
Zuko nodded.
"Try it without fire bending first." Aura suggested.
Zuko did as he was told. He spun kicking his legs out, which he was perfectly good at. "Then?" Zuko asked.
"Try with fire bending." Aura said.
Zuko spun letting out a faint jet of fire. "Try again." Aura told him. This time the flames were bigger and stronger. "That was good. Wanna try it in the air now?"
Zuko nodded. He jumped up in the air unleashing a jet of fire but he stumbled when he landed on the ground.
"That was way better than before!" Aura said amazed.
"Thanks! I don't think I would've gotten it without your help!" Zuko beamed.
"Your welcome!" Aura gave him a thumbs up. She then looked at the window. "I think it's time for me to go. I'm supposed to walk home with Ty Lee. Bye." She waved as she went out of the training ground and went to look for Ty Lee.
When Aura found Ty Lee, they quickly went out of the palace and walked home together as usual.
"What did you do with Zuko?" Ty Lee asked giving Aura one of those huge smiles.
"Oh, I just helped him in his fire bending." Aura blushed.
"Really? How was it? Must've been exciting!"
"Yeah, sure. It was fun."
"Great! Are you guys gonna do it again?"
"I don't know." Aura admitted.
"Too bad. You should go to him and then help him. You guys would get closer and closer that way." Ty Lee suggested.
"I guess that'll work." They stopped, this was the place where they would split up and go to their own houses. Aura was relieved that she didn't have to have this conversation anymore.
"I wish I could talk to you about it more, but I have to go." Ty Lee said.
"Me too, Bye." Aura waved.
"Bye." Ty Lee waved her goodbye as they split up.
A/N: Thank you so much for reading my story! I know I was not updating these chapters on time, but for once her you go! I got 22 reviews!Thank You Sooooo Much To All My Readers! I hope you enjoyed it. Please review! It means a lot to me.