In next to no time they were back in the Fire Nation. Kahlee was immediately summoned to throne room by the Fire Lord, which only increased her anxiety. She wanted to know the truth, but at the same time it terrified her. She took a deep breath as she walked to the doors of the room, and was about to enter when someone grabbed onto her hand. It was Azula.
"It will be fine" Azula told her, giving her hand a squeeze, as Kahlee smiled back.
She then opened the doors, which closed with a loud bang a moment later.
"Kahlee, what a pleasure it is to see you again" Ozai smirked, as she walked towards him.
"Considering that last time I saw you, I punched you in the face, I highly doubt that" Kahlee retorted.
"Fine, let's get down to what you really want to know" Ozai stated.
"My parents…who were they?" Kahlee inquired.
"Your mother was a special agent in my army. She was a firebender who could copy any other element for a limited amount of time. As you can guess this was very useful" Ozai started.
"I bet…why do I have the elements permanently then?" Kahlee questioned.
"I'm getting to that. The power that having a new element gave her…became an addiction. She became obsessed with finding a way to keep them permanently. That's when the rumours of the Avatar started" Ozai went on.
"Aang was trapped in the ice, why were there rumours?" Kahlee queried.
"I'm guessing you haven't been told that there was a second Avatar" Ozai announced.
"That's not possible" Kayla argued.
"A child was born in the Earth Kingdom. He wasn't a bender when he was born. The suddenly when the war started, he became able to bend earth. As time went on he realised that he could bend all the elements. It was hidden for almost 80 years until someone got greedy about the reward for any information on the Avatar. He went into hiding, so I tasked your mother to find him. She had declined first of all, but when I told her who she would be hunting she readily agreed" Ozai explained.
"Why did she decline?" Kahlee asked.
"She was pregnant with you" Ozai informed her.
"My father…who was he?" Kahlee inquired.
"Just some peasant. He wasn't even a bender" Ozai said, dismissively.
"You don't have to be a bender to be important" Kahlee retorted.
"I suppose that's true. It took your mother a long time to find the Avatar, she was almost due to give birth to you when she finally caught him. For whatever reason, when she tried to copy his powers she found that instead of being able to copy them she was able to take them. Of course, this killed him seeing as without his Avatar powers he was just a 97 year old man" Ozai confessed.
"My mother…killed him? She killed the Avatar?" Kahlee gasped.
"Not soon after she gave birth to you. A normal baby girl. Of course that's what it seemed at first…until you started to be able to firebend and waterbend. Your father put two and two together, and realised that your mother had killed the Avatar, not just copied his powers then let him go like she told him. I suppose knowing that his wife had destroyed all hope for the world drove him insane, and not short after he killed himself. Hanged, I believe" Ozai went on, as a tear ran down Kahlee's cheek.
"And my mother?" She questioned.
"Your mother fell into a deep depression after that. Lost her mind. She needed someone to blame for her husband's death, and unfortunately for you, she thought you were the cause" Ozai told her.
"What?" She queried.
"Well if you hadn't revealed your powers when you were young he would still be alive…so it makes sense. She tried to kill you. That's why you have all those nasty scars on your arms. Your nanny came in, saw the scene. There was a fight, which ended up with your mother being impaled with the knife she tried to kill you with" Ozai exclaimed.
It all made sense, that was who the old woman was that she remembered from when she was very young. She had looked after Kahlee until she was 5, when she had grown ill and died, which had forced Kahlee to live on the streets.
"I kept an eye on you. I didn't want to let a power like yours go to waste. So when my wife asked if you could be Azula's firebending teacher, I could see the fates were on my side" Ozai finished.
Before he could say anything else, Kahlee rushed out of the room, knowing she was about to break apart. She ran to her chambers, which she had just been assigned and fell onto the bed, as she started to cry into her pillow. Her mother was a monster. She was a monster.
"Kahlee?" A voice called out, as her door opened.
"Go away" Kahlee mumbled, against her pillow.
"Kahlee, please don't cry. I hate it when you cry" Azula stated, as she jumped onto the bed.
"I-I'm a monster" Kahlee stuttered, a new bout of tears coming on.
"What? Of course you're not" Azula insisted, as she pulled the girl up into a hug.
"Sh, sh. It's okay. What happened? You can tell me" Azula soothed, as she ran her hands through Kahlee's hair.
"She…my mother killed the Avatar…that's why I have all the elements…she stole them…I stole them" Kahlee cried, into Azula's power.
"There was another Avatar?" Azula questioned, as Kahlee nodded.
"Kahlee, I want you to look at me, okay?" Azula said, as she lifted Kahlee's head up, her hands on either sides of her face.
"You're are not monster. You never will be. Whatever your mother did, is not your fault" Azula exclaimed, looking her dead in the eye.
"But…if it wasn't for her there could still be an Avatar" Kahlee went on.
"And if it wasn't for me there could be as well. Do you think I'm a monster?" Azula asked.
"No…no. Your father is the monster" Kahlee replied.
"Then I guess we better stick together seeing as we have evil parents" Azula suggested, pulling Kahlee back into a tight hug.
Author's Notes: I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! Ugh, I'm really not sure how I feel about this chapter, I don't think I explained things well enough. If you have any questions about Kahlee's backstory, please do leave a review:)