Next chapter! Please leave a review, tell me what you think, how you feel, if I should go on into the series with the comics and the creation of republic city because I know Zuko begins to revert back to his old self, how will his relationship with Keana hold? Especially with her duties of helping Aang maintain piece and balance. Just some ideas...anyway go on...read - T.O.P


I watched from a shadowy corner, Zuko's coronation. I mean, no one else knew of me, the second Avatar, no one but Azula and the gang and the Order, but I knew that the world didn't know and nor would they need to. It was an amazing thing to see, the unification of the Nations once again, Fire Lord Zuko and Aang becoming allies. I smirked, well brothers if I marry Zuko. I bit my lip, thinking of marriage. I couldn't believe it, never in my life did I think that I would go from street rat in New York City to secret savior of a whole mystical world and Queen of a nation. Aang stepped back and Zuko came forward, there were cheers.

"How'd you do it?"

I spun around. Those eyes, those ever changing eyes, their color a mix of blue and green. His hair was longer than usual, that sun streaked brown hair was that messy/sexy look on his head. "Do what?" I asked. La took a step towards me, his face seemed older but no less handsome than before.

"Come back." He replied. "I thought they'd make you stay."

I closed my eyes a tear falling from my cheek. "La." I whispered.

"Don't call me that." He snapped.

Another tear fell. "La." I said again. "What I chose to do is personal."

His expression hardened and suddenly he was less than a foot away. "Keana, what did you do?"

I would not respond to him.

"You could have just stayed with me." La replied sorrowfully. "You could have taken your spot above the spirits, you could have left this world, you couldv'e gone home." He sighed. "I know Zuko loves you now, but he is trouble, as much as he has changed, there will always be a war in his heart and you will always end up hurt."

"I don't believe you." I snapped. "Zuko may be torn, but he is healing. He may not change overnight but I am okay with that, as long as he is making efforts and I know he is."

The Water spirit was quiet for a moment. "Enjoy your time on this side, with your friends with...Zuko. I know he loves you, I know." He stopped shaking his head, as if fighting himself over what he should say next. "He loves you so much and I too still feel for you, enough to say goodbye." He leaned in towards my mouth. I turned slightly. La paused and frowned, he tilted his head up and kissed my forehead instead. There was a cheer in the background.

"Goodbye." I whispered. There was a gust of cool wind and the icy tingle of his lips against my skin, that was all that was left of him. I slid down the pillar that I had hid behind and curled up against my knee's. I didn't have the energy for this.

"My niece."

I looked up, Iroh was walking quickly towards me. I smiled up at him. "Iroh."

"You should be resting." He said sternly, helping me stand.

"I know, I just-I wanted to see this." I replied, throwing my hood over my head and leaning against Iroh's strong shoulder.

He smiled at me warmly. "Then why don't we get a bit closer." He began to walk me towards Aang and Zuko.

"No." I snapped. "I-I just want to rest."


Zuko sat on the bed, admiring Keana's beauty. Her silver curls sprawled across the red pillows, her one arm above her head the other across her stomach, her head turned away from him showing her profile, her long dark eye lashes and full lips. Her skin looked darker now that her hair was white. He smiled, happy she was here, alive, with him, in his home. He slipped off his robe and shoes to slide into bed with her. He lifted the sheet to slip in when he felt her move a soft moan escaping her lips.

"Mm, Zuko?"

"Hey." He whispered. "Go back to sleep."


I felt the bed move. "Zuko?"

"Hey." His beautiful raspy voice, sent shivers down my spine. "Go back to sleep."

I sighed, not feeling tired anymore. I sat up. Looking at my prince, well Fire Lord. "No, I was waking up anyway." I replied. "You go to sleep, you have had a long day." He laughed at me and his smile was beautiful, his eyes made a crescent shape and his eyebrows came together, his cheeks had small dimples that only showed when he was truly laughing. "What is so funny?"

"Oh nothing." He replied pulling me towards him like I weighed nothing. He kissed me, long and passionately. It left me breathless.

"Whoa." I breathed.

He winked. "I've been wanting to do that for a very long time."

"Well why didn't you?" I teased.

He kissed my cheek. "We kinda had a war in the way."

"Oh yeah." I giggled leaning my head against his shoulder. "Well now we have a whole world to fix."

"That'll be the easy part." He replied, he said brushing my hair back behind my ear. "So how are you feeling, miss Avatar Spirit goddess woman?"

I looked into his amber eyes. "Better." I replied. "Mr. Fire Lord Bender man." I stood up on the bed and jumped off. "So, what do you think of my new look?"

I spun on my toes running my hand up threw my hair, the letting it fall back down.

"I can get used to it." He turned so that he sat on the side of the bed, his feet on the carpet. He ran his hands threw his brown hair leaving it a bit messy and stuck up on one side. "Good." He heard her say followed by the sound of fabric sliding across skin. He looked up, his eyes getting wide. Keana stood before him in her underwear, her robe around her ankles, her hair falling over her breasts. She ran her hand over her opposite arm. "There has been something that I have been wanting to do for a while too." She said walking up to him. He swallowed heavily, feeling his heart beat quicken. Her cold hand pressed against his chest and steam began to rise, his body shivered under her touch.

"Let's celebrate your coronation, Fire Lord Zuko."


Zuko stretched feeling very,very relaxed. Memories of his romantic encounter with his future wife, her soft moans, her calling his name, her mumbled 'I love you's'. He reached to pull her closer, there was no one there. He sat up quickly. "Kea?" He looked around, it was still dark. A gust of wind blew his hair back, the window was open. He leapt out of bed and ran towards the balcony.

He saw her, in the distance, her hair was like a beckon at night. He sighed heavily. "What is she doing out there."


"Aang." I cried. "How do you go on,knowing that you won't live a life as full as everyone else?"

"I can't think of that." He replied holding me. "All I can think of is me spending and enjoying every last moment with my friends and family."

"But children." I choked on my words. "I mean, I want children, don't you want children?"

"Of course I do." He replied. "And I will have some of my own and I will spend as much time with them as I can before my time is up and the Next Avatar must come to be." He squeezed me. "That is how we must think, we can not dwell on our inevitable fate, Kea."

I clutched the fabric of his shirt with one hand and held my lower stomach with the other. "The idea of having children and then abandoning them, I can't do it."


Zuko stopped in the shadows seeing Keana crying into Aang's chest. He frowned. "Why is she always keeping me in the dark."

"The idea of having children and then abandoning them, I can't do it."

Zuko's stomach dropped. "Children?" "Abandoning them?" "What?" Then she suddenly began sobbing into Aang's clothes and he had no idea what to do, he wanted to soothe her, even though he had never seen her this way, even though she had no idea that he was there.

"You seem very upset over this." Aang said to her. Then he watched as the Avatars face changed and he pulled away looking at Keana. "You're not-Keana, are you-"

Zuko thought he was going to die. She's pregnant?!

I shook my head laughing. "No-but, I could end up that way at any time." I sighed sadly. "That is why I am so worried. What if I have a child too late and when I-I-" I choked up."We will never have spent anytime together." The tears began to fall again.

Zuko sighed heavily into the palm of his hand. Was he ready for children,clearly she wasn't but that was for a reason that she hadn't mentioned. Why is she being so secretive, what isn't she telling me?

"We will always be together." said Aang holding Keana's chin up so she looked up at him. "I feel our time will come when we are on this planet for a few more decades and when it is our time, we will go together but that will not be until we have set this world right and our children have grown."

I nodded, Aang's words calming me, reassuring me. I held my stomach. I could be pregnant one day. I wanted to have a family with this man that I loved and I wanted to grow old with him, but now, now I knew, I wouldn't grow that old before I left this world. But was I to let him know, let him live with the knowledge that at any moment in the near future, I could be gone forever. Would Zuko understand?

Zuko snuck away only to come back, but this time in a way that would make him noticed. He held a small flame in his hand. "Aang, Keana?" He said feigning confusion. "What are you two doing out here?"

"I wasn't feeling well." Keana replied. "I had to talk to my brother."

Zuko stared into her eyes, well she wasn't exactly lying. Her eyes shifting their gaze away made him realize he was still staring at her intently. "Are you okay?"

"I think we cleared a few things up." Aang replied with a smile. "She's still tired and adjusting to everything."

Zuko nodded staring down Aang. "Well,I will take her back to bed."

Aang nodded. "If you need to talk more, you know where to find me." With that Aang was gone, air bending himself out of sight.

Zuko held out to fingers and quickly lit a few torches around the area where they stood. They reflected off of the water of the small lake. "Ana." He started, fumbling his words. "I wasn't sure-I'm not sure how to ask this or when it is the right time to ask this but, I feel like now is the right time, now when the world is beginning a new,um-" He rubbed the back of his head. "when the world is changing and so are we and I want to do this before we are to busy to-" He paused changing his thoughts again.

I looked at him confused, my one eyebrow arching upwards, my head tilting to the side. "Fire Lord Zuko at a loss for words?" I giggled,he looked so cute as his cheeks flushed red.

"Ana." He started again, shrugging, his palms facing upwards as he spoke and moved about. "I just wanted to know-" He cleared his throat. "Let me try again."

I laughed. "Okay."

"Keana Nasarwa, it has been just over a year since I first found you floating down that river that spring night. When I found you, you were in such bad shape, I couldn't believe a human let alone a woman, could survive such damage. Your ribs, your eyes, your face your everything, beaten and battered." He stopped, his eyes had that distant look to them as he recalled this memory. "Honestly, you scared me when I saw you, the fire's glow against your skin, not pretty."

I looked at him with comical disbelief. I had no idea where he was taking this.

"But as you began to heal and Uncle made me watch over you, I began to warm up to you. Then when you spoke, when I could put a voice to your being, it was like the next puzzle piece." He shook his head "...and when you found out you could manipulate fire." He laughed. "The look on your face when you saw an Ostrich-Horse, how breath-taking you looked in those Earth kingdom clothes. I could go on and on."

"You should." I teased, yawning.

He gave me a look. "Anyway." He replied taking my hands in his."What I am trying to say is... uhm...Marry Me?"

I stared at him in disbelief as he slowly dropped to both knee's, he looked up at me. I nodded Yes as he continued to speak to me.

"I will never stop trying, I will never stop watching as you leave, I will never stop losing my breath every time I see you looking back at me-"

I laughed, wiping tears from my eyes. "Did you listen to my I-pod?"

He nodded. "I did."

I pulled him up and wrapped my arms around his neck and hugged him, my toes just came off of the ground. I kissed him, long and hard. "It didn't freak you out when you discovered it?"

"Not at all." He lied.

Flash Back

Zuko looked over at the worn out sack that held what was left of Keana's belongings, he had thrown it in a fit of fury and self hatred and now, he sat on the floor an empty bottle of Fire Nation whiskey next to him, a new bottle in his hand. "Why, why do I do this?" He asked himself. Suddenly he heard something, faint and sweet and soft. He crawled across the floor, the sound was coming from Keana's sack. He opened and searched through her belongings, memories of her sweeping his mind, then he found it. The little rectangle with the string. He had seen it once but didn't really know what it did. He heard the music coming from the string and threw it in shock.

He stopped for a second gathering his thoughts. "Headphones, they have wires and stuff so you can hear the music through them...uh...personal amplifiers...uh...I don't know how to explain it, little bands in your ears." The prince slid across the floor scooping up the other worldly device. "This is her music box." He fiddled with the headphones before placing them in his ears. The sweet voice and beautiful foreign instruments made him feel sad. You are my sweetest downfall, I loved you first. The box sang, then the music stopped and it changed. This is my love song to you. It started, Zuko took a deep breath as the words continued he broke down into tears.

End of Flash Back

"You are definitely lying." I mumbled into his shoulder as we walked back to his, well our room.

He laughed kissing the top of my head. "Maybe I am."


Daylight

Sokka kept rubbing the hair on his chin, his one eyebrow raised extra high. "Hmmm." He stared at me.

"What?" I laughed, my arm wrapped around Zuko's.

"You seem different, Sukki, doesn't she seem different?" He replied.

Sukki being caught off guard looked at her boyfriend funny. "What was that?"

"Doesn't Skippy here look different?" He said again. "More glowy-y. "

Now Sukki stared at me curiously. "Now that you say so-"

Zuko smiled proudly, leaning his head against mine and kissing my temple. "Are you going to keep them guessing?" He whispered.

"I want everyone here for that." I replied.

"Here for what?" Aang asked sitting next to Sokka and Sukki, Katara came in a few minutes later, clearing her throat and fixing her hair.I looked at Aang and winked, knowingly.

"We haven't figured it out yet, but Skippy here is sending off some new vibes." Sukki replied.

Then Toph and Teo joined the group. Zuko looked at me and raised an eyebrow. I blushed, I was almost embaressed about announcing this to everyone.

"New Vibes?" Aang asked, smiling a dazzling smile. "Whats up?"

"I wanted to tell you all something." I said standing and touching my wrist nervously. Everyone looked at me expectantly. "Looks like I have a new title to add to my many others-"

"New title?" Katara asked and then suddenly like that her eyes grew wide and she squealed at the top of her lungs.

"What is she so giddy about?" Sokka asked.

Zuko laughed standing up next to me, watching as all the guys remained confused and all of the girls suddenly knew. " She's going to be Fire Lady Keana." He said proudly. "I proposed to her last night and she said yes."


...Cool Transition...

So everyone was feeling excited over the new news but we were to keep it quiet, very quiet. We had more important things to go over, like how we were going to fix this world. So, tensions were very hot in the war room, which we were now using since it had a giant map of the world spread across it.

"It is not as easy as that Aang." I snapped standing up, I could feel my temperature rising as our arguing continued.

"It's not there land to begin with." He snapped back, the veins in his arms popping out as he made a fist.

"I agree with Aang." Sokka replied.

I scoffed. "Of course you do, you dont have outside knowledge, I've seen this before in my world. Those colonist may not belong there but they have been there for hundreds of years, to them that is now there home, they are not going to want to leave and if they do, where are they going to go?"

"Back to the Fire Nation of course." Katara replied.

"To what home?" I asked, I turned to Zuko. "Do you have buildings here ready for them? Jobs ready for them? Will they have the wealth they have where they are now? If you want them to go with little trouble, they need to know these things other wise you are going to have a shit ton of problems."

Everyone was silent. Zuko cleared his throat. "She has a point, the kingdom is still being rebuilt and we don't have room for more people, not until everything is set back, also King Bumi is still rebuilding Omashu so we are getting many nationals who are coming back here and I am sending help over to the Southern and Northern water tribes-" He grabbed the bridge of his nose. "I am spreading my resources as much as I can."

"I know and I know what you are saying Zuko." Aang replied with a sigh. "I just don't want your people in these other nations to think that they are safe where they are, I don't want them to think that they will not be affected by this."

"I think." Toph started, blowing her bangs out of her face. "Before we start this planning stuff, we should come up with a project name for this."

"Really Toph?" I asked in disbelief, but maybe she was right, maybe we needed a quick break from this frustration.

The Earth Bender looked at Sokka. "So Plan Man, what do you think?"

"Am I the only one who can come up with these things?" The Warrior asked.

I smiled, this was almost like the old days. Toph you Clever Girl. "I agree, we should have a name for it, how about World Restoration Plan?"

"Oh- how about Peace and Harmony Project?" Katara added.

"Meh." I replied.

"I've go it!" Sokka shouted, throwing one finger up into the air.


Please Review! I need Some feedback. I think I'll keep going into some other things, like Marraige issues, Aang and Katara having children, etc. Things should get more original and off of the tv comic path. So tell me what you think! Thanks for still reading! Love reviews! Next Chapter soon. -T.O.P

P.S-Song lyrics used are from Samson by Regina Spektor and Never Stop (Wedding Version) by Safety Suit. I do not own either of these songs or lyrics.