A/N:

Happy New Years y'all! 2020! Hope you'll like a new chapter to kickstart the New Years! Enjoy!

Chapter 27:

Smirking as she entered the bathroom and saw the Phoenix King taking a shower, Hama could see he was tending to himself. She tried hard to suppress her amusement as she came up behind him and undressed. As she slipped into the shower, Hama wrapped her arms around him from behind, pressing her breasts into his back and reached to grab his length. She felt him stiffen.

"Let me, your majesty." She purred.

Ozai grabbed her wrist and growled, "Let go!"

"But you're in need and I haven't seen a single concubine in your chambers in the three months since Katara's been here."

Hama soon felt his hand release hers and she began jerking him off. "Just pretend this is her hand." She smirked when she heard him groaned as her hand squeezed him a little harder. "She can't believe your size. To think you once had this inside her. Oh, she's quivering at the thought."

About five minutes into Hama talking him through a fantasy, she found herself pressed into the shower's wall being fucked as water poured down on her. Ozai pulled a fist full of hair as the sound of their wet hips colliding echoed in the bathroom. Damn it. He really needed not to neglect himself. Even if it was for the sake of keeping his sex life obscured from his ex-wife. Three months was a long time to go without bedding a single woman.

"Harder, Ozai! Break me!" Hama hissed and soon found his large hand around her throat, before he gave her exactly what she wanted.

Katara was just swinging by to let Ozai know she and Kya were going into the city for the day when she walked past his bedroom, hearing a woman scream. She paused and made a peculiar expression. What was that?

"Fuck! Yes! Like that! Ozai, please! More! Fuck me!"

The waterbender's face turned a bright red as her hand went over her mouth. What the- was that Hama's voice? And then she heard the voice again crying out again. Yeah, that's definitely Hama. But wait! They're- Katara felt it best to just back out of the chambers and try to forget this whole thing. She'll tell Ozai where they had went when she got back.

Later that day when Katara and Kya were getting back, Hama appears before them with her hands on her hips.

"And where were you two? Ozai's been looking for you both." Hama said.

Kya rolled her eyes and walked off, ahead of her mother. She really didn't like Hama. Really hated the bitch.

Katara felt a little awkward to be looking at Hama. She did after all hear the woman having sexual relations with her ex-husband and she learned she was also involved with Zuko. So it just felt a little odd to be looking at the woman that slept with every man she had previously slept with. Excluding her current husband.

Noticing the uneasiness of her student/granddaughter, "It's only every so often. Which isn't so often at all." She said.

Blushing as she flailed her arms around, "Oh no, I don't- I mean that's none of my business." Katara chuckled nervously. "We're not together so who and what he does with them is not my concern."

Hama raised her brow as her arms folded over her breasts, "He was thinking about you the entire time."

Katara was flushed red as she pressed her hands to her ears and sung to herself, hurrying away. She didn't want to hear any of that. She and Ozai were friends with a past. That was it.

….

Rubbing her own shoulder, Katara groaned to herself. She wanted this baby to come already. Her back was killing her. Everything hurt and she felt so moody. Not to mention, her nerves were really bad when it came to her tease of an ex-husband. Not that she wanted him to make true the things he said. She was married and quite frankly, she did lov-lik- care for Arnook. He can call her a goodie goodie all day as if it were an insult but she was an honest person. She wasn't going to be disloyal to her husband and marriage. Not that she was all that tempted.

The Phoenix King was an attractive man. She couldn't deny that. She wasn't blind. But he was strange. And he was cynical. And mentally unwell. And he made her worry…a lot.

Plus, he was as he said before 'sexually deviant' and learned that first hand that he would take multiple women to bed. Found that out when she got lost and found herself stumbling into a rather floral part of the palace that was separated by the gardens from the rest of the palace. She had seen women wander from that place to the main palace plenty but she didn't realize they were concubines. Not until she wondered closer, out of curiosity and then saw the Phoenix King there.

Behind a thin peach veil that only somewhat obscured the scene before her, a woman was on her knew in front of the Phoenix King. Another to his side, running her tongue from his neck to his ear. Katara watched as another one entered the room and opened her kimono to reveal her naked body.

The waterbender ran from that place and was now in her chambers, aching from having run so far in her state. As soon as she had the baby, she could go home and be with her husband. The Phoenix King was interesting and she dare say they were growing in the friendship department but if you ask her, even if she wasn't married or pregnant with Zuko's child, she couldn't see herself being with him. Not of her complete and utter free will. He seemed to be enjoying his life as a bachelor and she couldn't see herself being okay with him having sex with other women.

As she laid down and went to bed, Katara didn't wake up until she felt a hand tap her on the face. She opened her eyes and rubbed them.

"Kya?"

The teen climbed into the bed and brought Mr. Fluff with her, scooting up to her mother.

"What's wrong, sweetheart?" She asked in a tired voice.

Kya shook her head and snuggled into bed with her. Not wanting to push her, Katara wrapped her arm around Kya and smiled as she fell back to sleep.

In the morning, the two woke up to the servants entering for the daily cleaning.

"Feeling better?" Katara yawned.

Kya stretched and nodded.

"Let's go take a warm bath and get dressed for the day. After, we can go draw in the garden, sound like a plan?"

Kya nodded.

In the garden, wearing a long white flower gown with layers of white translucent veils fluttering in the spring time wind, Katara wore her hair completely down with a single braid going from both sides down the middle. She had a crown of flowers placed on top. Kya made it for her and she made one for her daughter. Kya was in a simple peach colored gown that cuffed her neck, having her shoulders out, and her curly black hair up high in a ponytail.

It was too windy to draw in their sketchbooks, so they simply laid in the grass and watched the clouds go by.

"Are you going back to the North Pole?" Kya asked.

Katara took in a fresh breath of air, "My husband is there."

"But I'm here."

"You can come with me."

Kya shook her head. She wasn't going to leave her father. Not by himself. She would stay by his side always. Or at least until he wasn't alone anymore. Her place was with him. And as much as she loved her mother and wanted to be by her side, she had committed herself to her father. Besides, her mother had Zhiar at her side already.

"If you won't stay, then while you're here, can you do this with me until you go? Even if it rains?"

Rolling her head to the side to look at her daughter, Katara saw the usual stoic expression on the beautiful girl's face but she could feel all her emotions in the words she spoke. While her son would rather their family remain in their separate spaces, separate lives, her daughter wanted the opposite. Katara wished she could give her that but…that's not how their lives were mapped out to be.

Nodding her head with a smile, "We can do this until I leave. Even if it rains."

….

Ozai had been in his office taking a look at strange letter that fell on his desk this morning. It literally floated in from the window and that struck him as odd. Very odd. As he opened it he pricked his finger on the edges. He narrowed his eyes as he went on to open it.

Right as he broke the seal, a mist came oozing out and he immediately dropped it. As he back away from his desk, Ozai soon collapsed over, blacking out.

It wasn't until a servant came knocking to serve him his midday meal that he was discovered incapacitated on the floor with a dangerous looking mist engulfing the room. The palace went into full lockdown mode. The part of the palace that his majesty's office was in had been quarantined as servants and others that drew too close were dropping.

Everyone in close relation of the Phoenix King were taken to the catacombs below the palace until it was safe to return to the surface. They were all told it was an assasination attempt and told that whoever did this was more than likely not after the Phoenix King himself, only meaning to subdue him until the actual assasination was carried out.

Zuko narrowed his eyes, "Where's father?"

"Still on the floor of his office. No one has been able to get close without passing out. I believe this was the plan. And while your father is immortal, he can't be revived until he is removed from that mist." The palace guard explained. "Whoever is behind this must have known a way around his immortality."

Zuko's eyes widen. Hama sees this and looks at him, realizing he might know something.

Folding her arms, "What is it, Zuko? You know something?"

As the guard left to seal the entrance, Zuko looked at Katara. "Do you remember anything of what happened right before you fell asleep? After you found father was alive?"

Katara shook her head. She had her arms around Zhiar and Kya.

Groaning as he hit his fist into the wall, "You and I were looking into a Fire Sage named Lao. He's the one behind you and father's marriage. He wanted to use you as an assassin to kill him but you refused. When you discovered he was alive seven years after his execution…"

Zuko told them how Ozai told Katara about the experiments that had been done on him. They were researching his blood and testing the limitations of his immortality. Ozai also told her that Lao was interested in all of them and their bloodline. Zuko discovered later that Lao had been interested in his father's bloodline since he was a child and had been monitoring him for years.

"He was White Lotus but really working with the Fire Nation nationalists in mind. He wants to use father's blood to make the Fire Nation people supreme and reign over the other nations." Zuko said. "Father doesn't know it but in the Fire Nation, they believe he's still seeking world domination and many are even more in support of him. It's likely Lao has reached over to the radicals that still support my father's old ideologies that are behind this."

Hama scoff, "Well fucking great! Neither you nor your father told me this?!"

"What would be the point?"

Narrowing her eyes, "Because unlike you and your father I worked alongside Lao and so did my son! We could have been of better use!"

Zuko couldn't argue with that. That was an error on their parts. They should have included Hama in on this. She had ways of getting close to those that might be seen as a threat.

"Bloodline? Are they talking about us too?" Zhair asked.

"Me, you, Azula, and Kya. Uncle Iroh too perhaps. Anyone with blood ties to father." Zuko said. "The baby." His eyes looked at Katara's stomach.

Katara looked at him wide eyed. Her unborn child, though Zuko was the father, was still the Phoenix King's kin. Shit!

Kya walked over to the small body of groundwater she saw by the glowing crystal rocks of the catacombs. "Down here we can see nothing. If they want us, we need to prepare ourselves."

"The brat is right. Down here we are at no advantage." Hama said.

Zuko looked to Kya, "Open a portal to a surrounding town."

"I'm not Hama. My portals don't open at so far a distance." Kya said as she placed her hand into the water and found a vacant guest room's bathroom. "This side of the palace is almost entirely vacant."

Zhiar scoffed, "Then what?"

"We make a plan to get our father's body out of his office and away from that mist so he can revive." Zuko says.

Shrugging, "Whatever. Just tell me who's ass we're kicking and we can do this without him." Zhiar jumped into the water portal.

Zuko clenched his fists in annoyance at his younger brother. Arrogant brat. He then went after him and then Hama followed, bringing Katara with her. When everyone was in, Kya closed the portal to that location and opened another one.

…

On the other side, the group, all soak and wet, noticed Kya didn't come through. Katara panicked in fear but Hama stopped her.

"The girl has a plan. Leave her be." She told her.

"Leave her be?! That's my daughter! She's just fourteen and these people are after her! I can't-"

"Let's deal with the enemy so they can't take any of us." Zuko said trying to get their attention. "Plus, it's better if we're not all together. Harder for them to snatch us all at once."

Zuko tells them that they should split up. Zhiar with Hama. They would take the high ground to locate the enemy and put them down. He and Katara would go get Ozai, remove him from the mist so that he could be revived and then assist in taking out their foes.

Zhiar glared at Zuko, "Why do you get to go with my mom?"

"Because out of the two of us, I can actually protect her if something happens. You can't even lift her." Zuko tells him.

Before Zhiar could say a word, Hama grabbed his hand, opened a portal, and pulled him through.

"Shut up, kid! We've got ass to kick! Let's go!"

With them gone, Zuko looked to Katara. He told her to see if she could locate his father. She ran her hand over the water to search for him and she found a mere puddle of what might be wine on the floor from a knocked over glass. Zuko narrowed his eyes as he looked at the visual. His father was on his side from what they could see.

"It's too small a source of water to make it a portal." She told him.

"Find the closest source we can turn into a portal." Zuko tells her.

The gardens right below his office window had a pond. She could open a portal there and get them close. But the mist, Zuko would need to figure out how to avoid being affected by it. As she opened it, Zuko told her to stay on this end and wait for him to bring his father back.

"Just leave this open until I'm back. I don't know if the mist has reached the areas below his office either."

Katara nodded as Zuko went through the portal.

…..

Bending the water out of their clothes, Hama looked around to see if she saw anything out of the usual. But nothing looked out of place. Just an empty hallway.

Rustling his own hair, Zhiar paused as he heard something off into the distance.

"You hear that?" He asked Hama.

"Hear what?"

"That."

Hama closed her eyes and tried to listen for what Zhiar must have heard but before she could a small ball rolled out in front of them. She immediately grabbed Zhiar and brought up a wall of ice in front of them just in time as the ball blew up. However; it wasn't an explosive bomb. It looked like it was spewing that mist that was in Ozai's office.

"Run!" Hama yelled. She and Zhiar took off in the opposite direction.

"They're going to fumigate this entire palace if we don't stop them." Hama told Zhiar.

Zhiar lit his fists, "They know they can't take us in a fight. That's why they're trying to knock us out."

"Who the hell is stupid enough to fight any of us?" Hama laughed as they ran.

…

Scaling the roof of the palace, Kya ducked down when she saw a small group clothed in all black running along the rooftop on the other side. Her eyes glowed as she made a small mist with her bending, sending it over to that group she saw. When it got to them, she had the mist reform into another state of water, crystallizing them into ice and striking each of them in an artery.

When they collapsed, Kya stood up and continued on with her venture. She was very annoyed that these people would interrupt her time with her mother. She needed to find whoever was staging this attack. The person in command was who she wanted.

As she reached the north wing of the palace that faced the bulk of the city of Omashu, Kya saw the city was still functioning normally. Seemed no one noticed anything suspicious. As she crouched down, she sent a small sphere of water down and cupped some water in her free hand to see whatever her sphere was seeing.

The sphere reached the ground and Kya saw there was a group standing around in black uniform while someone in a red cloak stood around telling a few at a time to enter the palace. It sounded like a woman.

Disbursing her water sphere, Kya was back on her feet. Is this the leader? Had to be. Only person she saw that was giving any orders. Kya had her target. All she needed to do is get down there and end this charade so she can go back to spending time with her mother.

….

Zuko climbed the tree that reached from the garden floor to his father's office. He noticed that for the most part that the mist was visible but wasn't just effective through breathing it in. Simply standing in it affected a person. So he would have to be quick and take extra precautions.

Using his dragon scales to thicken his skin. It would likely slow down the effects of the poison mist long enough to give him time to get his father and back to the portal. As his eyes glowed gold, Zuko's skin began to thicken with dragon scales.

Inside the office, Zuko moved quickly from the balcony of the office over to the room. He spotted his father and several fallen servants that must have come to check on him on the floor. There was no time to waste. He hurried to grab his father's limp body and drag him toward the balcony. When he reached it, he felt absolutely weak. It seemed the poison was already seeping in through his skin and it didn't help that he started breathing more when he had to lift his nearly three hundred pound father across the room.

Managing to push his father off the balcony, knowing he could survive the fall, Zuko coughed hard into his fist and jumped down. Reaching the bottom, the Fire Lord grabbed his father and drug him to the portal Katara had opened in the pond.

Katara stepped back when she saw that Zuko had made it back with his father. She helped him get Ozai out of the water.

"Is he dead right now?" Katara asked as Zuko splayed his father out on the bathroom floor.

Trying to catch his breath as he leaned against the wall and slid down it, "Whatever is in his office, that mist, it had to be lethal after sitting in it awhile. My skin is burning right now."

"Do you need me to-"

"No, help revive him first. Once he's up, we can defeat these assholes." Zuko said.

Katara nodded and when to kneel by Ozai. She could see the dark color around his eyes and the black/purplish tent of his veins that would seemingly bulging. La, Zuko might be right. That mist had to be lethal. When she placed her hand to his chest, she felt a faint heartbeat.

"He's still alive." Katara said. "Should I get him out of these clothes?"

"Are you trying to see him naked?" Zuko raised his brow.

Turning red, "No! He's just soaked from coming through the portal and the mist could have lingered in his clothes. Yours too."

Zuko scoffed. She wasn't wrong. He could smell the lingering poisonous mist in their clothes. They probably did need to change.

"You undress him. I'll go find something to wear." The Fire Lord then left the waterbender to remove his father's clothes.

Sitting there on her knees, Katara reached for the collar of Ozai's wet robes and started undoing them. As she managed to undo them and began removing the outer robes of his attire, when she started pulling the drawstring of his tunic her wrist was grabbed. A small gasp escaped her when she looked to his face and his eyes were on her. They were red.

"Your Maj-"

"Don't touch me." He told her in a voice that was deep and monstrous.

"But-"

"Go clean your hands."

Katara didn't feel he was telling her this because he didn't want her touching him. It felt like there was a serious reason for him to not want her to touch him. Sighing, she got up and rinsed her hands off. While she did, she noticed he was getting up, swaying as he did. He must have been lightheaded.

Holding the side of his head, Ozai struggled to the bathroom sink and vomited up blood into it. Katara's eyes widened.

"Your majesty!" She said as saw him then stumble to his knees.

When she tried to touch him again to help, he slapped her hands away. "Keep your hands off me, waterbender." He growled.

Katara stepped back.

"Did you bring me here yourself?" He asked.

Shaking her head, "Zuko brought you here."

Ozai fell over on his side.

"Zuko!" Katara yelled as she knew Ozai wouldn't let her touch him.

"What?" He came back into the bathroom shirtless with some dry pants on.

"Something's wrong with him and he won't let me touch him!" Katara panicked.

Zuko furrowed his brows as he entered and walked up to his dad. Crouching down, he brushed the hair from his father's face. Then, Ozai grabbed his wrist and pulled him forward.

"I'm not going to recover like this. I need you to…" Ozai whispered to his son.

Zuko looked up at the waterbender that looked completely helpless and then back to his father, nodding.

"Katara, close your eyes." Zuko told her.

"Wh-what?"

"Just do it." He said as his hand burned with a flame.

Katara shut her eyes and squeezed them tight. She wished she could do the same for her ears but she could hear everything and her imagination ran wild.

…

Hama engulfed yet another one of those poison smoke bombs with ice. These bastards were really trying not to fight fair...well, not that it would be fair either way. Zhiar used his flames to burn out the poisonous gas that was able to make its way out of the bombs.

"I say we meet back up with mom and Zuko, see if they have dad." Zhiar suggested.

It went without saying that Ozai was attacked first because out of all of them, he could probably end this the quickest and they wanted him out of their way to deal with the rest of them. Smart move but even so, it wasn't going to help them much.

Moments after finding a source of water, Hama and Zhiar found themselves in the bathroom of where Kya had sent them from the catacombs. When they arrived they saw Ozai was there but seeming to be completely out of it. Katara was mushing his cheeks to try getting a response from him as he sat on the lounge chair but he was completely zoned out.

"What's his problem?" Hama asked as she removed the water from her and Zhiar's person.

Katara looked to the other siren, "We brought him back and he's completely out of it."

"Have you tried killing him?" Hama asked. "He usually recovers fully after he's died and come back."

Dropping her gaze, "Zuko did three times already and he's still like this." Katara said.

Hama walked up to where Ozai was and pushed Katara out of the way. She held both sides of his face and looked him over. His eyes were red. Skin cold. She didn't sense much of a heartbeat. Dear fucking La. She sighed.

"When I unlocked Ozai's phoenix abilities, he was sort of dead."

"Dead?" Katara tilted her head.

"Yes. Like dead dead but he still functioned as if he were alive but his senses were dimmed, he couldn't eat, he vomited blood, if you cut him his skin would burn like fire, and he would start losing his mind, having delusions." Hama said.

Katara furrowed her brow, "Is that happening now?"

Hama brushed her hair over his face and hair, "It would seem so. But I think we can fix that."

Next thing Katara and Zhiar knew, Hama removed a dagger from her thigh sheath. The rest left Katara gaping in horror as Zhiar swallowed hard and looked away.

…..

Kya managed to make it very close to the person she had spotted was likely leading this attack. She was in the bushes, about to send a snake of water to the person's ankle. However; as she sent it slithering, a blue flame evaporated it.

"A waterbender." The woman's voice sounded as if she were smirking. "Tell me, is that you, Katara?"

Coming from out of the bushes, Kya revealed herself. "No but how do you know my mother?"

Smirking as she turned around and removed her hood from her head, "Ah, if it isn't my little sister."

Kya's eyes widened as she looked at the woman.

"I haven't seen you since father dearest lost the war. No thanks to that mother of yours." The woman said as she whipped her long jet black hair from out of her hood and then brushed it from her face. "But don't get me wrong, I had grown very fond of your mother. I just blame father for his weakness."

Backing away, Kya got an eerie feeling from the woman. She knew her name and knew she was practically her father's executioner but there was something off here. Something totally off.

Blue flames envelope her body and her eyes turned pitch black as he black nails grew. "And for his weaknesses, he will continue to lose. I'll make sure of that."

Kya acted quick and opened a portal beneath her own feet from the water she drew from the bushes. She was getting the hell out of here.

…

Zhiar fanned his mother as she had passed out from witnessing what Hama did to his father.

"Did you have to sever his head?" Zuko looked utterly disgusted at Hama.

Covered in blood, Hama glared at Zuko. "You cut his head off too, you son of a bitch. At least I'm doing this for his good."

Before Zuko could say anything back, Kya came through the portal gasping as she held her side. They all looked over to her.

"Kya-"

"Did you get dad?! We need him!" Kya said as she climbed out of the tub and flipped out the floor.

Hama and Zuko saw blood coming from her side. They both rushed to her.

"What's going on?" Zuko asked as Hama immediately took a look at the injury.

Hissing as Hama got straight to healing her, "Azula. She's- AHH!" Kya cried as Hama's healing was not the most gentle kind. She was quick and therefore it hurt like hell. As she panted looking up at her brother. "Zuko, our sister, she's helping them. These people. She's helping them."

"What?!" Zuko stood there in disbelief. "She's supposed to be-"

Shaking her head, "I just saw her. She turned into something I've never seen and before I got away, she got me." Kya said.

Azula was braindead in an asylum. Nurses and guards all around the clock. How could she have gotten out of there?

Hissing some more as Hama started to finish up, "We need dad to stop her. Is he here?"

Zuko glanced over at his father who was headless at the moment. Agni damn it!

They gave him some time to be revived. When he finally came to, they knew he was good to go because he immediately made an asshole remark.

"What the hell are you all looking at?" Ozai rubbed his head as he stood up. "Standing around like I have my dick out or something."

Zuko rolled his eyes, "Now that you're finally up. We've got to fill you in on what's going on."

And so they told him.

"And you idiots didn't think that maybe instead of worrying about reviving me that you could just wipe out these bastards and then team up on Azula?" Ozai looked annoyed. "You're all a fucking disappointment. Let me go end this shit so I can lay down. I just woke up and I'm already tired of this shit."

They watched Ozai walk out of the chambers to go handle the threat. Zuko was really regretting even removing his asshole of a father from his office. Should have left him there. Hama felt the same. Kya didn't quite care cause she agreed with her father and Zhiar wished he could just knock his father's head off for another hour of not dealing with that man's bullshit.

…..

Cleaning house, Ozai just burned anything that moved or wasn't familiar with, making his way to where Kya told him Azula was. He hadn't seen his oldest daughter for sometime so this would definitely be quite the reunion. As he took out smoke bombs, shitty assassins in black garb, and foot soldiers that tried to flee upon seeing him. The Phoenix King finally made it to where his daughter Azula was.

"Father." Azula said as she sat on a stone bench and tilted her head. "It has been too long."

Scoffing as he looked his daughter over, "Not long enough, Azula. What the hell do you think you're doing with my enemies?!"

Sighing as she twirled a few strands on her finger, "Well, father. While you were out regaining a kingdom to rule and playing wannabe father of the year, I was no different than a vegetable, rotting away in prison. You didn't even bother to get me. But fortunately, though you had forgotten me, someone else had not and now I serve them."

"Good for you. Now how about you go back to your new master and tell them that their plan failed. Get back to the drawing board."

Smirking as she stood up, "Very well, father. I know better than to fight you myself especially when you have some very inhuman people living amongst you."

A bright blue flame rose and Azula blew a kiss to her father before walking into it. The blue flame then vanished and Azula with it. Ozai clenched his fists as he knew that this was not good. It had been a little over 7 years the last he had thought about Lao and his plans and now it seemed that Lao was ready to start making moves.

Getting back to the others, Ozai saw that Katara was awake again and saw her eye him almost immediately.

"What is it?" He asked her.

She shook her head and looked away.

Turning his attention to Zuko, "You and Zhiar go burn those fumes out of the air. Hama and Kya will go with you to heal anyone of our people that's been injured."

The four nodded and left out.

Now alone with the waterbender, Ozai walked around to the side of the bed where she was sitting. He reached to touch her and she eyed his hand as if daring it to touch her. He retracted it and looked her over as she did the same.

"Is something wrong?"

"No."

"Why don't I believe that?"

Shrugging as she climbed off the bed to walk off, "I'm pregnant and therefore get emotional. It's not a big deal."

Snatching her wrist, "Are you sure that's all?"

Katara nodded her head, "That's all." She lied.

He let her wrist go and she left.

….

The next day after cleaning up the mess that became of the palace, Ozai had summoned both his son's and daughter to his office so that they could further discuss how they will deal with the threat of Azula and Lao.

"Why don't we just kill them both?" Zhiar asked.

Both Zuko and Ozai looked at the teenager, noting he was a fucking idiot.

Scoffing, "You don't know Azula, Zhiar. She's more a weapon than a person."

"What? Couldn't beat her? Ha! You're so pathetic, Zuko." Zhiar laughed.

Zuko clenched his fists. "No more than you can beat Kya, you stupid fuck!"

Ozai groaned, "I'm so wishing I had both your mother's abort you two. Damn it, you're giving me a migraine!"

The two fell silent.

"Listen, we're not killing Azula. Not because we can't beat her but because she's family."

"When the fuck did we care who family was?!" Zuko asked.

"When I didn't kill you for impregnating MY waterbender and I didn't kill him for ever raising his voice with me. I think we should shut the fuck up and listen to what else I have to say before I go back to my former way of thinking." Ozai wore a grin but it was not for a moment a pleasant one. He was holding onto the last bit of sanity before he lost his shit and killed these two morons. "Now, killing Azula is out of the question. As for Lao, we're not doing shit with him. Leave him alone. You see him or his men you both get out of wherever you are. He knows my limitations. Studied them for years. Taking either one of you down will be child's play."

Zuko knew his father and the kind of man he was. His father had pride. Wouldn't admit defeat to anyone and would rather end himself than give anyone the satisfaction of ending him. So for him to tell them to flee if ever to encounter the enemy, Zuko knew that this was serious.

However; Zhiar on the other end wasn't planning on running from shit. If he ever saw Lao or Lao's men, he was going to kill them. That's all it was to it.

After explaining to his son's to also look after the women of their family, he dismissed them both when he saw that he had a guest show up.

Zuko eyed his father's guest as he exited. It was an official from Bei Seng Sei. What were they doing here?

"Your Majesty, the Earth King has sent me here with a final proposal to hopefully allow you both to receive something your both dying for."

"And that would be?" Ozai didn't seem all that impressed.

…..

Katara was sitting in her bedroom holding her hand to her stomach as she shut her eyes. She couldn't shake this awful feeling she had. From seeing Ozai vomit blood to Hama decapitate him. It made her feel so sick to her core and her heart ached at the sight. She couldn't bear to deal with Ozai after he was back to his usual self. Something wasn't right.

Even more whenever she'd see Hama. She felt so much anger towards the woman. Even more than before after hearing her be with Ozai. La, her skin flared and her fingers strained. It was easy to just say seeing a person vomit blood and lose their head was disturbing but it was deeper than that. There was pain like no other. Emotional pain that was rooted in her when she saw those things. And She could say that she's never approved of promiscuous women but it felt a lot more like jealousy but not quite. She felt Hama had crossed her by having sexual relations with Ozai. As if the woman had waltz into her territory.

This wasn't supposed to be. Not these feelings. She shouldn't have these feelings. But they were there and she felt them like she could feel the warmth of a flame so they were most definitely real.

Shaking her head, these aren't my feelings. These are her feelings. The Katara that she had been before. That Katara might still have relevance in the here and now.

No…. There's not two Kataras. Just one. A voice in her head said. Katara looked around.

"Who's there?"

Just me, cupcake.

"And who's me?"

Well...since you've forgotten everything and your power has incredibly weakened since your sleep, I'll just remind you. I am your siren soul.

"Siren soul?"

Yes, I help guide you into being the siren you're supposed to be and give you access to waterbending abilities that only our kind can have.

"Oh, so you're a spirit that possesses me?"

Well sort of...our souls are attached so its deeper than just me possessing your body.

"Okay. Make sense but why are you just showing up now? I've been awake for months. Why are you just know speaking to me?"

Like I said your power has weakened. And when it weakened it's my duty to provide you all my power to ensure you have enough strength to manage.

Katara thought on this. "So I've been weakened since I woke?"

Yup.

"Is that why I can't remember?"

It's not the reason but because of someone wanting to suppress our power, it also cleansed our memory. This actually started just before you fell asleep.

"So I was poisoned? But by who?"

Sorry, gotta go. Your power is decreasing. I'll talk more another time.

Katara winced as she felt a sharp pain in her side. Maybe she should lay down. Whatever that thing was, a siren soul, had her feeling unbearably tired. And those feelings she had felt, seemed to slip her mind and she was at ease for the time being.

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A/N:

So….The 'family' is going to have be on guard for threats from the enemy from now on. Zuko and Zhiar are getting on Ozai's ever lasting nerves and Katara is catching feelings. Kya is that bitch! Lol hoped y'all enjoyed!