Chapter 2: Oboro

As the blast of fire came towards them, both fighters dodged as they got ready to fight. Aang held out his staff as he looked like he had seen something absurd.

"He has black flames?! You can do that now?!" The thirteen year old asked incredulously.

"Can we focus on that later?!" Yelled Zuko as he then lunged at the boy before sending a blast of flames at him.

The tattooed boy just rose his hand and sent a similarly sized flame blast at Zuko's, and as the two collided, the latter's black flames started burning away at Zuko's orange ones.

"What?!" Zuko gasped as he leaped over a control panel. "His flames can burn other flames!"

"How is that even possible?!" Aang said as the mystery boy caused an explosion of black fire that burned through everything it touched and caused the remaining control panels to explode, becoming useless and then melted the canister into a puddle of molten glass.

"We gotta get out of here!" Aang said.

"Right!" Zuko agreed.

The two then ran back up to the surface and were followed by the tattooed Zuko look alike, who was walking as the black fire followed him and continued to burn everything in sight before-BOOM!-the compressed warm air caused a shockwave that blasted the other two out of the tunnel and onto the street, a funnel of fire swirling up into the air from the hole.

"Aang! Zuko!" Called Toph who had just arrived on the scene. "You guys okay?"

"Urgh… Hardly." Zuko groaned as he slowly got up.

Aang groaned as he also got up, but quickly crawled back as he suddenly saw the boy who just tried to kill them walk out of the flames, but as the funnel died down the black flames that were left seemed like they weren't going out.

"Whoa, who's that?" Toph asked, though she was blind, she could still feel the guys aura make a pretty impressive mental image in her head.

"We don't know." Aang said. "But from the looks of it he really doesn't like me."

Zuko decided to switch tactics and attack the kid with his swords, but his two strikes were both blocked by the boy who grabbed them and had the one in his right hand be engulfed in black fire, causing Zuko to drop it, but then he raised his flattened left hand and then struck Zuko with a powerful palm strike, which was amplified by something else: black lightning.

Zuko skid back as he knelt in pain. "Looks like I was right, he can use lightning."

Aang looked at Zuko before he then glared at the boy, who just looked at him blankly. "Wait… That's weird." He said after a moment of analysis.

"What?" Toph asked.

"A moment ago, he was attacking us without remorse, but now… Now he's not doing anything. Just reacting to our attacks." The monk explained. "I think... I think he might just be under some sort of hypnosis."

"Like what Long Feng did to the people of Ba Sing Sei?" The earth bender asked.

"Yeah." The Avatar replied. "So if that's the case all we have to do is knock him unconscious."

"If you say so." Zuko sighed. "What's your plan?"

"Toph?" Aang asked.

"On it." The girl nodded before using her bending and locked the boy's legs into place before Aang dashed forward and slammed his staff into the guys face and then used his earth bending to create a small block then slammed the tattooed boy's face into the rock before letting Toph punch him in the stomach and then he and Zuko punched him in the face and sent him flying through the air, into a passing cabbage cart, and then making a final impact into a nearby wall before the boy fell to his knees and groaned, then fell unconscious.

"MY CABBAGES!" The cart owner yelled in despair.

Toph dusted her hands off. "Well, that was easy."

"One would say too easy." Zuko mused.

"Yeah…" Aang nodded. "What should we do with him?"

"Well given he's technically a part of the fire nation, we'll take him to my palace for questioning." Zuko said as he picked up the boy and, with Aang's help, put him in Oppa's saddle.

(Later at the Fire Lord Palace)

The boy slowly woke up as he groaned in pain as he looked around and saw he was in some sort of room.

"Where-where am I?" He asked as his gaze landed on Zuko who was standing there with his arms folded. "Who are you?"

"I'll be asking the questions here." Zuko said as he sat in a chair in front of the boy. "I am Fire Lord Zuko. Who are you?"

"I…. I don't know…" The boy said finally. He didn't know why but he couldn't remember his name, hell he wasn't even sure if he had a name. "I… Don't… Have a name."

This statement troubled Zuko, not only did this boy apparently not have any memory, but also didn't have a name? The scarred boy thought for a second. "Alright, I'll give you a name then." Zuko said finally.

The boy looked at him in surprise as he noticed that he was tied up. "Oh… Really…?" He asked.

"Yes." Zuko nodded. After a few seconds he then let out a brief sigh before speaking. "Alright, your name will be… Oboro."

The boy, now named Oboro, looked at Zuko in surprise as he nodded. "A-alright… Thank you, Fire Lord Zuko." He replied.

Zuko sighed. "You're welcome, Oboro. Now here's my next question, do you remember anything from earlier today?" Oboro shook his head. "Any memory of anything else?" Again nothing. Zuko sighed in defeat. "Then I think I should explain to you exactly how it is you came to be here, and please, stay calm."

Oboro nodded as Zuko started explaining everything that had happened when he had first awakened, and what he knew so far about how he came into being. The boy just sat there, listening to everything with wide eyes.