Fire
5 years old
She had shown her abilities to fire bend the people who adopted her had done it for one reason and that was her bending. Her so called "parents" taught her a few tricks with her fire bending juggling and creating infernos of fire, but they taught her another trick pick pocketing and it was the same with her "siblings" She was shown the robes tricking people, distracting them and yes burning a hole in their purse or pocket with out them noticing. She was the best at playing innocent each time one of the other were caught she would do this. "Cough! cough! Brother/Sister mothers cough, looking for you. I'm sorry sir/madam our mother's sick and our father passed away please don't punish my brother." And it ended with either the person letting them go or the person giving them enough money for a meal for a week.
Then she met a man his Little Group of pick pockets pulled from the streets who treated them like Family. This was the same for a year or two untile a water bender with a dirty look entered their part of town and forced them follow his parter.
3 years later.
At the Yangchen festival a crowd watched a girl wearing a kemurikage mask juggling fire balls.
As the crowd cheered as they didn't notice the children running through the crowd pick pocketing. "She's talented, I wonder if she can generate lighting, my company could need one." A person in the crowd said as his watch was stolen. zuri looked at him mention this and wondered what he was talking about before metal bending police caught one of the kids.
Zuri launched a fire ball at the police officer as zuri ran and the kids tunneled through the ground. She ran through the crowd then taking scarp turn hiding behind a alley way dumbster as the police ran past her.
She walked to meeting place after the sun went down.
They meet at the edge of republic city down town. "Zuri thanks for saving my butt there." One of the boys told her before going back to their game.
A teenager walked toward "Zuri, Good job with that distraction." She rustled her hair.
Zuri took her mask off and smiled at the teenager. "Oh that's what a big sister does and-" He pulled out a pearl necklace. "For your birth day Alten." Her eyes turned to the size of dinner plates and took the necklace, putting them on in an instant.
Zuri smiled seeing her adoptive sister smile before seeing a blind earthbender. "RUN!" she launched a fire ball at the earth bender which was easily stopped by wall of stone. "alten get everyone out of here! I will keep the batwolf here." Alten gulped, but nodded tunneling underground as the rest followed her. Zuri and the other fire benders stood their ground as their best bender put her mask on.
She kept firing as more police officers came behind the blind earth bender, each of the metal bender separating them from the formation they had made. "So this is what the greatest earth bender does? Hunt down a bunch of kids?" The police chief looked at the girl, launching a rock ripping the mask off with a simple stomp and with stomp second stomp creating a crack under girl causing her to fall into it.
Zuri smirked at the chief before breathing fire at the chief struggling like a caged animal. "When is sparky coming back?" Her lieutenant looked confused. Toph sighed. "Fire lord zuko." lieutenant Lee nodded showing her a schedule for the next month. "Why do zou morons keep forgeting I'm blid? I will have to interrogate you myself." Zuri was cuffed and thrown into a police van with the rest of little fire benders.
Zuri sighed looked at the ceiling of the car. "Zuri do you think we will be fine?" She smiled but then frowned.
"Zolt I honestly don't know, but i know we will make it out of here just fine." as if on cue a spire of stone erupted from earth causing the cars to stop. "See I told you." Pieces of rock was launched at the police officers head nocking them out. Pebbles went between the doors breaking it open. "Alten, can you break these things?" With single pebble she broke the cuffs.
The was done with the other fire benders. "Zuri, we're going to through the sewers." Zuri and the rest cringed at that for obvious reasons.
They jumped down the hole created as more officers swing toward them. "Alten bring the rest to the meeting place I will keep them here." She ringed at the officers as the teenager lead the others through the sewers. Zuri just smiled running full speed with her fists engulfed in fire as she attacked even with the armor fire is deadly and not controlled it can swallow entire cities. This was easy to see as zuri launched fire after fire, it wasn't precise or at all trained but the power she showed with her attacks, the intense strength it burned, which caused the officers to take few steps back each time they were almost hit. Only after she was tripped that they were able to drag her out and into a prison cell.
The Captain walked to the interrogation room behind the chief. "She has attacked multiple officer, assisted the burning coals pick pocketing ring and theft of private property." toph entered the room.
Zuri smiled. "Oh, it's the queen of the badger moles! Nice to see you again." toph glared at her and suspicion was confirmed.
Toph sat down in front of Zuri. "So tell me where's your mother?" Zuri's eyes snapped open.
She released fire from her mouth but Toph sat unfazed as her captain moved the chair to the wall with his metal bending. "I'm an orphan how the Agni would I know where my mother would be?" She said glaring at the chief. "The only thing I got from my mother is the gift of life, for which I still want receipt for!" she yelled it was easy to tell that toph had stricken a nerve. "And a scar on my hand." she spoke with a more pain before Returning to glaring at the chief.
Toph could easily tell she wasn't lying but there was one problem, She was Azulas daughter the only person she knew that was immune to lie detecting skills. So she left the room with the captain. "Get a background check on her, name, schools, orphanages everything." Captain nodded but didn't understand intensity of the chief over one girl.
Toph knew how wanted Azula was to the fire nation terrorism, threatening the life of the royal family and the multiple other crimes on her record. No one understood how she escaped each attempt at capture and the few years she had been laying low not a single report in 5 years. Toph could telling the similarity of they facial structure she could easily say it was a copy of a younger Azula but nothing else, she couldn't tell her eye color and she couldn't exactly know is ten year old azula looked like this kid only sparky could say that, So she had to ask her friends.
Zuri spent the night in a jail cell, throwing fire balls at the door every few seconds out of complete boredom, listening on the foot steps of the guards patrolling. "One fire, one air, one water, one earth and the avatar turns around agian. We have two fire, two air, two water, two earth and the avatar turns around agian... We have 10,000 fire, 10,000 air-" The door opened, launched herself stepping on the bold persons face, landing and then running through the corridors. After taking 2 steps she got caught by frozen water at her feet, she struggled trying to pull herself out of the trap. "Since when did...you...learn..water-" She stared at the two people in front of her the avatar and his wife.
Aang was rubbing his nose and Katara was giving her a crossed look. "I guess you were right toph" Her look changed as the child smirked from before turned into one of complete fear. "You don't have to be-" Zuri froze trying to escape but she couldn't and it pained Katara to see the fear in the girls eyes so she unfroze her leg and she fell to the ground quickly moving toward the wall.
Aang looked at the girl it was uncanny the eyes, the nose and even the ears was exactly like Azula except for the messy and unkept hair with the tanned skin. "Please don't take my bending! I won't trick people and I will give the badger queens wallet back." Tophs eyes widen as zuri threw the wallet to the ground.
Aang looked at the girl and had the same pained look on his face. "Where are your parents?" Toph bit her tongue she had told them about her theory and that she was Azulas daughter but forgot to mention that the girl was an orphan. Zuri looked at the ground before throwing a fire ball and running off for the avatar to mock her like that.
Zuri kept jumping through the hall way each time before multiple metal cables catching her. "Toph why didn't you tell us, she was an orpahn?" aang asked toph as she lifted zuri into the air. Zuri breathed fire out screaming about not wanting to have her bending taken. Katara memories rushed through about the day when azula lost to zuko and felt sick for a moment that a mother could leave their own child in the world alone. "Don't worry he won't take your bending and we know where your uncle is." Zuri stared at katara she never knew about a relative or any relatives.
Zuri stared at the avatar. "U-uncle?" uncomfortable how the word felt being said out loud. "How do i know you're not lying? The director of my orphanage lied when she told me everything would be better when i get adopted, then the boss told me i would be safe and now the avatar is here telling me he knows my relatives! What's next? His the firelord and my mother is his evil sister!" then there was an awkward silence. "What spirit keeps torturing me?" She asked before toph stepped forward.
"So who's your boss and I mean the head of your and every other crime rings in the city?" zuri just looked at toph with raised brow.
zuri sighed. "My boss answers to some water bender and his scary, he once moved an entire room with his hand I was watching through a crack in the door. He visits once every 3 months to collect a portion of the loot we "find" and he pays the boss though he said it was only half of what the loot was worth." Katara gave her a glare and zuri looked away
Aang sighed. "How about you stay with us?" Katara and toph looked at him. Katara tried to protest but the only reason she could find was being a bad influence to her own children especially bumi and toph wanted to keep her under observation. "It's better then keeping her in a cell, plus i can bet the press will turn this into a nightmare." Toph just glared at Aang.
Zuri jumped smilling. "I second that!" Aang chuckled and katara sighed relenting.
Toph took the girl by the back of her collar lifting her up. "If I sense you near the city, I will put you back in the cell got it?" Zuri nodded because she didn't want to upset katara by calling toph by her new nickname.
the next few hour were spent holding on to the saddle of a monstrosity that growled at her before letting her on his saddle.
