Chapter One: Yoshiro
Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar. I do own Yoshiro and General Xokku. And Ieko.
Originally, Iroh was supposed to be the general, but that didn't really work out with Chapter 1, so I made up the general. Don't be mad, please? Oh, and if you read later, I AM NOT BASHING! So don't give me a bad review saying I bashed and all, okay? Anyway, on with Chapter 1 of Earth and Fire!
"Father?" A tall girl, around fifteen, looked around for her father.
"General Xokku!" she yelled.
"I'm doing something, Yoshiro!" Xokku said.
"I'm taking a walk, father," Yoshiro told him.
In the past fifteen years, Yoshiro had become a beautiful girl, with short jet black hair and blue eyes. Being a daughter of a general, she was allowed to practice with only the best. She had become a great firebender. Well, not really.
Yoshiro stepped outside of the well built house and started to head towards the woods. She liked to be there, it gave her a nice sense of solitude.
"A nice place to get away from everything," Yoshiro sat on her rock and shot out some flames from her hands. Then she withdrew them.
"Yoshiro?" A boy around her age called to her.
"Hi Ieko," Yoshiro waved.
"Sooo….whatcha doing?" Ieko walked around.
Yoshiro smiled.
"Enjoying nature."
"I can't wait until we capture that Avatar!" Ieko said, randomly.
"Avatar? I thought he died, Ieko," Yoshiro asked, confused.
"Didn't you hear? He's back. He's an Airbender," Ieko said.
"Wait a minute, what? Airbenders died out a hundred years ago," Yoshiro said.
"Not this one."
Yoshiro couldn't believe what Ieko was telling her. She had always been taught that the Avatar disappeared, and that Airbenders were wiped out.
"See you, Ieko," Yoshiro left the woods, and headed back home.
"How was the walk, Yoshiro," Xokku asked her.
"Why didn't you tell me about the Avatar coming back?" Yoshiro asked.
"Where did you hear about the Avatar?" Xokku asked, more interested.
"Ieko."
"It wasn't supposed to be known to any other people besides me, Commander Zhao, and Iroh," Xokku started to be tense.
"Why?" Yoshiro asked.
"If more people heard about the Avatar's return, it would be harder to capture him. Of course, with that bratty teenager trying to get him, it's hard now," Xokku said with distaste.
"Oh."
"That Prince Zuko…that brat…" Xokku left to his room, mumbling to himself.
"Zuko's after him?" Yoshiro thought to herself.
Flashback five years ago:
General Xokku had just been invited to meet Lord Ozai at a very important meeting
"Yoshiro, I want you on your best behavior, okay?"
"Okay, father," Yoshiro, then ten, had no idea what was in store for her.
"Greeting to you, General Xokku." Commander Zhao greeted General Xokku. They were at the Fire Temple.
"And look, if it isn't Yoshiro. How are you?" Zhao asked.
"Fine, sir."
While Zhao and Xokku walked in, Yoshiro noticed an eleven year old boy.
"Hello .I am Yoshiro. Who might you be?" Yoshiro asked sweetly.
The boy, with his black haired in a ponytail, said solemnly,
"I'm Prince Zuko."
Yoshiro widened her eyes. She heard her father talk about Prince Zuko.
"Are you really gonna be ruling the Fire Nation," she asked.
"Duh. I'm already a higher rank than your father, who's a peasant compared to me."
Yoshiro narrowed her eyes. She never met anyone so rude!
"Take that back. My father is a very great general, and he's better than you are!"
Yoshiro stepped on his foot.
"Ouch!"
"Be nice!"
"You can't make me!"
Yoshiro shot out a flame from her heel, and it hit Zuko's hand.
"I'm telling on you!"
"So? You're still a meanie!" Yoshiro stuck out her tongue.
Yoshiro never told anyone what happened. Ever since then, she hadn't seen Zuko.
"Yoshiro! Come with me, I need to tell you something!" Xokku, her father, called for her.
"Coming, father!" Yoshiro ran to her father's room.
"I'm going on a long sea trip. Commander Zhao and I are going to search for the Avatar before Prince Zuko gets him," Xokku explained.
"Can I come? Please?" Yoshiro gave her father puppy dog eyes.
"Alright. But you must do one thing," Xokku said.
"What?"
"Practice your firebending," Xokku smiled.
"Okay."
S.E.: I like that name. Xokku.
Chi: Isn't he bad if he works with Zhao?
Natasha: Chi has a point
S.E.: You'll see...muwhahahahaha (cough cough hack hack)