Disclaimer: I only own May and my characters, not avatar: the last airbender
Return of the American Firebender
A/N: You know where I'm from in Illinois, lol means lots of laughs. But I guess the other way the word stand for laugh out loud. They mean the same thing though, but it's weird how different parts of the country have a different lol. They do mean the same thing though, laugh!
Chapter 5:
Zuko and May were in fighting positions; ready to fight to the death if necessary. Zuko was the first to throw a fireball at May. May blocked the fireball and sent a fire kick at Zuko. Zuko dodge. He sent a fire blast that knocked May to the ground. May recovered quickly from the blast as she sent fireballs at Zuko. Zuko dodge each one easily. That was the one thing may lacked, experience. Zuko sent fire blast after fire blast at May. May fell to the ground with a hard thump each time. May laid on the ground, struggling to get up. May pushes herself up while sending a fire blast at Zuko with the last of her strength. Zuko blocked it easily. May fell to the ground with a hard thump. May just laid there in defeat. She got up, but didn't throw a fire blast at Zuko.
"Good match." she said holding out her hand. Zuko raised an eyebrow. "What? I can't be a good sports player? You won, and where I'm from you shake your opponent's hand after the match." Zuko shook her hand and let go quickly.
"your better than I thought." said Zuko.
"I'm glad. So I gave you a bit more of a challenge than you anticipated." said May. "Are you still mad at me for telling you the truth?"
"No, but it's just a shock to know that I have been seen all over your world." said Zuko. May placed her hand on his shoulder.
"I think anyone would, Zuko." May said. "C'mon, I need to draw a picture of you."
"Why?" asked Zuko.
"It's a tradition that I have with my friends." said May.
"Your telling me that I'm a friend to you." said Zuko.
"Of course. Our tradition is that I draw a picture of my friends at the beginning of the school year and at the end."
"Fine, but what do you mean beginning and end of the school year?" asked Zuko.
"I'll explain later." said May as she head for her room. Zuko followed her.
May had been working on the picture of Zuko for about an hour now. She was working on the details of the picture. The picture was black and white, but went down to every detail on Zuko's face. Zuko watched as she drew the picture. May wrote at the top of the picture "Prince Zuko".
"What's that say?" asked Zuko.
"I forgot that you don't write in English." said May.
"What's English?" asked Zuko.
"English is what you are speaking now and what I just wrote." said May. "You write in a langue known in my world as ancient Chinese."
"Can you read my langue?" asked Zuko.
"Yeah, cus my grandma taught it to me." said May. "I can teach you English if you want."
"Okay," said Zuko.
"Oh yeah, here you go." said May as she handed Zuko the picture. Zuko looked at it. It looked exactly like him only on paper.
"What does it say at the top?" asked Zuko.
"It reads Prince Zuko." said May. "English can be hard to learn though, Zuko."
"If you can read my way of writing, why should I not be able to learn your way of writing?" asked Zuko.
"Well, it's your decision." said May.
"Fine. I choose to learn your langue." said Zuko. "Besides, how hard can it be top learn?"
"Hard," said May. "Get a piece of paper and a quill." Zuko did as he was told. He put the paper on the small table. "First of all, you must memorize the alphabet."
"What's the alphabet?" asked Zuko.
"The alphabet is made up of 26 letters that are used to form words." said May. "Watch." She wrote down all 26 letters on a blank piece of paper. Zuko looked at all of letters. They seemed to be some ancient langue from long ago. May say the expression on Zuko's face.
"It's not hard, Zuko." said May. "See this is a." She pointed to first letter on the page. She went on to explain all of the letters.
It had been an hour of hard work for May trying to Zuko english. Zuko was writing down all the letters, trying to learn how to write them. May watched patiently as he would mess up a couple times.
"Now can you name all of the letters with out looking at the paper?" asked May as she took the paper away.
"Of course!" said Zuko.
"Then show me!" said May.
"A, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x,y and z." said Zuko perfectly.
"Good job!" said May giving a small clap.
"You'll have quiz tomorrow as we may start to make words." said May. "Then after we make words, we'll make sentences." May got up and headed for the door. "you make a great student."
"Well, you make a fun teacher who makes learning your way of writing easy. Even if it means my wrist getting a little sore." said Zuko.
"I'm just glad you enjoy learning it." said May.
A/N: Well, I thought since Zuko writes in a different langue so i thought Zuko has to leanr english some how. Cus in all of the fanfics where Zuko goes to our world, he reads english! How can he read english when he writes in a chinese writing!