Serendipity

by Lizzzy

Zuko finds a girl of four on the beach while hunting Aang, she has no idea who she is or where she is from. He thinks that having a little kid on bord is not a good idea. But Iroh lets her stay. Will Zuko soffen, and what happens when Aang comes?RR!

1. Chapter 1

Serendipity

"I want every inch of this beach searched for the Avatar!" Zuko barked the order out to his men as they ran off to search the beach. He was starting to get more and more obsessed with finding the Avatar knowing that he was not the only one looking any more; and it was starting to show.

The familiar voice of Uncle Iroh spoke from behind him, " Aha, Prince Zuko there you are I have bin looking for you." With out looking at him Zuko said gruffly, "What is it now Uncle? I am very busy." "Now, now Prince Zuko," said Iroh cheerfully as he put his hand on Zuko's shoulder, "I want to talk to you about music night on the ship, you have never attended and I think it might help with your stress if you…." But Zuko never heard what his Uncle thought might help him; nor did he want to so at that second he pulled his shoulder from Iroh's grasp and stormed off the ship to the beach shouting over his shoulder that listing to his crew singing badly was not in any way going to help him.

He stormed across the beach until reaching one of the many large black rocks emerging from the sand. As though looking for a way to focus his rage without setting any thing on fire, Zuko began to throw small pebbles at a ring of stones by the shore where a small part of the tide rolled in. Zuko listened to the thudding sound of the pebbles hitting first the rock and then the plop of it hitting the damp sand. Then after hitting the rock, Zuko waited to hear the sound of it hitting the sand, but instead of what he had expected, Zuko heard something that surprised him so much that he almost fell over.

A small almost inaudible groan had come from somewhere inside of the cluster of rocks. It was a few minutes before Zuko regained his composer enough to go over to the rocks and look down at the sandy earth below. Zuko could hardly believe what he saw, there lying on the beach, face down in the sand, long red hair the color of fire, was a small girl.

She didn't look like she could be more than four or five years old, and she was wearing dirty rags. Zuko was never really sure why he did what he did next, but he new that he had to help the little girl. Some thing inside him wouldn't let him just walk away and leave her there. Zuko turned and shouted to the nearest solder, "Go get my uncle, tell him to get the ship doctors and bring them here!" pointing down into the rocks. Then climbing down him self, Zuko went to examine the small form.