Sorry it took so long...I had writer's block! I'M ONLY HUMAN!
Dateline: Zuko's Ship:
It took a very long time for the gang to introduce everyone to Otenba and Byakko. It took two minutes for Otenba and Byakko to introduce themselves to everyone.
"HI EVERYONE, I'M OTENBA! I'M AN EARTHBENDER!" Otenba shouted from on top of a table.
"HI, OTENBA THE EARTHBENDER!" Everyone but Aang, Byakko, Katara, Otenba 'n Sokka yelled.
"AND I'M BYAKKO! I'M AN AIRBENDER!" Byakko annouced from beside Otenba.
"HI, BYAKKO THE AIRBENDER!" Everyone but Aang, Byakko, Otenba, Katara, 'n Sokka yelled.
"WELL, NOW THAT WE ALL KNOW EACHOTHER, CAN YOU ALL SHUT UP?" Zuko screamed from his bedroom.
"THIS AIN'T NONE OF YO BUISNESS, OH GREAT LORD OF STUPIDITY!" Otenba yelled.
"WELL, I'M NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO SLEEP UNTIL YOU ALL BE QUIET, DEAREST QUEEN OF BAD GRAMMAR!" Zuko replied.
"SO STOP YELING AT US AND WE'LL BE REASONABLY QUIET, MR.MAN!" Otenba cried back.
"REASONABLY QUIET! WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY 'REASONABLY' QUIET?"
"I MEAN 'REASONABLY' QUIET, LIKE ME AND ALL THESE PEOPLE WILL STILL TALK, BUT QUIETIER!"
And so it went on deep into the night. And nobody slept. And Zuko and Otenba lost thier voices. They communicated though notes. Iroh said it was the best day ever. The soldiers said it was the most boring day ever. Everybody else said it was the suckiest day ever. The day after, Otenba and Zuko had thier voices back, and they were back to bickering. Iroh chuckled as they fought, "Hard to believe they used to be friends..."
Sokka was passing by as Iroh said that, "They were friends?"
Iroh sighed and said, "Ahhhhhhh they got off to a bad start, but when Prince Zuko was eight and Princess Otenba was seven..."
ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FLASHBACKS EVER!
Princess Otenba had come to the Fire Nation to visit. Did I mention how muscular and handsome I was back then? Anyways...Otenba had been on the prince's birthday party list, and she bought a little gift that she made with her cousins...
General Iroh waited in the hallways of the Fire Nation's imperial palace. His brother, Fire Lord Ozai made him in charge of caring for the seven-year-old princess that was visiting his nephew for his eighth birthday. The scarlet-haired child arrived with two Earth Kingdom soldiers behind her and a scarlet-haired man at her side, carring a long, thin package.
"General Iroh, I am trusting you with my daugther, my only child, my treasure, the princess of Omashu, my sweet Otenba." The red-headed man said.
"Don't worry, the princess and I shall have a lot of fun together." General Iroh said as he ran his fingers through the princess's short chin-length hair.
The girl nodded, and the scarlet haired man gave her the gift and the soldiers slowly backed away. The scarlet-haired man bent down and kissed the princess's forehead, sadly smiled, rose, turned, and began to walk away. He glanced over his shoulder once more. Iroh saw a look on the man's face that would haunt him for years to come. The man looked as if he never expected to see his preicous daugther ever again.
Hours passed and Iroh had shown Otenba around the palace.
"And this...", He said as he opened the door to a rather luxurious guestroom, "...is where you'll be staying."
Otenba's eyes shone like the moon on a lake, and her smile had to have touched both ears. She squealed with utter delight and bouned on the bed. Iroh smiled as he shut the door and said "Good Night, Otenba..."
"G'night...Iroh...see ya...tomorrow..." Otenba said between bounces.
The Next day...
"Prince Zuko's birthday party is tonight, Otenba, try not to be...well..." Iroh started.
"I know, I know, not try to make him wet his pants. Soooooooo Princey's gonna party, is he?" Otenba asked
"Well, I guess."
"Will there be other kids?"
"Oh yes, the children of the finest merchants, greatest generals, and richest nobles in the Fire Nation will be there."
"Cool, cool, crowded, cool...what about the shaved gorilla man?"
"Who?"
"Y'know, the gorilla man...he wears red, he's mean, grumpy, he has muttonchops..."
"Oh, him." Iroh said bluntly as a picture of Zhao enter his mind. "Yes...he'll be there..."
"Re-e-e-e-allllllly..." Otenba said, doing an Ace Ventura impression.
"Yeees...um...are you planning something? You face looks awfully sinister..." Iroh's voice trailed off...
"Planning something sinister? Perish the thought, my good man!" Otenba said in a lady-like British accent.
Iroh thought about what he could talk about with Otenba, the girl was only seven.
"So how's your dad, Hirushine?" Iroh finally asked.
Otenba smiled, "He still won't lemme play with his axes, but I know he's gonna crack any day now!"
Iroh half-closed his eyes and sarcastically said, "Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight."
At the party, before Otenba showed up.
Zuko was getting angry. He wanted to start the party to start already!
"Where is she?" The eight-year-old hissed.
"Don't worry, Zuko, Otenba is on her way..." Iroh's voiced trailed off as he wondered if Otenba was truely coming.
Then, many guests thought they heard a squeal of delight. And then, CRASH! A tiny armored figure had just swung on one of the outside tapistires through the window. Iroh began to sweat when he saw the object the little person was carring, Otenba's present. The figure gave Zuko the gift, and lifted its helmet. Underneath was Otenba's seven-year-old little-girl face.
(Now come on, you saw that coming. Admit it.) She chuckled as Zuko gaped at her.
"Hoow?...How did you do that!" The prince fianlly asked.
"I swung on a tapistiry that was outside! Duh! Didn't you read the last paragraph?" The princess replied.
Zuko ran to what was left of the window, leaned out, and toppled over. He now was barely holding onto the window frame with one hand. Everyone froze in horror, well, almost everyone, that is.
"Hold on Princey!" Otenba shouted as she slid to Zuko's aid and pulled him back in.
Zuko was dumbfounded, "You...you...you saved me!"
The seven-year-old shrugged, "No biggie, I mean if you died, it would've been a sucky birthday."
And with that, Otenba walked away, watching Zhao howling in agony about the hot-wax trap she had set for him.
Zuko and Otenba began to bond, and at the end of Otenba's visit, Zuko begged that Otenba visit every year.
"She's the best! She simply has to come back!" The young boy said.
His uncle chunkled, and said, "Her father would probably have a heartattack if that happened."
Zuko thought, "What if I visit her?"
Iroh chuckled again, "We'll see..."
END OF FLASHBACK!
"...And that's how it happened, um...whatever your name is..." Iroh conclueded.
Sokka blinked, "But that doesn't explain how..."
"I'm all flashback-ed out for the day, so leave me alone!" Iroh interruped.
Meanwhile, Aang, Katara, and Byakko were tending the chained-up Appa, disscusing things like beetles and yellow submarines...
"Y'know Aang, if you and Byakko were both raised by Monk Gyasto, you two are technically siblings." Katara said, making perfect sense.
"She's right, Aang! But it's funny...we never really saw each other...that's strange...and weird...COOKIE!" Byakko said, being her random self.
"That does seem like a badly written cuh-winky-dink, but I don't think we should dwell on it." Aang replied.
"...'k," Byakko paused, "Sibling singing time?"
"You know it!" Aang cheerfully said.
Katara smiled and shook her head as the two airbenders sang happily.
"We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine..."