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Zuko'sbabygirl: omg! I'm so sry! But I haven't seen any updates, (I can b as blind as a bat) so I haven't read it! I'm sry! Really sry! Oo, and I do plan on Lerolas kicking Katara's butt, though she mite not, depending on how the story goes.

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Chapter 4: Souzen's Spirit

Lerolas now became a spirit of the Palace. Lonely, forbidden, bound by her past, and to her duty. She remembered seeing Ozai's spirit in the Palace.

"Kneel before your master." He had commanded. As if chains had wrapped around her limbs, Lerolas forcibly fell to a knee, with her head down.

Ozai smirked.

"My grandson will reek havoc, I command you to stop him." Lerolas looked up at her master.

"Yes master. My Lord. You order, you command, and as always, I obey." Ozai smirked again, nodded, then drifted out of the Palace. And still, his words echo through her transparent mind.

"You order, you command, and as always, I obey."

Ozai had died several days after Katara and Zuko's marriage, the reason why, was unknown.

But I'll find out eventually, Lerolas thought.

One day, Lerolas wandered into the city. She sometimes felt strange urgings to go into Souzen, but when she got there, there was never anything she needed to know. After all, spirits don't need to know that fish cost 3 silver pieces, they don't eat.

But one day, her urge to go into the city was stronger than ever, so she went. As she passed a café, she saw a familiar face, talking to two others, though their faces were hooded.

Lerolas ran through the wall, and gazed happily at Sokka. But she wanted to know who those two hooded figures were. She walked behind them, and stuck (more like tried, since her hand would go straight through.) a hand on either one's head. She saw a whirlwind of memories from either one.

"And she shall be called,"

"And he shall be called,"

"Jun."

"Zhao."

Lerolas wrenched her hands away, and stared at the figures.

"They, impossi-, Sokka, no! Don't do this! Don't listen to a word they say!" Lerolas cried unseen tears, but they were ignored.

Lerolas looked sorrowfully at Sokka, and tried to cup his chin in her hands, but was careful not to touch it, or she would be sent into another whirlwind of memories, starting with his birth.

"And who wants to watch that anyway?" Lerolas said with no tone.

"I wish you didn't do this Sokka," Lerolas whispered sadly as he shook Zhao and Jun's hands.

"You'll just make it harder."

Nine months passed uneventfully, except for the birth of Katara's child. Lerolas had accidentally walked in, and just might of seen the babe's conception.

"OH MY GOD!" Lerolas screamed when she appeared through the door. She had been so loud, Lerolas thought that Katara and Zuko had heard her.

Lerolas heard the boy's name when she watched him being born. Not very pleasant, to say the least. But she had to watch for Souzen's spirit. He could not reach the baby.

"What will we name him?" Katara had asked weakly after her husband had seen his child, and now cradling him in his arms. Zuko thought for a moment.

"Let's call him Souzen, after my grandfather." Lerolas stood up, and gaped.

Katara smiled at the name.

"Fine. From now on, he'll be known as Prince Souzen." Lerolas smacked her forehead. She was a fool! Souzen had entered the child after the conception, but before the birth! When Lerolas hadn't been paying attention.

How could I have let this happen? Lerolas thought sadly.

Everything's already falling apart.

"No matter, I'll get rid of the child during the Winter Solstice. And then, Souzen will have nowhere to go, not until a new heir is born." And Lerolas walked through the wall, and out of the room.

No one knew that the babe now known as Souzen was only playing dumb. He had the intelligence of a battle-scarred, 50 year old firebender.

Stupid little Elf child, the new Souzen thought.

This is what I wanted.

OMG! INTENSE!

INSANITY AT ITS FINEST
LONG LIVE THE HIPPIES!

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