DISCLAIMER: don't own AVATAR.

Zuko'sbabygirl: yah, lol. But now, I hav a 3rd story 2 update. (it's called The Girl in Fire Nation Clothes, just 5 the record) and I dunno y Zuko would give his son a division of an army. Souzen's just spoiled. And who's Anthony?

Kayko15: I gave that cookie 2 Zuko. O well. It's difficult 2 do so much at once. I had a nervous-meltdown once bcuz I had 2 much stuff 2 do. Lerolas: it wuzn't pretty. ME: shut up.

I sry 4 the long wait, but it's hard 4 me 2 run 3 stories at once, and I'm losing interest in this story. So I'm gonna try and end it soon.

Chapter 9: At The Solstice

The days were dragging by, almost literally. Lerolas swore donkeys were pulling the days, but being as stubborn as they were, the donkeys weren't trying very hard. They were barely into autumn!

But Lerolas didn't mind. Autumn was her favorite season. Lately, the Fire Lord and Lady took their son out for fresh air, so he could be educated on everything. Souzen was always uninterested.

"You cannot wait until you destroy this. All of this!" Lerolas yelled at the Prince, waving her invisible and intangible arms around. Souzen turned to face her.

"Yup." The elder Souzen spirit replied.

"You cannot wait until beauty is replaced with metal tyranny," Lerolas spat. Souzen grinned at her.

"So true," Lerolas screamed, it actually penetrated the barrier between Life and Spirit, and Zuko and Katara heard Lerolas' cries.

"YOU EVIL, ROTTEN, GOD FORBIDDEN FIREFUCKER!" She screamed. Katara and Zuko looked around frantically. Who was that?

Lerolas' spirit lunged through Souzen's body, aiming for the ancient spirit that kept him alive.

Zuko looked at his son, and just before Lerolas went through Souzen, Zuko saw a flash of blue, then it was gone.

Lerolas ignored the memories of war and death that flooded her eyes, she wanted Souzen. To pierce his heart, and get rid of him once and for all. She almost had Souzen's spirit, it was in her grasp, when she was suddenly hurled out of Fire Lord Souzen's host.

Lerolas felt her back meet brick, and she moaned in pain. Wait a minute, spirits can't feel…

Lerolas looked down at her hands, and saw colors returning, she was in the realm of the Living…

Katara screamed when she saw the Elf. Zuko gaped. Lerolas got unsteadily to her feet, then spied Souzen. She lunged at him again.

Lerolas pinned the Prince to the ground, grabbed his neck, and started to squeeze.

"Your life, and all your hopes for this world, are over." She hissed. Lerolas saw the life drain away, but it returned when a hand was placed on her neck, and lifted her off the Prince.

"What do you think you're doing?" A voice hissed in her ear. Lerolas smirked at Zuko, even though he couldn't see it.

"Saving the world. Saving the last Air Nomad, all of the Earth Kingdom, and every last person of the Water Tribes." She answered calmly as she glared down at Souzen. Zuko whirled her around, so he could look at her.

"And you plan to save them by killing our son?" Lerolas nodded. Zuko growled, and raised a fist to hit the Elf spirit. But Lerolas grabbed the fist, and threw Zuko onto the marble path of the gardens, face up.

"Don't you get it, Zuko?" Lerolas asked with a hint of anger as she circled Zuko.

"You can't beat me. I've been dead, a spirit, for three years! I have become inhuman! But quite frankly, I never was human, as you should know." Zuko glared. Lerolas threw a disgusted finger at Souzen.

"His body is inhabited by the original Souzen, the Fire Lord that started the war you finished! But he has returned, to kill all of the other Nations, so Fire can prosper! That is why I'm here, so he cannot complete his task! Souzen must die!" Lerolas screamed. And in the blink of an eye, she was gone. Returned to the Spirit world.

Lerolas yawned as the Autumn feast began. Food was no longer necessary for her.

Suddenly, there was the sound of gagging, and hands pounding on wood. Everyone looked up, to see Zuko and Katara choking. They were immediately taken to the hospital wing, and everyone else was left to wonder who had poisoned the Fire Lord and Lady, as the doctors had said they were poisoned.

Lerolas looked down at the six-year-old Prince, how he looked undaunted by the fact that his parents had almost died, and she knew who had committed the crime…

Sokka sighed, Lerolas would probably think Souzen had tried to do the deed, but she was dead wrong…

Lerolas hissed as Prince Souzen stepped up onto the throne. Iroh was too old to be Fire Lord, and with the Lord and Lady in the matter of Life and Death, they really didn't have any choice, but to let Prince Souzen take the throne.

"My first decree as Fire Lord," Prince, now Fire Lord, Souzen started.

"Is to wage war against the Nations, just like my ancestor, Souzen the First, did, 100 years ago, at the Winter Solstice." He declared, then turned to where Lerolas stooed gaping. Souzen hissed out a comment to her, a smirk on his face.

"Time's up."

O NO! will Lerolas b 2 l8? Will Souzen start another war, and win, this time around? Who DID poison Zuko and Katara? Y did they do it? So many questions, all 2 b answered in good time, my readers! I sry 4 the long wait, hard 2 keep so many stories going, but I will update as soon as I can, until next time, pplz!

INSANITY AT ITS FINEST
LONG LIVE THE HIPPIES!

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