A/N Well, it looks like a week with my elderly relatives paid off. I got bored enough to figure out what's going to happen next in this story. Hopefully, I'm going to manage being able to write this and Annoying at the same time. If you have any annoying songs you want someone to sing, please tell me. Hope you like this one!
As Zuko well knew, every time he did something stupid, there was a price that had to be paid. His utter embarrassment wasn't enough, oh no! Now, he had to live up to the image that the Avatar had invented of him.
You see, after the song had been finished, Aang had left that particular episode in their strange lives with the impression that Zuko liked to sing. Which was entirely incorrect. The prince of the Fire Nation did not enjoy singing inane songs about one's prettiness. Especially not with his archenemy, his uncle, a slightly insane king, and two random peasants.
But, unfortunately, the point that the Slightly Insane King had made was a good one. They had to sing whatever random songs that the Avatar and his Uncle had come up with so that the pirates wouldn't suspect that they were planning anything.
It never seemed to occur to Zuko the flaw in the Slightly Insane King's point. It was a very simple flaw. The pirates would never suspect that they were planning anything for one very obvious reason. They weren't.
But that's irrelevant, as it didn't occur to Zuko and so he sung along with whatever song Uncle, Avatar or the Slightly Insane King suggested.
"I have an idea!" exclaimed the Avatar. Zuko glared at him.
"And what," he asked scathingly "Do you expect me to do about it?"
Okay, maybe not as scathing as he would like, but it worked. Sort of. Instead of looking properly abashed and shutting up, Aang gave Zuko a brilliant smile and sang his idea to the world.
"Hey everybody, I know what we can do!
I have a song, you will not rue
The day that you started to sing it
And our situation, it seems to fit!"
Now the Slightly Insane King began to torture Zuko with his singing.
"Aang, that's wonderful, that's great!
If you songs I had to rate,
I'd give it a ten out of ten, you see,
Your singing is fun, at least to me!"
Taking that as a go-ahead, Aang sung the song one time through before getting the rest of the prisoners to sing along. He assigned them each different parts to sing, which the Female Peasant and Uncle seemed to view with cheerful indulgence, while the Slightly Insane King found it hilarious and the Male Peasant seemed to think was 'tolerable'. Zuko thought the entire thing was stupid, but what could he do?
"It's
a world of laughter
A world of tears," began the Avatar with
the cheerfulness that Zuko found annoying at best and terrifying at
worst.
"It's
a world of hopes
And a world of fears," continued the Female
Peasant, sounding slightly less cheerful than Aang.
"There's
so much that we share
That it's time we're aware," the Male
Peasant sang, sounding the least cheerful of all, but still much
happier than Zuko felt.
"It's a small world after all," everyone chorused.
"There
is just one moon
And one golden sun," sang the Slightly Insane King. He was
probably the happiest-sounding out of everyone, barring Aang, of
course.
"And
a smile means
Friendship to ev'ryone," continued Uncle. Zuko
was feeling slightly betrayed by his uncle's joy at this inane form
of entertainment,but then again, it was definitly Iroh's thing.
"Though
the mountains divide
And the oceans are wide," muttered Zuko.
Needless to say, on the cheerfulness meter, he was probably at a
zero.
"It's a small world after all," once again, everyone sang this line.
"It's a small world after all," this was the Avatar and the Slightly Insane King.
"It's a small world after all," following the patter of the order from both verses, this was the Female Peasant and Uncle.
"It's a small world after all," Zuko and the Male Peasant were somewhat of a sour note to end on, neither being the most enthusiastic about singing this, but the Avatar had remidied that with the last line, which was sung by all of the prisoners.
"It's a small, small world."
The Avatar smiled happily and clapped loud enough that Zuko was sure that his friends in the Fire Nation had heard him.
"Everyone, that was great
A ten out of ten, I would rate!
It is a very good song
And I'm glad you sung along!"
Zuko thought that the Avatar was sounding like a play that some of the Earth Kingdom idiots put on for their smallest children, but nobody asked his opinion.
"Thanks, Aang, I'm glad you liked it,
Its better than to just sit
Around waiting to die
This song is liked by you and I!" the Female Peasant replied annoyingly.
The Avatar looked at Zuko as if he was expecting some sort of praise for annoying everyone who was slightly sane out of their minds. Obviously, he didn't get any.
"What did you think, Zuko?" the Avatar asked finally.
"It's a song," Zuko retorted. "What do you think I think?"
"What do you think I think you think?" replied the Avatar cheerfully.
Zuko was caught up in the exchange before he could stop to… think.
"What do you think I think you think I think?"
"What do you think I think you think I think you think?"
"What do you I think think I you think I think you think?"
"What do you think I you tink think thonk?"
"What?"
"Who?"
"What?"
"No, Zuko, you're supposed to say 'where'!"
"Avatar!" snapped Zuko, finally losing his control. "I don't care what you think I'm supposed to say! Just shut up!"
"What do you think I think you're supposed to say?" demanded the boy happily.
"AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG!" replied Zuko.
