A/N special thanks to Uncle Gran-Gran, for making me update. Sorry, everyone, I've been busy. And then the computer died. And then I couldn't log on, for some random reason. But now things are working. By the way, casting for the song was entirely incidental. I'm a kataang shipper, and making Katara sing as the girl who eventually falls in love with the guy Zuko was singing was just because she's the only girl there. Well, hope you like it, and again, sorry for the wait.

"Everyone, Zuko is mad.

And one of us being mad makes me sad.

I think that we should make him cheer

Any ideas coming near?"

Aang looked hopefully at Zuko after finishing his song. The Prince, predictably, glared at him.

Obviously all of the trouble he had gone into last time they were captured together had gone to waste. He would have to remedy that problem by singing as often as possible. The repetition of the lesson 'singing is good' ought to teach Zuko to sing a happy song once more.

"Aang, I'm sorry my nephew's being a rat

I don't know what to do, I'll put on my thinking hat.

If any of you have any ideas, don't hesistate to say

I'd be glad to hear a suggestion of another way."

That, obviously, was Iroh. Aang really liked him, and was sad that he had to make sure Zuko was being nice to everybody all of the time.

"I have an idea, it goes like this

I hope you won't find anything amiss

With singing a song

That's like Zuko, that'll help him get along!"

This was from Bumi, Aang's old friend. Aang was glad to see him again. And his idea was good, making Zuko sing would both lead to his eventual singing happiness, and the lifting of his bad mood.

"Great idea, I know the song

I hope you don't think I'm wrong.

It has different parts for each of us

And I'm sure Zuko won't raise a fuss."

As his reply ended, Aang turned to Zuko pleadingly. "You won't, will you?" he asked, making his best Momo eyes.

"Of course I will! Did you honestly expect me to sing?" demanded Zuko.

"But if you don't, the pirates will notice that only a few of their prisoners are singing, and they'll realize that we want to escape, and they'll kill us all. I know you might want me to die, but what about yourself?"

Zuko looked a little disgusted that Aang thought that he only cared about his own life.

"Avatar, of course I don't want you to die!" he heard himself saying.

"Yeah, because if I do, you'll never be able to go home," grumbled Aang. Zuko sighed.

"Alright, alright, I'll sing along. But you owe me!"

A few minutes later, Aang had taught them all the song and assigned parts. It was mostly Zuko, Aang, and Katara, with bits and pieces of the others as the chorus. It was Zuko's role to begin the song. Feeling extremely silly, he did so.

"I'm gonna be a mighty king, so enemies beware!" Well, he was, but that wasn't the point.

"I've never seen a king of beasts

With quite so little hair," Aang got very well into the part by tugging aggravatingly on Zuko's ponytail.

"I'm gonna be the main event

Like no king was before

I'm brushing up on looking down

I'm working on my roar," King of beasts? Roar? Who, or what, did Aang make him sing?

"Thus far a rather uninspiring thing," Aang's sarcasm was very well-acted.

"Oh, I just can't wait to be king!

No one saying do this," do what? Oh, well. Zuko's character seemed very determined to be independent.

"Now when I said that…" Aang seemed to be some sort of mentor or guardian to Zuko. maybe a parent?

"No one saying be there," Added Katara, who didn't have many lines. Which probably explained her apparent cheerfulness.

"What I meant was…" Aang had trouble finishing his sentences, for some odd reason.

"No one saying stop that," Zuko's character was as irresponsible as they come.

"What you don't realize…" Definite trouble finishing his sentences. No doubt about…

"No one saying see here," Zuko and Katara sung that line together. Maybe Katara was supposed to be his sister or something. In that case, why hadn't they made Sokka sing?

"Now see here!" Oh, the irony.

"Free to run around all day," As irresponsible as Zuko's character was, that would be nice.

"That's definitely out" Aang once again.

"Free to do it all my way!" Yeah, that was Aang. Zuko. Duh.

"I think it's time that you and I

Arranged a heart-to-heart," good thing this was just a song. A 'heart-to-heart' between Zuko and Aang would be… interesting. And violent.

"Kings don't need advice

From little hornbills for a start," Either this was a very weird song, or Katara's character was delusional.

"If this is where the monarchy is headed

Count me out

Out of service, out of Fire Nation," So Aang changed the line a little. It was his verse, after all.

"I wouldn't hang about

This child is getting wildly out of wing"

"Oh, I just can't wait to be king!

Everybody look left," Zuko sang. He wondered if anyone actually was.

"Everybody look right," somehow, Katara's line got Zuko actually looking right. Right at the wall.

"Everywhere you look I'm…" Maybe Aang's lack of ability to finish his sentences was contagious. Zuko had certainly caught it.

"Standing in the spotlight," Zuko couldn't finish his own line, so he had to sing a duet with Katara to get it done. Lovely.

"Not yet," Aang was perfectly well in character, somehow. Still.

"Let every creature go for broke and sing," whether it was nonsense or not, it was nonsense that Iroh, Bumi, and Sokka all sang together.

"Let's hear it in the herd and on the wing

It's gonna be King Zuko's finest fling," Zuko was definitely planning on getting back at Aang for changing the line. And the others for going along with it. And Katara for good measure.

"Oh, I just can't wait to be king!" Hmm. Maybe Zuko's character couldn't wait to be king. Just a guess.

"Oh, he just can't wait to be king!" Katara seemed to agree with that statement.

"Oh, I just can't wait..."

"Just can't wait," Katara echoing everything Zuko said wasn't very productive. But that's how the song goes.

"To be king!" This time everyone, the chorus, the crazed prince, his sister, and whoever Aang was supposed to be, sang along together. What a happy, idiotic ending.

"Wasn't that weird?" asked Aang.

"Yes," replied Zuko.

"Wasn't your character insane?" asked Aang.

"Yes," replied Zuko.

"Wasn't that fun?" asked Aang.

"Yes," replied Zuko.