Here's a longer one for you all. Hope you all like it. Thanks for all the reviews, because the story is done, I just have to post it all. This one has a more cheerful mood, sort of.
I was almost afraid of entering Ba Sing Sei. Crime was rising from the Fire Nation leaving, and all the slaves getting out of the markets. Zuko had work out for him. He had a city to fix, and his and Toph's wedding/crowning for the new nation about to start.
I was with Toph, walking around with Hiro hanging on my back. He didn't feel like walking, I didn't want him walking, and I was helping Toph with her family that came by getting her away from the new capital building. Her family was excited to have the royal family part as theirs. Greedy people are all I have to say about them. I wanted to also be with Toph for a few times, for when she became queen, I would still be the nobody who knows the Family well. I wasn't going to get a title, and Zuko made sure of that. That bastard is nice when something wrong happens to me, but when everyone tells him he should find a spot for me in the capital; he says I'm not worth it. That's alright then I suppose. I don't want one anyways.
"What happened to your finger, Auntie Kat?" Hiro asked after I tried to point something out to him.
"Nothing, just a really bad cut." I said, and I put my hand in my pocket.
Toph finally said that she had to leave. She being the future queen meant that she wouldn't leave the capital often, even if she was about to have half the world.
"Is she still your friend, Auntie Kat?" Hiro asked me.
"Yes, she will always be a friend even if life isn't always fair." I said.
"Why isn't life fair?" he asked.
"I don't know, but it isn't."
"Can we try and make it fair?" Hiro asked another question.
"Yes, but it won't be easy."
"Easy for what?" a voice spoke.
I turned, and almost dropped Hiro. The Avatar was standing over me. Why is everyone taller than me?
"Aang, how did you get out?"
"A stoke of luck." He said and grinned.
He came over, and Hiro climbed off my back. Aang gave me a hug, but no kiss? What's with him? He explained his whole story to me. My heart felt broken.
"Is he yours?" Aang asked randomly.
"Who?" I asked.
"The boy."
"No, he's Sokka's. Sokka isn't with us." I said then knew that I had to tell him what I did, but Ty Lee showed up. My heart was really broken then.
Ty Lee and Mei some how disguised the Avatar, and got him out with a bunch of Earth Kingdom tourist. That's quite lucky. There must be more Fire Nation supporters for the Fire Nation not to check people's passports.
We all walked towards the capital building. It took me forever to get in, while Aang and Ty Lee got in easily.
"Boy, sucks to be us." Mei said.
"Yep." I said, "I wouldn't count on many perks." I still kept my hand in my pocket.
Mei and I surprisingly got along. We were loveless, depressed, and poor except that I had Hiro to take care of.
Aang joined in on watching the trial of Fire Nation Officers in charge of the slave market. I watched, but only for a bit, for Hiro was hungry again. I'm sure they got the hard labor for the rest of their lives.
I was staying in my tent in the army's camp. Hiro and I were looking for a better place to stay than a tent. There wasn't anywhere for me to rent, and I'd have to buy a place. I didn't want to buy a house. Hiro and I were stuck in the camp, until we moved to put an end to the Fire Nation.
I did get to go to the wedding, and the crowning. I had to wear the New Nation's armor. It was silver, with blue cloth. The helmets weren't as bulky like the Earth Kingdom's. They were more like the Fire Nations regular troops, but without the spike on the top. They instead had two horns coming upward and pulled back toward the back of the head.
It was easier to move around in, than the red Earth Kingdom style armor the rebels wore. I didn't understand though, why Zuko decided on blue and silver for the colors. I tried to find some answer, but everyone ignored me.
Both the wedding and the crowning were in the same celebration. Everyone in the Earth Kingdom came to it, or it seemed like it.
Zuko was in armor close to ours, but outlined in gold. He was already waiting for Toph to come out.
"All rise for the bride!" someone called out.
Hiro was with me. We both turned to see Toph come out. When she did, Aang was escorting her, and then stopped half way. Zuko came towards them and they both walked up to the monk, ready to start the wedding. Toph was in her blue and silver robes. Everyone seemed to go red when they saw her come out, okay the men did.
After the wedding, the Earth King came. He had something to say.
"My fellow loyal countrymen, we here are starting something new and never done in the history of the world. The entire world is about to become one Nation, one Kingdom, and one Tribe. I am giving up my power of peace to the future Fire Lord, for he will make a one Nation world. Zuko, prince of the Fire Nation, do you swear to protect the Kingdom as you would your own homeland?"
"Yes, my King." Zuko said loudly. Cheers went off.
"And to your Queen Toph, will you in the power you will have protect the joining of the Fire Nation like you would your own homeland?"
"Yes, my King." Toph said.
At that time, I left with Hiro. He was sleepy, and I was feeling depressed again. Jet came to check on me in my tent.
"How was the rest of it?" I asked.
"It was good. You should have stayed, but I'll break the bad news to you; we're leaving for the coast tomorrow, and we're taking our cannons." Jet said.
I nodded. Tomorrow was going to be hell, but fighting on Fire Nation soil, again, was going to be worse, and I wasn't ready to leave Hiro here.
