Okay, thanks peoples for reviewing. Sorry if the last chapter was a little slow, but this one is where Lara starts annoying Ozai. So, this chapter takes place two years before the show starts, when Zuko first leaves the Fire Nation.
OC haters, please don't kill me, but Lara isn't real. Everyone else is not mine, just Lara, and the actual ways to annoy him belong to Alaska Angel.
1: Tell him he's being a bad boy and is on time out. Don't let him off the chair.
Two down, erm… let's see… Ozai, Mother… oh, well, Father would be counted as one down. So that's three down and two to go, not counting all the various pets that Iroh and I brought in over the years…
Lady Lara, Fire Nation Deputy Princess, younger sister to the Fire Lord Ozai and the Dragon of the West Iroh, Mascot of the Fire Nation Royal Family, Aunt to Fire Nation Princess Zula and Prince Zuko, and Un-official Prankster of the Fire Nation was a very confusing person.
Which explains why it took her an entire paragraph to comment in her head that her nephew Zuko and her brother Iroh had just departed on a ship. Yes, she did think in paragraphs.
Although her face was just as cheerful as normal, internally, she was annoyed. Very annoyed.
Zuko was her favorite nephew. Not that she really liked him that much, but he was her only nephew, and his sister Zula was a butt-face. (Lara always called Azula by her childhood nickname of Zula, although nobody had used that since the Princess was old enough to talk, just to annoy her) And Iroh was cool.
And so Lara decided to strike back!
She would do the unthinkable. She would do something amazing. She would do something shocking. She would do something fitting. She would do something that nobody had ever done.
She would pull a prank on the Fire Lord.
Well, at the moment, she couldn't think of any pranks. So she would do something slightly less unthinkable. She would annoy him, which was not very unusual, especially for Lara. After all, she was his little sister.
"Oh, OOOOOOZZZZZZAAAAAAIIIII!" cried Lara annoyingly.
"What?" her brother growled. He hated it when she used that cheerful tone with him. It made her sound so… girly.
"OOOOOZZZZZZAAAAAIIIIII!" repeated Lara.
"WHAT!"
"Ozai, you're being a bad boy," taunted his little sister.
"Lara, what are you talking about?"
"You're being a bad boy."
"Lara…"
"You're being a very bad boy. A bad boy who deserves something special. A timeout."
"Lara, shut up," snapped Ozai. He turned back to the subjects he was intimidating at the moment.
But Lara would not be denied. She was no cowering peasant. She was the Fire Lord's sister, and she would not be intimidated into shutting up.
Indeed, Lara would put all of her considerable strengths into not shutting up. Her maturity coughyeahrightcough her prowess at pranks, her obstinacy, her pigheadedness her stubbornness, her persistence, her tenacity, her doggedness, her determination, her bullheadedness, and all those other synonyms of stubborn.
"Make me."
Maturity. Right.
"What?" demanded Ozai, looking up from the intimidated subjects.
"I said make me." Lara stopped her brother as he started to stand up from his throne angrily. "Without getting up. You're on timeout, remember?"
"Lara!"
Without hesitation, the younger Fire Bender ran over and jumped onto the Fire Lord's lap.
"No getting up."
"Lara!"
"Uh, uh, uh! You, my friend, are on timeout!"
"Lara, gerroff me," Ozai grumbled in a muffled voice. "You're embarrassing me in front of my subjects."
"That can wait," Lara told him firmly in a motherly tone. "You're on timeout. You have to learn your lesson. You don't want to grow up to be a bad boy, do you?"
"No," Ozai began submissively, then stopped. "Wait… Lara!"
"What?" Lara asked innocently.