A/N: So, the little whimper wasn't needed. We all know that Ozai is a pushover. Anyway, sorry that this one is a little bit short, but oh well. I'm sure I've written shorter. And yes, the beginning is almost all dialogue. Not my fault. Blame the chapter. Just because.

17: Pout and give him puppy eyes when he's about to blow up at you. Add a little whimper if needed.

"Lara, I've been patient. I've let you live. But this is going too far!"

"Why?"

Ozai paused a little bit. Why, exactly, was this going too far? Oh, right.

"Because the people of the Fire Nation are depressed, and they…"

"Why?"

"Because we're losing to a twelve-year-old!"

"We're not losing, par se…"

"We're not winning, either. And we just won a major victory…"

"Actually, it's more like we didn't suffer a major defeat… Shutting up."

"Thank you. We just won a major victory, and because of this, we were celebrating. This is the first time in a long time that they have had anything to celebrate."

"Not technically, I mean, maybe no victories, but still… birthdays, weddings…"

"Lara…"

"Sorry."

"This was the first time in a long time that they've had anything to do with a Fire Nation victory to celebrate! And they were celebrating it, when you ruined it for plenty of innocent people…"

"Actually, they seemed to be enjoying it. It was you who…"

"Lara!"

"What? You just didn't like that I told them that you do yoga!"

"Well, would you?"

"I'm not obsessed with my image!"

"I'm the Puppet… I mean… The Fire Lord! My image is the Fire Nation's image. Do you want the Avatar to think that everyone in the Fire Nation does yoga?"

"Maybe you'll start a trend."

"Do you think… Aaargh! No! I don't want to start a trend. If we seem weak…"

"Who ever said that yoga makes you weak?"

"It doesn't, but everyone else might not think…"

"I think it makes you more centered. If anything, doing yoga will make you more to be feared."

"Lara! That's not the point!"

"Why not?"

"Because! It was a feast you ruined."

"SO? You're the one who brought yoga up."

"I was not!"

"You were too!"

"Was not!"

"Were too!"

"Was not!"

"Were too!"

"Was not!"

"Were too!

"Was… LARA!"

"What did I do?"

"You're just trying to get me off-track so I won't kill you!"

"It was your fault! Any I doubt you could kill me, anyway. Wimp."

There was a pause. Wrong thing to say, Lara.

"What… did… you… say?"

"I called you a wimp. Because you are."

Ozai didn't say anything else. He simply raised a fireball on his fist, and lifted his arm to hurl it at her. Then he stopped.

Lara was sitting on the floor, with her head tilted and her lower lip out, looking like she was about to cry. Ozai didn't know that her eyes could get that big. He hadn't known that anyone's eyes could get that big. It was weird. And somehow, a little bit… what was the word…

Cute.

Yes, you read right. The Fire Lord thought that something was cute.

And, as we all know, killing someone who is cute is very difficult. At least, I assume. I've never tried to kill someone I thought was cute. I've never really tried to kill anyone. Most people don't.

But that's not the point. The point is…

What is the point, again? I mean, this whole story is kind of without a point.

Okay, before I get philosophical and start going on about how nothing has a point, let's get back to the topic.

Ozai didn't want to kill Lara because she was cute. So he put down the fireball.

Well, technically, he put out the fireball. If he'd put down the fireball, then…

Anyway…

He put out the fireball. But that was when Lara made her biggest mistake ever.

"Ha-ha," she laughed.

Ozai's eyes got bigger than Lara's had. But it did not look cute.

"LARA!"

"What?"