All That Is Left Is Ashes
A Modern Tale. He was a jerk, he was rude, he was arrogant, some would say ugly but she loved him and he loved her but sometimes jealousy can burn more fiercely than passion can.
Hello there this is my first foray into the Avatar world and I hope I don't screw up to badly… with that said this story was inspired by YoukaiYume's fantastic artwork. You should go and see and leave her a nice comment.
This is short, shorter then what I mostly write but then this is a prologue and they are suppose to be short…at least that is what I think…Please read and review it will make a starving writer's day brighter however it still won't feed me (confused look).
Prologue: Sunset
Some sunsets are so beautiful it will bring tears to anyone's eyes. If someone passed a giant oak tree in the middle of Worldren Central Park at sunset and seen young women sitting in the branches of the impressive oak they would have assumed the tears that slid down the young women's cheeks were from witnessing one of natures most splendid designs; they were wrong.
Seventeen year old Katara Waverten sat looking as the sun descended and turned the sky into a mural of light and dark pinks, blues and violets. The tears that slid silently down her face were in fact not as bad as they had been a month ago. A month ago the tears had been accompanied by her loud sobs a frequent question of 'Why' that no one cared to answer.
Katara let her head fall lightly on the cool weathered bark of the old oak tree. She lifted her hand that had rested against her chest to her face; in her palm was a lighter. It was a sliver lighter with intricate flames engraved on the front. As she look at the relatively harmful object she began to cry harder and her long delicate finger enclosed the lighter and she held it tightly.
Memories bombarded before her mind's inner eye, memories that she so deeply wanted to forget and so desperately wanted to remember.
A single word fell from her lips in a shaky breath as the sun finally disappeared from the sky.
"Zuko."