Quest Log,

Entry 2

Prince Zuko

Disclaimer: This is based off Legend of Zelda, the wind waker, except Link is a girl and a few things have been changed. I don't own the avatar characters. Pluse, I am using Zelda, and a few of the characters from the game for fun. DONT SUE ME IM TOO CUTE TO GET A LAW SUIT :D

It was three in the afternoon...three in the freakin' afternoon; and Prince Zuko had not seen the avatar. He hadn't even seen any trash! he was starting to get fustraited.

"Sir." A soldier came to him at about three fifteen. "We found something in the water. Do you want us to bring it abord?"

"Might as well. It will be the only thing we found today." He followed the soldier to the side of the deck and watched as they pulled a girl's body out of the water. But this girl was strange, she was wearing all green. When she was dumped out onto the deck; everyone watched her for a moment; waiting for her to open her eyes. Her eye lids slowly lifted to see a bunch of fire benders surrounding her; shooting up, she looked at them and asked

"Arylle?" But after seeing that her sister wasn't on the ship, that they hadn't saved her without knowing what the big deal was, she sighed and stood up. "Damn it all..." Everyone thought she was strange while she re-gained her balance. She felt it quite awkward when she turned and saw them all stairing at her with an eyebrow risen. "Um...hi. You all haven't seen my sister have you? Or a girl with a big pirate ship and pointed ears?" She asked, when she said pointed ears, she lifted her green hat a bit and reveiled her ears, which were pointed as well. They all exchanged a look and then Zuko said

"The only girl we've seen with pointed ears is you..so..no." Da-xia growled and punched the railing.

"Damn! Stupid bird...stupid Tetra...stupid me..." She was throwing a fit like a child in a candy store with no money. Then she turned to them and tried to act polite, but her desprite mannor caused her to be quite angry. "I need to find them. Or at least Arylle. I would be greateful if you would take me to Forsaken Fortress." Zuko shook his head quickly.

"Are you insane? That place is haunted! Why don't we just drop you off at windfall? Were pretty close to that. About one more day I think.."But Da-xia declined.

"no! I need to get to Forsaken Fortress! My sister and the others-"

"Look. You can swim to Forsaken Fortress, but we arn't going!" Zuko barked at her. Iroh walked up from behind him and scolded him for the way he was talking to her.

"Prince Zuko! is that any way to talk to a lady in distress?" Iroh asked smirking. "Miss. what my nephew means, is: why would you want to go to a bad place like forsaken fortress, when you could go to a nice place like windfall?" Zuko shook his head at his uncle,

"I actually ment what I said." As the nephew and Uncle argued, Da-xia saw that it was hopeless to get help from them; she walked over to the railing and while she staired at the horizon, she thought about how at first she had lost her parents, and now her sister? She lost the three people in her life that she depended on, her grandmother was old, and she didn't expect her to live much more, but she hoped she would. If she didn't get her sister back..she'd be all alone. She didn't know it at the time, but she started to cry. All she wanted was for things to go back to how they used to be; a carefree life on a peaceful island, a fun sister that she hardly ever fought with, and a grandmother...a grandmother that loves her. It was all gone. Da-xia would never forgive herself if something happend to Arylle..to her baby sister.

"Miss. Please. Don't cry.If you want to get to Forsaken Fortress that badly-" But she cut Iroh off.

"It isn't the fortress...I have to find Arylle..."

" Who is Arylle?" Iroh asked her.

"My little sister." Everyone did feel bad for her. She'd lost her sister, that has got to be the worst. She didn't want to cry infrount of the fire nation, but she had no choice. She didn't want to bottle it all up. "I'll take your windfall offor. Maybe Tetra freed her and they are there."

So she ended up riding with them to windfall. On the way during dinner, which she was invited to join them; Iroh asked her name.

"Da-xia." She replied.

"Ah, that means...Big Hero." Da-xia nodded. Zuko didn't ask any questions, he just sort of...lisoned. "and you said you need to find your sister? What happond to her?"

"She got kidnapped yesturday by a Helmaroc King." Iroh put some of the chicken in his mouth, and swollowed after a few seconds of chewing.

"Im sorry for your loss. We'd be more than happy to assist you." Zuko shot his head up and disagreed with his crackbrained uncle.

"We can't! Were hunting the avatar!" Da-xia could have really used their help, so, while not looking up at the indingant prince she made a proposition.

"What if.. If you help me find my sister...I help you capture the avatar?" That intrigued Zuko, if he let her use his ship..she'd help him search.

"Fine." He acriminiously agreed. He wasn't pleased to have some person that he considerd a child stuck in his ship. Though both were the same age, he considerd himself light years ahead in maturity. But he'd do just about anything to capture the avatar and give him to his father, and, Da-xia was pretty..well..cute.

"Thank you." She told him, bowing politely. "Your help is greatly appreciated."

"No need to bow." Iroh told her grinning. "If you don't mind me asking, why are you dressed in all green? That seems like its pretty warm for this weather."

"It is, but I have to. Its coustomary on my island for girls when they turned sixteen to dress up like the hero in the legend for one day." Iroh and Zuko shared an addle look, and then looked back at her. "You don't know the legend...?" They both shook their heads.

"We haven't heard it." Iroh told her. Her eyes widend, she always thought everyone knew the legend of the hero of time. "Would you be so kind as to tell us? How about in fifteen minutes when music night starts?" Da-xia nodded smiling. It was required for all the females on her island to know the legend of the hero of time by heart; lest they need to pass it onto the next generation.

When music night started, and most everyone else was finished. Da-xia got infrount of the crowed with Zuko in the back and Iroh in the frount, and told the tale of the hero of time. (You don't have to read these next two paragraphs, because it was in the first chapter.)

"This is but one of the legends of which the people speak...Long ago, there exusted a kingdom where a golden power lay hidden. It was a prosperous land blessed with green forests, tall mountains, and peace. But one day, a man of great evil found the golden power and took it for himself. With its strength at his command, he spread darkness across the kingdom. But then, when all hope had died, and the hour of doom seemed at hand, a young girl clothed in green appeared as if from nowhere. Wielding the blade of evil's bane, she sealed the dark one away and gave the land light.This girl, who traveled through time to save the land, was known as the hero of time. The girl's tale was passed down through generations untill it became legend. But then, a day came when a fell wind began to blow across the kingdom. The great evil that all thought had been sealed away by the hero once again crept forth from tge deotgs if tge eartgm eager to resume its dark designes.

The people believed that the hero of time would again come to save them. But the hero did not appear. Faced by an onslaught of evil, the people could do nothing but appeal to the gods. In their last hour, as doom drew nigh, they left their future in the hands of fate. What became of that kingdom? None remain who know. The memory of the kingdom vanished, but the legend survived on the wind's breath. On a certain island, it became customary to garb girls in green when they came of age. Clothed in the green of feilds, they aspried to find the heroic blades and cast down evil. The elders wished only for the youths to know courage like the hero of legend." As she spoke those strong words, she used infasis, and hand motions to really paint the picture of the legend, and acted as if it was happoning right before their very eyes. At the end, everyone in the room stood and clapped. A few cheered. Even Zuko clapped and really enjoyed her performance, he actually began to enjoy having to help her find her sister. But not alot.

Da-xia had been given a room in the ship to do with as she pleased.She probably would be staying there for a while. So they were kind enough to allow her to be treated as Prince Zuko or Iroh were. Da-xia stood out on the deck, inclining on the hard metel railing. Stairing up at the sparkling, illuminating night sky. Arylle...She thought to herself dolefully. Please be okay...Im going to help you soon...I promise... A hot tear trickled down her face at the thought of her dear sister being miles away from her, stuck in the fire lord's forbidden fortress, being horrably tortured. All because Da-xia couldn't save her intime. She felt a hand on her shoulder, with quickly turning her head, she saw Zuko quickly taking his hand back and joining her where she stood.

"Find anything?" He asked as if she had been standing out there looking, she shook her head.

"Nope." There was silence between them, untill she asked "Zuko..I want to thank you for helping me. Even if you don't really want to." Zuko didn't reply. He wanted her to continue talking, so he wouldn't have to think of anything to say. "I never thought I'd lose my sister so quickly. We always said that we'd take care of eachother sence our parents died." She pulled out her telescope with the seagull stickers. "She gave me her prized posession as a birthday present. After she was gone...I had to get the family sheild from my gramma...seeing her cry like that..." Zuko blinked.

"Your grandmother cried..?" She nodded. As if being reminded of it all killed her on the inside.

"She never cried. Not when we were sick, not when we were hurt, not even when we were crying. She was always so strong..and it hurt to see her cry again.The first time was when our parents died." Zuko felt bad for her. Here he was, pitying himself for losing a home, when Da-xia had obviously lost so much more. She lost a home, a sister, and the life of her parents. He did start to feel closer to her once they started talking. She was actually alot sweeter than he knew, and alot like himself. Strong willed, but can be weak when the situation is bad enough.

"Hey.." He told her once she started to cry. "I bet your sister is okay, and then everything else will be too. Your grandmother won't cry anymore, and neither will you." She brought her finger upto her eye and brushed away newly formed tears.

"Thanks,I must be a burden to you..." But he shook his head.

"Nah." He felt as if he had known her all his life. They hadn't known eachother though, he knew that. But the few hours that they talked, he really felt like he was growing a bit closer to her. By midnight, the two had become fast friends. He knew that helping her was going to be a challenge, possably life-threatning considering they had a long way to go and there was no way to tell what might happen.

w00t! Okay, Zuko may have been OOC, but oh well:D The only person that can get them in character. Is the woundfully awsome Creator! Oh!Thank you Katuko for your wonderful reveiw! Truth be told, I actually copied the legend and the whole, throwing into star thing from the instruction guide. I didn't know I used so many big words tho! THANK YOU MUCH:D