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Sokka.is.mine: (wide eyes) uh, no, I didn't kno u changed ur name…
Lopchop: actually, they all did ask her 2 come in, but Kellie never heard them.
Rioki Moondove: no, u can't hit him…
Sulana Jay: well, Aaron doesn't kno that Zuko and Kellie r married, now does he? And well, I've told this 2 lopchop, but there's a hidden OC in this story that has yet 2 appear that has 2 do with Aaron's cruelty. He's actually a nice guy. Yes, Aaron's a real person.
4 all things sugary! YAHOO! Lol (Inner Devil: uhhh, bax away)
Chapter 5: Ruined
I linger in the door wayOf alarm clock screaming monsters calling my name
Let me stay
Where the wind will whisper to me
Where the raindrops as they're falling tell a story
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
Don't say I'm out of touch
With this rampant chaos-your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
The nightmare I built my own world to escape
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming
Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights
Oh how I long for the deep sleep dreaming
The goddess of imaginary light
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
Kellie smiled in her sleep. A beautiful dream with Zuko, Maiku, and Aaron. But the dream was ruined when Aaron disappeared.
Kellie began to toss and turn in a fitful sleep. Her reality was penetrating the wonderful world of her dreams.
You don't remember me but I remember youI lie awake and try so hard not to think of you
But who can decide what they dream?
And I dream I do…
I believe in you
I'll give up everything just to find you
I have to be with you
To live to breathe
You're taking over me
Have you forgotten all I know
And all we had?
You saw me mourning my love for you
And touched my hand
I knew you loved me then
I believe in you
I'll give up everything just to find you
I have to be with you
Kellie screamed as she woke up. Her dreams, her beautiful dreams, had been replaced with nightmares as Aaron, and the cold hard reality, seeped into her sub-conscious mind.
Kellie sighed. It was cold. Very cold, outside. She rubbed her arms, and watched her warm breath rise up in front of her eyes as steam. Suddenly, guards sprang out of nowhere, all around her.
A guard came up.
"Don't know what she is, sir. Looks to be Earth Nation, maybe Water Nation. I can't tell, her skin's too pale, but her hair is the right color and so is her eyes." The leader nodded.
"Let's take her back to the Lady, she'll know." Kellie stood up in rage.
"Lady? What Lady? I'm your Lady! You imbeciles! I am Fire Lady Kellie, Daughter of Water and Fire, husband to the late Fire Lord Zuko, son of Fire Lord Ozai!" Kellie screamed at the guards. They all looked at each other.
"An imposter, no doubt, now we really need to take her back to the Lady." Kellie growled at their defiance. She would prove her identity.
Kellie sent a wave of fire at the surrounding guards. They all blocked, then looked at her.
"Bogey! Fire at will!" A guard yelled. Kellie felt the moisture around her from a previous rain, and used it to her advantage.
Gathering all the water surrounding her, Kellie made an orb of water, and protected herself from all the opposing fireballs. The guards all ceased fire and stared at her in awe.
"It… is… you." The leading guard murmured. The guards all fell to a knee.
"I'm sorry, milady, but, the laws have changed, and we must put you under arrest. No matter how much we don't' want to." Kellie sighed.
"Well, as long as you know who I am, so be it." Kellie was shackled, and taken to the Fire Palace.
Along the way, Kellie began to ask questions.
"How long has it been, since I was last seen?" Kellie questioned. One of the guards holding her sighed.
"13 years." Kellie nearly screamed in horror.
"Iroh? Sierra? They're still alive? And Maiku, what happened to Maiku?" The other guard holding her bit back tears.
"Iroh and Sierra… were murdered. No one knows who did it. And Maiku, I can't bear to tell you what happened to him." Kellie began to try to throw up, to get rid of the horrid vile in her mouth, but her stomach didn't respond.
Aaron grimaced at the junk left on the floor of the entry hall. He didn't know what it was, but he knew that weird girl who had claimed to be his sister had left it.
He picked up one of the strange things she left behind and examined it. It was white, just like her hair. He closed his eyes, and pictures floated into his mind.
Bodies, skeletons in armor. A girl, dressed in gray, with white hair, was walking around to all the bodies and suddenly, each was covered by orange mist. Aaron saw that skin was growing back on the skeletons touched by the orange mist the gray girl brought.
Suddenly, the girl turned around, and Aaron experienced the full force of her gray eyes…
Aaron wrenched his eyes open, and stared at the white shard in his hand. These were all that was left of that girl.
Aaron swept up the shards that had once been the Goddess of Healing, and put them in a jar, in the cupboard.
As the guards continued their way to the Palace, Kellie continued to ask questions.
"Do you know where Iroh and Sierra are buried?" The guards nodded.
"We can take you to their graves, if you want to." Kellie nodded.
"I want to. Like so many other people who honored them at their funerals, I too need to honor them."
Zuko, who had been in the basement during Kellie and Aaron's fight, came up just as Aaron came out of the kitchen, after putting away the shards of the Goddess of Healing.
"Where's Kellie?" Aaron shrugged.
"Dunno. Don't care. Kicked her out. The freak. Whatever happens to her, is not my problem." Zuko's golden eyes clouded over in rage. He grabbed Aaron and slammed him up against the door.
"You mean to tell me you kicked your own sister out of your house? WHAT KIND OF BROTHER ARE YOU!" Aaron grinned.
"I'm no longer a brother. My sister's dead. Been dead for five years." Zuko growled, and punched Aaron in the jaw. He grinned madly when he heard a light crunch, signaling that Aaron's jaw was broken.
Zuko ran out the door, and tried to find his wife.
I sincerely wish him, good luck doing it.
Kellie stared up at the flames in the Throne Room with a bored expression. Behind the wall of flames, two silhouettes sat. One looked feminine, the other looked male. Kellie was forced onto her knees, and the leading guard spoke.
"My Lady, this woman was found in the mountains west of the Palace, claiming to be the lost and former Fire Lady Kellie." The wall of flames died, and Kellie sneered at the woman who came walking from behind it. Zula.
Kellie tried to hold her tongue, but sometimes, the urge to speak just gets the better of people.
"Soo, Fire Lady Zula? This is quite a surprise. One of the most dishonorable, backstabbing, cheating people on Earth is sitting on one of the most important, high-ranked, and honorable spots on Earth. Yes, truly a surprise. And not a pleasant one, to say the least." Kellie said with a sneer combined with a smirk. Zula, now Fire Lady Zula, sneered.
"A peasant going under false pretences should not insult a Lady such as myself." Zula spat. Most people in Kellie's position would have cowered away, but she continued to stare at Zula with that smirk and sneer.
"Hmm, if I'm a peasant, then I'm a peasant who's dueled, and won, against the Fire Lady." Kellie's smirk got bigger. Zula tried to immediately calm her temper.
"Aw, what's da madder? Is the big Fiwe Lady twying to contwol her tempu? It don't look like you can, Zula, you're just like your father, and that's not a compliment. At least my husband, the Fire Lord, learned to control his temper. At least my husband is honorable. But you lost yours, Zula, the day you were born." The fires on the throne roared with Zula's rage. The male silhouette didn't flinch. Kellie smirked.
"I shall take that as a third degree burn, if you don't mind. Don't over do it." The fires on the throne continued to get bigger and bigger, until they threatened to consume the entire room. The guards tried to get out, while Kellie just kneeled before Zula.
"YOU INSOLENT LITTLE BITCH!" Zula roared. But Kellie pretended she couldn't hear her.
"EXCUSE ME, I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE ROAR OF THE FLAMES." Kellie yelled. The fire just kept on getting bigger. Kellie just then noticed what was happening, that Zula was about to burn down the Palace, when she took a deep breath, and exhaled. The fires began to calm under Kellie's calm hand.
The fires died and died, until they were normal. Kellie opened her eyes, and looked up at Zula, towering above her.
"Hmm, looks like I took care of the fire, you should learn to control your temper better. Zula, don't get angry again, look what you've done to the Throne Room already." Zula took a steadying breath.
"No one calls me Zula. You shall address me as Fire Lady." Kellie pretended to think about it.
"Uh, no. How about not, and say I did? I don't wanna call someone else the name I have rightfully gained. FYI, Fire Lady. Yes, I am Fire Lady Kellie Kelso, learn to live with it, you cannot run from me." Kellie hissed.
"Perhaps, perhaps it is you. Thank you for so kindly returning, you traitor. Prince Rymeku, come here, take a look at your traitor of an Aunt." And the male figure behind the flames walked out. Kellie nearly fainted.
Prince Maiku.
She was sure of it. Maiku looked just like his father, before Zuko was scarred. Except, he had his mother's eyes. Kellie's eyes. And, sure enough, his birthmark, just below his left eye, was there. The telltale birthmark, which had been the telltale scar in the previous generation, everything about Zuko was in his son. Except that the golden eyes were missing, and his mother's eyes had been put in place.
Prince Maiku, now called Prince Rymeku, walked up to his mother, and sneered at her.
"So traitor, what has made you return to this world? What was it like in paradise, in the lands beyond the edge of the Earth? Come, tell me. And how is Uncle Zuko?" Kellie tilted her head in confusion.
"I have not, Maiku, what's wrong with you? What lies has Zula been filling in your head since I left? I am no traitor. I just, there is no way to explain it, Maiku, unless you could come with me. I could show you your true uncle, if he still claimed me as his sister. Zula is your Aunt, not whatever she tells you she is. Do not look away from your mother, Maiku!" Kellie hissed at Rymeku. The 13 year old boy had turned away from his mother's tales, wanting to hear what Zula had to say.
Zula put her hands on her nephew's ears.
"Don't listen to her, son, she is nothing but a lying witch." Kellie's eyes turned emerald in rage.
"Son? What son? HE IS YOUR NEPHEW! YOU STOLE MY SON FROM ME! YOU FILLED HIS HEAD WITH LIES SINCE HE WAS NOTHING BUT A BABY! YOU FILLED HIS HEAD WITH LIES THAT HIS MOTHER AND FATHER ABANDONED HIM, WHEN THEY NEVER DID! OUR DISAPEARANCE WAS AN ACCIDENT! YOU STOLE MY BABY BOY! ZULA, I CURSE YOU TO LIVE THE REST OF ETERNITY IN THE 9 PITS OF HELL!" Zula began to croon to her son/nephew about his aunt/mother being nothing but a lying witch.
"Guards, take her to the dungeons." Zula said quietly. They picked Kellie up, and she continued to scream at Zula.
"YOU STOLE MY LITTLE FLAME AND TURNED HIM INTO AN INFERNO! YOU STOLE MY BABY BOY! MAIKU! MAIKU!" Maiku tried to drown at the sounds of Kellie screaming his name.
He pondered why she called him Maiku, instead of Rymeku. But he had to admit, when Zula called him Rymeku, it felt so wrong. But when Kellie called him Maiku,
It felt so right.
Hehe, I wanna kno, lopchop, if this is wut u thought wut Zula would do with Maiku. And it looks like every1 wants me 2 continue this series 4ever, (sighs) I'll hav 2 stop sumtime, but I won't 4 now. I'll go on 4 a few more stories. I hope 2 hear wut every1 thought of this chapter!
I would like 2 thank lopchop 4 the songs. She recommended them, and many more, 4 me 2 use. The songs I used 4 called Imaginary and Taking Over Me (in order in use) and r owned by Evannescence. NOT ME!
L8r!
INSANITY AT ITS FINEST
LONG LIVE THE HIPPIES!
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