Sarah: Wow. Words cannot describe how FREAKIN' REMARKABLY LONG IT HAS BEEN SINCE I LAST WROTE HOLY CRAP!
Anyways, I promise I will write more now that school's out again and I have more free time
Chapter 14
Matari just kind of stood there not knowing what to do next. If she interfered any more with the whole Zuko-Aang situation, things might get even uglier.
...But then again, Zuko seemed to become a little more forgiving the more Aang talked to him. Maybe all he needed was someone to talk to. Maybe she was that someone.
Maybe...
Aang hung his head in his cell.
This was it. This was the ultimate showdown.
Aang realized that maybe he should have killed Zuko along with Ozai, but then again that would be horrible. If there was anything Aang didn't want anymore, it would be killing. He was so tired of people dying. So tired of people suffering. There had to be some way to end all this sparring between him and the Fire Nation. It wasn't his fault after all, he was just doing his job. How could anyone blame him for that?
Well. At least he knew that Matari was finally out of the situation. He had to live through this fight. Then he would go back and teach Matari waterbending and see Sokka.
Yes, he was positive that he would.
His spirit lifted a little and he smiled for the first time since he had visited this putrid city and all the poor suckers who had been forced into living there.
As Zuko sat upon his thrown, propping his chin on his fist, closing his eyes in thought, he breathed, trying to calm himself down.
What everything he had fought for was a lie? What if He had been wrong all his life?
Is that why things had always been so difficult?
He reviewed his childhood. Remembering all the times that he had had his face pushed into the dirt by his witch of a sister and his demanding father. Maybe he had the idea wrong the whole time; and that's why he was failing. Maybe he wasn't meant to sit upon this throne.
It was very probable.
But-then why would he be so determined? Why would he fight so hard and so strong to prove that he was worthy?
Well, that was an easy question actually, honor.
He had dedicated everything to regaining his honor. And he hadn't succeeded. He never earned his father's respect. Even if the Avatar hadn't killed him, he would have never accepted him for what he truly was.
There was only one person on earth who had done that. Only one person who had stayed by his side and believed in him when no one else did.
...Iroh
Zuko held his hands in his hands in shame. How could he have been so blind as to pass up the one good thing that had ever existed in his life?
He didn't want this throne. He didn't was this royalty. He didn't want this pain.
Sarah: Hope you enjoyed it and YAAAAY I'M BACK (throws party)