A/N: I know this sounds totally ridiculous, but even though I am in honors math, I can't add 12 plus 2, in this case however that is okay, I was going to make Aang 15 years old regardless. Anyway, after slight writers block and a moment of absolute stupidity, I decided I would write this chapter right away so I could ramble on about how dumb I am! So anyway, this chapter is all background on Giana.
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Giana still sat in the alley, thinking about a story of theirs pasts her mother had told her so vividly. She smiled and thought of her mother. Then the story came rushing back to her in such a rush, that she felt almost as if she were there, on that very fateful day.
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Flashback
Sienna looked up at her husband with much happiness in her eyes, after 17 hours of labor she had given birth to Ozai's first child, Giana.
She looked up and saw not happiness in her husband's eyes, but a fear, a hatred.
The nursemaid then ran over to Sienna and dabbed her head with a cloth, she was still sweating, for the pain of childbirth was still remaining and still unbearable.
Ozai silently left the room to go meditate. He really didn't want a female heir.
Sienna lovingly stared into the eyes of her newborn. This piece of life had been inside her for nine months. She felt however that she had known Giana since, well, forever. Ozai and herself had created this and yet he didn't want it. She was very surprised for she knew Ozai was selfish and anything that had him in it, he was very obsessive about.
Yet, in a way it didn't surprise her. Ozai never showed emotion. The only time he ever did was when Sienna had told him she was pregnant.
He had smiled and simply stated "It will be a man." Boy, was he wrong
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Ozai paced back and forth outside the birthing wing faster and seemingly more worried than he was when she was in labor. It bothered him that he was to have a female heir.
In his family line, there had never been a woman crowned Empress of the Fire Nation and he wasn't about to let it happen.
He didn't want to disgrace his name.
He knew that even though Iroh was first in line for the crown. Fire Lord Azulon would hand it down to him, his second and more powerful child.
He thought about what he a just said in his mind.
'Second and more powerful child…'
The thought raced thought his devilish mind again and again until it was implanted on his brain.
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It had been almost a week since the day of Giana's birth and everything was going well in the Fire Palace. Suddenly there was a loud argument coming from inside the throne room.
Sienna could just barely make out what they were saying from her room, so she left and went down a flight of stairs and was positioned behind a wall that's other side head to the source of the argument.
"Father, Listen! Have you ever heard of a such thing a Fire Empress?" Sienna could tell this was her husband speaking.
"No son, I have not. But this have better not have anything to do with your daughter! Are you aware that you are not even my heir? ARE YOU? Yet you argue about your daughter who you assume will take the crown?"
"Father, No disrespect meant." He obviously knew when an apology was needed. "But I do not want to go down in books as the father of the first female empress! It would surely disgrace MY name AND yours."
"I see your point Ozai, you are dismissed. You may go about this in any fashion that you deem fitting."
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At this Sienna ran as hard and fast as she could to her newborn daughter's room. She was determined to keep her evil husband away from her baby.
"SIENNA!" a deep and scary voice rang through the palace. Ozai was on the search for his wife and child.
Obviously, by the nearness of his voice, he had come to the room of Giana first thing. The argument with his father had made him totally furious. Although, he now had permission to do whatever he thought necessary with his wife and child.
Giana picked up her daughter, wrapped her in a blanket and walked out of the room, in the direction away from the throne room.
Apparently, Ozai had thought this out some where along the way and cleverly hid himself behind a pillar in the hallway where Sienna and Giana were headed.
This caught Sienna off guard and she didn't even notice Ozai until he talked.
"Sienna, dear, where in the world are you taking my child?"
Sienna stood with her back facing Ozai, frozen. She finally built up the courage to speak to her disgraceful husband.
"Away from you!" Sienna ran away and out of the palace. She snuck onto the nearest merchant barge headed for the Earth Kingdom.
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After Ozai told Fire Lord Azulon about this, he immediately made law in the Fire Nation that no one was to be named Giana or Sienna, ever again. Along with that they were forever exiled, although one of them was merely a baby.
Just days after these new laws were made and Ozai's marriage to Sienna was annulled, he immediately married his mistress, Ursa.
9 and a half months after their marriage she gave birth to Ozai's new heir, Zuko.
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After almost a month at sea, Sienna and Giana finally landed in their final destination. A nice sized Earth Kingdom town where they would blend in nicely with the crowd becaue of their very common brown eyes.
Sienna worked hard all of her life supporting Giana. She took many odd jobs around town to try to pay for food for them.
However, many shopkeepers did not want to hire a woman for help so she barely got by everyweek in expenses. Therefore, they could not afford a house so they lived in an alley way outside Sienna's workplace, the local tavern.
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Giana sighed as she remembered her awful past.Although, often thinking of her mother made her feel safer, it also made her sadder. Her mother had died only 8 months ago.
Giana was tearfully reminded of this when the drunk had attacked her. With her mother, she was safe, from anyone.
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A/N: So, so, so? What do you think? Is it okay? I wasn't sure about how I wanted to go about explaining her past, but I think this did pretty well. I don't understand one thing, I have over 700 pageviews on this story, and at the current time, only 18 reviews, as for me, I just don't understand this math. EVEN IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, REVIEW AND SAW WHAT COULD BE FIXED. (sorry, I little upset with stuff at home so I am taking It out here. Deepest apologies)
As for the new episode: OMG! IROH LIVES! IROH LIVES! IROH LIVES! Although I highly doubt Sokka would ever truly become a vegetarian.
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