"I want tea, but I want it cold."

Its been a few months since Zuko and his uncle came to the earth city of Bah Sing Se and started working at a tea shop north of the capital, a tea shop in the capital. They have had many odd request for tea or how they should make it, but none as odd as this one.

"So, you want day old tea."

"No, I want fresh tea cold."

"Sir, that's impossible."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes!"

"Couldn't you do something to make it cold?"

"And how the hell do I do that?"

"Zuko be nice to the customer."Iroh said as he walked by.

Zuko glaring at the door his uncle left, turned to the person, who look like there were from the Water Nation, and growled, "How would I do that?"

The person just stood there looking confused for a few minutes before saying,"I... You know what, really don't know how."

Zuko just looked at the man like he grow a second head.

"Fine."

Zuko went to the back to get some tea and think how he was going to make fresh hot tea cold. While Zuko was brewing the tea it hit him, the the ice man. He could put the ice in the hot tea. Now all he had to do is get the ice man. when the tea was done brewing Zuko when up the street, to the ice mans cart.

"Ice!"

"I'd like to buy a block of ice."

"You sure you want a block of ice? I mean I happy to sell it to you, but in this heat-"

"Yes! Just sell me the damn ice, already!"

"Ok, ok. Just don't bit head off. Here."

Zuko payed the man and took the block of ice down the street to the tea shop. By the time he got to the tea shop half the ice had melted, both from the heat of the sun and the heat from Zuko hands.

"Why dear nephew your all wet." said Iroh how look up from his pie show game, to see the front of his nephew shirt wet.

"..."

"Here." Zuko said as he shoved the tea with ice in it to the man from the water nation.

"There's ice in my tea?" The man said as he look at the cup.

"Yeah, so. The tea is cold, isn't what you wanted?" growled Zuko.

"Yes, but it you were going to put ice in it I could have done it and I could have save some money."

Zuko graded the front of the man's shirt and pulled him close to his face.

"You are going to drink that drink," pointed to the tea,"And you are going to like it, got it?" Zuko in a half whisper, half growled.

Nodding his head the man drank the drink.

"Hey that not half bad. What do you call this?"

"It's iced tea."

"Ice tea."

"No, it's, oh whatever."

The next day Zuko went to the tea shop when the owner came over to him.

"Zuko?"

"Yes."

"Everyone is asking for that drink you made for a water bender. What was the name... um... ice tea."

"..."

And that is how Zuko made the first ice tea and put Beijing on the map. (1)

1.Beijing is capital of china and it literally means "Northern capital."

Sorry about the spelling and grammar, but they are not my cup of tea.

Just wanted to write something and this story kepted going through my head. This story is sorta based on what happen to me at work one day, but instant of tea it was hot chocolate and no, not chocolate milk, but hot chocolate. This man wanted a hot chocolate cold and not chocolate milk. I kept telling him that it was impossible to make a hot chocolate cold for like 10 min.'s before I just pored the hot chocolate over ices. My boss was so mad at me because she thought I mess it up, but the guy said that's how he wanted it and now he comes in every day and ask me to make him a hot chocolate cold. (That and everyone else that works with me tells him it impossible to do that, but their catching on after 3 weeks of him.)

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