Chapter 29: princes minghua part 2: the truth at last.

Normal POV

"MING!" Everybody gasped as she fell the ground.

"Foolish. Trying to protect a Queen she didn't even believe in." Tang Hua mocked as both Queen Ammi and Aunt Ti walked over to Ming and placed a hand on her back, noting that she was still breathing.

"Poor woman. That must have taken a toll on her." The Queen said as she took Ming in her arms, noting she was as light as a feather. So skinny her cheekbones were visibly and dirty for waterbender standards.

"She must have been through a lot and if she is my daughter, that's all my fault. If i had been able to protect her, none of this had happened." The Queen said as a tear slid down her cheek.

"Don't despair Your Majesty. Ming is a tough one. She'll come through." Aunt Ti smiled as she placed a hand on the shoulder of the Queen, looking at Ming sadly.

"If anyone can pull through its our Ming." Ghazan said while fending off Minna Hua.

"She's been through so much and it's my fault. If I had been able to protect her… " The Queen said with tears in her eyes. "None of this would have ever happened."

"The Hua clan strong. A non combatant wouldn't have been able to stand up against them." Aunt Ti assured her. "You would only have gotten hurt if you tried and then Ming would have nobody to return to."

"You'll be able to help her now that she found her way home." Femke commented as she and her friends squared off against Tang and Minna Hua.

"Ming! Wake up!"Ghazan called as he was flung against a wall. "We could really use you right about now."

"It would be great if she awoke. We could really use her help right about now." Zaheer smiled as he blew away Tang Hua.

"We'll see what we can do." Queen Ammi smiled as Aunt Ti bent over Ming and rubbed her over her cheek.

"Ming?" Aunt Ti asked as she placed a hand on the chest of her niece, feeling she was barely breathing.

"Ming?" Queen Ammi whispered, a tear sliding down her cheek and hit Ming Hua on her chest, which made a brilliant light glow all around her, causing everybody to look up in shock and when the light cleared Ming stood there, wearing a long sleeveless water blue dress and brilliant glowing light blue wings on her back.

"Enchantix!" Femke cheered as she looked at Zaheer.

"Just like with the rest of us." Zaheer said

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"This proves she's related to the Queen." Ghazan said.

"Not really. It reacts to anyone from this planet." Femke said as she turned to Ming, who looked at her new outfit with a displeased look.

"Are short skirts a thing from where you're from, Femke?" Ming asked as she looked down at it. "I have to say, not a bad look."

"And it has its roots in rebelling against the established order, so that's a bonus!" Femke laughed as she and the others transformed as well.

"I can get into it." Ming said as she shot a wave of ice at her mother, dodging with ease as some were launched back at her.

"Thunderstrike!" Femke called, making lightning strike around the small nursery, hitting Tang Hua in the chest.

"She's a fairy! How can that be?" Minna Hua called as she ran over to her husband and helped him back on his feet.

"She must have learned it from the others." Tang Hua growled as he looked up with a glare while Aunt Ti helped Queen Ammi stand back up. Both women smiled when they saw Ming in her fairy form.

"She's beautiful." Queen Amm smiled as she looked up at Ming.

"She sure is. Fairies; who knew." Aunt Ti smiled as she watched her niece fight alongside her friends, who were a lot stronger now and managed to get the two bandits out of the nursery and into a more open space.

"I once read in a book that three thousand years ago, eight spirit-like humans guarded the peace alongside the Avatar. I thought it was only a myth." Queen Ammi commented as she looked at the battle.

"Me too." Aunt Ti said as she smiled. "She is magic alright. A real fairy."

"Femke! On your left!" Ming Hua called as she used a wave of water to wash her mother away from her.

"Thanks!" Femke called as she used a wave of water to fling Tang Hua to the other side of the hallway, preventing him from attacking her in the back.

"Anytime!" Ming smirked as Femke returned the favor, washing away Minna Hua who had wanted to strike Ming in the back.

"Now that's what I call a Royal Flush!" Femke smirked as she raised her arms in a cheerful way.

"Right in the honor." P'li smiled, as the girls shared a high five.

"Sneak attack, just how the Huas like it." Ming said as she dusted herself off.

"A little below the belt for my tastes." Femke commented as she and Ilene used a spell to tie the two criminals down while still mostly frozen.

"They're criminals, what did you expect?" Ming answered dryly as Ilena got a small vial from her bag, at which Femke gasped in shock.

"How did you come by truth serum?" She asked.

"Bought it in magix a while ago, right before we went to search for you." Ilene said as she forced open Tang Hua's mouth and put in some of the potion after which she forced him to swallow it. "Thought it might come in handy at some point."

"Good thinking." Femke smiled as Ming got in front of them and made her mother swallow the truth potion as well.

"Now we're finallygoing to get the truth." Ming said as she kneeled down in front of her parents. "Tell me; Am I your daughter?"

"No. You're not born our daughter." Tang Hua said with a solemn voice, his eyes widening after he did so.

'Who was she born to?" Femke wanted to know, her eyes glowing yellow as she asked this, making Tang Hua back away from her in fear.

"She was born to Queen Ammi. She is the princess." Minna told now, which made Ming look up at the Queen, shocked, while the Queen had tears in her eyes.

"My daughter." She whispered as she looked at Ming with tears in her eyes, while Ming just looked at the people she had always thought off as her parents with shock.

"why did you lie about it?' Zaheer asked. "Who you answer to is dead."

"We were paid to keep silent. We're honorable enough to keepthat promise." Tang Hua growled.

"So there IS honor among thieves. Zuko had it wrong." Femke joked.

"You know Firelord Zuko?" Tang Hua asked.

"We go way back." Femke answered.

"Anyway, is that why you lied? Because of some stupid arrogantdead guy that wanted to ruin the world." Ming Hua said as she looked her once father straight in the eyes. "Do you know what you almost did? Did you ever consider what you put ME through?"

"No. We did what we were paid to do, that was all that matters." Tang Hua answered, still under the influence of the truth serum. "And you're nothing to us but a nuisance."

"Maybe if you'd raise me properly!" Ming Hua snapped back at the man before her with a death glare in her eyes.

"You were useless to us, even more when you came back to us!"Tang Hua rages as he got up so the two of them were at eye level, which made Ming Hua back away in fear, even when he was bound and unable to hurt her he still scared her. "Look at you! No arms. Fake legs! We would have been better off murdering you back when we stole you! You're a total failure!"

"A failure that nearly destroyed the world." Ghazan smirked.

"And knows how to kick ass." Femke added, which made Ming Hua smile at her.

"She's amazing at fixing my braid." P'li added, smiling.

"And she's a great cook." Ghazan finished.

"That idiot Unalaq almost freed Vaatu, became a dark avatar and brought three thousand years of darkness." Ming said sternly as she looked up with a dark look on both of her once parents.

"No offense." Ghazan added as he looked at Tonraq.

"None taken." Tonraq answered.

"He always was trouble." Queen Ammi lamented. "the times he got in trouble with father were countless."

"He always received proper punishment. " Tonraq said, recalling every time Unalaq must have been punished by their father for things he did while he was a young boy.

"Sounds familiar." Ghazan smirked. "He had the same attitude within the Red Lotus. And he got in trouble for it a lot there as well."

"I punished him a lot as well." Xai Bau said.

"Sounds like my uncle was a real troublemaker." Korra smirked as she, Asami, Bolin and Mako came in with some White Lotus guards as well as Tenzin, Raikou, Prince Wu, Eska and Desna.

"Seems like he was my uncle as well." Ming Hua said as she shuddered. "The thought alone makes me retch."

"Wait, you two are related?" Bolin gasped.

"Seems like it." Ming Hua replied calmly.

"You two look nothing alike." Bolin noted.

"Neither does she look like Eska and Desna." Ming Hua replied.

"They might not look anything alike but with Ming Hua this due to the fact that she spent her life in hell." Queen Ammi smiled as she walked over to her daughter with tears blinking in her eyes.

"Not match of a hugger due to that." Ming said as she backed off.

"I know." She smiled as she let her fingers slide against her daughter's cheekbones, before she turned to the White Lotus guards. "Throw these two pieces of vermin in a dark cell and keep them under constant watch until further notice." The Queen said with a deadly calm voice.

"Do they get a fair trial?" Tenzin wanted to know.

"Of course they will." Queen Ammi smiled. "Even if they stole my daughter away from me, I'm not a tyrant. They deserve a fair trial."

As they spoke, Aunt Ti picked up the locket from were it had fallen and carefully gave it to Ming Hua and her mother.

"I think this belongs to you." Aunt Ti smiled as she handed Ming the locket. "Princess."

"Guess it was mine after all. It's sort of hard to believe after all we have been through." Ming smiled as she took the locket in her hand and held it a safe distance from her face to get a better look at it.

"You're not the first princess on the team." Xai Bau commented with a smirk on his face as he nodded to Femke standing next to Zaheer.

"She is?" Korra asked, before holding up her hand. "Who am I kidding. Of course she is."

"I used to be, but I gave up on it." Femke answered.

"Why?" Prince Wu wanted to know.

"I wanted to marry for love. My aunt and uncle who are in charge of Scheffield since my parents are gone wanted an arranged marriage for me." Femke shrugged. "So I gave them the choice; either they let me marry for love or they could pretend I was dead and have of my brothers in an arranged marriage and let them take over Scheffield."

"Harsh." Bolin said.

"I got used to it." Femke shrugged.

"You don't regret leaving your family?" Tenzin asked carefully.

"No. I made my choice and I stick to it. Nobody should be forced to marry someone they don't love. " Femke replied as she crossed her arms.

"Just like how Zaheer ran away from home to avoid having to marry someone from the Lee family against his will." Ghazan added.

"Allerys Lee? "Tarrlok asked. "My college friend?"

"Sounds like it." Ghazan smirked. "She said 'hi'."

"That's what you wanted to say before. You love her, don't you?" Noatak asked as he looked at his brother.

"We kind of had a connection." Tarrlok admitted with a blush on his face. "But she was engaged and I was a bloodbender. We figured it was for the best we kept it at a teenage crush and nothing more."

"She was still into you." Zaheer said.

"Good to hear." Tarrlok smiled before looking up shocked when he realized something. "What are her parents like? You think they will approve of me?"

"Tarrlok." Femke smiled as she and Zaheer shared a hug. "If she really still loves you, it doesn't matter whether or not her parents approve of you and her being together."

"True love conquers all. That's one thing I've learned." Zaheer smiled as he looked at Femke, who nodded in agreement.

"Back to the point; we found out who I am. Now what?" Ming Hua asked.

"I'll set up some rooms so you can live and train here." Queen Ammi smiled as she placed a hand on her daughters shoulder. "I want spend some time with my daughter now she's that finally home."

Ming hua's POV

"Yeah. We have to keep up training since a force of pure evil is about to come and destroy us all." I replied. After I did so, my mother guided me away from the group.

How the mighty Red Lotus has fallen. We're just like the White Lotus once more. keeping monarchs in the saddle

I thought as my mother walked me through a long hallway, stopping in front of a portrait of her, me and her husband. My father. My real father was sitting on a chair and looked really frail, yet his eyes were beaming as he looked at me, lying there in his lap, beaming at both of my parents above me.

"Made on the day you were born." My mother said as she placed a arm around my shoulder as she looked at it with a sad smile. "Despite the fact that you were born without arms he was so happy with your birth. And had you been able to stay, we would have given you all the love and kindness we could."

"They were happy to have me. That just feels weird compared to my adoptive parents' constant reminders that I was lucky they kept me alive

I thought as I looked at the portraits next to ours. One was of a much younger Unalaq meditating while surrounded by spirits. The other was of someone unfamiliar to me, standing tall as he held up his weapon up in a proud way.

"Your grandfather, Chief Uruk." My mother smiled as she followed my gaze. "My father."

"He looks like Chief Sokka." I commented as I looked at him.

"They're not related." Queen Ammi smiled as she hugged me close. "How do you know what Chief Sokka looks like?"

"We met him when we tried to kidnap the Avatar. My niece?" I barely got that last part out of my mouth. It was still hard to believe that I was related to Korra, Eska, Desna and Unalaq.

It does explain why he kept looking at you strangely when you first met him

A voice in my head said.

He must have realized you escaped your parents custody and joined the Red Lotus, fair enough.

I went over more portraits, shivering when I came to the portrait of the current rulers of the Northern Water tribe; Eska and Desna. They looked even scarier on the portrait then in real life.

"Your niece and nephew look quite intimidating, don't they?" My mother smiled as she looked at the portrait as well.

"They always have been like that. We have been in the palace before when we were about to go get Korra. We saw them then as well." I admitted smiling. "You might have heard about the broken expensive vase."

"Yes. Father scolded Unalaq for that." My mother smiled as she recalled it, which made me snicker a little.

"That was actually P'li's fault. She bumped it over my accident." I admitted with a sheepish smile on my face. "Unalaq took the blame because he couldn't tell his father he had us in the palace."

"Really now. " Ammi smiled. "Your friend must have fell rather guilty about that." My mother noted as she led me to another room.

"Not too much." I replied.

Queen Ammi simply smiled as she opened the door to a big bedroom at which. Was this my room? It was amazing! The walls were light blue with a snowscape on the wall behind my bed. All five of us would fit in said bed at once. I bounced a little on the beth, feathers were in good condition. This bed was never used before.

"Do you like your room?" My mother asked smiling as she sat down with me. "I had the staff keep this room at the ready. In case you would come back home at some point."

"I don't have to share it with the others, right?" I asked with a raised eyebrow, causing my mother to giggle.

"They get their own rooms unless they want a shared room." My mother answered.

"There's place for more beds like this?" I asked somewhat incredulous.

"Of course, all beds in the palace are like this." My mother smiled as she stroked me over my knee before she looked down with a pondering look. "Metal?"

"They've been like that for a while now." I commented while looking at my legs.

"What happened?" My mother asked with a sad look, worried for me. This was odd. My fake parents never cared about me. They never even bothered to ask why my legs were amputated. This was odd and new and yet the comfort of it made me feel loved. For the first time in my life apart from that brief interaction with Aunt Ti.

Too bad I'm not related to her. She was alright

I thought, before I turned to my mother, who wanted to know why I had no legs anymore.

"I was fighting a firebender when i was still an anarchist. He got the better of me. But I refused to give up." I answered, which made my mother look at me with widened eyes. "I lured him into the catacombs beneath our hideout were there was a lot of water for me to bend."

"That sounds like a smart idea." The Queen smiled.

"I figured that was the end for him but he could bend lightning." I said while looking down, seeing from the corner of my eye her eyes widened in shock at the mention of this. "He electrocuted me. They could save me but my legs were too damaged. They had to amputate them to save the rest of my body."

"I'm glad they managed to save you." Queen Ammi smiled as she hugged me close. She really loved hugging. So unlike me.

"I guess." I smirked.

"You have metal legs now?" My mother asked.

"Thanks to Femke. It was her idea to get these limbs." I replied smiling.

"You care for all off them deeply do?" Queen Ammi asked with a smile.

"They're a good bunch." I smiled as I heard running in the hallway.

Speak of the devil

I thought as I listened for their voices. I expected to hear Femke's cries of laughter soon afterwards but that didn't happen. What followed was femke calling my name, sounding scared.

"I'm in my room!" I called as I got up and walked to the door after which the door flew open and Femke appeared as well as P'li, both with a haggard look on their faces.

"It's Zaheer! He fainted out of nowhere!" Femke called, pale with terror.

"He spit up up blood it looks serious" P'li added, looking just as pale as her best friend.

Now what?

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And with that I end a rather short chapter. Sorry for that but I wanted to give Ming some time to bond with her mother.

A/N:

Since we had already established everything considering Ming Hua's true identity was classified information I figured the only way to make them spill the beans about Ming Hua's past was with a truth potion and if Femke had that all along that would raise the question why she didn't use it before. That's why I decided it was for he best Ilene, a character that was introduced in this story and lived in Magix before that, to have the potion.

Because Tang and Minna Hua were very good thieves I figured they would be very capable fighters as well and would be able to keep up with the five Red Lotus members.

Okay, that was all for now! Thanks for reading! And don't forget to thank paranoidgirl for doing such a great job as a Beta reader and advisor

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