Well I just couldn't stop so heres a more Blue Spirited drabble. I'll miss Zuko's alter-ego forever. Sob Sorry.
Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender. All the characters are just BORROWED!
On with the drabble!
The Blue Spirit
Zuko laughed quietly behind the Oni mask he had retrieved. People screamed, "abandon ship" in almost a chorus of wails. He watched silently from the safety of the shore as some did jump over the edge. Others tried unsuccessfully to deactivate the explosive he'd thrown aboard. The thing blew up, throwing bodies all over the water. The ship was in pieces. One explosive. He laughed. He was the Blue Spirit. They would never catch him.
He had once been told that he was useless. He had once been told that he was a failure for putting his stealth and swords training over his firebending. Look who's laughing now! You don't even know what's happening. The only reason you know it's me is because I keep leaving my symbol behind. You were wrong. I'm your worst enemy. I know everything about you and what you'll do. You know nothing, he thought triumphantly.
Zuko left the ocean side and returned to the forest. He gathered his things and hopped up onto a tree. From there he simply kept moving from tree to tree until he could find new targets. He was spreading fear and he knew it. The Blue Spirit. You will shudder when you hear it. He had been taking out whole squadrons of men with carefully placed traps. And then he left. But most people said he disappeared, leaving only the deceptively pretty Black Beauty behind. The Black Beauty was a pure black rose and Zuko had chosen it for a reason. The flower was pretty, but if you smelled it, you were as good as dead. He liked it.
He crouched lower in the branch as he heard voices approaching. Five people moved into view. He watched silently as they set up camp in the clearing right in front of him. He would have to pass through their camp just to get to his destination. He looked closer and spotted a monk with an arrow on his big bald head. Great. The Avatar. He checked the ties on his mask for secureness. The last thing he needed was for the rest of the weird group to know his identity.
He hopped to the next tree and the next after that. Soon he was skirting the Avatar's campsite. The group was talking and didn't notice the black shadow that past them. Then the earthbender stopped and looked towards the trees. Zuko froze. No. She did not hear me. I am the Blue Spirit. I am silent. Still, she did not look away. Zuko crouched lower into the branches, holding his breath.
"There's someone in the trees," she announced. Zuko let out his breath. Great. Now the whole camp would be on the alert.
"I don't see anything, Toph," the Avatar answered back. Good. I am the Blue Spirit. I am unseen. I am a shadow. But suddenly he felt himself being blown backwards, back on ground. Keep your feet and start moving, Zuko ordered himself. He landed on his feet and took off running. He knew he was in the woods, the same way he had been going, but he felt so much more vulnerable. He heard footsteps behind him. Never before had he almost been caught. He skidded to a stop as the Water Tribe boy threw the boomerang. He dodged but remembering that it always came back, waited to dodge it again. He threw a dagger, pinning the boy to a tree and kept moving. But that boy had slowed him down. Now he heard them closing in. He barely managed to avoid the girl's water whip. The darkness covered his already hidden identity. Even more surprisingly, a whip of fire lashed out at him, coming from someone other than the Avatar. Oh no. My uncle is going to be the one that catches me? He knew what Uncle Iroh must have felt like in the caves. His back hits a tree and a searing pain took over his senses. He had felt worse, so he ignored it. As the waterbender made another water whip, he made a rash decision and put up a fire shield. As her water hit it, it formed steam. When the steam cleared he was a good thirty feet away. He looked back on them and then looked at his wounds. I am the Blue Spirit. But I am also human.