Chapter 22: Sweet Child O' Mine

Yeah funny thing about this title, I was totally asleep and listening to this song on the bus and all of a sudden it just clicked like "Duh! This song!" So that's my explanation. Anyway, I've decided when I finally get around to it, I'll do a post-war follow-up on this story, giving you your trilogy and keeping my epilogue, everyone's happy. Alright, chapter 22. Here goes nothing.

"Mother, how did you find me?"

Ursa sighed. "Yes. I suppose you deserve some answers before I do." They walked along the water. "I have visions, prophetic dreams. Avatar Roku visits me and tells me things. Which is why I was on the island where you found me."

Azula nodded.

"And Avatar Roku told me that you had bee shipwrecked and I needed to find you. Then he's guided us all here."

"So now it's my turn?"

Ursa nodded and smiled. "Tell me about Jet."

Azula lip her lower lip and began her story. "I assume you heard I was leading an invasion on Konashi."

"Yes."

"Well, Jet snuck onto my ship. He was going to kill me and we fought. Then the Konashi sunk my ship, so Jet ran for the deck and I followed. We ended up in his rowboat when I tackled him over the rail. So then we were unconscious while the storm blew us out to sea and we ended up here."

"So what did you do? You were still enemies."

"Yes. When we came to, we argued, but Jet knew I was a better fighter and I knew that I needed Jet's survival skills to stay alive."

Ursa nodded in understanding. "So you made an agreement for survival."

"Exactly."

"So you fell in love how exactly?"

Azula blushed. "We've been here awhile. And we've fought and argued, but I've gotten to know him. He's a person, not just another Earth peasant. And I love him."

"And he loves you," Ursa finished. She smiled. "I'm proud of you, Azula."

"What?"

"You got to know a person for who he is on the inside, not just the outside. I thought you were too much your father's daughter to learn, but I was wrong." Ursa embraced her daughter. Tears stung Azula's eyes.

They parted. "You have a choice to make now, my daughter. You must choose which path you want to take."

"I know. My father or Jet."

"You have some time, Azula. But before we leave this island, before you go back to the world and the war, you have to make a choice."

"I know," Azula said. "I've been trying to make up my mind for days."

Shortness, oh my, that's ok the story is ending. Tear tear. But there will be a trilogy, eventually. Click the next button and see how it all ends.