Living on a Prayer
'Stay with me!' He roared, one hand seizing her wrist and drawing her back to him. The other swung his sword in an arc at an oncoming soldier, flame in its wake.
'I'm trying!' she yelled back. Frozen daggers were the only weapon she had left. They were the only thing that could not be evaporated the instant they touched the enemy's flame.
The full moon was no match for Sozin's comet, blazing across the night sky. The fire of every soldier, and even of Zuko himself, burned blue on the palace steps. If they were separated, they would die, she first, and he soon after. They would be engulfed in the unnaturally powerful flames.
There was no time to think or feel. There was no Avatar. She had no brother. There was no Toph and no Iroh. There was no time. There was only Zuko at her back and enemies at her front and heat and icy daggers in between.
'Stay with me!' he yelled as he charged again. She back pedalled with him, daggers flying.
'I'm here!'
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AN: KataraZuko Shuffle Challenge: Living on a Prayer by Bon Jovi. Specific lyric: 'You live for the fight/when it's all that you've got/Oh we're half way there.'