Sorry for the long period without updates but I watched the Avatar and The Firelord and realised I needed to change a few things. I've re-written some chapters editing the bits with Roku a little so he seems his age. Anway here's the new chap x
21st of September
Firelord Taishi (25)
Year of the Sun
Eight hours after noon
As predicted I won the duel last night...but admitedly Kaia has improved.
My friends are all hung over on alcohol. I drank some but not enough to make me hungover. Su Lee and Aiku have complained of sore heads all day though. Haku had too leave this morning to do her work but I told her she didn't have too...but I get the impression she wanted to see Shinji.
Young love...how sickeningly vomit worthy.
Maybe my view on that is biast though.
Kaia and her brothers left earlier today. Aiku and her twin brother and sister are still here. Jia and Jian...Jian is in the army and is very good looking.
I read some more of my mothers diary, an entry before I was born but it mentions Sozins birth! My mother was there!
Dear Diary,
Lien was in labour for eight hours. It is her first child so I imagine the pain to her would be unreal. I remember I felt so with Chen. Anyway the midwife Hana was very good but not very understanding. I told Lin to keep Taishi company while the labour lasted.
Finally with one final scream that echoed down the hall Lien gave birth to a healthy boy.
The heir to the throne!
He is a beautiful baby. Strong with cute eyes that peer into you. I left to give Taishi and Lien some time alone to ponder names. The bells rang through the city and finally a hawk was sent to each city and each nation.
Hailing the birth of Prince Sozin Agni.
The Fire Mages came to bless the baby but as they looked at him they told us something odd.
"Power is as power does yet not alone is he"
Odd...I mean being born on the Solstice is a good luck symbol but I didn't know the sages spoke in riddles!
Power is as power does, yet not alone is he...I think the sages were refering to Avatar Roku who was born three hours later...but why say that if they didn't know the Avatar was born yet? In fact they didn't know Roku was the Avatar until he was four! My mother mentions it!
Maeko is very restless today.
She wails and crawls away from me when I take her to the Gardens. The child is so curious that she near gave Lin a heart attack by nearly jumping into the Turtle-duck pond.
Sozin and Roku do not appear to like her much. They say she gets in the way because she is a girl. I laughed while Lien scolded them...they're just silly boys at the moment but I'm sure in ten years they'll feel different.
Anyway the Sages came today. There doing more examinations...trying to find the Avatar I think. Thankfully Chen is not the avatar and neither is Kari or Sozin much to his own disapointment. Sozin threw a tantrum saying he wanted to command all four elements.
There testing Roku as I write. His mother Tomoe is with him.
Later ...
The sages are acting very strange. As is Tomoe...
They speak is whispers and Tomoe has became oddly quiet. I am suspicious...I think they have made a discovery of some sort that they must keep secret...my heart is thumping as I write this but would it be too far fetched to think that Roku could be the Avatar?
He was. They didn't bother to tell him that for another twelve years.
I'm still trying to believe I used to play with the Avatar and Sozin...and I was considered a pest!
Ah well stupid idoits that boys are.