A/N: I really should be working on Dog Person, but I felt like I wanted to write this.
Much, much thanks to The Big Rocky Eye for liking and reviewing my story, it means the world to me!
Note that I seem to have had an obsession with islands, rebellions and Zuko having twin sisters.
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WHAT I'VE DONE Makes a Better Name for a Song than a Story
Avatar Roku was ticked off. The reason for his ticked-offedness was another spirit named Kami. Kami was the spirit of storms, and she'd just created a huge storm without even asking! Now, logically, she'd be able to create whatever storms she wanted and nobody could do anything about it, but we're assuming that the Avatar rules over the Spirit World with an iron fist after he dies, hence, the ticked offedness. It didn't help that if she hadn't, the current on-Earth Avatar would not be inside a block of ice right then.
He went to talk to her, but she was kind of a brat and just was like *yawn.* So he was like "I BANISH YOOO TO BE HUMAN but not now, maybe in a hundred years or so."
And Kami, who hated humans and thought they sucked, said "NOOOOOOO!"
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And yes, a little under a hundred years later, a little girl was born with violet eyes. When her grandfather, Kuzon, who had known the Avatar when he was alive and hated the war (but he couldn't say anything because he was living in the Fire Nation at the time) asked what they were going to call her, her parents said "Shayli."
Which is a pretty name and all, it's just that it was actually a cursed name from this whole mix up in the beginning of time, when words had power, and not in the sense that they affected people, in the sense that you said "Fly!" and started flying or someone else did, whichever you meant. Obviously, the spirits realized relatively early on that people are stupid and can't handle that kind of power, so they wiped out the language and replaced it with a boring, normal, powerless one, but I guess they missed a few spots here and there. But anyway, Shayli meant "alone," and in it's time had generally been used to denote romantic aloneness, or basically just rotten luck on the dating scene until you died. Obviously, when Shayli was old enough to realize what this meant (her parents didn't want her to know, but one of her brothers told her) it was a bit depressing.
At that point, she was fifteen and her family had relocated to this island somewhere and begun a rebellion group against the Fire Nation. And at first, they let Shayli be an assassin, but only after she asked them five times and explained her argument and all the reasons she wanted to be an assassin in the most mature, thought out way possible.
"Assassins are cool. They get wear all black. Pimpin'!"
BUT THEN she got captured on a mission, and they had to send some people to go in there and save her butt, so she wasn't allowed to do that anymore. This was quite a blow to her, because since she'd learned that she was basically never going to have a boyfriend that wasn't a jerk, she'd kind of thrown herself into her work, and now they just wanted her to chill. That wasn't her deal. No. So she got her brothers to help her get involved with Rebellion stuff anyway, just in secret. When their dad found out, he was like 'Wha…?' So her brothers got grounded and she got sent to Ba Sing Se. Her grandfather had recently gotten back from a trip to Ba Sing Se and had explained that the current situation there was that nobody knew what the war was.
"What about the war?"
"War? I know not this 'war' of which you speak."
So they figured it might be a breath of fresh air for her. And so they sent her off to Ba Sing Se (it took quite a long time, they sent her with bodyguards but didn't want it to look like she was surrounded by body guards, it was a mess to arrange and basically a complicated little scheme) to get a job, so she could stop worrying about all this war nonsense and just be a kid. A little late in the day, she was seventeen now, but whatever. The other reason for sending her to Ba Sing Se was this: when she'd be captured, she'd had quite a record of messing stuff up for the Fire Nation, and was on their most wanted list. Now, they knew her first name (someone heard one of her teammates, if you will, yell "SHAYLI HURRY UP" when they were escaping from some guards on some other occasion) but not her last name, and because of the mask, not what she looked like. Now, though, they knew her last name AND had someone do a drawing of her face, so there were these wanted posters of her everywhere. But in Ba Sing Se, the only wanted posters were of thieves and the occasional serial killers, not international spies/assassins/rebels/whatever it was she was, of any kind. Hence, safety!
Now, Shayli was good at spying on and killing people, but not so good at doing things like washing clothes and cooking, and so she wasn't actually very successful in Ba Sing Se. So she went into an interview at a teashop.
At this point, I should mention something vital from her childhood. Her father had been a Fire Nation noble before running away and starting the rebellion with his family, and so she'd been close friends with Zuko and his twin sister Zakira. Azula didn't like Shayli (or Shay, as she was known back in the day) because Shay wasn't afraid of her.
So anyway, Shayli walks into the teashop and sits down for an interview. Despite the very distinctive eyes (seriously, how many people do you know with purple eyes? I mean, it's actually a natural eye color, unless the Wikipedia page on eye color's been vandalized, but I mean, I have never met one person with purple eyes except one, who was wearing colored contacts. Sorry, sorry. To continue.) she recognized by neither Zuko nor Iroh. Shayli, though, recognized both of them, because even though she left the Fire Nation before Zuko got burned and everything, she knew about it due to her connection with the rebellion, and knew they were in the Earth Kingdom somewhere. But she'd never thought that they might be in Ba Sing Se. She showed no surprise, though. She simply answered all the questions honestly and unimpressively, unless her use of sarcasm counts as impressive, and it was pretty impressive, she was a master at sarcasm, but her answers themselves, she wasn't a good waitress and she knew it, but got the job anyway, because they needed one more waitress and there weren't enough people who showed up for the job to pick and choose.
The first day, she spit in people's tea (note that Shayli was a very negative individual. This was due to the loveless life she knew was ahead of her. I know, don't you feel so sorry for her?) while Iroh and Zuko scratched their heads, wondering where they'd seen the girl before. The next day, they (Zuko and Iroh) went to the palace to serve tea to the King and left someone else-not Shayli-in charge. I guess they didn't trust her. Which is understandable, do you trust tea-spitters? And then the whole thing with Azula happened, and basically, she went back to her life as a slacker until a few weeks later, when Azula sent the Dai Li to arrest her. Azula, of course, knew exactly who she was, and so wanted her head on a stick, but she still had to bring her to the Fire Nation first. She didn't tell Zuko who she was, because she worried that he'd betray her, and he was already a little uneasy about having Uncle imprisoned, anyway. But while on the ship, he figured it out and went into the place on the ship where all the prison cells were.
Shayli and Iroh's cells were across from each other, and they were playing cards.
"Got any threes?"
"Uh, go fish."
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SNAP! I know who you are!" Zuko said suddenly.
"I win the bet!" Iroh smirked. Shayli sighed. "Y'all couldn't have waited to have that epiphany tomorrow?"
Zuko frowned and walked away.
That night, he was helping Iroh and Shayli and this random little girl that was in a cell (Yes, Azula was that evil. She arrested a little girl for not bowing down to her quick enough. Buahahahahahah!) escape, and they had this raft, but they had to jump into the water and then get on the raft. The water was oddly calm, especially right by the boat where, by the laws of physics, it should have been…wavier.
Shayli hesitated jumping. She'd never told anyone this, but she was afraid of water. When Azula woke up and started coming for her, though. She jumped. She waited and waited under the water for someone to save her, but nobody came.
"Why isn't she coming up?" they wondered.
They waited awhile-I guess Azula didn't want to get wet or something, so she didn't come after them-but Shayli didn't come up.
"Maybe she drowned." The little girl said. Well, it made sense.
Zuko shrugged.
They paddled and paddled and got to an island (but not the rebellion island) where the found Zakira. After Zuko had been banished, she'd run away and had wound up finding a lost society and learned she was actually adopted, and this was her real family and she was their princess. After every other question had been asked, and they were caught up on everything else, she asked
"So, do you know where Shayli is?"
Zuko shrugged again. "Who now?"
THE END.
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A/N: In the original story, of course, Zuko saves Shayli and they all go to the island together, but I needed an ending.
So again, The Big Rocky Eye, thanks so much for reviewing, and uh, tell your friends.
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