Avatar: the Adventure Continues

A/N I don't own avatar.

Later that night Kuzon was walking around the temple when he saw Katara standing outside looking at the full moon. Katara seemed very troubled. At her time in the temple she seemed like the sister he had never had. He walked over to her and took off his jacket and put it over her shoulders "Its cold out tonight," he said "You don't want to get sick."

She put her arms through the sleeves and said "Thanks."

He looked at and said "You seem troubled."

"It's a long story." She said, trying to brush him off.

"I have time." He said.

She sighed and replied "Well a while ago I thought I was the only Waterbender in the entire South Pole, but I found another waterbender who taught me some advanced techniques, but it turns out she wanted to gain my trust so she could teach me the darkest use of waterbending and use it against the fire nation. It is called bloodbending, and it can only be done on the full moon."

He nodded and said back in reply "So you can control another person's body using waterbending."

She answered "Exactly, but I did not want to use it so, I fought back. However she forced me to use it. To this day I fear that power, but I can't help thinking that I might need to use it."

Kuzon thought about her fears and asked her "Katara, do you think that the ability to bend lightning is a dark version of firebending?"

She thought about it and said "Well I guess it is."

He said back to her "Well I can't tell you how many times lightning saved my life. If you use bloodbending to keep yourself and the ones you love safe, then by all means use it."

She smiled "Thanks."

Smiling back he said "That's what I'm here for." He gave her a hug and patted her on the back and said "Now get some rest you'll need it."

After another tough training session the gang went to eat some lunch. As they were eating, Sokka asked Kuzon "So how did you get to become a fire nation admiral?"

After swallowing his food Kuzon said to him "I guess I could share my story with you." He paused took a sip of water and continued. "Well it all started about a year or two before I met Toph. I was in school when some bully tried to start a fight with me. I easily took him down, but the headmaster saw and told me to come to his office. I thought I was in trouble but it turned out he was impressed and wanted to send a message to the fire lord about my abilities. About a week later my family got an invitation to have an audience with he fire lord. After seeing my display of firebending he was impressed and asked for me to join the army."

Katara looked aghast "But weren't your parents worried?" she asked.

Nodding he said "Yes they were, but Ozai assured them that I would be constantly protected by soldiers. And that promise was surprisingly upheld. As I was in the army soldiers and other officers taught me the art of war. After a while I got promoted to commander and started to command the battles and we always seemed to win. Not too long later I got promoted again and received my own legion of troops and went out to conquer more cities."

Sokka then asked "But when did the earth kingdom decide to welcome you in?"

"You'll soon find out." he answered "I had one rule that my legion followed with the upmost respect: never under any circumstance kill another, only capture. This gave me a lot of respect. Not so much with Ozai, but he needed me in the army. Azula was the one who really didn't like it. The two of us never saw eye to eye."

"Not much of a surprise." Zuko said dryly.

"Anyway this also gained respect from the earth kingdom, but my work with the fire nation would soon come to an end. When I was promoted to admiral I was given a hard task- take Ba Sing Se."

Zuko then added "Not even uncle could capture it."

Nodding in agreement Kuzon continued "Exactly. So I was given a large army to invade with, but not all the soldiers were familiar with my rule. So during the invasion I saw troops killing the enemy. I was infuriated. The war had gone on far enough and I wanted to end it. So I fought against my own men. I ran for the walls to ask the general if I could join. So I turned the tide, and even gave battle plans and strategies to the Earth Kingdom that the fire nation uses."

Aang was impressed and said "You fought your own army and won!"

He smiled and said "Yes I did. So the earth king saw to it that I could be allowed in any earth city and stay as long as I would like. And about a month after that I met Toph and the rest is history." He paused to see if everything had sunk in. "Well I hope that answered your question but it is time for more training."

They groaned in protest. Kuzon smiled and said "Sokka you come with me so I can teach you sword techniques you will be quite interested in knowing. The rest of you will practice hand to hand sparring, no bending."

As Kuzon entered the training room he took a practice sword and said to Sokka "Each style I will teach you has its own use in a battle. For example this is the Atiru style which focuses on using kicks with your attacks like so." He demonstrated several sword strikes mixed with different kicks. "Another style is tun-gi which uses extremely fast and fluid attacks to take down multiple enemies." Kuzon demonstrated again several fluid attacks at a quick pace. "This next style," he said "uses a defense break followed by a killing attack. This style is Shinjo." He again showed the move to Sokka. "Finally this last style focuses on using different parts of the sword as a weapon, it is called Phong-Li." He showed Sokka different strikes with different parts of a sword. "Now we shall practice these together. Ready, Fight!"

Training was over and Kuzon and Aang were walking outside "So how is firebending going?" asked Kuzon.

"It's great!" he said with enthusiasm. "I used to be so worried about hurting someone like I did to Katara, but I realize now that fire is not just destruction, it can also be life. To be able to firebend is like having a little bit of the sun in us."

Kuzon nodded and said to Aang "That is very insightful. I'm glad firebending is going so well. Do you think you will be ready for the fire lord though?"

Aang thought about it and said "I think so. I'm learning the most offensive bending which will both protect me and give me an edge in battle."

Smiling at Aang's newfound confidence he said "Good to hear. I think I will be testing you all soon to see if you are all ready."

Aang smiled back and said "I can't wait!" he ran off to his room to go to bed. When he left Kuzon admired his fortitude. Although he has failed the world many times, he kept on trying which only proved that he was ready to face the fire lord.