A/N: I've been writing some really angsty stuff as of late and I dunno why...Here's yet another Angsty Piece of Crap. I hope you enjoy it despite its atrociousness. :)

10 more drabbles 'til 100!

Title: Child
Author: Red Hawk K'sani
Word Count: 301
Warnings: Character Death, Angst, Psychotic Azula, Weird writing, Run-on Sentences of DOOM, Sentence Fragments of APOCALYPTIC ATROCIOUSNESS
Challenge: None
Characters: Various

In the end, it wasn't the Avatar who saved the world.

There's so much to it:

The prince so lost, insane with grief, his mind distorted by hatred and anger and blinding rage so intense and so unnatural for him. The life of the General, also lost, due to a sly, insidious attack from the rear that was never suspected. The dead Fire Lord, incinerated by the comet that would give him ultimate power. A psychotic princess with nothing but a perverted desire to kill, slowly and torturously. An Avatar with no motivation to live, for he had murdered so many.

A child amid the carnage with nothing but an exotic name, without parents, without a sister, without food or shelter or love or care. And the world that surrounded her, a bloody battle that would not stop, not even if the Fire Lord was dead: there were still people alive, and that meant there were people to be killed.

The Avatar who found the child alone in the debris, crying and screaming for her mother or some familiar touch. He made his loved one swear: Save the child. Someone must live, Katara.

The Waterbender who took the child and pleaded: Do not leave me! Do not leave me! And her unheard words disregarded by the Avatar who kept walking towards the edge. The prince corrupted by the death of his uncle, who sought revenge now so desperately, who stumbled across the Waterbender and child and stopped, remembering days long past: his tears so salty and bittersweet, his eyes unclouded by the tears he wept. The remembrance: The Avatar gives Zuko Hope. The Princess who, at the last second, killed them all.

The Avatar gives people Hope: Hope, the child; Hope, the savior; Hope, the only survivor of a long-forgotten war.