Author's Note: Well, I'm sorry for not updating in forever, but it happens sometimes.
Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar the Last Airbender.
The birds chirped happily outside of Zuko's window, as a refreshing, cool breeze wafted in from another. Zuko smiled lazily in his sleep, enjoying the nothingness. When he woke up, he might for a walk, or plant some flowers, or feed the squirrels at the park.
RRRIIINNGGG!
Zuko sat straight up in bed. The phone. That accursed phone. He should've never had it installed in the first place. It's not like anybody who ever called him had anything to say anyways. Always just "checking up" on him, as if he was some kind of patient. The last time he had ever heard anything good from a telephone was Aang calling to tell him that his sister had gotten arrested.
RRRIIINNGGG!
Oh! And of course no one would pick up the phone, seeing as it was always somebody else who was closest, or somebody else who the call was bound to be for.
RRRIIINNGGG!
If the matter at hand was really so important, why don't they just come over here and tell me face to face? What happened to the days when personal relationships were established through meeting?
RRRIIINNGGG!
Why is the phone so loud? Do they just assume that every single time it rings everyone in the house will be in a coma or something?
"Sokka! Pick up the phone!" Zuko shouted, unable to take any more.
"Your closer!"
Oh, I bet, thought Zuko, "Aang! Pick up the pho-"
RRRIIINNGGG!
"What? I can't hear you over the phone Zuko!"
"Toph! Pick up the phone!"
"Do it yourself, Captain Angst! It's just a phone!"
"Katara! Pick up the phone!"
"Katara isn't here!"
"That sure sounded a lot like Katara to me."
"No it didn't..."
RRRIIINNGGG!
"AAAHHHH!" Zuko roared, leaping up out of bed. He jumped down all the stairs, then sprinted to the phone and torched it with an intense blast of fire. He stormed out of the house, cursing the name of Alexander Graham Bell.
Meanwhile, on the other end of the line, Fire Lord Ozai slammed the phone back down, shaking with fury. He had just been walking in his garden, when he had suddenly realized that life was too short to spend harboring grudges, so he had decided to make amends with his son Zuko. His revelation had come to a quick end when Zuko had enraged him by not picking up the phone.
Fire Lord Ozai began to set fire to everything in his immediate vicinity (which, sadly, included several of his servants), breathe flame, and shoot lighting. After that, he called a war council and set out to destroy the Earth and Water nations.