On Paradise

The gentle breeze ran fingers through the young water benders undone hair as the near full moon maid her tanned skin glow beautifully. In the distance she could see the harsh spikes that rose from the sea and protect their destination from outside threats. Behind her, around two or three arm spans away, they scarred Fire Lord calmly stood watching elegant creature. She looked even more beautiful with her brown hair billowing out behind her like that. Stepping off of the raised platform where the wheel stood. She cleared her throught, and brought his attention to her. Now she was in a different outfit. she had a long dress that was simular to the skirt she normally wore. A obi in olive was wound tightly around her mid torso and tied loosly at the back so that two strips hung down her legs. Along the wider ends of the strips, small bones were sewn on. over the right side of her face, she had a triangle of silk tied, hiding her right eye and most of her face on its side.

"You better go below deck soon. We havn't had an outsider here in over several hundred years, and we can't risk you working out how to pass our defences. No offence." She informed him off hand. He nodded at her, and cast a final glance at Katara before heading below the decks. Ai followed wordlessly behind.

"What is that outfit for anyways, Whych?" Asks Zuko eventually. Blankly she replies:

"Tradition. Today is the first day of The Week of the Dead. I have to wear bones of a human on my clothes for the next week." Zuko slightly grimaced. THe bones she was wearing, right at that moment, were once in a living person. Zuko shuddered unnoticeably at how unmoved Ai was. Noticing his unease with that particular tradition, Ai snorted, and pushed him onwards a little faster. "Come on, Zuko. We don't have all day!" The young Fire Lord stopped them outside of the room that he and KaiSai had been forced to share. As he opened the door, Ai pulled a narrow strip of fabric that hung on a hook by the door and held it in a tight fist. Over on his own bed, KaiSai sat with a blindfold over his eyes. He wasn't tied up in any way other wise. Ai ordered Zuko t sit on the other cot and she bound the strip of fabric over his eyes. "Better safe than sorry." She explained with a shrug. "I'll be back when we are going on the raft. Do not take you blindfold of until I tell you." With that, she swept out of the room unseen but still elegantly.

Zuko remembered being led out of the adequately sized room some time later. He remembered the cooling autumn breeze of the sea hitting him in the face and making his hair dance on his shoulders. Zuko remembered being led onto a low flat something and he remembered that it was close to the waters edge. But after that was black. He had lost about half hour of memory, and had no idea why. When his mind started coming back to him, he was inside of a tiny wooden hut, one of the healing huts. He groaned and sat up. There was a huge bump on his head. Where had that come from? Suddenly, it was al coming back to him. When he got off of the raft, his blind had been removed. He was so amazed by the beauty of the isle that he walked right into an earth bender. She thought that he had invaded the island and attacked him. That's what must have made him loose that specific memory. He swung his legs over the bed and got up. He felt a little dizzy at first, but soon had overcome it and was walking away.

Katara, Tec and Ai knelt before the great empress in a perfect row. On this day, Ai wore her normal clothes and a chocker made of toe and fingertips bones. The empress sat with her legs crossed and her hands on her knees with a powering and proud expression on her face.

"..And now you have the Fire Lord here? Am I fully correct?" Nila concluded her summery of the trio's adventure after they had told her of it. They nodded in close unison.

"Yes, your greatness" They said. She smirked lightly in thought, and then waved her hand elegantly and lightly into the air.

"Go and receive the two of the fire nation. Bring them here. And threat not, young water tribes woman, I shall be covered to protect my dignity." She stated the last part with a rare and comforting smile. She then rose from her throne and vanished to the secretive rooms behind it. Not many Aztecs had ever trod in those grounds, and not many ever would.

An annoying giggling and the whispers of famine voices surrounded the young Fire Lord as he regained consciousness after being attacked. Again. He managed to pick up random sentences.

"Look at all those muscles."

"He's cute. Even with the scar. Wonder how he got it."

"You thing everything outside of your gender is cute ley!"

"Yeah, so."

"Shh, shh. He's waking up." He groaned as the weight of the world hit him. Slowly he opened his eyes to see several girls leaning over him. They varied in nation and race. All completely different and wearing clothes in similar styles to the women that brought him there. From the near distance he heard a gods-sent familiar voice.

"Leave him alone, you little scavengers! Go on Shoo!" Cried out Tec, placing her fists on her hips with a laugh. With a playful giggle, the girls scattered. Tec walked over to him and offered him a hand. "Good thing I found you. Other wise you'd be in for a hell load of torture. Trust me" Tec winked at him with her yellow eye and pulled him to his feet. "C'mon, kingy, we've been looking for you for ages. Little Katara's been worried, bless her." Zuko gave her a confused look. Katara was worried? About him? Women. He would never get them.

All three of the girls had been given a section of the island to search. Katara had been told to check over the lakeland, a small area near the middle of the island, Ai had the woods and bamboo forest to search, being that she had a natural eye over the woods, and Tec scoured the beaches and mountains. It was Katara who had found KaiSai, skipping stones across the biggest lake with some of the warioresses. She had brought him back to Ai's home as agreed and waited there for the others to get back. That was about an hour ago. Ai had returned fruitless half hour after Katara and shrugged apologetically as she came through the door. This provoked an irrigative grunt from Katara as she paced the floor. As Zuko and Tec finally arrived, a humorous voice from Ai was heard.

"Katara, you're acting like the father awaiting the birth of his child and an angered caged tiger at the same time! Just sit back, for five minuets." A growl for a reply was heard. Zuko was slightly nervous about going in, but when he stalled at the door, Tec violently shoved him in.

"Look what the vultures found littering our beautiful beaches!" Her cry was intended to be playful, but came out with more malice than necessary.

"Don't be nasty, Tec, we have to bring them to the empress looking relatively normal at a minimum. I don't thing badmouthing him will assist with that." Mothered Ai, placing her hands boldly on her hips from the spot where she sat on the floor. Tec rolled her yellow eyes, and gave Zuko another gentle shove. "Tec, I mean it, don't!" Tec then put her hands up defensively and took a step back.

"Ok, ok. I was just playing about Whychie"

"Whatever. Let's just take them to her now. She'll be irritated enough as it is!" The succubus nodded in agreement and awaited the rest to get ready to leave again.

Empress Nila sat on her throne with her legs crossed. Her long silver-blond hair was purposely covering her bust and a well placed silk sash covered her lower region. She wore her normal crown with the same pride as always. Nila was still an amazing site to behold. The three girls bowed to her as they arrived in her throne room.

"Welcome Fire Lord Zuko to my humble island. I am Empress Nila of Moilah." Said the thirty year old holding her head high. Zuko nodded in acknowledgement. "And you to, solder, are welcome." she nodded at the Fire Lords body guard. KaiSai bowed back at her respectfully.

"Why have you brought us here, Nila?" Asked Zuko boldly. The empress smirked at him before she replied.

"Directly to the point. I like that." She commented. "You are here so we can build a humble agreement on ending this war. It is no good for anyone. Even your beloved nation. It will create imbalance in the bloods and the world. Starting the war created imbalance as it is. Luckily, we have Air blood here, or the End would already be here. You don't want that, now do you?" Zuko shook his head.

"How long do you plan on keeping me here?"

"Until an agreement is formed and the first step for peace is taken. Now take a seat, so we can at least talk of a place for you to stay for now." The five before the empress sat on the oversized cushions in a line on the floor comfortably. "Now, Ai. Is it not so that you have a spare room?"

"Yes, but-" Ai began before Nila interrupted her.

"Good, then he shall stay there." She pointed at KaiSai.

"But Katara stays there. Where is she supposed to sleep?"

"She shall have one of my rooms, as shall the Fire Lord." With that, she rose from her throne. Before the men saw anything they weren't use to seeing, Tec covered up their eyes.

"Um, your majesty? Might I suggest, um, covering up? These men are from a world of clothed women remember?" Tec indicated, with a slight cringe. The empress then picked up her white sash and wrapped it around her hips. Tec the uncovered the two mens' eyes and the two benders followed her.

Without her usual care or elegant, Ai pushed open the door of the Water Tribe room in her house and pressed her back against it to let KaiSai in. He peered around the corner with a slight look of distaste.

"Have a little respect, Fire bender. This was my sister's room, and I'm not changing it for anyone." She explained irritated. Taking a step back, she let him get himself comfortable. "I'll be in my room preparing for the Day of the Dead festival. I've only got thee days left to prepare." With that, she slipped away into her room and slammed the door shut. Moments after, KaiSai slipped out after her. He creaked open the door and leaned on the frame as Ai worked on something in a huge pot in the middle of the room. When she finished, she turned to him and looked at him flatly. "What do you want?" She asked unemotionally.

"Oh, nothing." He smiled, taking a step towards her. She raised an eyebrow at him, and removed her goggles. "Nothing much at least." He towered over her with a hansom smirk on his face. She still had an unmoving look of confusion. A strong, pale hand went up to her chin and pointed it up to the guards face. Slowly, he leaned down and kissed her gently on the lips. Her long arms moved up to his chest, and travelled upwards to his neck. KaiSai's free arm wrapped quickly around her waist and pulled her close against his body. Soon they had deepened the kiss. He pushed her against a free wall and ran his tongue lustfully against her full lips. She opened her mouth slightly and moaned as his tongue danced against hers. One hand supported his weight against the wall as the other ran up her leg. KaiSai started to kiss her neck when she pushed him away.

"No, not in here. There are too many delicate and dangerous items. Besides, this is a holy room." Squealed Ai, trying to control herself. He leaned off of her and looked at her with a sad and confused expression. The Whych took his hand and pulled him out of the room. "Your room is much better than mine, anyways." This made him smile again, and follow a little more loyally.

In the meantime, Katara explored the corridors of the Empresses castle. As she walked down another identical corridor, a young maid in a black and white robe ran towards her with a tray full of food. She stopped in front of Katara and held the tray out to her.

"Can you bring this to the Fire Lord, miss? I'm late for my dance practice as it is." The little girl pleaded. With a nod, Katara took it from her, and the girl darted past with the speed of an air bender. "Thank you, ma'am!" She cried, vanishing around the corner. Katara laughed a little to herself and headed towards Zuko's room. After knocking, she opened the door a little and slipped in the doorway.

"I've got you something to eat here, Zuko." She smiled. Zuko was lounging on top of the silk sheets of his grand bed. The head rest was a western dragon with its wings curling around the sides of the bed. It had a single ruby for an eye and its tail wrapped around one of the posts on the other end. The walls were lined in wood and the floor had a huge rag rug on it. It was a spectacular room. With out looking at her, Zuko acknowledged her presents.

"Just put it over there." He pointed at a desk with the same dragon theme on the other side of the room. The Water Bender walked over to the desk and lowered the tray it. She then went to walk away. Suddenly, Zuko leaped to his feet and blocked her path. She gasped as he pinned her to the wall.

"I've been waiting to do this for so long." He said in a husky voice. Her breathing grew shallow as he inched closer and closer to her pouted lips.

A/N: Well this took a while, didn't it?

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Oh, and incase you're wondering. Acqua died of terminal cancer (A really rare outbrake) and her mother died of a weak heart. Nither could be saved. Please read my other stories, A Tale of Red Hoddies and Black Fur is very lonely. : (