A/N- To Alex :D thanks for the feedback I'll be sure to add more of that and make a better title than what i have now lol I swear, I think my story is too cheesy but I'll keep writing so I can get better :] and plus, I love Zutara! xD
Morning-
Zuko is outside of the temple about the teach the young Avatar fire-bending. "Okay, just do these stances and moves," Zuko said as he showed him. "Uh, Zuko, you should probably show me some examples," Aang said timidly. "Oh...right," Zuko said. Oh gee, showing an example, that's smart, Zuko thought to himself, feeling a bit embarrassed. Zuko came back to reality and stood in a fighting stance. He threw his fists in front of him but to his surprise, a small puff of smoke took the place of blazing yellow fire. "Waht the hell?" Zuko screamed in shock, as he tried to get fire out of his clenched fists. Sokka came to observe their training and sees Zuko struggling to form his element that's appearing as puffs of dark smoke. Sokka was chuckling, "Heh, socking the air...Aang, I think he hates your element," Zuko looks at him with frustrating eyes. "Zuko, you're probably trying to hard or maybe, you can't fire-bend anymore!" Sokka's small chuckle turned into laughing and eventually rolling on the floor. Zuko was steaming and turning red when he looked back at Sokka. "Get out foo!" Zuko was attempting to fire-bend at Sokka but he distinctly remember that he can't do so at the moment. Sokka was literally wiping his face, from his tears of amusement. "Okay, okay! I was just teasing you. Good luck trying to find your bending again!" Sokka left the two alone, still laughing his ass off. "We should tell everyone else about this," Aang said calmly. Woo, training's over, Aang thought to himself, happily.
Afternoon-
Aang and Zuko walk back, from their somewhat failed training, to their friends near the fountain where Combustion Man almost killed them. "Hey, friends..." Aang said as he went to sit down. I gotta break it to them, might be really embarrassing, but I still have to... Zuko was thinking about how Sokka reacted this morning. "Hey, um, guys, I lost my stuff..." Zuko looked down in shame and embarrassment. "Ey, I didn't touch your stuff and I never have," Toph yelled. "No, I mean my fire-bending! And you better not have touched my stuff," Zuko yelled back. "Ew, that just sounded wrong," Toph complained. Zuko sighed and noticed Katara looking at him. She looked away and started to blush and Zuko smiled. "Well we better find a way to get your fire-bending back," said Aang. "Why don't you two go to where the Sun Warriors used to inhabit? You might learn something there," Sokka said reassuringly. "You're right, Zuko, we should go there!" Aang tried to drag him onto Appa. "Yeah, let's go," Zuko escaped from Aang's grasp. They both board on Appa and they fly to where the Sun Warriors' Civilization was at. Aang got his bison whistle as he told Appa that he could go back to the Temple. Zuko and Aang look at the ancient and mossy city. They come across a narrow and long path with beige walls on the sides leading to a huge ancient brown building, added along with moss and vines on the walls. They walk cautiously on the path. "I wonder what we can find here..." Zuko said looking at the building. Aang tripped over a tiny black cord and a portion of the ground lowered and out came spikes. Aang blew air threw his mouth and flipped to the other side. Zuko saw this and ran up the wall to cross the spikes. "If there are traps still here, this place might be guarding something important..." Aang said suspiciously. They two finally made it to the door and they see that they need to wait for the summer solstice for the door to open. Zuko takes out his sword and the reflection of the sunlight is pointed to the top of the door. It opens and they enter. Zuko examines the statues while Aang steps on a circle panel and it sinks and inch below the ground. What is this...,Aang thought to himself. He looked at how to statues were posing and got an idea. Aang got Zuko to "dance" with him. Zuko and Aang step on the panels while copying the pose of each statue until they meet with each other again. The room shook and in the middle of the room appeared a pillar with a golden stone. Zuko takes the stone and something else happens. A lot of green goo comes from the pillar and they get caught in the goo. It rises and rises until it touches the ceiling, pushing them against the bars so, another word would be that they were trapped.
Night-
They are still trapped there.
Zuko- Damnn, this is crazy
Aang- *yells*
Zuko- And who do you think you're yelling at? There's no one here!
Aang- Oh I don't know I'm just bored
Zuko- *looks at him* wow ..
Aang- *sigh* how long are we going to be here..
Zuko- I really don't know...wait, I hear something...what is that...ew it smells so much x(
Aang- *blushes* sorryy...
Zuko- If you keep doing that, I might just die right on this spot!
Zuko noticed a dark figure coming toward them and he felt relieved. The figure finally made it to them and Zuko looked carefully at the silhouette standing right above him.
Zuko- Oh thank Agni! I'm saved! yes!
Aang- *looks at Zuko* um excuse me, you can't forget about me, I need to be saved too! I can't hold it in anymore...
Zuko- *looks back at the figure* Please get me out of here! Before McStink here does his business right next to me! *whines*
The figure appeared to be a guy wearing clothes that people of Eldorado would wear.
Chief-What is your business here?
Aang- Oh, Zuko here lost his fire-bending, apparently. He was freaking out. All that was left was a puff of smoke *smiles with his teeth*
Zuko- AHH, *mumbles* shut up...*turns red*
Guy- Interesting...I'm the chief by the way, of this civilization
Zuko- I thought you guys don't exist anymore...
Chief- Well, you thought wrong
He takes them out of the goo they've been in for a few hours and took them to a building with a big fire
Zuko's head-
Wow that's big, Zuko thought. That's waht she said, Zuko heard Aang's voice. What? Get out of my mind! Zuko yelled at Aang. Hehe, Zuko do you have a brain? It's echoing in here, ECHO! Zuko glares at the Avatar. "Seriously," Zuko whispers angrily. Aang looks at him like he's crazy. "Um, yeah, it's a fire thought to be the first one given by dragons long ago..." Aang said slowly. Oh damn, I wasn't listening, and maybe his voice was just in my mind...ehh, he can't possibly read minds, Zuko said. Are you sure? And correction, I hear minds, Aang's voice was just floating around in Zuko's head. Can you go away? Zuko yelled. Dare me to scare the guy? heh watch! Aang said. He looked at the guy and after a few seconds, he got freaked out. "Who said that?" he looked frantically at the expressions of his fellow citizens, they looked at him like he was crazy too. He looks down and yells, "Please don't tell anyone!" and he turns around. What did you tell him? Zuko asked. I said, Oo, I know what happened last night, Potty Guy, Aang told Zuko. They guy clears his throat and he tells Aang and Zuko to carry fire up the hill and meet the masters of Fire-bending. "If you two are worthy enough, they will show you secrets," he said.
The guy gives them the fire from the Eternal Flame and they walk together up the hill.
Aang- I don't know if I could do this...*he looks at the hill*
Zuko- It's simple, just give it lot's of juice and focus on keeping it normal size
Aang- No, I don't mean that...
Zuko- then waht do you mean? The hill has stairs, you won't fall...unless you can't keep your balance easily...
Aang- Zuko...
Zuko- What...ew that smell is so strong, waht the hell?
Aang- I need to go, NOW
Zuko- Don't you want to see the masters? You can't leave now!
Aang- you don't understand!
Zuko- Ooh, Come on, you can make it
Aang- I don't know...*he keeps walking*
After a few minutes, they finally arrive at the top.
Guy- If the masters don't appreciate you, they will finish you right there. Zuko, you're people use their power for evil and they wiped the dragons off the face of the earth.
Aang- I hope there's no bad in me
Guy- You are responsible too, for the avatar didn't put a stop to this in time
Aang- *looks down*
Guy- Hmm, go ahead *points at the stairs
They climbed the stairs and finally arrive at the very top, facing the caves, back-to-back. The people down there sounded an alarm to alert the masters.
Aang- Ow! *he let's go of the fire and clutches his stomach*
Zuko- Hold it in!
Aang- Mehh, *he looks back and the fire is gone* Oh damn..
Zuko- What is it now?
Aang- Can I borrow some of your fire?
Zuko- Waht? No!
Aang- C'mon please, mine is gone!
Zuko- *turns around and lets go of his fire* Stop trying to take my fire *turns back around and his expression, when he saw the fire is gone, was (0.0) *
Aang- *sees that there's no fire with him* Oops...
The ground starts to shake and they here growling from the caves. Aang was a little freaked while Zuko, on the other-hand, almost pissed his pants. They waited and the growls became louder. Seconds later, two huge blue and red flying creatures emerged from the caves. Aang was frozen and Zuko was amazed.
Zuko- I thought dragons were extinct...
Aang- *still frozen*
The dragons flew around them and Aang thought of something.
Aang- Dragon Dance...Zuko, let's do the dance!
Zuko- *looks at him* Stances
Aang- Wahtever!
They did the poses that were on the statues and it seemed as if they danced along with the dragons. After they were done, the dragons froze and breathed multicolor fire over the avatar and the prince.
Zuko- I've never seen such a sight...
Aang- Yeah *feels relieved*
Zuko- Fire isn't for destruction, but for life...
Aang- ...and energy...
The dragons stopped and they flew in a loop together back into their caves. Zuko and Aang went down the stairs and they met up with the chief. Zuko tried to fire bend again, and he got back his yellow flame that he missed so much. Aang decided that he should try to. And he got into a stance Zuko showed him earlier and shot fire out of his palms. "I did it!" Aang exclaimed.
Zuko- So my uncle lied, to protect the last remaining dragons...
Chief- *nodded*
Zuko- Life and energy...There were so many colors...
Aang- yep
Zuko- beautiful...ewww it smells like before but worse! Ugh! *fanned the air around him* It's not even going away!
Aang- *chuckles*
Zuko- You should go now! Your gasses reek!
Aang- *smiles* I don't need to go anymore
Zuko- *looks at him* OMG Stay the fuck away from me please!
Chief- Woo! Nice, well, since you two know about the dragons, we must kill you so you won't tell anymore
Zuko- *looks at him in shock* What?
Chief- *had a serious face* Yep
Aang- Why? We won't tell anyone, promise!
Chief- *Goes closer to them* I'm kidding! *laughs* Okay, you can get out of here now, but seriously, DON'T TELL ANYONE!
Zuko- Got it
Aang- Let's go!
Aang blows his bison whistle and Appa arrives in a matter of seconds. The two managed to fly back to the Temple without much problems about Aang's odor.
Katara- there you guys are! What took so long? *smells the odor* Ew what's that smell
Aang- Ah, stuff happened *walks away*
Zuko- *stands there* So uh, did we miss anything...
Katara- not much happened...
Zuko- Mmkay. *looks at Katara*
Katara-*looks down* I still don't trust him, but I'm falling in love with him, I wonder if he feels the same way...What happened with you and Aang...?
Zuko- Oh not much, we examined some ancient artifacts there and soon we got our fire-bending...Aang, had an "accident" so that's why he smells
Katara- oh I see...
Sokka and Toph appeared and they see Zuko but they wonder where their other friend is at.
Sokka- where's Aang?
Zuko- Fountain, I guess he needs his privacy
Toph- What happened...
Katara- Little accident
Sokka- he's hurt?
Katara- no, uhh his pants. No liquid though, it's solid and it stinks
Sokka- Ooh...I see...
Toph- So he's butt naked right now?
Katara-I have a feeling
Toph- ha, I won't be able to see him anyways. If only I had vision...
Sokka- You just wish you would huh *laughs*
Toph- shut up! *earth-bends and gets him stuck in the rock*
Sokka- Ow! Toph!
Toph *laughs* Learn your lesson!