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Chapter 5:
Twins
"Zuko wake up!" screamed Katara as another contraction hit her.
"What?" asked Zuko groggily as he sat up and looked over at her and instantly became awake.
"Get Toph tell her I need her now!" ordered Katara as the contraction subsided and she fell back on her pillow. Zuko ripped the doors open to Aang and Toph's room not mindful of their week old daughter.
"Toph, Katara needs you now!" hollered Zuko which woke up their daughter, whose name was Ling.
"Ok you don't have to wake the dead!" hollered Toph as she jumped out of bed and ran across the hall.
"Sorry Aang I'm just nervous." said Zuko apologetically as he took Ling from Aang so Aang could change.
"I know what you mean I remember barging in on Katara and yours sleep when Ling was born, so we're even." Aang laughed as he took Ling and rocked her back to sleep and laid her back down on the bed.
"Aang did you want a boy or a girl?" asked Zuko as they sat down in chairs placed in front of his and Katara's bedroom for this purpose.
"I wanted a girl. But Toph wanted a boy so we were split on the issue." Aang smiled as he remembered the way her face had looked when he said that he had won the bet because they had a daughter who, because he had won the bet, was named Ling.
"I want a boy and I think Katara wants a girl, but I'll be happy no matter what it is." Zuko heard Aang's daughter crying so he told Aang he would go get her.
"Thanks." said Aang as he accepted Ling and started smiling at her which always made her laugh.
The next thing that happened was that Toph stepped out and pronounced that he had a beautiful boy and girl and that Katara wanted him to come in. Zuko smiled as he closed the door and came to sit on the bed.
"What are we going to call them?" asked Katara as she let him hold his son and daughter.
"I like the name Kenai, but that's just me." Zuko smiled as his son and daughter blinked their eyes at him and Zuko thought that if they could talk they would already have whatever they wanted.
"Kenai…I like it, its sort of water tribe but yet its still firenation, and how about Mika for her?" asked Katara as she started to fall asleep.
"That sounds nice, Prince Kenai and Princess Mika of the firenation, son and daughter of fire lord Zuko and fire lady Katara."
Katara smiled as she watched Zuko start talking to Kenai and Mika as if they already knew what he was talking about. And as she fell asleep Katara thought that her son and daughter were the luckiest kids in the whole firenation.
Nine years later…….
"Kenai where's your sister?" Zuko called to his nine-year-old son as he came into the garden that his son and daughter always played in.
"She's probably with Kanna trying to teach her to firebend in the big garden." replied Kenai as he stopped doing his waterbending exercises that his mother had assigned him, so he could go with his father to check on his cousin and sister. They were there of course and Mika, who, like her brother had started bending at the age of six was trying to teach their eight year-old cousin how to firebend, unfortunately all Kanna could make was sparks unlike her twin sister, La who was starting to firebend and train as a mini Kyoshi warrior. Kenai walked over to his sister and whispered something he had learned at the academy in her ear which made her laugh. Zuko smiled at his twins who were complete opposites of what the fire sages had said they would be. Kenai, who they had said was going to be a great firebender, was a waterbender like Katara and Mika, who they said would not bend at all, was a firebender like him.
"Mika, Kenai, and Kanna its time to go inside before everyone gets mad because they can't eat." Zuko smiled as they all started groaning 'but dad' or 'but Uncle Zuko'. "No buts everyone's probably starving so come on."
Zuko walked ahead so he could let Katara know that they could start eating.
"Katara I found them so we can start eating once they get here." Zuko whispered to his wife as he sat down.
"Good, Ty Lee was getting worried that Kanna had wondered off and had gotten lost." said Katara as she scanned the table to make sure everyone was here and mentally checked everyone off; Her father, Sokka, Ty Lee, Pak and Ty Hope, Twi, Kanna and La. Toph, Aang, Ling and Chi. Haru, his wife and daughter. She sighed everyone was here except the twins. "Where are they?"
"I don't know they were behind me. I'll send Ling after them since she knows all the hiding spots in this place." Zuko got up and whispered to the girl that he called his niece, even though there was no blood relation, that he needed her to find them.
"Sure Unca Zuko err Fire Lord Zuko I can do that." Ling blushed as she messed up and called him uncle.
"You can call me uncle, but tell them there will be no bending if they don't come." Zuko smiled at her slipping out the nickname that she used when calling him uncle.
Outside in the rose garden…..
"Kenai and Mika you better come to the dinner or no bending for a month!" hollered Ling as she searched for the twins that, since she had grew up with them, were like brother and sister to her. That's why when they went missing she was put in charge to find them because she knew every hiding place.
"Ok Ling you don't have to holler we're coming." was the reply that came from above in the tree she was standing under. She smiled at Kenai's voice. She'd always been able to affect him with her yelling, because, as he said, it sounded like a song instead of yelling. Probably came from her dad she thought as she grabbed his ear and pulled him closer.
"Don't' do that again Kenai." she glared at him. Most people took her for a soft spoken person like her dad, which she was most of the time, but when she was upset or hungry she was more like her mom; Hotheaded, dangerous and deadly sweet.
"Ow, ow, stop that please!" Kenai cried as he was pulled along while his sister walked ahead of them, free from Ling's grasp. He rubbed his ear as she let go and glared at her as he caught up with his sister. He didn't understand Ling sometimes, while she was as sweet as honey she also was as hot tempered as firenation flakes. He put on a smile as he sat down next to his frowning mother and his talking father, he would get it harder than Mika since she was the younger of the two. Even though they were twins Mika had been born a minute after him which made him the older brother. Add in that Ling is the Avatar's daughter and he gets punished more than any of them.
"Well we thank you all for coming to celebrate Ling, Kenai, and Mika's birthdays." Kenai tuned out his dad's speech since it never changed and looked over where Ling sat in between her parents and winced as she looked his way, she was mad and he knew it.
"Well let's eat." Kenai tuned back in time to hear this and since he was the second youngest of the three he had to wait for Ling to get her food before he could grab his.
"Kenai doesn't Ling's hair look nice?" Mika asked her brother as he fixed his and her plate.
"Yeah I guess it does." was the reply she got. She smacked her forehead at her brothers' stupidity. She was giving him a compliment to tell Ling to get him out of the furnace and he wasn't listening.
"Well you don't want her to be mad at you all day do you?" asked Mika as she started eating.
"No why?" Kenai obviously wasn't too bright today.
"Well tell her that her hair looks nice and she won't be mad at you. Girls like compliments like that."
"Oh thanks Mika." replied Kenai as he went back to his dinner and thought that his sister was the smartest person, next to his dad, mom, Uncle Sokka, Aunt Ty Lee, Aunt Toph and Uncle Aang, in the Firenation.
"Hey Ling your hair looks really nice." said Kenai as he sat down after the party next to Ling.
Ling looked up at him from her book and blushed. "Thanks Kenai, Aunt Ty Lee did it."
"Are you still mad at me?" asked Kenai nervously as he lay down next to her.
"No I wasn't mad I just got upset because of what Pak said to me earlier." Ling didn't comment any more on the subject but she did shut her book and lay down next to him, which meant she wanted to talk to him but didn't know how to express what she was thinking. He, Ling and Mika had always had a way of knowing what each other felt since they were only a week apart in age.
"What did he say?" Kenai knew that she didn't upset easily so what his blood cousin said must have been bad.
"He said that I was a disgrace to you and Mika as a friend." said Ling as she turned her back to him and started to sob. Kenai reached to hold her and let her cry on his shoulder and thought that his dad or mom needed to hear this. He wiped her tears away as she stopped crying and walked her to the room she was sharing with Mika and then headed to find his dad and Uncle Sokka sparring swords and the rest of the adults watching. Kenai knew better than to talk to his dad while he was sparring with his swords.
"What are you doing here Kenai, the others are inside." said his mom as she turned to away from watching his dad and uncle.
"Ling was upset about something one of my cousins said to her so I walked her back to her room. Can I talk to you and dad after him and Uncle Sokka get done sparring?" asked Kenai as he intently watched his father and uncle fight since his next lesson in school was on swords.
"Sure I'll tell him not to get into any big meetings this evening." replied his mom as she went back to watching. Kenai walked back inside and into his parent's bedroom to wait on them and thought about what Pak, his only blood cousin that was a boy, had told Ling. Pak had said some mean things to him but had never messed with Ling since she was almost apart of the family since her dad was the Avatar and her mom had taught her dad to earthbend and helped him in the war. He sat up on the bed as he heard his parent's footsteps and told himself not to get mad if they didn't do anything.
"Well Kenai what did you need to tell us?" asked his dad as his mom followed him and shut the door and came to sit on the bed next to him.
"I thought Ling was mad at me for hiding, but when I asked her she said that Pak had said that she was a disgrace as a friend to me and Mika." Kenai hadn't meant to but he realized as his dad hugged him he was crying.
"I'll talk to your Uncle Sokka and let him handle it." Kenai watched as his dad walked out of the room and shut the door and asked his mom if Uncle Sokka would be mad at Ling for telling on Pak.
"No I don't think so." Katara smiled reassuringly as she walked him to Mika's bedroom since he had to share a room with his cousin and he didn't want to get beat up in the middle of the night he'd begged his mom to let him sleep in Mika's bedroom, which she'd agreed to.
Sokka's room…..
Zuko knocked on his brother-in-laws bedroom and heard footsteps and tried to smile but couldn't.
"Zuko what's wrong?" asked Sokka as he stepped outside the door.
"Kenai told me that Ling was upset because Pak told Ling she was a disgrace as a friend to Kenai and Mika."
"I'll talk to him." was all that Sokka said but his look said it all, he was mad.
"Sorry if I woke you up." said Zuko before he walked down the hall back to his and Katara's bedroom and thought that he was glad that Sokka and Aang had recommended him and Katara for an arranged marriage because he couldn't live without her or the twins.
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