Zaire and Aziza were almost immediately greeted by little Ikki. She was beyond excited she'd never met a real princess and prince before.
"Why hello." Aziza murmured politely tucking her hair behind her ear.
Ikki stared at her, "are you a princess? Do you have a throne? Do you get to wear really pretty dresses? And get everything you ever wanted?" she demanded.
Aziza was unsure of which question to address to at first, but luckily she was saved by the arrival of a teenager. A dark haired teenager dressed in a water tribe getups.
"You must be Aziza," the teenager concluded.
Never in her life had she ever been just called Aziza by someone who wasn't her immediate family. It was always Princess, or you're royal highness. It was odd. The teenager bowed to her and Aziza bowed back.
"Who are you?" Aziza mumbled after getting her voice back.
"I'm Korra, the new Avatar."
Aziza stared wide eyed at the new Avatar. She'd never met an Avatar before, but Korra was no longer starring at her but instead her eyes were upon Zaire who hadn't said anything. He stood behind his sister, but his sister's small frame didn't help to hide his much larger frame at all.
"Who are you?" Ikki asked Korra's unspoken question.
Jinora came up behind her sister and Korra. There had been a time in her life when she became very interested in the lineage of the Fire Nation Royal Family and knew almost instantly who he was.
"You're Zaire, the crowned prince of the Fire Nation."
Ikki squealed, "If you're the crowned Prince then you must have a crown! Is it a big crown?"
Jinora sometimes wondered if her sister had any common sense at all. She must have explained how the royal family worked ten times to her. It was one of their nightly rituals, Jinora would tell her all about the books she was reading and Ikki would make up her own stories to tell Jinora. Ikki's stories were often very far fetched and didn't exactly have an ending ever but Jinora didn't mind hearing them.
"Is he okay?" Korra questioned.
Aziza sighed, "he doesn't really talk."
Ikki gasped, "at all?"
Aziza shook her head, "not since he was a little kid before our parents died."
The soldiers, Bumi and Tenzin were now making their way up to the temple. Zaire made his way towards them leaving his sister behind with the other children.
"I have a question for you," Aziza looked to Ikki, "are you an Airbender?"
"Oh yes!"
The Legend Of Korra
The dinning table was filled with an abundance of food. It wasn't often they dressed nicely, the Air nomads believed in simplicity but the arrival of the Fire Nation Royalty was something to be celebrated. At the head of the table sat Bumi and Tenzin, both brothers were quite silent as they eat their meals. Beside them sat Pema and Aziza respectively. Aziza was in deep conversation with Jinora about the Hundred Years War, it seemed that both shared the same intense love of reading.
Korra sat across from them starring intently at the Fire Nation Prince who was yet to pick up a fork and eat. Maybe he didn't like the food or something, but she wondered how someone could go a whole day without talking. He must have had questions or something to say.
"So how is Ursa Bumi?" Pema politely asked while munching on her dumpling.
Bumi smiled he always had a fondness for his brother's wife. He could still remember the days she spent as a shy teenager following his brother, he was the one who nicknamed her "Tenzin's Shadow". Something that annoyed Tenzin to no end at the time which led to a lot more teasing from both Bumi and Kya, it took a lot to make Tenzin bothered and neither of them were giving up on that.
"She is doing quite well. She isn't very fond of traveling and that's why she didn't accompany me here and sides someone needed to stay behind and rule the country." His face became serious, "so tell me more about this Equalists movement and Amon."
At the mention of Amon, Zaire jerked violently. Everyone at the table turned to stare at him which caused the young Prince to lower his head and his cheeks to flush. He jumped off and run off into the hallway.
Bumi frowned, "he hasn't been the same since his parents died."
"Well that situation is a situation nobody wants to be in and he was so young wasn't he?"
"Only seven."
"What happened?" Ikki asked.
Tenzin faced his middle daughter, "when Zaire was just about your age he saw his Mommy and Daddy get…," he sighed, "killed," and Ikki gasped looking between her parents, "and his big brother."
Bumi looked to his niece, "you must be very patient with him and maybe with your father's mediation practices it can help him heal."
Korra might have been bit on edge but the way Zaire acted when Bumi mentioned Amon made her suspicious. She swallowed the rest of her meal before excusing herself and going in search of the young Prince.