The Hunter's Mix

by blackfire93

A 5 year old girl named Cobra meets 3 year old Zuko. As Cobra comes from a past filled with violence, secrets and lies she is put to the test when the day comes to tell Zuko everything. They were bound together at a young age but as they get older will that tie break or hold out? Some secrets come to light, will Cobra live or die and will Zuko accept all of her?

6. Chapter 6

CHAPTER FIVE

Cobra ran silently across the rooftop's heading away from the palace, which had been her home for the past several years. She had searched the Fire King's room and finally found a clue as to where to start looking for the Fire Lady. As Cobra continued to run across the roof's she allowed herself a brief second to remember how smooth Zuko's lips had been underneath hers and the surprise in his eyes. There had been another look in his eye's but she couldn't decode it. "Oh well better to leave that alone for now." Cobra thought to herself as she slipped down off a roof at the edge of the city and began to run through the woods Zuko was counting on her to find his mom and she wouldn't rest until she did just that.

MEANWHILE BACK AT THE PALACE:

Zuko held back a yawn as the festivities went on seemingly without end when all the sudden the crowd went silent and Fire Lord Ozi stepped out dressed in his regal splendor. Zuko was surprised that his father had even attended his party, 'He must be trying to gain political ground.' Zuko thought to himself when his father called him out and demanded that they fight. Zuko was surprised and startled what had he done to his father? Zuko knew that he had embarrassed a General in a war meeting and if Zuko would be fighting anyone it should be that General. Fire Lord Ozi again demanded that Zuko fight him and Zuko refused. The last thing Zuko saw was hatred in his father's eye's a fireball aimed straight at Zuko's face.

TWO DAY'S LATER:

Zuko woke up groggily the right side of his face felt hot and tight as if it was scarred and in the process of healing. Zuko slowly opened his eyes and at first he didn't recognize where he recognized his mothers old room which had been converted into a small healing center. Zuko looked around memories all but forgotten drifted through his mind as his eye's drifted across the familiar furniture all that was left of his mother. Then his eye's landed on a short round figure of a person asleep on a small couch that had been pushed up against the wall to allow easy access to the bed Zuko was lying in. Zuko felt a small grin crack his dry lips at his Uncle Iroh's familiar figure then Zuko begin to look for Cobra and was surprised when he didn't see her. Then everything came rushing back to Zuko and he shot up into a sitting position causing his head to spin he immediately laid back down trying not to throw up. After a minute Zuko's head stopped spinning and he gingerly sat up as slowly as he could, and rested his back against the bed's backboard. He sat there for a couple of minutes thinking about his mom and Cobra and how long it might be before he saw Cobra and his mom again before he gained the courage to reach up and feel the right side of his face. Some of the water-tribe healers that were imprisoned must have been called in to heal him since there was no bandage and the skin felt rough and scarred over. A small basin filled with water was sitting next the bed on a small stool so Zuko reached over and slowly brought the basin over onto his lap. He waited for the water to settle before he took a breath and looked down. The face that greeted him gave him such a surprise that he made a loud noise in the back of his throat. The noise woke up his Uncle who in turn called for the healers again, after a couple of minutes the healers left saying that they had done all they could and that his face would probably never be the same.

After the healer's left Zuko asked his Uncle about what had happened after Zuko blacked out, apparently Fire Lord Ozi saw his son as being weak and cowardly for not fighting and therefore the Fire Lord banished Zuko from the Fire Nation, as well as disallowed Zuko to where the Fire Nation uniform and until and unless Zuko found the Avatar and captured it and brought it back to the Fire Nation, Zuko would never be allowed in the Fire Nation again. However Iroh had pleaded that Zuko be allowed to remain in the Fire Nation until he awoke and that Zuko be given a ship and a crew to aid in finding the Avatar. Iroh also demanded that he be allowed to go with Zuko, it took some wheedling and some trickery on Iroh's part but finally the Fire Lord allowed it. After Iroh got done telling Zuko all of this Iroh left in order to prepare everything for Zuko and Iroh to leave that night while Zuko stayed behind and got dressed as well as grabbed a few things that he would need. Just as Zuko finished getting dressed his sister, Azula barged into the room with a cruel sneer on her face her two friends Mai and Ty Lee trailing behind her like to frightened chick's following a fox which basically they were.

Azula walked up to Zuko and gave a fake sob, "It looks like I'm going to be an only child,' her face twisted into an evil smile,' to bad I didn't get to end you myself." Azula had a lot more to say but Zuko ignored her and her friends and finally in a huff she left but only after shooting a bolt of lightning at Zuko who just barely managed to dodge it. Iroh came in the door just as Azula and Mai and Ty Lee were going out, Iroh waited until the three had left before he told Zuko that everything was ready. Zuko nodded and grabbed the small metal chest and a shoulder bag he had filled with some personal things and not twelve minutes later Zuko was on a ship that was taking him away from the only home he had ever known.