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The first thing Zuko felt was the pain. His nose must have been broken, his nostrils were closed off and he was left to mostly breathing through the mouth. Zuko lifted his hand to his face, the big lump and pain he felt concluded that his nose was fractured. A drum beat inside his head. temples about explode he moaned for the headache to go away. grrrrrllllmmm. a noise sounded out in the room making the young prince rip his eyes open. What was it? a platypus bear? What made that growling? grrrlllmmmm. it sounded again but Zuko instinctively clutched his stomach, he was hungry. He hadn't eaten since the train ride from Ba Sing Se, he didn't know how long he was out but it felt like a while.

Grrllllm. "Yeah i heard you the first time" He grumbled to himself. Sitting up in bed seemed to be the hardest thing he ever had to do. The pounding in his head and dull throb in his limbs made him almost tip over. Steadying himself in a sitting position Zuko finally got a good look at the room he was in.

Zuko was sitting in a semicircular room which had walls of black marble. Green Lights sent out a glow of emerald light throughout the windowless room, the luminescence was that of the crystal cave underneath Ba Sing Se. Zuko sat in a four poster bed with silver silk sheets. The comfortable material reflected the green light almost making it sparkle. Various amounts of other dark wood furniture lay in the room including an antique grandfather clock.

"Ten o'clock," the prince acknowledged then paused, "in the morning or the afternoon?" the windowless room let in no natural light that could give the banished prince an idea of the time of day.

Zuko glanced over at the side table and noticed a photograph with three strange people standing in the frame. not only did they look like they were wearing dress robes but they also had silver hair. Silver hair was uncommon in the four nations where everyone but the elderly had black or brown hair. All three of them looked similar, they must have been a family, "Malfoys" Zuko whispered picking up the picture frame. Zuko's mind flashed as he remembered this was where he was going to be watched, spied on, babysat. He growled trying to shove the word out of his mind, he was not a little kid, he did not have to be reported he was trust worthy wasn't he?

movement caught the corner of his eye. Re-observing the picture he froze. he blinked and rubbed his eyes, could it be? wait a second. Zuko squinted then gasped, the picture was actually moving! "Gah!" he yelped in astonishment and threw the picture frame across the room, smashing it into pieces.

A yell of confusion and anger came from the hallway. The dark wood door burst open streaming light into the room. zuko held his hand up to cover his eyes from the blinding light as his eyes slowly adjusted.

"What are you doing in here?" the voice sounded cold and irritated. if he was speaking normally zuko imagined his voice to be smooth and monotonous. His eyes finally adjusted to the streaming light, that concluded that it was ten in the morning. Zuko lowered his hand to see that the man who was talking was the middle aged man from the photograph, Lucius Malfoy.

"Answer me boy," the silver haired man sneered but something caught his eye. following his gaze Zuko saw the crushed picture frame. "Destruction of property? no wonder you were banished, cant behave for five minute let alone sixteen years."

Zuko stammered, "It - it wasn't my fault! the picture! It moved!"

Lucius looked up and studied the boy with a puzzled stare. "Ah yes," Lucius gasped as if recalling a memory, "Your country doesn't have magic, what a shame. That means your stay here will be interesting."

Zukos face heated, "Where am i? You can not keep me here!"

his frustration only made Lucius Malfoy chuckle, "You are right i can't keep you here. The door is open, you are free to leave whenever you want." the man stepped out of the doorway offering him to leave then paused, "Oh wait i forgot, you don't know how to get home from London do you? and once when you leave, word will be sent out to your father who might decide to end his disappointment...forever. " Zuko froze as he realized his entrapment. If he left he would not know how to get home and would be hunted down for treason. "I am also sure with your inferior abilities you wouldn't last too long out in the wizarding world anyways" Lucius almost spat the word inferior at him.

Zuko stood up angrily, his head throbbed and threw him off balance sending him a couple stumbles back to steady himself on the bed post. "My abilities are everything but inferior to those of a spineless old man. you can not speak to me as some commoner," his voice was raised to almost a roar, echoing off the walls of the semicircular room.

As the prince's anger rose Lucius seemed to become more confident. "Tell me boy, can your abilities heal that nose of yours? can they transport you across the globe? can they kill a man with one word?" Zuko opened his mouth in retaliation but then quickly shut it with no response. "No, didn't think so. you and your whole Fire Nation are just a group of crazy pyromaniacs with a god complex."

Lucius's eyes bore into Zuko's golden ones. the glare seemed unfaultered and strong. Zuko felt his stare reach into him and judge his past, the young prince had to look away.

Malfoy gave a gin to his small victory. "Narcissa will be in to attend to your wounds, we wouldn't want you to bleed everywhere. you are free to walk around the house and if you behave brunch will be served in about an hour." The cold eyed man the turned on his heels and left, his long robes whisking after him.

Zuko sat back down on the bed. How long was he going to be stuck here? His headaches started to die down but his hunger only grew stronger. GRRRMMMLLL. Zuko had to occupy himself with something to do to take his mind off of food. A dresser and a wardrobe stood on the far end of the room. walking over to them he opened up each drawer to see what was inside. nothing, nothing, nothing. The dresser seemed to be empty unless you count the moth balls. he moved to the wardrobe and opened it up, red cloth hung from the hangars and Zuko recognized it to be common Fire Nation attire. how did they get here?

"Do you like them?" Zuko spun around to see a tall thin silvered haired woman standing behind him. She must have been Narcissa. "I got them from the market in the Fire Nation. I didn't want you too feel uncomfortable in wizard robes."

Zuko reached out and felt the soft fabric of fire nation clothes, "Uh.. thanks, it was very kind of you."

Narcissa sat down on the bed and pulled out a wooden stick. "Please sit down," she patted the bed beside her. Zuko hesitated a moment then proceeded to sit on the bed. "Now," she continued,"This may hurt a bit," raising her want to eye level, the black wood brought out her blue eyes and her silvery blonde hair, she pointed the wooden rod at Zuko's nose and murmured a few words. a pain shot through his nose which gave a loud pop and then relaxed, letting the pain flow out.

"Ow! What was that for?"he grabbed his nose but felt the bump and bone had been fixed. His nostrils were clear to breath out of and the blood on his face had been removed along with his headache.

"Just a simple fixing spell," The matter of fact tone in her voice made zuko feel like he was back in fire nation academy. "you should get changed and wash up, it will be brunch soon and we have alot to talk about in the family." Narcissa left leaving him alone in his room.

Her mention of family reminded him of his uncle, where was he now? Why couldn't he have been banished here as well? Iroh's disappointed face burned the back f his eyes, even if he was here he probably would be too ashamed to speak a word to his nephew. How could he have been so stupid as to trust Azula's word? anger and shame filled Zuko's mind. tears started to sting the back of his eyes "i'm sorry" Zuko whispered under his breath. he knew Uncle wouldn't be able to hear him but he wish that somehow he could get the message. "I'm sorry"

...

Toph slowly woke to the sun hitting her face. The breezy air and lack of vibrations on her feet told her that they had flown through the night. She heard some raspy and staggered breathing to her right.

"Katara, crying wont help Aang heal any faster. Unless you can water bend your tears i would save your energy for when he wakes up."Her voice came out more caring than normal. She would have to punch twinkle toes later for nearly dying on them, but for now his health was her priority.

"It's easy for you to say, you cant see him! You didn't have to see your friend die then have to revive him back to life! I can't let that happen, not again," Katara was being over dramatic as always but she was right, Toph didn't have to see her friend hurt, she relied on messages from her feet or from her friends to inform her about the air bender's health. being blind was a hassle sometimes but it did protect her from seeing her friends hurt, hearing them hurt was enough for her to handle.

She waited for Katara to settle her sobs into mere whimpers before speaking. "Katara, don't think about the him dead, just remember that he is alive now and on his way to recovery. you saved him from death which was a worse place then he is in now. I can hear his steady breathing and feel his heart beat getting stronger everyday, he will make it. Now stop crying," she demanded softly. Katara's whimpers slowly faded into slow soft breaths. Calming Katara down was helping distract herself from her own thoughts. Aang hasn't eaten for two days, his unconscious body wouldn't take in any water or nutrients and she knew he would need some soon or else his body would shut down again. How long until he awoke? Hours? Days? or never? She wasn't sure if Katara knew the gamble Aang was playing with time and death but she had to help her friend think positive. If Aang did happen to pass away, Katara would ultimately blame herself for not healing him completely. Toph didn't want to put her friend through that pain of self hate, positive thoughts of how much she already helped Aang was the best she could give the water bender. Hopefully it was enough.

A dull rumble came from the beast beneath her and turned into a loud roar. Toph clamped her hands over her ears, protecting them from the loud noise. she didnt want to be both blind and deaf.

"Gah!" she heard Sokka scream from across the saddle. Appa probably wasn't his ideal alarm clock, "Appa, didn't you ever hear of something called beauty sleep?" he groaned as he stretched out.

"Wait i see something!" Katara's voice called out now from the other side of the saddle.

Toph shook her head as if trying to shake out the blindness and see what her friend was looking at. "What? What do you see?" She hurriedly crawled across the bison to her friends she hit someones foot.

"Here you go," Sokka's hand took hers from his foot and placed it on the wall of the saddle. "Hold on." She could hear the smile on his face, he must have seen something too.

Toph, frustrated that nobody would tell her what they saw, Elbowed Sokka in the ribs behind her. "WHAT IS IT?!" she screamed it more than asked.

Sokka growled behind her. Some rustling told her that he was propping himself into a sitting position after being knocked over. A small smile of pride came to the earth bender's face, that was a good hit. His hands clasped her shoulders gently but firmly as if to steady and secure her on the bison, but with the swaying of his arms she knew he was just trying to recover from the punch, but the gesture did help her calm her air sickness down.

"The mountain are ..." his description of the are was in such beautiful detail that Toph almost thought she could see it. The landscape must have been beautiful.

"A castle?! I didn't know hogwarts was a Castle!" Toph exclaimed her excitement, while Sokka snickered at the word hogwarts. Toph always heard Aang tell her stories of Foreign Castles and Palaces but she never got to stand in one. "I need to see it! We need to land! my feet can Barely wait!"

Katara chuckled next to her, "Clam down we still have a-"

THWAK! the bison lurched and the saddle shook, flinging Toph of the edge. Toph was whipped ferociously through the air, the falling sensation stopped only when something caught her foot. Leather, thin like a rope, was entwined around her right ankle, toph assumed it was Appa's reigns. She was hanging upside down from the bison dangling from a thin rope.

"HHEELLPP!" she screamed for one of her friends to pull her back in.

"Toph! I got you!" Katara called back. Toph felt her as she pulled on the reigns of the bison and slowly lifted her friend up. The soft fur of Appa told her the saddle must have beed close, Toph's foot was being rubbed raw and she couldn't move her ankle.

"Are you alright?" She heard Sokka's voice as she was hoisted back into the saddle.

Grabbing the saddle for dear life she slowly set her ankle down but pain made her pull it back up. "Ahh i think my ankle is sprained! tears of pain and fear itched the back of her eyes. she now only could rely on one of her feet to guide her. "What was that anyway!? Are we under attack?"

"Not at all!," Sokka sounded puzzled as he was trying to catch his breath. "It seems Appa might have hitten some kind of barrier or force feild."

"How's our presciouse cargo?" hopefully Aang wasn't thrown out of the saddle like she was.

Katara's voice reached her ears from the far side of the saddle, Aang must have been thrown back there "Aang is fine, but we need to get him to Dumbledore fast if we are going to keep him that way" Katara stated back. "We need to land so we can walk around the barrier safely! I see a small train station over there! Sokka you take the reigns i will keep Aang stabilized."

Sokka moved around Toph and wrapped something around her waist. "Im tying you in with some rope, dont get any bright ideas of jumping off again," he joked.

"Dont worry," she huffed, "I wasn't planning on it." she felt sokka get up and head towards Appa's head. The wind shifted as the bison started to descend. A big thud and shake of the saddle told Toph that they had landed. She struggled against her restraints, she wanted to feel the ground, to see the world again. "This is some knot"

"Thank you. i have been practicing." Sokka's grin could be heard

Katara Lifted Toph up and carried her out of the saddle and onto the earth.

"I don't need you to carry me, i can carry my own weight," Toph felt useless when someone else had to be her legs. She stood up but pain in her ankle through her off balance and onto the ground. "OW! ugh Katara? can you heal my ankle?"

"Im sorry toph, but with out spirit water i can only heal open wounds. But i think i can take the pain away." Katara laid her down on the ground with her right leg out stretched.

The earth bender bent her left leg and rested her food on the ground so she could see. Lifting her leg, Toph gave the ground a good kick and sent vibrations through the earth. When the waves reverberated back to her she could practically see everything. Katara kneeled next to her caring for her foot, Sokka was carrying Aang out of the saddle, there was some rail road tracks to her right and a small building to her left. Toph's mouth broke into a grin, she could finally see again.

"How does that feel?" Katara's water rushed over her ankle numbing the pain, moving it how ever was stiff and nearly impossible."You still wont be able to walk on it however so one of us will have to carry you."

"That's okay, thank you"

thmp thmp thmp thmp. Sokka had a distinct way of walking, he was pretty loud when his feet came down but very light when picking them up. "Are you done? we need to get Aang to the castle," he huffed then shifted the weight of the Avatar onto his shoulder's into a piggy back style.

"Don't hold him like that! you'll hurt him!" the water bender snipped at her brother, "here ill take Aang, you take Toph,"

Sokka handed the avatar over to his sister and walked over to the earth bender. "do you want me to support your foot? or carry you?" he asked as he hoisted her up onto her good foot.

"Carry me," Toph demanded, "I'm bushed, falling off a flying bison takes a lot out of you,"

His chuckle vibrated through the earth and the air, "Okay princess hop on." Sokka heaved Toph onto his back and started to walk towards the building. Yet again Toph was left blind without her feet on the ground. "Maybe there will be a map here to the Castle."

Pop! the sound came from in front of them followed by a small yelp from Sokka.

"What is it?" toph asked her shaking carrier. She was gripping on as tight as she could, hoping that Sokka wouldn't drop her.

"What brings Foreigners to the Hogwarts Station?" a new voice appeared, it sound old, really old, and from the angle the voice came from she could tell he was tall too.

Katara spoke first, "We are looking for an Albus Dumbledore, an old friend of the avatar, Our friend is hurt and he needs help," the station fell silent as the man stared down the group.

"well are you going to take us to him or not? we are on a tight scheduled with a dying boy and all." Toph was getting impatient with the growing silence.

She could hear the sweet smile on the old man's lips, "Hogwarts will always help those who need it," he said, "Especially the avatar. i haven't seen Aang in over a hundred years."

"Wait," Sokka paused, "Are you Albus Dumbledore?" The old man must have nodded instead o a verbal confirmation because Sokka relaxed a bit. "Now we can get down to the serious business, What is a Hogwart?"

...

Zuko sat at a dinner table with the Malfoy family around him eating Brunch. after staring the exotic foods down he dove into the meal head first, filling his empty stomach. A younger boy, who Zuko found out to be named Draco, stared him down across the table as the prince started on the pumpkin pastries.

"Draco do you have everything for school? you go back in a week." Narcissa looked at her son while she ate a small amount of salad, zuko thought she was going to starve if she didn't eat anymore.

Draco looked away from Zuko and suddenly found his salad to be the most interesting thing to look at. "No, i still need to get my books,"

"Well," Lucius started, "You can take this young man here with you, he still needs to get his school supplies too,"

Zuko nearly choked on his second pastry, "W-what?" he stammered, coughing a bit of cake up, "My what supplies?"

"Oh sorry we forgot to mention, you are going to school this year with Draco. we already put word out that you are our distant ...relative," he hesitated saying that they would be related, almost as if he was disgusted a non magical person could call himself a Malfoy, "so you not making an appearance at school would have our pureblood status questioned and we can't have that."

"You can't send me to school like a child!" Zuko stated, "I'm already 16! im done with school!"

"you are only of age in your country," Narcissa stated sweetly, "But here you go to school untill your seventeenth year. So you are required to go."

"But i dont have magic!"

Lucius pondered a bit, "Show me your bending," Zuko huffed at the demand, but obeyed. he lit a small light in his hand, the warmth running through his body. "very good, you will fake your way through when they ask you to do magic, act dumb and light a fire. Fire spells are difficult to learn so you will look like a master, problem settled."

"I'm not going!" fire flicked lightly out of his mouth as he shot a glare at Lucius. the fire licked his lips lightly leaving warmth in his mouth.

"You will attend school unless you want me to report your incompetence to the fire nation!," Lucius threatened him. all this to go to school? Zuko finished his lessons in the nation a while ago but returning to school after the years away from home made him feel like a child.

Growling Zuko crossed his arms in annoyance, "What atleast is this school called?" he asked stubbornly.

The boy across the table piped up, "Its called Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry,"

The table fell silent, the only sound to be heard were scrapes of silverware against plates. the awkwarness was broken after minutes of Zuko's pondering he finally asked the first question that came to him "What in the world is a Hogwart?"