Zuko awoke the day of the world cup, tired and grumpy. It was too early in the morning to deal with anything the Malfoys had to deal out. He got up and started to get dressed. He just pulled on pants when his door opened.

"Jeese! Knock next time!" He looked to see the Malfoy family wearing different clothing. Lucius wore a black suit and tie, draco wore a similar suit but in a charcol grey, and narcissa wore a nice black cocktail dress and heals. If zuko didnt know them, they would have looked quite normal, like a happy mundane family. "Why not the robes?" He asked about the sudden change in fashion.

"The camp ground is shared with muggles so we have to dress incognito," draco said, he looked so unhappy in his tie.

"Muggles?"

Narcissa gave a small smile, "non magic folk," she sounded as if she were explaining something to a child.

"We got you some muggle clothes." Lucius threw a brown package on his bed, "put them on and meet us downstairs in five minutes, dont be late," he closed the door. Zuko heard his footstep walk down the hallway followed by the footsteps of his wife and son.
Inside the package was a black teeshirt and a pair of jeans. "They wear fancy close and i get the basics," he said to his empty room. He threw the clothes on real quick and headed down stairs.

The family stood in the door way leading to the street. They were not holding any bags because lucius had the house elves take everything and set it up at the site a day before.

"Narcissa who do you want to apparate with?" Lucius talked to his wife.

She put her hand on her sons shoulder and gave a small squeeze, "i'll take draco," she pulled out her wand, gripped draco on the shoulder and gave her want a flick. Zuko heard a loud popping sound and blinked, they were gone! He stood amazed at their sudden disappearance.

"Come here! Hurry up boy!" Lucius practically pulled him over to where he stood. He wipped his wand out, "hold tight," he grumbled.

Zuko barely got to ready himself before they were being sucked through a vortex. His whole body felt like it was being stretched out like rubber, he could barely breath. Just as soon as it happened it was done, his feet felt solid land again where his knees buckled and his stomach spilt its contents.

"Get up you fool," lucius grabbed his shirt and pulled him up.

Zuko looked up, they had arrived on what appeared to be some sort of misty moore. There were three people standing infront of him, Narcissa, Draco, and Fudge. The minister was wearing a grey button down, a plaid jacket with a red tie, zuko thought he would have looked vaguely normal except for to his horror, he wore a kilt and flip flops.

"Oh, you dont look too good boy, hear take this, apparition always upsets newer stomachs," he chuckled and handed zuko a purple glass bottle filled with some mysterious liquid. He uncorked it and a waft of vanilla hit his nose. A citrus taste of oranges his his lips and ran down his throat. The swig of the potion instantaneously settled his stomach, though zuko still didn't feel like either eating or thinking of food for the rest of the day."its my own brew, tastes way better than the generic stuff," the portly man chuckled and stuck the bottle back in his jacket. "Now lucius," he started and turned to Malfoy, "if you follow me we will check you in to the campground and i will show you too your tent, it is right next to mine!" Fudge was so happy and giddy as he walked the dark and gloomy wizarding family down through the moore. Not able to male out much through the mist, the malfoys and Zuko followed the minister, he seemed to know where they were going. After about twenty minutes of walking and many complaints from draco, zuko could make out what looked like a small cottage through the mist. Beyond the cottage, roofs of tents could be seen poking out of the fog. A man stood out looking at the approaching customers. Zuko could tell that he was a reall muggle or a very convincing wizard, his clothes looked very normal.

Fudge walked up to the man, who gave him a weird look, "hello again mr. Roberts!" Cornelius greeted the man as if they were old friends but just got a weird glare back.

"Oh its you again," said the muggle, "who're them?" He asked knodding towards the four new comers.

"Malfoy's one tent booked a couple days ago," lucius said coldly.

"Aye," Mr. Roberts said studying a list tacked to the door,"you got a spot near the woods,"

"I got you one of the closest spots to the event!" Fudge squeaked excitedly.

Mr. Roberts just gave them a stare, "oh is that why there are a bunch of weirdos here? Some sort of convention? Let me tell you," he said gruffly," i have seen alot of weird people here today, one man was wearing a night gown! And some of these tents are like those i have never seen before, chimneys! On a tent! Blimey these people must be barking mad to-"

Zuko heard a small pop and a wizard in plus fours appears near mr. Roberts and yells "obliviate!" The muggles eyes slid out of focus as he entered some sort of trance.

Draco leaned over to zuko, " memory modification spell, he saw too much wizard activity, they are just keeping the muggle in check,"

The minister hurried the family away from the muggle and into the campground, "we shouldn't be here when he wakes up, we could just pay him later" though zuko had a feeling that Lucius had no intention of giving the muggle any money.

They trudged along the feild between two long lines of tents. Each one looked a bit different, some looked normal while others looked so magical it was no wonder the muggle got suspicious. Some tents had chimneys others had weather veins zuko felt like he was walking through a walked up near the woods where they reached a spot with a sign that said mafloy on it. Zuko saw the house elves standing outside in a line, he gave gringle a small smile. He then saw a massive tent laying behind them. It had three floors, and a big oak door. It almost looked like a cabin to a muggle who glanced at it quickly. "This is a tent?" Zuko stared in awe.

" this is luxury," narcissa smiled and walked through the door. The rest of the family and fudge followed.

Inside was a palace, bigger than the bender had thought it would be. It looked like a gothic style mansion complete with gormet kitchen and luxury seats. It reminded Zuko of a smaller size of the malfoys house.

Fudge walked up beside him, "boy lucius you do have a good taste in tents," he chuckled looking around the place, he found the kitchen fridge to be extra interesting, diving into the drinks of wine and brandy. "Um kids, why dont you go explore the campground? Let the adults talk," cornelius started pooring wine into three glasses, "he raised a toast, "i am going to need this to get me through the game," he winked. Draco rolled his eyes and left the tent in a huff. Zuko followed behind him.

Outside Zuko saw Draco meet up with some gruff looking boys who were standing outside. Both of them were pretty heavy set and rough looking, they cracked their beefy knuckles acting tough. Zuko knew if it came to a fight he could beat both of them single handedly. . "Hey zuko!" He called out, "i am going to hang out with crabbe and goyal, you can find something to do right?" He didnt even wait for him to reply before the boy ran off.

"Great now what am i going to do?" He grumbled and headed in the opposite direction. The city of tents stretched in every direction. Zuko walked down the lanes staring at everything, it was so weird to see magic people living together. It dawned on him how many witches and wizards there must be in the world, he wondered if there were any in the four nations.

He passed a small wizard child who was kneeling on the ground poking a slug with the end of a wand. The small creature grew in size and looked three times and squishy and slimey. His mother came out of the tent.

"How many times have i told you kevin? Dont touch daddy's wand! Yecccch!" She had trodden on the giant slug which burst with green slime. Her screams followed him down the lane.

Farther down the rows of tents he saw a party of wizards hanging outside of one tent, he wouldn't have thought anything of it except for all of them had bright red hair. As he approached he noticed two familiar faces, fred and george sat around a fire place as they tried to ignite some wood using matches. The old man using the matches had bright red hair and wore sweaters and sweatpants that were two sizes too big for him, Zuko assumed that he must be their father. He tried and tried to light a match but ended up tossing each one, a small pile of failed matches sat beside him.

"Why dont we just use the kitchen?" Fred asked.

"Because," the dad said frustratedly, "we have to pretend to be muggles and they cook outside like this!"

"Need help?" Zuko asked as he approached the group. The twins sat back and glared at him but the father who never met him smiled.

"Hello, i am Arthur Weasley, and this is Fred and George," he said motioning to the twins.

"Yes i met them a couple days ago," he smiled but the twins only gave him a bigger growl. "I am Zuko, need help lighting your fire?"

"Oh yes!" Arthur grinned wildly at him, "do you know how to use matches?"

"I have had some experience with fire," he motioned to his scar.

"Oh ooo, do matches do that?"

"Um no, it was just a bad experience..."Zuko noticed that the man had no clue how to use any muggle tools. He bent down near the fire and took a match. As he struck the match he snapped his fingers slightly, igniting the pile of wood in the pit. With his back turned to arthur, the man wasn't able to see what he did and assumed that the matches did all the work. Zuko looked up to see the twins staring at him as if he had two heads, he gave them a little wink and put his finger to his lips to tell them not to say anything.

"Amazing," arthur gazed at the roaring fire, "matches are truely amazing, what do you think boys?" He asked the two twins.

"Yeah, Amazing," they said in unison. Zuko hinted a bit of sarcasm but ignored it, Arthur how ever took no notice.

"Well dad we should probably show Zuko around," fred said, standing up from his seat on the grass.

Arthur smiled, "sure, but dont forget to bring back more fire wood." The wizard smiled then turned to try and figure out how to set the cooking equipment up, "do i put the pot on before or after i ready the sausage?"

The twins dragged zuko away from the tents and all the way to the woods. They walked until the twins were sure that they were out of sight and earshot from any muggle or wizard.

"What was that about?" George turned to him and looked him directly in the eye.

"What was what about? i was just trying to be nice," zuko said.

"You are a malfoy," the other twin growled, "they are all terrible,"

"I am a distant relative?"

"Well you do look foreign," fred admitted, "how did you get your scar?"

"Not important," zuko didnt feel like telling his sob story today.

"Oh really? You sure lie like a Malfoy," george and fred circled him, he honestly couldnt tell who was talking any more.

"What about the fire?" The other continued, "how did you do that? Fire spells are nearly impossible to do especially for a 6th year."

"No its not its easy, look" zuko removed his toy wand from his back pocket. His hands shaking nervously as he prepared himself for the trick, he didn't practice his fake magic bending, but it had to work if he was going to fool them. He took a deep breath the waved the wand, he focused his power on his finger tips and shot a spark out of the end of his fingers, creating the illusion of magic. The two twins stood back in awe as he continued the flames for a bit longer then lowered his wand, "there easy,"

"Wait," fred said he had a puzzled look on his face, "let me see your wand," he made a grab for it but zuko pulled it out of the way.

"No, you have your own," zuko put the wand back in his pocket for protection.

"No i know that wand, give it here,"

Zuko took a step back from the red head but he forgot about the twin behind him. His wand was swiped from his back pocket then tossed to fred. The boy gave it a quick swish, he let out a laugh when nothing happened.

"Yeah this is that joke wand you baught at Gamble and Japes. Whats going on?"

"Nothing!"

George pulled his wand out and pointed it towards the fire bender, "come on, we know how to give you warts and make you voice high pitched for hours, you wouldn't want the Malfoy name tarnished would you?"

"Hey its complicated, can i have my wand back?" He was getting heated. Zuko lunged for the stick but the boy pulled away.

"How complicated?" They asked in unison.

Zuko growled angrily, these boys were getting on his nerves, "you know what? Forget it, keep the stupid wand." Fire spat out of his mouth as he turned and stormed off. He just wanted to be nice and they took his wand and interrogated him. With each step he got even more angry at himself, how could he have been so stupid? He couldn't trust anyone to keep a secret let alone make a friend. His life was a mess. he got more and more frustrated to the point where he had to sit down. Near the edge of the wood he leaned back against a tree. Pulling his legs to his chest and burying his face against his knees. He took deep breaths to try and cool himself down. He thought calming thoughts like about his uncle and what he would do.

Footsteps came up behind him and someone sat down on each side of the tree.

"Go away," he growled at them. He didn't even have to see their faces to tell that it was the twins.

"Hey sorry about what we did back there," both said in unison.

"Yeah," the one on his left continued, "we over reacted, we were not use to a Malfoy being nice." They both took a sigh then continued, "once our during ou fourth year at Hogwarts Lucius gave our sister a possessed book that put her life in danger, we find it hard to trust you guys. But i think we understand the scar and the False wand."

"Yeah," the other one continued, "I'd could only imagine what Lucius would do to cover up that one of his relatives were a half muggle. I heard you guys were like house elves, snap of your fingers and you can do a small amount of magic, but are limited to just that. i just cant believe he would punish you like that just because you are not a full blown wizard."

Zuko lifted his head and stared at the kids puzzled, "Wait what?"

Fred put his hand on Zuko's should as if trying to calm a mourning person, "You know, you could always report child abuse to the ministry,"

Zuko had to hold his breath to keep himself from laughing. The twins guessed correctly about the wand, it was only a scheme to cover up his non magic abilities, but they missed how he got burned. they thought that it was the Malfoy's who gave him that scar. Should he play along with it? Zuko took a deep breath and let his face drop, "I can't report this offense, the ministry will ban me from Hogwarts,"

"We understand," George said, "Everyone should gat a chance to attend Hogwarts, whether fully magical, half way, or not."

Fred grew a smile on his face and beamed,"Hey!You want to hang out with our family until the game beggins? Or would you like to return to Lucius?" Fred asked.

A small smile came across Zuko's face, should he try making friends?

"Even in the darkest of times, one may find a friend in the most unlikely of places" uncles voice echoed in the back of his mind.

"Yeah i would like that," he smiled at the boys.

They lead him back through the woods and through the maze of tents. Honestly if they were not with him, Zuko probably would have gotten lost and never would have made it back. the sun was up in the sky as they approached the Weasley's tent.

"So i heard you halfbreed guys can only do like some small sparks and stuff. whats it like?" George smiled, he looked very curious about Zuko's abilities, half breed wizards must have been rare.

"Um... yeah, only a spark, like to start a fire. nothing too big," Zuko lied. he felt bad about the false information he gave to the twin's but he couldn't tell them the truth.

Zuko looked up at the approaching tent, almost ten wizards and witches stood outside the tent eating the food the Mr. Weasley cooked on the fire. each one of them had red hair, except one boy with black hair and a girl with wild brown curls. An older woman noticed him and ran out to the twins.

"Fred! George!" she yelled, shaking a spoon at them. flicks of what looked like oatmeal flew of the end, "What did you do to this poor boy!" she screamed at the twins who almost looked terrified of her. The woman grabbed Zuko's face in both hands and examined it closely. her eyes looked worried as she examined the scar.

"We didn't burn him mum!" Fred defended them both, "He already had it!"

"Don't lie to your mother!"

Arthur came running up from his place near the fire and held the ladie's shoulders, releasing her grip from Zuko's face. "Molly they are telling the truth, this is Zuko Malfoy, he helped us build the beautiful fire, using muggle matches too!"

Molly looked taken aback when she heard the word Malfoy, "Why you don't look like a Malf-," she stopped, her eyes widened and a gasp escaped her lips, "That evil man! how dare he abuse this poor child!" she raged and stormed around in a circle, "We need to contact the ministry at once!"

"NO!" both the twins and Zuko yelled. Molly stopped and stared at them in astonishment.

Fred cleared his throat, he looked at Zuko as if permission to tell them the secret. Zuko nodded it was a lie anyway might as well keep up appearances. Fred and George hurried everyone inside with a few complaints from a shorter red head boy. Zuko was at first worried not everyone was going to fit in the small two man tent, but all ten of them pushed through the flaps and into the magically spacious room. the inside remined him of a small cottage, a tiny kitchen sat on the far side and bunks were lain out around the room, it looked almost like a house. "This, has to be top secret," Fred started. The twins told the story together, about the wand and about him being a "Half Muggle", even the part about his scar. Gasps and sighes of sympathy were heard from the crowd as the twins told them about zuko. He didn't really mind the lie, the Malfoys were generally terrible people so how can he tarnish an already evil name? "And that's why we can not let this information leak," Fred finished and stared at the silent crowd.

molly weasley stood up with tears in her eyes. she ran over and gave the fire bender a huge hug. Her arms embraced him with such force he could barely breath. when she finally let go he was left gasping for breath. Sh turned to the family, "Not a word!" her shrill voice exclaimed, "From any of you!" the group let out a low murmur of agreement. "Oh my! i forgot to introduce you to the family!" she listed everyones name and pointed to them, there was fred, george, and arthur, who he already knew, percy, Ginny, and Ron were all the Weasleys. She introduced the small girl with the poofy brown hair to be Hermione Granger, and the black haired boy to be Harry Potter.

Hermione too had tears leaking out of her face, she tried to hold her sobs back as he received a second hug that day. "What you must be going through is just barbaric," she said, taking a deep breath to calm herself down.

"Yeah mate," Ron stated, "the Malfoys are terrible,"

Harry walked up to him looking awkward as if he didn't know what to say. Zuko noticed a lightning bolt shaped scar on his for head. the boy shuffled his feet awkwardly and pushed up his round glasses, "Uh nice scar," he murmured. hermione punched him in the arm.

"Uh thanks," Zuko replied, not sure of what to say, "you too,"