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Entry 2- Banishment

After I realized that the queen was gone, I broke. She was one of my few friends. She was the person who understood me most. Sure, I had Dragon Iroh to talk to, but I lost Prince Zuko. We talked rarely after the queen left. We saw each other on the grounds, but never spoke. I held tight to my promise, though. Even though I rarely spoke to him, I always checked to make sure that Prince Zuko was safe. I looked out of windows to check on him as he sat under his favorite tree next to the small lake. I constantly asked Dragon Iroh about him, and he assured me that he was fine.

He wasn't fine for very long, though. A few years went by without incident, and I started to let my guard down. I stopped checking on him. He was fifteen now, as was I. We could take care of ourselves. I noticed that sadness that Iroh noticed in my eyes began to return. Slowly but surely, the pain and hollowness returned and I shut off. I hardly ever spoke, I just cleaned all day. I even stopped having tea with Dragon Iroh every afternoon. He saw me slowly shatter, and he knew that I should be alone to find who I was again. He once told me that I look like I was expecting something horrible to happen. Maybe my psyche knew something that I didn't.

Soon after I stopped having my chats with Iroh, I heard through the grapevine of servant rumors that Prince Zuko had angered one of the men in the Fire Lord's counsel. The Agni Kai was just a few moments away. At that moment, my mind started working, no longer shut off to what was around me. The Prince was in danger. I had broken my promise. I could feel myself breaking into smaller pieces. If Prince Zuko got hurt, I would never be able to forgive myself. I would have broken my promise to the queen. All I could think was that I had to run, and I did.

I arrived at the site of the Agni Kai just as it began. My eyes were plastered to the Prince; bandages in my hand should something bad happen. I couldn't see who the Prince was to fight. But when the fight began, I heard Prince Zuko apologizing for his misbehavior. I realized that he was fighting his father. The first thing that I thought was that this was some sort of evil. What father would fight his own son?

Then the screaming began.

I hadn't paid attention to the fight because of my shock at the Fire Lord's cruelty. I heard a scream that seemed to pierce through my bones. I looked for the Prince, only to see him on the ground. He was holding his face and screaming in pain. At that moment, I truly shattered. Before that moment, I was just hollow. After the Prince's cry of pain, I just broke. I swear I could feel little shards of my inner self cutting me. That pain was numbing. I know it was nothing compared to what the Prince was feeling. He was still screaming when two of my fellow servants dragged him away. I didn't even hear the news of his banishment, all I could hear was his pain.

I ran to where they kept the Prince, bandages gripped between white knuckles. Dragon Iroh beat me to the Prince. Dragon Iroh looked up at me and frowned lightly. He stood and took bandages from my quivering hands and started to tend to his wound.

"Calm down, young one." He told me. "There is no need to cry, he will be fine."

"W-What?" My voice broke in a sob. I hadn't even realized how hard I was crying, or that I was even crying at all.

"We will have to leave soon." Iroh explained. He worked quickly as he placed the bandages over the Prince's burn. I realized then that Prince Zuko's screaming had stopped. He had passed out from the pain.

"L-Leav-e," I asked. "Why would we leave…?" The sobs had stopped for a moment, but the tears had not.

"Didn't you hear?" Iroh asked, looking at me with a very confused expression. "Prince Zuko has been banished until he finds the Avatar. It is the only way the Fire Lord shall accept him back into the Fire Nation."

"How cruel…" My voice was quiet and weary.

There was a silence between the two of us then. I wiped my tears away, and then looked at Prince Zuko with determined eyes. I had broken my promise once, and I refused to break it again.

"I'm coming with you." I said, my voice determined and unfaltering. Dragon Iroh just nodded, as if he knew what I wanted to do long before I spoke.

I helped carry the prince onto the ship as the rest of the crew boarded. As Dragon Iroh and I set down the Prince onto his bed, I knew that everything was about to change. I had some doubts that I would ever see the palace again, but I didn't care. I had to keep the promise, I just had to. I guess I had a ridiculous fear that the queen would find out that I broke my promise somehow, and I didn't want to disappoint her.

That night, as the Prince rested, I stood out of the deck of the ship. My long black hair blew in the ocean breeze and the ocean spray clung to my worn out clothes, but I didn't noticed. I was just watched as my life-long home disappeared on the horizon. At this point I decided something. I needed to keep myself from shutting down. I felt that after I shut down, everything spun out of control and I couldn't let that happen again. I need to live as I used to when the queen was here.

I will smile, I will talk, I will live.

I will be me.

Chapter 2 is finished! Yes! I hope that this keeps up with the somewhat awesomeness of the first chapter. Please review!