A/N: Tell me what you think of this first chapter! In the future I'll try to make the chapters longer I was just eager to get the first chapter up and kinda rushed through it...lol

Chapter 1- New Friends...and Enemies

"And here's the man of the hour Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation." Iroh announced beckoning for the sulking teen to join him on the stage.

Rolling his dark golden eyes he shuffled onto the stage and stood there awkwardly.

"The Prince has agreed to make a speech!" Iroh announced much to the displeasure of his nephew.

"No freakin way." Zuko hissed lowly so only his Uncle could hear.

Iroh just grinned slyly and gave Zuko the microphone "They're all yours." he said stepping back to let his Nephew talk.

"Er...Thanks for coming to celebrate me being 15...uh...yea." Zuko said shoving the mic back at his Uncle and practically running off the stage.

Iroh shook his head and turned back to the audience whose attention he held completely. For he was the ledgendary general that had led the Fire Navy to many great victories under Fire Lord Ozai.

"We want to thank everyone for coming. It means a lot that we could have people from every nation here to see Prince Zuko...who by the way ladies is very single." Iroh said raising an eyebrow. He opened his mouth to continue but the mic was snatched out of his hand, by none other than Zuko himself, and burnt to crisp. Zuko glared annoyance written all over his face as he pushed his uncle back away from the stage.

"What the hell were you thinking?!?" Zuko spluttered out. "Now the girls will never leave me alone! I just wanted to have a small party with just the family but you guys had to go and invite everybody! Now I'll never get a seconds peace!"

As if to prove his point two girls came up to Zuko.

"H-hi Prince Zuko." One said bowing lowly.

With a sigh he bowed slightly in return knowing that he had to be polite.

"My name's Gina and this is Tilla." The other said fidgeting.

"Are you enjoying yourself?" Zuko asked.

Gina nodded her head making a strand of her curly black hair come out of it's tight bun.

"Yes, Yes! Of course!" Tilla said nodding wildly like her friend her brown eyes wide.

"Well If you'll excuse me. I have a party to host." Zuko said excusing himself. After Zuko walked away Iroh approached him.

"Well, why didn't you ask one of them to dance?" Iroh pressed. "I know It would be better for you to marry another Firebender and they weren't benders but..."

"Obviously they weren't Uncle they had brown eyes. And as you know Firebenders have gold eyes, Earthbenders have green eyes, Waterbenders have blue eyes, and Airbenders have grey eyes...so yea that's the end of this conversation." Zuko said gruffly.

"You know you have to marry a Firenation Noble or preferably a Firebender when you turn 18 so you should keep an open mind and start looking towards your future." Iroh said putting a hand on Zuko's shoulder.

"I'm not ready."

"I know, but when the time comes you'll have to be." Iroh replied squeezing his beloved Nephew's shoulder.

"That's what I'm afraid of." Zuko murmured before shrugging Iroh's hand off his shoulder and walking away.

"Sokka would you stop stuffing you're face?!?" Katara said.

Sokka, suprisingly, lifted his face out of his plate and smiled sheepishly at his scowling sister. Rolling my eyes I wordlessly handed him my napkin.

I sighed surveying the room. There were girls in lavish dresses everywhere their eyes roaming the crowds for the infamous Prince Zuko. I had actually never met him since this was my first time visiting the Fire Nation. And even though I hated to admit it...It was beautiful. So unlike what I was used to back at home. The warm red's and gold's...maybe I should get a pretty red or gold dress...I'm kinda getting tired of all the blue's and silver's that fill my closet at home I thought fingering my purple halter dress that stopped just above the knee. I lifted my hair off my neck regretting that I had left it down. It's sooo hot here. Just then these two girls walked by squealing and ranting about how they were going to go woo Prince Zuko. I rolled my eyes.

"What on earth is so great about this Prince Zuko?" I said to myself but a girl heard me.

"Have you seen him?" She asked raising an eyebrow.

"Well...no. But this is just ridiclous!" I said gesturing to the two girls.

"Hey, hey I completely agree with you. These girls are an embarassment to our gender." She said disgusted making me laugh.

"I'm Katara." I said grinning.

"Suki." She replied " So you're a bender huh?" She asked noticing my eyes.

"Yeah." I said "Why?"

"Nothing, It's just that I think that you two would make a good couple. I mean...a Firebender and a Waterbender, that'd be so cute!" She said excitedly.

My jaw dropped. "S-so!" I stuttered incoherently. "I've never even seen the guy and I don't want to." I said crossing my arms and narrowing my blue eyes.

"Sure. Sure." She said waving her hand dismissively.

" I'm serious!" I huffed annoyed. "I have no desire whatsoever to meet Prince Zuko."

"Well there's a first." A girl said sitting in the chair next to me and shoving a handful of fire gummies in her mouth.

"Huh?" I asked confused.

The small girl looked up to meet me eyes, her straight black bangs falling in her face and answered.

"The name's Toph and what I meant was you and I are probably the only two here that don't wanna jump Princey." She said lazily blowing her bangs away from her eyes.

Wait. What was wrong with her eyes? She's wearing green so she's obviously from the Earth Kingdom...but her eyes...they're sort of a light, dimmed, milky green. But that didn't make her any less pretty. She looked to be about 13 or 14 and had shoulder-length pin straight black hair and a small pale face.

"Make that three." Suki said leaning around me to see Toph. "I'm Suki, Nice to meet you."

"Likewise. So neither of you care much for his royal highness." Toph said sarcastically wiping her hands on her green dress and yawning loudly.

"No and Katara hasn't even met him yet." Suki said flicking her brown eyes to Katara.

"Like it would even make a difference if you did meet him." A passing girl scoffed stopping in front of me and rolling her dark brown eyes.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Suki demanded standing up, her hands on her hips.

"Well none of you are even worthy to be near Prince Zuko." She said matter-of-factly scrunching her nose in disgust.

"Come on Arisu. They're not worth it." Another girl said sounding completely and utterly bored. Her brown eyes curiously flat.

"Your right Mai. Let's get away from here." Arisu saud flicking her shoulder-length black hair over her shoulder and walking away her friend Mai trailing behind her.

"She's sooo lucky she walked away when she did. I was so close to burying her 6 ft. under." Toph said angrily. "Oh well I guess we'll just have to be content with this." She continued with a shrug suddenly making a crack appear in the ground where Arisu stepped making her stumble a little.

"Aw darn she didn't fall." I said holding back a smile.

"Come on. I'm tired of sitting, let's go." Suki said grabbing both mine and Toph's hand.

"Where?" I asked looking at her curiously my anger forgotten.

"To dance." She said pulling Toph and I to the dance floor.

Oh no...

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