Spirits' Creed

Chapter 11: Trail of Fire

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender

I dedicate this chapter to my good friend, FireChildSlytherin5, as a belated birthday present to her.

Looking at the statues in front of them, Jin asked aloud, "So we're supposed to follow the steps of these statues?"

"That's what Uncle said we'd need to do," replied Zuko.

The young couple had been able to get into the training temple, thanks to Iroh telling Zuko about a secret lever to open the door; so they wouldn't have to force it open with the Sun Stone. They were now inside the temple, standing behind the starting statues, preparing to follow them in movement. "Ready?" Zuko asked his girlfriend.

When Jin replied that she was, the couple began to move in careful synchronized steps. With each step they took, the tiles below their feet moved down. With the final movement, a soft rumble of stone was heard as a small pedestal rose from the ground. On top of the pedestal was a large golden bejeweled ornament shaped oddly like an egg.

"That's weird." Jin said as she stepped towards the golden egg.

"Don't touch it!" Zuko called after her.

"Why?"

"Uncle Iroh told me that the Sun Warriors booby-trapped the ornament's pedestal to catch thieves," explained Zuko. "As long as we don't touch the ornament or the pedestal, we should be okay."

Jin shrugged her shoulders in understanding and the two benders sat down to meditate. As the meditated they went into their respective mindscapes and began reviewing all that they had learned. Over the past month each had spent hours at a time training in their mindscape. Gaining years worth mastery, on techniques in only a short amount of time. They were stronger and faster than they ever were before; thanks to their actions trying to take down the ruthless tyranny of the Dai Li. And though they had taken down a couple of hundred Dai Li agents, several more hundred remained. The Dai Li were also becoming more aggressive due to their actions; oppressing the people even more. This however, only made the people cheer for them more. And not only were they putting a stop to the Dai Li's ways, but also to those who were capitalizing on the people's fears to make money for themselves using everything from fake rituals for warding off firebenders to weapons dealers and owners of breeding houses.

A sudden noise from outside broke the two from their meditative states and as they opened their eyes they saw that they had been surrounded by several Sun Warriors each of them holding a deadly spear at them and a few watching them gaudily.

"Why are you here outsiders?" asked a man standing to the right of a larger man who's upper-half of his face was painted red and was wearing a crown of yellow feathers.

"My name is Zuko, I'm the Prince of the Fire Nation. I've come to see the Masters and face their test," replied Zuko.

"A likely story," replied the man. "More likely you're here to steal Sun Warrior treasure."

"Silence, Ham Ghao." Spoke the larger man. "Their coming was foretold."

"You cannot expect me to believe that this… this… this boy is really the Fire Nation's Prince."

"I can and I am," replied the man. Looking at Zuko he continued, "I am the Sun Warrior Chief Hocho. Your coming was told to us by the Elder Spirit of Fire."

"I was told of the Sun Warriors and the Masters from my Uncle," Zuko explained.

"Yes, Iroh was the last outsider to face the Masters. I presume he told you what to expect?" Hocho asked the young prince.

"Iroh told me everything," replied Zuko.

The Sun Warrior Chief glanced at Jin for a moment before turning his gaze back to Zuko. "When the Masters judge you they will read your hearts, your souls, and your ancestry. If they deem you worthy they shall teach you; if not, then they shall destroy you on the spot."

"I have to do this." Zuko stated in a voice of confidence. If he couldn't face to masters, he'd never be able to face his sister.

"Follow me then." Chief Hocho replied as he turned to walk out of the temple. The warriors holding the spears relaxed them and followed their chief out to begin the outside's test.

Back in Ba Sing Se, Yue was once again in her mindscape. "The Elder Spirits said that when the next level of bending was unlocked that there would be new techniques to learn. I wonder that they are?" Yue said to herself. She then called aloud, "Show me all the new techniques."

Slowly, like a roaring wave the new information appeared. Yue stared at it all, her eyes wide with surprise. "Let's see we've got; Mud: the Child of Water and Earth, Flash Freeze, Freezing Fire, Coping with Having to Kill, The Complete Weapons Styles, Merging Mindscapes, Unknown Water Techniques, Moving Chi: The Energy of All and Survival," Yue spoke aloud reading off some of the new things to learn and study. "I guess I'll start with the Merging Mindscapes. I hope Zuko is having a good time with his test."

Looking around her mindscape once more; Yue than began her new lesson.

For several hours the two had been walking each carrying a piece of the Eternal Flame. After been led out of the temple, Zuko and Jin had been taking to the chamber that housed the Eternal Flame and were told that in order to learn from the Masters they would both have to take a piece of the flame to the base of two mountain peaks. Since Jin wasn't a Firebender she very carefully used earth; constantly letting the ashes fall as she called up new earth to keep the fire going. As they closed in on the base of the mountain Jin spoke up. "Do you think you'll be able to pass the Masters' test?"

"I hope so," replied Zuko. "If not, we may have to fight our way out."

"Think we'll be able to?"

"My firebending has never been stronger and you're the strongest Earthbender I know. I think we can take a couple of dragons."

"I hope you're right," replied Jin.

Moments later the two had arrived at the summit of the mountain and were surprised to find the Sun Warriors had already arrived and were waiting for them. Chief Hocho walked up to them and spoke, "Facing the judgment of the Masters will be dangerous your line is directly responsible for the death of the dragons. They Masters may not be happy to see you." And with that, he proceeded to a piece of each of their flames and passed it to the two beside him to start passing the flame from one firebender to the next.

The young couple followed behind the chief. "Let's do this," said Zuko as they began to climb the steps of the altar. As they climbed chanting could be heard starting below them. Once they reached the top the chanting stopped and a loud voice called out, "Those who wish to meet the Masters Ran and Shaw will now present their fire." They each turned to face a different cave as a loud horn was blasted down below. A moment later the ground shook, hard. This shaking caused Jin to look closer at the cave before her. She nearly jumped out of her skin when a massive red dragon came flying out. Seconds later the red dragon was joined by a blue dragon.

"So, still think we can fight our way out?" Jin asked quietly.

"No. We're screwed, if this goes bad," replied Zuko. "These things are huge. Their mouths are bigger than the entire body of the Avatar's Sky Bison."

Looking back and forth at the dragons for a moment, Jin spoke. "I think they want us to do the Dragon Dance."

"What makes you think they want us to dance?"

"Well, they want us to do something. Let's just try it."

As the two began to dance the dragons began to change their movements and follow along with them. Once the dance ended, both Zuko and Jin were each staring at a dragon. The golden eyes of the massive predators bore down on them, looking through them. Ran and Shaw then landed on either side of the altar and opened their mouths wide, allowing a large blast of fire to issue forth. The flames swirled around each other; encasing Zuko and Jin in a twister of fire.

Jin looked up and was amazed at what she saw. There were so many colors to see; reds, yellows, oranges, blues, greens, purples, and colors that she had never even seen. Colors she couldn't even describe. All of the sights before her brought a strange feeling deep within her. Being here, with Zuko, it brought a sense of calmness and peace to her soul. Looking into the blaze she realized what this feeling was. 'He's my one. My one true love, who I want to spend the rest of my days with,' she thought to herself.

While Jin was having her revelation on her views of her relationship with Zuko. Zuko was having a much different one. It was mainly different in the fact that he was no longer at the altar. Looking all around him, Zuko saw that he was in a field with several large boulders about. "Jin?" He called out for her. "JIN!" He yelled louder after receiving no reply.

"She won't here you," replied a voice behind him.

Zuko whirled around to find two people standing behind him. The first was a man with long red hair and wearing red armor. Next to the man, was a woman with short blue hair; wearing a loose blue kimono. "Who are you and where are we?"

"We are Ran," the woman replied indicating to herself, "and Shaw," she finished indicating to the man next to her.

"We are in your mindscape for your test," Shaw replied.

"What is my test?" Zuko asked the dragons.

"To beat us," Ran replied right before thrusting her arm out and releasing a powerful blast of fire in front of Zuko.

The force of the blast was so strong that is sent Zuko hurtling back slamming him into a boulder. From the dust cloud of Ran's blast Shaw burst forth and covered the distance between them in less than a second. 'Shit,' Zuko thought as he ducked down and threw himself to the right as Shaw shot his hand forward. Shaw's hand was flat, fingers extended, like a knife when the tips of his fingers struck the boulder where Zuko's neck had been and left a five inch crater.

Using his hands, Zuko quickly flipped himself away wanting to put some distance between himself and Ran and Shaw. 'Okay Zuko, think! You're dealing with two very powerful, very experienced, and very ruthless when it comes to fighting dragons. Now, how do you beat them?' At that moment the ground shook, preventing Zuko from finishing his thoughts as he began running again. A second later from where he had been standing a geyser of lava erupted from the ground. 'I don't know who I should hate more, Uncle or Aoihi. Well, I'm sure if Uncle had had this happen to him; he would have told me.'

And so, for hours Zuko fought against Ran and Shaw. Constantly diving, ducking, running, and throwing whatever fire he could back at them. All the while, Ran and Shaw never seemed to so much as break a sweat or show any sign of starting to be worn down. While Zuko, felt like he was about to collapse.

"I don't know how you plan to win like this Prince Zuko," Shaw called out across the damaged field. "Your ancestors have a long history of fighting. They've been called everything from saviors and champions to monsters and demons, but none have ever run. You won't last much longer and that girl has even less time."

"What do you mean?" Zuko called back with a hint of anger. He wasn't about to let harm come to Jin.

"What is the one thing fire needs to burn, Prince Zuko?" Shaw asked.

"Air," replied the prince; everyone in the Fire Nation knew that. If a fire got big enough all it need was air to continue to burn.

"While we are here in your mindscape fighting, our bodies are still blasting out that twister of fire," Shaw explained. "And once all that air is gone…"

'Jin won't have any air to breathe and if she can't breathe, she dies.' Zuko realized in shocked horror. The longer he was in here to closer Jin was to dying. 'Time to end this.'

Blasting his fire from his feet, Zuko shot himself high into the air. As he soared higher, Zuko began to power up his most powerful attack; the same one he used on Aku. Once more, forcing the lightning to build up in his hand, Zuko separated his energies as much as he could to build up an even greater attack. Spotting Shaw below him, Zuko hurled himself down towards the dragon going faster than he had ever gone before. All around him things seemed to fade from existence, until all Zuko could see was Shaw.

Once he was less than ten feet from Shaw, Zuko shot his arm forward for the extra striking strength against his opponent. Sadly, it wasn't meant to be. The prince's eyes widened in both shock and awe as Ran seemed to just appear before him and with lightning fast reflexes, grabbed his striking hand. 'That's impossible,' Zuko screamed in his mind; as even the slightest touch against something when performing the Lightning Lance would set the attack off. And yet, Ran had grabbed hold of his hand and kept his attack from releasing.

'NO NO NO NO,' Zuko yelled in his mind as Ran used his momentum to her advantage and flipped him over her. As Zuko was coming down on the other side, Ran pulled back her leg and shot it into Zuko's stomach hard; effectively ending all thoughts he was having and causing him to spit up blood as he sped away due to the force of the kick. Zuko had been hit with such force that his body smashed through a boulder that had been in the way.

"That looked quite painful," Shaw commented as he watched the after effects of the boulder. Glancing at Shaw he asked, "Was that necessary?"

"The prince has the fortitude and passion that can be found in any hatchling," Ran replied in her cool even voice. "However, he has yet to understand the point of this lesson. So I've decided to make it easier for him. Besides, I wasn't about to let that attack hit you."

"You know as well as I do that that attack would have done very little damage to me, if any at all," replied Shaw in a laugh. "You just didn't want him to touch me. I love it when you get possessive of me, Ran."

"Don't flatter yourself."

"Oh, right of course not. I suppose then that that was some other blue-scaled female I had underneath me roaring my name last week."

Ran's head turn to look at Shaw so fast that a crack was heard throughout the air. Seeing her mate's smirking face, Ran narrowed her eyes and said, "I am so going to beat your ass when this is over."

"Such naughty language for a mother to have. What would the children say?"

Rolling her eyes at Shaw's stupidly, Ran tore off through the air in the direction of Zuko's body. The sooner she finished this, the sooner she could start teaching Shaw the error in angering the mother of his children.

Zuko's body hit the ground hard; over and over his form tumbled. During the process his hand touched the ground releasing the Lightning Lance; ripping the ground apart as he came to a stop. As he laid on the ground his body spasmed in pain as he coughed up blood. 'I can't do it,' Zuko thought to himself. 'I can't beat them they're just to strong for me. I've failed, but at least Jin will be safe.'

As Zuko forced himself up on his knees, his body moving slowly due to the pain, he saw Ran closing in fast. "I yield," Zuko gasped out, blood flowing out, as Ran's fist nearly struck him.

"What did you say?" Ran asked, her fist mere inches from Zuko's nose.

"I yield," Zuko repeated in a slightly clearer voice. "I concede, I surrender, I give up! I'm not strong enough to beat you. I've failed, but I will not let Jin die for my inability to beat you." Zuko stared down at the ground in shame as he breathed heavily.

"You pass."

Zuko slowly looked up to see Ran and Shaw smiling at him. "Wha-," he gasped out. "I don't understand. I failed to defeat you both in combat."

"Hatchling, we are two thousand six hundred and seventy-six years of living. You never stood a chance of beating us in combat," replied Shaw. "A few more years and you'll defiantly start to be a contender for beating us."

"The test was about beating us in surrendering," Ran explained. "Since you yielded the fight to us, you won. The greatest victory is when a man chooses not to fight. When you must, fight with everything you have for victory; but when you can, stay your hand and choose not to fight. Do you understand?"

Zuko, who was feeling much better with his body instantly healed, nodded his head in agreement.

"For your excellence in facing us in combat, we want to give you something." Shaw said as he walked forward. He placed his hand on his abdomen and pulled out what appeared to be an orb of fire. "This is a technique that has been lost for countless ages and now I give it to you." With his fast reflexes, Shaw shoved the orb into Zuko abdomen and then pushed it in.

Zuko watched in awe as the orb seemed to melt into him. "Is that all?" he asked the dragons.

"There are two more things," replied Ran. "From this day forth you are Zuko, Dragon of the East. The final reward will have to wait until we are out of the mindscape.

Recalling what they had said about Jin, caused Zuko to forget about the title they had just given him. "Jin, is she okay?" He asked hurriedly.

"Calm yourself, Hatchling," replied Ran as the mindscape began to vanish, but not before Ran's final words were heard. "Your mate is perfectly safe."

Zuko's eyes widened as he absorbed what Ran had just said as he saw the fire dissipate and Ran flying back into her cave. Realizing that he was no longer in his mindscape, Zuko turned around to see his girlfriend turning around to face him as well.

"That was…That was just wow." Jin spoke as she couldn't put into words what she felt.

"Yeah," replied Zuko as he felt the same.

The two began the long climb down the steps and as they were nearly at the bottom, Zuko spoke again. "Their fire was so beautiful. I saw so many colors. Colors I had never even seen. Colors I had never even imagined."

"It was like harmony with fire." Jin added.

"Yes," replied Chief Hocho. "They judged you and gave you visions of the true meaning of fire and thus firebending"

"I can't believe there are still living dragons." Zuko said as he looked up at the Chief. "My Uncle Iroh said he faced the last dragon and killed it."

"So your uncle lied." Jin reasoned.

"Actually, it wasn't a total lie," Chief Hocho explained. "Iroh was the last outsider to face the masters. They deemed him worthy and passed the secret onto him as well."

"He must have lied to protect them, so no one else would hunt them." Zuko said with realization.

"Now that you have learned the secrets and you know about our tribe's existence, we have no choice but to imprison you here forever," Hocho spoke to the couple in a voice of complete seriousness. Upon seeing the young couple's look of shock he broke into a smile and said, "Just kidding. But seriously, don't tell anyone."

At this moment, Ran had reemerged from her cave and landed behind the young couple. Zuko and Jin turned around to see the dragon placing a medium-sized trunk down by Zuko before flying back into her cave.

"Seems like Ran has given you one of her treasures for your wedding." Hocho said as he looked at the trunk.

"OUR WHAT?" Jin and Zuko both yelled aloud as they spun to face the Sun Warrior Chief.

With a small look of surprise on his face, Hocho looked between the two before saying, "You said 'Iroh told you everything.' I thought you knew then that if a man and woman took the master's test together and passed that they would be married. By the law the two of you are now man and wife."

Katara snapped her head up suddenly and looked around the room with a careful eye.

"What's up?" asked Toph from the other side of the room, who had felt Katara's sudden movement.

"I thought I heard something," replied Katara.

"What?"

"I thought I heard Zuko; screaming."

"Seriously?" Toph asked with a raised eyebrow. "You're obsessing way to much on this guy, Sugar Queen. It's always Zuko this or Zuko that with you. So what, was he your first crush or something?"

"What? No!" Katara nearly shrieked in surprise.

"I can tell your lying," replied Toph in a singsong tone.

"Whatever Toph," replied Katara as she stood up to start making a late lunch.

The trip back to the Sun Warrior city seemed much shorter than it had going to meet the masters. Once they had arrived back, Zuko and Jin were rather nice spacious room for their first night together. At the far end of the room there was a circular bed that sunk into the ground and was covered with large comfortable pillows and silk blankets. Zuko and Jin were now sitting on the bed, each thinking about what to do.

Finally, Zuko broke the long going silence between them. "We don't have to let anyone know what happened here."

"Hmm?" Jin asked as she turned her head towards him with a look of confusion.

"This marriage, we don't have to tell anyone that we got married," Zuko explained. "It was unexpected and thrust upon us, we've never talked about where we wanted our relationship to go or even if we wanted it to get married, and I can't ask you to give up your home and your life in the Earth Kingdom for me."

"Actually, I don't mind," replied Jin. "You're right that we've never talked about where our relationship was going, but I want it to lead to marriage. It will be hard, but I can give up my life in the Earth Kingdom; because I know would do the same for me. However, I won't ask that of you as your people, no our people, need us. So, I shall be the one who gives up their life."

Zuko knew she was right. If she would ask it of him, he would leave his old life behind and spend the rest of it serving tea; just as long as it meant he could stay with her. However, it would also tear apart inside as to what he would be doing to his people. "You can't mean that, Jin. You have no idea what you're getting yourself into."

"Then tell me." Jin replied.

"Jin, I've killed people," Zuko began. "I know you have as well and we've both seen each other kill. But not like this. I wasn't always relaxed like this. During my banishment, as I searched for the Avatar, I killed those would stand in my way. Can you be with a man who has killed your fellow countrymen?"

"Did you kill them out of joy?" Jin asked. Seeing Zuko shake his head, she continued, "You kill out of necessity, Zuko. I have never known you or felt that you have killed for enjoyment."

"What about the Fire Nation?" Zuko countered. "If you become the Fire Lady, you will have to support the Fire Nation and all of the decisions you make will have to benefit the people of the Fire Nation."

"I realize this and I believe that I can help you even more with this," replied Jin smoothly. "You and I both come from different walks of life and have experienced many things. I believe that together we can use our experiences to help the Fire Nation. It's going to be a long road, but it is one that we can walk together."

By now, Zuko was mentally grasping at straws as to why he and Jin shouldn't be married. Nearly more than anything in the world, he wanted to marry Jin. More than that however, he didn't want to bring pain into her life. "What about the fact that you would be getting a tainted husband?" He asked in a last ditch effort.

"Zuko, you aren't your father-" Jin began, but was interrupted by Zuko.

"I don't mean that," began Zuko. "Jin, I have lain with another woman. It was during my banishment on the night of my fourteenth birthday. We had just finished exploring the Air Temples and were soon going to voyage to the northern parts of the Earth Kingdom. Uncle talked me into letting the men have a day of relaxation, so we pulled into port and let the men off. Later, as the sun was setting, I noticed that none of the men had returned and I wanted to get an early start the next morning, so I went searching for them. After an hour or so of walking around and talking with the town's folk, I found that the men were all in the same building. I didn't know it at the time, but that building was a brothel. Some of the women didn't like the ruckus I was causing trying to get the men to head back to the ship, so they carried me to an empty room and proceeded to educate me on the importance of relaxation. Long story, short; I woke up the following morning in bed with the four women I had been having sex with the night before."

Jin looked at Zuko with calm relaxed eyes. "Zuko, that doesn't bother me. I've also been with a few women. Mostly, I was with, Maki, my friend from work. The two of us did all kinds of things together; we had even planned on losing our virginities together to the same guy. In fact, that guy was going to be you. The day I was going to bring it up with her, Maki didn't show up for work and well, we all know what happened to her."

"But Jin-" Zuko tried to start, but was quickly cut off by Jin; who had thrown herself on top of him, pressing her beautiful full lips against his in a savagely erotic kiss as their tongues mated one with the other.

(Warning lemon ahead. If you don't like, don't read.)

Jin eventually broke the kiss and slid off Zuko as she took several deep breaths before speaking, "I don't care about that Zuko. You need to stop thinking about what other people want and ask yourself, what do you want? Not the prince, not the refuge, and not the champion, but what does Zuko, just Zuko, want?"

Taking her words to heart, Zuko thought about what Jin had said. Most of his life, he had to make exceptions and more often than not was unable to keep something for himself; especially after his mother disappeared. As he looked at Jin, in her slightly disheveled appearance with a slight blush against her bronzed cheeks, he thought of everything they had been through, he thought of how he felt about her, and he thought of life without her.

With speed that had surprised her, Zuko had launched herself at Jin and captured her lips again as she landed back on the pillows and silk sheets. "I want you," said Zuko as he momentarily broke the kiss, before kissing her full and throbbing lips once more. He broke the once more, saying, "Of everything in this world, I would give all of it up; if it meant I could have you."

As Zuko captured her lips again, Jin rolled them over, pinning Zuko underneath herself. Jin broke the kiss as she straddled Zuko's waist, sitting on top of him. Jin held him back as he tried to kiss her once more. Seeing the questioning look in her lover's eyes, Jin asked, "So, you want me?"

"Yes," replied Zuko. "I want you more than anything in the world."

Hearing his reply, Jin began to loosen the tie of her green robe. She then, threw the green robe off to the side leaving her heavy voluptuous breasts trapped within her tight, green, cotton brassiere. Taking hold of the knot, between her sweetly curved mounds, that was holding the brassiere in place; Jin began to slowly pull it, taking a small amount of pleasure in feeling a growing bulge from her lover prodding against her ass. Within moments, the brassiere was off brazenly exposing Jin's heavy, round, pert breasts to Zuko.

The light from the nearby torches danced across the surface of her bronzed skin and gleamed brightly as it was reflected off her gold nipple rings. "If you want me," Jin said as she looked down at Zuko, "Then claim me, Husband."

Lifting himself up to her, Zuko wrapped his arms around Jin's naked back and leaned up to kiss her. But as he did so, Jin stopped him saying, "As much as I enjoy kissing you, Zuko, I've wanted you to get well acquainted with my breasts, since our second date." Jin ran her fingers through his thick, black hair and positioned his head at her chest.

With his eyes full of Jin's plump, swollen bounty; Zuko did as she wanted and began to kiss, lick, and gently bite the incredibly hot, silky, taut skin before him. Soon, Zuko's lips arrived at the dark aching peak; that was one of Jin's nipples. He quickly captured the hardened flesh and metallic ring between his lips and began to suckle. He sucked her gently at first and then began to suck harder and faster; causing her chest to vibrate and jiggle at Zuko's actions. He would then stop and run his tongue over the dark caramel nipple, before capturing the small nipple ring with his teeth and pulling back a bit. While Zuko gave all this attention to Jin right breast, He hadn't forgotten about her left breast. All the while he was kissing and sucking, Zuko had captured the left breast in his right hand. He gently squeezed and kneaded the mound of flesh as it spilled over his hand. Zuko lovingly stroked and massaged the glistening breast, before carefully pinching the nipple as he pulled at the other one.

Jin herself was in total bliss. Having been born with sensitive pleasure sensors and a slight turn-on of pain; she was in an euphoria of joy. With waves of pleasure coursing through her body, Jin gripped her lover's hair as she thrust herself against him. With each thrust, Jin could feel the growing moistness between her legs dampen her cotton panties even more.

Recalling what he had learned in briefly training with purple fire, better known as Pleasure Fire, Zuko grabbed Jin's breasts and positioned her swollen nipples in front of his mouth. He then breathed out, releasing a small stream of bright purple fire. Like the Training Fire, the Pleasure Fire doesn't burn; it increases the pleasure felt by sensitive areas of the receiver's body by a hundred fold.

Jin grasped Zuko's hair and held tightly as an uncontrollable tidal wave of pleasure sent tremors of ecstasy throughout her being. The world turned white for Jin as she felt herself spew forth like a geyser, while screaming her husband's name to the heavens, "ZZZUUUKKKOOO!"

A few minutes later, once enough of the sexual bliss had worn off for her to think clearly, Jin asked, "What was that?"

"That was the Pleasure Fire," replied Zuko. "I presume you enjoyed it?"

"Immensely so," she replied with a grin. "But I want to feel you inside me now, Zuko."

As she leaned back, Jin removed her skirt and soaked panties; leaving herself completely bare and naked before Zuko's eyes for the first time. Propping herself up against the pillows, Jin spread her legs wide to her husband. Carefully, she positioned her legs to form around her; with her feet resting behind her head. This position gave Zuko a perfect view of her shaved pulsating core.

Zuko would never admit it to anyone, except Jin, but he found the view before him to be rather intoxicating. The shape of his wife's body as she exposed herself to him, the soaked flesh of her womanhood, the way the lips of her vulva looked remarkably like a ripened peach-pear that was waiting to be pierced by him. Zuko found all of this and more about Jin's appearance stunningly beautiful. Feeling that it wasn't right that she be the only one naked, he began to remove his clothes.

Jin watched with great desire in her eyes as Zuko stripped before her. He quickly shed his outer robe, before lifting up his shirt. Jin's eyes gleamed with desire as Zuko's well formed muscled abs came into view, followed by his steely chest and was finished off with his strong broad shoulders. Her husband was truly a firm, sleek, slender body of masculinity and he was all hers. Well, all hers and who ever she decided to share him with.

As he pulled his pants and underpants off Zuko knelt down and once the garments were off, he sat up on his knees giving Jin her first look at pulsating manhood.

Staring wide-eyed at her husband's shaft the only thing Jin could say was, "Damn."

"What? Is there something wrong with it?" Zuko hurriedly asked. Sure he had had sex with four women, but it was only that one time and none of them had reacted the way Jin had. In fact, they had gone rather silent once they saw his manhood.

"You're big, Zuko," replied Jin. "And I mean big. I don't have a measuring tape with me, but you've got to be somewhere between ten and eleven inches long and that's not even taking into account your thickness. I know I won't be able to fit all of you in me; fuck I doubt I'll even be able to fit half of you in me."

"Is that good or bad?" Zuko asked, not knowing which category his size went into.

"It's very good," replied Jin quickly. "How could you not know that?"

"Let's see, I've spent most of my adolescences on the sea and I've never been in a situation to compare the size of my member to that of another man's," Zuko replied.

"Well, come on love. I want you to burst my cherry."

Zuko moved closer and gently grasped Jin's hips as he claimed her.

Jin was unable hold it in, as she screamed in pleasure and pain. Pain from having her hymen taken and pleasure from the orgasm that came from it. Once the pain had lessened, Jin signaled to Zuko that she was ready and slowly began to moan and scream in a sweet rapture of pleasure as her body wonderfully accepted her husband into her.

After several minutes of being wildly thrusted into, Jin cried out in ecstasy as love's sweet lava spewed forth from her, drenching her husband's neither regions and lower abs. Three more times this happened and on the third, Zuko joined her. Calling out her name loudly as he erupted into her, firing shot after shot of his seed deep into her womb; warming her insides.

For several hours after that, the young married couple engaged in various acts of sexual intercourse with each other as they explored each other's bodies. After many hours, they finally collapsed on the pillows and sheets exhausted, but happy.

(End lemon. Virgin eyes my return.)

"So, how was that Princess Jin?" Zuko asked his wife.

"Princess?" Jin asked between breathes of air.

"Yes, Princess," replied Zuko. "We're married now, so that makes you a Princess. In fact your full title is Princess Jin, wife of Prince Zuko, daughter of Xain Ansatsu-sha."

"Nice," replied Jin as she nodded her head. "Well, to answer your original question; I loved it. That felt…, it was.., I don't know how to describe it, but it was the best and if that's what I get as a princess; I'm looking forward to being Fire Lady."

Zuko chuckled in response.

"Hey Zuko?" Jin asked as she turned to face her husband. "What's going to happen to my girls?"

"One of three things," replied the young prince. "First, you can give them eliminate their service to you. I doubt that'll happen, as the girls seem to like you to much to want to leave. Second, You can continue business in the Fire Nation. This will be somewhat hard to do as you'll be Fire Lady. Third, and the one I think you'll be going for, they can become the Fire Lord's concubines. The Fire Lord's concubines are chosen by the Fire Lady and are her lady's in waiting. It is their duty to prepare the Fire Lady for her day, receive her husband, and provide children for marriage alliances; which we're going to need."

"That does sound like the best solution," replied Jin. "Let's sleep on it some."

Zuko then put out the torches and pulled Jin closer to him as they fell into the land of dreams.

The sun was starting to set as Ling and Mar walked along the streets of the Lower Ring of Ba Sing Se.

"Are you sure we're in the right place?" Mar asked her companion.

"Yes," replied the older woman. "Mistress said that if we ever had any trouble to let Kimiko know. Now come on, we have to hurry."

The two quickened their pace along the busy streets of the city.

Yue sighed as she stretched herself out; it hadn't been an enjoyable walk home from work.

As she walked home, she became cornered by three bounty hunters that had been sent to take her back to the Northern Water Tribe. She easily defeated the three and gave them a harsh warning; if they ever came after her again, she'd send their severed heads back north.

Yue was quickly brought out of her thinking, by a knock from her door. She stood up and cautiously opened the door. Upon seeing who it was she opened the door completely saying, "Ling, Mar, what can I do for you this evening?" As she ushered them inside.

"We have a problem, Kimiko," replied Mar.

"We can't stay long, but here's the gist of the problem," began Ling. "A few hours ago one of the rich ranchers from the Outer Ring comes in and demands the woman in charge. I told him that was me and he said that as the owner of the brothel, I would service him and do as he said. I then, foolishly, said that I was the one in charge, not the owner. He then demanded Mistress Taja, saying that he would make her his whore. When I told him that wouldn't happen, he proceeded to throw me through a wall so hard that I hit the opposing wall on the other side. He then left saying, that if the owner wasn't hear by dawn tomorrow morning that he'd tear the place apart."

"We need this man, taken care of," said Mar as she handed a small folded piece of paper to Yue.

The two women than quickly took their leave.

Yue read over the paper, learning everything there was to know on her target.

As the sun rose over the grassy fields of the Outer Ring, Juria, a breeder of prize winning Ostrich-Horses, began to awaken. He was a large strong man, who was a skilled earthbender. Over the years, for providing Ostrich-Horses for the Dai Li, he'd been able to start accumulating a vast amount of wealth and was able to take what he wanted. What he wanted now was the sweet heavenly body of Taja to warm his bed and pleasure him whenever he wanted it.

Becoming more awake, he felt something warm surrounding him. It couldn't be urine as it had a metallic smell to it. Pushing back the covers a little he saw that his hands were in a red sticky substance. The more he pushed back the covers, the more the substance grew. Finally, with one great yank, he threw the covers of his bed and stared in horror at what he saw.

In bed with him, were the fourteen severed heads of his Ostrich-Horses. He then screamed and screamed and screamed in anguish and rage as his lively hood had just been ripped from him. As he ran from the room, he never noticed a razor sharp ribbon thin strand of water hanging across the door. So, when his body turned left; his head went right.

'You shouldn't have tried to cross the wrong people, Juria,' thought Yue as she carefully snuck out and went on her way. There was so much that needed to be done and so little time to do it in.

There you are folks. Both Zuko and Jin's tests and a Zuko/Jin lemon. I've got a nice digital cookie for the one who can guess what Jin's test was.

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