Katara is extremely tired, she is wishing her fears are not real, Aang is not cheating no matter how much they are fighting over his heritage, his endless request for her to bear an airbender, each time she got pregnant is the same question "is my child going to be an airbender" two times the answer was, NO. What hurt her the most is after learning the child is not going to be an airbender Aang ran away, he does that every time when a problem is serious.
The blow of a horn alert her of the first stage of her plan, if she is right and Aang is cheating on her she will find out, the downside of all this mess is, if she is going to dump the avatar katara will become world's pariah, people will hate her for "her actions against the avatar" but she still have friends , powerful friends willing to protect her from the consequences, willing to do everything for her.
he was the first to offer safe haven, he was the first to offer aid and now he is helping her in her goal of finding if her husband is cheating, katara´s guardian angel is Zuko.
Two small air balloons land on a garden in the southern air temple, one of them with nurses and maids ready to take care of Bumi and Kya. Bumi is just 2 years old and little Kya is just 1. Katara will never regret having children, she regrets the 4 years of her life wasted trying to find love for Aang. with tears in her eyes katara says goodbye to her little children they are ready to embark to the fire nation. She knows Zuko will take care of them, for the moment Katara has to focus on her plan, she needs all her strength to face what is about to come.
her first destination, republic city and the island nearby, Aang´s little paradise, an airbending paradise with annoying acolytes from all over the world, several of them women, young women.
"Master katara " says the fire nation soldier in the second air balloon, similar to the one zuko used during his escape from caldera, "are you ready my lady?".
I am ready, I am ready to face the music".
"As you wish master katara"
"If I may say a few consoling words to you lady katara, lord zuko is eager to meet you after this whole problem is over, in my lord words, the avatar is not a suitable husband for you".
The war balloon rises up to the sky, fast and steady heading north, not even storms dare to challenge their journey, after a few days they finally reaches the island where the avatar built his second home, lucky for katara Aang doesn't notice the airballon, katara now has the element of surprise.
Katara tries to pretend she is in shock, like it is a surprise but deep down she knows this was long coming, too many red flags starting with those damn books the avatar made her read.
-"the meaning of love for an airbender": love is an extension of freedom, an airbender is like a bird it doesn't matter how many trees he decides to "rest" at the end of the day a bird only has one nest to come back to.
A stupid analogy of guys fucking girls around but that is okay because they will always come back to "their main girl"
Another even more moronic book Aang made her read.
-"the wind carrying fertile seeds across the land": a graphic description for, is okay to have multiple children with multiple women if they are willing with an interesting restriction, according to old tradition an airbender can only have one family
The whole book is about women getting pregnant and the father leaving behind the kids because the girls are okay with it. the most poetic quote katara remembers from the book is "free from the shackles of the father"
Aang was so excited when those books arrived, this "new information and traditions" he didn't know about airbenders, katara quickly reminded him those are 500 years old books, out of practice traditions nobody followed and those "traditions" will not be part of their children education so he better hide them somewhere else because as soon she see them again she will burn them
now katara understands why her husband made her read those books he was trying to implant those ideas, making them look okay but why, the answer is evident and right in front her eyes three visible pregnant women are dancing around their dear avatar, in his mind this is a solution for the air nation population problem
"So my dear husband are you enjoying your little breeding machines"
"is this the reason why you are not with me 15 days per month,? were you making sure all your ladies are pregnant?"
"how disgusting and shameful, I am still your wife whatever you like it or not"
Aang cannot believe his eyes, what is katara doing here?! this was not supposed to happen, his plan was explaining her these things after some airbenders were born, telling katara these girls are okay with raising them without him with the condition he must spends a couple of weeks each month with them.
"You know…. Aang I don't care"
"I think I never truly love you, maybe the reason why I stayed with you for so long is the same reason why I helped you many years ago"
"I freed you from the iceberg, I saved your life, I was your waterbending master, the natural next thing to do for you was helping you with your new air nation"
"this was never love, this was just a responsibility"
"We are over avatar Aang, may your little girls find happiness with a man that can't commit"
"A man always on the run, running from his responsibilities, running after we lost ba sin se, running when nobody shared your pacifist way to defeat Ozai "
"now running away from me because it is taking us some time to have an airbender kid"
"Instead of talking, you just ran away and do this…. a filthy harem using as justification an outdated tradition from a 500 years old books""
"Goodbye avatar aang", says katara trying to hold her tears not because she is sad but because of all the time she lost, 3 years of her life wasted when love is somewhere else, of course Aang tries to stop her now they are both running over the ocean away from the island but katara is way faster, her water bending is better than the avatar´s but her former husband is relentless, even with 3 girls impregnated Aang still wants katara as his main girl, katara is not going to tolerate that.
"I once freed you from the iceberg, maybe it is time to put you in a new one" with a strength only Katara can master, she succeeds in binding Aang into an iceberg, at least for a while but long enough for her to escape and leave republic city undercover.
from the port katara looks to the horizon where maybe her true love is, finally, free from the avatar, Katara embarks in an old merchant ship and sail towards the fire nation where Zuko is enthusiastically waiting for her, after what it seems endless days, she is finally there, in Zuko's room inside his palace.
"So, my guess was right, Aang was cheating on you." says Zuko almost happy with the news.
"What a shame…. well, it works for me."
"What do you mean zuko"
"What I mean is this" zuko kiss her passionately with all the passion he has for his dear katara, the true love of his life.
"We can't zuko, you are married, I am married."
"well, Aang cheated on you I see no problem with you doing the same."
"Come on Zuko being serious, we are both honorable people."
"Katara, you are a waterbender, you once told me water adapts but it appears you forgot it."
"my dear love, let's do our best with the little we have, please be my concubine"
"Zuko I am not going to be anyone whore" Katara says it so coldly she can freeze the ocean with her words.
"You misunderstood me my dear, not only my concubine, my prime concubine, a position so prestigious only below the fire lady title."
"When the fire lady is absent it is up to you to coordinate every aspect in the palace, all daily work. I plan to send away the fire lady, in practice is you who are going to have all the power"
Katara pause, thinking what Zuko said because this is bizarre, sending the fire lady away is not something trivial she did something, something really bad.
"What did happen Zuko?" Katara asks worried.
"My wife cheated on me since day one"
"imagine how I felt when I knew she was taking herbs to avoid being impregnated because of her many lovers"
"she had so many, it was a daily thing for her but taking contraceptive medicine that often was not safe for her, she is now barren, unable to provide me with an heir"
"I am sure she is absent because she is faking a pregnancy, for almost 8 month I haven't seen her she is claiming she needs space, but I bet at the ninth month she will be back carrying a baby in her arms but not from her."
"That is disgusting zuko, what are you going to do"
"Be an easy my dear princess, the legitimacy of that baby is out of question after my court learn about this, sadly I can't divorce her, but I can send her far away after I publicly shame her for trying to place another man's child as heir of the fire nation throne, she will never be here with us."
"But I will never be your lady Zuko" says Katara now crying, why is the world so unfair with them.
"Is the best we can do for now, but if we are lucky Aang will stay with one of his little playmates for a month and according to his "tradition" that is a de facto divorce because husband and wife do no longer share "a nest''.
"My situation is a little different. I can't divorce her unless the fire lady stops being a fire nation citizen, the good thing is I never update the law. let me quote it for you my love".
""A fire nation citizen can´t renounce their citizenship in favor of neither water, earth or air nation" but now there is a fifth nation, we just have to wait until she finds the loophole, trust me she will run away and she will find a new life in republic city"
"Do you think we will be that lucky" katara says this time with hope in her voice, she needs this hope she wants this future.
"My wife is barren, all my heirs will come from you, your unfaithful husband betrayed you and his actions brings you to my arms, to me."
"It sounds unorthodox, a weird situation we are both in…. but you are here now, in my arms that makes me the luckiest man alive."
"Maybe is not the future we Imagined when we were kids, but this our present now and I know our future will be better, soon all your problems will go away."
"For now, be my concubine, my only lover. My dear Katara trust my words you will be my fire lady."
Katara jumps into the arms of her now fire lord, in his arms, in his embrace, in his bed she knows she will forget every painful memory, he is her new future.
After a passionate session of love, hard and raw Zuko touches Katara´s lower belly almost sure she will get pregnant, his victory was not easy to achieve, it was a wild shot, but he was able to fulfill an old promise he made to himself in that cave in ba sin se.
he will make katara his, no matter what, for her love he will burn the world if necessary
Zuko´s body is still hot from the passionate sex, he needs some fresh air the moment he opens the windows, zuko see the moon, he knows the moon is angry at him
"At the end fire always wins" says to the moon but he doesn't end there, Zuko wants to make the moon angrier
"Yue, are you going to tell my love what I did? Are you going to tell her my secrets?"
"how it was I who secretly sent those ancient books to Aang, slowly pushing this idea without me actually saying anything"
"Are you going to tell Katara about the new air nation Aang wants to build, about the pregnant girls my dear Katara saw, how those girls are actually whores I personally hired and sent, I sent them to lure the avatar to show katara Aang is a disgrace, an unsuitable husband."
"They were so eager, so ready to open her legs, I sent the worst whores I could find, people with weak bloodlines making sure those new future airbenders are weak, making this new air nation weak."
"Are you going to tell my Katara, I've married the sluttiest fire woman in the realm perfectly knowing she will cheat but also knowing she will seek help and avoid pregnancy at all costs."
"Are you going to tell her how I ordered my medics to give her the strongest contraceptive, herbs so strong if she used them in a row, for a couple of weeks she will get barren, unable to conceive."
"You can't blame me for what I did after all she did it to herself, nobody force her to cheat on me and seek that kind of herbs."
"Are you going to tell Katara about Bumi and Kya?"
Zuko closes his eyes, enjoying the sweet memories of that beautiful wedding night, Katara and Aang's wedding.
"I knew she love me as much I love her, I convinced her in order to move on is the best if we have one night together, that night I took her virginity not Aang, he just got sloppy second"
"Are you going to tell her what happened during that diplomatic mission where she got drunk, she was the one who open her legs for me."
"I could have stopped her, I was not drunk but I didn't….. she felt so bad to the point she punished herself, she never drank again but can you truly blame her? I am her true love it is inevitable for us to love each other"
Zuko chuckles, he is proud of his achievements. the fire lord continues taunting the moon, the supposed guardian of the water tribe.
"What I didn't expect was that my seed took root in katara´s womb so quickly. Bumi looks like a chubby Lu Ten and my uncle knows it but he keep quiet"
"kya, her face is almost a replica of my sister, my mother sees it too"
"What other proof do you need to make you understand katara belongs to me, her body lust my seed, how happy she was when she was carrying my children inside her."
"I hate you Yue, I blame you, because none of my children are fire benders, if bumi or kya were firebender there won't be any room for doubts and Aang had just accepted the reality, the reality that Katara is mine."
"But the protector of the water tribes failed, my Katara is here now where Agni rules "
"She is no longer cursed by your protection, she will carry my heirs, my future firebender children"
"she doesn't need your protection, Katara only needs mine"
Zuko with a smile similar his father once wore, he makes his final statement to the moon.
"The rest of the world will see what Zuko the fire lord is capable of"
"My father failed to win the war, failed to control the world but I have a better plan. The fire nation will be under my rule a superpower with the biggest economy this world has ever seen."
"I will build military bases all over the world and with Katara on my side that reality is ensure, my princess will grant me the resources of the south pole and in return I will grant her people prosperity."
"So, tell me precious moon, are you going to tell my next fire lady what I did?"
"Yue Hear my words and send this message to any water spirit out there, nobody will take my Katara away from me."
Closing the windows, the fire lord, Katara's possessive dragon, her dear Zuko looks his Katara with lust and love. Zuko is eager for round two, one round of sex is not enough, the jealous possessive dragon needs more and pleasing his Katara is one of his favorite things to do.
Zuko's plan is not over, he has to deal with some old enemies. People who dared to hurt his katara, the enemies she made; the nobility in the north shaming her abilities, the surviving freedom fighters, everyone who made her cry, Zuko will burn them all because his Katara deserves the best.
"Fire always win."
this is a dark zuko fic
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