Prompt: #081 Ashes
Title: Forest Fire
Word Count: 248
Rating: K for a "naughty" word.
Author's Note: This has been sitting on my hard drive for a few days and I'm not terribly pleased with it. Constructive criticism is welcome!
Ashes. They were everywhere. Nothing was left untouched, not even the earth.
Aang's eye moved from one end of the still smoking field to the other, taking in everything he could. Some of the field were still on fire, along with the villagers' houses. Their entire lives were going up in a thick, black, billowing smoke. He wanted to act like it was nothing, he wanted to pretend it wasn't the Fire Nation that did this. He wanted, he wanted, he wanted ...
Sokka gave a low grunt before speaking, "I guess forest fire can be ruled out."
Aang's shoulders drooped a little more at Sokka's words. His eyes moved to settle on Prince Zuko and Katara. Zuko had one arm wrapped tightly around Katara's shoulders and the other was pressed tightly to his side, his hand clenched in a fist and shaking. A familiar fire burned in the Prince's eyes. It's was one that Aang had been on the receiving end of many times before, but this time it wasn't meant for him.
"I'll kill him," Zuko growled out through clenched teeth. He would be damned if he would let his father get away with this. Banishing him from his own lands was one thing, but he would never allow him to harm the people he and his new friends were trying to help. The people he had a new understanding of and the people that had so readily accepted him for him, not his wealth or status.
