Ok I'll start by saying this: This chapter was very hard for us to write. We hope it's good though. It's a recall of some of the past chapters at first but it soon turns into the wedding. This is part one of a two part chapter. The first will be mostly focused on the wedding (sort of), the next will be focused on Aang and Katara after the wedding. It will however start on everyone's perspectives a few days before the wedding. Also for Iroh's wedding speech full credit goes to waterwriter144.
Disclaimer: We do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender if we did then Becka would have kept the new, awesome, good, not going after Katara, Jet alive.
Early in the morning Zuko and Mai slept peacefully in their bed until one certain bald monk decided to wake the Fire Lord up. Aang quietly climbed in through there window and made his way over to Zuko. He lit a small flame in his hand and set it on top of the blankets keeping control over it so it didn't spread.
"Zuko! You set the bed on fire in your sleep again!" Aang yelled waking both him and Mai up.
"Ah! How did this happen?" Zuko screamed slapping the fire on the bed to no avail. He through his blanket over the fire and extinguished it.
"How did that happen?" Zuko repeated his question to Aang.
"I told you, you lit the bed on fire in your sleep again." Aang calmly stated.
"Ok whatever now go away and let us go back to sleep." Zuko turned over away from Aang.
"Ok then Zuko if you want to sleep, instead of see what I want to show you, that's fine. It will wake you up once I do it anyways." Aang jumped out the window to let the Fire Lord and his wife to be sleep. However their sleep was quickly ended after they heard a loud clap and saw a bright streak of light fly into the sky. Zuko quickly shot up and looked out the window dumbfounded.
"What's the problem Zuko? It's just some lightning." Mai said obviously still tired.
"Mai I love you so much but please, you have to think. It's the early morning, there's not a cloud in the sky and that lightning went up." Zuko said still spooked by the sudden lightning.
"Ok fine whatever go investigate, I'll be here sleeping in like a normal person." With that Zuko grabbed his robe and left his beloved to sleep in. He began a walking only to find his pace quickened to a brisk jog. He made his way to the courtyard to see Aang meditating under the tree in the center of it.
"Aang? Where did that lightning come from?" Zuko said not really caring if he disrupted Aang's meditation.
"What lightning?" Aang asked playing coy.
"You know what lightning! If I weren't mistaken I would say that it came from you." Aang stood up to face his friend with the biggest smile Aang had ever put on.
"Yeah that was me…Iroh thought I should be taught it so one day we went to the outskirt of Ba Sing Se and spent the whole morning practicing. At first it was just the movements but then I decided to try the real thing."
"It blew up in your face as well didn't it?"
"Nope, I got it on the first try. Sorry Zuko I guess we're not all gifted lightning masters like me."
"Care for a demonstration?"
"Sure why not, go stand over there." Zuko left to stand by the edge of the courtyard as Aang came out from under the tree. Aang took a deep breath and began. His arms flowing in the circular motion with the air around his fingertips cracking. The blue stream of electric power was shot high into the sky as Aang released it. He felt proud of himself that he was getting it to be more controlled and shoot even farther. Zuko however was almost on the ground, cracking up from Aang's display.
"What?" Aang said trying to figure out the reason for his random laughing.
"That…was…so…weak!" Zuko said in between laughs.
"What are you talking about?"
"Aang stand here and watch me." Zuko said as he and Aang switched places. Aang sat down and watched just as he was told. Zuko took several breaths to calm his laughter. Aang soon watched in awe as Zuko began moving his arms in the same fashion he had done. Zuko stepped forward and shot the lightning clear into the sky. It was direct, powerful and controlled.
"That was amazing, when did you learn how to do that!"
"Well my uncle had already taught me how; I just needed a calm mind. With the war over and me about to marry Mai what could stop me? So one day I decided to practice it. At first my shot was just like yours: all over the place and not going very far. But after a few weeks of practice I got a strong hold on it."
"Wow, I guess that war made it hard for us to get a hold of lightning."
"Yeah, come on, now that we're up let's go and get some breakfast." After Aang's attempt at showing off to Zuko had failed, he resumed his normal routine of meditating, practice bending and spending the rest of the day with Katara. He continued this routine all the way up until the day before the wedding.
Servants were running all over the palace setting up decorations for the upcoming wedding. Mai, Ursa and Katara were all ordering the servants where to place certain things. During this time of preparation a few early bird guests arrived.
"Wow, I hope they have a big buffet." Sokka said as he and Suki entered the palace.
"Sokka! You made it." Katara ran over and hugged her brother.
"I'm surprised you're not mad at me for staying behind with Suki." He said returning the hug.
"I was at first, but with a little help from Aang, I moved on. How have you been Suki?" Katara said as she moved her hug over to the Kyoshi warrior.
"Just great, but enough about me, tell us what you and Aang did after you left. Speaking of Aang, where is he?"
"He should be getting back any minute now. He took Zuko away on Appa to talk with him about something." As if on cue Appa's low moan was heard as he landed down in the courtyard.
"There he is, come on." Katara said walking down to where Aang and Zuko had landed. AS she arrived she caught the last bit of Aang and Zuko's conversation.
"Thanks Zuko, just another year or so and we'll be together. I know it."
"Don't mention it, now if you'll excuse me I need to attend to the wedding decorations." Zuko said making his leave.
"Hey Aang looks who's here." Katara said motioning to Sokka and Suki who had just reached the courtyard.
"Sokka! Suki! You two made it."
"You now, without Appa it takes so much longer to travel around the world." Sokka complained.
"It's good to see you too Sokka." The friends smiled at each other and hugged.
"Katara, I'm still waiting to hear all about your adventures." Suki said reminding Katara that she had to tell them the story.
"Alright follow us." Katara and Aang went up the stairs into the palace and down the hallway to their room. They all sat on the bed and began the story.
"So after Sokka stayed behind, I actually was pretty hurt about it. We stopped by Haru's village and spent a night there. While we were there Aang said a few things that had really helped me cheer up. He also took me to the beach were we played around for a while. After that we returned to the Fire Nation and dropped off Mai and Zuko. During our stay there Aang learned one of two new techniques, how to heal." Katara said letting the first portion of the story sink in.
"Wow so Aang you can heal now?" Suki asked.
"Yep, and that's not even the best part of our story. Please continue Katara."
Ok, after that, we remembered that we forgot to pick up somebody very important: Toph. We had spent about a month and a half away from her after telling her we would be back in a week or so. So we hurried our way down to Gaoling only to find none of the Be Fong's living there anymore. They all moved to Ba Sing Se. On our way up we stopped in some secluded village and found three interesting characters: The Earth King, Bosco and Fire Lady Ursa." Katara stopped a second time to let the next part of the story sink in as well.
"No way! You found Zuko's mom and King Kuei?"
"Yep, they're actually good friends." Aang said putting his two cents in.
"Anyways, so after we found them, we brought all of them back to Ba Sing Se. Kuei, the Council of Five, Aang and Iroh all had a meeting to discuss a new city that's being built in a few months. Kuei also through a big party. The next day Iroh and Aang left real early to learn something new: how to create lightning." Katara paused a third time.
"Wow Aang you can heal and shoot lightning now. That's incredible and I am definitely impressed!" Sokka said.
"So was I." Katara said moving closer to Aang to kiss him on the lips.
"Ok stop! Just because I haven't been around that doesn't mean you two can continue doing that in front of-" Sokka was cut off as Suki pulled him into a kiss as well.
"Sokka, if you keep telling them to stop kissing, I'm going to have to stop kissing you." Suki said. He looked at her wondering if she was playing or being serious. He decided to play it safe and assume she was being serious.
"Um…Ok…continue whenever." Sokka said still nervous of Suki's previous claim.
"Well that's about it." Katara said
"Oh, ok then."
"Now it's our turn. Where are the rest of the Kyoshi warriors and Ty Lee? Also where's dad?" Katara asked the two.
"Dad and the Kyoshi warriors, including Ty Lee, are coming the day of the wedding along with most of the other guests."
"Oh ok, come on that's enough catching up for now, let's go and see if we can help setting up.
The big day had finally come, new guests were coming in every few minutes, the decorations were completed and everyone was all mingling for the time being. Everyone soon took their seats with the Gaang, including Toph and Ty Lee, sitting in the front row. Iroh was standing up front preparing for the ceremony. Zuko had walked down in his new Fire Lord robes. The robes were maroon with a black trimming. He stood next to Iroh waiting for Mai to come down soon after. Even though her mother objected, Mai came down wearing a dress matching Zuko's robe. Maroon with a black trim and a black veil. She approached he husband to be and stood next to him with Iroh in between them.
"Friends and family, these two young lovers have always been in each other's hearts for as long as I can remember. Life as we know is bound to the soul, but the heart is bound to another. We are given two hands to hold, two eyes to see, two ears to listen and we are all given two hearts: one lies within our chests and the other lies within the one who we shall be bonded to until the end of time. In life, our goal is to find that person in possession of our other heart. Two hearts accomplishing one task, to love. Today we are binding two hearts that have already found one another, into one. These hearts have learned to love and they shall until time has reached its end. This ceremony unifies your hearts as husband and wife. Your fates are forever sealed by the freedom of love. Now seal your own minds with the conclusion of a kiss." With Iroh's speech done Zuko pulled Mai's veil over her face and their lips made contact. The crowd erupted in cheers as they were officially a couple now. The night went on with congratulations, gifts and Sokka devouring all the food.
After all the guests, excluding the Gaang, Ty Lee and Iroh had left; Zuko and Mai were in there room enjoying each other's "comfort." (If you know what I mean)
Ok so that was a weak and rushed ending. Sorry for the poor description on the attire, scenery and the whole wedding in general, neither of have ever been to a wedding before…not the best excuse but it's ours. We kind of bit off more than we could chew with this chapter. Also I decided against the whole honeymoon Maiko lemon scene. I hated the first one for the Kataang couple so I decided to say no. Sorry to all of you creepy people who wanted to read how Mai and Zuko would have sex in our story, but it's not going to happen. Expect the next chapter about friday or saturday, no promises. WE really like how that chaper is coming along so far. Oh yeah I almost forgot: Did everyone enjoy their three day weekend?
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