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"BG means "Before [Air Nomad] Genocide" which happens when Aang is 12 years old.

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Chapter 3

"MOM!" Zakai yelled as he came running in the house. "MOM!"

"What Zakai?" She asked, she was in the kitchen cooking the family's dinner. "What is it?"

"Everyone is talking about it!" The boy told her. "They're all talking about sharing our prosperity with the world! The colonies are gunna be set up soon!"

"We should wait and see what your father says when he comes home." Zarah told her son as she went back to cutting the vegetables for her special stew.

"Mom?" Zakai had a worried look on his face.

"What is it sweetie?" His mother asked him, seeing the worried look on the boy's face.

"They won't go before my birthday next month, will they?" Zakai asked her. "Dad said he was going to take me fishing on my birthday."

"I hope not," She told him. "But it all depends on when Fire Lord Sozin sends them."

"Dad promised, though." Zakai whined, his mother went to him and knelt down in front of him.

"Sweetie, why don't you go outside and practice your firebending, I bet your father will be happy to see you master the new moves he taught you."

"Okay mom." Zakai said hurrying into the garden to practice.

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"Hello, My Love!" Alonzo said as he came walking in their front door. "Where's Zakai?"

"He's in the garden practicing. He wants to show you how good he's gotten at firebending." Zarah told him as she went up on her toes and kissed him on the cheek.

"I have wonderful news to tell you both at dinner tonight." He told her.

"I have news for you too." She told him.

"I can't wait!" He told her then he went outside to check on his son. Zakai had his back to the house as he was practicing, he hadn't noticed his father watching him. After several minutes Alonzo spoke up. "You're getting so good at firebending!" Zakai spun around in surprise.

"How… how long have you been watching me?" He asked his father.

"For a little while. I'm so proud of you, you are going to be a great firebender." Alonzo told his son as he picked the boy up and set him on his shoulder.

"I'm going to be a Fire Nation Soldier just like you Dad!" Zakai always wanted to be just like his father.

"Dinner is ready!" Zarah called to them.

"You hear that?" Alonzo told his son.

"Mom made her special stew!" Zakai told his father.

"I wonder what the special occasion is." His father asked him.

"I don't know… But I heard the colonies will be set up soon." Zakai told his father.

"Wash up!" They heard the woman call to them.

Zarah was humming a happy little tune as she set the table, right as she finished setting the last place setting there was a knock on the door. She smiled and shook her head, "Hello Ozon!" She said as she opened the door. "You always make it just in time for dinner."

"I can smell your cooking all the way from my one-room apartment." He joked. "And of course I am always drawn by your beauty."

"Alonzo and Zakai will be in in just a moment, they're washing up right now." Zarah told him then returned to the kitchen, living him standing by himself in the front room.

"Hey Ozon, What brings you over?" Alonzo asked as she and Zakai came in from the garden.

"I could smell your wife's cooking from my place." His friend joked. "I hope one day I have a family just like yours."

"I think you will find a sweet woman to marry soon." Alonzo told his best friend. "Maybe a sweet Earth Kingdom girl." They had been best friends since they were children, the both grew up along the same gutter. Their families were both very poor, having to help bring in money neither of them had gotten a chance to go to school for more than a few years. At the age of ten Alonzo was hired to clean at the best firebending school in the entire region, while there he learned to be a great firebender. When he and Ozon turned fifteen they both joined the military. Because of his advanced firebending skills, Alonzo, rose above his best friend, then above the entire company, becoming their captain. During that time he met a beautiful young woman, they married and within their first year they became parents to a beautiful little boy. Ozon, wasn't as lucky, he was directly under Alonzo but he never found a woman to love.

"Yeah, eventually…" Ozon said as he followed his friend into the dining area. "So what's the occasion?" Ozon asked as he looked at the table full of all of Zarah's special dishes.

"Well," Zarah smiled at her husband. "Alonzo said he had some good news and I have some good news too! You go first!"

"Zakai has heard right, we will be leaving soon to set up the colonies!" Alonzo winked at his son.

"When will you be leaving?!" Zakai asked frantically. "My… My birthday in in a month and you promised to take me fishing Dad… You Promised!" Alonzo's smile fell.

"I know I promised, but I promised you guys a better life." Alonzo told him. "We… We will be leaving in two weeks."

"My birthday fishing trip though!" The seven year old boy started to tear up. His mother took hold of his hand.

"We are going to have a better life sweetie!" She told him. Alonzo's heart was breaking too.

"I tell you what, we will go fishing this weekend! What do you think of that?" His father asked him.

"Really? This weekend?" Zakai asked as he wiped away the few tears that had escaped.

"Yes, just you and me buddy!" Alonzo smiled.

"O… okay daddy!" The boy smiled.

"Now that that's handled." Alonzo smiled. "I can finish telling you all of my news. It should only take a couple months to set up the colony then you both will be joining me!"

"That's such wonderful news!" Zarah said to him. "Now for my news!"

"It must be something great!" Ozon smiled as he stuffed one of her rice balls into his mouth.

"Okay," Zarah smiled nervously. "Well depending on how long it will take for you to send for us," She shifted nervously. "You might be sending for three not two."

"You're… You're…" Alonzo stuttered.

"I'm going to have another baby!" Zarah told them. Alonzo jumped up and hugged his wife.

"I'll make sure we are together when you have the new baby!" Alonzo was so happy. "I'll get everything set up as quickly as I can. They're sending me to a remote village in the Earth Kingdom, it is struggling and with our help, the Fire Nation's help, we will be bringing jobs and money to the area… How… how long until the baby comes?" Zarah started laughing at her husband's excitedness.

"We have over seven months." She told him. "I just found out today."

"What wonderful news." Ozon told them. "Everything seems so great for you, like always." Alonzo could her a bit of jealousy in his friend's voice.

"Oh, come on man, be happy for us. You will have your own children soon, I just know it!"

"Yeah, I guess… It's getting late, I better get going. We have a lot of work ahead of us." Ozon said as he walked to the front door. "Dinner was great Zarah. Goodbye everyone."

"Bye!" They all called back to him as he shut the door behind himself.

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"What's wrong with Ozon?" Zarah asked as she got ready for bed. "He just seemed to change… I've never seen him like that."

"He's always been jealous of my 'good fortune' he calls it." Alonzo shook his head. "It's not all luck, Zarah, he thinks it is but it's not… When I was a boy I spent hours scrubbing that school's floors, making them as shiny as the Master wanted them to be… then when I got home I slept for only two or three hours a night practicing what I watched those spoiled kids preform halfheartedly, Zarah… I was never lucky, I am a hard worker. I worked for everything I have, I worked hard for the pretty flower shop girl to notice me."

"I'm going to let you in on a little secret." Zarah wrapped her arms around his waist. "That flower shop girl noticed you long before you ever noticed her."

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