And now on with the story
In a forest with barely any trees, the story begins with a very particular tree made to look more like a house. The tree had a door and windows and was decorated with an old-fashioned doorbell, a chimney, and a roof. Above the doorway was a sign painted on a plank of wood that read Mr. Sanderz.
Sitting on a log in front of the house near a fireplace is an angry honey-colored teddy bear who was slightly tubby dressed in a red kimono top shirt with black rims on the edge of the sleeves and the collar area, on one of his cute little dot eyes a red circle was painted around it and at the top of his head was a small bun of dark hair.
The angry bear continues to stare off at the fireplace, while the narrator Iroh begins the story
"Our story begins with our good friend Zuko the Pooh sitting in his usual spot doing what he enjoys best thinking and you may be wondering what is he thinking about?"
Zuko meanwhile continues to stare at the flames on the fireplace, before he decides to answer the question being asked stating "I'll tell you what I'm thinking: why am I sitting around here doing nothing when I could be doing something productive?"
Iroh intervenes explaining "Nephew, this was what you agreed to" Zuko gets up from the log to retort " When you asked me to help you read a story for kids, I didn't think you were going to turn me into a character in the story!"
Zuko then presents his small yet portly altered appearance and asks "I mean honestly, why a small fat bear?" Iroh replies "Come now Zuko, you look adorable as a stuffed bear" Zuko seats himself back on the log, grumbling "I look more stupid than adorable."
"It did not take long for Zuko to figure out what he needed to do when his cuckoo clock started to go off " narrated Iroh, while Zuko continued to sulk on the log.
Immediately a cuckoo clock in the literal tree house goes off much to Zuko's annoyance. He gets up from the log and enters his home by waddling. He realizes he has no knees by the time he goes inside, and he looks at his uncle with a look that says 'Seriously?'
Iroh continues narrating "but being a bear with very little brain, he needed to remind himself what was it he needed to do." Hearing what his uncle had just, said Zuko turns to the narrator and angrily asks "Did you seriously just call me stupid?"
Iroh lets out a hearty laugh "Oh Zuko I am simply reading what is written. Honestly, why would I insult my flesh and blood?" He asks as Zuko looks at the contents of the house.
The house was simple-looking enough. It only consists of a table in the middle of the house, a couple of chairs surrounding said table, a bed on the far right, on the far left was a standing mirror with a blue frame on the wall, and beside it was a shelf with only one lone jar on one side and underneath said shelf is a cupboard. We also see the corner of the floor was littered with a pile of jars and of course, above his bed was the cuckoo clock.
"Zuko the Pooh goes to stand in front of his mirror" Iroh narrates "and at that point, he remembered he had to do his exercises."
The little bear hearing this would swallow his pride and get the story over with, performing some stretches, squats, and attempts to do some interesting poses.
Suddenly while doing his exercises, he heard a very strange sound that came from close by it sounded like something tearing. Zuko quickly attempts to look for the source, before he suddenly notices a tear on where his rump is.
Iroh while chuckling, comments "It looks like Zuko the Pooh tore his seat again" Zuko angrily asks "What do you mean again? I thought this was the first story!" Then Zuko decides not to question his uncle further and simply attempts to repair his seat. Luckily it was easy due to some very loose strings it was almost like tying a shoe.
Zuko attempts to resume the training when he suddenly hears a noise nearby, only to discover that the source happens to be his very noisy stomach demanding food.
"It sounds like someone is hungry," says Iroh. Zuko responded "I guess I could go for a meal what do we even have?" he then made his way to the cupboard and opened it up to see if there was at least food.
The contents in the cupboard consisted of sliced bread, 2 cans of condensed milk, some chocolate bars that for some reason don't melt being in a cupboard all day, a bowl of sugar, and a row of plates and bowls Zuko was annoyed.
"Uncle, what's the big idea?" Asks Zuko "There's barely any food in these cupboards" Iroh simply laughs "Nonsense of course you have plenty of food. I assure you that you cannot find it in the cupboard, but rather above" states Iroh. Zuko's attention soon turned to the shelf above the cupboard, and the lone jar while Iroh narrated the following line.
"After a healthy exercise, Zuko the Pooh had worked up an appetite for now he was in the mood for his favorite food, and sitting on his shelf was a nice round pot of honey for the bear to consume."
Zuko was in disbelief "honey...Honey ..Just HONEY!" Asks Zuko "Indeed nephew, for it is Pooh's favorite. He especially enjoys eating it straight from the honeypot" assures Iroh.
At this point, Zuko realizes why there was a pile of jars in the corner of the room they were all empty honeypots. Zuko gives off a disturbed and horrified look when he realizes what was expected of him, rejecting the thought the outraged Zuko says "No okay NO! There is no way I will degrade myself by eating sticky honey from a jar, and with my bare hands no less!"
Iroh attempts to calm his nephew down from his fit of rage "Oh come on Zuko, you have to it's in the story" Zuko gives the narrator an angered glare, asking "Give me one good reason why I should old man!" Iroh calmly explains to his nephew "It is for the children Zuko." Taking a deep breath, Zuko returns to the scene dragging a chair with him this time "Fine if it's for the kids, I'll do it" Zuko says begrudgingly while grumbling "But I still don't like this. "
Placing the chair in front of the wall, Zuko climbs to the shelf and reaches for the pot of honey. But when looking in the pot he finds it to be empty with only bits of honey sticking to the pot.
This angered Zuko while his uncle Iroh narrated "He discovered that his pot of honey was empty except for the sticky parts so the little bear decided to enjoy what he had."
Rather than do so unfortunately Zuko attempts to throw the pot in the hopes of hitting the narrator with it to shut him up sadly it only crashed on the floor.
"It looks like Zuko the pooh is in a very angry mood over there being no more honey" Iroh says Zuko still annoyed decides to help himself to condensed milk instead opening the lid which was surprisingly simple and guzzling the contents straight from the can.
"Perhaps it better if we let him eat and go to the next page" Iroh said.
Thank you all for taking the time to read this story Reviews are always welcome hopefully I will have another chapter ready soon.