Hey! I'm looking for some really well written zuko centric slash fics. I prefer zuko/sokka but, above all, I'm looking for something completed and polished. Got any recs??

I remember reading a really good story years ago about a girl from the water tribe that had a spiritual connection with a dragon which allowed her to water bend very well. It was a romance with Zuko. I can’t find it anywhere and I can’t remember the name. It was very popular and I think even had a sequel. Can anyone tell me the name of it sounds familiar?

So I read this story about two years ago. It has a similar concept to the popular Story Another Brother. The story starts a few years befor canon. What I remember is that hakoda finds zuko unconscious in th South Pole and saves him. Eventually Zuko becomes apart of the tribe after he saves one of the warriors sons. If I remember correctly Zuko and katara get together later in the story. I could really use yours guys help!

So I have been wondering, have there been any fanfics where Zuko adopts his Blue Spirit persona again to work for an organized crime group in Ba Sing Se like a thieves guild or a daofei group? Basically the plot would go something like this, some thugs who are working for a rich merchant come to the tea shop and push Zuko and Iroh around a little bit and threaten the shop owner to pay "protection" money.

Zuko, wants payback so he adopt his Blue Spirit persona again and goes to the merchant's home to steal and threaten him, but instead he stumbles upon a group of criminals who have busted into the merchant's house because they also want payback against the merchant for past grievance(s). Zuko teams up with them and by the time the ordeal is over, the criminals offer Zuko to work for their organization, and he agrees. As his adventures with the criminals continues continues Zuko's story of how he got his blades and his Blue Spirit mask is told in flashbacks, similar to what happens in Zuko alone.

Does anyone know of any good ship fics between Zuko and Song, specifically ones where Zuko meets Song as a nurse in Ba Sing Se instead of her village? No offense to you Zutara shippers out there, but I felt Zuko and Song had so much potential.

Basically the plot would be something like this: Song would take up Jin's role in Tales of Ba Sing Se where she meet Zuko at the tea shop, and makes an effort to get know him because she thinks the Fire Nation hurt him because of his scar. Eventually, she invites him and his Uncle to dinner and when they are alone she shows him her scar, and Zuko begins to sympathize with her. As time goes by that sympathy blossoms into love as the two go out with each other.

The Setting

Time: Futuristic world of the avatar. Several generations after Korra's death. Year 3000 equivalent.

Location: "Spiritus City" futurized city

Located right off of the coast of the Si Wong Desert on the East coast. In between the eastern air temple and the foggy swamp.

Spiritus City, major part of the earth kingdom but seen also as an influential seat in the united republic of nations on the west coast, it is the 2nd largest integrated city in the world next to new republic city. It is a thriving city filled with different terrain: Mostly desert sands, strong winds, and high heat from the si wong desert, but the city is separated from the dessert by a wide mountain range. And is significantly cooled down by breezes from beautiful ocean right off of the coast. The mix of the high winds and waves are perfect for competitive waterbending sports; such as a popular surfing variant called "x". Also nearby are nice lushes forests just outside the city towards the swampland which is located just miles away. Spiritus City is a bustling hub of cultural diversity and progress, but is also a great place for vacation to enjoy various activities or to just soak in the great climate.

Years after the death of avatar Korra the world has made many advancements. New republic city is no longer the only integrated bender city but just one of many in every nation of the world. But nations and benders still carry certain character traits from long instilled traditions depending on cultural heritage.

Including variants such as swamp benders(hicks compared to eurocentric northern water tribe, and [the newer, but still very accomplished, especially athletic] southern water tribe), sand benders (discriminated working class [one stereo type is they have difficulty metal bending and the newer magnet bending] and they have different customs and culture than most earth benders), and the sun warriors(Polynesian-mesoamerican firebenders). But also new cultures of mixed bender households.

The Characters

Note: Book one the young avatars will be in their adolescent ages 13-14 throughout this book perfecting their earthbending in its different forms and their own unique styles. Time period of 2-3 years

Team Avatar I

Tadara(to pray or be humble in Arabic) 13

Brown hair with a golden yellow hue in his eyes clearly sandbender decent as seen in his brown skin and hair, but has the flare of a fire bender in his eyes.

He is of sandbender/sunwarrior heritage. He and his family are relatively new to the city, but he is one of the top scholars who is depending on his intelligence to get a further education and improve his family's life style. Kind of a loner he has acquaintances but not many real friends. He mostly just has followers of his online blog. He has a crush on one girl that is friends with other avatar, because they share several interests such as “TyMei" martial arts training and both are aspiring engineers, but she is too popular or too high class for him to think to pursue. He is born and raised in a ghetto, but doesn't fit in and works really hard in his self expression through blogging, practicing his artistic expression at school, and working on fixing tech from a young age to be up to date and innovative.

His earthbending style is more precise focusing on the smaller mechanisms like grains of sand or  the precision of smaller working metal and magnets within technology, and keeps his emotions in check to repress his destructive lava bending abilities.

His very few friends are diverse individuals not very popular but have intelligence and artistic talent.

Tawk 14 (flunked a year in the past)

A swamp bender country boy with a strong accent who is proud of his water bender heritage of the swamps and its history and expresses the importance and pride of the assistance of his people in the hundred year war against the fire nation, and expresses it openly and ignorantly. Says stupid things sometimes, but is very politically aware, strongly opinionated and is a talented plant bender and an aspiring actor.

Gets bullied by other benders, and he starts to hold resentment that develops into something dark. Then when he grows up to have influence and esteem as a famous actor/politician. He could be mistaken for a waterbender who thrives and has money and power, but really comes from a poor yet proud family that has "Swamp Courtesy." (Midwest values)

Yin-yue (music in chinese) that no one can seem to pronounce correctly so she goes by Yi. 12(advanced one year previously)

An airbender hippie raver from the northern air temple who has a strange accent. She always looks high and sounds high. Very whimsical and happy go lucky. One with the world and what not. She looks like she could be a descendent of the traveling band. She wears flower crowns and accessories all the time. And has long flowing brown locks and sky blue pupils. A talented musician she uses airbending in new innovative ways to become a whole orchestra by herself. Thrives because she is a genius, but doesn't put enough work into anything and doesn't work very well with others or being limited by the system. Free Spirit.

Grows up to become famous musician. Maybe has extremely conservative parents that push her to be reserved and religious. They are airbender akalites who own a music shop. Later on in the series, she does something to get kicked out of home and is one of many homeless teenagers.

Avatar Team II

These three have been going to school together since grade school and have always gotten along. They were brought together from same social circles and sports activities. They know each other through and through, know each others families, and thought process so they can communicate without words even amongst other people.

Jin Nan(hard, difficult in Chinese)13

Black hair, pale complexion, and bright green eyes. He looks like he could be of bei fong decent but is of no relation.

Growing up in a middle class comfort but still has single working class mother, who is very proud and encouraging of his achievements, but is also constantly pressing him to be conscious of how he carries himself. By day he is a very popular jock who thrives by exploiting his talents and gets by through passing his studies on his wit and mostly his charm. At night he rebels from society by getting into trouble staying out late tagging and hanging out with hoodlums.

He is a lazy, stubborn, hard headed individual but values his friends and family greatly underneath his cool guy facade.

Like metal his earth bending is very big and shiny, but unlike metal it is not very refined. He showboats a lot to show off his bending prowess. Also integrates his bending into his skating, using metal bending and magnet bending to skate on pipe lines on edges of roofs, up walls, and everywhere else.

Gets tatted up in teenage years. Maybe joins a gang.

Koa (Hawaiian for brave) 13

Mostly looks and dresses like a southern water bender. But he is a man with the build of a earthbender samoan, dark black hair of a fire bender, brown skin and the blue eyes of a water tribesmen or white eyes of an airbender. Good at all probending sports especially the most popular sport in the globe (a polo/rugby variant) called "Benderball". He is a very talented water bender, is very popular jock and acts foolish in front of others but has a good heart and gentle soul with very strong family values because of several siblings and diverse family. His family the epitome of a modern integrated family in Spiritus City being of a mix of a water bender and earthbender and having uncles and aunts who are of several different bending decent, fire nation, earth kingdom, air nomads, and water tribe. Most of his relatives are of Southern water tribe decent, but all of his other relatives and offspring of mixed bending roots are not discriminated against in the family because they are all held together by strong family values. He also volunteers as a youth coach for youth sports. 

His waterbender heritage can be seen in his appearance at first glance and through his go with the flow easygoing spirit, but all of these racial traits don't matter to him when playing sports, and he is acknowledged and praised as a leader of men and is captain of his sports teams. 

Deals with stereotypes and people talking about different racial slurs and how he partakes and personally feels about them. Becomes a pro athlete/ social activist. Maybe gets airbender tattoos eventually 

Jura (arabic for grit or courage) non bending girl(sand bending heritage)12

Born and raised 2nd generation or later sandbender heritage, Spiritus citizen. Good at martial arts(TyMei) [which combines chi blocking, ufc mixed martial arts fighting, and innovatively using your surrounding as weapons to attack], bending/non-bending gymnastics is her forte and uses modern bending tools to display forms of fire,lightning,metal bending, and water bending into her gymnastics flawlessly. She also is good at hacking computer systems and is knowledgeable in the mechanics of vehicles. Overachiever, popular, "it" girl with attitude, active in several clubs, and her class representative all 4 years of high school. Poised, kind to most, disciplined, entitled to her opinion, badass. This girl can put the boys in their place with her glare because she has had history of assaulting benders with her master chi blocking ever since early adolescence, which has traumatized her close guy friends. Attends same cultural religious services and goes to same martial arts training as other avatar, Tadara. They have the same cultural heritage but different backgrounds.

Maybe has father in the military.

Pilot

Book 1 Substance(Earth)

First season will elaborate on Spiritus City inner struggles with educating the next gen of benders the "hidden" war to find a treasure in the spirit world and the different interests from all over the world involved, and also integrating newest technologies across the globe. Open up episodes for character introductions and character analysis. The characters not learning that they are avatar until the end of the first book.

The opening scene is of a battle between the last avatar of chaos and the last avatar of order. But not korra to show much time has passed. Each avatar containing the spirit of vaatu and the spirit of raava in a new spirit realm that is severely distorted.

Rava (form of old bearded white man in water tribe formal garb): You cannot release this power. It will destroy the world.

Vaatu(form of young woman in water tribe warrior garb): That is not for you to decide Rava.

Clash!

The avatars both parrish at the same time. 

Then the next generation is born. Cuts to a baby crying being born on transportation going from the desert sands going into Spiritus city and simotaniously another baby crying at the same time in a hospital to a single mother within Spiritus City.

Another cut to several years later a sandbender boy named Tadara (arabic. to pray or be humble) awakens bright and early to do his stretches on the rooftop, practicing his sandbender yoga forms to the rising of the sun. As he changes forms sand flies elegantly around him. As he breathes and moves there are several meditation hums, which ends with a bow and the sand returning to the floor, and then he goes downstairs to get to work in his father's repair shop before school. Using magnet bending to fix large parts of refrigerators and washing machines, but his specialty is in cellphones and other tech with very small parts. He carefully and easily puts things together and in place smoothly and precisely to fix the inner mechanics or more commonly to just switch out a phone screen and deal with unruly customers, and then afterwards rushes to school to get there early. As he walks, he picks up his only 2 friends on the way.

Hailing from the ghettos of West Spiritus a bustling hub of foreigners and poorer class citizens. Mixed ethnicities mostly Sand people, but also many other foreigners. Tadara walks with his friends Tawk and Yin-Yue. They see people get arrested, people getting jumped and mugged and pass lots of local stores before getting into school. 

Bell rings.

Cuts back to another boy waking up super late, hair messy. This boy is Jin Nan. He dresses quickly and then skates to school. Uses earthbending, metal bending, and magnet bending to take shortcuts up sewer drains, over rooftops, and to form several adobe ramps to make it in time for the last bell. Which turns out to be the lunch bell. Confident that he made it to lunch break he hangs amongst the popular kids in the quad. He sits beside his best friends.

As Jin sits nashalauntly on the table, he gives a secret handshake to Koa and his other jock friends. Jura sitting close by amongst several girls rolls her eyes and faces towards him.

Jura: Jin Nan! You are late..again! When are you going to get it through that Metal Skull of yours? If you don't pass the next World History test you won't be able to play in the last few games of Benderball this season. And if you think I'm going to just let you cheat off of me, you better think again.

Jin: You know you're a bummer Jura, why don't you go dance your way off the nearest building.

*her glare sharpens sending chills down Jin’s spine and he straightens up his posture

*he makes an apologetic face

Jin: I'm just kidding around Jura. I've just been so wiped out from putting in work during probending practice everyday that it makes it impossible to wake up on time.

Jura: Don't give me that RhinoHog dung Jin. I am a part of the school's gymnastics team, mechanics club, coding program, PolyNation organization, have been class representative 2 years in a row, and go to “TyMai" training daily and I still manage to get here on time.

Jin: That's not fair you've always been extra in everything to compensate for your inability to bend.

Group of teens: ooooo

Jura: Ha! What are we in the 18th century? Little boy nonbenders have been thriving for several generations, thank you very much. If you showed up for class you probably would know these things. And if you're looking for a fight, I can take you and any other bender on all by myself.

Everyone: Oooo *uproar

Jura: Don't think that I don't know where you've been hanging out late at night. Don't make me tell your mother.

Jin: *sinks from up top the table into the floor and under the table

Whispers..."sorry" Jura:what was that i didn't quite hear you?! Jin: I'm Sorry. *Smiling up at her. Jura smirks back and then gets up and walks away with several girls following.

Koa comes over and puts his arm on Jin Jin:Damn Jura always "zapping" me in front of everyone.. Koa: You know she only tells you because she cares, and she knows that if she didn't do it so loudly that you wouldn't listen.

Girls walk passed and Jin's eyes follow.

Jin: What were you saying Koa?! I wasn't listening. Give me a sec while i restore my  "flow".(benderpun)dignity/pride/swag

Slides off following the girls. Koa: Nevermind…

Bell Rings and at lunch time the other 3 friends sit with other misfits. In another school on a bench under a tree.

A group of thug looking teenagers who look 3 or 4 years older than everyone else approach the group, and everyone puts their head down except Tadara who doesnt pay them any mind and continues eating.

They start picking on random kids. And everyone keeps minding their own business like it was normal.

But then they come over to Tawk who is carrying around a plant with a sprouting bud in a pot and they drop it on the floor and yell racial slurs at him.

Tawk starts tearing up but he doesn't say anything or cry. He just stares at the broken pot and they start laughing.

Tadara gets up and tells them to pick it up.

The bullies keep laughing

And then the biggest bully says “or what?!”

As they mad dog each other everyone else just stares and smiles.

The dirt starts shaking.

Dirt from the plant turns into a rockfist and knocks the bully in the jaw and sends him flying.

His friends rush at Tadara and he dodges most of their shots. He continues to throw the dirt and metal around him to hit all of the goons. Tawk uses the water in a nearby fountain to help and also nearby tree branches but he takes more hits then he deals out. 

Yi sits a few feet away with her earbuds on not aware of the fight.

The big bully gets up enraged and throws lightning bolt straight at Tadara and he flies over to Yi, unplugging her music. 

She sees the fight and screams "WTF!" blowing everyone else in the general vicinity away. Clearing the way for security and administration to storm in and stop the fight by lightly bending the kids into submission.

Cuts to everyone sitting quietly in the administration office.

Bully talks to Tadara and they come to terms and bully has respect for Tadara.

Whistle blows.

Jin and Koa are in Benderball practice running drills with their coach. 

Koa and Jin's playing are always in sync and they greatly outshine all the other players. But in this opening scene Koa will not be shown.

Jin’s athletic skills will be highlighted in the first scene and the rules of Benderball explained. After the rules are explained, Jin is seen being passed the ball and racing down the field. Juking all the players using his bending flawlessly and perfectly anticipating his opponents moves. It all looks very slick, but he constantly unnecessarily showboats and plays as if he is on the field solo and after he scores he practices his victory dance. The sound of a whistle blows and a stubby man with a beard calls the team to come in and the coach critiques the team, and then singles out Jin for showboating and not working with his teammates. 

Jin shrugs it off and then makes up some excuse for being better than everyone else and his teammates all glare at him and Koa just puts his head in his hands and shakes his head.

After practice the jocks talk to Jin, telling him not to show off anymore or else. 3or4 of them leading the fight but a few more following Jin says something smug and they all get heated start flaring fire, forming water, and pulling off the metal lockers. And almost get into a fight when Koa comes walking out of the shower shocked at the situation and immediately floods the water from the shower into the locker room. In the background a girlish scream can be heard from the showers. Koa bends the water into the locker room to freeze all the athletes before they fight. He tells them to cut it out and deal with this outside of school where they won't jeopardize the team.

Koa melts the water and everyone backs away. Koa scolds Jin and Jin  just shrugs his shoulders as if he didnt know why those guys were upset at him.

Cuts to Tadara and friends walk home.

Tawk: I don't want to go home just yet guys the principal called my mom and I already know that she's going to bend out all of her strongest vines and whip my butt.

Tadara: My parents won't even understand what they're talking about so I'll be fine.

Yi: Well technically I didn't get in any trouble cuz i didn't start the fight. They even praised me for stopping the situation so abruptly.

The trio up head to a mountain side with a view.

Tawk: I hate those guys. Just cuz his brother is a (bender equivalent of gangster)

Tadara: Don't let it phase you Tawk, they're just a bunch of low life's. In a few years just wait, we're going to be out of this place and they're going to walking my tigerdillo hahaha

*All laugh

Cut back to Jin and Koa laughing after practice as they wait for Jura and they walk together. Jin slowly skates circles around them as they head home.

All of a sudden flying vehicles (bikes/boards) shine their lights and descend in front and behind of the trio and a band of jocks surround the friends. And they stand back to back in a defensive stance.

Jura: Jin what did you do now? Jin: Why do you assume this is my fault? Koa: Because it is... Jin:shhh

Jock1: You always think your hot stuff don't you Jin. Jock2: We should teach him a lesson. Let's rough him up a little to show him that he's not the only athletic guy on the team. Jin: Well we all play Benderball, so that literally defines all of us as athletic. Jock3: Yeah, but you're always the one hogging the ball and taking all the shots. Making the rest of us look bad! Jin: If you guys could make a decent shot, I'd give it to you, but I just don't think you can. Koa: Come on guys does it really have to come to this.

Jock1: You're a cool guy Koa, but we're sick of you always sticking up for this guy. You can't keep on making excuses for this "ProbiscusPeacock/Diamond Player"(bender slang for show off change later) Jin: It's not showing off it's skill. (He says this with a smug look and eyes closed)

Several jocks throw elements at the trio and Jura and Koa evade quickly.

A burst of fire almost hits Jin, but Jura sweeps his legs quickly enough for him to evade the hit.

The athletes converge on the friends Combining their elements and landing a few blows on Koa and Jin. Jura however weaves her way through the crowd dancing circles around them and causing the benders to hit each other with their blows. She almost gets hit a few times and loses her footing and falls over due to earth bender/iced floor techniques.

The combined efforts of the athletes seem to be too much more for the trio.

When it looks like the team is down, Jura looks at the other two they all understand each other with a single glance and she says "Split"

They run off into different directions quickly. Koa using ice to ski off down the street. Jin magnetizing a pipe to slide up to the closest rooftop and Jura running swiftly to somersault over the closest wall.

Fighting individually they do significantly better.

Down the road Koa being chased finds himself cornered into a dead end street that is cut off by a body of water like a sewer or river.

2 benders of earth, 1 bender of fire, and 1 bender of water approach Koa.

He turns around ready to mount an defense.

The two earth benders send a wave of earth towards Koa to push him off the edge but he quickly ices the floor to sidestep the impact.

The fire and waterbender charge up a ramp made from the ground and try to send impacts toward Koa mid air. But Koa quickly rebounds the water to cancel out the fire blast creating a wave of steam. Koa quickly slides behind the assailants as they wait nervously for him to appear. All of a sudden the mist gathers to one area towards Koa. Amongst the chaos he froze the ground and then condensed the mist into a solid wave of water to push the group into the river. He then freezes the water and skates away. Koa: Sorry guys, I'll see you at school tomorrow.

Cut to Jura.

After hopping over a fence Jura leads 3 of the probenders one of air, one of water, and one of fire into a dark alley filled with debris and dumpsters and fire escapes.

Jura quickly absorbs her surroundings,finds cover, whilst grabbing miscellaneous items on the way. 

The trio converge slowly and cautiously into the darkness. The fire bender lights his fists shaking as he leads the way.

A bottle is thrown and cuts his hand and simultaneously a brick hits his head rendering him unconscious.

In the flickering light Juras shadow is seen moving swiftly.

The two remaining athletes are shocked and in an act of panic send icicles and strong blows of air down the entire ally to blow away all the small items.

Air Jock: Now you have nothing to throw. We got you beat non bender(normie/other non bender discriminatory term)

Jura: “That's what you think” rings through the alley.

Jura plops down in front of the airbender from a fire escape and before a breath can be blown towards her. She spreads out her targets arms pushing outwards causing the bending blows to follow and punches the benders pressure points quickly and as the athlete falls. Jura falls into a offensive stance towards the water bender.

Jura: Do you want to give me a try?

Waterbender runs away quickly.

Jura straightens herself up and walks away.

Cut to Jin up on the rooftop

His assailants follow up the roof.

An air bender leads by blowing himself up to the roof and pulls Jin to stumble instead of getting away further.. The others catch up brought up by a platform of earth. 4 benders, one of each element approach Jin.

Jock1: this is what you deserve!

All four benders punch towards Jin.

He takes a strong horse stance closes his eyes and pulls all nearby metal to form a barricade to absorb the blow.

Skating up the barricade he flies into the air 

He then gestures the metal underneath the athletes to move to cause them to fall.

Afterwards he reforms the metal scraps from the barrier to follow him and sends them flying to disable all of his assailants.

Jura: I'm really sorry guys. I don't mean to show off I just can't help myself sometimes. I'll try to do better. 

Bows respectively and then skates off.

In an unknown location in the city. Maybe an abandoned building or up in a treefort made of tree vines and metal. Team avatar II converges. Jura waits patiently, followed by Jin decending from the roof, and lastly followed by Koa who skates his way into the gangs secret base.

Jura: Jin you better apologize to those imbeciles.

Kia: You don't have to tell me I just did Jura.

They glare at each other intensely.

Koa hugs both of them by the neck.

Koa: I'm glad we're all alright guys.

All three smile and laugh.

Sun sets

Tadara sits on the edge of a cliff or roof top with his friends beside him.

Jin sits the same way.

Jin: With so little worries and such great friends i sometimes wish time would just stay like this and never change.

Tadara: Sites like this make this ugly world look so beautiful, we can't be and won't be here forever guys I promise.

Panoramic scene of the sun setting over Spiritus City.

END

Alt. Addition

Jura: Alright guys i'll see you guys tomorrow I have a ton of schoolwork to do before Ty-Mai training.

Koa: Same and I gotta head home to take care of my little cousins while my aunt and uncle are working tonight 

Jin: Okay I'm going to hang around for a bit and then I'll head home too. Thanks for always having my back guys.

All three separate. Cuts to Jins solo hoodlum activities.

Azula is the main character in it. And it is about Azula finding a companion who genuinely cares for her, and desires to be around her not through fear. But because she actually enjoys being around Azula.

We also get to see the war from Azula's point of view, and her journey to defeat all who stand in her way of becoming Fire Lord. As the war intensifies she gains new allies and enemies alike.

It is currently running at about 87 chapters long at around 800,000 words, of which 68 have been published.

If anyone is interested. You can check it out at the links below:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/20323039/chapters/48184174

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13364628/1/The-Princess-and-the-Peasant-Book-One-Bonds-An-Azula-epic

https://www.wattpad.com/story/222424645-the-princess-and-the-peasant-book-one-bonds

https://www.quotev.com/story/12666981/The-Princess-and-the-Peasant-Book-One-Bonds

I’m looking for fanfictions that have Zuko as the main character and/or has other powers. That could be bending or something like in Champion of Agni. I don’t mind if he’s the avatar or if it’s time travel but hopefully something that follows Zuko. I would prefer slash but any parings are ok but not female Zuko. Thank you!

Zuko was fatiuged after the recent drama , despite it having been a week since the series of unfortunate events took place . After his sister's mass kidnapping , he was conflicted on his next course of action. Slaving away on his desk, the fire lord drafted a letter it read :

Dear General Hyang ,

I am concerned about our beautiful nation's security . After my sister's terrorising regime , I think that it is time to assemble an elite force of fire bending warriors to protect us in times of distress .

''Uh, stupid , stupid , stupid !'' Exclaimed the firelord hopelessly , '' How am I going to do this ? I don't even know if my nation supports this idea and yet I am writing to the top commander without even consulting my council ? Let alone my uncle. '' Zuko looked up , distressed, screwing up his paper and throwing it in the bin . What was he going to do , he had no eyes on Azula and she was a real threat ,being a better fire bender and all . '' Everything alright Zuko ?'' said a soft and familiar voice . Ursa, his Mother had walked in . '' Oh , hi Mom .'' he replied casually. Ursa threw him a comforting look .''Come on Zuko , something is wrong, I know these things .'' She continued . Zuko was left with no choice than to explain his confliction to his Mother . '' Remember when Azula went round kidnapping the capital's young ?'' Asked Zuko. Looking at her with his golden eyes . '' Of course , it was so worrying .'' Instantly, they were both reminded of the immense fear they felt for Kiyi , his younger sister. ''Well, Mom I am thinking of putting together an elite force of fire benders to protect us , but I do not know whether it is a good idea . '' Ursa's face looked more relieved after Zuko expressed himself . ''Well , '' she said '' I think it is a great idea and if you disagree, I know you will come to the best conclusion . I Know better than you that you have certanly got your uncles wits , he is the wisest person I know . Relax Zuko , good night . '' Said his mother as she headed for bed . What on earth did she mean . Why couldn't he make the descision. ''Sleep well mom'' he said in a voice loud enough for her to hear him.

The following morning, Zuko arranged a council meeting the following week and invited his uncle . In the mean time, he needed to focus on the navy's much needed upgrades . He got his architechts working on a new destroyer he codenamed the dragon of the west class . He also put his scientist and researchers to the task of finding an alternative weapon to the coal powered catapaults that the navy currently used. In need of fresh air , the fire lord went on a walk throught the city meeting its poeple , the very ones he vowed to protect.

The week went by very quickly as the meeting was in a matter of hours . The Fire Lord had overslept , just as he woke up and he felt an enormous lump on his chest '' Zu Zu !'' squealed a small voice , rubbing sleepdust out of his eyes , Zuko looked up and found that Kiyi was lying atop him . Re-adjusting his posture , it was only a matter of seconds before he tightly squeezed his 5 year old sister and then started

tickling her .''Stop it Zu Zu it tickles .'' she gigled ecstatically '' Zu Zu, are you having a meeting today ? Can I come ?'' Her green eyes widened giving an innocent look that you would need a stone heart to refuse . Feeling guilty, Zuko considerd it. '' Uh , why do you want to come, it is very boring , I would hate for you to feel like you wasted your time . '' He replied , trying to stress his point in a way that was realistic to her . He thought of what to say next but his thinking was disturbed when Noren entered the room . ''Dadda ! '' squealed Kiyi who bounded into her father's arms . ''Sorry if she was any trouble Zuko, '' he turned to Kiyi '' We were looking for you all morning . '' Zuko looked calmly at Noren, his greying tied back hair flowing in the breeze . '' Don't worry , she was no trouble , infact I am quite glad she came . Anyway did you sleep well Nor..'' Before he could finish , noren decided to interrupt Zuko calmly ''Please , call me 'Dad' if that is allright'' he said in a gentle voice . Zuko gave him a look of confusion as if his Father said just call me Ozai . '' Ok then Dad, have a nice morning. '' After dressing into his robes and mounting his crown , Zuko went down to the meeting . Stood infront of the door was a squat man wearing the uniform of a high ranking general with a grey beard and silver hair , holding a tray of jasmine tea . His face was so jolly he could have been anyone's uncle .

'' Prince , I mean Fire lord Zuko ...'' As he said this the Fire Lord easily recognised his uncle and before Iroh could finish his scentence , he found he was already hugging Zuko . ''Be carefull !'' he said leaning dow to balance his tea tray, '' That could have been 10 cups of Jasmine straight out of Omashu , the stuff is so expensive that it brings tears to my eyes ! '' Iroh heated another cup of Jasmine tea. ''Oh, sorry uncle . I d-didn't mean to .'' stammered somewhat nervously and had just managed to structure a sentence. '' Zuko , if I can forgive you for disposing of your Grand Father's white lotus tiles , then do you not think I can for the possibilitie of spilt tea . '' Soon after , Iroh burst out laughing and was followed by Zuko. After they both went in, the meeting commenced . '' Good morning to you all and may I thank you for coming on such short notice .'' Zuko said ''Now , as many of you may know , I am planning on creating an elite force of fire benders but , such a force would need a approval . As the fire Lord, I have learned from the mistake of not seeking proper advice and that , it is safe to say that such a thing is guarenteed here . So, onwards with it ,who is in favour of the new guard ?'' The vote was unanimous in favour of Zuko's proposal . The Fire Lord continued and as he did so turned to a short figure clutching a book . '' Earlier this month I put some of my researchers to work on upgrading the navy so , chief architecht Priam and the head of scientific research for the military General Zihon , what have you found out ? '' The head of architecture , Priam got up to speak, he was tall and skinny with short, black hair and a greying beard . '' Well Fire Lord , we have desighned the Dragon of the West Destroyer .'' Glancing back , Zuko noticed Iroh's eyes widen as interest in the new ship sparked throughout the meeting's participants . '' You would really name that thing after me ?'' whispered Iroh into Zuko's ear .'' Yeah I did , is that alright .'' Zuko responded quietly . He was worried that his uncle disliked the use of his former title . ''It is fine , let us get on with the meeting .'' Once the conversation had died down between the generals and govenors the designers continued '' So we have managed to make the new destroyer 60% faster than the empire class and twice as big .'' The presentation went on for several hours the ship was 300m at the longest point and 175m metres wide . It consisted of two large dragon shaped pontunes which had a cannon that took 11 benders to fire . The new ship had guns in which a bender could pressurise their fire to fit in the barrel for its prescision and added power and velocity, they had small ones and large ones that ressembles ww2 destroyers . In between the two pontunes was a large ram which coud heat up a multiple pressure points so that he could ram ships or break ice if he needed to offer Sokka , Katara or Hakoda protection.

It had been two days since the meeting , and the first stage of recruiting had just finished now it was fieldtrip time . Using his personal vessel , Zuko took the first 50 men out of the 100,000 who trialed to the sun warriors . The journey was long and hard but they made it . Along with the men, crew and guards , Zuko took his mother ,his uncle ,Noren, Kiyi and his father -Ozai- in chains to teach him firebending's true meaning . Upon arrival , they docked the ship and headed for the sun warriors in an unarmed tundra tank but this one was larger than usual . It was an hour until they reached at which point Kiyi squealed ''Look Dadda , Mamma , the stairway that Zuko told me , it's real ! '' She exclaimed with an expresssion that was similar to a kitten in a room of dead. '' Hello , Fire Lord '' said a bowing shaman . The village had grown , everyone was fire bending, It was a nice sight to see considering they went into hiding . ''Well , I have come to teach these men the true meaning of fire bending, if it is alright with you of course ?'' The chief started laughing , the party was confused . ''Well It's great you came ,obviously do not tell anyone! ''He said examining one of the recruits, he continued ''So , come inside the hall , we have a gift for you .'' The chief went into the hall where Zuko and aang had first preformed the dancing dragon and were they almost starved to death in what was a failed attempt to steal the sunstone. The chief tapped something and the goldden stone popped up, this time he thrusted his fist producing a large stream of fire wich destroyed some of the stone below. He then got the sunstone and handed it to Zuko '' For me ?'' questioned the fire lord . ''Yes, when you first touched the egg , we were worried you had damaged it , however , it imprinted on you and because of that with you lies the unborn dragon's loyalty '' The chief explained . He went on further by stating that female dragons are blue and the male ones are red . ''Thank you I am honored , but didn't Fire Lord Sozin make sure there were no dragon eggs ?'' Asked Zuko after bowing to the chief . The egg was warm in his hands , it was like holding solid lava . Upon feeling a tug upon hiis robes , Kiyi asked if she could touch the egg. Zuko bent down and she stroked it but whithdrew due to the heat.

''Now then , get into pairs and hold the fire , then you are to march up the mountain and dance for the masters . A roar of laughter surged from the men . ''Do you really think that I would bring you this far just for a joke '' Shouted Zuko angrily , his men were silienced and they rushed up the mountain . ''Zu Zu , I'm a bender but I have no one to go with , will you come with me ?'' Kiyi looked up at her brother . Zuko agreed and they went up together . The chief handed Kiyi the fire and she and her brother set off into the mountains . They were upon the stairway and Zuko placed the egg down and started the dancing dragon. This time fire flew from his fists and they were larger and more vibrant than usual . Kiyi's bending was alot stronger , she would definately win if Zuko were her age . They both gasped in amazement at the colourful fire . Eventhough he had already witnessed and produced the flame , Zuko was bewildered , it was like a caveman first sighting the burning orange energy that was fire . Suddenly , the egg started to crack and a red dragon emerged , it was no smaller than Kiyi and it flew , onto Zuko's shoulder.

When they had returned to the exploration vehichle , the everyone gasped in amazement as Zuko played with the Dragon. ''I think I will call him Druck .'' Said Zuko to everyone . They all smiled , still discombobulated about the dragon. The Fire Chief turned to Zuko '' Then Druck will be the first Dragon to be born in over 100 years .'' As he explained this , he patted Zuko on the back .

It had been 6 months since the visit , Kiyi had practised alot as was Zuko . The Fire Guard had finished recruiting it's first 5 batalions , they were the best troops . It consisted of 10,000 men per battalion , so Zuko had a force of 50,000 elite guards along with 5,000 on the new Destroyer wich he had just launched . The other 2 he would launch in one month and the 10 he just ordered were mid way in construction . During the period of the 6 months , Zuko had trained so hard that his fire streams were almost as big as they were during Sozin's comet . He could also use a charged attack to generate a fire comet that was about the same size as the one he created with his uncle . Now was the big moment . He had summoned both his Father and his Uncle but not his Mother or Kiyi ; he was worried that if he messed up they would be petrified . Zuko cleared his chakras, it was something Aang tought him to do when they were searching for Ursa . Upon doing this , he closed his eyes and proceeded to move his arms in stiff circular motions . The blue , electicity appeared . Zuko touched his finger tips together and pointed it into the sky . He was thrilled and terrified. He had generated lightning . Soon after he could generate it like his father and uncle .

Looking round the palaec the next day, Zuko spotted Mai , he walked over ...

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Thank you for reading, please upvote . If you are interested , chapter 2 will be out on Tuesday next week.

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This is the second part of The Saga of Avatar Korra.

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As of 11/22/15 this story has been completed.

As of 07/16/16 this story has been resumed.

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