It's been three days. Iroh and myself are still following Zuko. Nothing big has happened. Every day has been wake up, follow, go to sleep for me and Iroh. For Zuko, it's been wake up, steal food or money, travel further, fall asleep. I don't know how much longer this will go on for but I hope it ends soon.
"Wait..Do you feel that?" Iroh says, holding his hand out.
I stop walking and focus on my feet, "I don't feel anything.. oh wait it sounds like a-"
Just as I spoke a giant train like vehicle came rushing from out of the woods about 50 feet left of us. I stumbled back in panic.
"What is that?!" I question with a fearful look. What ever it is, it can't be good.
I see Iroh's face grow angry, "That's Azula." Iroh says.
"How do you know?" I question.
"Only the fire nation has those machines. Specifically the royal family and army." Iroh says as he then turns his attention over to Zuko.
Zuko was staring at the train as it passed. Just after the train went out of sight, Zuko started following it.
"How are we suppose to follow him now? That's in the open." I say to Iroh. The train was plowing through an open field between two mountains. There was no where for me and Iroh to hide.
"We have to take the mountain trail. It's the only cover we have." Iroh says.
"Let's go, then." I reply. We began sprinting the 50-70 feet to the mountain. If we had walked there, we would've lost sight of Zuko.
After the long sprint, and being out of breath, we made it over to the mountains trail and began hiking up.
"I have a bad feeling about him following Azula." I admit to Iroh as we walk.
"If anything is to happen, we're not too far behind." Iroh says.
"The only problem is I don't have any water." I respond.
"I'm sure you'll find a way to fight if we have to." Iroh replies.
"Hopefully." I respond back. I look behind me and see we're a good distance from where we hiked up the trail. I look over to my right and see Zuko, down below on the field, running with the ostrich-horse to chase down Azula. I just want him to come back. Not only is he lost physically but he's lost mentally. I can see it. Hopefully him being alone for so long helped him realize something. Hopefully.
"Get down!" Iroh whispers as we duck behind a rock.
My face grows confused as I look over the rock. A girl with black hair and no shoes, was walking. She must be the reason why we ducked behind the rock. She stopped in her place, right in front of the rock.
"I think she knows we're her-" I begin to speak before Iroh and myself are knocked over with two powerful rocks. "Ahh!" I yell as I'm knocked back on my back and hit my head. I look up and see the girl on top of the rock looking down on us.
"Ohh! That really hurt my tailbone." Iroh says on his knees as he rubs his tail bone. He then slowly looks over to the girl.
"Why are you following me?!" The girl yells.
"We're not following you, we thought you were an enemy." I say rubbing my head.
"We didn't mean to alarm you. We're just passing by." Iroh says.
The girl slowly drops her fighting stance.
"I'm Hai and this is my friend, Iroh." I say to the girl.
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Protected Princess || Zuko
FanfictionAfter living her whole life in the Northern Water Tribe, Hai was tired of her tribes ways and customs. She did not want to be forced to get married at 16 nor did she want to keep her water bending to strictly healing. Upon arrival of the Avatar, Hai...
