Burning Pile (Prince Zuko Book 1)

*four*

Aurora still felt the eyes of the water tribe on her back as she stood next to Iroh by the railing. "They hate us... and I can't even blame them." She watched Zuko with a slight disappointment in her heart. "I'll be in my room, I don't want to watch this anymore.." Her voice was quiet as she watched Zuko threaten the poor people down below. He knew they were scared of him, she knew he knew, but he didn't care.

She quietly made her way to her room picking up a book which she brought onto the ship with her, she brought two or three but Zuko burned one when he was in rage about something stupid. Well, it was better that he hit the book and not her again. But she was proud of him, after the accident he learned how to control his anger quiet a bit and not to shot without wanting to.

After a while she heard voices in the corridor and opened her door slightly only to hear a man scream. "The avatar has escaped!" Oh no... her feet carried her up on the main deck again with the book still in her hand, as she searched for the prince or his uncle. But she couldn't find anyone. She was worried, maybe even scared. What if the avatar would hurt her, if she's out alone like that? The young girl sighed as she thought about what Zuko said.

She always ruined his plans, she never thinks anything through. A young boy running past her and accidentally pushing her over made her snap out of her thoughts. "What..." Aurora whispered to herself as she saw Zuko running after him. So that's the avatar? But he's a child...

Him and Zuko fought until the boy fell into the water, just to come back up glowing and throwing Zuko overboard. "Zuko!" Aurora gasped and ran to the railing. "Please be okay..." she whispered looking down as two children from the fire nation landed on the ship with their bison. As she saw the prince coming up she tried to help him but the water tribe pushed her aside making her hit her head. As he pushed Zuko down again he brought the avatar his stick and got onto the bison.

Aurora felt her head throbbing and tried to ignore it so she could help the young prince up. "I can't reach your hand, idiot!" He yelled at her as she tried reaching down for him. "You know what? If you're gonna be a dick and yell at me, I might just leave you hanging!" She screamed back just for her headache to get worse. Aurora noticed Iroh coming out of the corridor so she quickly told him how Zuko fell down there and he helped her get him up.

"Shoot him down!" He yelled and him and Iroh threw fire balls up towards them. The young girl touched her forehead only to notice that she's started bleeding. She couldn't stand the sight of blood so she swallowed thickly sitting down against the wall, as snow and ice covered their ship barely missing the prince. A ringing in her ears made her not hear what prince Zuko and general Iroh said and somehow she was happy about that.

They were after a kid. "You're bleeding. Uncle go get a healer." Zuko said coldly. "I'm fine I'll just go take a nap." Aurora mumbled as she got up but Zuko pushed her right back down onto the cold floor. "You can't see blood, the moment you get up you'll just faint. So stop playing tough and just fucking sit down." His glare being colder than the floor. "I should throw you off the ship for leaving before a fight. Who do you think you are to just leave the field like that?!" He started yelling again.

"Prince Zuko, she's had enough, do you want her to bleed out of her ears or eyes because you made her headache worse?" Iroh asked calmly placing a hand on Zukos shoulder only for him to shrug it off and walk away.