a flame in his heart | zuko

chapter six

"Ahh. See, Prince Zuko. A moment of quiet is good for your mental well-being." Uncle Iroh said as he gave Zuko and Y/N a cup of tea.

As Zuko was about to take a sip the ship bumped something causing the tea to splash in Zuko's face, Y/N couldn't help but smile as Zuko groaned in frustration as he got up to see what had happen. Y/N followed in suit.

Zuko and Y/N step out to see a lady with a whip riding a huge beast.

"We're after a stowaway!" The lady said.

"There are no stowaways on my ship!" Zuko yelled back. That's when the beast chewed on the floor to grab and hunk of metal and chucked it at Zuko, Y/N, Uncle Iroh, and the guards.

Then out of the hole, a man comes running out but then got paralyzed by the beast's tongue.

"He's paralyzed..." Y/N muttered.

"Only temporally. The toxins will wear off in about an hour, but by then he'll be in jail and I'll have my money." The lady explain.

"But how did you find him on my ship?" Zuko asked.

"My xierxu can smell a rat a continent away." The lady said and straggled on top of the xierxu.

"Well, I'm impressed." Uncle Iroh commented.

That's when the lady left the ship.

"Very impressed..." Uncle Iroh said, suspiciously.

Y/N tapped Zuko's shoulder to which he turned around to see her holding up Katara's necklace. "Maybe she could help us."

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Y/N and Zuko enter into the bar as there was much yelling and cheering as they both saw in the middle was that lady riding the xierxu and some buff man arm wrestling.

"Out of my way!" Zuko yelled as he got through the crowd. "Step aside, filth!"

Y/N smiled at the man Zuko called "filth". "I'm sure you bathe regularly."

"I need to talk to you." Zuko said to the lady.

"Well if it isn't my new friends, angry boy and miss princess." The lady said then smashing the buff guy's hand to the ground winning the arm wrestling match.

"Your beast trashed my ship. You have to pay me back." Zuko said.

"Ah, I'd love to help you out, but I'm a little short on money." The lady said sarcastically as she collected the piles of copper, silver, and gold pieces on her table. "Drinks on me!"

As she was about to take a sip of her drink, Zuko grabs her wrists. "Money isn't what I had in mind." Zuko said.

The lady glared hard, "Then what do you two want?"

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"We need you to find someone." Y/N said as she held up Katara's necklace.

"What happened? His girl toy ran off on him so you're getting mad?" The lady asked.

"It's not the girl I'm after, it's the bald monk she's traveling with." Zuko said.

"Whatever you say." The lady rolled her eyes.

"If you find them, I'll consider the damage to my ship paid for." Zuko said.

"Ha! Forget it." The lady said as she was about to climb back on her xierxu.

"Plus we'll pay your weight in gold." Y/N imputed in making the lady stop in her tracks.

"Hm, you have a deal." The lady said. She grabbed the necklace and brought it up to the xierxu's nose. "Get on."