The False avatar

Chapter 7 A prodigy is born

Things were going well for once. After he told his younger brother that he would take all the responsibilities of his training. He looked like it's was his birthday already. He hugged him tightly saying thank you over and over again. When the news reached ozai, he asked a few guestion. He also wished to informed every update regarding zuko's bending at all time. And left saying that the boy finally got a spine for himself and was finally being useful for once. Shoto grinded teeth and held back a retort. While he watched him leave with an arrogant smirk. 'What a damm spineless worm!' He thought as he watched him leave.

Over the following months they fell into easy routine. Shoto would teach zuko firebending for 4 days a week, they would began just after lunch till the evening. Where they promptly took dinner and went to bed. He madesure that zuko participated in extracurricular actives on the last three days of the week. He hired dancing instructors and both he and his younger sibling worked together to learn the various different dance styles. He also accompanied zuko to master Piandao the greatest swords men to have ever lived, to learn the art of using sword and non bending fighting style. On the last day of the week, he madesure to give zuko a day off. While he worked with chefs inorder to learn the culinary arts.

He would sometimes cook zuko soba with extra spices, whenever he felt that zuko need should be rewarded. Lastly he also took an initiative to help zuko with his homework and tutors. Overall it was a perfect schedule, it kept ozai satisfied and also at distance from him. Mother was greatly happy, of the arrangement and also pestered him here and there about him getting a girlfriend. He also played the trump card of changing the topic.

Overall things were looking up for him. That's until on the stormiest day of the moonson. Where lightning danced across the sky in hundreds of bolts per moment. Zuko grabbed on to his leg out of fear. And a moment passed, then a child came into the world smothered in the cold fire of lightning. The child wailed and when ozai came to hold the child. He was delighted, the child was born with the spark that marked a true firebending prodigy. "Agni's has given his favor to me. She will grow stronger then all firebender in this epochs." Ozai said with a wicked glee on his face. He held the child as it wailed longing for it's mother.

"She will be called Azula." He informed the sages. The sages agreed with him. And with that ozai handed her back to ursa. He brushed them aside and ignored their presence. He walked over to ursa with zuko trailing right behind. He pulled zuko up on the bed so that he could see his little sister up close. She stared at them as her eyes flickered from zuko to him. Ursa gestured him to hold her.

Shoto did with fail, he held his new sibling in his hands. She felt like a warm, like placing your hand within a furnaces. Her skin was glistening and pale. It felt like fire was about erupt from her body. That was until he looked at her eyes. Her eyes burned bright with the light a star with the colour of a brilliant ember. There's no denying what she will become one of the greatest or if not the greatest firebender to ever extisted. And that creates a drop in his stomach. He remembers the wicked grin and malevolent look on ozai's face.

He doesn't know how he will proceed from here. But as he handles her back to ursa. He makes a promise to himself. That no matter what he will makesure that Azula his one and only sister gets to be happy. Shoto did his best to makesure to be present for Azula. He would put her to sleep, tell her stories and sometimes he would let her see his flames. As time flew, azula developed a flame at the age of 2. Before she could even read or write, she had a spark in her hands. Ozai paraded her around the palace that day with pride.

Shoto watched zuko's face grew a scowl as he worked harder and harder just get a shiver of ozai attention. Ozai didn't care for he had all of his attention to the prodigious daughter infront of him. It was at these times shoto would be the one to tell him how proud he was of zuko. Whenever he felt that he wasn't enough. Another 2 years passes away, at the age of 4 ozai deems her old enough to began her training. Under Azulon's command he was sent in to tutor her about the art of firebending.