The Fire Within Us All (Completed)

Chapter 14 - The Sun Warriors

"I know you're nervous, but firebending itself is not something to fear." Zuko says as him and I stand before Aang away from the others. "But, if you don't respect it, it will chew you up and spit you out like an angry komodo rhino."

(If you do not remember what he is talking about, the rhino is in the gif above.)

I laughed listening to Zuko's last comment. "Come on Zuko. Let's just start alright?" I say smiling. "Fine. Show me what you got." Zuko says folding his arms across his chest.

Aang breathed in before making a move and going to side. A puff of black smoke came out making me groan inside. From the basics and up...

"Maybe I need a little more instruction. Perhaps a demonstration from one of you?" Aang looked between us as Zuko nodded. "Good idea. You might want to take a few steps back."

Aang and I step a few feet away from Zuko as he breathed in before making fire come out of his hand, except it was like Aangs. "What? Is that it?" I ask looking at him. He growled trying to make fire come from his hands again.

"Zuko stop before you hurt yourself." I say sighing before he continues. "Here, maybe it would help if you took some from me." I say lighting my hand. Zuko looked at it before taking some only for it to disappear.

"Well that was unusual." I say before Aang walks over to us. "Maybe you could show me something since his isn't working out right." I nod to him before Zuko grabs both of my hands. "I'm not finished yet."

A slap could be heard echoing off the mountain side as I walked away backwards. "What was that for?!" He yells before a little fire comes out of his hands. "That." I say pointing to his hands.

"I'll show you Aang." I smile before facing the cliff side away from the two boys. I held my hand up before breathing in and punching it out. Fire came out in a long strip. "Wow. That was good."

"Thanks." I say before turning to Zuko to see him sulking. "Oh, come on it's probably just the day." I say patting his shoulder.

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"Here's a bowl, Arabella." Toph hands be a bowl of hot soup. I thank her before starting to eat it only for Zuko to come over, finally done sulking. "I've got some bad news. I've lost my stuff." Or so I thought.

"Don't look at me. I didn't steal anything." Toph says putting her hands up. "I'm talking about my fire bending. It's gone." As soon as Zuko finished saying this, Katara started laughing.

"I'm sorry it's just the irony in that. It would have been better if this happened a long time ago." She says before continuing to eat her soup. "It's not lost, but it's weakened. I think it's because I changed sides."

"He could be right." Aang starts getting everyone's attention. "I think your fire bending comes from rage and anger. When Arabella hit you earlier, it came back before your rage left again." I look down regretting the slap, but hey he was getting on my nerves.

"So, all we have to do is make Zuko mad. Arabella could do that again." Sokka says smiling as he picked up his sword and poked him with the handle. "Easy enough."

"Okay! Cut it out!" Zuko yells as Sokka drops his sword and backing away before standing on one leg with his hands up. "I don't want to rely on hate and anger anymore. There has to be another way."

"You could get it from the original source." I say sipping the tea I had made. Zuko looked at me. "They're all extinct." I shake my head. "You could go to those crazy people who live up in the mountain."

"My dad took me there once. It was how I learned to firebend from them. That was the worst and last mistake he made." I say shaking my heed before continuing. "I'm sure they would help. They're not with the Fire Nation, but they're from it."