When Hatred turned to Love (ATLA Zuko x OC)

Chapter Sixty-Six - Sozin's Comet Pt. 4: Avatar Aang & His Defender

Previously, on Avatar...

"Everyone, even my own past lives, are expecting to end someone's life, but I don't know if I can do it,"

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"Ba Sing Se the Order of the White Lotus is here,"

"Here to set you free,"

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"Suki!"

"I'm okay! Just finish the mission!"

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"Sorry, but you're no gonna become Fire Lord today, I am,"

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"Zuko!" Katara shouted watching the lightning falling on her friend.

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Iris felt a strong pain in her chest, spreading over her entire body and she collapsed on her knees. She wrapped the soil in her fists from the pain and she tried to wake up. I have to wake up...

She felt a fire blast running towards her, it blasted her back on the wall and a pointy stone stabbed her back. Iris let a cry of pain and she fell to her knees.

"You are both weak, just like the rest of your people. Prepare to join them, Avatar. Join your sister who's now dying..." Ozai said and he set another one fire blast on the sphere shouting "...prepare to die!"

I will not survive this...

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Ozai continued shooting fire blasts, endlessly on the sphere Aang was trapped in. Aang gritted his teeth not wanting to believe that his sister was dying. Ozai was a wretched man, he could be lying. But Aang felt somehow that his sister was in danger... and she was.

Iris tried to crawl herself towards them. She had to wake up, she knew it, but she couldn't. The pain was intense, not just on her chest but the wound at her back was deteriorating in every move she tried to make. She couldn't just stand there, watch her brother get burned, she had to do something.

Then, Ozai finally managed to break the sphere Aang was in. Aang was using his air bending to protect himself from the intense fire that was constantly falling on him. It was too powerful so it drifted him back. The scar on his back from Azula's lightning got pierced by a pointy stone and his back hit on it.

Aang collapsed on his knees with rocks covering his body. Iris felt tears escaping from her eyes when she saw her brother falling down. "Aang... no," She muttered and she tried to stand on her feet.

She didn't get to move a lot as she felt Ozai's hand wrapping around her throat and lifting her up. His fingers roughly choked her as he picked her up and her feet trembled not having anything to stand on. Iris gasped at the lack of air and she laced her both hands on his trying to stop him. He looked hatefully at her.

"My grandfather failed to kill you, my father failed to find you, but it seems like I'm failing to take you out," Ozai said hatefully.

Iris glared daggers at him and she tried to breathe, only to find out that she couldn't. She was losing air and her eyelids grew heavier. I won't let you get away with this... She thought hatefully and she ignored the pain of her wounds and the lack of air doing what she thought it was the best way to set herself free.