The fire war renaissance

Chapter 16: Bell toll, part two

Well, it's past midnight, so I updated! This chapter's been sitting here forever.

This is the last chapter with Mai and Zuko's wedding themed madness. So I now pronounce to you mister and misses…..uh, Fire Lord?

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Chapter Sixteen: Bell Toll, Part Two

"So how ya feeling?" Sokka asked when Zuko was just about done getting ready. His wedding robes weren't anything that extravagant, to his advantage, and weren't anymore than what he wore as the Fire Lord. The shoulder wear was a little bit different, and was lined in wine and black instead golden colors. He was a little thankful for that. He didn't want to feel heavy for his wedding.

"I actually feel pretty good, I thought when I finally did get married I'd be ready to barf." Zuko reported. "But maybe it's just because I'm not at the altar yet?"

"Well, either way, that's great." Sokka said. "Besides you probably got out all your nervousness asking Mai to marry you in the first place."

Zuko laughed. "Yeah, probably."

"Zuko, they said they want you in the wedding hall now." Aang popped into the room. He had been the messenger boy all day, it seemed. He hadn't even seen Katara that day. He had just been running around and taking care of all the things that were last minute. Like setting up food and running all around the palace looking for people, and setting the chairs up. He was exhausted and it was only two hours into the afternoon. The wedding was three hours after noon, and by the look of the sun, to Aang, it was less than an hour away.

Zuko nodded at Aang's order.

"Alright, I suppose it is around that time." Sokka slapped his shoulder playfully before grinning and following Aang out. Zuko wondered if Mai was feeling as ready as he was?

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Mai closed her eyes and hoped that for all joy and happiness her dress would fit. She was never one for diets, she just ate pretty much whatever she wanted and oddly, never gained any weight. But when she saw the size of her wedding dress she knew that something would go wrong if she didn't watch herself. And after almost two months of eating just as green friendly as Aang did she let out a sigh of relief when Katara said:

"Well, congratulations you've official made it into your wedding dress. The worse is over."

"Spirits know I could never fit into that." Suki huffed, pinching her hips to emphasize her point.

"Oh, be quiet Suki, you are not fat. Neither of us are. I think after the year we've been through we've burned off all of our fat for life." All three girls shared a good natured laugh, before Mai stepped in front of the mirror.

She felt heavy.

Her headdress probably weight at least ten pounds, she thought. She had three fire nation emblem pendants on her head, and another connected part that had many squares on the pattern. Her hair itself was wrapped in some way that she couldn't figure out, even though she was wearing it, all around the headdress. Only two lone strings of hair were left untouched in the front. Her dress was white, much to her dismay, with red and golden covering all around to accent hr figure, which she felt would be overshadowed by her huge hair.