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The Fall of Ozai	By : CaptATKirk Category: Avatar - The Last Airbender > Het - Male/Female Views: 5957 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

Chapter List
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Note: I tried something different and wrote this from Zuko’s point of view. Enjoy. =} Also warning strong violence ahead.
Chapter 10 The Blue Spirit Rides Again.
When Uncle handed me the mask I knew he feared for Lan as much as I did. He had told me to let it go. Now he was begging me to put it back on and save her. I looked at it for a while before deciding to do it. Aang was looking at me with a worried expression. Agni he is so young. In truth we all are. We are all too young to be going through this. I finally had to know. I had to know what was between them.
“ What is it between you and Lan?” I had to know. I had to know if I kept her at arms length would she go to someone else. He looked at me puzzled as I put on the rest of the Blue Spirits acrutraments leaving the mask till last. I was ready to put the mask on but had to hear this.
“ Lan and I are . . . are just friends.” He shrugs and blows it off. I will not let it end this way. I know that isn’t it. The way he looks at her and craves her attention is not of the friendly kind.
“ Really?” I just have to know. It is something that is eating at me and won’t leave till I know. Katara is tying back my hair for me. I think more for the fact she wants to hear this too. I thank her and wait for his answer. She does too.
“ Lan and I love each other like-“ Here he stopped to think. Now I want to hurt him. I thought we could be friends. Of all the people in the world I thought him I could really trust but now . . . ” Like a mother and a child. See in a past life Lan was my Mother. Actually in many past lives she was my Mother.”
I am floored at this. All this time I thought he wanted Lan for himself, like I want her. I feel ashamed to think as I did of him. I should have known better. I nod my head and put on the Blue Spirit mask once more. I wore it once to save my honor. I wore it once to free the Avatar. Now I wear it to save the woman I love.
When Lan didn’t come back, I knew something monstrous had happened to her. We went back to the Crimson Dragon and knew the bartender was lying. I could feel it. I had seen that bear looking at us with a smug look on his face. I knew he had my Orchid. I would take her back. To give June credit she tried to negotiate for Lan but it didn’t work. It was time for a new kind of negotiation.
The night gives me cover. Thanks to a sympathetic bar maid I know where they are keeping Lan. I have been waiting all night but patience was hard. The tall lanky one and the rat face boy from the other night are going down into the basement. Quickly I follow behind, staying to the shadows. They don’t even know I am here. The corridor leads to a store house of boxes and crates. I stay in the dark for the space is very well lit. Beyond the crates is a door and I can see Lan beyond it tied to a chair. She is only in her bindings. If they have done to her, what I think she will be the last woman they ever harm.
The two men, if you could call them that, sit down at a make shift table and begin to play cards. I wait till they are well into the game before leaving the shadows and sticking close to the wall. Staying close to the floor, I creep behind the rat face boy waiting for the tall lanky one to turn his attention else where. He looks to Lan and yells at her to be quite. I use this distraction to hit the rat boy in the neck causing him to pass out. I then sneak under the table and watch as the lanky one jumps up. I grab his ankles and listen as his head thunks on the ground.
I tie them both to a chair and gag them. On the table is Lan’s clothing. I snatch them up and put them in the black pack I have on my back. The lighting in here is horrid but I can see well enough. I walk silently into the room where they have her and want to scream. One of them has hit her. She has a blue bruise blossoming on her cheek. I will kill them for this.
“ Who are you?” She is afraid. “ What do you want with me? “ She is trying to get loose but can’t.
The idiots have tied her too tight. I put my black gloved finger to the mask’s mouth and walk behind her. Using the broadswords, I cut her loose. I massage her hands trying to get the feeling back into them. She is motionless and quiet. She is still afraid. I help her stand. She does working her legs to get the flow back into them. I take her clothes out of my back pack and hand them to her. She looks at them and then at me.
“ Well considering you want me to put my clothes back on I am going to assume you’ve been sent here to save me.” I nod my head once before turning my back so that she can get dressed. I know it seems silly but I want to give her some of her dignity back.
I wait and let anger leave me. She will be safe. I will get her to June and her Shir Shu before coming back to have a private chat with big and ugly. She taps me on the shoulder and nods. I motion for her to follow me. She does do what I do and being as silent as I. We make it to the opening for the stairs and hear voices. I take her by the arms and hide her with me behind a crate. The big Bear of a man comes down the stairs first with a bar maid in his wake. I motion to Lan to stay put and make for another box.
“ Now let her do only what she must and tie her back up.” The fat man bellows to the burly looking bar maid.” No playing with her like you did last time.” He laughed at this. The sick bastard didn’t know it but his fate was sealed.
“ Yeah whatever you say Nobu.” She rasps. “ I didn’t hurt her and besides if you would have let me finish she would have enjoyed-“ and they both stop to see the others bound and gaged. “ What the-“
I give her no time to speak before I hit her on the back of the neck. She falls to the floor like a rag doll. I don’t like to hit women but for her I will make an exception. I do the same to the fat man. I tie and gag the girl like a hog monkey before turning my attention to him.
“ What do you want?” He is shaking with fear. Good he should after what he put her through. “ Just take the girl I want no trouble!” He is backing into the corner. The coward. He can hit her because she couldn’t fight back. Now faced with something that can hit back, and he cowers. I hate men like this. I advance on him with the swords out. I want to filet him alive and almost do till I feel a cool hand on my shoulder.
“ Just tie him like you did the others.” I look at her and want to scream at her to let me kill them. I want to scream to her let me make them pay for what they did, but I know her all to well. They have hurt her and may have done worse to her and she is begging for their lives. “They only beat me. Nothing more.”
I put the swords away reluctantly and lead her by the hand up the stairs. I lead her to June who is waiting exactly where I told her to. I help Lan onto the Shir Shu and almost climb on behind her. The bruise on Lan’s jaw and thigh make me stop. June sees them too. Her face is like mine red with rage for what they have done.
“ I’ll take care of her. You take care of them.” June motions with her head to the Crimson Dragon. Her and I think the same. They have to pay for what they did to Lan. I will make them pay. I slap the Shir Shu on the rear before Lan can protest. I let my rage come back. I let it fill me for what I am going to do next. Lan will be the last one they ever hurt.
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I wash the blood from my hands. There was so much of it. I think on what I did and still feel it had to be done.
He and the others suffered for what they did to her. True they only hit her but that was one hit to many. The bar maid wanted to do worse but was stopped. I don’t believe in hurting women even low one like this so I let the bar maid go when it was all done. She just cringed on the floor.
When it was all done, when the rage finally left me, and Nobu lay there dying only the did I let him see my face. I know I shouldn’t have been so blood thirsty but I couldn’t stop it. They had hurt her and she wanted me to spare them. I would make it up to her some day but for now I wanted them to feel everything that she must have felt. He looked at me in shocked horror and I ended it for him. I slit his throat form ear to ear. Now no woman would have to suffer him any longer.
“ My hands!!! You cut off my hands !!! ” The rat boy whined. I look at him and felt nothing but disgust.
“ I told you if you laid a finger on her it would be the last thing you would ever touch.” I kept my promise.
I walk to the lanky one hanging from the ceiling. He was going to do what I feared they had done to her. He was going to disobey his master and rob my Orchid of her honor. So I robed him of his life. I felt sorry for whoever had to come in and clean up what I had done. I took what he was going to rape my beloved with and cut it off. I shoved it in his mouth and let him hang there till he bled to death. I left them all just hanging there before putting the mask back on and leaving. It was nearly dawn. Everyone had gone home.
I finish wiping the blood of the swords as well before sliding them back in the sheath. I watch the first rays of dawn pierce the sky. I wait and try to calm myself. I know her. She will know what I have done and be angry but I don’t care. I have no rights to her I know but I can’t help it. I love her. I know she wants me to say it but for now I can’t. I don’t know why but I can’t. Finally I make my way to the abandon farm I told June to take Lan to.
I see Lan pacing back in forth biting her nail. June is telling her to calm down but she doesn’t stop. She keeps pacing till she sees me. I peel the mask from my face and she runs to me throwing herself into my arms. Once again I have to give June credit for going into the barn and leaving us alone. I was really beginning to have a new respect for her.
“ Zuko what have you done?” She is sobbing. She knows. She knows I have done something monstrous. She grips me tight and I can feel her shaking. I want to tell her I made them suffer for hurting the one I love but I can only hold her and stroke her hair. She will be afraid of me now.I have now lost her.
“ I’m sorry. I could not let what happened to you go unpunished.” She stops crying but she doesn’t look at me. She buries herself deeper into me. I hold her tighter to me afraid that if I let go she will leave me.
“ I fear for you.” She finally looks at me and I want to die. I can take her anger but her tears kill me slowly. I wipe them away with my thumb remembering every detail of her face. Her long cinnamon lashes. Her eyes that even the sea is envious of. Her soft kissable lips. I store theses all away in my mind to call on later in my dreams when I am alone. This will probably be the last time I see her. After this she will more than likely not let me touch her ever again.
“ I did what I had to.” It is the only explanation I can give her. I wait now for her to tell me that she must do what she has to and leave me. She doesn’t. She stays in my arms. She lets me keep her. She closes her eyes and returns her head to it’s resting place on my chest. I close my eyes and thank Agni that she still stays. I grip her to me tighter. I will never let her out of my sight again.
“ May you never feel you have to again.” I can say nothing. I expected her anger. Instead I get her understanding. She does this to me every time. I expect one thing from her and get something completely different. Lan you do not know how much I love you. I want to say but I don’t. I have not earned that right yet.
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