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Zuko's Betrayal	By : CaptATKirk Category: Avatar - The Last Airbender > Het - Male/Female > Katara/Zuko Views: 9219 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Note: Note: This is a challenge issued to me by my editor JPNelson. He dared me to take all the characters to a deep dark place. I got the Idea after watching the 300. It is a “ What if" kind of thing so if you are a sucker for details and want the back story then have fun and read “ The Fall of Ozai.” I was really having a bad day and out it came. Aang is dead and now everyone is dealing with the fall out. Enjoy =)
Fall Out
((( Lan )))
I look over the battlefield I am about to take. My Three Hundred Immortals behind me ready to do as I ask. I have three hundred men and women, Fire Benders, Water Benders, and Earth Benders all who live and die on my command. I only place on condition on them. That they have an heir, male or female, to carry on their name. There are only three exceptions that I have made to this rule.
Who knew that being the Chosen Child as well as wiping out a division of Fire Benders would command such respect. It is that division that fights with me now. I gave them a choice fight with me or die. They were new recruits Ozai had sent to be slaughtered . . . they chose to live. My little Aang is dead. I loved that boy as if he were my own son. Killed while he was in the Avatar state. It is my job as the child born every thousand years with the ability to bend two elements at once, to take unto me the role of the Avatar should the cycle be broken. I find it hard to do that job. Instead I do what I am good at.
I fight Ozai at every turn. My Father was a general under Iroh. My Mother was the sister to Chief Arnnok of the North Pole. By right of succession I am also Princess of the North Pole since my beloved cousin Yue is dead. I never wanted to rule anyone. That is laughable since I did marry Zuko. I married him on Kyoshi before our friends. I think of my wedding day and have to stop. That Lan is dead. She died when Zuko went against the plan of taking Azula and instead handed us to her. I will never forgive him. I will be the death of him
Now I rule a whole Nation of Water benders. My Uncle lives but is heart sick as I over Yue’s death. My People finally caved into his wishes and I rule in his stead. I have given them no cause to regret it. I keep Ozai from them by fighting him here. The Southern Water Tribe I couldn’t save. Some managed to escape but not all of them. I do what I must to end this. The comet is slowly drawling away and with it Ozai’s power. Mine on the other hand because I can bend fire and water is only beginning to reach its height.
It has been three long years since Zuko betrayed us all. I heard how Ozai had killed Aang. I heard how the man I once loved betrayed us all. I still to this day I do not know how Toph, Sokka, June, Iroh, and I made it out. My biggest regret is that there was no time to go back for Katara. I know Sokka blames himself but in truth I believe it was mine. If I had kept her with me . . . If I had held on tighter to her . . . If I could have kept her at my side she would not be suffering at his hands now. If I was stronger, she would not be Zuko’s whore.
“ Ready when you are Sex Kitten.” Toph is by my side and ‘seeing’ what lies ahead. I smile at the name she gave me. She hasn’t stopped calling me that in the years that I have known her. Ever since Zuko and I circled each other in a very odd mating dance that is all she calls me.
“ Give the word Lan and we make it happen.” Haru is on my other side.
Haru is new to me but has proven himself time and time again. Sokka suggested him to me. I have great respect for the man. If my heart wasn’t so dead I would take Haru up on his offer of love. He isn’t hateful to look at. Okay that is an understatement but it is what it is. He has long chestnut hair and very striking green eyes but his hard nicely built body reminds me all too much of another body I had the privilege of enjoying.
“ Let’s fuck Azula’s day up, please!” Sokka pulls out his machete and boomerang waiting for my orders. These are the three I made an exception for. They would not take no for an answer. Technically it is only Haru and Toph I make the exception for. Sokka does have children he doesn’t know about but it is not my place to tell him. It is Suki’s not mine. I kept my promise to her. I haven’t told him.
I look at them all now and wish that Zuko’s betrayal had only affected me. Sokka has a burn scar across his jaw but doesn’t care. He killed fifty fire benders earning it. He has built himself up in his body as well as his mind. I gladly accept his advice any time I need a good tactic. He and Toph have been lovers now for two years and I am grateful for that. It reminds me that even though I have no love or hope someone else has enough of both for me. I look to Toph and there is where the old Lan sometimes comes out when she is around. She has grown much in three years. She is now to my shoulders which considering I am tall for a woman is no easy task. Toph has generously filled out as a woman. I tried to keep her out of this but she refused. She did not want me to forget who I was or for me to be alone. I will always be grateful to her for it. We have become hard now. We don’t laugh much at all anymore . . . Zuko has killed that in us.
“ Are you ready my student to show Ozai once more why he should fear General Lan Yin Meng and her Immortals?” I look behind me at my new Teacher. I see the familiar white mop and scar of Jong Jong and nod.
I had a great Master in Iroh but when Zuko betrayed us Iroh could not handle it. He shut down. He has not spoken or done anything for three years now. I have tried to heal him but I can’t. I have tried to talk to the spirits like I used to since I was small to find out how to help him and I can’t. They come to me no more and I am afraid. The only thing I hear at night is all nations of the world calling me screaming at me to deliver them.
June has taken care of Iroh all this time. When I ask her why she shrugs and tells me it is because she loves him. Love. I remember that word. I remember what that felt like. I remember how Zuko and I could not keep our hands off each other. At one time the mere mention of his name would make me shudder with delight . . . now I inwardly cringe to hear his name.
“ Immortals! Let Us show Ozai the meaning of fear!” I scream and we charge into battle. Like in the past battles we have fought we will win again.
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((( Master Wei )))
I watch our Princess and her three hundred cleave away into the heart of the Fire bender battalion. Her hair a red beacon to her Immortals. She is the fiercest one down there killing without mercy. When this is over, she will be our Queen. Arnnok has declared it. Lan has ben declared his only living heir.
General Gonzo is working on one side while general Zhuge Liang takes the other. The classic hammer and the anvil. I watch from up here with the other healers and can only stare in awe. I wanted to be part of her Immortals but I have no son or daughter. I had hoped in the three years as her teacher to change that but her heart is a block of ice. Jong Jong her Fire Bending teacher has tried to get her to feel again. We both have tried to make her feel life but we seem to fail in teaching her that lesson.
“ Looks like Lan is going to claim another victory Master Wei.” I watch as our highness’s friend bites an apple. I look back to the battle field and can see why. Fire bender soldiers fall before her chakras. She has learned to harness lightning threw them, and her flames are white. When she is in battle she feels nothing at all and her fire bending reflects this. Lan has become so sharp on the battle field and off it that Jong Jong and I fear she will soon cut herself.
“ Yes June she is.” The raven haired beauty nods her head and watches as I do.
“ Good. I hope she hands that little cunt Azula her ass yet again.” I cringe at her crudeness but I too hope her highness will defeat the Fire Princess for a second time in a row.
“ Yes I hope so too. General Fong losing Goa Ling to Prince Zuko-“
“ Fuck him! Fuck that little demon prick and that bitch of a mother who spawned him!” She hisses at me and throws the apple on the ground. We try not to mention Zuko around any of them. They all give, to a degree, the same response that June has. His name does not sit well on their tongues. She turns her attention back to the battle before us.
We both watch as Lan cuts a path for the earth benders who open the wall. We watch the great wall open and all of our soldiers poor through the streets. We wait and soon our efforts are rewarded for soon we watch as the Fire Nation Flag goes down and The New Flag of the Earth Kingdom rises. We can see Princess Azula and her battalion has fled to the sea. We watch as the Earth Kingdom Flag is once again hoisted over Bah Sing Se. Once again Lan has made the impossible possible. Once again she raises the worlds level of hope.
“ Another Victory for her Highness and her Immortals.” I swell with pride. Any teacher would watch their student accomplish the impossible.
“ Yes it is. She said she would take Bah Sing Se today or die.” She crosses her arms over her leather clad chest and closes her eyes.” Then again before every battle Lan says ‘ I will win today or I will die.’
“ Her Highness has yet to die.”
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((( Zuko )))
I sit in my Fathers war room yet again. I hate being in here but since I am the heir to the throne again, I have to be here. I have received nothing put praise from him and all the generals for my victory at Goa Ling.
“ You have earned your name “ The one-eyed Dragon” Prince Zuko. All the other generals give their approval as well.
I nod and mumble an ‘ I am honored’ but that is all. I look at the map on the table before me and ask myself the same question again . . . Why do I even bother? I also answer myself . . . I bother because I made a promise to Aang. I promised I would do everything in my power to see that Sokka, Toph, Katara and most especially Lan were safe while he disappeared.
I have kept that promise in two ways. The first is undermining Azula and working on my Father’s destruction form the inside. I pull resources from Azula’s troops to be given to my own. I win all of these little battles and build up my Father’s ego. Aang is right. The bigger they are the harder they will fall. I pray I can survive long enough to watch my father all.
The second way is I have sacrificed my happiness with the woman I love to keep that promise. I have let Lan go in order to save Katara with the one thing I had hoped to use for Lan. I lied and told my Father Katara was my wife. My Father didn’t like it but it keeps Katara out of the Dungeons. I should have known Katara would not just let Aang come with me and Azula. I had tried to tell them all that Aang and I had changed the plan but it was too late. Everything went wrong that day. I watched from the ship as Kyoshi burned. I watched as my love and hope went up in ashes with the Island. Now Katara and I are prisoners.
Three years. I have been at this now for three long years. I keep one hope alive in me . . . and that is that Lan is out there somewhere waiting for her and Aang’s chance. The comet is leaving slowly in the next year it will be gone and Aang said he will be ready to defeat my Father. He said that Avatar Rokku had once told him he had to defeat my Father before the comet but that was before he knew about Lan. Aang had told me that by Lan being in the world and who she is if Aang waited and built up his capabilities then with Lan’s help he would have a chance. She is the Chosen Child that the Fire Sages whispered about. She is the child born of fire and water and can bend both. She is the one that was prophesied to lead one nation and bring another to its knees. She is the one that the world now screams for to deliver them. She is the one my heart cries to at night.
I lift my head to see my sister and Zhao enter. Zhao . . . we all thought he was dead but it seems that Agni himself was looking out for him and saved him from the crushing depths. All our god asked for in return were 100 Water Tribe souls. Zhao has delivered and was given a second chance. The Water Tribes call to her the loudest and I lose hope . . . for still she does not answer.
Looking at Azula all I can do is grin maniacally. She has a burn scar now to match my own. It was given to her by Father for letting Lan escape her grip. I watch as she walks into the room and kowtows before my father. She has been defeated again by a Water Tribe General and the Immortals. Whoever this general is I swear one day I will kiss him for it.
“ Once again this General has defeated you!” My Fathers voice is cold but the flames around him rise higher. We will once again see Azula punished. “ Once again this ‘ Ice Dragon’ has handed you your tail Azula!”
“ My Lord the Princess can hardly be blamed.” Zhao also is on his knees before my Father. I know him and Azula are lovers. I have caught them many times in the halls taking each other against the walls like peasants. He craves my father’s throne as much as Azula does. They are the perfect pair . . . of vipers.
“ Explain yourself Admiral Zhao!” My Fathers temper lately is on a short fuse. I am amazed he is even asking Zhao to explain himself.
“ The General in question is none other than the Chosen Child. She goes by her Fathers name. They call her General Lan Yin Meng.” My heart is in my throat to hear this. I still myself to hear Zhao finish the rest.
“ Although now she is also Queen Lan of the Northern Water Tribe. They say her hair is the color of fire and her eyes the color of the sea.” He stops here for a moment and I know it is her now. No one has that hair color but her. She lives! Agni bless you for hearing my prayers to let her live!
“ They say she has now mastered earth and it is only a matter of time before she masters air.” Zhao has saved my sister from my Father’s wrath. The flames die down and I can see my Father in deep thought. I can taste my Fathers fear at the mention of this. He knows now the meaning of the word fear.
He doesn’t know it but Zhao has also saved me. For three years now I have been in torment over my loves fate. Now I know she is alive and more than well. I should have known she was the General of The Immortals. All this time I thought she was deaf to their cries. I look around me to see if anyone was watching me. No one is. They are all in there own thoughts. I fight the urge to run to a quiet place to celebrate that the love of my life is alive. I have two reasons now to give a damn.
I know that my Father was . . . is still obsessed with finding her. I know he wants to make Lan be a breeder of more Avatars for him. By my Grandfathers extensive records she is the Mother of the next Avatar. I have stopped him from doing this. He will never lay hands on my wife’s body. I am the only one she will let have that privilege . . . or so I hope. It has been three years now . . . I would die to know another man has touched her but . . . I would understand.
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((( Quan )))
I watch as Lan comes to my tent dragging herself. Her Chakrams are on her hips waiting for another opportunity to fight. I knew she would be late coming to report to me. Her Immortals are all still alive. Only fifty were wounded and I know she would not rest till she had seen them all well cared for and healed. That is why they live and die for her. They come before us all in her eyes.
I watch her making her way to me three the other generals and I am still in awe of her beauty. She wears the Armor her people made for her. It is light and built for a woman. It covers her shoulders and chest in metal as well as her shins. It is a steel blue that sets off her eyes. It does not however cover her legs and they are long strong yet graceful. Everyman here would kill to get between them and she refuses them all.
She bows her red head before me her heart-shaped face blank and I watch as the three warrior braids her hair is in falls down her very ample chest. She is weary now. The adrenaline of battle has finally left her. The other generals bow to her and leave us. For two years she has been a general in my army. In those times we have stung Ozai many times waiting for a chance to strike a blow. Today we have handed him one. We have taken back Bah sing Se.
“ Admiral Sun Quan I am so tired now. Can I give my report from the bath tub?” I can only nod as I send my aid to bring her clothes here.
She takes off all her trappings without shyness or ceremony. She once said someone had pointed out a long time ago she was beautiful and had nothing to hide. I will have to thank him one day. I see the huge red stripe that mars her back’s beautiful skin. I asked her to let the healers look at it and heal it but she always says no. She says she keeps it to remind her to never trust anyone again. She kneels down in the tub and I watch as her breath from her nose turns to smoke and she heats the tub. I watch her lovely, curvy form submerges itself in the steamy water.
“ There isn’t much you have to tell me. Every General you just saw told me everything.” I sit down on a stool before her and hand her the soap. I wish she would use the Jasmine soap that I had made for her but she doesn’t. She prefers this plain stuff. She says Jasmine was the scent he loved on her. Whenever anyone asks who he is she shakes her head and changes the subject. Thanks to June I know who he is.
I know how she was . . . is still, as far as anyone knows, married to the Fire Lords son. I know how he double crossed them and practically handed them over to the Fire Princess on a silver platter. I know how he delivered the Avatar as a prize to his father and killed hope in the world. I know how much she adored him and how she thought that adoration was reciprocated. I know how Lan once loved a man and how that man stabbed her in the back right threw the heart. I know how Prince Zuko killed a Lan that I may never ever get to meet.
“ I want Toph, Haru and Sokka commended. They deserve it.” She begins to wash off all the blood and dirt. I watch the soap as it caresses her skin and wish I could do that to her as well. She knows how I feel about her. She knows I want her. My body calls to her but she will not answer. Master Wei wants her as well but unlike him I don’t remind her every day about it. Lan knows where I stand and what she can do if she wants.
“ Yes your three Lieutenants will be commended. Their general should be commended as well don’t you think. You are only one person yet you do what is needed of you unlike the Avatar-“
“ Don’t you dare speak of Aang that way! He was only a scared little boy! If you want to point fingers at someone then put it on me for not trying harder to help him realize what he was!” She is screaming and yelling at me. A she yells at me her eyes turn to steel as she berates me for speaking ill of her little Aang. I have seen this anger before. It is the white-hot rage she displays on the battle field.
“ I meant no disrespect Lan.” I move my stool behind her and work her shoulders. Her pale creamy skin is now pink with the heat. She lets me do this for a while before shooing me away.” Your Lieutenants will be recognized. Tomorrow we move into Bah Sing Se and fortify ourselves for Ozai’s next move.”
“ Soon I am going to kill him and his bastard son . . . or die.” She fully submerges herself in the water and I cringe. I have heard her say this before every battle. ‘I will win today or I will die.’ She has never lost on the battlefield yet. She knocks on death’s door and still he refuses her. My aid comes back with her clothes and I leave her to get dressed. She wraps herself in the towels as I leave to see to my own troops. There is no talking to her when she is in this type of mood.
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((( Toph )))
“ Toph don’t stop!” Haru moans even louder now. He does this every time I am on top. He knows he likes it when I start to snap my hips faster and faster. It’s nice to have sex with a bender every now and then. He feels the earth like I do even though he can see. Sometimes we use our bending in our sex but not tonight. Sokka knows every once in a while I need this and he is okay with it. It’s love between Sokka and me . . . Haru it’s just earth shattering sex. His grip on my hips tightens as he buries himself deeper inside me. He is so close now and truth be told so am I.
“ Don’t stop huh?” I shouldn’t be such a smart ass but I can’t help it.
Something has irked him. He has me pinned on my back hammering into me. I’m not complaining I like it when he gets aggressive like this. Great Goddess he feels so good. Haru is moving inside me harder and faster and I shouldn’t like it but I love it. He bites my neck and I can’t hold out anymore. I scream as all his frustration and my own has been taken care of. He uses his earth bending to move himself to lie beside me.
As I come down from cloud nine, I think of Lan. If she would just let Haru have her, she would be fine but she won’t. Even thought that little shit betrayed her and the rest of us for the second time somewhere inside her she is still loyal to him. I was pulled in like everyone else so I shouldn’t berate her. Zuko was a great actor. He made us all believe that he loved Lan. He made us all believe he was on our side . . . then his sister came along and according to Sokka the Old Zuko was back. Azula knows how to pull Zuko’s strings I’ll hand her that, but Lan knows how to hand that woman her ass. I don’t know who I feel sorry for more . . . Lan for believing that since he met her in the North Pole he had loved her or, Iroh whom Zuko has betrayed twice or, Katara who we have heard he mercilessly ravages every night.
“ What are you thinking about Toph?” Haru is on his side stroking my arms. It is a rule we have. We can touch all we want but no kissing. I leave that one privilege for Sokka.
“ I was thinking about Lan.” I can feel him stop for a moment only to start running his hand up and down my arm again.
“ How can she after so many years remain loyal to him? He leaves her alone in the North Pole, then he betrays all of you in Bah Sing Se. Why Aang ever let him, come with you guys after that and marry Lan on Kyoshi is beyond me not to mention he hands all of you to his sister, and takes Katara and through all of this she is still loyal to him?”
“ She isn’t loyal to him . . . but the Idea of him.”
“ She will not take anyone else to her bed. She is still loyal to him in my book.”
I can feel his anger because it matches my own. I ask myself the same things and have no answer. I can only think of the past and wonder. Zuko and Katara had kissed once causing a big fight. Looking back on it now it was funny. Zuko kept denying Lan because he was being noble. That’s laughable too. He had once told me that he did at one point in time want her but when he first laid eyes on Lan that was it. I felt the earth and knew he wasn’t lying. When he married Lan on Kyoshi I could feel how he was happy and really loved her so the question remains . . . Why Zuko? What the hell happened?
TBC
Note: Before I get anymore people saying this is a Mary Sue....I based this Character off Of Zhu Rong from Dynasty Warriors and Bodicea The Bloody Queen.
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