Birthday AU Commentfic Meme!

[attackfish]

It’s my birth month, and to celebrate, I’m hosting a commentfic meme!  I’m in the mood to write some AU fics, so that’s the theme of the meme.  I’m open to both Avatar: the Last Airbender and Harry Potter requests, and I’m also taking requests in any of my existing AUs (Except Children of Mars), including the ones I established im my last commentfic meme, as well as new ones.  Comment with up to five requests, and I’ll guarantee you at least one commentfic.  I’ll probably answer with more, knowing me.  weirdlet , beboots , and floranna  get seven requests and a guarantee of two fics, because beboots  and floranna  are the best betas ever, and weirdlet  has a truly bizarre AU I inflicted on her rattling around in her head.  Also, anyone who wants me to write anything from my AU of Sun Child needs to ask weirdlet  and floranna , because it’s theirs.

*Closed and Finished*

Given that this meme has spawned a fair few universes, sorting the fics by requester would be clunky, so instead, I'm sorting them by universe this time.

One Shot Universes:

Another Wacky Day: Sokka3PO and KataraD2 (Star Wars/A:tLA fusion)  requested by avocado_love 
Oh Come On, Of Course Zuko’s a HufflePuff (Harry Potter/A:tLA crossover) requested by avocado_love 
Zuko muses on his fellow ruler, his sister, and the big universal questions of morality NOTE-not actually AU, requested by beboots
Dwarf!Toph (D&D fusion, sort of) requested by weirdlet 
Don’t even ask- I don’t even- What is wrong with you, woman? (Kyoshi Warrior Ozai) NOTE- Not AU, just crack, requested by weirdlet 
Suki's a Firebender requested by clockwerkchaos 
Toph is the one who finds Aang requested by panaili 
Ozai doesn’t allow the Dragon of the West to join Zuko in exile: Parts One, Two, and Three requested by lavanyasix 

Mirrorverse (The Avatar is an evil spirit):

Meetings requested by clockwerkchaos 
Aang's Little Crush requested by gamiel 
In This Verse, Azula Totes Rescues Puppies requested by avocado_love 

Lightning Strike (from this commentfic on a previous meme):

Sneaking out of Bed requested by lavanyasix 
Zuko and Kuei, chillin’ together requested by beboots 

AU of Ice Flows Through:

Mai, taking Azula's plan down from the inside: Parts One, Two, Three, and Four requested by beboots 

Quiet Shadowed Places verse (from this shortfic):

Zuko Finds Out He’s Blind requested by floranna 
Zuko Can’t Get Any Respect requested by beboots 
Fire Bending Masters requested by Hillary (anonymous user)
Agni Kai During Sozin’s Comet requested by Hillary
Toph and Zuko bonding NOTE- crack, and absolutely not universe canon, requested by beboots 

Iroh Dies in S2 (from these three commentfics in a previous meme):

Crossroads of Destiny Parts One, Two Three, Four, and Five requested by beboots 
The Throne Room requested by beboots 
Royalty Lessons requested by beboots 

Fail!Incubus Zuko:

Attempted Seduction *warning for sexual coercion and slavery* requested by weirdlet 
Courting Mai requested by gamiel 

Life Spirit:

Toph Bei Fong requested by clockwerkchaos 
Winter When He Goes requested by weirdlet 
Zuko and Iroh requested by clockwerkchaos 
Sokka and Katara requested by clockwerkchaos 

Koizilla Destroys the Fire Nation (from this commentfic from a previous meme):

Song requested by clockwerkchaos 

Modern Day:

Toph and Aang Meet requested by panaili 
Sleepover requested by panaili 

AU of Sun Child:

NOTE- Sun Child belongs to weirdlet and an index of fics in that verse can be found here.  This AU of the Sun Child AU began in these two commentfics from a previous meme *Warning for heavily implied Rape by Coercion and Sexually Abusive Dialogue*

Zhao and Zura's Child is Born requested by floranna 

Zuko Hurt His Leg on the Run and it Won’t Heal (from this commentfic on a previous meme):

Teo and Zuko Bonding Parts One and Two requested by Hillary
Assistive Technology is a Beautiful Thing requested by Hillary

Comments

[avocado-love.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday month. :D

Let's see...

1) What's Aang like in an Evil!Mirror 'verse AU? (You know how Star Trek shows always have that one mirror 'verse where good people are evil and evil are good? (And Spock has a goatee?)).

2) Give me a Harry Potter fusion! One cast member of from Avatar's first day at Hogwarts. Are they muggle-born? Where are they sorted? Ect.

3) "Aang had always truly wondered if all of the Air Nomads had been killed more than 100 years ago, but he never expected to find this."

4) It was just another wacky day onboard the Federation Starship USS Avatar....

5) Lastly... give me a spooky Avatar Halloween story, please! Like Simpson's Tree-house of Horrors, only with the GAang. :D

Another Wacky Day: Sokka3PO’s going to need some serious cactus juice after this.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I’m only the most casual of Star Trek fans, so you get Star Wars instead. This grew a lot bigger in my mind than I’m writing here, but Iroh Wan Kenobi, Aang Skywalker, Toph Solo, Jet Calrissian, and Prince Zuko Organa are also running around.

Jet wants to garrote me for making him a collaborator, you know.





“This is all your fault.”

KataraD2 gave an indignant beep and kept rolling over the dunes.

“You hear what I said? It’s your fault we’re stuck on this stupid planet,” Sokka3PO howled, his voice rising on every word. “In the stupid middle of nowhere, with this stupid sand getting into everything. It’s all your fault!”

KataraD2 trilled, amused, just infuriating the other droid further.

“You just had to steal those stupid plans from those stupid space pirates. You couldn’t leave it alone, could you? Noooooo-”

The little droid had a way of beeping that sounded just like it was saying “Sokka!” The other droid knew KataraD2 had a mission. It new it.

“And that’s another thing. If you say one more word about your stupid mission-” KataraD2’s wheels kicked up a stray pebble and sent it flying into Sokka3PO’s head. “Yeeurgh!”

Rocking back and forth on her wheels, KataraD2 flickered her lights with laughter.

“If my gears gum up with sand, it’s going to be all your fault!

KataraD2 ignored him cheerfully.

“Stupid droid!”

KataraD2 had really thought an interpreter droid would have a more varied vocabulary.

In This Verse, Azula Totes Rescues Puppies

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Aang drummed his fingers on the door frame and smiled disarmingly as Katara’s water creeped into the kinks in the Fire Nation princess’s grimy, battered armor. The blood started to drip down her arms. “Now,” he grinned. Azula shuddered. Children weren’t supposed to look like- “Are you going to tell us where your father and brother are hiding?”

Oh Come On, Of Course Zuko’s a HufflePuff

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

On a side note, I refuse to believe your third request is anything but canon, damn it!

Aaaand apparently for this AU, Which takes place post DH everyone is the same age.



Zuko was born in Azkaban. Zuko’s mom was dead now. If Zuko’s mom weren’t dead, she would hunt him down and kill him.

He fiddled with the yellow and black tie and kept his head down.

No one knew who his father was. His mom was married, but he didn’t know if that even mattered, and now, she wasn’t telling anyone. Bellatrix Lestrange’s son couldn’t even claim to be a Pureblood. It was a disgrace. He felt vaguely ashamed it didn’t matter to him.

Zuko clasped his wand in his pocket and fingered the carving on the handle. It was his Uncle Iroh’s great grandfather’s.

Uncle Iroh’s great grandfather had been a Hufflepuff. This was his fault.

Never give up without a fight.

He wondered if his mom even knew he existed. She’d been so crazy for so long, and besides, that’s what war orphanages were for.

Most people there had families killed by someone named Lestange.

The common room was a bright, sunny yellow that made him crave windows and air. But it was underground. There were no windows. There was nothing but yellow and laughing people.

As a girl flung herself down onto the sofa beside him, it almost toppled over under the force of her. She was tiny. She shouldn’t be able to do that. “So what’s with the ponytail?” She asked, grabbing it.

Zuko pried her hand off, but her fingers came away with a few black strands. “It’s mine!” he yelped.

“Yeah yeah yeah.” She folded her arms and propped up her feet on his lap. “So everyone’s talking about you.”

“Great.”

“Stop it.” She winked at him, and he squinted, trying to figure out what was wrong with her eyes. “Tonight, you and me are finding a way out of here.”

“What?” he stared at her blankly.

She punched his arm. “I hear there are all kinds of secret passages around!”

Zuko pressed himself into the sofa cushions, away from her, his eyes darting over the room miserably before he nodded. She was going to be his friend whether he liked it or not.

[beboots.livejournal.com]

Oh man... I'm going to have to post a few requests now and more later, when I think on it a bit more? It's getting late and my brain isn't working!

-Blind!Zuko AU - how much respect does Zuko get from the Gaang, initially, when they first meet/realize that he's blind? What does he do to earn that respect?

-Blind!Zuko AU (I just loved this universe) - Zuko and Toph bonding over shared experiences. Could be trading tips, or both not knowing how to dress so that colours match properly.

-Mai, AU of season 2, taking Azula's plan down from the inside (mostly because Zuko can't or won't). (I request this mostly because I know how much you enjoy Mai.)

-Zuko and Kuei, chillin' together as only rulers of the free world can. Any AU. I just love how you write Kuei. ;)

I'll post the rest of the requests at a later date once my brain begins to work again!

Bonus: Zuko Muses on his fellow ruler, his sister, and the big universal questions of morality

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

This isn’t an answer to the “chillin’ together” prompt. I have an answer for that coming. This is just something the request made me think of.





Zuko owed it to his people to fight for the most advantageous trade deal he could. It was a ruler’s duty. It wasn’t like he wasn’t over his head, anyway.

It was just, the other ruler was supposed to be pushing against him, trying to get the best deal for his people he could. It wasn’t supposed to be so easy to get whatever he wanted out of Kuei, no matter what it did to the Earth Kingdom. Kuei made it so easy. It was almost like he deserved what he got.

Which, Zuko realized with nauseating clarity was probably the way Azula had always seen him.

Which made Zuko feel worse.

At least he felt guilty about it. That was good, right?

Zuko and Kuei, chillin’ together (Lightning Strike AU)

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

"Peng", by the way, means both "fluffy" and "clump" in Chinese. And “Leishang” means “lightning”, because I have a morbid sense of humor.






The Earth king hopped out of the saddle and slid down the bison’s leg, holding his glasses against the bridge of his nose, grinning wildly. “Did you have a nice flight in?” Zuko asked mildly.

Kuei nodded. “The city looks small from the air, different from Ba Sing Se.”

Next to him, Mai glanced up at the sky. Kuei probably had no idea how that sounded. Leishang tugged against her parents’ hands, trying to break free to pet the sky bison, but Zuko and Mai held tight.

Kuei’s guards followed him out of the saddle more sedately, and the Earth King gazed back at his bear and the bison’s driver. “Do you have somewhere Bosco can stay while I’m here?” he asked breathlessly.

“It’s alright, I’ll take care of Bosco,” Ty Lee called from the saddle. “Peng thinks he’s funny.”

Zuko remembered how little Peng and his siblings had been when Ty Lee had picked him. He wasn’t little anymore. Aang said Appa was on, um, her third litter, and Zuko wondered where she kept finding dads.

Leishang dragged harder on her arms, but her mom and dad still didn’t let go. Kuei smiled at her and crouched down. “What’s your name?”

She twisted from side to side the way children did when they were shy, and buried her face in her dad’s robe, grinning.

“Leishang,” Zuko answered for her, swinging her up into his arms. “Our oldest.”

“‘m not supposed to talk to strangers,” Leishang told Earth King repressively, shaking her finger at him.”

Mai glanced up at the sky again and pulled her daughter’s bangs out from behind her ears. “That’s only when we’re not right here with you.”

Leishang jutted out her jaw, and pushed her bangs back behind her ears.

Kuei stuck out his tongue and scrunched up his eyes, and Leishang grabbed his nose.

Kuei never seemed older than Zuko. He had to be by ten years, or more, but he just never seemed it.

When the spasm hit, Zuko shoved his daughter into Mai’s hands before he fell to his knees. Every time, he was afraid he was going to drop her.

Kuei leapt backwards. “Are you alright? Somebody do something!”

“I’m okay!” Zuko waved him away and scrambled to his feet. “That just happens sometimes.” He shook the dust off his robes and held his head up. “So you wanted to talk about the Pohuai Stronghold.”

Kuei couldn’t stop staring.

Quiet Shadowed Places: Zuko and Toph Bonding, Crack, and absolutely not universe canon.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

“Katara drivfes me nutsh,” Toph slurred. “She cleansh up and movfesh all my shtuff, and putsh it in drawersh and things, so I can’t f-find it.”

“Oh, that’s nothing.” Zuko held up his glass for the bartender. “Ty Lee has this thing for pink...”

Quiet Shadowed Places: Zuko Can’t Get Any Respect

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

The ship crunched through the ice. The ice wall around the pathetic little camp collapsed in on the ship and into the camp. The gangplank sank down onto the snow, and Zuko marched down, in front of his soldiers, swinging his cane. When he tapped it down against the ice, it sank into the snow.

As one of the villagers charged for him with a yell, Zuko’s guards punted him into the snow. Zuko listened to his grunts and squeals as he dug himself out of the snow.

The guard who had knocked the Water Tribe boy into the snow bent down to whisper into Zuko’s ear. “It doesn’t look like he’s here.”

Zuko’s eyelids narrowed over his glass eyes. “Where are you hiding him?” No one answered. Fury knotted itself in Zuko’s chest. He yelled, fist punching the air. Fire rolled out of it, but no one made a sound. “I know you're hiding the Avatar!”

The Water Tribe boy came for him again, and Zuko twisted out of the way as the wind whistled past his ears. He grabbed out, but the boy rolled out of his reach and jerked the cane out of his hands.

All of a sudden, Zuko was cut adrift. His hand closed on the empty air, and even though he didn’t know any less about where he was then he had a moment before, his head jerked from side to side, as if he was still trying to see.

“Not so tough without your weapon,” the boy twittered. Zuko could hear the cane hit his palm, and whip back up into the air and hit the boy’s palm again. “What is this thing anyway? What’re you supposed to do with it?”

“Give that back!” Zuko cried indignantly, grabbing for where he thought it was. But there was a snowdrift in the way. He fell hard against the ice on his hands and knees. The ice burned against his bare skin, and Zuko pushed himself up to breathe hot air onto them.

A crack and crunch sounded hollowly on the frozen air. Zuko’s face crumpled. “No...”

“What is this thing?” the Tribesman asked curiously.

Zuko turned towards his voice.

A moment later, the Water Tribe boy talked from off to the side of Zuko’s head. “Wait a second, are you blind?”

Zuko’s hands balled into fists. He waved his soldiers forward, grabbing onto the gangway. “I’m blind,” he growled, shaking with rage. “But my crew isn’t.”

Mai, taking Azula’s plan down from the inside (AU of Ice Flows Through)

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Okay, I said I wasn’t going to have anything from Ice Flows Through, but this is AU for that AU. If Azula had called Zuko’s bluff while he was bloodbending, and captured him, his uncle, Lu Ten, Rinzee, and Ruili... Well. Mai would have a decision to make, wouldn’t she.

I’m actually kind of surprised that you didn’t ask me anything from this verse (http://attackfish.livejournal.com/53604.html?thread=295012#t295012). Oh, and you have three requests left. But no more promises of fics. Oh my God, I’ve written one for every single request so far, damn you.







His chest heaving with strain and cornered fear, Zuko could see in her face what she eagerly awaited for him back home, himself locked up, chained up, disfigured and blinded, unable to move against his bonds, trapped alone with his scornful fellow prisoners, shut away for all time. One of his hands sprang up between them, tensed, ready to throw her back away from him, to bend the blood inside her, ready to fail. He knew he would fail.

There was fear in the back of Azula’s eyes, cold and astonished fear. She started to run. The fire around her fists blazed higher as she ran for him. He shoved his arm forward, fingers tense, to grab her blood and bend it away, sick with his own fear, and closed his eyes.

Azula jerked back under her hands for just a second. She roared out her fury, and Zuko opened his eyes, so hopeful, so thankful that it was working, that he really could get them all out of it, for just a second before Azula wrenched her arms down. The blood spilled through his grasp.

Azula still had fire around her hands when she grabbed him. He screamed and screamed, and his fingers twitched and shook beneath the burn. She yanked him to his feet, but he stumbled, and her soldiers caught him. Her soldiers who he had only just bent to the ground. All around him, the soldiers were rounding up the rest of them, pinning them down. Ruili wailed, red faced, in the arms of a soldier, and her parents didn’t fight as the soldiers grabbed them too, leaving only Uncle free. He stood in the middle of the circle of soldiers, hands full of fire, eyes darting between the the soldiers and his family.

Azula bared her teeth. She grabbed her brother’s strange, white hair and held up two fingers. Blue fire swept over them as she held them in front of the unburned side of Zuko’s face. He shivered and shook as mucus and tears ran down his face, and he didn’t even seem to notice the flames. “Do you want me to blind him right now?” she asked. “Or maybe burn his head off?”

Iroh dropped his arms. Azula sneered.

~*~

Shadows writhed across the cell walls. Zuko’s eyes couldn’t pin them down and she couldn’t stop shivering. Azula pushed her foot under her brother’s chin and lifted it up. “Where did you dig him up?” she asked calmly.

“Nnnnggh,” Zuko groaned. His head lolled on her foot. She had him chained down to his knees. He couldn’t move, but it felt like he was turning over and over and over.

“Where has Uncle been hiding him for the last six years?”

Zuko shook his head convulsively. The words didn’t make sense. It was as if they weren’t connected to each other. They fell on his ears and rattled around his head, and he couldn’t sort them out again.

Face twisting in disgust, his sister lifted her foot up higher, until his back stretched taut against the chains. When she pulled it back, his head snapped down, back to his chest, and he curled up as much as he could.

“He’s going to lose that hand,” Mai remarked from the doorway.

Azula glanced back at her brother’s wrist, burned black, all the way around. “Doesn’t matter.”

~*~

The door opened. Zuko didn’t look up. Mai couldn’t tell if he didn’t notice, or if he was ignoring her. He didn’t move except to shiver. He was sobbing, but there weren’t any tears left inside him to spill. The bowl was cold in her hands, and when she set it down next to him, he still didn’t move. “I heard some waterbenders can heal,” she said without inflection.

He didn’t react. She pulled out the key and unlocked the restraints holding his arms to the wall, but he just fell over, onto his side, moaning softly.

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Thank you, Attack!

AUs, AUs...

1. D&D fantasy fusion- I so very much need to see Toph as a dwarf.

Will come up with more AU's later, but thank you so much!

[weirdlet.livejournal.com]

2. Superhero AU- less elaborate X-men fusion and more four-color caped-and-masked supers leaping between buildings. Aqua-Girl and Boomerang-Lad, fighting crime!

3. ...Cameron!Avatar crossover? Young Aang goes off to find his life-long animal companion, and comes back with a surprise!

[clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com]

1. Suki's a Firebender. How does "Kyoshi Warriors" play out now?
2.A continuation of this *http://attackfish.livejournal.com/53604.html?thread=287332#t287332

3. I've seen a couple future based AU's floating around for Avatar. How about your take on it? (type is open to what ever you want. Cyberpunk, space opera, giant robots). Only stipulation is bending (or some equivalent) must be included and relavent.

4. The Avatar is far more than the keeper of balance, it is also the spirit of the earth. When Aang went to sleep for 100 years, it had consequences. The earth began to sleep as well, crops were less hardy, animals did not replinish as fast, water grew stagnant faster, even the mines seemed to produce less ore. By the time Aang wakes up the great civilizations have fallen, and he finds himself in a post apocalyptic wasteland of scattered tribes.

5. Can I second Avacoado-love's mirror verse request?

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Mirror verse request answered (briefly) here http://attackfish.livejournal.com/65620.html?thread=633684#t633684

[panaili.livejournal.com]

All righty, then. :D Happy birthday!

1) Sokka figures out that Toph has a crush on him. In series.

2) Modern day: how Toph first meets Aang.

3) The GAang at a sleepover. With alcohol. :)

Modern Day: Toph and Aang

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Sometimes Aang saw the girl walking in the park with her parents, in stiff, handmade satin dresses. She never went on the swings or the slide, or left the sidewalk to run in the grass Even when the other kids pointed and laughed at her, she just walked with her parents, holding their hands.

He never saw her in school. He didn’t think she went to one.

Whenever she walked by him, he was too busy flying kites to say hi, but he didn’t laugh at her.

He didn’t even know what her voice sounded like.

“INCOMING!” The basketball flew through the air towards him, and he ducked. It hit the kite string and snapped it in two, and all that Aang was left with was the plastic kite spool. The girl who had shouted flung her arms around his middle and bore him to the ground, scrambling over him to chase after the ball again. Her pretty green satin dress was hiked up around her knees and covered with mud and grass, and his kite was floating away, its snapped string trailing behind.

“What are you doing!” he cried out, wiping the mud and pebbles off his cheek. “Are you crazy?”

She grinned, catching up with the ball and bouncing it off her knees. She flopped down on the grass beside him and curled around the basketball “I was playing soccer.”

“You knocked me over!” He sat down next to her, hand still wrapped around his kite string spool.

“Yeah, well if you were on my team, I wouldn’t have.”

“You’re not supposed to tackle anybody in soccer.” He glanced at her. “Besides, you don’t have a team.”

She leaned back against the grass and stared up at the sun. “So?”

“You’re not supposed to do that,” he whispered. “You could go blind.

She waved a hand in front of her face and blinked really fast. “Been there, done that.”

He stared, feeling awful. “You’re blind? How did you know where the ball was?”

“I knew where I kicked it, duh.”

“So,” he said lightly, feeling awful and stupid. “Where are your parents today?”

She picked at a clump of grass. “I snuck out.”

“Oh.” He watched his kite drifting further and further away. “I’ll be on your team if you want me to.”

“If you’re just saying that because I’m blind, I’ll kick your ass, Twinkletoes.”

[lavanyasix.livejournal.com]

1. A follow-up to that fill where Azula's lightning strike on Zuko has serious consequences (http://attackfish.livejournal.com/53604.html?thread=250212#t250212). That line in the original fill about them needing to have a kid as quickly as possibly was disturbing and really stuck with me.

2. Gyatso convinces his fellow elders not to reveal the truth to Aang until he turns sixteen. When Sozin's Comet arrives, the Fire Nation attacks. Aang blacks out only to wake up totally alone, surrounded by shattered mountains and the ruins of the temple. And he has no effing clue what the hell happened.

3. A hundred years ago, when Sozin orchestrates the Air Nomad genocide, he orders their sky-bison calves be spared and collected. Not out of mercy, but so they can serve the Fire Nation as ariel calvary once the dragons are extinct. Over the decades, some are captured by the other nations and bred for similar purposes. When Aang awakens, he finds a world bursting with sky-bison and their riders.

4. Ozai, wanting to keep a short leash on the Dragon of the West, doesn't allow Iroh to join Zuko on his exile. What becomes of scarboy over the next three years?

5. During the Siege of the North, Sokka isn't taken off Hahn's suicide mission to assassinate Admiral Zhao.

[clockwerkchaos.livejournal.com]

4. Ozai, wanting to keep a short leash on the Dragon of the West, doesn't allow Iroh to join Zuko on his exile. What becomes of scarboy over the next three years?

He dies to the Air Nomad Zombies Iroh secretly fought off in the western temple.

[floranna.livejournal.com]

I just saw Buried and I am trying to not to vomit.

So my first prompt is: Zuko is buried. Because of a landslide, EK forces, anythin g, but he is buried.

I'll post the rest when they pop in my mind.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Okay, never heard of that movie before you mentioned it. *Reads summary and cant stop shivering* thanks ever so.

Zuko hurt leg on the run and it wont heal

[(Anonymous)]

Can you elaborate how he will fire bend and learn to compensate missing a leg, (western air temple, firebending masters, agnikai with azula and Katara helps him kick azula's ass!!) In the spirit of the last bunch. I loved it i want more more more (happy birthday :-) )

Zuko hurt leg on the run and it wont heal: Assistive Technology is a Beautiful Thing

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I’m still figuring out things like how Zuko feels about fighting his people since he threw in with the Gaang during CoD, so...




“Does it fit?”

Zuko pushed himself up to his feet and walked. The ankle bent when he put weight on it, and popped back when he lifted it again. The mechanist’s clever system of hinges and springs almost felt normal. If he could feel it past his stump, it might have. “Yeah.”

Teo beamed. “You going to try it out?”

Zuko nodded, and followed him up the improvised wooden ramp laid over the staircase up to the deck. The ship rolled beneath his feet, but the wooden foot moved with it, like his real foot did. Excitement rushed around his body. He wondered if he could run.

The sun glittered off the field of icebergs, and Zuko exhaled a thin jet of fire. He pulled his gloved hands inside his sleeves for just a second, before he punched the air. He lunged, and punched wit his other hand, and pivoted as he kicked, the wooden foot trailing fire. He could feel his bending run through the leg, like it did through his boots, and gloves, and he kicked again, out into the empty air over the frozen sea.

He turned to Teo and took a few more clumsy steps. “I can walk! I can-”

It was such a stupid thing to say.

But Teo smiled, even if it passed through a grimace before becoming a smile. “Great, I’ll tell Dad it works,” he said before rolling away.

Zuko turned back to the ocean and swept his wooden foot out in an arc of flame. They sailed closer and closer to the North Pole which each moment, and Zuko tried not to think about what it was going to be like when they got there, or what it was going to be like when they left. Sometimes it was easier just to forget that everybody else was getting ready to invade his home. It was so much easier just to stay out there on the ship’s deck and send streaks of fire into the air with his new wooden foot.

He had to show his uncle.

blind zuko

[(Anonymous)]

More requests

learning to firebend to defeat azula, how does he learn to use heat similar to how Toph uses earthbending. how does he experiance his world and what lessons does he learn from "the firebending masters". Also continue the zuko loses leg theme. both are wonderful and I would love more . . .much much more. Thanks for piqueing my curiosity . . . love your style.

H

Quiet Shadowed Places: Fire Bending Masters

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

To Zuko, firebending had always been a tool, a dangerous, unreliable tool. A tool that was never the right tool for the job, but always had to be good enough. Fire was pain, and blindness, and a time when he had once been able to see. Fire was something he could never turn his back on.

“It’s like a little heartbeat,” Aang whispered. It sounded as if he were smiling, just a little bit. Zuko’s heart sank.

He tried to give that knowledge to the Avatar, but the Avatar was Aang, and there was nowhere for wariness to take root in Aang, only fear or easy acceptance.

Zuko felt the fire in his hand. It was nothing like a heartbeat. He could feel the fire in Aang’s hands like a spot of color in the shadows. All around him, there were little spots of color, and behind him, in the first flame, the color pooled and shimmered.

He closed his useless glass eyes. Fire pulsed and wove through the air around him, but Zuko held tight to the fire in Aang’s hands and followed it up the temple steps. And when it went out, he climbed a step that wasn’t there and stumbled. As he fell heavily to his knees on the stone bridge, his hand itched for his cane, in the hands of the Sun Warriors at the bottom of the stairs.

The bridge under their feet rumbled under them both, and Aang froze and Zuko ran into him. “Uh oh,” Aang said softly, standing rigidly, back to Zuko.

Then the rumbling stopped. A roar cut through the air and Zuko turned his head to the sound, hands coming up to shield his face.

“You still think we can take them?” Aang whispered. Zuko could hear the smirk in his annoying little voice.

“Shh.” Zuko hissed. “I never said that.” Then what else Aang had said connected inside his brain. “Wait, there’s more than one?”

Aang nodded. Zuko could feel the flex in his shoulders until he moved back. “Two.”

Two dragons. They had to be dragons.

“Zuko,” Aang muttered, poking him in the back with his elbow. “I think we’re supposed to do The Dragon Dance with them.”

“What?” Zuko demanded. “What about this situation that you think they want us to dance?” Of course this was how it was going to end. He was going to be eaten by dragons.

“Well, I think they want us to do something,” the Avatar hissed anxiously. “Let’s just try it.”

Zuko hadn’t seen the statues. His body scrambled to remember the sequence of moves. Every time he put his feet down, he breathed out, afraid the ground wouldn’t be there. The bridge’s edge had to be somewhere. He heard the sounds of the dragons, flying just beyond.

His fists hit Aang’s, and the two stilled. A snarl sent hot air into Zuko’s face. Aang shook, and Zuko froze.

The fire came for them both. The screams burst out of their throats together. They couldn’t stop them.

The fire rolled through the air past them and around them. Zuko felt the fire, and the warmth as it wrapped around them. It lived. It moved around them. Sunlight. It felt like sunlight, if sunlight breathed.

“I understand,” he breathed, but he wasn’t sure he did anymore.

[gamiel.livejournal.com]

1) blind-zuko: Zuko to help him navigate has a begun to use steal a marsh grown oak cane or quarterstaff, it also is rather handy in a fight.

2) fail!Incubus Zuko: Zuko meeting and/or courting Mai

3) Zuko is dying after the assassination attempt by Zhao and the Pirates [that sounds like a good name for a band] and makes a pact with Davy Jones (here an aspect of Tui) for life and revenge.

4) The GAang as mysterymen (like the Shadow, Lobster Johnson, Green Hornet, etc.) in the 20’s, 30’s.
Suggested plot is that the Blue Spirits secret identity, Zuko Fajro the son the cities Godfather, has just been found out by the rest of the GAang.

5) Mirrorverse: Aang hitting puberty and begin noting Katara

[gamiel.livejournal.com]

Can I change number 4 to - "Ice Flows Through" Zuko and crew meeting the GAang

[(Anonymous)]

Wow. and smoke in abundance everywhere SCA is. I can understand you avoiding it...

[(Anonymous)]

I love this Teo is so cool & Zuko I can see that he thinks he doesnt want to bond but he is not going to be able to resist-he is just too curious. Teo is great at putting people at ease, and waiting until they cant resist being friendly-also he has been there before-except he probally doesent remember too much prior to his accident as he was so young - or does he hmmm. IM hooked I want more more more - so what can they teach each other I wonder!! Thank you so much my day was a hard one-now is better TYTYTY H

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Zuko cannot resist the easygoing Teo beams. Even he must succumb.

[(Anonymous)]

I had forgotten about the semitic languages-wow been so long I-grew up in a predominantly Jewish community in Ohio and I always felt left out as a child that I diddnt have to go to Hebrew school-until I watched my friends writing hebrew-I have enough difficulty printing and cursive (took me 6 months to relearn writing my name when I got married)!!. There are also several things that I cannot do right handed because I'm so strongly left eye dominent. but in both fencing and soccer I always had the advantage of the unexpected. Archery I cant even begin to do right handed because it is so visual and I cant sight right eyed and coordinate my hands. funny though I cant write left handed for anything-I sure wish I could though. laterality is very interesting to me!! also our hemisphere dominance is subtly different in everyone. Very obvious in those who have strokes because different attribuets are affected in different ways. Oh boy I could go forever on this topic!! H

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

I missed out on Hebrew school as a kid, which left me in the odd, awkward position of being an Ashkenazi Jew who speaks better Arabic than Hebrew (I speak enough Hebrew to get by, and I can understand it now) which meant I was a very odd duck among the very small number of Jews in my home town. I have anecdotal noticed a higher number of left handed Jews and Arabs than other populations, and I've always wondered if that might have inclined us to create a right-to-left language.

Zuko-hurt leg . . .

[(Anonymous)]

what do you think of how his date in BaSingSe would pan out. She still thinks he is cute. Her attention helps him smile again-but he is unsure if he can protect her out at night. . . Uncle still forces him out of the house that night . . . ? any thoughts?


So how does Teo get him to open up a bit . . . Zuko can be pretty offputting. But Teo is a whole different breed of stubborn . . .and a really good listener.


any bites? H :-)

Re: Zuko-hurt leg . . .

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Lol, Zuko's stuck in the back room making tea, so Jin never even gets to see him. Which kind of puts the kibosh on Zuko's social life.

Zuko hurts his leg . . .

[(Anonymous)]

I thought of that. He passes the tea out somehow though. (an order window maybe?) So she sees his face and how his shoulders are broad. She doesnt see the crutch or the missing leg. So she walks up while he is enjoying the sunshine before the shop is open-thats when she really sees him. She still doesnt care. . . she sits down next to him and just starts talking . . . (does that follow well enough?).

Re: Zuko hurts his leg . . .

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

If she sat down and started talking, Zuko would freak out. Oh Zuko...

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

love what? 0_o

Smile

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the wonderful commentfic, Hope your Birthday was the best. This was truly a gift to all your readers. I looked forward to it while I was at work and you introduced me to fan fiction. Thank you so much!! I look forward to the next commentfic meme you do for avatar(Zuko). Cant wait to hear about your future projects; until then, :-) H

Re: Smile

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm just finishing up the CoD commentfic I'm writing for Beboots, and then whatever Weirdlet throws at me, and then I'm off to write some non-meme fanfic.

I can't believe I was someone's introduction to the world of fanfic, muahahahahaha! *rubs hands* another victim!