attackfish | Kindle the Wind (The Avatar! Zuko 'verse) commentfic meme

That's it, folks, I can't take it. In the hopes that maybe writing some of what I want to write will get me unblocked on the fic I'm trying to write, I'm giving in and running a commentfic meme for my Avatar!Zuko verse. Comment with up to five requests, and I’ll guarantee you at least one commentfic. I’ll probably answer with more, knowing me.

weirdlet ,

fanficforensics,

beboots, and

floranna get seven requests and a guarantee of two fics, because

beboots and

floranna are the best betas ever, and

weirdlet and

fanficforensics just because.

Also, the 'verse has a title now, Kindle the Wind!

Air, Water, Earth, Fire.

Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished.

A hundred years passed and the new Avatar crashed into the ice sheet that borders our village. Although he is the Fire Nation prince, and it's his family and his nation that have brought this war to the world, I have hope that inside Zuko lies the spark of greatness. In the end, he has to save the world.

Front Cover Illustration

Timeline:

The Turtle-Crab and the Hawk
The first time Zuko struck a Fire Nation soldier in anger
Banner
Meeting Sokka and Katara
The joys of new bending
Zuko surprising himself by being spiritual and philosophical
Gran-Gran criticizing Uncle's parenting skills
Uncle Iroh finds out
Iroh has a talk with his nephew
Agni Kai against Zhao
Laying Aang to rest at the Southern Air Temple
Momo joins the Party
Sokka finds out the women on the ship aren't there to cook (and learns something, maybe)
Act of Providence
The Spinning Gates

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The crew followed them up the staircase and out onto the deck, and Iroh pulled Katara over to the small table he sat at when he watched Zuko train. When the crew tried to ring the fighters, Iroh sat down and spread his arms wide. "Move over so an old man can see."

The crew members in front of them shuffled to the side, sheepishly.

Sokka held his boomerang high. "Choose your weapons!"

The crew, seeing the boomerang, broke ranks and hurdled for safe vantage points outside of his zone of fire. Sokka let his chest puff out a little. At least they respected his skills.

"Don't need any, tough guy," Miki shot back, bringing her hands up. "I can take you with my bare hands."

"Your funeral." Sokka smirked at her and took aim.

She stepped forward, grabbed his wrist, twisted the boomerang out of his hands, and drove him down to his knees. "I wouldn't start gathering the mourners yet if I were you."

"Hey, no fair," he howled as she let him up. "I wasn't ready!"

"You're never going to be ready, kid," she sighed theatrically. "But if you want to go again..."

He grasped his boomerang tightly and ground his teeth. "Let's do this."

And that was the only warning he gave her. The boomerang flew true, straight for her head, but she ducked and grabbed his outstretched wrist. Stepping forward, she hooked her foot behind his and pushed him over it. He overbalanced. She smiled at him, and Sokka smiled back, because he knew that boomerangs came back. But then suddenly, she pulled him up and around, and the boomerang did come back, right into the back of Sokka's skull. He yelped as he felt the blade slide over his scalp.

Miki let him fall down at last as the boomerang clattered to the deck. "I want you to know, I am a soldier of the Fire Navy, and I can face up to anyone or anything, and if you and your people are stupid enough to underestimate me because I've got breasts, it's their own fault, and I won't go easy on them."

"You cheated," Sokka gasped still lying on his side on the metal deck. "I don't know how, but you cheated."

She offered him her hand, and when he took it reluctantly, she pulled him to his feet. "You really want to go again? It's your choice."

He rubbed his hand over the place that the boomerang blade had sliced into his scalp. It was a glancing blow, almost a scratch, but it stung. "You used my boomerang. I thought you said you didn't need a weapon to take me on."

She refrained from pointing out how quickly she had gotten the boomerang away from him before. "Fine, I won't hit you with your own boomerang this time, I promise."

Keeping his eyes on her, he picked his boomerang up off the deck and held it, ready to throw as she sank into a fighting stance. He let it fly.

She ducked to the side and circled around him, but he circled too, keeping her away from his back as she drew closer and closer. When she was close enough, he punched at her, but she just blocked and wrapped her hand around the outside of his wrist. Before he had even realized what was happening, she had him lifted onto her shoulders and thrown down to the deck. The boomerang sailed back over both their heads and dropped into the ocean.

As the boomerang bobbed on the waves Katara darted over to the ship's rail and slowly and carefully made a new wave for the boomerang to ride closer to the ship. When it came close enough, she pulled her hands up and raised a tiny ball of water with the boomerang inside, the way she had with a fish once, back home. The boomerang splashed onto the deck, and Katara grabbed it.

Miki sank her knee into her opponent's back and pressed down on the back of his hand with her thumbs. "Give up yet?"

"No w-" she applied just a little more pressure. "Okay, okay, I give up, just-"

She let his arm go, but before she could stand back up, she caught sight of the blood seeping from the cut on the back of Sokka's head. "What's this from?"

"Oh nothing," he yelled sarcastically, trying to figure out how to turn his arm around without dislocating it. "Just that boomerang you hit me with!"

"Don't lie to me, Water Tribe, this was made by something with a blade."

"Yeah, it's a boomerang." He rolled his eyes. "Of course it's got a blade."

She stared at him, and blinked, and stared again. When she opened her mouth, she started yelling. "Wait, you threw a crazy bladed flying spinning thing at me in a practice fight? What's wrong with you?"

"What's wrong with me?" he shouted shrilly. "You're the one who spun me around and let me get hit with my own weapon! It could have taken my head off, it could have-"

"That's my point!" Her mouth hung open. "I'm glad that thing landed in the water, because otherwise, I would have to throw it overboard anyway."

Katara quickly hid the boomerang behind her back and sat back down.

Miki sent him a look brimming with disgust. "Ugh, who cares anyway, it's gone. I'm going to get something to eat."

As she headed back to the mess hall, the rest of the crew meeting her as she went for back slaps and high fives, Sokka picked himself up and slunk over to his sister and General Iroh. "Can't believe I just got beaten by a girl," he mumbled, voice taking on a whine.

"Three times," Katara reminded him helpfully.

Iroh shook his head, shoulders shaking with laughter. "Someday you are going to meet my niece, and if you survive, maybe you will even learn something."

"Ugggh," he moaned.

"I have something that'll make you feel better." She pulled the boomerang out from behind her back.

"Boomerang!" he crowed, hugging it to his chest. "You do always come back!"

"Excuse me, she interrupted. "Boomerang had a little help from someone."

He wrapped an arm around her and kissed her hair. "Thanks, little sis."

Taking advantage of Sokka's distraction, Iroh plucked the boomerang out of his grasp. "Private Miki is right. You cannot be trusted with edged weapons until you understand that you should not throw them at people in practice." When Sokka opened hos mouth to speak, the general raised his finger. "But if you promise not to steal it back, I will show you where we keep the practice weapons."

~*~

Hefting the bamboo sword up over his shoulder, Sokka walked out onto the deck. Private Miki had one of the practice spearsand was whielding it against one of the Komodo rhino riders. He had knocked her helmet off, but she had him backed up against the command tower. She let the man go when she spotted Sokka. "You come back so I can kick your butt again?"

"No, I uh," he rubbed the back of his head. "I was hoping you could teach me some moves?"

Her eyes shifted awkwardly. "Well, I don't think I'm allowed to teach you how to fight, given that you're supposed to be our enemy and all."

His face fell. "Oh."

She held her spear one handed as she patted him on the shoulder. "But I don't think anybody'll mind if you stay here and watch."

"And maybe," Sokka hesitated. "After a while, join in?"

She smiled at him. "Yeah, maybe."

I understand why they wouldn't go to Kyoshi island, so it's good to see Sokka learning that yes, girls can fight from someone. Considering they'll (possibly) be on the ship for a while, does that mean he becomes a bit of a better fighter than in the series?

That little bit of character development had to happen, or there would be hell to pay later, like when Sokka does meet Iroh's niece and she makes him into Sokka barbeque.

I can't answer that. There are things you must not know!

Yeah, I can imagine Zuko and co would have enough trouble trying to hold Azula off without Sokka insisting he can take her and almost getting himself killed.

I'll look forward to finding out, then. Sorry I keep asking things that shouldn't be answered.

Zuko: How do I get myself into these situations?

You already know too much. Now you shall never be allowed to leave!

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