Summary: Right after Zuko saves Appa, Iroh and Zuko leave Ba Sing Se to look for the Embodiment and unite his group. Will the group trust this new way that the prince has chosen or will they refuse his hand of friendship?
Note: This does have office before I saw the end of Season 2 (yes I've had this on my computer for that long) so Aang getting injured, Iroh getting locked up, or Zuko joining his sister never happened.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters, they are owned by their respective creators. I claim possession of just the game and the few characters that are my own creation.
Pushing the Sky:Prologue
The wind moved slowly over the greenish grass, causing dandelion fluff to fly up into the air. Zuko was concealing from his uncle in the long grass, even though he would never allow to something so cowardly. Ever since he released the avatar`s bison, he constitute himself outside thinking more and more. Zuko had grown up quite a bit since the avatars return. The two firebenders had not left Ba Sing Se yet and Zuko did not suppose they always would. Uncle Iroh`s tea shop was flourishing and he was glad with his simple life. Zuko on the other hand wasn`t exactly unhappy; he merely felt that something important was absent from his life.
"Zuko!" Iroh called.
Zuko sighed and accomplished that the sun was setting. He had been outside all day. He heard his uncle moving slowly through the long grass. He knew Iroh would see him eventually but he didn`t feel like helping his uncle out.
A darkness fell over the new prince. Zuko opened his golden eyes to match up at the genial old man. How had his uncle ever get a mighty general in the Fire Nation army? He was too kind and so eccentric but soldiers followed him into dangerous situations regardless of this fact.
"And so would I," thought Zuko.
Iroh put faith and dedication into everyone who met him. Of path that didn`t use to his sister Azula or his father.
"Zuko, its time to do in," Iroh spoke softly.
Zuko stood up slowly, stretching out stiff muscles. The two walked beside each other in a comfortable silence but Zuko knew his uncle had questions for him, questions that Iroh wasn`t sure he should voice. Zuko stopped and allowed his uncle to walk ahead of him. Iroh noticed this and off to appear at his nephew perplexed.
"What is wrong, Prince Zuko?" Iroh asked.
Zuko sighed. "What is it you need to ask, Uncle?"
Iroh walked back over to Zuko and looked up into his nephews eyes. He had stuck with his nephew through everything that his comrade had thrown at him. Iroh saw within Zuko the makings of a great leader. Zuko had the voltage to take their people with compassion, wisdom, and respect. The only trouble was with his nephew`s temper. Zuko still had to take better control over his anger and to consider things done more rationally.
"Zuko, what do you get out here to do?"
The prince shrugged. "Sometimes to consider and other times only to separate things out."
"What do you want to form out, Prince Zuko?" Iroh kept staring at his nephew. This was a turning point for the prince, even though he couldn`t see it.
"Uncle, have you heard any word on the war?" Zuko asked, turning his head throwing his side into shadow.
"Not much. Azula, I hear, is even look for the Avatar. Why do you ask, Prince Zuko?" Iroh`s brow wrinkled in concern.
"What almost the Avatar?"
"He is still somewhere inside the Earth Kingdom I believe." Zuko bowed his head. "What is it you wish to do, Zuko?"
"Uncle, I am tired of existence in this city hiding from the war." He turned back to his uncle. There was something different about his eyes. It was not something that Iroh had always seen in his nephew`s eyes before. "I wish to determine the Avatar."
Uncle sighed with regret. The turning point had come and Zuko had lost it. He was release to try and see the Incarnation to get back into his father`s good graces.
"I wish to connect him, Uncle."
Iroh`s eyes open in shock. "Really, nephew?"
"Yes, uncle. Too many lives have been missed on both sides. The Incarnation is the just one who can end this war peacefully. My mother wants to see the public with Azula standing by his side, not me."
Uncle smiled happily. "Good choice, my nephew. We must provide at once to determine the Avatar."
"We uncle?" Zuko asked surprised. "What about your tea shop?"
Uncle turned his mind to stare sadly at the capital city. "I shall lose it but helping you is a much worthier cause. Besides Zhou can make of the store until my return."
At last Zuko was at peace with his thoughts. He made a determination not based on what his father, Lord Ozai, would require him to do but based off of Zuko`s own feelings. He knew his uncle was happy with his decision. He knew that Iroh was discontented with how the Fire Nation was being run but had no say in the matter. Now they were able to get a dispute in the next of the Fire Nation.
The turning point had come and Zuko had not disappointed his uncle.
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