I've always been a fangirl of Zuko, the firebending prince from Nickelodeon's Avatar series. Its about time I had a Dream about him! It all starts out with a theater going on somewhere in the Earth Kingdom and for some unknown reason Aang and Katara were subjected to being the drama performers. Now I can't remember their roles but I remember the host of the theater being very rude and annoying and as it almost ended, he pulled the two of them together; their faces so close it made them embarrassed. It was even more humiliating when he cried out loud, “Now give us a kiss!” and the whole audience starts laughing.
We cut to my persona who's outside the theater with Zuko. My character had long, black hair tied into a thick pony-tail and my ninja outfit was black from top to bottom, decorated in a bit of maroon. I couldn't bend any element and relied on martial arts. The story of my tribe will come later in the Dream. Zuko and I were friends after knowing each other for just a short while but when we stumbled upon the Avatar in the Earth Kingdom, he was bent on capturing him for his father again. But Zuko did not know that I was also friends with Aang and the rest of the troop. Before he could storm backstage to confront them, I stood in front of him with my arms outstretched blocking his way, “Zuko, you can't have him!” He looks puzzled at me. I lecture him about how he shouldn't be groveling at his father's feet. He knew capturing the Avatar was wrong and that the fire lord would upset the balance of the whole world.
“Tell me, is that what you really want?” From the look on his face, he was considering his actions and I could tell he was almost going to change sides. But all of a sudden, I was the one getting attacked. Better yet, I was being attacked by Zuko's dad and his soldiers. While fighting them off, or more like, running away from them most of the time, I could see Zuko crying out to his father as to why he was attacking someone like me who had nothing to do with the Avatar. His father explained to him that I was of a special tribe from the Fire Kingdom, where the most elite fighters/ninjas were raised and taught. Apparently he had tried to persuade my tribe to join forces with him but they refused cus they were on the Avatar's side. Zuko's father was ready to eliminate me if I didn't wish to cooperate.
Zuko couldn't do anything but watch as I ran away from the soldiers. But over time, I could still fight them off, without firebending powers. The cruelest thing was what happened later; the fire lord sent an old friend of mine to have a final duel. The friend in my Dream is actually a real friend of mine in real life and I call her Kero. She's a little older than me and we're really close. But to see her in my Dream as an angry firebending soldier, brainwashed to do the fire lord's bidding, that really stung. I tried talking some sense into her but it didn't work. It almost did but she snapped out of it and went back to attacking me with brute force. We fought hand-to-hand combat but in the end, I was able to flip her to the ground judo-style and knock her out. I then sprinted away to find Zuko so that we could escape together and warn Aang about the fire troops.
I wish I could have fire bended a little. Just a little, just to know what it feels like even in the Dream :)
