"Shisui, if you could wish for anything, what would you wish for?" asked Ty Lee, who was bored as they all waited on the cold snow of the South Pole.
It was already the next day, and the chief of the South Pole Water Tribe, Hakoda, had sent an official reply, requesting a direct dialogue with the important people of the Fire Nation's fleet.
As a result, both Zhao and the group had landed in this icy area, waiting for the tribesn's escort to arrive. Therefore, Ty Lee was quite bored and decided to ask Shisui this question to pass the ti.
"I don't know, endless ice cream?" Shisui replied with his doubt, although it was a bit childish, it was the first thing that ca to his mind.
He already had everything he needed! He didn't need love, he already had an excellent relationship with Azula. He didn't need power, he had all the strength he needed from his training, he didn't need status, his fiancée was a princess!
What could he want? Only sothing he might never get in this life, endless ice cream of his favorite flavor. At his answer, Ty Lee blinked several tis before holding back a laugh.
"I guess that's a good wish," the girl said before she heard Shisui's question.
"What would you wish for, Ty Lee?" asked Shisui, causing Ty Lee to think about the question for a few monts before answering.
"I would like to participate in all the festivals in this world, but for that to happen, the war must end, I don't think the Northern Water Tribe would look favorably on if I told them I wanted to celebrate the Lunar New Year with them," Ty Lee replied before looking at Zuko.
"What would you wish for, Zuko?" asked Ty Lee to the prince, she wanted to hear the wishes of the others to dispel the sad feelings inside her.
"If I could wish for anything... I would like to et a real dragon, not Agni, but one of the ones that live in the earthly world," Zuko replied with a gleam of longing in his eyes.
"Too bad they were wiped out by so fools who thought it would improve their firebending," Azula snarled, though she did so quietly, as this trend was partly started by the royal family.
"There must be dragons out there, I'd like to et one," Zuko said, though with so sadness at the prospect of not finding any dragons alive when he looked.
"When this is all over, we can look for them," Mai comforted him as she put a hand on Zuko's shoulder.
"Okay, we will," Zuko nodded, feeling better now.
Maybe the journey would fail, but it would be a journey he would make together with Mai, which was already worth all the effort behind it. Zuko then put his hand on Mai's waist, holding her close to his body, while Ty Lee asked Petra the sa question.
"I want to see this world from the outside!" exclaid Petra, looking up at the sky, which was clear today.
"I would like to see our planet from above, to admire its vastness and how small we are on it. I think it would be the best experience of my life, the wish I would like to fulfill, and I will do it, either because of a wish or because of my inventions," Petra clenched her fists with determination.
She would forge everything herself that would lead her to fulfill this wish! There would be many hardships, she might not even live long enough to fulfill this wish, but if she could not do it herself, she would let the new generations follow in her footsteps so that they could walk the path she had built.
May humanity finally be able to see our world from as high up as possible! That was her wish, and she wasn't afraid to share it, because, in a way, it was a wish that all of her friends could identify with even a little bit.
"That's a good wish," Mai murmured, agreeing with her friend.
"You know, our nation will support you in fulfilling this wish, Petra," Azula said, looking at her older brother Zuko.
"Yes, when I inherit the position of Fire Lord, I will do everything I can to help you fulfill this wish, Petra," Zuko promised, causing Petra's green eyes to cloud a little with tears.
"Thank you," Petra said, wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes.
"And you, Azula, what would you like to wish for?" Ty Lee finally asked Azula, who took almost no ti to answer.
"To have children with Shisui, the rest I want I already have, I can fight, I can get stronger, I can learn a lot, all I need is to have children and it will be perfect," Azula answered with ease and no sha, but her answer turned Shisui red, who looked away when he felt the intensity in Azula's golden eyes.
"Oh, I want to be the godmother of one of your future children!" Ty Lee clung to Azula and looked at her with puppy dog eyes.
"They will all be godmothers," Azula replied, touching Ty Lee's head and showing her Petra and Mai.
"That ans you'll have three, right?" Zuko remarked, comnting on that detail, but the smile Azula gave him made him cringe, there was sothing wrong with that smile.
"I didn't spend my entire childhood and part of my adolescence waiting to have only three children, Zuzu," Azula's answer only made Zuko giggle nervously as he looked at Shisui.
"I wish you luck," Zuko whispered to Shisui, who nodded.
"Ah, good thing I'm a waterbender," Shisui said, causing them to look at him strangely.
"What does that have to do with you being a waterbender?" asked Petra, intrigued.
"I can bend my blood..." Shisui coughed a little as he said this and looked around.
Since his group was relatively out of the way while they waited, he was able to say this without Zhao or the other sailors who had disembarked next to them overhearing.
"No, why would it be... You! Are you seriously using the gift the spirits gave you for your filth?" Ty Lee pointed out dramatically as she fell fainting into Azula's arms.
"I don't think you're the right person to say such things," Petra comnted, causing Ty Lee's cheeks to turn slightly red.
"Don't talk!" exclaid Ty Lee before turning away from Azula and jumping at Petra, who simply dodged her.
"Why is it that all the topics lately have turned to the sexual...?" Zuko touched his forehead in frustration, but soon his expression turned serious, along with everyone else's, as they looked off into the distance.
"Looks like they've arrived!" a sailor shouted, warning of the obvious, the South Pole Water Tribe contingent approaching, appearing in the distance.
Shisui created a large water lens that allowed him to see far into the distance. He saw several sleds being pulled by dogs that seed to run over the snow as if it were the ground.
But that wasn't what was important, no. It was the impulse that ca from one of the people on those sleds. An impulse full of brutality, blood, and dignity. That's what alerted them to the group's proximity.
"Is that Hakoda? Katara's father looks strong but very murderous," Ty Lee said in a less animated tone than before.
She had made friends with Katara the night before, and they had talked a lot about life in their tribe. The Waterbender also told her about her parents, especially Hakoda, the leader of the tribe.
"A pretty fierce warrior, if you ask ," Mai replied, feeling that Hakoda was just as threatening as Zhao, who was sowhat ridiculed by her group, but they recognized the man's danger.
You don't beco a Vice Admiral by being weak, and you don't beco the leader of a tribe by being weak. Hakoda seed to release his impulse to announce his arrival, and he even seed to notice the look Shisui gave him with his lens because his eyes focused in that direction.
"Sharp senses," Petra clicked her tongue as she noticed Hakoda's gaze.
"He's testing ," Shisui said as he released the lens before releasing his impulse.
The snow seed to have been pushed out of nowhere by a wind as Shisui's impulse surged out of his body. If Zuko's was sharp and hot, Sokka's was like a whirlpool, or Hakoda's was worthy of a powerful leader, Shisui's was not.
It was pure ntal pressure.
Without the anger that made him broadcast his emotions all over the world, Shisui's impulse was as unique as one would expect. An impulse that seed to be spewing and imposing like a tsunami.
Feeling his impulse was like standing in front of a wave so big that it covered the sun, so wide that you could not see more than the water that was about to fall on you. As shocking as the threat of a tsunami that is about to wash over you.
"Sage Shisui's impulse is comndable," Zhao said before unleashing his impulse.
Zhao's impulse was full of leadership and fearlessness, things that characterized him as a Vice Admiral, but without losing the basic essence of the Navy, having the courage to sail the seas.
"Looks like this turned into a dick-asuring contest," Petra said, causing Ty Lee to burst out laughing, while a grin appeared at the corners of Mai's mouth.
"Zuko, you too," Mai encouraged her boyfriend, who just shook his head before launching his impulse.
The impulse, full of heat and edge, ca out of Zuko at almost the sa ti as Sokka's swirling impulse ca out of the sleds. Both princes had decided to do the sa thing at the sa ti, just before the sleds finally ca to a stop a few ters away from the Fire Nation group that had been waiting.
"Wow, looks like the cold hasn't dampened their spirits, that's good!" a man's voice said.
Hakoda jumped off the sled and landed in front of the Fire Nation group. He was a man with long hair, but it was in a bun. A long beard, adorned with so navy blue beads.
He wore blue fur and fur clothing with white details. On his back was what appeared to be a white tal club with a blue ball at the tip. A necklace hung from his body, which shook as he jumped.
If you looked closely, the man seed to walk on the snow without leaving a trace, an indication of how powerful and controlled his power was. The man had already dissipated his impulse, looking up and down at Zhao before clicking his tongue roughly.
"I thought you were a white-bearded old man, I'm glad to know you're a straight man, do you like strong alcohol? We have plenty, we can enjoy a few drinks while we chat," Hakoda walked over to Zhao and held out his hand.
"I thought you were a dirty, slly pirate, you're not, it seems those were just unfounded rumors I heard," Zhao was quite blunt with his words, though that confident smile never disappeared from his face.
Hakoda, instead of being uncomfortable with those words, just smiled broadly, and when he saw that Zhao didn't shake his hand and seed to want to provoke him, Hakoda just shook his head.
"Prejudice, we're just free sailors, sotis we find unprotected ships, we just do what everyone does when a gift of nature appears to them," Hakoda said in response, unafraid of retaliation.
Hakoda then watched as his eldest son seed to get into an impulse confrontation with the one he recognized as Prince Zuko, causing an unbridled smile to break out on the man's face.
"But unlike us annoying adults, the young ones seem to have found a better way to greet each other," Hakoda hinted, causing Zhao to watch his lord interacting with this strange young man who looked sowhat familiar, but he didn't think about it.
Because to him, except for Shisui, everyone related to the water tribes is the sa, the relevance of each of them is not that important to him. However, seeing that his provocation fell into the water without making any waves, he just let it go.
"Well, young people are lively," Zhao replied.
"Yes... by the way, is that Sage Shisui?" Hakoda pointed at Shisui, he was the only one in the group who had a skin color similar to his own.
"Yes, co, I'll take you to him," Zhao indicated with a certain bossy tone, but Hakoda didn't mind.
He was a patient and ticulous man; his whole exterior was just a facade. Behind that smile and his unrestrained attitude was a true tribal leader, a pirate, and above all a father, an overprotective one.
His blue eyes looked disdainfully at Zhao's back, seeing the sa spot where his son had a burn, and though he wanted to act, his son told him to stay calm, that he would be the one to take charge.
"Well, let's et Sage Shisui, hopefully, he knows how to greet according to our culture," Hakoda blurted out, waiting to see how Shisui would react to eting him.
Every inhabitant of both poles wanted to know Shisui's reaction to his people.
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AN: Latest Author Note... and wooo, sorry, I wrote this late at night (2:00 AM).
This chapter has dialogue, making the characters more 3D. And showing Hakoda. I don't know if there are dogs in Avatar' South Pole, but hey, is just a detail. And, about Katara and Sokka mother, How can she be? Maybe with a MILF actitude? Okno, but I need create her an opinion.
Or... she is the real pirate! Yarr!
Read my original novel! Or I will steal your stones! I'm from LATAM, I know how to steal... okno xDDD.
Being serious, drink water Thank you for all your comnts, your s, gifs, draws, really, I love you, guys. Reading all you write help a lot to pass my day. Muak Muak.
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