New Izumi (The Princess’s Fire: Chapter 10)

OMFG, I was making a excel document to keep track of which characters appeared in which chapter (so I can update all the tags to reflect who appears in each chapter) and realized I literally forgot to post THREE WHOLE CHAPTERS between Chapter 9: “Coping” and Chapter 10: “Raising Hate”

So I am posting the missing ones now. This was supposed to be Chapter 10: New Izumi

Next is 11: Iroh, and 12: The Assassination Attempt.

This is sooooooo embarrassing I guess that is what I get for writing so far ahead and then not posting until I forget what I have already done *cries*

Iroh’s Question (The Princess’s Fire: Chapter 21)

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Masaru always stayed in Azula’s sector of the palace when he came over. It was the only place where no guards were allowed to go where they could hide all of their family secrets. Masaru was helping Iroh practice some of his firebending forms when the boy stopped.

“Is something wrong?” Masaru asked the young prince with a compassionate expression of sympathy.

“Uncle Saru,” Iroh asked walking over fearlessly, loving his ‘uncle’ greatly.

“Yes Prince Iroh?”

Takeo’s Birth (The Princess’s Fire: Chapter 20)

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Izumi hid her pregnancy well after deciding nobody needed to know about her private life. She remained by her father’s side during war meetings and ministry meetings, wearing particularly baggy robes with large shoulder armor right up until delivery. She was surprised with how well she managed the early contractions until the very end of the last meeting of the day. As soon as the doors to the throne room closed behind the last general, Izumi spoke.

“Father, he’s coming,” she whispered taking a deep, slow breath with her fists closed over her knees.

To Love Someone (The Princess’s Fire: Chapter 19)

This time, she was ready for whatever his guards brought. She put down her hood as soon as she landed in the third floor corridor. She was surrounded almost immediately. She twisted up onto one hand creating a ring of Fire with her feet knocking them all down with red. Two earthbenders sent their gloves in her direction. She was ready. She turned kicked one to the side, one up and evaded then punched the other two Earthen gloves out the window and bent lower into another stance. They looked surprised.

“Tell me where your Master is!” Izumi demanded.

Return to the Fire Nation (The Princess’s Fire: Chapter 18)

Izumi looked up at the red buildings and golden roofs of the capital city on the Fire Nation’s largest island, wondering just when and why the nations decided to color code their architecture and clothing and beginning to loathe the colors of her home country.

“Passport?” the customs officer asked.

Izumi looked up at him with her golden tangerine colored eyes.

“Do you know who I am?” she asked with a tone of arrogance only used when intentionally intimidating somebody.

Identity (The Princess’s Fire: Chapter 17)

The Desert Lady opened the eyes and saw fire outside the window of Nala’s bedroom.

“What happened?” Izumi asked.

“The bandits came!”

“And they’re just burning up the place? Why?” Izumi asked.

“Sara, there is no time for questions like that! We must flee!” Orel yelled.

“No! I won’t run! This is your home! We have to defend it! I have to defend it especially after all you and your village has done for me! You don’t deserve to to be uprooted for no good reason! You’ve done nothing!” Izumi

Finding Peace, Part 2 (The Princess’s Fire: Chapter 16)

The Library

“Aunt Jia! Your delivery!” A young boy said entering the tent. He gasped when he saw the legendary “Desert Lady” sitting up.

“She’s awake!” the boy exclaimed excitedly. “Can I go tell Orel? He’ll want to know!”

“Yes, Feng,” the herbalist answered quickly.

“Feng is a Fire Nation name,” the Desert Lady thought aloud.

“The boy is half Fire Nation,”

“Ah.”

Finding Peace, Part 1 (The Princess’s Flame: Chapter 15)

The Desert Lady

There were about eight sand sailers traveling.

“Why don’t we stop here for a food break, Orel!” the captain yelled at one of the sandbenders powering one of the other sailers.

“Hear that, Nala?” Orel yelled at the child on the back of his sailer.

“Yep! On it, Daddy!” Nala yelled leaping off of the sailer as it came to a stop. She spread her legs and bent an area of sand into a hard stone surface, then started unpacking some pots and pans.

Raising Hate, Part 2 (The Princess’s Fire: Chapter 14)

The Search

As soon as Izumi was well enough, she insisted upon joining the search effort for Hisoki.

“Absolutely not!” Zuko had told her when he heard wind of her plan to leave.

“And why not?” Izumi asked defiantly. There was a glint of determination in her golden-tangerine colored eyes. Zuko knew at that moment she couldn’t be stopped, but he thought he would try to anyways to change her mind.

“It is not safe for a woman to travel without

Raising Hate, Part 1 (The Princess’s Fire: Chapter 13)

The Spare

Upon returning to the Fire Nation, the Fire Sages demanded the royal couple begin trying for a second child. If anything were to happen to Izumi or Iroh, they needed another successor for the throne.

“Classic. An heir and a spare,” Izumi muttered sitting on the edge of her bed.

“You could just defy them. Your mother only had you–”

“Shut up,” Izumi growled.

“I beg your pardon?”