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In one world, Ozai sees the anger in Iroh’s eyes and decides that he will offer Zuko a way to regain his honor in order to pacify the Dragon of the West.
In another world, Iroh leaves the audience early, and Ozai does not have that sudden change of plans.
Zuko is banished permanently, with no uncle or crew to support him, and the future changes.
And in the Earth Kingdom, a spirit tale starts coming to life.
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- Part 1 of Heart and Nerve and Sinew
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Keito loves his little brother, Taiyo, more than anything, more than his career, more than his own safety. He loves him enough that when Taiyo is drafted into the Fire Nation Army, Keito follows and is assigned to the 41st division with him. The horror that follows sends them away from everything the brothers ever knew and into the hands of their enemies. But a strange, new spirit with incredible Blue flames leads the way, protecting them, and forcing them to question everything they thought they knew about spirits and their enemies.
This is a side story to my fic, "The Will Which Says 'Hold on'". While it mostly stands on its own, many things will make more sense if Hold On is read first.
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- Part 2 of Heart and Nerve and Sinew
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"What if it happened to you on a different day?
On a bridge where there wasn't a rail in the way?
Or a neighborhood street where the little kids play?
Or the Angeles Crest in the snow or the rain?
What if you weren't alone? There were kids in the car
What if you were remote? No one knows where you are
If you changed anything, would you not have survived?
You're alive, you're alive, you're alive"or
Sokka gets into a car crash told by an unreliable narrator, Zuko.
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Book 3 of Lu Ten and Zuko series.
Their defeat in Ba Sing Se left the two cousins being seperated once again. While Zuko managed to escape with his friends/found family, Lu Ten made a sacrifice to go back to the palace.
Pretending to have switched sides, he tries to gather information to help his friends, without his evil Uncle Firelord Ozai to suspect a thing.
Now Lu Ten and Zuko are back in the Firenation, their old home, but under two completly diffrent circumstances. But both have the same goal:
Stop Ozai and seeing each other again.
--It is advised to read the previous two Books to get context for this one-
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- Part 3 of Lu Ten and Zuko
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The Violent Price of Peace by rraebearr
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 Sep 2025
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Eleven years after Sozins Comet, and The Avatar brought peace to the world, nothing is the same.
The Avatar is missing. Tui and La are dead and lost to the spirits. Balance is broken.
She’s the last waterbender alive.
Waking up knowing nothing and no one, she has to depend on the scarred stranger calling himself “Lee.” He’s murderous, brooding, and secretive.
Given the name Kya by her companion, she follows Lee on an unknown journey.
Lee must keep her hidden before the Lord of Embers finds her and destroys the already fragile balance.
The Lord of Embers is once again trying to stop the cycle.
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if it’s messy then you know it’s really love by butterflia
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 Sep 2025
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Sometimes love can be messy, non-linear, and complicated.
Sometimes that makes us run from it; sprinting away from the other’s desertion of you.
Sometimes you poke and prod, spewing triggers, knowing precisely how to cage your heart; making the ones who want hell and all of your worst just want you more.
But, sometimes the fight we go through in order to keep that love, means it’s worth it. It means it’s enough.And sometimes your ex-situationship shows up at your doorstep, following a half-year hiatus. So when you instinctively fight and fly, running for the hills while screaming “I hate you,” it’s met with further unyielding opposition.
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“Love isn’t keeping people at bay, just to wash them up on shore when they dipped their toes in. It’s inviting people to swim with you, whether they drown you or keep you afloat. That gamble is what love is about.”
“I shouldn’t have to ask you to stay!”
“Well, it doesn’t seem like you want me to stay. You hate me for leaving, so I come back, and you still hate me.”
“How else am I supposed to feel about you leaving? Because unless your love language is being absent, then I would say my hatred is justified.”
“So you do hate me?”
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Along the River by Caravan Ink (LosseBoi)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Sep 2025
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Sokka isn't sure of his place. He has to protect his sister, that's his job, but what can he really do? She's a bender, he's not. Now a member of the Avatar's group, he feels less useful than usual. What can he contribute? Nothing. He's not a bender, his plan's are often written off.
Coincidentally, there's a certain enemy who also wants all the stress and responsibility to end.
And coincidentally, they come to the same conclusion: perhaps they'd fair better away from it all.
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- Part 1 of Maps We Never Drew
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- English
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- 1,076
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Fanning The Flames by GoldenHourglass
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 Sep 2025
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Left behind at the Misty Palms Oasis, Katara waits days for Aang, Sokka, and Toph to return. But when bounty hunters close in, her only chance at escape comes from the last people she ever thought she could trust: Zuko and Iroh.
Now traveling under false names, bound by a fake marriage, and with no room for mistakes, Katara finds herself on the road to Ba Sing Se. What begins as mutual distrust slowly unravels into eating side by side, sleeping even closer, and something far more dangerous: comfort. She thinks it will end once they reach the city, but in a place crowded with millions of refugees, and stuck in the Lower Ring, she doesn’t have much hope of finding the others. With no leads and nowhere else to go, she resolves to wait for her friends to find her.
But in their cramped apartment, days turn into weeks, and Zuko and Katara begin to settle into something that almost feels like domestic bliss. It isn’t real. Or at least, it isn’t meant to be. But the longer they stay, the harder it becomes to remember where the act ends and something real begins.
*Updated Weekly*
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- Part 1 of Fanning The Flames Series
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Katara and her mother Kya are taken to the fire nation. And their new lives begin. As does their new training. And after that everything changes. Some for the better. Some for...Well you'll see.
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Lee, protector of the water tribe by Pipinpadaloxicopolis_3
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
10 Sep 2025
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The Avatar has returned 100 years after he vanished, and although rumors claim he's nothing more than a 12-year-old boy who only knows airbending, the Fire Nation has prioritized hunting him down.
In some parallel world, Prince Zuko would be part of that hunt, but in this one, he died at the tender age of 12 when, still recovering from the Agni Kai against his father, he was attacked and killed in his royal chamber. A month later, Lee arrived at Pohuai Fortress, and three years later, the blue spirit helped the Avatar escape from the same fortress.Series
- Part 1 of The Legend of...
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agni has (not) abandoned him [rewrite] by iliwaren
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
10 Sep 2025
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He survived two-and-a-half years as General Fong’s training dummy, months as Zhao’s prisoner, and weeks as a captive aboard the Chief of the Southern Water Tribe’s ship, all the while refusing to let his father’s cold, firelit eyes be the last he saw of the man. There was no way these children would keep him from going home.
"Yes," Zuko lied. 'I’ll help you defeat my father."
Or: After three years of imprisonment, Zuko escapes, just in time to arrive at the climax of the Invasion of Ba Sing Se. From there, he travels with the Avatar's team - first as a political prisoner and then, maybe (and indignantly), as Aang's firebending teacher.
(Zuko wonders why Agni let him suffer in the cold for so many years only to make him the Avatar's mentor. Destiny is a cruel, complicated thing. It takes him a while to figure out his.)
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Hey loves <3
Thank you for checking out my story :)This is a duel pov of both katara and Zuko
the story will just be a realistic what book 4 could have be like If Zuko and katara would’ve ended up together after .The entire gang will be included but it will mostly be around Zuko and katara in the span of the years after the war.
I will try to keep the characters as true to themselves as I can because my favourite part about Katara is her way of being and attitude .
And Zuko is going to grow some balls and be a man .plus I own nothing .
and English is not my first language but I’m trying to so be nice .
I will be uploading once a week , this story will be M for mature themes.Enjoy loves ;)
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The Other Airbender by Lev Tanel (InkVail)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
09 Sep 2025
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The Gaang wanted a break for Aang to start learning earthbending. Instead, they got:
– A boy who jokes through every injury (and there are a lot of injuries).
– His best friend, who can crush a tree with nothing but air pressure.
– Zuko deciding one of them might be an airbender.What follows: fire, trauma, terrible jokes, and more found-family moments than they bargained for.
And when Zuko finally captures someone he thinks is an airbender, he has to decide whether to treat him as proof—or as a person.
This story takes place after Zuko Alone and then functions as an alternate version of The Chase. Toph has just joined the group, Azula is on their trail, and Zuko is far from Iroh’s calming influence.
Lev calls it his “self-insert crossover fic.” Teorin calls it “a disaster.” Zuko calls it "proof." The Gaang calls it “their problem now.”
Don't let Lev's jokes fool you. He hides as much as he says.
(No knowledge of The Enigma Protocol—Lev’s home canon—required. Just treat him as an OC who decided to crash ATLA.)
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- Part 1 of The Chaos Archive
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ATLA-retelling with an OC!
After the first encounter with the Avatar at the South Pole, Zuko wants to repair his ship as quickly as possible. He did not expect to see a girl from his past come back into his life, not now when everything has to be focused on finding the Avatar. Yet destiny has a way of its own.
Book 1: Complete (Chapter 1 - 26)
Book 2: Complete (Chapter 27 - 49)
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Elemental school or some shit by Blue_needs_hugs
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
09 Sep 2025
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Fire, Earth, Water and Air.
The way they were sorted was stupid. Personality tests to access which house you'd fit in the most and then boom you share a common room with those people. He'd been put into Fire and everyone jokingly calls their common room and dorms the fire nation. Each dorm has a name and Zuko got Caldera.
The Earth kids were normally stubborn and into nature everyone called their area of the school the Earth kingdom. Some of the dorms were shared between the Fire and Earth kids people joked they were fire nation colonies.
The Water group was full of people who had big dreams and good grades but each year they were getting less and less. It was kinda sad really. Kids coming in each year were 11 years old meant to be happy and full of hope and all the other bullshit Zuko would've laughed at when he was 11.
The Air kids had the old towers of the school and everyone joked they looked like temples and so the Air kids had Air temples. Being sorted into the Air group was a nice way of calling them autistic. Lots of the kids had special nerdy interests but were the most bubbly and yet serious people Zuko has ever met.
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- Part 1 of ATLA pics cuz hyper fixation
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The Healer's Burden by stormsaurawrites
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
08 Sep 2025
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The war is over, but peace is fragile. Lanterns burn in the Fire Nation to celebrate survival, yet for Katara, one moment shatters everything, a kiss that wasn’t meant for her.
As the world leans on her as its healer, Katara discovers that waterbending healing has a price. Every wound she mends leaves an echo inside her, and with each act of compassion, she carries more pain than her body can bear. Torn between duty and self, she finds herself caught in the pull of two boys who would do anything to protect her, sometimes at the cost of her trust.
But the world is too broken to be fixed by one person alone. As the Gaang navigates fragile politics, ancient spirits, and their own tangled relationships, Katara must decide how much of herself she’s willing to give away… and who she’s willing to give her heart to.
A story of healing, heartbreak, and the bonds that hold Team Avatar together.
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A slightly more realistic Zuko realizes what it means when Zhao tries to have him blown up and it changes his path completely. AU and possibly OOC for some characters.
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What if Sokka took up a power that he did not understand? What would it cost? And what would his family do to save him?
What if Azula had been shown another way? If someone had helped her, could she find her own redemption?
Underlying theme: The dereliction of duty and the consequences thereof, and that if you hold to your convictions and are resolved in your duty you will find salvation.
This takes place in the universe in which Aang did not use Sokka's jerky as fire stater in episode three, and the butterfly effect is strong indeed.
Constructive Criticism welcomed.
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If You Make It Out Alive, Hold That Bloody Head Up High by Anonymous
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 Sep 2025
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For a moment he focused on what seemed to be the truth. Zuko was once again seven years old. He was no longer thirty nor was he Fire Lord, so he had to do away with that mindset. Zuko was seven and had just excelled at his first ever Firebending lessons. Azula was five and still unsure of her role in the universe, his Mother was still with him, Ozai was plotting to take the throne, and Aang was twelve and frozen in a block of ice.
Zuko has been Fire Lord for over twenty years when he falls into the past. Quickly realizing he is a combatant in the battle for Azula's soul, he also comes to understand that ---as her older brother--- he has the chance to be the only player in the game.
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Zuko was born a girl, Azula a boy—and the Fire Nation never imagined the unwanted daughter of the second son would ever be named Crown Princess. But when she is, Zhao sees the opportunity. And takes it.
Some things never change. Zuko is still banished, still hunting the Avatar. But this time, she’s not fighting for her honor, but for her daughter’s future.