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75% Madara in the Avatar World / Chapter 59: Lines Drawn

章節 59: Lines Drawn

In a luxurious office with many bookshelves, piles of scrolls, a massive mahogany table, different statues of different-sized dragons, and a huge Fire Nation banner right behind a padded sofa chair, a man with dark red robes, an imperial hairstyle that displays his receding hairline and quite impressive sideburns sits in contemplation while 'playing' with what looks like a weird knife that has a hole on the pommel.

From time to time his hand trembles as he keeps holding the kunai at different angles, rotating it on his finger.

"Are you telling me… you found this one in the scene of the rock slide, Lieutenant Hokai?" His deep voice echoes with a tinge of fear, his heart accelerating behind his mask of calmness as he keeps looking at the kunai.

Another man, a young one, maybe in his early 20s with impressively long hair that resembles much the late Avatar Roku responds with a nod "Yes Sir"

"And what about High General Shinu? Did you find him?" Asked Zhao with a hint of hope in his voice.

"We recovered… his body… sir…" Answered the young officer with sadness, the Admiral could see him almost crying.

Standing up, Zhao patted the young man's shoulder "We will find that criminal, and you will be there for his execution, Lieutenant."

Nodding, the young officer lowers his head.

"You are not the only one here to lose your father in the hands of a criminal…" Concluded Zhao while gripping the young Hokai's shoulder "Now go rest… I will find that bastard; you have my word."

After the young man left his office, Zhao couldn't hold back his smile anymore, and a low chuckle slowly evolved into full-blown laughter.

'Finally! Finally, that old coot died and left me as the sole commander of this stronghold and the Yuyan archers! Although that blue-masked bastard took the Avatar away from me, he at least had the decency to give me something in return!'

No longer could the Old General hold his reigns, calling his pursuit of the avatar a "Vanity Project". Even though he was promoted to the rank of Admiral not long ago and had quite a bit of freedom with the resources available, the Old General would still hold him back on several occasions, one of which he could've captured that banished Prince already.

His laugh slowly stopped as his gaze returned to the kunai resting on his favorite desk.

'Was it you…. G-Ghost..?' he swallowed hard as he thought that, but quickly shook his head in denial.

"No… if it was him… he would've come through the front door… without wearing any mask…" Zhao narrowed his eyes "He wouldn't resort to lurking like a thief… not only that why would he even try to save the Avatar? They probably never met…." his lips trembled when he recollected the scenes of that fateful day in the swamp.

His eyes narrowed as his grip on the kunai's handle tightened. 'But this weapon… it's exactly like his… the masked man even moved like him…' 

Zhao clenched his teeth in hatred and fear 'But who is behind that mask?-'

It was then that a single memory came to him, a very humiliating memory but a useful one nonetheless, his most recent Agni Kai, and his opponent's movements during the final seconds of the duel.

Zhao's eyes narrowed as he walked back to his seat, his thoughts known by no one.

….

"So, how was your trip? Did you make any new friends?" Asked a tanned teen male with a frog in his mouth.

The trio are sitting around a bundle of sticks with a blue tent behind them, surrounded by trees and rocks while facing a decently sized lake.

Aang rolls over, the image of his most recent rescue still recent in his mind. "Perhaps…. I like to believe that I did-" he concludes with an innocent smile, staring at the fluffy clouds above.

"Hmm, this is tasty!" Interrupted Sokka, but a few seconds later… the frozen frog came back to life and started moving and croaking while partially inside his mouth, making the teen instantly spit it out and rub his tongue on his sleeve. 

"UUUUUUUGH!"

""HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"" Both Aang and Katara started laughing at him, it was a good day for Team Avatar.

….

"Where have you been, Prince Zuko? You missed the music night! Lieutenant Jee sang a stirring love song!" Said Iroh with his ever-present smile, welcoming his nephew as the young Prince walked inside his ship.

"I'm going to bed Uncle. No disturbances." Replied Zuko as he ignored everything and everyone else and walked straight into his room.

The old General couldn't do much, so he merely rubbed his head and began to blow his horn for another round of song between crewmates, it's still quite early after all!

After closing the door, Zuko sat on his mat and took a deep breath while staring at the ceiling.

"What am I doing?" He asked absently minded to no one.

Honestly, everything that happened was quite … alien… to him.

"To think that I would have to actually free the Avatar from the clutches of the Fire Nation…" He sneered "Is that some sort of sick joke?" He shook his head and held his forehead with his palm.

"And why… just… why… Do I not feel anything bad about the Avatar escaping me in the end? Why I am feeling relief instead of anger?!" He was very confused, wasn't his goal to capture the Avatar? Didn't he claim to his teacher that he would never betray the Fire Nation even if he became his disciple? Then... what the hell did he just do? Wasn't that betrayal?!

"Mother… you have no idea how much I need you right now… where...where are you?" Asked the banished Prince as he lowered his head and tears fell from his eyes.

….

"Alright, pack your things girls… We are going home!" Shouted a quite energetic young man with a long spiky black mane and luxurious red and black palace robes.

"Aye, boss!" Shouted a hot, Watertribe woman with an eye patch as she carried a whole sack of provisions back to their prized airship.

"Mr. Uchiha…" Asked another woman, this one more mature, with long black, green, and gold robes that accentuated her bright yellow eyes and long brown hair. "..Will you really bring her with us?" she asked while pointing to another girl, this one sporting a long high ponytail and red robes with plenty of gold ornaments.

The girl in question was already carrying her own backpack while saying her goodbyes to the rest of the Sun Warriors, the chief in particular was crying like a baby while hugging her, shouting all kinds of things while also demanding that she visit at least once a year!

Madara shrugged "Why not? I mean…. Kaliya could use another friend, and we barely have any benders in our ranks back at the Resort, she would be very useful to us…"

Narrowing her eyes, Nari replied "Is that so? There's nothing to do with her cheap demands?"

Coughing Madara avoided her gaze "I don't know what you are talking about Nari, she only requested a humble amount of money each month to help us, but we are also giving her a place to stay and she always wanted to explore the world, we are doing her a favor here…"

"… Yeah… sure…" She said with narrowed eyes before grinning, turning around, and walking inside the Airship.

A few seconds later, Xi shows up in front of Madara with a childish smile on her face, one could see the vast amount of excitement in her eyes to finally leave this goddamn island and explore more of the world.

"Alright Lord, I am ready!" She shouted like a Shonen protagonist.

That made Madara deflate instantly. "Can we… drop the whole title thing?" he was a very greedy man yes, he was also very proud and confident in himself… but the title that they kept calling him made him feel helpless, he knew nothing about how to rule, he didn't fit the said title.

"How could we?! You've earned it with blood and sweat, Dragon Lord Madara!" She said while bowing a full 90 degrees.

Letting out a final wry chuckle, Madara simply made Xi hurry up and enter the airship before he walked up to the top of the 'balloon' part and sat there, no different from that time when he "met" team Avatar.

It didn't take long for the engines to turn on and the Airship to finally lift off the ground.

While enjoying the wind blowing while relaxing on top of the vehicle, Madara and everyone else could hear a loud roar coming from the twin mountains, quickly approaching their location.

Nari the ever-perfect pilot, held the Airship in a single spot waiting.

"Look at you," Madara said while grinning at the massive blue dragon flying in circles around the Airship, before stopping and facing the Uchiha, almost touching him with his snout.

Extending his hand Madara patted the side of the large blue dragon's nostril "Don't worry buddy, I will come back to get you, it's just that I can't really bring a dragon with me back to the Earth Kingdom right now… I don't even have a place for you to sleep right now…. but I swear that in less than a year I will be back and when we meet again, you will be coming with me!"

ROOOOOOOOOAR!

The massive blue dragon seemed to have understood what Madara said, but sadness could be seen in his massive yellow eyes.

"Don't worry about it, it's just a year… tell you what… when I come back, you and I will wreak some havoc and burn things until you are satisfied, what do you think?" Madara said with a pyromaniacal gleam in his eyes

A gleam that the Dragon also shared and expressed with an even more excited roar.

"Good! Now, go back and chill… by the way, if a young teen with a half-burned face shows up with his bald friend in the future, make sure you and Ryuuka scare the shit out of them before showing them your flames, ok? Just don't hurt them, especially the teen with the half-burned face!" Asked Madara with a weird smirk on his face.

The Dragon even nodded! And Madara could've sworn that he saw the Dragon smirking as well.

"Now go back Seiryuu, and keep improving your strength! Next time we meet I will test your improvements!"

Shouted Madara as the Dragon started flying back to his mountain, just to meet with the Red Dragon who also came to say their goodbyes and flew together back to their home.

"Who would've thought that the red one was a female, and the blue one was a male… with the stupid names of Ran and Shaw I thought both were males…"

Madara took a deep breath as the Airship started moving further and further from the Sun Warrior Island. 'This trip back home will be the last peaceful days for a while… after that…' his eyes narrowed 'We are heading back to the Northern Watertribe.'


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KojiSan KojiSan

Behooold another chapter!

Now everyone can have a 0.01% more faith in me! :D

>_> i will be honest, i am very unsatisfied with the current quality of fanfictions on this website, when i started writing this one, there were SO MANY decent ones, now... its so god damn rare to find them...

One thing that i want for this Fanfiction and any other Fanfiction that i write is to always have good quality, but to do so... i cant half-ass my way through writing it, bloating chapters just for the sake of wordcount or filler chapters... brainless plot with brainless characters...

But to do good... to write well... i need inspiration >_> thats why when i dont have that, i don't write...

Long story short... i rather have few chapters that takes longer to write but its good, than have 100+ chapters of stupidity just for the sake of bigger numbers.

章節 60: Lines Crossed

Four people could be seen sitting inside an opulent room, the room exudes an air of imperial grandeur, with a deep appreciation for tradition. The color scheme includes deep reds, luxurious golds, and various shades of rich brown and green; many carpets with intricate patterns and vibrant colors cover the floor, adding not only to the opulence of the room but also providing comfort and insulation.

From one of the many windows, fluffy clouds could be seen quite closely, adding an air of otherworldliness that could be felt by everyone inside.

"We will probably reach the resort by tomorrow," Said Nari as she kept drinking her tea with a content expression on her face.

"Can't wait for it! I've been curious about the outside world for so long!" Exclaimed Xi, the hyperactive twenty-year-old Sun Warrior girl.

"Eh… it's okay I guess…" Shrugged Kaliya while drinking her Sake.

"How can you be so nonchalant about it? Weren't you like… trapped in your tribe as well?" Asked Xi with a tone of indignation.

Kaliya on the other hand just shrugged "For the first year or so, I was right like ye… but… once you see one city you've seen all of 'em..."

Xi's eyebrow twitched viciously, but Kaliya wasn't done.

"To make it even worse… the Resort is superior to any other place you will ever see, once ye in there… other places just feel… meh…" The girl with the eyepatch concluded by chugging sake like there's no tomorrow.

While Xi was getting more and more triggered, both Nari and Madara chuckled.

"Well, I won't disagree that the resort is superior to anywhere else, I've built that place!" said Madara with a cheerful tone "But there are many other very unique places that have their own charm…"

Xi's eyes instantly glowed as she turned to Madara "Say more Lord! Tell me of other places!" She shouted in excitement.

Madara just deadpans for a second before taking a deep breath 'me and my loud mouth'.

"Well… Omashu was built around the tales of a certain couple, I don't remember all the details but there is a somewhat romantic background to that city, not only that… it's a very… 'vertical city', like… it's not as big as the Northern Watertribe's capital, nowhere close, but it compensates for verticality, with many tall buildings stacking together, and they were very creative with it. They have many stone slides all over the city that are used to carry stuff around and sometimes even people!" Madara concluded with a chuckle, remembering the scene in the show where Aang and Bumi would abuse the slides for the sake of fun.

"OOOOOH!!!" Xi was trembling in excitement "I want to go there one day! I don't know what a slide is, but it sounds incredible!"

All the other three just deadpan at her reaction 'Why the hell would you get so excited if you don't even know what it is?!'

Coughing, Madara continued "Then there's the big one… Ba Sing Se… that city alone can fit both the Fire Nation and Nothern Watertribe's capital and still have room for my Resort, Omashu, Gao Ling with some left-over space…. And that's just within the inner walls, to be honest… that city is like a nation of its own… And they improved the Slide idea from Omashu turning it into vehicles that safely carry people around, not just two to five or ten but up to hundreds!"

Xi somehow managed to produce a notebook and a charcoal and started writing everything down while nodding her head viciously, for a moment the other three were actually worried that her neck would just snap…

"And what is Gao Ling, Lord?" Xi Asked.

Madara chucked, this girl… "I think Nari here would be the best one to describe Gao Ling, she lived there for years"

Nari raised an eyebrow at that but didn't mind, she was born and raised in Gao Ling, but before she could say anything, Kaliya in all her wisdom interfered.

"Shouldn't ye be…HIC…. piloting the airship, Nari?" She asked with a raised eyebrow, her hiccup was loud and clear to all.

Shaking her head the mature woman replied "You don't expect me to be sitting on a pilot seat for sixteen hours do you?"

"Well.. Jackie did…" She said remembering their trip to her homeland.

Nari facepalmed and let out an exasperated sigh "It's not needed… there are contraptions to keep the airship going in a straight line, unless there are other airships around or an obstacle ahead, there's no need to stay there… I always take half-hour breaks every now and then…"

But then her eyes narrowed "It seems I need to double down on Lei's teachings…" her voice was dangerously oppressive.

""Gulp"" Both Madara and Kaliya gulped hard but Xi was as confused as hell.

"Jackie? Lei? Are you married to two men, Mrs. Nari?"

"…" 

""Pfff… BAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"" Both Madara and Kaliya couldn't hold themselves. Even Nari was holding back her own laughter as well.

"Like I would be able to endure the stupidity of more than one man in my life," she said with a joking tone until she stared at Madara who raised his eyebrows. 

"I take offense to that!" He spoke.

"You are more like a son to me Madara… you know what… do you want a second 'Jackie' in your life?"

"Ugh…" Madara and Kaliya stared at each other "No I think we are good with just one…."

Nari shrugged "So am I!"

Xi raised her hand to speak, like a good kid. "Oh, I have a question!" She shouted excitedly.

"Sure go ahead…"

"Why do you have two names Lord? Could it be that your parents couldn't decide which name you should have and gave you both of them?" Xi asked, but not a hint of sarcasm was there, she was completely clueless.

The other three chuckled, but it was Nari who answered, Madara was still catching his breath after his laughter and Kaliya was… dead drunk… "Uchiha is his Family name…"

"Family Name? What does that mean?" She asked while looking towards the resident Uchiha.

"Some families, powerful families that have somewhat of a strong legacy to leave behind, can adopt family names… although it's curious that neither the Chief of the Northern Watertribe, the Earth King or the Fire Lord have family names… I mean… it is a hereditary position, and it's a hell of a legacy…. One would think…" Madara said.

Nari, the ever-knowledgeable woman, cleared his doubts "They don't need it… their position is stronger than any name, family names are a symbol of Nobility, not Royalty. That and to earn a family name one must be acknowledged by an already noble family… it's not just a thing of wanting it, the point is… they become equals after nomination, but who would be an equal to nominate the Fire Lord, Earth King, and Water Chief? No one, not in a social status at least."

"By the way Nari… do you want a family name?" Madara wanted to ask this for a while now, Lei and Nari are so close to him, he wanted to at least elevate their social status, he could, so… why wouldn't he?

Nari had a motherly smile on her face as she looked towards her 'son' "There's no need for that Madara…"

"But there's no need for you to reject either!" He spoke

"But-"

"No 'buts', it literally costs me nothing other than acknowledging and nominating you… and I already acknowledged both you and Jackie years ago! Why don't you just accept?! Even Jackie was excited about it back then…"

"We don't want to bring you any burden, you nominating us means that you will be responsible for our family for several years if any of us do something bad… you are the one that they will aim at…"

"So what? Who do you think I am?" He said with a narrow gaze and deep voice.

Nari couldn't help but hug Madara tightly, she wanted, she really… really wanted, but never asked. Madara already offered in the past, but she didn't want to accept and burden him with their issues for the next decade, she always knew he was strong… a very strong man but still just a man… he bleeds and could even be killed… but after seeing him rag dolling two humongous dragons the other day to the point of taming both of them… she couldn't help but agree in her heart, he was not just a man, he is Madara Uchiha, a name that would bring even the toughest of people to tremble in the near future.

"A-and what name have you and my husband come up with?" She asked with tears of happiness in her eyes.

Madara grinned as he gave her a folded piece of cloth with a spiral green dragon in the clouds.

"Wulong." 

The night eventually fell and they landed safely on a deserted island already in the Earth Kingdom's waters, quite close to the resort actually, but Nari was tired and no one had the heart to ask her to stay up just to arrive a little earlier, it's only a five-hour flight from now on.

Unfortunately, the next day's event made them regret that decision…

As the Airship moved forwards, from a distance, everyone could see some smoke coming out of the horizon, not a lot… but not a little either. 

"Isn't that location…" said Kaliya in shock, Nari also was not only shocked but incredibly worried.

Madara was first shocked for several seconds before he frowned and grinded his teeth, the Sharingan already activated and his once carefree, friendly and funny personality went on a complete shift.

"Those bugs…" His voice was low, but his rage and anger could be felt, he understood the tactics, with the Avatar alive and kicking… they wanted to keep Madara in his lands, the worst thing for the Fire Nation would be to have Madara joining Aang at this point.

Would they do it personally? No, they would not send their own soldiers to do the dirty job, that's what mercenaries are for anyway. What they wanted to do was keep Madara busy and always worried about his goldmine and his people.

Would Madara think it was them? Yes, but they are not the only ones trying to bring down his ownership over the western part of the Earth Kingdom, the Dai Li was very much against Madara, already considering him a threat, and they made their move under the name of the Earth King.

So obviously, both parties joined together in this since their goals aligned. Who cares about the War when there's a rare opportunity to solve the immediate threat that is already on their doorstep anyway?

They know that removing Madara from this world was a long shot, but reducing his already huge influence would already be a start! What was the worst that could happen? In their eyes, Madara would retaliate and destroy those mercenaries for good.

Both parties believed that Madara would never act directly against them as it would be counter-productive to his own interests, considering that it was all done under the rug, if Madara acted against it he would be seen as a criminal.

…Poor bastards couldn't even realize that Madara Uchiha didn't play politics… 

In less than a second, Madara suddenly disappeared from his position. The other three could only see an open door that led to the balcony.

"H-hey he isn't thinking…" Xi was a bit scared of Madara's visage.

"Nari, lower our altitude and go full speed, the time to be stealthy is over!" Shouted Kaliya with as much rage as Madara in her voice.

"I don't know how they figured out that we left with such little notice." Nari narrowed her eyes with an evil gleam. "But I agree… if anything happened to my husband…" she gripped the control wheel so hard that her hands became pale white.

"But what about Lord Madara?!" Asked Xi in panic.

… bitch… please…

Smoke was rising from some of the destroyed resort buildings, the ones close to the shoreline were the ones affected, and many bodies were lying on the ground either bleeding, burned, crushed, or cut.

On the docks, several ships of various sizes were seen trying to take over the harbor.

It was obvious that this was not from any nation in specific just by judging by their attires and ships, they were mercenaries… a shit load of mercenaries, even the foremost ship was from a very well-known mercenary group, the Rough Rhinos.

As the group of bandits were trying their best to kill the resisting guards, everyone could feel the temperature rising exponentially.


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KojiSan KojiSan

Well this chapter took me a while to create, not the writing itself but the idea.

You see with this chapter i basically skipped 2 to 3 Episodes of Last Airbender, one being the stupid episode "the Fortuneteller", which i wanted to anyway, that one is filler just like "The Grand Divide" that i did skip already.

The last one though... "Bato of the Watertribe".. i kinda wanted to add it because June would be part of it and i had some nice funny scenes between Zuko, Iroh, June and Sokka. I might add them as a flashback at some point but i had to skipt it.

The last one is "The Deserter"... i pretty much skipped half of it, meaning that in 2 or 3 chapters from now will be all about the Northern Watertribe, and the whole siege thing.

I also got a bit side tracked the last couple days irl so i didnt write anything, but i already have some scenes planned, the hard part for me is to bring them together to create a coherent story, without ruining the pace.

Anyway i rambled enough! have a good day/afternoon/evening yall! i hope yall enjoyed, and i see you on the comments!

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