《Re: Fire》 Re: Fire Prologue Michael P.O.V Ah today¡¯s the day. Today I will officially announce my new martial arts style and officially become one of the top practitioners of martial arts in the world. I head downstairs and see my father already eating breakfast. ¡°Good morning son, why are you in such a good mood today?¡±[Father] ¡°You know damn well why and how did you get in my home? I know I changed the lock again.¡±[Michael] ¡°You may be my son but you forget that I¡¯m your father.¡±[Father] ¡°What the hell are you on about?¡±[Michael] I get to the table and eat the breakfast that my maid had prepared for me. After finishing breakfast I go to the dojo and exercise a bit before sparring with my friend. (Mc has no friends; he¡¯s just some guy he hired to spar with him every day) Well let¡¯s just say I beat the shit out of him¡­..again. For the past 14 years I have been training in various martial arts such as Capoeira, krav maga, Aikido and the keysi fighting technique and I also practiced kendo and Iaido for 14 years since I was 15. At first it was only because I was an otaku and wanted to look cool but as time passed I practiced because of the thrill that I got from fighting other martial artists. Now one of my still otaku friends (acquaintances not friends) asked me why, when it took batman only 7 years to master more martial arts then me and it took me 14 years to master the ones that I did. Like a good friend is supposed to act I yelled at him telling him that bat man was fiction while I¡¯m not, he¡¯s still being a bitch and not talking to me. The author''s narrative has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.Well, anyway so I wore my gi and left to go to the venue I had chosen for my announcement about the creation of a new martial art style. On the way there I got really hungry, like really really hungry so I parked my car across the street and went to the Convenience store as I was crossing the road, a car came and I mean a really fast car heading straight towards and before I could do anything about it, I felt immense pain throughout my body and I lost consciousness. ¡°Quick someone call an ambulance!!!¡± [Stranger#1] ¡°I don¡¯t think he¡¯s going to make it.¡± [Doctor] ¡°NO, no, no this can¡¯t be happening, doctor please tell me if there¡¯s anything that I can do.¡±[Father] ¡°All you can do pray to God¡± [Doctor] I faded in and out of consciousness as I listened to my father and doctor talking I could not help but want to cry and then I lost consciousness for the last time in this world. Chapter 1: The Fire Ignites ¡®¡¯ [thoughts] ¡°¡±[Dialogue]
Chapter 1: The Fire Ignites.
Part 1
What the hell??? Where am I?? And can anyone please turn on the goddamn lights!! It¡¯s so dark here it¡¯s like dark void here. ¡°It¡¯s not like a dark void it is a dark void, you idiot.¡±[???] ¡®Looks like I finally went off the deep end and created another person inside my head¡¯ ¡°Dude, just listen you¡¯re not insane you¡¯re dead¡±[???} ¡®And the good news just keeps coming!!!¡¯ ¡°Okay, I¡¯m gonna be over there if you need me.¡± [???] This is obviously some sort of prank that my dad pulled, he¡¯s done this shit one too many times and this time I¡¯m not gonna let it slide. Okay, let¡¯s just play along shall we. ¡®You can come back now.¡¯ ¡°Took you long enough, anyways I am God¡± [(self-proclaimed) God] ¡®Well nice to meet you God, My name is Kim Jong Un. You know I always did want to meet my maker. ¡® ¡°Okay Dude you can cut the crap now I read your mind and NO this is not some prank by your dad.¡± [God (apparently)] ¡®Fine, what do you want with me O¡¯Almighty lord.¡¯ ¡°Well you see the car that killed you was mine and I was Kind of driving it, heh¡± [God] ¡®So what now?¡¯ ¡°Well you¡¯re going to be reborn in my favourite comics universe as my favourite character¡± [God] ¡®And that world and character is¡­¡­¡­..¡¯ ¡°Of course the world of Avatar and my favourite character is Zuko¡± [God] ¡®You do realize Zuko is the most shitty fire bender ever.¡¯ ¡°Fine I¡¯ll give you a shit ton talent and knowledge in fire bending and as a gift you can also have all your skill and martial arts that you had in your previous life as well¡±[God] ¡®Deal.¡¯ ¡°Deal. Oh and by the way why did you suddenly start believing me?¡±[God] ¡®Well you see halfway through I realized I was thinking not talking and you know not everyone can read minds.¡¯ ¡°Well looks like we¡¯re out of time. Ciao.¡± Just as I was about to shout at him, I lost consciousness.
Part 2
I woke in a very confined space and everything around me was incredibly wet and slimy. I could not see but I knew from all the light novels that I was inside my mother¡¯s stomach. ¡®This shit is disgusting.¡¯ As I was thinking how slimy it was, I suddenly felt a large pressure being exerted on my small body. As soon as the pressure disappeared I felt hands grabbing me and as I opened my eyes, I had close them immediately because of the bright light that was extremely painful for my delicate newborn eyes. The pain caused me to start crying. ¡°WAAAAAAAAH WAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!¡±[MC] ¡°Doctor give me my son.¡± [???} As soon as I heard that beautiful Voice I stopped crying and looked up as I was handed to Beautiful woman who was sitting on the table. She had the most delicate face with golden eyes and dark brown hair that looked almost black. I instinctively knew she was my mother. ¡°Hi there little one. I am your mother, Ursa.¡± [Ursa] As she said that a man with pitch black hair going down till his shoulder blades , cruel golden eyes, a straight nose and a stern face with a goatee that went down to his chest walked forward and said. ¡°And I am your father, second son of the fire lord Azulon, Prince Ozai.¡±[Ozai] I knew what type of person my father was am yet I could not bring myself to dislike, I think it may be due to the love I had for my previous father. I felt tired and probably noticing my expression my mother started to feed me. After the feeding I felt unbelievably sleepy and could not help but fall asleep. Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings.
Part 3
When I woke up I noticed I was in a room that looked like a traditional Japanese room. There was a shelf lined with various scrolls. As I could not do anything, I thought about my situation. I was in the body of Zuko and I was just born so that means in twelve to thirteen years I¡¯m gonna get a nasty scar compliments of dad. Now in a few years Azula will be born and I¡¯ve gotta make sure I¡¯m on good terms with her otherwise my life¡¯s going to become a living hell. Next I have to become a great fire bender otherwise I¡¯m going to have to chase Aang all around the world and I don¡¯t want to do that. What I really want is to conquer the world under the fire nation¡¯s banner, so that¡¯s goal number 1. All this thinking is making me really tired, damn you body. And after damning my baby body I fell asleep.
Part 4
Its been 11 months and I can now crawl *clap*clap*. So the first thing that I did was crawl over to the shelf and take the scrolls. As I opened them they had pictures of fire bending techniques and instructions on how to perform them. I was pretty stoked that I would be able to generate fire, I mean who on earth wouldn¡¯t want to learn how to fire bend. I picked up the most basic scroll that how one could generate fire. I could already read and understand this language without any effort because of probably God. The scroll instructed me to search inside of myself and look for fire near where my heart is. As I entered a meditative state, I was able to locate the fire. I was shocked, It was a huge, titanic in size roaring fire but what shocked me was not the fire nor its size but instead the huge Chinese dragon circling underneath it. Upon closer inspection I realized that although it had all the characteristics of Chinese dragons like the long serpentine body, whiskers, fin-like ears, wild looking eyes, canine snout, and the position and proportions of the horns. However, it had large bat like wings just like European dragons. The dragon¡¯s wild eyes were blood red and his body that was covered in scales was pitch black. The whiskers were grey in color. And holy shit its teeth; those jagged instruments of death could bite a building in half like a hot knife through butter. Once the dragon noticed me it stopped circling the fire and flew towards me. Although it was almost as large a skyscraper it was nothing compared to the fire and I looked like a piss ant in front of the dragon . When he stopped in front of me , he opened his mouth and roared ¡°Welcome my partner. What is your name?¡± ¡°I¡¯m Zuko and you are¡­.?¡±[Zuko] ¡°My name is Maheshvra.¡±[Maheshvra] I could barely stop my knees from shaking when I asked the next question. ¡°What might be your business here?¡±[Zuko] ¡±I am to be your partner and we can communicate like this once a year, however you are far too weak to find my real body right now.¡±[Maheshvra] ¡°What should I do to discover your body?¡±[Zuko] ¡°To discover my true body you must: first travel to Roku¡¯s Island at the age of thirteen, deep down below Roku¡¯s Island my real body slumbers. You can travel down there through the passages inside the volcano.¡±[Maheshvra] ¡°Very well than I shall see you in 13 years.¡± [Zuko] As soon as I said that Maheshvra disappeared. When he left I finally remembered what I originally came here to do. The way to awaken your fire bending is to merge with the fire inside you. The fire was still roaring so I entered it with my tiny body. Once I was inside it the fired was sucked inside me like a vacuum was inside my body. Soon the entire fire was gone and I was in the real world and outside the spirit realm. I imagined a fire as small as a bottle cap on my hand and it grew to life and that is how I took the first step to my Journey in becoming a fire bender. Chapter 2: Big Fire meets Little Fire Chapter 2: Big Fire meets Little Fire.
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Zuko¡¯s P.O.V I¡¯m 1 now. My mother Ursa is 3 months pregnant and whenever she visits me she gives me the oddest look I have ever seen. I listen to her when she tells me stories of Avatar Roku and his dragon Fang. She also told me something that even I didn¡¯t know; my mother was apparently the granddaughter of Avatar Roku. My father However rarely ever checks up on me and even when he does all he does is come to my room to see whether I¡¯m alive or not. My daily life usually involves me crawling all around the palace and discovering its interiors. I know most of the interior of the palace ant that took me 2 months to complete. I also watch when my father is practicing his fire bending and usually practicing very advanced fire bending forms. My father dislikes when people disturb him while he¡¯s training but I swear I saw him giving me an approving nod when I tried to imitate him. Once while I was wandering around the palace, I ran into a fat man dressed in royal clothes. I at once concluded that he was my uncle Iroh who was the heir-apparent. My uncle was fat and was balding but he had the most magnificent beard I have ever seen and I don¡¯t mean to brag but just about everyone in the palace has beards except servants, there was once a guy who had wolverines beard but he was just a new recruit. Well anyway, my uncle was apparently very amused at the sight of a baby crawling about with servants running around to find him because he started laughing so loud it made me want to cover my years. ¡®This fucker thinks this shits funny I¡¯ll show him.¡¯ I looked around the room and found a pot of tea and chucked it at his feet. Now he was jumping around clutching his foot and yelling. ¡®Hah. Take that you bitch.¡¯ Iroh¡¯s P.O.V I was summoned by my father fire lord Azulon and was just leaving when I noticed my nephew Zuko bump into me, just as I was wondering what the hell he was doing here, I heard cries. ¡°Young master Zuko, where are you!!??¡¯[Servant 1] ¡°Young master Zuko!! Where are you!!??¡±[Servant 2] I look towards my cousin and notice he¡¯s looking over his shoulder with a very annoyed look on his face. ¡°Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!¡± [Iroh] I couldn¡¯t help but burst into laughter after seeing the look on his face. Now he looks pissed at me for laughing at him. ¡°Ahahahahahaha!!! This is hilarious!! How can a child make these kind of faces!?¡± [Iroh] Hmmm. What¡¯s this burning smell? Where is it coming from? I look at me and notice the spilled tea pot, It smells burning but for a fire bender of my level its nothing but a tingling sensation, but this child is SCARY!! If I don¡¯t act hurt he¡¯ll probably find something that can hurt me. So I pretend to act hurt and start jumping around while holding my foot yelling random nonsense. OH SHIT!!! I forgot about the meeting with father, so I run of towards father¡¯s chambers. Zuko¡¯s P.O.V Look at that fool running away scared of this mighty toddler. Hah!! That¡¯s what you get for laughing at the future fire lord. ¡°Young master Zuko, where are you?¡±[Servant 1] ¡°He¡¯s over here!!!¡±[Servant 2] Damn they got me, well whatever I am pretty tired so I better go take a nap. After that the servants took me to my room and after getting in bed I fell asleep. Part 2
Iroh¡¯s P.O.V
I made it in time to reach my father¡¯s chambers. As soon as I entered< I kneeled. ¡°First son Iroh greets fire lord Azulon.¡±[Iroh] ¡°Rise my son.¡±[Azulon] A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. ¡°So what have you called me for father¡± [Iroh] ¡°Before we get to business I would like to ask your opinion of Ozai¡¯s first born, Zuko.¡±[Azulon] ¡°Father from what I can tell he¡¯s but an adventurous child but¡­.¡± [Iroh] ¡°But... what?¡± [Azulon] ¡°His intelligence scares me.¡±[Iroh] ¡°What do you mean by that?¡± [Azulon] ¡°What I mean to say is that the child possesses intelligence beyond his age and from our brief encounter I felt he was trying to analyze me.¡±{Iroh] ¡°I see¡­.¡± [Azulon} I could tell my father about the type of behavior the child possessed but that would just result in something drastic happening to the child. ¡°Very well, then let us proceed to the real reason I called you here today.¡± [Azulon] ¡°Yes, father¡± [Iroh] ¡°I want you to leave in two months time to conquer Ba Sing Se with your family.¡± [Azulon] I don¡¯t want to but refusing father would not be good for my family ¡°Yes, father.¡± [Iroh] Part 3
Zuko¡¯s P.O.V
Today¡¯s the day; today I will finally have a little sister. My mom is in the operating room with the doctor and father. The Avatar books were wrong about one thing, my dad may be a shitty father but he is one caring ass husband. My mom also loves him. I can hear the screams of my mom coming from the operating room and thank sweet merciful Buddha, I wasn¡¯t born a woman. I suddenly hear a baby crying and rush into the room to see my little sister. I enter to see my mother holding Azula. ¡°You shall be called Azula¡± [Ursa] I saw something in my father that I hadn¡¯t seen since as long as I¡¯ve lived affection towards children and here I thought the old bastard hated children. ¡°Bring Zuko over here.¡± [Ursa] The maid took me towards my mother and sat me down beside her. I brought my hand close to Azula and she grabbed my finger with her tiny fist although mine weren¡¯t that much bigger. The doctor than asked mother to rest and told the maids to attend to Azula in the nursery in the palace. Father and I left and he ordered me to come with him. He took me to his room by carrying me. Now you may be wondering why the cruel and mighty Ozai would carry his children instead of letting the servants carry me, I learned that after watching the process of child birth he had developed affection for his children, apparently someone only got to my birth after I was already born. Father carried me over to his room and put me down in front of him and gave a lecture that would make one think what the hell is he talking about to a child. ¡°My son, now that you have a younger sister you must treasure her, you must be the perfect role model for, and you must protect her from the hungry and ravenous beasts that are men. You must excel in all fields be it fire bending, studies or martial arts.¡± [Ozai] At this point I was thinking what the hell is he on about?! Was he seriously expecting a one year old to understand and remember all this stuff and was he asking me to protect her from lust. I just nodded along hoping to all kinds of gods he wouldn¡¯t go into detail. He then carried me to my room much to mine and the servants¡¯ surprise. He was laughing at the mere fact that he had two children. His change in personality really surprised me. He left me in my room but the sound of laughter could still be heard. After all this drama I was pretty tired and just went to sleep. Chapter 3: The Fire learns how to Burn shit Chapter 1: The Fire learns how to burn shit.
Part 1
Zuko P.O.V It¡¯s been 5 years since Azula has been born and I am now 6 years old. The reason is starting today I can finally start my fire bending training and the one who will train me will be none other than my father. Right now I¡¯m standing in a field outside the palace so that my father can check the strength of my flames. For the past 3 years I had been training in chi control and enhancement. Now all I have to do is use all my strength to conjure a fire pillar. Father says his was 33 feet tall and he was considered a prodigy seen once a century. I did as instructed and imagined a pillar of fire in my mind without closing as that was part of the training. Suddenly as I used my chi to conjure fire a pillar about fifty feet tall made entirely out of fire appeared and burned for around 10 minutes before extinguishing. When the fire finally disappeared and I could see my father; his jaw was almost touching the ground, his eyes wide as he stared at me. He then snapped out of his stupor and his face immediately changed to that of pride and he rushed over to me. ¡°That was amazing!!!¡± [Ozai] ¡°Why, thank you, I dress to impress.¡±[Zuko] ¡°Ha-ha!! My son is a genius!!¡± [Ozai] ¡°And one that¡¯s never been seen before.¡±[Ozai] After that my father taught me many forms that I was able to learn quite easily because of my knowledge of martial arts. He taught me how to throw flames from my hands and also to increase and decrease the temperature of the fire. However, when I made various hand signs and breathed out fire with my hands in front of my face like a certain ninja my father looked at me like I was retarded. I could pick up the basics of the techniques but was still was far from mastering them. The forms on the other hand had already been mastered due to the similarity between martial arts that I knew and the forms that my father taught. I still had lot to learn and my father said that he would teach me the rest later. ¡°Originally I had planned to only train you today but now I have decided that I will train you until you eventually master fire bending.¡±[Ozai] ¡°Why did you change your decision?¡± [Zuko] ¡°Your talent for fire bending surpasses anything I have ever seen and I will not allow some fool to teach you when I can teach you techniques that far surpass theirs.¡± [Ozai] ¡°I see.¡± [Zuko] After that we left for the palace. When we reached the palace servants rushed out to greet me and my father. However, they could not hide their surprise when they heard the all the praises leaking from my father¡¯s mouth. After that day the whole palace was aware of the genius prince who far surpassed even his father with his talent.
Part 2
Zuko¡¯s P.O.V Later that night, when Zuko was asleep he entered a dream space. He looked around and noticed the colossal fire still burning fiercely. He looked around and saw Maheshvra flying towards him. Zuko was shocked because this was the first time that Maheshvra had appeared since that day he first appeared. He was still as majestic as ever. He looked at Zuko with a gaze filled with pride and smiled at him; Zuko could not help himself from smiling back at Maheshvra. ¡°It has been a long time, Prince.¡± [Maheshvra] ¡°Indeed it has, hasn¡¯t it Maheshvra. Where were you? I thought it would take only a year to meet you again.¡± [Zuko] ¡°Last time you summoned me prematurely thus it took more time than expected to regain the chi required to talk to you.¡± [Maheshvra] ¡°I see than why are you here?¡±[Zuko] ¡°Although you have become better at fire bending your body is still far too weak, I advise that you train not only your bending but also your body.¡± After saying that Maheshvra disappeared. I realized that he was right, I had become too caught up in the new thing that was fire bending that I ignored the most basic thing which is to train your own body. I suddenly felt pressure on my stomach as if someone was jumping on it. I opened my eyes to see Azula yelling at me to wake me up. Unlike in the past the relationship between me and Azula wasn¡¯t that of enemies but like that of a mischievous younger sister and an older brother. This was of course because unlike before I had helped her grow like this. Of course to others her personality was still the same as she would berate the servants at the smallest mistakes and would treat other people as insignificant and look at them like they were insects. But she would always be kind to her family and even mother. Like father she was also different than what was shown in the comics. Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. ¡°Azula, you don¡¯t have to jump on me to wake me up.¡±[Zuko] ¡°But big brother doesn¡¯t wake unless I jump on you.¡±[Azula] ¡°Okay so why did you wake me up so early.¡±[Zuko] ¡°I played a prank on uncle Iroh as he¡¯s visiting the palace, hehehehe¡± [Azula] ¡°Azula¡­.what did you do?¡±[Zuko] ¡°I added the glue to the water of uncles bath and a lot of it at that, hehehehe. He¡¯s going to take a bath now so it¡¯ll be funny when he comes out.¡±[Azula] ¡°Let¡¯s go!! we¡¯re going to miss it!!¡±[Zuko] As soon as she told me her plan I had rushed off towards the bath with Azula running behind me. Iroh¡¯s P.O.V I feel like something good is going to happen today. I need to take a bath so I head toward the baths in the palace that were made for the royal family. I take off my clothes and enter the baths room. The bath water is nice and warm and I enter it I immediately feel its soothing affect all over my body. After I had left the bath and was leaving the water I noticed a lot of liquid sticking to my body, I used the towel to wipe it off but instead the towel became stuck to my body. I put my foot on the bench and pulled at the towel but my foot stuck to the bench. A servant came and I reached out to him, when I grabbed him my hand became stuck to him. ¡°What did you do to the bath water, you buffoon¡± [Iroh] ¡°We did not do anything sire, lady Azula tampered with the water than told us to not allow anyone but you from entering saying it was reserved for lady Azula.¡±[Servant] ¡°AZULA!!!!!!¡±[Iroh] The sounds of rushing footsteps could be heard as well as the stifled laughter of his niece and nephew as they ran away.
Part 3
Right now I was at the mountain near the palace training my body as well as my fire bending. I would do pushups, pull ups, sit ups and weighted running all while trying to hit fires conjured by a guard with my own by forming them into arrows. This would increase my control over fire as well as my aim and ability to target multiple foes. If I get tired than I would rest my body while targeting the fires with my fire arrows but in twice the amount. I would train in this method until I could go a whole day without needing to stop except for food and water. After 1 year I could easily do all this without getting tired. My time with Azula also became limited as she started her own training, her friends Ty Lee and Mai also came often to spar with her. After this training became ineffective I moved on to training my reflexes and dodging ability. I would tie myself to a tree while Father would throw fire balls at me and I would try to dodge and those I couldn¡¯t dodge I would try to take control of and deflect, at first I could barely dodge or deflect and got hurt a lot. I had gained a scar from my neck to a portion of my check and almost to my eyes. As it went towards my eyes it became thinner. As time passed the length of the rope grew shorter and shorter until I had learned to dodge with the bare minimum movement. After this I started to re-learn all of my martial arts. I also had a katana made of a black meteorite made. It could not be melted my normal fire and my father used blue flames to melt it even then it took a while. By the time I was finished training I was nine years old, my control over fire was equal to that of a master fire bender but I lacked skill and techniques. So for the next four years I trained under my father learning and mastering all the fire bending techniques he had to teach me. He taught me how to make my fire take forms of animals and such; he taught me how to utilize fire bending with minimal usage of chi. My father taught that by creating the fire in a circular motion, enough force generates to block powerful projectiles. He also taught me how to prevent myself from feeling hot or cold which would come in handy inside the volcano in Roku¡¯s Island. But most importantly I was now able to utilize blue fire. It burned so fiercely that when I used it on a boulder not even ash was left. Tomorrow I would go greet my grandfather for the first time and show him my current skill and try to impress him and then the day after tomorrow I would depart for Roku¡¯s Island alone.