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Speaker 1: One thing I remember about Avatar's second book, Book of Earth,
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Speaker 1: was how well it focused on Zuko as a character like,
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Speaker 1: Zuko always did get a certain amount of focus, but
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Speaker 1: the kind of focus he got in book two was
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Speaker 1: wow perfect. Aang's story is honestly of flat character arc. Generally,
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Speaker 1: Ang knows who he is and where he's going, even
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Speaker 1: if the journey's hard, and a lot of his issues
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Speaker 1: come from trying to stop the world from corrupting him.
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Speaker 1: On the other hand, Zuko's character arc is the perfect
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Speaker 1: contrast in that he is a villain trying to become good,
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Speaker 1: and the internal struggle is so intense that it actually
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Speaker 1: makes him sick. Zuko's character arc from start to finish
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Speaker 1: is the most riveting in all of Avatar, and the
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Speaker 1: way that book two concludes with him betraying Iro and
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Speaker 1: choosing to go back to villainy has impacts that flow
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Speaker 1: throughout the rest of the story. But what if Zuko
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Speaker 1: made a different decision, What if he didn't decide to
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Speaker 1: betray Iro. Well, that's what we're going to find out today.
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Speaker 1: So enter my spirit library and choose a scroll that
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Speaker 1: dictates the fate of a world that never existed, where
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Speaker 1: time and fate split into another universe, a universe where
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Speaker 1: Zuko never betrayed Iro. Welcome to the Amagi. Only twenty
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Speaker 1: if you are subscribed. And with that out of the way,
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Speaker 1: let's get into the video. Is it your own destiny
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Speaker 1: or is it the destiny someone else has tried to
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Speaker 1: force on you? The voice of Iro spoke, berating Zuko,
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Speaker 1: I'm begging you, Prince Suko, It's time for you to
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Speaker 1: look inward and begin asking yourself the big questions, Who
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Speaker 1: are you? And what do you want? This scene played
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Speaker 1: over in Zuko's mind again and again during the time
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Speaker 1: he'd been sick. The visions of his time as fire
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Speaker 1: Lord something that may never come, as well as the
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Speaker 1: visions of himself with the avatar's Azaro mark on his head.
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Speaker 1: These things echoed through his mind like a bell that
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Speaker 1: tolled over and over again. But eventually he awakened, and
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Speaker 1: when he had his outlook on life was different. Something
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Speaker 1: had changed for him, and he wasn't sure what it was.
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Speaker 1: The sky was bluer, the dirt was well dirtier, and
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Speaker 1: the sun's heat felt less like oppression and more like
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Speaker 1: a gentle kiss to its favorite fire Bender. This was
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Speaker 1: Zuko's turning point, the point where his yoke was lost
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Speaker 1: and freedom, true freedom, was attained. No longer bound was
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Speaker 1: he to his destiny, to finding the avatar, to conquering
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Speaker 1: the world. No, he could be anyone he wanted. He
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Speaker 1: could be anything. And what was he now? He was Lee,
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Speaker 1: a migrant to Bossing Say, who now worked to make
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Speaker 1: tea with his uncle Mushi. Giving a stretch, he grabbed
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Speaker 1: his work clothes and put them on. As he entered
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Speaker 1: the teahouse, he was greeted by Iro with the smile
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Speaker 1: and a gentle good morning. Zuko shot it back with
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Speaker 1: finger guns and began to sweep with a whistle. He
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Speaker 1: swept the dust out the door onto the earth where
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Speaker 1: it belonged, a gift to every earth Bender in boss
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Speaker 1: singhs Say that had so graciously given them a chance
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Speaker 1: to live with them. Everything was going well. Zuko kept
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Speaker 1: up his work. His happy disposition had left Iiro pleased,
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Speaker 1: and even the continual visitation of Jin, a girl with
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Speaker 1: a little crush on Zuko, could only seem to brighten
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Speaker 1: Zuko's day more. As Zuko would watch her leave doing
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Speaker 1: more deliveries for the Silver Fang, he had a bit
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Speaker 1: of a worried face that Iro noticed. Do you care
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Speaker 1: for this girl much? Pritt Lee, he asked. Zuko hadn't
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Speaker 1: thought on it much, but Iro had told him to
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Speaker 1: start asking himself what it was he wanted out of life,
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Speaker 1: and he began to realize that what he wanted might
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Speaker 1: have been a peaceful life, a life in the city,
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Speaker 1: making honest money, working an honest job, and perhaps well
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Speaker 1: providing for a family, a family that maybe he would
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Speaker 1: have with Jin well, as destiny would have it. The
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Speaker 1: fame of Ira or I guessed Moshi, as well as
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Speaker 1: his passion for Tea, seemed to have spread into the
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Speaker 1: farthest parts of the Earth Kingdom, and they were invited
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Speaker 1: straight to the capital to serve tea to the Earth King.
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Speaker 1: Little did they know that the Earth King had already
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Speaker 1: been deposed and that soon the Council of Five would
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Speaker 1: be as well. A Zula was in the Earth Kingdom
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Speaker 1: and she began to seize control, and now she wanted
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Speaker 1: to tie off loose ends, and those loose ends included
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Speaker 1: not only the Avatar but also her brother and uncle,
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Speaker 1: and so. As they arrived at the palace of the
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Speaker 1: Earth King, Ira mused at how long he'd imagine himself
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Speaker 1: coming to this place one day, and that when he did,
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Speaker 1: he would do so as a conqueror, but now he
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Speaker 1: was here as a guest to serve the Earth King tea.
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Speaker 1: He mentioned how funny fate could be, to which Zuko agreed.
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Speaker 1: As they entered the palace and sat down at a
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Speaker 1: table before the Earth King's throne, which as yet sat empty,
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Speaker 1: Zuko couldn't help but wonder if it was natural for
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Speaker 1: the Earth King to be so tardy. He mentioned this
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Speaker 1: to Iro, who stated that it was possible that he'd overslept.
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Speaker 1: This statement was a silent answer to the silent question
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Speaker 1: Zuko had no sooner had Iro said this, than agents
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Speaker 1: of the Dialee began to enter the room with them,
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Speaker 1: Zuko noticed them being surrounded and stated that something was off.
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Speaker 1: That's when Azula entered the room. Immediately, Zuko stood, getting
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Speaker 1: all worked up, as Iro sat there calmly. He grabbed
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Speaker 1: his cup of tea and slowly rose As Zuko and
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Speaker 1: Azula exchanged barbes as siblings with a rivalry as intense
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Speaker 1: as theirs could only be expected to do. He broke
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Speaker 1: them up with a question, Azula, have I ever told
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Speaker 1: you how I became known as the Dragon of the West,
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Speaker 1: he asked. I'm not in the mood for a long anecdote, Uncle,
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Speaker 1: she said, Iro stroked his beard. It was more of
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Speaker 1: a demonstration, he said. Zuko understood the point of Iro's words.
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Speaker 1: He stepped into Iro's shadow as his mouth opened and
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Speaker 1: he began to spew flames everywhere. Turning in a circle
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Speaker 1: to defend himself, Zuko popped through the paper walls with
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Speaker 1: his own fire bending and stepped through as Iro followed
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Speaker 1: close behind, still spewing fire like a dragon. The two
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Speaker 1: of them ran toward the nearest outer wall, and with
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Speaker 1: a smooth flow of movements, Iro redirected his chee into form,
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Speaker 1: not flame, but lightning, pushing his fingers forward. The thundering
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Speaker 1: roar of lightning pierced the air and destroyed a wall,
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Speaker 1: Offering an escape, Iro ran and jumped, landing on one
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Speaker 1: of the topiaries below. Come on, you won't get hurt,
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Speaker 1: he called up to Zuko. Zuko stood there for a moment.
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Speaker 1: Azula was approaching from behind her, and the Daiee for
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Speaker 1: a moment, Zuko seriously considered confronting her, demanding an agne kai,
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Speaker 1: but as if Iro sensed this in him, he shouted up,
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Speaker 1: it's no use, she won't accept an agne kai. Jump
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Speaker 1: down so we can get out of here. Zuko looked
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Speaker 1: over his shoulder to see Azula for that moment, and
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Speaker 1: then a moment later he jumped down, crushing his own topiary.
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Speaker 1: Let's go uncle. Of course, Azula had the daylie give chase,
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Speaker 1: but she wasn't very optimistic that they would catch him,
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Speaker 1: and so she retreated back into the palace to take
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Speaker 1: her place on the throne. At about this time, the
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Speaker 1: Daili were breaking down the gates to Bossing Say. The
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Speaker 1: leaflets were being dropped, and the full conquering of Bossing
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Speaker 1: Say would begin. Not long from now, the Avatar would
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Speaker 1: appear and she would capture them with the help of
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Speaker 1: the Daili. Zuko and Iro ran from the palace and hid.
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Speaker 1: They began to make their way out of the Inner
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Speaker 1: Ring and worked their way back to the Outer Ring.
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Speaker 1: During their times alone on the earth trains leading out
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Speaker 1: of the Inner Wall, they spoke, we should leave Bossing Say.
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Speaker 1: Iro said he hated to admit it, but they needed to.
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Speaker 1: But what about our life that we built here, Zuko asked.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Prince Zuko, but even when you try to
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Speaker 1: start a new life, sometimes remnants of your previous one
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Speaker 1: find their way in and destroy what you have built.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I haven't prepared you for that. So then
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Speaker 1: you're telling me that the destiny and he forced upon me,
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Speaker 1: the destiny I gave everything to escape, is still on me.
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Speaker 1: In life, Zuko, things don't always go the way we
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Speaker 1: hope or plan. It's not in what we get knocked
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Speaker 1: down by, but how we rise back up that defines us.
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Speaker 1: We can still build this new life we've wanted, but
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Speaker 1: we should do it away from Azula's eyes. Zuko sat
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Speaker 1: there silently. It hurts me too, Prince Zuko, Iro said,
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Speaker 1: I truly loved running that tea shop. It was one
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Speaker 1: of the most fulfilling things I've done in my life,
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Speaker 1: beyond being Lieuten's father. Zuko was silent for a moment.
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Speaker 1: We need to go back back to the shop. It's
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Speaker 1: too dangerous, Prince Zuko. The DAILI will be there waiting
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Speaker 1: for us, I know, but we have to go back.
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Speaker 1: They know about jin If they know where we are,
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Speaker 1: then they know about Jin. By this time, they've already
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Speaker 1: set a trap. Iro said, what do you propose we do?
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Speaker 1: I can't leave her behind. Ira was silent, Then he
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Speaker 1: said there may be something we can do. The two
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Speaker 1: of them made their way ba back to the Upper Ring,
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Speaker 1: something Azula would not have expected. Upon getting there, they
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Speaker 1: traveled to the house that Team Avatar would have been
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Speaker 1: housed in. Now, remember, Prince Zuko, you are no longer
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Speaker 1: hunting them. He is your only hope at rescuing Chin.
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Speaker 1: So be courteous. Iro knocked at the door. The door opened,
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Speaker 1: and there stood Tough, happily waving the other two there.
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Speaker 1: Sakka and Ang were both incredibly shocked by their presence.
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Speaker 1: Zuko cleared his throat Hi, Zuko here, I was wondering
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Speaker 1: if we could have a quick chat. We need help,
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Speaker 1: Iro said bluntly, Well, we don't have time. Saka said,
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Speaker 1: help yourselves. We have a rescue mission undertake. I do too,
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Speaker 1: Zuko said, drawing a questioning stare from Ang, let's hear
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Speaker 1: them out. Ang said. Saka was displeased by this, but
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Speaker 1: otherwise he submitted to Ang's decision. As they sat in
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Speaker 1: the Avatar's house. Iro began to explain, the Earth King,
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Speaker 1: whether he knows it or not, has been overthrown by
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Speaker 1: the Fire Nation, and is that your fault? Saka asked,
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Speaker 1: you want it to be? Zuko asked, his gaze as
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Speaker 1: searing as as fire bending. Sakka squinted, What's that supposed
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Speaker 1: to mean? You'll suddenly be responsible? If I say yes, No,
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Speaker 1: it means I'll put my foot so high up here enough,
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Speaker 1: Prince Zuko, Iro said, no, Avatar Ang, we are not
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Speaker 1: responsible for the coup that is taking place at the palace,
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Speaker 1: at least not in a direct enough way that matters,
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Speaker 1: I believe. Does Azula have Qatara? Ang asked? It is
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Speaker 1: very likely, so Iro replied. Her victory over the Earth
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Speaker 1: Kingdom is already a legendary feat, but it will reach
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Speaker 1: into mythic status and secure her as the next fire
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Speaker 1: Lord to be revered for generations if she manages to
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Speaker 1: also capture the Avatar. It is likely that your friend
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Speaker 1: is bait designed to pull you in and capture you.
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Speaker 1: So what do you suppose we do? Ang asked, Azula
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Speaker 1: is attempting the same strategy to capture us as well.
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Speaker 1: Someone very close to Zuko is being held captive, and
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Speaker 1: the only way to free her is to have proper help.
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Speaker 1: That's where you come in. In exchange for helping you
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Speaker 1: retrieve your friend, we will lee, Bossing says, upper ring
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Speaker 1: into the lower ring, where we will then rescue Jin.
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Speaker 1: Once we have rescued her and her grandfather, we will escape,
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Speaker 1: Bossing say, and begin to work on our next strategies.
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Speaker 1: And what can you say that's supposed to make us
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Speaker 1: trust you, Saka asked. You've been chasing us from the
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Speaker 1: southern pole of the North, you almost got hang killed,
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Speaker 1: and now you expect us to trust you. What other
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Speaker 1: choice do we have? Ang said, If a Zula has Katara,
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Speaker 1: then we don't have a choice. Either we join forces
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Speaker 1: with Zuko and his uncle, or we lose Qatara. Saka grunted.
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Speaker 1: I hate it when you're right. What's the plan? It
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Speaker 1: is likely that your friend is being held under the castle,
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Speaker 1: likely in the lower caves. Taf will be integral to
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Speaker 1: this rescue mission, as her uncanny ability to see through
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Speaker 1: vibration will allow her to quickly find any hollows underground
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Speaker 1: where a person may be held. She, along with Zuko
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Speaker 1: and I will go down to rescue her. Meanwhile, you
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Speaker 1: and your club wielding friend will go to the palace
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Speaker 1: proper and spring the trap with the zula. Use the
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Speaker 1: knowledge you have of the trap to escape her grasp.
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Speaker 1: A fresh hole has been opened into the courtyard from
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Speaker 1: the wall on the right of the throne room. It
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Speaker 1: should still remain open unless a zula has had it closed.
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Speaker 1: If you manage to draw the battle to the courtyard,
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Speaker 1: the inclusion of water, earth, and fresh air will give
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Speaker 1: you the advantage against her and the dye leave and
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Speaker 1: will give you the chance to escape if and when
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Speaker 1: the battle goes south while they are distracted, Zuko TOF
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Speaker 1: and I will find your friend and escape. Ang nodded.
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Speaker 1: It sounds like a good plan, and so the group
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Speaker 1: got up and began to make their way out of
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Speaker 1: the house and back to the palace where Azula was
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Speaker 1: holed up. They split up. As they did so, Zuko,
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Speaker 1: Iro and Tof waited for the signal the sound or
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Speaker 1: feeling of fighting, and as the feeling reached off first
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Speaker 1: she told them it was safe to move. They snuck
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Speaker 1: through the palace and used Tof's echo location to find
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Speaker 1: the path down to the holding cells. Once they did
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Speaker 1: they opened it up and began to pull Katara through.
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Speaker 1: Zuko helped her out of the hole, only for her
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Speaker 1: to be shocked, angry, and disappointed at his presence. She
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Speaker 1: asked what he was doing here in the most condescending
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Speaker 1: way possible. I'm keeping my end of a promise. She
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Speaker 1: didn't know what that meant, but upon being spotted by
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Speaker 1: the day Lee, they began to flee. Taf bought them
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Speaker 1: a little time by creating a stone wall and hurling
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Speaker 1: it at the day Lee that were chasing them. They
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Speaker 1: made their way out of the palace and into the open,
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Speaker 1: where more agents approached them. Zuko and Iro began to
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Speaker 1: shoot their flames at them, but the Daylie created stone
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Speaker 1: walls of their own to catch. This wasn't the best
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Speaker 1: for them. While fire bending was the most aggressive bending art,
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Speaker 1: it also lacked substance when compared to the earth benders.
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Speaker 1: But Taf and Katara were here, which helped even the
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Speaker 1: playing field a little. They began to escape the palace,
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Speaker 1: and as they did, Iro stopped and fired a blast
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Speaker 1: of lightning up into the sky, the sight and sound
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Speaker 1: of it serving as a signal that their extraction mission
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Speaker 1: was successful. Not long after, Ang and Saka met up
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Speaker 1: at the Avatar's housing, where Ang and Qatara with a
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Speaker 1: hug of relief. We don't have much time, Saka said,
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Speaker 1: interrupting them. We need to escape before the dayly spots us.
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Speaker 1: Where will we go, Katara asked, the lower ring of
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Speaker 1: bossingh say, Zuko said, and why should we take any
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Speaker 1: orders from you? Katara asked. We made a promise to Zuko, Katara,
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Speaker 1: someone he cares for is being held captive, just like
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Speaker 1: you were. Aang said, He said, if we would help him,
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Speaker 1: then he'd help us. He helped, and now I have
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Speaker 1: to help him. I made a promise. Katara looked between
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Speaker 1: Ang and Zuko and then let out a sigh. Fine,
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Speaker 1: and so they took an earth train from the Upper
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Speaker 1: Ring to the Lower Ring, and there they entered the
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Speaker 1: part of town that Zuko and Iro called home. They
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Speaker 1: stopped by the Pow family tea house. It was already empty.
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Speaker 1: They had hoped that the owners had fled as soon
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Speaker 1: as word came that the Fire Nation would attack. Iiro
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Speaker 1: went to collect their things. So this is where you've
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Speaker 1: been living, Aang asked, hard to believe the crown prints
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Speaker 1: of the Fire Nations working in a tea shop. Saka said,
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Speaker 1: never was my idea. It was my uncle's. He loves tea.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't care less, but it kept us alive, and honestly,
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Speaker 1: I was just starting to get happy living here. Ang
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Speaker 1: put his hand on Zuko's shoulder. I'm sorry, Zuko shrugged
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Speaker 1: it off. It's nothing. We'll build a new life once
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Speaker 1: we leave, but first we need to find Gin. Who's Gin,
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Speaker 1: Qatara asked. Zuko was quiet. Ang spoke on his behalf,
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Speaker 1: the person I promised to help him find. After Iro
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Speaker 1: returned downstairs with their things, he tossed a bag to Zuko.
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Speaker 1: Let's go get Jin and her grandfather. They began to
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Speaker 1: make their way to the apartment where Gin and Gongong lived.
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Speaker 1: Iiro told them about the internal layout of the building
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Speaker 1: and how they get infiltrated. Iiro said that they would
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Speaker 1: go in through the front door and spring the trap,
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Speaker 1: and that Team Avatar would come in from behind, and
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Speaker 1: that's just what they did. Zuko knocked on the door.
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Speaker 1: There was no response. He knocked a little louder. Jin,
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Speaker 1: it's me, if you can hear me, open up. There
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Speaker 1: was no response. He kicked the door in and made
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Speaker 1: his way through the home. He turned the corner and
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Speaker 1: saw Jin sitting alone. She seemed tired and upset, stains
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Speaker 1: of tears still on her face. Zuko rushed over to
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Speaker 1: Gin Jin. Are you okay? She shook her head and
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Speaker 1: pointed into a room where a man lay on a bed.
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Speaker 1: Katara entered the room, ready to provide medical care, only
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Speaker 1: to discover that the elderly man had passed away. She
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Speaker 1: shook her head in Zuko's direction to tell him that
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Speaker 1: there wasn't anything that could be done. Zuko took Gin
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Speaker 1: by the shoulders. We need to get out of here.
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Speaker 1: The daylie have betrayed the Earth Kingdom and the Fire
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Speaker 1: Nation is on its way to conquer. Bossing say, we
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Speaker 1: need to get out of the city while we still can.
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Speaker 1: Jin nodded. Zuko helped her up. They made their way outside,
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Speaker 1: where Ang lifted up a whistle of sorts and blew
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Speaker 1: into it, only for no audible tone to be heard. Suddenly,
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Speaker 1: from out of the sky, a massive beast of white
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Speaker 1: fur with a brown arrow on its head landed. A
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Speaker 1: beast Zuko had tracked for ages, and now he was
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Speaker 1: going to be the one escaping on it. Funny how
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Speaker 1: destiny works out, dey Prince Zuko. These words from their
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Speaker 1: arrival at the Palace were now replaying in Zuko's head
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Speaker 1: as he helped Jin climb aboard. They all climbed atop
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Speaker 1: the sky bison as aang took the reins. Apa yep, yep,
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Speaker 1: he shouted. The massive bison took to the air with
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Speaker 1: the grace of a bird, something unimaginable if you weren't
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Speaker 1: there to see it. As they flew through the skies,
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Speaker 1: Zuko tried to comfort Jin. What happened, he asked, when
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Speaker 1: the Dilee broke into our house and attempted to take
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Speaker 1: us captive. My grandfather suffered a heart attack. I tried
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Speaker 1: to help him, but I couldn't save him. I got
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Speaker 1: him killed. She said, you, Zuko asked, yes, I was
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Speaker 1: working with the Silver Fang to loosen the grip of
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Speaker 1: the Daylee on the earth King in national affairs. I'm
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Speaker 1: sorry I made you come clean up my mess. Lee,
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Speaker 1: she said, Lee, Katara asked with a confused tone. Saka
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Speaker 1: shook his head at Katara to stop her from saying
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Speaker 1: anything else. Zuko stepped in, though, because she deserved to
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Speaker 1: know the truth. It wasn't your fault, Gin, it was mine,
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Speaker 1: How was it yours? She asked. Zuko took a long
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Speaker 1: breath and let it out. The day are no longer
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Speaker 1: under the command of long Feg. They're under the command
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Speaker 1: of a Zula, Princess of the Fire Nation. They came
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Speaker 1: out to you because she wanted me, and you are
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Speaker 1: important to me. Why would she care about us, Jin asked.
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Speaker 1: Zuko then spoke because I'm her brother. Jin was confused. Lee.
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Speaker 1: Zuko continued, my name isn't Lee. That was just an
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Speaker 1: alias I used to blend in. My name is Zuko,
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Speaker 1: and I'm was Crown Prince of the Fire Nation. Jin
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Speaker 1: was startled by this information. Wait, you're actually the Crown
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Speaker 1: Prince of the Fire Nation. No, that's not true, it
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Speaker 1: is Katara said. That's the Avatar, she said, pointing at Ang.
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Speaker 1: Zuko has been hunting us for a long time, so
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Speaker 1: we would know. Jin looked to Zuko, So why did
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Speaker 1: you even come to bossing say to help the Fire
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Speaker 1: Nation conquer it? She demanded, her tune almost accusatory. Zuko
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Speaker 1: was honest with her. I never wanted to be in
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Speaker 1: bossing say, but after my many failures to capture the Avatar,
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Speaker 1: I was brought back to the capitol and tried for
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Speaker 1: my incompetence. My uncle and I fled and ended up
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Speaker 1: settling in Bossing Say, where we took on the names
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Speaker 1: Lee and Mushi. I wasn't happy, and I tried to
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Speaker 1: capture this bison to use it to lure the avatar
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Speaker 1: to me, hoping I could restore my honor. But I
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Speaker 1: let go. I finally came to realize that I was
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Speaker 1: fighting a losing battle against a man who dictated my
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Speaker 1: fate from birth. I decided to let go and take
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Speaker 1: back my fate, and instead set the bison free. Wait,
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Speaker 1: you're the one who rescued Appa, Ang asked, looking back.
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Speaker 1: Zuko nodded, ag looked almost ready to cry. Then, in
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Speaker 1: barely more than a whisper, he spoke, thank you. Zuko
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Speaker 1: looked back. After that decision, I suffered my very body
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Speaker 1: revolting against my decision to let go of everything I
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Speaker 1: had been to that point, but I grew happier, serving tea, sweeping,
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Speaker 1: living the simple life, talking with you, and then my
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Speaker 1: past caught up with me. Azula discovered us and decided
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Speaker 1: to use you as a means to capture us. If
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Speaker 1: I had never entered your life. Your grandfather would still
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Speaker 1: be alive. He said, I'm sorry. I should have known
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Speaker 1: to never involve myself with you. You lost your parents
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Speaker 1: to the fire nation that my father commanded. I had
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Speaker 1: no right to try and even meet with you. He
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Speaker 1: sat there in silence. Jin then spoke, your darn right.
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Speaker 1: You had no right to involve yourself in my life.
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Speaker 1: You had no right to waltz in de bossing say
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Speaker 1: like refugees and a war you started. You had no
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Speaker 1: right to make tea and serve it to my family,
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Speaker 1: friends and neighbors. Jet was right about you, and you
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Speaker 1: got him arrested. You had no right to enter any
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Speaker 1: of our lives and ruin what piece we had, she said.
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Speaker 1: Zuko looked down in a way, accepting all of her scorn.
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Speaker 1: After all, she was right to hate him. But still,
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Speaker 1: she said, I think I knew for a long time
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Speaker 1: what you were, and I cared for you anyway. Zuko
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Speaker 1: looked up, confused by her statement. Jin continued, that night
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Speaker 1: at the firelight Fountain, the lights were out. You told
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Speaker 1: me to close my eyes, and I did, and then
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Speaker 1: when I opened them, the lights were going. There was
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Speaker 1: only one way you could have done that, and I
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Speaker 1: knew exactly what it was. I knew what it meant
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Speaker 1: for you as well. I could have never guessed that
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Speaker 1: you were really the Crown Prince of the Fire Nation,
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Speaker 1: but I knew you must have been from there. What
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Speaker 1: I never told you was when I fled to Bossing Say,
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Speaker 1: after the deaths of my parents, I was stopped by
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Speaker 1: two Fire Nation soldiers who were well within their rights
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Speaker 1: to kill us, but upon seeing me and my grandfather,
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Speaker 1: upon knowing what we were fleeing from, they let us pass.
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Speaker 1: I realized at that time that anyone can have a
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Speaker 1: good heart, regardless of where they come from, and that
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Speaker 1: includes you, She said, I can sense it. You have
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Speaker 1: a good heart, And even though you came from the
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Speaker 1: very castle of the fire Lord, you still lit those
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Speaker 1: flames for me, nearly exposing yourself just for me. It
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Speaker 1: tells me who you are Lee, I mean Zuko, and
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Speaker 1: it tells me that I wasn't wrong to care about you.
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Speaker 1: And so from their team, Avatar continued their journey. But
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Speaker 1: since jin Zuko and Iro had nowhere else to go,
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Speaker 1: and because Ang needed a fire bending mentor, he requisitioned
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Speaker 1: Iro to teach him. Iro happily agreed, and during that
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Speaker 1: time he teaches Aang how fire bending works, how lightning
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Speaker 1: bending works, and further, how lightning redirection works. Aang takes
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Speaker 1: to this information quickly and manages to master fire bending
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Speaker 1: with Iro's help. Iro considers it his secret pleasure to
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Speaker 1: have been a help to the avatar, revealing himself as
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Speaker 1: a member of the White Lotus. To that end, Iro
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Speaker 1: asks Aang to take them to a very certain location,
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Speaker 1: which just so happens to be a White Lotus hideout. There,
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Speaker 1: Iro introduces Ang, Qatara, Toff, and Soka to the group
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Speaker 1: that had secretly vowed to help Ang through thick and thin.
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Speaker 1: It was here that Aang explained to them the plan
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Speaker 1: of the Day of Black Sun, in which they would
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Speaker 1: attack the Fire Nation capital and depose the fire Lord.
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Speaker 1: From here, things largely get back on track very quickly.
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Speaker 1: The Day of Black Sun occurs, and though the attack
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Speaker 1: on the Fire Nation capital is a success, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: resolve the issue, as Ozi manages to escape, and with
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Speaker 1: little left to do, they merely keep practicing fighting and
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Speaker 1: learning to prepare Aang for the day he must fight Ozi.
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Speaker 1: During the day that Souzan's comet makes its way to
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Speaker 1: Earth again. Zuko plays a big role in helping Ang
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Speaker 1: get ready for this event, though he most certainly doesn't
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Speaker 1: like where Zuko is going with his teachings. Despite Ozi
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Speaker 1: being his father and Azula being his sister, Zuko is
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Speaker 1: advocating for their deaths, which is something Ag cannot do.
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Speaker 1: He attempts to meditate to find a way to solve
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Speaker 1: this problem, only to receive no help from the other avatars,
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Speaker 1: and instead receives help from a lion turtle who shows
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Speaker 1: Ang the way. On the day that Susan's comet comes,
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Speaker 1: Zuko manages to defeat Azula and take the crown as
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Speaker 1: the new fire Lord, with Aang defeating Ozi for good.
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Speaker 1: With the war over, life begins to settle down, and
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Speaker 1: Zuko eventually marries Jin. The two have a daughter named Izumi,
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Speaker 1: who would later come to be the next fire Lord. Eventually,
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Speaker 1: Iro departed the physical world for the spirit world before
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Speaker 1: his death could occur, and Zuko vowed to follow him
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Speaker 1: there one day. But until such a day, he was
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Speaker 1: going to help the avatar protect the peace they had
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Speaker 1: hard fought and won. And that's where I want to
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Speaker 1: call it, honestly. Stories about Zuko and Iro are always
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Speaker 1: so much fun as Iro is and always has been
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Speaker 1: and always will be my favorite character and soccer. I
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Speaker 1: like soccer too. But anyway, I hope you enjoyed listening
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Speaker 1: to this story as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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