This choice: Skip to the iceberg breaking, and someone spotting the light from afar... • Go Back...Chapter #8Skip to the iceberg breaking by: EvilFuzzy9   When the iceberg shattered a few minutes later under the force of... ahem... Sokka's pelvic thrust, the resultant pillar of light could be seen far away on the deck of a small Fire Nation ship.
Prince Zuko, looking up at the pillar of light, had a determined glint in his eye.
"Finally," he said, his voice husky.
He turned to face the portly, wrinkled graybeard who was playing a tile version of solitaire.
"Uncle, do you realize what this means?"
The old man, the retired General Iroh, frowned a little, and when he spoke he sounded just the tiniest bit exasperated.
"I won't get to finish my game?" he ventured dryly.
Zuko appeared to resist the urge to snort.
"It means my search – it's about to come to an end."
Iroh groaned, and this time his exasperation was obvious.
"That light came from an incredibly powerful source," Zuko insisted. "It has to be him!"
"Or it's just the celestial lights," said Iroh, placing another tile down on the table. "We've been down this road before, Prince Zuko. I don't want you to get too excited over nothing. Please, sit." He held up a fine teacup. "Why don't you enjoy a cup of calming jasmine tea?" he suggested, a wide smile on his face.
Zuko exploded.
"I don't need any calming tea!" he snapped, before saying more lowly, more firmly. "I need to capture the Loincloth."
Iroh frowned.
"Don't you mean the Avatar, Prince Zuko?"
The teen flushed bright pink.
"Er, yes," he said, sounding decidedly jumpy. "Yes, of course. That's exactly what I meant, and nothing else!" He laughed nervously. "Ha! ha! ha! I certainly didn't come all the way down to the South Pole just to get into the loincloth of some stupid sexy snow savage! Of course not! Ha! ha! ha!"
Iroh shook his head and sighed.
"I always thought you and that Mai girl would have made a perfectly cute couple..." he muttered under his breath.
Zuko did not dignify this with a response.
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