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Fanning The Flames by GoldenHourglass
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
15 Oct 2025
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Left behind at the Misty Palms Oasis, Katara waits days for Aang, Sokka, and Toph to return. But when bounty hunters close in, her only chance at escape comes from the last people she ever thought she could trust: Zuko and Iroh.
Now traveling under false names, bound by a fake marriage, and with no room for mistakes, Katara finds herself on the road to Ba Sing Se. What begins as mutual distrust slowly turns into eating side by side, sleeping even closer, and something far more dangerous: comfort. She thinks it will end once they reach the city, but in a place crowded with millions of refugees, and stuck in the Lower Ring, she doesn’t have much hope of finding the others. With no leads and nowhere else to go, she resolves to wait for her friends to find her.
But in their cramped apartment, days turn into weeks, and Zuko and Katara begin to settle into something that almost feels like domestic bliss. It isn’t real. Or at least, it isn’t meant to be. But the longer they stay, the harder it becomes to remember where the act ends and something real begins.
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- Part 1 of Fanning The Flames Series
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Fire was an element that either commanded respect or consumed fear. Aelita Kenshin had experienced both feelings during her sixteen years of life. A firebending master reduced to nothing but the hollow shell of what she once was, the Butcher of Ba Sing Se no longer trusted the power beneath her fingertips.
The entire world believed the Avatar to be dead and nearly all of the Akira's world thought she was too. Forced to leave Aelita's body behind, Aang and the others are left to grapple with the grief that threatens to overwhelm them with only their desire for peace and justice pushing them forward.
Welcomed home as war heroes next to their sister, twin Princes Zuko and Zetzu are thrust back into the game of thrones, forced to face their demons. With tensions rising faster than Sozin's Comet approaches, it's soon clear that only one of them can be left to inherit their family's scorched legacy.
Fire is the element of power. The people of the Fire Nation have the desire and will to achieve what they want. Only time will tell if that power and desire will be too much to handle as the fate of the world is forged in fire.
Book Three of the series Akira: The Legend of Aelita.
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- Part 3 of Akira: The Legend of Aelita
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The Other Airbender by Lev Tanel (InkVail)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
15 Oct 2025
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The Gaang wanted a break for Aang to start learning earthbending. Instead, they got:
– A boy who jokes through every injury (and there are a lot of injuries).
– His best friend, who can crush a tree with nothing but air pressure.
– A cat.
– Zuko deciding one of them might be an airbender.What follows: fire, trauma, terrible jokes, and more found-family moments than they bargained for.
And when Zuko finally captures someone he thinks is an airbender, he has to decide whether to treat him as proof—or as a person.
This story takes place after Zuko Alone and then functions as an alternate version of The Chase. Toph has just joined the group, Azula is on their trail, and Zuko is far from Iroh’s calming influence.
The Gaang calls it “their problem now.” Zuko calls it "proof."
Teorin calls it “a disaster.” Lev calls it "a masterpiece."Don't let Lev's jokes fool you. He hides as much as he says.
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- Part 1 of The Chaos Archive
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The Blue Dragon by WeirdScribe95
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
14 Oct 2025
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After being burned by his father for refusing to fight him in an Agni Kai, thirteen-year-old Prince Zuko wants only two things: to restore his honor and re-earn his father's love, and to find some way to heal his face. So when a Fire Sage tells him there's a mystic spring deep under the castle that can grant him both things, he listens.
The next thing he knows, he wakes up in the middle of a city with foul air, technology beyond his wildest dreams, and lunatics on every corner. Shortly after he firebends to protect himself, a man dressed mostly in black catches him.
Who knew that being sent to another realm would be the best thing that ever happened to him?
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Lee, protector of the water tribe by Pipinpadaloxicopolis_3
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
13 Oct 2025
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The Avatar has returned 100 years after he vanished, and although rumors claim he's nothing more than a 12-year-old boy who only knows airbending, the Fire Nation has prioritized hunting him down.
In some parallel world, Prince Zuko would be part of that hunt, but in this one, he died at the tender age of 12 when, still recovering from the Agni Kai against his father, he was attacked and killed in his royal chamber. A month later, Lee arrived at Pohuai Fortress, and three years later, the blue spirit helped the Avatar escape from the same fortress.Series
- Part 1 of The Legend of...
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Born Of Flame, Forged By Glaciers by TheMistyBlackCloud
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 Oct 2025
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Fate tends to take all by surprise. When the Southern Water Tribe stumbles across a injured 5-year-old Princess Azula of the Fire Nation, none could bring themselves to end her life and brought her home with them, leading her to grow up away from the Fire Nation. The world is changed forever, ripples sent, and fates and paths being altered. Water Tribe Azula story! Massive AU!
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The Phoenix Guard, a sympathetic Ozai faction, has tried (and failed) to assassinate Fire Lord Zuko and ultimately restore Ozai to his throne. Their usual intimidation methods and attacks aren’t working and so they have no choice but to try something a little different.
Kidnapping the unrightful Fire Lord’s friend, the Water Tribe warrior, and using his life as the bait to lure the soon to be deposed Fire Lord alone into the catacombs is the perfect plan. And when the night ends with two bodies buried deep underground and the rightful Fire Lord and Phoenix King Ozai freed, all will be set right once more.
Unfortunately for the Phoenix Guard, it’s not going to be quite so easy.
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Book 3 of Lu Ten and Zuko series.
Their defeat in Ba Sing Se left the two cousins being seperated once again. While Zuko managed to escape with his friends/found family, Lu Ten made a sacrifice to go back to the palace.
Pretending to have switched sides, he tries to gather information to help his friends, without his evil Uncle Firelord Ozai to suspect a thing.
Now Lu Ten and Zuko are back in the Firenation, their old home, but under two completly diffrent circumstances. But both have the same goal:
Stop Ozai and seeing each other again.
--It is advised to read the previous two Books to get context for this one-
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- Part 3 of Lu Ten and Zuko
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agni has (not) abandoned him [rewrite] by iliwaren
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
10 Oct 2025
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He survived two-and-a-half years as General Fong’s training dummy, months as Zhao’s prisoner, and weeks as a captive aboard the Chief of the Southern Water Tribe’s ship, all the while refusing to let his father’s cold, firelit eyes be the last he saw of the man. There was no way these children would keep him from going home.
"Yes," Zuko lied. 'I’ll help you defeat my father."
Or: After three years of imprisonment, Zuko escapes, just in time to arrive at the climax of the Invasion of Ba Sing Se. From there, he travels with the Avatar's team - first as a political prisoner and then, maybe (and indignantly), as Aang's firebending teacher.
(Zuko wonders why Agni let him suffer in the cold for so many years only to make him the Avatar's mentor. Destiny is a cruel, complicated thing. It takes him a while to figure out his.)
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"We're going to be alcoholics by the time we're thirty," Sokka sighed.
"You think we'll live to be thirty?" Zuko asked, honestly thrilled. Sokka had pretty good instincts. Perhaps Zuko should reevaluate his long term goals. He could start by having long term goals.
A more likely alternative was that Sokka was just a hopeless optimist. It just went to show, you never truly saw another man until you stood shoulder to shoulder against a fleet of war balloons intent on raining death upon the city you loved.
Zuko was just a normal guy with normal interests. He liked theatre, burglary, crotchety ostrich horses, watching the Blind Bandit crush her opponents in a glorious display of skill and violence... just your standard banished prince things. It wasn't his fault he kept stumbling into rebellions and uncovering long-buried secrets. Fine, maybe freeing the prisoners was on him, but he was completely innocent of all other treason. Zuko was his father's loyal son. He'd never betray his nation.
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Uncle Iroh took a more creative approach to fostering Zuko's appreciation of other cultures. Now it's everyone's Problem. -
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Three days following Former Crown Prince Zuko’s banishment, a wooden ship named The Akhlut stumbles upon an unconscious body of a thirteen-year-old Fire Native.
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Following the demise of Lu Ten, Ozai's attempt to leap over his brother Iroh as heir to the Throne infuriates Fire Lord Azulon, who seeks to punish his youngest son accordingly. Only this time, Azulon demands Azula's death, not Zuko's. The two young siblings are there to witness it, and their lives will never be the same.
Canon divergence from the night in which Azulon orders Zuko's death. This story will intend to cover the timeline of the original show up to and following Sozin's Comet and beyond.
(See the Author's Note on Chapter 8 for my thought process behind the pairing)
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- Part 1 of The Death of the Phoenix
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There's You All Over Me by milkyeyeball
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
08 Oct 2025
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At eight, Jet was taken away by the soldiers who had burned down his whole village and family to the capital city of the Fire Nation, thinking that he would soon meet the same fate as everybody else that had been scorched by the soldiers. But at least, by the end of it, he would see his parents again.
But really, this was just the beginning of his destiny.A.K.A an attempt at Bodyguard!Jet AU because it’s my favorite.
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Zuko was born a girl, Azula a boy—and the Fire Nation never imagined the unwanted daughter of the second son would ever be named Crown Princess. But when she is, Zhao sees the opportunity. And takes it.
Some things never change. Zuko is still banished, still hunting the Avatar. But this time, she’s not fighting for her honor, but for her daughter’s future.
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Waterbenders Run Cold, Right? by ziezii
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
06 Oct 2025
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Sozin's Comet's approaching. Zuko finds a lead towards his uncle and he can't fall asleep.
Turns out, he's not the only one experiencing cold feet, literally.
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Book One: A World at War by lnfernity
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
05 Oct 2025
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For nine years, Zuko believed his mother was dead — a painful truth he carried in silence. Then, everything changed. Ursa was alive, and not only that, he woke up to find a little brother he never knew existed: Aang, born of both air and fire, a living reminder of their complicated family.
But peace was fragile. The Fire Nation, driven by ambition and old grudges, chose to remind the world of its power — and war erupted.
Now, Zuko must protect the brother he’s just begun to understand, navigate the shadows of his past, and face a world burning around them. Together, they flee the flames of their homeland and journey to the Southern Water Tribe — where new friends and even greater challenges await.
This is a retelling of Book One, where family bonds are tested, loyalties shift, and a war only just begun threatens everything.
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- Part 1 of Where Fire Meets Sky
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Ashes Of Loyalty by TheMistyBlackCloud
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
04 Oct 2025
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Instead of just Zuko, Fire Lord Azulon demands Prince Ozai to sacrifice BOTH Zuko and Azula. With the aid of Ty Lee and Mai, the two royal siblings run from the Fire Nation, abandoning their former lives and becoming fugitives. In a twist of events, Ozai is scarred, banished, and tasked with not only apprehending them, but locating the Avatar. The world will never be the same.
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The Healer's Burden by stormsaurawrites
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
04 Oct 2025
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The war is over, but peace is fragile. Lanterns burn in the Fire Nation to celebrate survival, yet for Katara, one moment shatters everything, a kiss that wasn’t meant for her.
As the world leans on her as its healer, Katara discovers that waterbending healing has a price. Every wound she mends leaves an echo inside her, and with each act of compassion, she carries more pain than her body can bear. Torn between duty and self, she finds herself caught in the pull of two boys who would do anything to protect her, sometimes at the cost of her trust.
But the world is too broken to be fixed by one person alone. As the Gaang navigates fragile politics, ancient spirits, and their own tangled relationships, Katara must decide how much of herself she’s willing to give away… and who she’s willing to give her heart to.
A story of healing, heartbreak, and the bonds that hold Team Avatar together.
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The Space Between by sillylittlerobot
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Oct 2025
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Zuko and Azula have been tasked by Fire Lord Ozai to find the Last Southern Waterbender, and whoever succeeds will prove themselves worthy of the throne.
Zuko has never been lucky, and if he has, he can never really tell. That's why, when he runs into a waterbender at the North Pole, he has no idea she's who he's looking for.
Katara makes the best of a bad situation, and they make their way across the world together- both with the goal of wanting to go home.
Last Waterbender AU, no avatar.
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Professional Assassin by DarlingSecret
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
03 Oct 2025
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You are an Airbender, born in the Fire Nation, forced to earn a living through... illegal and violent means. You will encounter someone socially awkward repeatedly.
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