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The war was won. By the fire nation.
Ozai has crowned himself emperor of all four nations and enslaved millions in the process.
The Gaang is shattered. Katara is alone. Everyone she has ever loved is dead. There is no hope left, as Azula has wiped that out with her attack on the water tribes. The next Avatar will be a slave. And it is only a matter of time before they are found.
No one can hope to stand up to Ozai now. Can they? -
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It's been fifteen years since the war ended. The world is enjoying a time of peace - but peace depends on the strength and will of powerful people. Fire Lord Zuko has never lacked for willpower, but when his ruts begin to get dangerously long and enduring them alone puts his life at risk, something is going to have to give.
After years of suppressant use rendered her infertile, ultimately leading to the collapse of her bond with Aang, Katara has been building a new life for herself as Ambassador for her people. She never experienced her designation like other omegas and has lost hope that her body will ever recover, but Katara has filled her new life with rewarding work and good friends - most especially Zuko...
...and if his crisis has suddenly opened a door they both have long pretended did not stand between them, well...
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The Blue Spirit, vigilante of the earth kingdom by Pipinpadaloxicopolis_3
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
14 Dec 2025
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Rumors of the battle for the Northern Throne of the Water Tribe have spread in a matter of days. The Avatar defeated and destroyed the entire Fire Nation navy, fueling both the Fire Nation's fury and the Earth Kingdom's hope and resistance. The pressure of war is escalating rapidly, and its devastation is visible to the world.
Out of the public eye, Team Avatar searches for an earthbender and their missing member. Lee searches for a friend as he travels the Earth Kingdom, and the Fire Lord dispatches a special asset to hunt down and eliminate the Avatar once and for all.Continuation of "Lee, protector of the water tribe"
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- Part 2 of The Legend of...
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Zuko faces his dad in an Agni Kai at 17, and wins. The first thing he does is end the war.
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While recovering from his injury on his ship, Zuko overhears Iroh telling Jee about Zuko's banishment and telling him that Ozai had no intention taking him back. Not long after, Zuko abandons his ship in the night, disappearing into the Earth Kingdom. After making his way through the Earth Kingdom for a few weeks, meeting people and acclimating to his new life while trying to make his way to a Fire Nation outpost, he meets the Freedom Fighters before he can sign his life over to the Fire Nation military again under false pretenses.
Freedom Fighter Zuko AU
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Book One: A World at War by lnfernity
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
13 Dec 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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The Other Airbender by Lev Tanel (InkVail)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
13 Dec 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 Dark Side of the Moon by actuallytonystank
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
13 Dec 2025
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Nearly a year after the end of the Hundred Year War, Sakari and Zuko are settling into life in the Fire Nation Palace. At least, as much as two people navigating a secret relationship while taking on extensive political duties and staving off the occasional assassination attempt can ‘settle in’. But they’re handling it.
However, when a sudden influx of attacks occurs, it becomes clear that there is a darker force rising against Zuko. Sakari is determined to put an end to it and will stop at nothing to ensure Zuko is safe, but little does she know an old foe is plotting her demise.
[Sequel to Honour to Us All]
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Zuko (not) Alone: book three by Mozart_the_Meerkitten
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
12 Dec 2025
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What if Zuko had gone into his banishment alone, without Iroh, a ship and a crew? What if, after failing to capture the Avatar, he finally gave up and joined the Gaang (and turned into their protective older brother)? And how would that change his story and the stories of those around him?
(this fic is part of a series and you'll probably want to read Zuko Alone books one and two before reading this one)
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- Part 6 of Zuko Alone
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Agni & The Fire Lord by FireBride
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005), Avatar: Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live Action TV 2024)
12 Dec 2025
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When a prophecy threatens the balance between spirits and mortals, Agni - The Fire deity falls to the mortal world stripped of her power, condemned to live as human for one month. She finds herself in the palace of her biggest devotee, the Fire lord himself. Zuko’s devotion turns into something far more dangerous than worship.
Some flames are divine.
Some are human.
This one might consume both.A post-series AU where obsession smolders slowly and the world doesn’t see the fire until it’s too late.
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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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"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. -
If the Moon Smiled by aithusahasnowings (foxinsocks)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Dec 2025
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Sokka was never sent to guard Yue, he was too busy scouting ahead with some of the Northern Tribe warriors before the Siege. He was catch and capture being taking too Zhao's ship. He barely managed to escape with his life due Aang and a giant sea monster. Now he's stranded in the middle of the ocean with no one except Prince Zuko and his uncle for company.
Sokka should have died, if not from drowning then the burns he received from his time on Zhao's ship. But he survived. Why? Maybe the white streak appearing in his hair may have give him an answer.
Inspired by 'Will We Last the Night' by CSHfic, VSfic but with Moon Spirit Sokka AU
ie: Sokka never makes it out of the North Pole with Aang and Katara. He travels through the Earth Kingdom with Zuko and his Uncle instead. -
The beginning of my path to redemption by Hiya96
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
11 Dec 2025
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He cut his hair too short, but she noticed the perfect fade. He looked more manly than she had ever seen him. With his beard and mustache, he resembled the kind of men who always made her feel nervous.
But she hates him. So it didn't matter.
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- Part 2 of Fire nation siblings
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“He will never forgive me,” he whispers.
I watch the palace fade into nothing more than a blur. “You have carried his judgment long enough,” I say.
Zuko leans over the rim of the basket with his shoulders tight. The sun slips out from behind the moon, and bright light pours across the sky. A warm shimmer touches the edge of Zuko’s scar; the Day of Black Sun is over. Fire stirs again.
Zuko lets out a tremulous breath. “I did not expect you to be there... I did not expect you to walk out with me.”
I meet his eyes. The wind pushes against me, but I stand steady. “You said you would find the Avatar,” I say. “So that is what we do. I'm with you.”
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Zari is the Fire Scion; one of the four elemental Scions born across every nation, each carrying a spirit that strengthens their bending and ties them to the Spirit World. The Fire Nation is training its Scion, but twisting her purpose. Raised in the palace beside Azula and under constant scrutiny, Zari is trained to be loyal, powerful, and quiet.Two children of the Fire Nation.
One destiny.
A series of events that neither should have to experience. -
Fanning The Flames by GoldenHourglass
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
10 Dec 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.
*Updated Weekly*
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- Part 1 of Fanning The Flames Series
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The end of my path to redemption by Hiya96
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
09 Dec 2025
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I didn't look at Sokka. I couldn't. Looking back would mean seeing the destruction I had caused and the destruction I had just suffered.
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- Part 1 of Fire nation siblings
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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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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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Katara, Chief Hakodas daughter is reckless, stubborn, and marches to her own drum. However, that all changes when Katara gets into an accident that almost kills her which is the last straw for Hakoda. Because of this, he recruits a fire bender to keep watch over his daughter and keep her out of trouble.