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The horizon was no longer empty. A ship cut through the mist—massive and black, with its metal sides slick with frost. Smoke bellowed upward from its smokestack, an oily smear against the pale sky. The ship slowed as it approached, shadow falling long and dark across their fragile ice floe.
The engines hissed, then went quiet. Then a head popped over the rail. An older man with silver hair peered down at them, his face kind, as he called out, “Hey, you kids need some help?”
Or, one act of mercy leads to another, until a cold, forgotten village begins to feel alive again…and a lonely boy with a scar might just find a home.
Written for Zutara Month, Day 1. Prompt: Zuko Banished Without A Quest
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Love Amongst the Dragons: The Tale of the Feral Fire Prince by Natural_Logarhythm
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
22 Aug 2025
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Zuko never thought that his banishment would lead him to a new family. And he never in his wildest dreams imagined that family would be the first dragon hatched in decades.
Zuko finds himself adopted by dragons. His dad is going to be so pissed.
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Instead of exiling Zuko, Ozai decides to imprison Zuko. What follows is that he awaken the most dangerous vigilante the world had ever witness.
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Water.
Earth.
Fire.
Air.
Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the fire nation attempted a genocide on the airbenders. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them from this destruction, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years have passed, the surviving airbenders have disappeared and there is no peace between any of the remaining nations. In an attempt to bring about the next avatar, Yoso Academy was established by the sages of all nations; a neutral school for talented benders and non benders alike to hone their abilities. Just before my first year, my brother and I made a shocking discovery, a frozen airbender named Aang. He has a lot to learn before he’s ready to join this new civilization, but I believe Aang could be the key to saving the world.
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The Awkward Turtleduck and his Band of Misfits by JustWatchMe
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
29 Mar 2025
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The Agni Kai happened 2 years earlier than in canon. After fighting for his life from his wounds, Zuko wakes up miles away from home with an impossible mission and a ragtag crew of the worst soldiers in the navy. He sees this and decides he doesn’t want to please a father that would do this to him, so he ignores his quest. Banished and without purpose, things aren’t looking good for the once prince of the Fire Nation. But hey, at least he has his uncle with him.
*Basically, a story where Zuko realizes he’s been abused a lot earlier and says ‘Fuck you’ to Ozai and his quest. He decides that we wants to stop the war instead and he and his crew begin to fight the Fire Nation. When they find the Avatar, Zuko is overjoyed. The only problem is Aang is under the impression Zuko’s trying to capture him.
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Alone and banished, Zuko stumbles across a long forgotten use of fire bending and his whole world view crashes down. If the Fire Nation was wrong about what fire can do, what else are they wrong about?
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- Part 1 of Rekindling: From the Ashes
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It’s Terrible When You Can’t Trust The People Closest To You by NickAlyssa
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
10 Oct 2024
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Power and pride fuel and she burns like no other inside the Caldera. A simple comment, an overstep.
Ozai’s fury is cold in a way that’s frightening, asking if she was truly so ignorant as to not learn from her brothers mistake...
Azula’s screams can be heard throughout the palace.
There is no Agni Kai. There is no audience.There is only pain.
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Body Guard Sokka by invisible_nerd_girl
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
18 Sep 2024
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Zuko is assigned a body guard who is a prisoner of war. The boy follows him everywhere, even into banishment. When his quest for the Avatar leads him to the knowledge that the boys mother is with his prize, will he choose to be as loyal to his body guard or try to regain his honor.
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The late presentation caused Zuko to fear his Father on an entirely new level.
What kind of firstborn not only failed at so much, to become banished, scarred, and left an impossible task of finding the Avatar and worse to present so late as an Omega? Restoring his honor had been put out faster than the flames that scared his eye.
As his body forces change on him, Zuko knows it is only a matter of time before his Father finds him. He has a choice of running away to live a normal life but of course, life isn't that kind to him and his new status.
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- Part 1 of Spirals Series
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Sokka is the Moon Spirit.
Katara is the Princess of the Northern Water Tribe, that also makes Sokka the Prince.
Zuko is the banished Prince of the Fire Nation.
Aang is the Avatar.
Toph is sheltered from the world.
Suki travels the Earth Kingdom helping city’s inhabitants who’ve been hurt by the Fire Nation.What happens when they all work together to stop the Fire Lord, Zukos dad? Especially with their polar opposite opinions.
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Zuko's Field Trip to Narkina V by Darkstrike
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Andor (TV)
15 Mar 2024
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Zuko does not get away after being captured at the North Pole. Being the only prisoner captured, and with his status in the Fire Nation gives the Northern Water Tribe a dilemma, what to do with their firebending prisoner? Luckily Yue suggests that since he did save the Moon Spirit's life that the spirits should decide. Therefore a meeting with the spirits is arranged and Zuko is sent into the spirit world.
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An Alternative Universe where Zuko is sent to the StarWars Universe by the spirits and he is imprisoned in the Narkina V Imperial Factory Facility and has plenty of time to dwell on his past and future, with some help from the other prisoners. AKA An Avatar: The Last Airbender/StarWars crossover that no one asked for!Series
- Part 1 of Burning Redemption: A Zuko AU Tale
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An agonizing pain had seared through his skull as he dragged himself forward. His claws were replaced by the helpless pudgy fingers of a human's. His legs didn't move the way his own did as he crawled to his knees.
Faintly, he could still feel the swishing weight of his tail and the raw exposed nerve in his broken horn to the open air. This lanky form was unfit for anything Zuko was accustomed to as he forced himself to wobble to his feet, searching blindly through the rolling fog that filled the tower.
Distantly, he heard the screams of startled people as they cried out.
"It's avatar Roku!"
Zuko cocked his head, twisting around as his gaze swiveled in search of the Avatar. His right eye widened when he spotted his imposing figure standing in the doorway of the temple tower. A blue light pulsed off of him that radiated immense spirit energy.
"Roku?" Zuko croaked miserably, this human voice was uncomfortable in his fragile throat. It felt raw and smoky as he breathed the syllables past his lips. Sparks licked off his tongue as he grimaced and hissed his displeasure at the sound of more shrill human screams.
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Dragon Zuko becomes a human and needs the Avatar's help. -
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Zuko is banished. Never to return to his Nation unless he does the impossible. But when Agni, Dragon of the Sun, gives Zuko a mission, he has a new purpose in life besides pretending to still be loyal to his father. With Azula playing defense at the palace, Zuko has the whole world to search for answers and the people who Agni says will be Champions of the Elements and help him restore balance to the world. He has his own secrets to keep while he's at it. With an uncle he can't trust and a crew of misfits on his side, can Zuko do the impossible and stop the war in time to save his people?
He's thirteen and the Spirit's have big plans for him. Is one teenage dragon enough to save the world?
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- Part 3 of A Dragon's Instinct
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She shivers under her borrowed shawl, knowing she should get back to the caravan if she doesn't want to freeze tonight, but she can't quite make herself leave, not when she knows he's so close. She could sneak onto that boat and see him, if she wanted to. That's how close he is.
Well, a voice says in Ty Lee's mind. You could.
In which Ty Lee visits Zuko during his banishment.
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Before Sozin’s comet the Gaang+co are on ember island planning things out. While walking around the deeper part of the beach house
Katara finds an old dusty looking photo.
It seems to be a family photo of the Firenation royal family.
There’s Ozai, Iroh, Iroh’s son?, oh look Azula, what I assume is her mom,
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Azula is facing a mild, suppressed panic prior to Zuko's banishment, an individual with captivating emerald eyes who's gone along the same lines turns to keep her company.
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The war is real, and it tears at flesh with rusted claws.
Zuko is just a boy trying to do the right thing, and he sees war-- war in all of its rust-red "glory".Series
- Part 1 of Begrudgingly I Care
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“Where’s Mom?”
“Nobody knows,” Azula said, smiling around the words, as she tried to balance the dagger on the back of her hand. “It’s funny timing, Grandfather passed away last night too. So many deaths in the family. Iroh, Azulon,” She flips her hand over, and catches the dagger by the handle, “And now Ursa’s gone too.”
Zuko gaped at his sister with an open mouth. He’d never heard Azula say their mother’s name. She said it like an insult. And he never wanted to hear it again.
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- Part 1 of hold a grudge and a burden
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He could hardly recall what he’d been like at 13.
Had he been happy?
Had he ever been happy?
____________________________________________Zuko reflects on a betrothal necklace
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Zuko was banished from the Fire Nation. Whether or not that included the colonies was a little bit murky. Zuko never felt the need to test it, until he found a flyer for a circus traveling around the colonies with a very familiar face on it.
It couldn't hurt to see one show. (Not if no one knew he was there.)