One thing is certain they were very powerful. They only showed themselves to those the fire lord deemed a good candidate. They were there since the fist ever fire lord but they were a secret of the royal family, well most of the royal family didn’t know like Ozai but he, his father and grandfather knew. They were the Fire Lord’s his grandfather’s personal guard and assassin’s who protected him and carried out his whim’s in secret. A commander came over and Kuro could spot a black star on his neck it was the Star Marshal. The fire nation soldiers have all gathered around the brothers as there was a lot of talk that you couldn’t even hear your thoughts before they all stopped and silence took over. “OH! No! PRINCE LU TEN HAS DIED!! HE STOPPED BREATHING! TELL THE GENERAL THAT PRINCE LU TEN HAS DIED!” Lu Ten reluctantly agreed to Kuro’s request and so Kuro started to shout to grab everyone’s attention. Now let’s get out of here earth kingdom assassin’s and spies have infiltrated our ranks we must retreat for now. I wanted to be the perfect prince and meet everyone’s expectations of me, since evryone believes that the royal family are the strongest firebenders.”
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“That’s because…I wanted to serve as an example to soldiers to try their best. Listen! Why’d you exhaust yourself Lu Ten? You became an easy target.” Lu Ten landed on Kuro’s lap as Lu ten looked up to see a soldier and was about to give this solider an earful but that soldier removed the mask quickly before putting it back on. Meanwhile Kuro was running to Lu Ten who was about to faint from exhaustion, Kuro ran and slide tackled his brother. Seeing the green headbands they realised that they were earth kingdom spies and so they were arrested. He imagined the lightning from his fingertips and then that lightning travelling in a blink of an eye striking that earthbender dead.Ī loud noise was sounded as suddenly smoke appeared from a group behind the frontliners, they found that few soldiers were on the ground as they had sever burnt marks but they were still alive. Kuro immediately thought but generating it with movement would take few seconds and he hasn’t got time, he needs instant cast it. Right now time slowed down for Kuro as he saw one of them make a rock bolt and aim it straight at Lu Ten’s unprotected head with this strike Lu Ten will die and he needs to act FAST! That was a dead giveaway, they were not fire nation men but earth kingdom. Meanwhile he saw a suspicious group hundred meters away from his brother, they wore fire nation soldier uniforms but they didn’t have the helmets as they took them off and what they wore underneath were green headbands. Kuro rushed towards his brother but there were still many soldiers crowding. In the distance he saw his brother using all his might to generate a titanic wave of fire exhaustion plastered on his face as his eyes seemed as if they were sinking as if he was barely holding on before falling asleep.
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Kuro arrived at a different battlefield station where there was more fire nation bodies than earth nation bodies. “Hey! Get Back To Your Station!” screamed the commander as he saw Kuro run off. Today is the 600th day and Lu Ten didn’t die yet which means that today Lu Ten will die Kuro will stick to Lu Ten today as much as possible without he himself dying as there was still an ongoing war right now and many soldiers from earth and fire each were fighting not just bending but an actual war where people used weapons and right now it seems that the fire nation was losing. Kuro tried to stick close to Lu Ten but the commanders would send him to other station away from his brother but luckily he knew where his brother was and his condition. But they did not manage to find him as every soldier wore the same armour and they couldn’t arouse suspicion. That’s why Azulon decided to send skilled Assassin’s to find his grandson as stealthily as possible.
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Everyone in the family knew except Iroh as they didn’t want to inform him otherwise he’d stop the war and look for his son himself.
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His family found out he went missing the next day after he sneaked off to. They did many things but every single strategy failed as the earthbenders would always find a way to counter them.ĭuring this war Kuro didn’t kill a single person but instead every single enemy he faced he would knock them out as that would fool the fire nation army and he wouldn’t garner any attention and he also doesn’t want to kill innocent earth kingdom people as that would mean his hands would be stained metaphorically. They tried many ways to invade inside like using airsh.i.p.s,infiltration, attacking the walls and even cutting their supplies off. For the past, over a year and a half, just under two years Kuro was fighting constantly in the war against the earth kingdom.