Quick Meme: Demon'Verse

[beckyh2112]

(Yes, I'll get back to my other memes eventually, but I want to play with my shinies right now.)

You may blame my newfound love of the Detective Inspector Chen novels for this entirely.

Previous installments are:
- Ozai and Lu Ten, enjoying life
- Ursa/Ozai, the first impression was... memorableThis AU is Fire Nation-royal centric, so not

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Ozai/Ursa, second meeting

[beckyh2112]

Ursa returned to the Fire Nation Royal Palace in a palanquin. Her brother had come for her at dawn, like he had said he would, and she had lived through the night, like she said she would.

There was a great celebration that night. The demons had not taken the Firelord's daughter; perhaps the curse on their nation was broken. She was too embarrassed to say she had vomited on the demon who had come, and too proud to take credit for deeds she had not done.

It was a miserable party.

Ursa begged off early, retiring to bed. The clean cotton sheets caressed her skin, and she sank into the pillows with a grateful sigh.

***

In the morning, there was a night-black lily on the pillow next to her.

Ursa's eyes narrowed, and she incinerated it and the pillow it rested on in a burst of blue fire.

***

Her father began to talk of marriage. Ursa scowled - no one had ever spoken of marrying her before. She did not want to be married off in some game of power between the Firelord and his nobles and generals. Her mother's father was Avatar Roku, her father's father was of the long line of Firelord. She was not some commodity to be handed off.

But no one had expected her to live past her twenty-first birthday, and she had.

***

Her dreams that night were full of baroque darkness, and they left her exhausted when she awoke.

Two midnight-colored lilies sat on the pillow next to her, tied with a crimson red ribbon.

***

Li, or perhaps Lo, brought up a crystal vase at her request. Ursa filled it with water and put the lilies in.

When she came back to her quarters that evening, they had wilted.

***

A scent invaded her dreams, spicy and male. A simple dream of the beaches on Ember Island transformed to a noble's son kissing the inside of her thighs as she lay on the sand, a guardsman leading her through firebender forms with his chest against her back and his mouth against her hair, a servant slowly and carefully undressing her and undoing her hair to fall in long rivers against her skin.

She awakened in the morning to find three black lilies tied with a strip of parchment on the pillow beside her.

'Add three drops of blood to the water.'

***

This time, the lilies did not wilt.

***

The talk of marriage washed around Ursa, though several times Daiki tried to speak to her about it. Father wanted to wed her to Osamu, the heir of Buyou no Long Shima, so they could bind the island's wealth to the Firelord's line. The war would go so much faster with all of that wealth at their disposal.

Ursa smiled as Daiki explained that for the fourth time, then patted his arm. "Father will be disappointed."

She didn't explain what she meant by that. She wasn't entirely sure she understood it herself.

***

That night, she dreamt a demon.

Dark leather wings rose over his head, claws at the far joint, and velvety soft to her touch. Long dark hair spilled unbound over his back, and she wrapped her fingers in his dragon's tongue beard. Molten gold eyes regarded her with amusement and something more, and his fine full mouth peeled back to reveal a carnivore's teeth.

Yet she was not afraid.

He dressed in a way she had only seen in history books. Loose crimson pants with golden slippers on his backwards feet. A sash of crimson across his chest, leaving most of his muscular body open to admiring eyes and hands. His skin was sun-kissed gold, striped black like a tiger.

Black lacquer claws cupped her chin, and she yanked him into a kiss.

***

In the morning, there were four black lilies tied with another strip of parchment.

'Leave your window open tonight.'

Re: Ozai/Ursa, second meeting

[weirdlet]

...*fans self*

Re: Ozai/Ursa, second meeting

[dark_puck]

Damn, woman. <3333

This is wondrous. I like how Ozai is courting Ursa now, despite the... memorable first meeting.

I also like the detail of the black lilies needing blood to live. <333