[Fic] "Silent Screams" and/or "Turn to Stone" -- Avatar: TLA/Enchanted Forest Chronicles

[edenfalling]

This is a request!fic for silverblade219, who wanted a sequel to The Two Secretive Princesses, which is part of a novel-length Avatar: The Last Airbender/Enchanted Forest Chronicles fusion that I am still determinedly not writing

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[edenfalling]

The lowered death toll is a subtle change -- basically, I took out Toph's mention of the scent of blood, changed the rooms from containing "nothing but stone and ashes" to "nothing but statues," removed "Azula had killed people" from Toph's litany of crimes, and changed "might burn her like all the other people in her castle" to "might burn her or take even this last escape away."

This is when Toph winds up with one group of rebels, which, yes, is made up of the Earth Rumble contestants. At least until Zuko finds them, because at this point in the story Ozai has taken him off the 'find new enclaves of magic users who might be allies or threats' job and put him onto something less touchy, since Zuko had started to notice that almost all the people he met wound up as statues in the secret caves under the castle of Veritand. :-) So Zuko and Iroh (who has just returned from a trip to Cathay, and is trying to figure out what the hell his brother is up to) are trying to suppress the rebellion, and Toph ends up as the only escapee from her group of rebels. (Possibly Xin Fu and/or Master Yu and/or the Boulder sell the others out to Ozai and turn up again later as minor antagonists...? I like that.) While she's on her own, Toph has a brief encounter with Iroh (they have never met before, so he doesn't recognize her the way Zuko would), and then runs into the Gaang and joins them in their quest to stop Ozai.

Mai thinks Toph is cute -- sort of like the little sister she never had -- and being an unorthodox princess herself, is trying to look out for Toph as much as she can given the situation. And yeah, Mai is beginning to disapprove of what Ozai is pushing her father to do, and the way Azula carries out Ozai's orders.