A young man sprinted through the woods as he leaped over a fallen tree and set it on fire to buy himself time. Hearing the soldiers yelling and the howls of animals behind him as he wheezed for a breath.

"This way! You go to the left! You to the right! We cannot let him escape!" The admiral screamed in rage.

"You won't escape Zuko!" zhao roared through the woods as he made the kimono rhino bust through the fallen tree that was up in flames. Sweeping his hand to the side to create a path.

"The eclipse can't save you now you treasonous bastard!" He yelled as the rhino ran after the prince.

Zuko jumped to the left and jumped up on a Boulder even the rhinos couldn't get around and stood tall above seeing the soldiers with fire looking in the dark for him. Zhao screaming to find him.

He crouched down so they couldn't see him as well, they had arrows and spears. He had to be careful.

He finally escaped the burning palace that he once called home. Only to be hunted as the fire nations most wanted.

Zuko covered his mouth to muffle his cough as he choked on air trying to hide but he couldn't do it. He broke into a cough as he felt something wet drip from his hand and chin, onto the rock he stood.

"There!"

Zuko wiped his shaky hand on his pants and used his sleeve to wipe his face before jumping off the Boulder and started to run again.

"There he is! Prince Zuko stop!" A group of soldiers ran after him squeezing around the Boulder knowing a cliff was ahead.

"You can't get away now," they called after him.

Zuko saw the cliff ahead that was open to the ocean, next to the docks by the gates of azulon. He narrowed his eyes and ran faster.

"Zuko! Prince Zuko! Stop!" Men screamed seeing he wasn't slowing down.

They were almost in arms reach of the prince but Zuko took a long lunge to reach the cliff and used all his strength to jump off the edge as he dove into the dark ocean far from the soldiers that would arrest him.

"He's not going to make it," a soldier gasped looking at where the prince landed in the water. They never saw him come back up.

"Let's go tell the admiral," another sighed shaking his head.

"You think he's dead?" One of the men looking down at the waters.

Zhao climbed up to the Boulder and stood on top of it to see ahead what Zuko would've seen. He narrowed his eyes hearing that the idiot jumped the cliff.

"Admiral, what do we do now that the prince is dead?" A soldier called up to him.

Zhao looked down at his feet and crouched to the Boulder touching dark spots that dropped on the rock. Blood.

This made the admiral smile to himself.

"That son of a bitch won't survive, put a price on his body and let's go find him," zhao told his men with a determined look in his eyes.