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A/N: It's over. I…don't know how to feel about this. Thank you to everyone who has stuck by the whole way. You guys have been awesome!

Every time the Fire Nation Royal family visited Ba Sing Se they would visit the zoo Avatar Aang created. As the family expanded these trips became much more about keeping all the children together rather than actually seeing the animals. The one thing that always struck Zuko about the zoo, however, was how loud it seemed and how messy some of the habitats were (all right, mostly he wondered how the hog monkeys could make a mess that big and make it smell that bad). No matter how bad some of the messes his children created the zoo always made him feel better about their disasters.

This was the first time he believed the hog monkeys would have destroyed less than what his children did. The family wing of the Palace looked utterly demolished. Scorch marks and water stains marred the walls and the curtains were either soaked (was that ink?) or charred. Twigs and leaves littered the hall and out to the gardens. Those weren't much better: there were the tell tale marks of fireballs and water whips. Apparently his little waterbenders were more creative than he gave them credit for: they used ink and paint to bend as well as water.

The culprits slowly emerged from their hiding places heads down. It seemed there were two teams divided based on the elements they bent.

"Weren't you just bragging about how well behaved your children are?" Master Pakku remarked. The situation was bad enough but on top of everything Katara's family was here to witness the event. And she was out helping at the hospital (a letter arrived earlier that morning asking for her help with a difficult birth). Zuko hated having to discipline the kids alone.

"I want all of you in front of me right now," he voice was deathly calm, a tone he usually reserved for council meetings where he wanted to burn everyone of his councilmen for being idiots. Four out of five lined up in front of him. "Where's your little brother?"

"He's hiding. We're supposed to find him before the others do. The team who finds him wins and proves who the better benders are," his youngest daughter explained. She had just begun waterbending three months ago and her idea of practicing was bending any form of liquid at anyone near her.

Zuko pinched the bridge of his nose while his brother-in-law and father-in-law laughed rather loudly. "Who's idea was this?"

They pointed to Marukku. He glared at his siblings. "It was Kwa mai's idea! She wanted to play a game with bending! This was what I could come up with," he huffed.

Zuko turned to his eldest who, at fourteen, should have known better. "You didn't stop them because?"

"They needed even teams?" The Crown Prince responded.

"At least you know he's fair," Hakoda offered while trying to hold back his laughter.

"Who thought Lee should be the bait?"

His eldest daughter piped up. "He can't bend yet. Plus he's only three, how far can he go?" Zuko distinctly remembered when she managed to somehow wonder all the way home from the market on Ember Island when she was that age but now was not the time to remind her of it.

"Go find him. Now!" His children scattered.

"I wonder who was winning," Hakoda commented as they watched the children flee.

"Isn't it obvious Dad? The waterbenders were. That's why Zuko had to stop the game," Sokka said.

"For their birthdays I'm getting your children the most annoying things I can find and giving them two of whatever it is," Zuko promised.