A Journey of Love

The date is October 6 175AG. A week ago Zaheer, the leader of the red lotus was disposed of. Thank the spirits. They were a large factor as to why that time of darkness and death fell upon the earth lands. And so today we celebrate. All the world leaders were invited to attend a parade and festival to celebrate the fall of such persons of terrorism. And as the daughter of the leaders I am required to attend as well. My friends said I should take the day off. They believe I should celebrate the removal of such terrorists from my world and I would have to agree with them that everyone needs some time off after all.

I just finished becoming presentable for the festival and took my seat among the world leaders.

“Today we celebrate the fall of vile ones who plagued this world with chaos and death. The world leaders will no longer bring forth their poisonous rebellious action among the empire or the world.” Mom said formally with passion.

“The red lotus brought forth a dark time within the country bringing forth chaos, death, and suffering among the people but they are defeated and we must move on, heal, and learn frim this. They may have brought great darkness in the world but that does not mean we will not find the light and gain our strength as a stronger nation.” Dad said.

Everyone began to clap and cheer at that as did I. My parents are great at giving speeches full of passion and hope. That's one of the reasons they are such wonderful leaders. Since the last earth queen wasn’t one to give speeches of passion and care for her people it is nice to have a good change in the political speeches of the people in the country.

After the speech came a great and wondrous parade. First came the earth empire band who marched down the streets of Zaofu with their drums and trumpets. Next came the earth empire military troops full of pride and loyalty. After that were the military tanks and mecha suits to show strength towards the criminals of the empire. It was probably also to show strength towards the other nations of the world and was likely meant as a fear method. Perhaps I should talk to my parents about that. And it was clear the float with the symbol of the reeducation camps was to create fear towards the citizens of the empire. Something that shouldn’t be done in a mere celebration of the fall of a terrorist leader. Though it wasn’t as bad afterwards. Many wondrous floats were within the parade depicting the earth empire national organization to help the people such as earth empire medical finances. As well as the international organizations to benefit everyone and the newly formed international terrorists fighting unit that ensures terrorists will not bring oppression or chaos towards the people of this world. It is a bit disappointing that Avatar Korra wasn’t honored within the parade; she and her friends did help to kill and lock up many notable high up members of the terrorist's organization including Zaheer. Thus, preventing those extremists from causing any more damage upon the assassination of the last earth queen. And so, she should be honored. Though since the avatar was an enemy of my parents as well as the empire it isn’t surprising that she wasn’t mentioned during the parade. Though I know better than to speak of this to my parents. I simply need to instead enjoy the celebration.

Once the parade was over there was a great ball held within my home where the high ups were to celebrate. I wasn’t allowed to sit by my parents this time since the world leaders were here. They were to sit together to show status as well as keep international relationships running smoothly. It is understandable and I mustn’t be rude and so I sat and went to eat the food it was delicious though it would be nice to talk to someone whom I am close to.

I smiled as I saw Haku approaching me.

“Hello Ditzy, it brings me joy to see you.”

“As it does for me come sit Haku.” I was delighted to see one of my old friends of old.

My friend sat down beside me.

“So how have you been doing Ditzy?” Haku asked.

“Oh I've been doing wonderfully. I’ve been able to do what I can to help the empire and it’s comforting to know Zaheer won’t cause anymore harm to anyone.” I said.

“Thank goodness for that he created so much chaos, suffering, and death and he could have hurt you or your parents.” My friend said in concern.

“Yes, it is unfortunate chaotic leaders such as Zaheer would go after me simply for being related to national leaders.” I said feeling a bit saddened that people would result to such cruelty.

“It is alright. Thank the spirits they can’t harm you or anyone else.” Haku said.

“Perhaps since the red lotus no longer has the power to go after you or myself, we should find time to spend together like when we were little.” I recommended with a smile.

He smiled back.

We then went to do some dancing it was fun dancing to jazz with a friend I’ve always admired the culture of jazz since I was little. I do, however, prefer newer jazz and pop to this older style jazz music though it is still new for my world I suppose. We then went to enjoy some sweet treats together some ice cream as well as truffles it made me feel like I was a kid again. I do enjoy spending time with Haku as he is a very close friend, and I can’t wait for more memories know that we do not have to live in fear of the red lotus anymore. This turned out to be a pretty good day.