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Azula's Lost Chapters OR Azula's New Cook	By : DecieverGod Category: Avatar - The Last Airbender > Het - Male/Female Views: 13899 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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The four traveled on foot for a couple of days outside the swamp. The Captain had his chance to truly shine. His survival skills kept the three girls well fed and comfortable, simple things like the knowledge of how to construct a snare, or what roots of what grasses could be eaten or how to use his chest plat as a cooking pot. They’d been well enough supplied by the unwitting swamp benders, at least with the bare necessities like water skins, filled with clean water by the Captain boiling swamp water between his chest plates, and dried fish, a little tough but after being seasoned properly even Mai didn’t complain.

Soon enough they came upon a town. There was just a slight problem; the town flew an Earth Kingdom flag. An occupied town would fly the Fire Nation banner, and a town with no garrison wouldn’t risk taking a side. The four made camp on a hill overlooking it, and looked to Azula for their course of action.

The princess crossed her arms and thought. The town wasn’t huge, a small farming community from the looks of it. It was a safe enough bet that however many soldiers were stationed there the girls could handle them. Ty Lee could easily disable an entire squad of Earth Bender, and Mai could be relied on to remove any potentially dangerous non-bender threats, and even if somehow they were both deadlocked Azula could burn the entire place down with a breath. The problem was that burning the town down meant that they wouldn’t be able to fully resupply there, and even if they cleared the local garrison they didn’t have the numbers needed to occupy a town by themselves. They had the Captain, he could possibly pass for an Earth Kingdom citizen, but they didn’t have any money, and besides even without his armor he could be picked out as Fire Nation soldier from a mile off.

Hmm, if they couldn’t use force or deception, perhaps a different kind of deception, Azula held no delusions about what Earth Kingdom soldiers would do to three seemingly defenseless Fire Nation girls, but perhaps some, seemingly naïve, lightly defended, Fire Nation girls could slip in, do some light shopping and be on their way. “Captain?” The princess opened her eyes and looked across their fire pit to the Captain. They were all gathered around the empty pit Tatsuya had dug, Ty Lee on the left Mai on the right, all waiting for Azula to tell them what to do, just how she liked it. “What do you know about thievery?”

Tatsuya blinked a little. “Um… not much, I suppose if it came to it I could mug someone fairly easily.” He was sitting up on the pile of dirt from the fire pit. He leaned his halberd out trying to look menacing. “I doubt they’d be particularly excited to tangle with a halberdier.”

“Are we thinking of robbing someone Azula?” Ty Lee leaned toward the princess.

“Well we don’t have any money, and I doubt the Earth Kingdom is just going to take our word that we’ll pay them back.” Mai answered for Azula.

“Well, I have always wanted to try my hand at sleight of hand.” Ty Lee chuckled picking up several small pebbles and making them dance around her fingers before vanishing.

“Precisely.” Azula smirked at how well her comrades were adapting to her plan, and before they even knew what it was in its entirety. “We can’t expect the town’s folk to just turn a blind eye to us robbing them, of course the whole point of robbing them is to not get caught, so we won’t. We will however have to enter the town under a guise of someone else.”

“O!” Ty Lee smiled and clapped her hands together. “I love role playing! Who are we going to be pretending to be Azula?”

“Yes. Do tell.” Mai seemed less than thrilled with the idea of pretending to be someone else, of course it didn’t matter much anyway, Azula always cast them as someone they could easily pull off, most of the time the Princess did all the talking anyway.

“Well it’s certain that we can’t be Mai the governor of New Ozai’s daughter, or Azula princess of the Fire Nation. Any Earth Kingdom soldiers no matter how weak would easily toss their lives away trying to capture, or kill us, for the ones who did would be heroes.” No one particularly cared about killing Ty Lee, she was from a noble family sure, but her parents had done well to stay out of the public eye thus far, and while they would no doubt be heart broken by the news of her death, it wasn’t like they didn’t have spares.

“More so the one who kills you Azula. I’m not sure anyone really cares about killing a governor’s daughter. Especially now that my brother’s been born.” Mai groaned about the pointlessness of her existence.

“Well regardless, it would be best to avoid conflict during this visit, and going in as who we are begs for battle, as does going in defenseless. So we’re going in someplace in between. We’re going in as tourists.” Azula smirked.

Ty Lee squeed. “Oh I’ve always wanted to tour the Earth Kingdom! That was one of the reasons I joined the circus!”

“Ty Lee. You do realize we’re not actually going to be tourists right?” Mai looked over at her friend with mock concern.

“I know, but we’re going to be pretending to be tourists, and that’s good enough for me.” Ty Lee smirked over at her gothic friend.

“What would you have me to princess?” Tatsuya looked across the empty fire pit at the fire princess.

He would never pass for a tourist, not with his armor and halberd at least, and Azula was hesitant to have him leave either. “Well for starters Tatsuya, you’ll have to stop calling me princess. Likewise we’ll have to refrain from calling you Captain, it would be best if the town’s folk didn’t discover you’re military.” Azula smirked a little. “You’ll be our bodyguard.” She had already given his role some thought. “And while we’re doing some ‘shopping’ you’re to find a place for us to spend the night, and ‘acquire’ the money to pay for lodging there.” It was fairly clear she meant steal in both instances.

The Captain bowed his head a little. “Of course prin-Azula.” He caught himself from calling her princess, she smirked. “Do you have any preferences I should look for in our lodgings Lady Azula?”

“Oh…” Azula paused for a moment to consider, less than a moment really. “Do try and find someplace with a bathing chamber Capt…” She sighed and mentally scolded herself. “Tatsuya.” Ty Lee chose that moment to giggle quietly and earn herself a glare from Azula. Tatsuya bowed his head a little and as Azula’s gaze passed along her comrades. They all looked prepared, Ty Lee was smiling, Mai had her stilettos adjusted and Tatsu was standing with his halberd at his side. “Well, shall we then?”

“Let’s.” Mai stood up and dusted herself off. “Remind me to get a change of clothes in town; these still have swamp muck on them.”

“O! I’d love to pick up a few cute Earth Kingdom outfits!” Ty Lee said bouncing up across from the dower girl.

Azula stood up, she felt like dusting her armor off as Mai had attempted to do with her robes, only she could already tell that it would be even less effective. Fire bending herself dry time and again had baked the filth on.

The fire princess led them into town. Tatsuya walked at her side his blade ready at his side. Azula smirked a little at how he slouched his posture a little and leaned his blade over his shoulder rather than leaving it strapped to his back. Had she not know him before she might have pegged him for a mercenary, which was good, exactly what she need him to appear. Mai’s act was less, existent. The gloomy girl didn’t actually behave any differently, of course for her there wasn’t much to conceal in the first place. Ty Lee on the other hand was fully embracing her new role as a tourist. The gymnast leaned over market displays, ohhing an ahhing over whatever they happened to be displaying, before scurrying back over to heir group. Azula kept an eye out for the local guards.

It didn’t take long for them to show up, a few minute of Tatsuya leaning on shops with his blade at his side while Ty Lee giggled about how pretty something they were selling was and a group of Earth Kingdom soldiers appeared on the edge of the town’s market. Azula spied them before they ever got formally organized, it didn’t appear there was more than a handful, and the only one that moved like a bender was their leader.

Azula glanced to Tatsuya; he nodded to her in recognition that he saw them too. Mai noticed them as well; Earth Benders weren’t the stealthiest bunch. Ty Lee kept shopping, or shoplifting rather, it wasn’t hard for her, for some reason the shop keeps never seemed to be paying any attention to her hands.

The bender guard put his hands on his hips and marched over to them; Tatsuya leaned forward and gripped his halberd. Azula rolled her eyes, men, always having to mark their territory. “What do you think you’re doing here?” The bender and two of his associates demanded as they walked over.

Azula smirked for half a second before looking over at them with her best, innocent little girl face. “Oh? Is this an Earth Kingdom town?” She put her fingers to his lips and faked a worried look. “I-I’m sorry, we’re Fire Nation, but we’re just tourists.” She gestured over to Ty Lee, who was busy giggling and picking out flowing green robes to hold up on a less than interested Mai.

“Yeah, what about him?” One of the non-bender guards jabbed a spear, though it was really more like a sharp stick, toward Tatsuya, who growled and lunged forward a little. Both the non-bender guards dodged back from Tatsuya and his impressive Metal halberd.

Tatsuya paused, at first waiting to see if Azula was going to explain his presence, but when the princess made no motion to continue her explanations he cut the pause short enough to not seem unusual. “Tsk…” He tossed his head to one side and spat at the ground, Azula twitched. “I’m just their bodyguard and guide, parents worry these days you know?” His thug impersonation actually impressed Azula, it wasn’t perfect he still pronounced fully, but it was good enough.

“Not much of a guide to lead them into an enemy town.” Commented the earth bender with a snide smirk.

Tatsuya readied his halberd, not getting into a stance or pointing it at anyone, but being in position to do so. “I didn’t know we had any enemies here.” He stood strait and tall, almost rising the same height as the guard. Azula practically choked on the testosterone flaring between the two.

The earth bender smirked. “Well, try to keep it that way.” And with that he and his entourage left, at least from direct sight.

One of the guards who didn’t approach the four stayed just inside an alley, no doubt to keep an eye on them. Azula looked to Tatsuya again, he nodded discreetly to her. “Tatsu, be a dear and check us in at a nice hotel would you?” Azula, still playing the sweet girl smiled at Tatsuya, still playing the gruff guard, and tucked her hands behind her. The captain smiled at her, and then rolled his eyes for the watching guard and nodded before walking off. He’d probably end up surveying the entire town before picking a place for them to stay at. At least that’s what Azula would do, and she had somewhat grown to expect as much from him.

And that was just what he did, while Azula Ty Lee and Mai covertly robbed the town’s merchants blind. Tatsuya slowly made his way around the entire town, plucking up a few purses that called out to him and roughing up a couple of thugs in an alley before renting a pair of rooms in the finest hotel in town, and promptly returning to Azula’s side to give her the keys.

Meanwhile Azula and her merry band were having quite the time plundering the local merchants. Ty Lee mostly just distracted them, she was fairly good at gartering attention, Mai would lean and drape her sleeves innocently over something that wouldn’t be there when she leaned back, and Azula, well Azula mostly just stayed out of it. Occasionally she would snag some careless person’s coin purse, but the fact of the matter was that while wearing armor she didn’t have any particularly easy place to hid stolen merchandise. Besides she couldn’t help but feel that robbing street side stores was beneath a member of the Fire Nation Royal family, of course that thought reminded her too much of Zuko and his current predicament. Which in turn made her want to prove to herself that she and her brother were nothing alike by stealing something, she also had to keep an eye on the guard that was watching them without looking like she was keeping an eye on him. Mai and Ty Lee both knew he was there and were careful not to let him see or hear anything.

By the time Tatsuya returned to give Azula the keys to their hotel rooms the merchants were starting to get suspicious, so Azula thought it best to simply return to their rooms and plan in private, plus it would be nice to stay in a respectable place again after spending nights on the bare ground and in a swamp.

It wasn’t until the four of them reached the suite’s door that they spoke to each other. Well that’s not exactly true, Ty Lee kept on talking to any of them who cared enough to look like they were listening about all the cute little things that the local merchants had and why she didn’t get them because of this or that. Azula didn’t mind, it just added to their character. What Azula did mind what that the door to the room which Tatsuya had acquired for her proclaimed itself to be the hotel’s bridal suite in deep white letter carved into the door stone.

Ty Lee started to say something but the Captain cut her off. “The hotel only has two suites… this is the better of the two…” He gestured to the door which no matter how long you looked at it continued to claim to be the bridal suite. “I assumed you would prefer it regardless of its…” He paused for a word and Azula raised an eyebrow at him, if he chose the wrong word she was going to have to hurt him. “Ambiance.” Azula pouted a little as she couldn’t find a reason to hurt him in that word.

Ty Lee started to say something again but this time Azula cut her off. “Well, I suppose it is only for one night.” She opened the door with the stone key and pushed the door open.

What greeted her was, in Azula’s opinion, the worst attempt of creating a romantic atmosphere with the colors green and yellow she’d even seen. The center piece of the room was a large forest green bed, composed of a mattress atop a decorated stone slab of a yellowish gold color. The bed’s headboard, made of a similar if not the same stone, was pushed up against the far wall and decorated with inlaid carvings of hearts and ribbons and other things that girls who weren’t Azula liked. Foot board was shorter and without decoration opting for a more flowing pattern it was divided into a dozen pieces that twisted and curled about on their way to the long flat top piece. Four tall bed posts stuck out from the corners supporting a canopy and each had a small cup of glowing crystals facing away from the bed itself. There was a stone dresser of molded after a similar theme to the bed’s right and a nightstand on either side. The room was lit with by a series of dimly glowing crystals mounted on the walls and in laid to the ceiling. They didn’t give off much more light than would be seen at twilight and there were a series of currently unlit torches mounted on the walls below the crystals. Ty Lee thought the whole thing was utterly adorable.

Azula stood in the doorway and rubbed her eyes. “I’ll get the lights.” Tatsuya stepped past her politely but not too politely as they were likely still being watched and shot a small handful of fire at each torch.

“Thank you Tatsu.” Azula faked a smile at him as she walked in once the torches were lit. It actually wasn’t that bad once it had better lighting, there were some mediocre scroll paintings hanging on the walls and once she passed the doorway the fire princess spied a second door. Azula smirked a little the Captain had clearly asked for a suite with a personal bath as she had requested. Perhaps the bridal suite could be tolerable.

Azula took a seat on the bed’s footboard and waited for the others to file in. Ty Lee bounced over to sit on one edge of the bed and Mai sat on the other. Tatsuya swept the room, closing the single window that sat in the opposite wall from the bathroom door and drawing the blinds to discourage the local guard’s eye piece before standing between the nightstand and the dresser. Azula turned to face her comrades. “Alright ladies, and Tatsuya, what have got?” She tossed a pair of small coin purses onto the bed as her contribution to the daily take.

“Oh, I got these earrings,” Ty Lee tossed a pair of bronze jade earrings onto the bed. “Oh and this necklace, oh and these bracelets, oh and this handkerchief cloth bandana thing.” She tossed a sapphire necklace on followed by some gold bands and a decorative green piece of cloth onto the bed and smirked.

“Not bad Ty Lee, but I’m not certain if we actually need these things, though I suppose we could sell them.” Azula honestly didn’t know what to do with the jewelry and cloth, they were clearly nice things and that Ty Lee could steal them was no small feat, but currently they needed things like food and money. Azula turned to her other friend in hopes that she had procured some more useful items.

Mai sighed and began unloading her robes, about two minutes later she shook a final kiwi-lemon from her sleeve and looked to her friends. The bed was covered with kiwi-lemons, apple-plums, orange fruit, cabbages and other easily pawned food stuffs, along with a healthy amount of jewelry, some decorative knives, a pair of small katana knives, looking at the whole haul and the Goth one wondered which weighted more. “What?” Mai shrugged and tucked her hands in her sleeves.

“All I got was a few purses.” Tatsuya tossed four or five bags onto the bed, two of which were already empty. “But renting the rooms nearly cleaned them out anyway.” He sighed a little and leaned back against the wall.

Azula picked through the things sprawled out on her bed. The jewelry and bobbles were a bust, it wasn’t like they could sell them to the people they stole them from, particularly in a town where everyone had their eyes on them, but the food and coin were useful. She opened a few of the purse and counted, there were a couple hundred coins, but only a handful of gold pieces mostly copper or silver. She poured the majority of them into one purse and tossed it to Tatsuya. “Here Tatsu, go into town and get what you can for dinner.”

The Captain caught the bag with a little trouble, enough to make Ty Lee giggle, and bowed his head. “Of course Azula, though we’ve easily got enough her for a fruit salad.” He smiled at Mai, who remained indifferent. “I’ll just fetch some cutlery and plates shall I?” He bowed again before walking out.

Ty Lee smiled over at Azula, not that that was anything particularly peculiar about Ty Lee smiling at the princess, but it was the way that she smiled that was smiling that drew Azula’s attention. Ty Lee was smiling in that big, I’ve got something to say because I was right kind of way. Azula looked over at the gymnast. “What?”

“You’re calling Tatsuya Tatsu.” She said this like it was the most scandalous thing ever.

Mai raised an eyebrow. “So? What’s the big deal about Azula dropping a syllable from his name? You do it all the time.”

Ty Lee giggled a little and swung around one of the best posts to lean over toward Azula. “I call him that because I think he’s cute.” Her tone made it clear she believe Azula was doing the same.

“Ty Lee, honestly, the only reason I’ve taken up calling him Tatsu is to better develop our cover.” Azula shrugged a little; in all honesty she hadn’t actually noticed she’d been calling the Captain Tatsu. Not that it bothered her particularly, it just meant that she’d been dropping the last syllable from his name; his name was a little long. She chose to ignore the fact that his name had the exact same number of syllables in it as her own.

“Suuure you did Azula...” Ty Lee giggled still leaning over her friend a little. Mai rolled her eyes and decided to stay out of it.

“Ty Lee, I really just do not understand where you’ve acquired this ridiculous notion that I have any feelings for Tatsuya beyond what I would for any soldier under my command.” Azula remained careful to pick her words so that they wouldn’t reveal anything to the possible interested parties listening, while continue to defend herself from Ty Lee’s perhaps not so ridiculous accusations. She had to admit, she found it harder to remain indifferent toward the Captain while calling him by name.

“But we don’t have any other soldiers with us right now.” Ty Lee spun herself around the bed post and landed flat on her back in the middle of the bed, her legs draped over the supplies. “It’s just us and Tatsu… You know Azula, If you want some alone time with him I’m sure Mai would agree with me when I say we’d be more than happy to go hang out in our room for a while.” She giggled madly kicking her feet a little and clutching her hands in front of her mouth.

Azula looked like she was about to murder the giggling gymnast but Mai wisely intervened grabbing Ty Lee off the bed. “I think now might be a good time for us to give her that alone time.” She pulled the other girl along as she left the princess’s room; theirs was across the hall and had a pair of beds. It was the second best room in the hotel.

Azula twitched a little as her friends left. She glared at the mess on her bed and sighed, rubbing her eyes a little before setting to work cleaning things up. She very neatly laid the jewelry in one pile, the fruit in another, and complied what coins they had left into one purse and set that purse on the nightstand next to her bed.

The moment she was finished she smiled at her work, and tossed herself back onto the bed laying out as she stared up at the ceiling. Though you’d never get her to admit it, she’d hated having to sleep on cold rock, not to mention in her armor. She reached up to her collar and unclasped her chest piece and allowed herself to sigh a little as it went slack. Another thing you’d never get her to admit was that she’d got tired wearing her armor for three days strait. She sat up and undid the other clasp on her armor tossing it to the side of her bed as she rolled her shoulders glad to be free from the weight. Next to go were her shoes; she kicked them off to the bottom of the bed.

Once again the princess realized that she needed a change of clothes. Azula pouted a little and tried to figure out a way to bath without having to wait around naked for her clothes to be cleaned. It wasn’t that she felt needed a bath, it was more that she just felt uncomfortable the same clothes she’d been wearing for several days now and she knew she would be much more comfortable in a clean set of clothing. Of course she could always steal someone else’s, but then someone would have to run around naked for a while. She looked at the purse, she could probably afford to purchase new clothes, but green really wasn’t her color, besides she highly doubted that there was anything in this nowhere town that befit a princess.

Still the problem of only having one set of clothes remained. Azula could probably just barrow the Captain’s shirt, it would be big enough to keep her decent while her things were washed, but if Ty Lee heard she’d never let her hear the end of it.

The princess sighed, filled with that annoying feeling of wanting something and not knowing how to obtain it. Azula was quickly realizing that she didn’t like that feeling at all. It was just so… frustrating.
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