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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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Come midday Tatsuya marched to the edge of town, prepared to duel the Earth Bender, and followed by the girls. Well Mai and Ty Lee followed, Azula marched at his side. Mai carried with her the Captain’s halberd, while Ty Lee carried, clutched really, his clothing. No weaponry, and no shielding, that was the agreement, and they were intent on honoring it.

The bender as his mob of would be soldiers were already gathered around what could have been considered a duelists arena, though it was little more than a rectangle pressed into the ground.

Tatsuya broke off from the girls, walking into one edge of the arena and crossing his arms. The Earth Bender had yet to disarm. Azula, Mai and Ty Lee walked around to watch from one side; far enough away that they wouldn’t have to worry about debris, but close enough that they had a prime view.

“Heh, so you actually decided to show eh fire boy? What’s with the shirtless act? I thought this was a no armor duel, not a beauty contest.” Regardless of his brash words the large man did begin to disrobe, removing his belt and with it his hammers, tossing them back to his crew before doing the same with his wrist guards, greaves, plated hat, and chest plate, revealing he had been in more than a few battles, several with Fire Benders if one were to believe the burn scars.

“You are going to die.” The Captain said with such a cold certainty that it scythed any humor out of the air with bitter precision, replacing it with a pale, almost dangerous calm. “You realize that right?”

Ty Lee bit back a squeak and took a step away from the dueling ground, still clutching the Captain’s garments to her chest, mostly just to clutch something. The gymnast had never done particularly well with such dramatic situations, she much preferred their schooldays, or even the time they’d spent in the swamp, at least then it was certain no one was going get killed. Death was just, so, unpleasant, and the raging colors of these two’s auras, it was painful to watch, and they hadn’t even started fighting yet.

Mai couldn’t have cared less about the two combatant’s auras. She yawned a little fanning her mouth as she waited for the two men to get their head-butting over and done with so they could get on with their lives already.

Azula loved it. The tension in the air, the bloodlust was almost palatable. Both these men hated each other, for no other reason than their alignment. They simply hated each other because they were supposed to, and they were likely going to kill one another because of it. It was all so delicious.

“So, how do we start this thing fire boy? Just bow an’ what not, or do we got to hear one of your repulsive anthems first?” The Earth Bender was disrobed, down to just his leggings as was Tatsuya.

“Traditionally we would kneel and then rise to turn and face one another, though if it’s all the same to you I’d rather not turn my back to you.” The Captain slid down into a battle stance. “So whenever you’re ready.”

The Earth Bender ground his teeth a little and jumped down into a fighting stance. He started fiercely, a stomp with his forward foot and a spinning kick from his back sent a trio of large stones sailing across the battle grounds toward Tatsuya.

The Captain sidestepped, almost dancing between the sailing rocks as they soared passed him to collide with the ground a handful of yards past him.

However the guard did not break his attack long enough for his opponent to retaliate. He stomped the ground with his back foot, and a half dozen small stones jumped up in volleys of two and four. A pair of quick jabs from each hand sent the first two soaring toward the opposing bender, followed by a duel fisted lunge forward to send the remaining four in hot pursuit.

The Captain reacted in kind. He crouched down, lowering himself near flat against the ground by extending his front leg, and allowing the first two stones to soar over his head. The third he smashed, rising up behind a backhanded swipe from his left hand, and before the others could reach him he curled his arm over in front his chest. A spiraling swirl of flames roared out from his forward arm and the following two stones burst apart upon contact while the final simply missed.

Azula perked up an inquisitive brow. She’d never seen Fire Bending used so defensively. Nor had she ever thought to bend from the lengths of her arms rather than her fists or feet. It was an interesting technique, but had limited value. The prospective range would be little beyond one’s own body, and while the spiraling motion made for an excellent absorption of incoming attacks, the relative energy it must take seemed, almost overkill in the princess’s mind. The effort would seem much better spent burning your opponent apart to her.

Tatsuya seemed to have grown tired of defense and dodging himself. He went on the offence with a redirection of his spiraling shield, lashing the orange flames out as a long curl toward the Earth Bender, though it was successfully blocked by the bender simply stomping to his side and causing a large blade of earth to spike out from the ground at his side. “Heh, it’s going to take more than a few sparks to fell me boy.” The Earth Bender shifted his weight and spun, striking the blade of earth with the back of his heel and sending it tearing a path toward the Captain.

The attack was ill fated from the beginning, and it was hard to believe even the attacker had intended it to strike. Such a thin object sent width wise had little change of contacting the target, particularly as poorly aimed as it had been.

The Captain stood strait, moving out of his battle stance, and clutched his fists so tightly his knuckles cracked. He took in a deep breath, and then dropped to a different stance. It was a stance Azula hadn’t seen before, and after a moment she recognized why. It was an Earth Bending stance.

The actual Earth Bender recognized the stance in half the time it took the princess, and, almost out of spite, stomped the earth in front of him and sent a stone half the size of the Captain sailing toward him.

Tatsuya stood his ground and thrust out a fist just as the rock reached him. There was burst of flames and smoke and the stone was shattered apart, bit of sandstone scatting about in every direction. Azula smirked. The Captain was using an Earth Bender’s stance to derive more powerful direct blows, clever, but ultimately useless in a real battle. A Fire Bender would be unable to manage the proper flow of energy they need to maintain long curls of flame from a ridged Earth Bending stance. The best they could do was, as the Captain had just shown, obliterate nearby objects with over powered and under-aimed assaults.

The Earth Bender didn’t seem quite as amused at the princess. “Tsk, think you’re pretty funny striking that stance, eh boy? Well let me show you how it should be done.” He struck the same stance as Tatsuya, a simple basic stance, one of the primaries of the Earth Bending essentials.

It wasn’t a half second since the brute had shifted stances to match the Captain when a half dozen rocks were sailing through the air, each appearing larger than the last.

Each met with the same fate, shattered apart by a twisting smoky burst of flames, a sweeping backhand to clear the first from his vision, then a series of well placed jabs to reduce the next to gravel, followed by a round house kick to shatter a stone the size of the Captain, all were repelled, and with each ground shaking explosion of earth and fire, the Earth Bender grew more enraged, less focused.

It was but a matter of time before an opening would present itself, and though the vicious assault of rock and stone never faltered neither did the Captain’s earth shaking blasts. The two seemed dead locked, and for a moment, just a moment be assured, a fraction of one really, Azula felt a twinge of concern. Should the Captain tire first... It was a dangerous game he was playing, challenging an Earth Bender’s with an Earth Bending form.

The stalemate raged on. The rhythmic launching and subsequent shattering of hunks of earth or stone beat the air like a drum. The spectators were given cause to move back as chunks of rock smoldered their way on occasion, particularly after large stone strikes were blast apart. Azula remained where she was, an expectant smirk on her face.

Then Tatsuya broke form. Ducking under and dodging around the flurry of stones, almost dancing across the battle ground as he twisted between the Earth Bender’s assaults. Azula’s eye followed him, tracking his movements between the flying rocks, he was closing in on the Earth Bender, and beyond his first few steps he had shifted out of the Earth Bending stance and back into the traditional Fire Bending one. He was moving in for the kill, she could feel it.

And so could the unfortunate Earth Bender. His strikes grew more desperate, favoring large forceful stones over small precise ones, and it was because of this that Tatsuya continued to evade each and every one of his assaults. The Captain kept his arms close, to limit his width, and moved more like a gull-crab than a person, never really moving forward, but twisting his body about to keep his sides facing his opponent while taking quick steps in one direction or another to evade the incoming stones.

Then with one quick kick, the tide changed. The Captain rolled into a leap and landed with a fiery crash. The flames scorched the earth and roared toward the Earth Bender, only to crash against a large stone shard summoned in self-defense.

Though Tatsuya did not let his advantage pass. He struck again, lashing a plum of orange flames out from a roundhouse kick to splash against the bender’s shield. Again the Captain struck unsuccessfully, the stone barrier held fast, propped up by its weary summoner.

The Captain danced to one side, launching a furious storm of fire against the barrier’s edge, forcing a second shield to be raised. Then again Tatsuya struck at the barrier’s outer edge, this time rolling a flurry of flames around his back and over his shoulders before crashing it against the opposite side from which he had struck the moment before. And again the Earth Bender defended himself with a stone wall.

To the novice’s eyes it would have appeared the Captain was losing. Every attack he tried crashed helplessly against a stone wall. The guard’s mob looked on the verge of cheering, but Azula knew better. Tatsuya was trapping the Earth Bender within his own defenses. It was an inspired plan, and privately, Azula approved.

Though the Captain lost her approval with his next move, he struck into the air and launched a serpentine length of flames out from his arms. He arched it over the Earth Bender’s head and then brought it crashing back toward the both of them, but the bender defended himself, sealing off his exposed back with a larger extension of stone, pressing one palm against his front and the other against the flat of the rear guard. Azula glared, if Tatsuya had simple circled his enemy he would have had a clear shot, instead he exposed the enemy’s weakness and now the only vulnerable points were the thin slips between the front and back stonewalls.

It was then when the Captain turned truly fierce, at least compared to Azula’s picture of the pacifist boy who joined the war simply because he must. Tatsuya slung his arm back and charged the guard, trailing a raging extension of fire back behind him before cracking it against the Earth Bender’s forward barrier. The flames raged out licking around the rock as their master continued to push forward, dashing around the stone barrier till he could spy though the thin gap between.

The Earth Bender had no defense now, he was too confined within his own walls to move, and now the Captain had a clear shot at him. Azula smirked, and Tatsuya struck his right foot back and then threw his body into his strike. Rage-full orange flames roared from the boy’s fist, and tore through the air striking through the gap in the barriers.

The stonewalls burst apart. Not because of Tatsuya’s strike, but because the bender within them had panicked and tossed them away in an attempt to escape. He landed with a bone cracking crash, near two feet from where the Captain stood. His left arm was burnt and bloody, the smell of roasted flesh rolled off the battle ground alongside painful growls. With his good arm the bender shoved the air toward Tatsuya, in fact using his bending to shift the earth under him and push him back from the Captain another half dozen feet.

Tatsuya stood back, leaving his stance, it was clear to everyone the battle was over, the Earth Bender hadn’t landed a blow with two arms, and from the looks of it, it was doubtful he would ever use his left again. Yet still the Captain struck his hand back, and conjured a vicious tendril of orange flames. It curled back from his hand, its tail waving about in the breeze some ten feet from its master.

Tatsuya began to stride forward. The air about him wasn’t the same; it was no long the calm smiling air so familiar to the Captain. This was grim, no smile graced Tatsuya’s lips, they were locked in a forbidding almost growling glare. Azula leaned forward; Ty Lee retreated behind the Captain’s shirt a little.

“L-look, you win ok! We’ll leave you and your friends alone!” The Earth Bender pleaded, attempting to struggle to his feet, though without the use of his right arm he was unable to manage it.

“I told you didn’t I…?” The Captain’s voice was not his own. Something, primal, controlled it and as such it was not so much carried through the breeze, as the winds parted for fear of it. “You were going to die?” His voice shook, not of uncertainty or through fear, but out of restraint. He was in control despite the raging fury that boiled within him.

The Earth Bender panicked, he glanced to his mob for help. His friends were slowly backing away from the dueling grounds. He glanced back up at the Captain. Tatsuya was standing over him now, his body almost visibly trembling with his breath, the flames in his hand twitched and roared almost appearing out of control. The Captain glanced over to Azula.

The princess smirked, back at him. There was something new behind Tatsuya’s auburn eyes. They pleaded with her, begging her to let him kill the man in front of him. Even over flowing with rage, he was a soldier first. Azula licked the back of her teeth and nodded.

Both combatants knew what that meant. The Earth Bender threw up his good hand causing a burst of dust from just below the Captain’s feet, though it was in vain. Tatsuya brought the raging fire in his hand crashing down.

There was a blood wrenching howl as the flames seared through the man’s flesh in an instant, and the air became filled with the scent of roasting flesh. Tatsuya stood back from the burning body that had once been his opponent, staring at it for a second before shooting a deadly glance to the guard mob. They were scrambling over each other to flee before the Captain’s fire found its way to their hides.

Azula felt something leap to her chest. Her heart was being fast, and she couldn’t remove her eyes from the form of the Captain. He commanded everything she wanted. Power and voracity, fury and fear, dominion and domination, with temperance and control, and it was in that moment. When, he personified everything Azula desired for herself, that she decided, Captain Tatsuya Shouhei, would be hers as well.

The princess leaned back to the trembling gymnast at her side. “Perhaps you were right Ty Lee, I do seem to feel a certain… attraction for the Captain.” Azula allowed herself to chuckle a little. Her quite snickering the only sound other than the slow roar of the Earth Bender’s burning body.
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