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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
Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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“Captain, status report.” Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee thundered into the engine room of the train. There the Captain had been laboring nearly all night to drive and keep the train on track, pursing the Avatar. It was a small room, with a large gated mouth onto the device’s burning core in the far wall. On either side there was a wheel, used to direct the forward grapples mounted on the outside. The main wheel just beside the fire mouth guided the train itself. The room was uncomfortable hot due to the constant flame and the Captain had removed his shirt to stay cool.

Ty Lee covered her mouth, giggling a little at the boy who wasn’t wearing his shirt; his hair even more disheveled than normal. While he still had it up in the traditional topknot wild hairs strands had been shaken loose during the course of the evening, stoking an engine and keeping the train guided was hard and hot work.

Despite his appearance he stuck his heels together and saluted the princess, using the traditional Fire Nation hand sign and a bow. “We’re closing in Princess. We should be able to spy them by night fall, assuming the break to make camp. The train seems to be able to match the bison’s speed, but unlike the Avatar’s mount the train does not tire thirst or hunger.” He smirked, smiling at the three girls. “It is a wondrous machine; the ingenuity of the homeland never ceases to amaze me.”

“That’s all great Tatsu… but, you get tired.” Ty Lee leaned forward a little, just enough to get her head past the princess’s shoulder and get the attention of the Captain. “Don’t you?...”

The Captain answered with a half hearted chuckle, rubbing the back of his head lightly. Mai glanced over at his bed cot; the blankets were still tucked up under the pillow. Someone may have laid on it, but no one had slept in it that was clear. “You haven’t slept all night. Have you Captain?”

Tatsuya slumped a little. It was hard to argue when someone pointed out the truth with the cold precision that Mai managed so well. “No… I haven’t…”

“You need sleep Tatsu…” Ty Lee held genuine concern for him in her voice.

“But the Avatar is just a day away and with trail of bison hair we have a way to track him, I can go without sleep for a few nights, we can’t let this opportunity pass.” The Captain seemed almost determined in this; it wasn’t like him to argue. Though everyone there knew who would have the final say. Ty Lee and Tatsuya turned to Azula to decide.

The princess had been staring at her nails. She slowly looked from the Captain to the gymnast, and then back to the Captain. “If we don’t over take the Avatar by dawn tomorrow you’re to take it easy Tatsuya. I know we seem very close, but you’ll be no good to me if you tire yourself out within the first few days of the chase. One mustn’t direct all of their energy into a single course of action unless it is certain to succeed.” Azula nodded and looked over the two parties. Tatsuya crossed his hands in front of him and bowed. Ty Lee pouted but nodded. “That being said, once we’re within sighting distance I would like for you to cut burning coal and relay on your bending instead, it’ll give us a smaller lighter smoke cloud and as such we’ll be harder to see coming. Also…” She paused for just a moment, looking the two over once again. Then the princess’s features softened, she stopped giving orders. “What’s for breakfast?”

Ty Lee launched herself on Azula, who knows why, but the hug was met with an adequate smile, though the gymnast was pushed off a moment later. She bounced off to the side and smiled over at the Captain. “Yeah, so Tatsu, what’s on the menu today?” She smirked and giggled just a little, clearly amusing herself.

The Captain smirked a little, rubbing the back of his head. “Well, I don’t have any real cooking devices set up, though I did have some packed. Let me check the hold and I’ll see what I can make?”

“That will be fine Captain; just do be quick about it?” Azula tilted her head to the side ever so slightly. It dawned on her as she pondered why he hadn’t set to work readying his device while he was up all evening tending the engine fire that he couldn’t have, while staying in the forward cab he would’ve had to walk strait through their room to reach the hold. The princess smirked a little as she and the other girls walked back to their room, the Captain following close behind. Apparently there was something about sneaking through their bedchamber that outweighed having breakfast prepared when they awoke. Perhaps it with their last bedside encounter...

The girls sat on their beds. Azula laid back against the head of her bed, Ty Lee jumped and flipped up onto her bed, and Mai just sort of sat on the edge of hers. The Captain strolled past the three, bowing his head slightly as he passed. The three girls somewhat ignored him as he ferried various boxes back and forth from the rear cab to the engine room.

That is until Ty Lee decided to try her hand at subtly divining his feeling for the princess. “So… Captain… What’d you think of Azula?” The gymnast wasn’t known for her tact, and possessed the subtly of a porcupine-boar. The question nearly caused Tatsuya to trip and drop a rather large box marked ‘spices’ on top of himself. The princess wasn’t any more pleased with the indiscretion of the question, though for the sake of appearances she mimicked Mai and simply sat up, raising an inquisitive eyebrow at the stumbling boy.

Tatsuya coughed against the crate in his hands as he straightened himself. “Ahem, ah, well. I’d best be getting these spices to the engine cab.” He cleared his throat a little and attempted to avoid the question by continuing toward the door.

Ty Lee giggled a little, clearly enjoying herself a little too much. “Nuh-uh Tatsu you’re not getting away from the question that easy. You’ll have to come back sometime.” She giggled again and the Captain ducked through the far door, perhaps a little over egger to escape the gymnast’s inquest.

Though now it was Azula’s turn to question. The princess turned to her bubbly friend and tilted her head just gently to the side. “So where did that come from Ty Lee?”

“Hmm?” The other girl tilted her head back. “What’d you mean Azula? It’s clear Tatsu likes you, I’m just trying to get him to admit it.” She covered her mouth lightly kicking her feet back and forth as she giggled at the thought of a dramatic and flamboyant proclamation of love from the Captain for Azula. “After all, he likes you, and you think he’s cute, and you two would just make the most adorable couple if one of you would just admit that you like the other.” She pouted a little, somewhat desiring to attempt to convince Azula to be the one to proclaim her love, but Ty Lee knew better than to try and convince the princess to do anything, especially if it dealt with emotions.

“Ty Lee…” Azula started gently, she didn’t want to start right in berating the girl. After all Ty Lee always had good intentions. “While I appreciate your aim, I really must insist you stop this. There is absolutely nothing between the Captain and myself.” As the princess said this last part the Captain returned from the forward cab. He paused a moment and the two met eyes. Azula blinked and looked to her nails, and then cursed herself for doing so. He was just a boy, a common half blood boy of no importance whatsoever and neither any political nor military standing. His feelings should’ve meant nothing to her. He was just a boy.

Ty Lee blinked as she noticed the Capitan. “Tatsu!” She flipped up sitting cross-legged on her bed as she waved her hands about attempting to look like they hadn’t just been talking to her. “Uhm… uh… How’s breakfast coming?” She chuckled weakly and smiled.

Tatsuya grinned a little and slowly walked between the girls. “It’ll be ready in a few minutes. I hope you don’t mind pancakes, I could add some fruit if you ladies would prefer.”

“Oh Tatsu that’s perfect!” Ty Lee squeaked out, earning confused stares from all present. The gymnast smirked a little and rubbed the back of her head, giggling a little. “For breakfast. That’s perfect for breakfast. You know how I love hay-berries.” She smirked a little, being so sweet it was actually kind of hard to tell if she was lying.

“Well… I’m fairly certain I have some hay-berries in the hold, would you like me to fetch them and add some to the batter Lady Ty Lee?” The Captain was clearly a little confused.

He was even more confused by how Ty Lee responded. “No that’s ok Captain, I’ll get 'em, I can bring them to you in the front right?” She smiled flipping herself down out of her bed and scurrying into the back before Tatsuya even had a chance to respond. The Captain just sort of shrugged and headed back to the forward cab where he had his stove set up.

“Ty Lee’s up to something.” Azula said with a displeased pout toward the rear door.

“What was your first clue?” Mai wasn’t exactly surprised by the princess’s revelation; in fact she was practically sarcastic.

“It has to have something to do with the Captain…” Azula muttered under her breath. Though she’d never admit it upon pain of death, and was furious with herself for it, she was somewhat concerned that the Captain would fall under that natural allure that the gymnast seemed to possess.

“Hmm? You say something Azula?” Ty Lee chose that moment to come stepping through the door, a small box in her hands.

The princess looked over, curling a lock of her hair between her fingers. “What are you up to Ty Lee? Helping the Captain with breakfast and everything, you’ve never been the greatest cook.”

The gymnast smirked. “Well, maybe it’s time I learned from a master.” She giggled a little and skipped toward the forward cab. “Don’t worry, you’ll find out.” She giggled again before vanishing through the heavy iron door.

The princess rolled her tongue against her teeth, trying to not pout. “Well. She’s in a good mood.” Mai commented in her off hand, without really carrying manner.

“Yes. She is.” Azula replied, almost in the exact same tone, though hers bore just a shallow shadow of scorn.

The train rolled on forward, continuing to chase after the trail of bison hairs, guided under the watchful eye of the Captain, even as he prepared their meal. Truthfully it couldn’t have taken him that long, a few minutes, ten at the most, but Ty Lee had returned a mere moment after entering Tatsuya’s forward cab, she’d left the box but that was to be expected, it was presumably the hay-berries.

Azula mind was spinning, trying to figure out what the gymnast was up to. She couldn’t have been alone with the Captain long enough for them to hold much more than a conversation, and it didn’t seem that Tatsuya had any interest in Ty Lee to begin with. Not to mention Ty Lee had convinced herself that the Captain was interested in the Azula, which one would think would have stayed any advances from the gymnast, but perhaps the princess had made it too clear that she hadn’t any feelings for the Captain. Though she had said she found him attractive, she’d fairly well ground that to death once her friend had realized what she’d said.

Though the princess wasn’t left to wonder for long, her questions were answered quiet artfully once Tatsuya walked back with the three plate of pancakes and served them to each of the girls in turn, laying them gently on the edge of their beds atop small trays designed to serve food to those still in bed.

Azula questions were answered in the form of three moderately sized, heart shaped, pancakes, with a lightly sugar dusted hay-berry laid on each of them sitting on her plate. The princess blinked. For a moment she had actually thought that it could’ve been the Captain’s idea, though if it was his concept of ‘hiding a relationship’ would’ve needed redefining. It only took a moment for Azula to realize that the utterly unsolicited act of romance had come from the bubbling mind of the girl who was currently giggling her head off atop the bunk bed.

“Ty Lee put you up to this didn’t she Captain?” The princess said in a somewhat bored, but mildly amused tone, as she started to cut a small piece off one of the heart pancakes.

Tatsuya grinned a little and rubbed the back of his head, half bowing a little as he chuckled lightly. “She can be… very convincing when she wants to be.”

“Awh Tatsu! You weren’t supposed to tell her!” The gymnast in question was none too pleased by how easily her plot to push the Captain and princess together had been seen through. “She was supposed to think it was your idea…” Ty Lee pouted a little and popped a sugar dusted hay-berry into her mouth.

Tatsuya chuckled a little again, and this time half bowed to Ty Lee. “I apologize, Lady Ty Lee. I’ve just never been very good at deception.”

“Well then you should fit in marvelously here Tatsu.” Mai spoke, and actually made a joke, though it only elicited a small laugh from the Captain, mostly out of courtesy. Ty Lee was too busy eating and Azula didn’t really think it was funny, well that and the princess never really laughed at anything.

The Captain returned to the forward cab shortly after the girls finished their meals. He scorched clean the dishes and then set back to work guiding the massive device they were traveling within. Tatsuya didn’t return to the girl’s cab until it was time for lunch, for which they had some lovely lightly herb crusted Komodo-Chicken. Complete with another food based flirtation from the mind of Ty Lee. This time seared herbs in the shape of a heart pieced arrow.

Azula could’ve cared less about the whole thing and deliberately went about destroying the edible love note as she ate. It wasn’t so much that it was a love note, or that it was from Tatsu, so much as it was that it was a love not from Tatsu, that was Ty Lee’s idea. She wasn’t exactly sure why that bothered her

so much but it did. She suspected it wasn’t so much that she disliked advances from the Captain that it was, she disliked advances from the Captain that were neither his, nor could she respond to. He only choice of action was to ignore him. Which, while it had its amusing qualities, wasn’t exactly fun.

After that brief and pointless event the four pretty much went their own ways. Tatsuya returned to the helm and went about guiding the hurtling train along the almost path of white bison fluff that lay across the landscape showing the way to their quarry. Ty Lee spent her time brushing out the princess’s hair, which Azula didn’t exactly mind; it was relaxing and kept the gymnast busy so she didn’t get any more ideas on how to get Azula and the Captain together.

Azula herself was thinking, the gears and wheels of her mind turning while her friend hummed quietly behind her. The question on her mind was quiet simple really. How was she to get Ty Lee to drop this infatuation she had with the idea of the Captain and herself together? It wasn’t really that Azula minded the idea, after all, behind closed doors she actually quite liked Tatsuya, and that was the problem.

If she didn’t care one way of the other she wouldn’t mind what Ty Lee did, she’d just continue to ignore the gymnast’s efforts until eventually she just gave up, but because Azula did have feelings for the Captain, or at least she felt like she should have feelings for the Captain. The truth was that the princess didn’t really know how to have feelings for someone. It wasn’t that she was a complete fool and couldn’t understand her own feelings. It was that she didn’t really know what she should be feeling; she knew she Was feeling she just didn’t know if what she was feeling is what she should be feeling to say she had feelings for the Captain. After all she had ‘feelings’ for everyone she met, she either liked them or didn’t, felt they were complete fools or useful assets. It was just; she didn’t find herself thinking of Tatsu as either of those. She was thinking of him more as she thought of Mai and Ty Lee, and to be perfectly honest she wasn’t entire certain what that was either. All she knew was that she liked having those people around.

Azula pouted a little. Liking someone was so hard to understand, how do you like them, why do you like them, how much do you like them, do you want them to like you back? All of these questions. Intimidating someone was easier, are they afraid of you, if not why not. It was all just so… difficult, particularly for the princess for some reason. She wondered vaguely if Zuko hadn’t found fire bending more something like this.

Mai was reading a book.

Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, the princess was left to dwell on her questions for several full hours before there was something to interrupt her. Of course the girls did busy themselves with things to distract them, and pass their time. Mostly listening to Ty Lee talk about one thing or another. They played cards for a while, but then Azula had won all of their pocket change and that sort of ended their game. Ty Lee attempted to get the other two to spill their hearts about what they would like in a boyfriend, but Mai pretty much described Zuko, and Azula dodged the question quite tactfully.

It was around dinner when the interruption presented itself. Tatsuya had been at the helm preparing, whatever it was he was going to prepare for dinner, Basilisk something, it looked like a stew, but that wasn’t the point. The point was, he saw the end of the trail.

“Princess! Ladies Mai, Ty Lee!” The Captain nearly launched himself through the doorway, catching himself on the edges to simply lean through. “The Avatar is up ahead!”

The three girls simultaneously sat up from around the small, bolted down, table where they had been playing cards an hour or two earlier.

“How far ahead is he Captain?” Azula marched past Tatsuya, not into the forward cab but instead she half climbed the small latter on the back of the engine, raising her head just high enough over the top to see the small forest where the trail lead.

“I believe he’s in that forest Princess.” Tatsuya stepped back letting the other two girls step into the small space between the cabs.

“You believe?” Azula twitched her brow as she dismounted the latter. “You haven’t confirmed his location yet?” She phrased her question so that it held just enough annoyance to be threatening.

“I didn’t want to approach too quickly Princess.” The Captain bowed to her. “But had the Avatar simply flown over the forest, there would be hairs caught in the branches. There aren’t.”

“So, he must have landed in the forest, his bison lowering below the branches before enough of the beast’s hair flew off to get caught.” Azula smirked a little, they had him. “Continue ahead full steam, but I’d like you to personally fuel the engine from here on Captain. Fire bending will give us less of a plum.”

“Of course Princess.” Tatsuya bowed to Azula, and then half bowed to Mai and Ty Lee before returning to the forward cab to stoke the engine.

“Gee, I guess this means we’re going to have to fight soon huh?” Ty Lee had somehow managed to climb up the doorway back to the second cab and currently had herself raised up high enough to see over the front of the train and to the forest they were rapidly approaching. “Oo, what a pretty sunset too.” She also saw the setting sun off in the west before dropping back down to walk with the others into their cab. Her face was a little black from the soot cloud the engine was spewing. She smirked and rubbed it off on her sleeve.

“So. I guess this means we should, mount up, or whatever it’s called.” Mai sighed a little as if she was disappointed in them finding the Avatar. Of course she was never exactly enthusiastic. “You know I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a Komodo Dragon.”

“Oh they’re only the most adorable creatures ever.” Ty Lee beamed at her depressing friend as the three of them walked back into the rear cab where the creatures in question were being kept. Two of these ‘adorable’ dragons launched themselves at the bars of their cage at the sight of movement. Ty Lee walked up to one and started rubbing its nose, which it actually seemed to like and calmed it down considerable, despite the gymnast’s baby talk.

“Yeah. Adorable.” Mai glared up at her would be mount as it hissed at her. This beast seemed to get the picture and sort of just laid down.

Azula had just thrown a saddle over her beast when the Captain’s voice piped in through the train’s intercom system. “My apologies, the Avatar seems to have spotted us. He has taken to the air once again, though I am continuing the pursuit.”

The princess permitted herself a sigh, and decided to leave the saddle on her mount, best to be prepared. She strode over to the receiver by the door, with perhaps a little irritation in her stride, and

snatched up speaker phone. “That’s fine Tatsuya, it’s not your fault. Keep pursuing them and keep us on low burn. I don’t want to give off too much of an ash cloud if we can help it.”

“Of course princess, as you command.” The Captain’s voice replied, metallic and echoing over the speaker system. “Though princess…” His tone, even over the intercom, was a little… hesitant.

“What is it Captain?” Azula wasn’t particularly in the mood to be questioned, the Avatar had just slipped through her fingers for the second time, and she had to make certain that that didn’t become a trend.

“Would you like me to postpone dinner? Or serve it as planned?”

“As planned will be fine Captain…” She hung up the receiver and walked back to her cab, Mai and Ty Lee on her heels.

The princess was still harboring a little irritation over the Avatar’s escape, but it was easy enough to slip back into business as usual once the Captain brought back one of his perfectly prepared dishes, though he didn’t stay to chat, because he was needed to keep bending the engine’s fire.

It was just as well Azula wasn’t making very good company, and Ty Lee was still trying to get the Captain to confess his love for her.

Things actually got a bit better after the encounter on the mountain. Something about personally watching people flee in fear of her always put Azula in a good mood. Though Mai remained as dower and ever, and the longer Ty Lee stayed awake the more energetic the gymnast appeared to get. So some time near dawn the three girls laid down for the night or morning as it were.

The Captain was required to remain awake and pilot the pursuit, though he didn’t say word against it, he did pass out shortly after the girls split up. Officially he had remained behind to guard the train while Mai and Ty Lee heading off to chase down the Avatar’s bison and allies, and Azula headed after the Avatar himself…

Author's Something or another-
Alright. So, I have a Question to ask of all my loyal readers and fans. Originally this story was going to end at Ba Sing Sei, where season 2 ended. But seeing how season 3 has ended, and many questions about the princess's, well, everything, haven't been answered, I have been considering continuing it past to end it where the series ended. Though being myself I am unable to decide one way or another, so. Please let your opinions be known, while you review. ;p
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