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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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Author's Comment- I intended to hold the release of this till I got a fifth review, ya know, keep the number of people who actually bother to complement all my hard work and Azula’s brilliant performance and the number of chapters even. But lucky for you guys I’m not as heartless as the fire princess. Enjoy, and Review! Review, don’t just vote Review! Though on a side note, almost thirty apparently all five star votes?! Thanks a lot guys, just with you’d pick up a pen half as much as you vote. Ya know this chapter has like 6,045 words? Its hard work writing these things guys and I draw my inspiration form good reviews. So if you want chapters faster, then give me just like five words of praise! Please!
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A full day later they still weren’t talking much. Their group had sort of split along the same lines that school yards across the world inevitable split. Girls Vs boys, unfortunately for Tatsuya, he was the only boy. He also was the only one who didn’t ride in the carriage; he rode on the rhino that drew the carriage, and he had been, for the past day. Frankly Azula was a little impressed he was still able to use his legs. She’d been dozing off whenever she really felt like it along their trip, she’d slept in her chair before, and it was a little easier with the gentle back and forth rocking of the carriage.

Another bright side was that they didn’t have much trouble with anyone they passed by. The large Komodo-Rhino thundering past mounted by a fire nation soldier in full armor, minus the helmet, with a six foot long pole-arm strapped to the back of his saddle drawing a metal carriage that’s roof was stacked high with a good month’s worth of supplies, was quite an imposing sight and most people, Fire Nation allies or otherwise, stayed away from it. Some people even went off the road to get around them. Azula found them particularly amusing.

Ty Lee seemed to be enjoying herself too. The carriage was virtually filled with her lush pillows and bean-filled chairs, aside from Azula lounge chair, and in the frequent moments when Azula was ignoring her babble about how hawt the captain was for her, Ty Lee amused herself by launching herself from one pile of pillows to another. Azula was sitting in her chair in the back of the carriage; her chair was a lot like a throne. She towered above the other girls who each sat in or on, one of the bean filled bags that Ty Lee made them bring. Mai sat on princess’s left farthest from the carriage’s one door, and sort of wedged in the back corner with her stack of fifty books. Light reading she called it. Someone clearly wasn’t expecting much action in the hunt for the world’s last hope against the Fire Nation.

Still it wasn’t like they’d have terribly much that was interesting to do. Mai had her books, and Ty Lee was easily amused anyway. But Azula was board, and that was never a good thing. She found herself eyeing the back of the Captain’s head. She hadn’t yet decided if it was because Ty Lee had been ranting about his undying love for her for the past thirty seven hours, she’d gotten a late start. Or if it was because she’d been staring at the back of his head for almost as long, the window dead in front of her chair looked out behind the rhino that toed her carriage, and there for the man who rode on it.

The princess had to admit, the back of his head wasn’t that bad an angle on him. He had strong shoulders, but of course he had strong shoulders. He was a soldier; it was his job to swing large heavy metal weapons around and try not to get hit by other people’s large heavy probably not metal weapons. Having strong shoulders was probably an advantage.

Azula shook her head. She shouldn’t be thinking thing like that. His shoulders were nothing special, just a place for his head to sit. It was all Ty Lee’s talk that had gotten her thinking things like that. She needed to think of something more… her. She let her eyes wander around her surroundings. Pillows, Books, Mai, Ty Lee, a window with boring earth kingdom land outside, more pillows, another window with different boring earth kingdom dirt outside, and the window with the back end of a rhino and Tatsuya outside it. Azula found her eyes staring a hole in the back of his head again and sighed; she gave him a quick glance over and finally found something she could live with herself thinking about, his halberd. It was nice, long, pointy, and sharp. Very sharp from the looks of it, and it clearly wasn’t the standard cleaver of a halberd that the military gave its soldiers. This was custom made. Rather than a spear tip capping its reverse end it had something shaped more like a scorpion-badger’s sting curved toward the front of the blade, but sharpened on the backside. Azula licked her lips thinking of how that blade would be able to slip into the gaps between armor and then cut a deep gash on its way out. Azula was slightly tempted to want to try it out. The princess surveyed the staff, slowly raking her eyes along it. The grip was wider than most, most weren’t wide enough for two hands to grip there properly; this one looked like five fists could hold it and it’d still have some space on either side. She wondered vaguely if there was a reason for that, or if it was just a stylistic. If it was just stylistic she decided it was stupid, it was just giving your opponent more area to try and grab your weapon, but if it had a reason, she was very curious as to what that reason was.

Azula’s eyes followed the staff up to the blade head. It was wide, probably larger in all dimensions compared to the standard halberd of the fire nation. The head was crafted to resemble the center of the tree pronged fire nation symbol. The long front edge was sharpened into the blade of the weapon, while the back end with the circular bite out of it was also bladed; it curved back and had a small dagger like blade extending down. Both the inside of the curve and the back edge of the head was sharpened. She smirked picturing the many ways that curved backend could be used. Hook it over someone’s shoulder and pull back, at worst you’d just stab into their back and made leave a sizable gash in their shoulder. At best you’d take their entire arm off. The princess licked her lips picturing that heavy metal blade hooking around someone’s neck; it would just take the proper shift in leverage.

She looked over the weapon as a whole. It would be top heavy due to the larger than average head, and the top was only remotely pointed slowly curving down from the top to resemble the flame at the center of the fire nation crest. It could be used to stab with, but it wouldn’t be terribly effective. That was the purpose of the small dagger on the rear, though even it wouldn’t be a particularly effective stabbing weapon. Its curve would make it far more effective when used to hook into armor with a backward swipe. All and all it was a very well balanced weapon, though one that would be difficult to handle. Azula was slightly interested in seeing him wield it; she wondered just how talented her chief was. He’d been cross that others belittled him; perhaps he had reason to be. Either way he certainly had good taste in weaponry, on some level Azula wanted to try out his blade. She at least wanted to know where he’d gotten it. That and break the horrid silence that seemed to be plaguing their trip thus far.

The princess stood up, which drew the attention of her two comrades, well it drew Ty Lee’s attention, Mai only really looked at her out of the side of her eyes before going back to reading. “Captain, where did you get your halberd?” Azula asked as if she didn’t really care and was just using it to spark conversation.

Unfortunately Azula’s voice, while being many things, was not in anyway, loud, and Tatsuya was riding a very loud Komodo Rhino toeing a metal box version of a carriage behind it. He looked back at her over his shoulder. “I’m sorry?! What was that Princess?!” He only knew it was her speaking because she was leaning in the window that looked straight out at him. He’d put it in so she could see where they were going and give him orders, but he hadn’t thought that he might have problems hearing her.

Azula groaned quietly, maybe there was another reason other than the gender barrier that had kept conversation from happening. Thankful Ty Lee chose that moment to speak up. “Hey Azula, I’m getting kind of hungry. Do you think we could stop for lunch sometime soon?” The gymnast looked hopefully up at her mildly megalomaniacal friend.

The princess rolled this around in her mind, she could go for a bit of a meal, and though she hated to admit it, the captain was a good cook. “Captain! Lunch!” She yelled out the window at him.

“Ah yeah I guess it is getting around that time huh?!” He smiled laughing lightly a little as he pulled the Rhino off the side of the road and slowed the lumbering beast to a halt.

As the Rhino carriage rocked to a halt Mai and Ty Lee stood up. Mai stretched a little. “Uh… this thing rocks worse than the royal barge.” She sighed a little and stretched out her back. “It’s so hard to read when the book’s waving back and forth.” The goth girl yawned a little and walked over to the carriage door with her friends.

Azula was the first out; she hoped off the slightly raised carriage and looked around. It was the same old boring earth kingdom terrain, rocks, trees, shrubs, small furry animals scurrying to hide, more rocks. Yep the same earth kingdom terrain. Where was the volcanic steam vents, the dried lava paths, or the fertile volcanic ash forests?

Ty Lee was next out she bounced off the step and ran out marveling around at the terrain, taking particular notice of the animals. “Aw! Don’t you just love the Earth Kingdom? Just look at all these lovely trees and those adorable little critters?! Hello little critters!” She then proceeded to run around giggling like a school girl as she chased the small creatures of the Earth Kingdom.

“What’s so great about it? Rocks, trees, and filthy wild animals, we have those back in the Fire Nation.” Mai she sort of sauntered out of the carriage, just far enough so that she could lean back against it as she surveyed the scenery with her standard disinterest.

“I don’t suppose you’ve ever seen the Fire Nation homeland have you captain?”
Azula smirked a little as Tatsuya dismounted the Komodo Rhino, removing his halberd from the saddle and spinning it onto his back before walking over to the princess. “I’m afraid I’ve never had the chance princess. I was born in the colonies as you know, and I’ve never had the opportunity or the funds to visit the homeland, though my shipmates have told me all about it.”

“Hmm yes well… words can only describe so much I’m sure.” Azula smirked a little wiping a stray hair from her face.

The captain smirked a little. “I suppose you’re probably right princess.” Tatsuya smiled at her a little and put his hands on his hips. “So, what would you ladies like for lunch?”

“Oh can we have a picnic Tatsuya?!” Ty Lee bounced up from harassing some poor unfortunate animal and scurried over to the captain and the princess. Azula rolled her eyes, Mai sighed, Tatsuya smiled and nodded. “Oh yey!” The gymnast girl launched herself on the captain. “Thank you Tatsu!”

Azula sighed and rubbed her temples. Ty Lee could be such a hassle sometimes, but it wasn’t really of any importance what they ate. The captain’s reaction was more fun to watch anyway. He first blinked a little shocked as the younger girl tackled him. Then he chuckled lightly and gently removed her from him. “Alright Lady Ty Lee, just let me get a few things from on top of the carriage.” Ty Lee nodded and went back to harassing any animals that were too slow, or too stupid to run from her.

Tatsuya proceeded to climb the side of the carriage, taking hold of the top then getting a foot up in one of the windows before climbing onto the roof. He had one foot on the front end and one foot on the corner he’d climbed up as he rummaged through the packing. The angle gave the three girls on the ground a full view up that ridiculous little armored skirt that all soldiers of the fire nation wore. Azula rolled her eyes and went to go find something to hurt. Ty Lee giggled a little before some critter caught her eye. Mai scoffed and went back inside the carriage to read.

The captain loaded up his arms with several things. A large rolled up blanket displaying the Fire Nation crest, a cutting board and a set of kitchen knives. He hopped off the carriage and piled the things together before climbing back up.

“Aw!! He’s so cute! Mai, Azula, come look at this!” Ty Lee cried from behind a sizable, possible formerly earth-bent rock.

Mai sighed and closed her book with a clap before walking back out of the carriage and over to where the gymnast was laying out on the ground. There was a tortoise-hare slowly trying to escape from her, its long ears folded back over its hard shell as it slowly hopped away. Ty Lee was rocking her legs back and forth as she watched it. “Doesn’t he just remind you of Zuko?”

Mai looked down at the tortoise-hare and walked around in front of it. It did have that determined yet vaguely angry look on its face that seemed to have settled on Zuko’s so long ago. “Y-yeah… He kind of does resemble Zuko doesn’t he, especially around the eyes.” The tortoise-hare glared up at the girl angrily. Then Azula walked over and it hid inside its shell in utter terror. “Huh… smart little guy.” Mai said off handily.

“What’s this about ol’ Zuzu?” Azula asked as she walked over. Ty Lee was currently busying herself trying to coax the tortoise-hare out with utterly untrue statements about the princess.

“Oh Azula don’t you think this tortoise-hare reminds you of Zuko?” Ty Lee chimed grabbing the shell of frightened creature and holding it up to the princess, trying to show her the creature’s face and Zuko-like scowl. It slowly extended its head out a little, then looked her in the eyes and ducked back inside its shell.

Azula raised an eyebrow at the creature. “Hmm, yes well it’s certainly as smart as Zuzu.” Ty Lee smiled back at the princess, totally taking this as a complement of the creature’s intelligence. In her mind, though she’d never admit it, the true test of intelligence was whether or not the creature in question was afraid of Azula. Clearly since this tortoise-hare was afraid of Azula it was intelligent.

Tatsuya walked over with his halberd rested on his shoulder and a cheery smile on his face. Azula crossed her arms and looked over at him vaguely curious why he was walking over. He started to say something but then noticed the tortoise-hare. “Hey is that a tortoise-hare?” He reached out and took the top of the creature’s shell in his hand taking it from Ty Lee.

The gymnast girl smiled and nodded. “Yep, ain’t it a cute little guy?” She smiled and tucked her hands behind her leaned toward the captain a little.

“Yep, these guys are real cute. Make great stew too.” He said with a smile still on his face as he held the shell up to his eye and tried to peer inside as he held it upside down.

Ty Lee gasped and snatched the tortoise-hare back from him, cradling it to her chest. “What?! No you can’t eat Zuko!” She said out raged, the tortoise-hare crept out from its shell and then nodded in agreement.

Tatsuya looked very confused and Mai sighed holding her face in her hand a little. Azula just couldn’t help herself, it was such a priceless situation, and made all the more amusing by the fact that Ty Lee had actually just stated that they couldn’t her brother. Azula laughed, just once, and then she caught herself and put a perfectly manicured hand in front of her mouth swallowing the remaining laughter. “Em… you came to tell us something Tatsuya?” She put her hand down and looked over at the captain.

He blinked trying to remember why he’d walked over and then it came back to him. “Oh yes, lunch is almost ready. I’ve set out a blanket in the shadow of the carriage, and laid out some rice cakes as an appetizer. I’m preparing a lovely stewed broth, it’s not as nice as something I could’ve made back on the ship, but I’m confident that you’ll all be pleased by it.” The captain smiled at three ladies.

Ty Lee smile back. “Oh I’m sure whatever you make will be yummy Tatsuya.” She set the lightly traumatized tortoise-hare down and it quickly ran away, well not exactly quickly, but it tried its hardest to get out of there as fast as it could. Mai just sighed and started walking back toward the carriage; she just didn’t get Ty Lee sometimes.

Azula kept her arms crossed and followed the goth. “Well come on Ty Lee.” Ty Lee blinked before smiling at the captain one more time before scurrying after her friends.

Tatsuya was left scratching his head. He followed a little behind the girls as they returned to the carriage. He had set up a nice little picnic spot behind it and there was a tray of six or eight rice cakes sitting in the middle of the Fire Nation blanket he’d gotten out earlier. The girls all walked over to it and sat down on the blanket. He returned to his bubbling pop of stew which he had set up on the far side of the carriage. It was a simple set up three poles propped against each other held the pot over a, maybe a little recklessly built fire pit. Though it wasn’t like he was going to use it for long and he was a fire bender, a simple cooking fire wasn’t going to get away from him.

Azula sat leaning back a little with her legs under her as she munched absent mindedly as she thought. They were already a day behind the Avatar, and the swamp wasn’t exactly an easy place to search, not to mention the Fire Nation had almost no means of conveyance that could function easily in that kind of terrain. The Komodo Rhino wouldn’t even be able to walk in the muck, they’re too heavy and too big, and they’d just sink into the gunk and get stuck. The carriage wouldn’t be much better; it’d probably get stuck in something, not to mention without the Rhino they’d have nothing to tow it. Still maybe she was giving the swamp too much credit, after all the Rhinos had served the Fire Nation well in every other kind of terrain. Might as well give the beast a shot as swamp.

Azula blinked a few times and leaned forward grabbing another rice cake. Ty Lee was trying to ask her something. “Oh? I’m sorry what was that?”

Ty Lee pouted at her friend. “Geez Azula, the least you could do is listen when I’m talking to you. I asked you if you’d thought any more about Tatsuya’s feelings for you!” She leaned forward onto her arms a little, kicking her feet back and forth behind her.
Azula rolled her eyes and sighed. “Uh, please Ty Lee, don’t tell me you’re still claiming that the captain has feeling for me?” She took a small bite out of the top of her rice cake. The only problem with just letting Ty Lee thing that the captain might have feelings for her was that Azula couldn’t actually think of any definitive proof otherwise, and that fact kind of concerned her.

Thankfully for Azula that conversation ended there, because Tatsuya chose that moment to walk over carrying lunch. Well more than just lunch, he had the stew pot slung over his halberd and a tea pot dangling from the other end as he balanced it over his shoulder. In his arms he had a stack of four bowls and four tea cups. If he hadn’t of been wearing armor you might have thought he was a juggler or circus performer. Ty Lee held in a delighted squeak. “Alright ladies, sorry to keep you waiting.” He said as he gently set the stew pot on the iron placemat for it in the center of the blanket. Then he tilted his halberd back a little and let the tea pot slide down it into his hand, he stabbed the blade of the weapon into the ground beside the picnic blanket and unhooked the tea pot. “Tea anyone?” He said with a smirk, pouring himself a cup as he sat down, just off the blanket on a bit of a rock really.

“Oh I’d love some Tatsuya!” Ty Lee said bouncing up to her knees as she leaned over and took at cup and bowl from him. She helped hand out the other bowl and cups handing one of each to Mai while Tatsuya set the remaining out in front of Azula. The princess just leaned back a little, slouching in a way that only royalty knew how to do just right, so that she was still proper but comfortable.

It was then that the wind picked up a little and the foulest most unpleasant odor the fire princess had ever had the misfortune to inhale. She raised a hand to over her mouth just to stop herself from physically reacting. It stank of rot and decay. “Ugh… Tatsuya I certainly hope that foul odor isn’t coming from something you expect us to ingest.” She said, still holding her hand over her mouth.

The captain blinked a little then sniffed the air. The other girls smelled it now too. Mai put a hand over her mouth and tried not to turn green. Ty Lee did turn a little green. “Oh, it’s just rotting plant matter. The wind must have shifted and is now coming off of the swamp where the Avatar was sighed.” He stood up. “Might I suggest you ladies continue your meal in the carriage?” He pulled up his halberd and hooked the stew pot with it again.

Azula stood up and the other two followed. “A wonderful idea captain, after all we certainly can’t be expected to eat with that horrific smell in the air.” The princess continued to hold a hand over her mouth and nose as she walked into the metal carriage, it didn’t actually have windows so the stench was only slightly muffled, but tolerable. Azula sat back down in her chair as the captain Mai and Ty Lee filed in. Tatsuya gently set the pot in the middle of the small metal room then bowing his head slightly scurried back outside to gather up the rest of the picnic.

He made a few trips back and forth before he knelt down beside the stew pot and removed the lid. The scent of spices and meats quickly filled the small metal room and over powered the distant stench of decay. It really did smell good, and Azula was hungry. The captain filled himself a bowl and topped off his tea cup before bowing out and leaving the carriage. “Enjoy your meal ladies.”

Ty Lee hopped up and ran over to the window as he walked by. “Tatsuya, why don’t you join us?” She said leaning through the empty window frame a little.

“Oh, no that’s quite find Lady Ty Lee, someone has to keep an eye open in case travelers get suspicions of our carriage. It doesn’t bear a Fire Crest, but it’s still pretty decidedly Fire Nation, and if any earth kingdom patrols wander by it’d be best if we see them before they see us.” The captain said with a smile as he sipped at his tea lightly. “Besides I’m perfectly fine on Rhino back.”

“Aw ok… it’s just that you’ve been with us for almost two days now and we still don’t know anything about you. Like, do you have a girlfriend?” Ty Lee battled her eyes and giggled a little just at the fact she’d actually just asked that.

Tatsuya chuckled a little. “No, I’m afraid I do not Lady Ty Lee. Enjoy your meal.” He walked over to his mount. He balanced his bowl on his tea cup and removed his halberd from his back, laying back on the rear of the saddle before he jumped on, without spilling anything, and proceeding to dig into his meticulously prepared stew.

Ty Lee avoided Azula’s death glare as she poured herself a bowl of the captain’s stew and quickly scurried back over to her pile of bean filled bag chairs. She sat there quietly trying not to meet eyes with the fire princess. Mai rolled her eyes and poured herself a bowl of the stew before returning to her book filled corner.

When Azula finished glaring at Ty Lee she filled her own bowl and began to eat. It was a little surprising at first, the stew was almost, sweet, but had other flavors mixed in in such a way that not one of them stayed forward long enough for it to be identified. Normally the princess would have found such a mix to be distasteful but no matter what flavor came forward it only ever seemed to compliment the last.

The fire princess and her friends ate in silence. Azula slowly munched on bits of her stew, komodo chicken strips and what appeared to be slices of sugar cane. She slowly rolled the food around her mouth. There was something about the captain that bothered her, but she couldn’t put her finger on it. She wondered if it wasn’t that maybe Ty Lee was right, but she just refused to admit that, at least for now. Perhaps it was the fact that he was only half Fire Nation, maybe it was his Earth Kingdom blood that made her find him unsettling.

Azula rolled this concept around in her mind for a little while, about half of her stew was gone by the time she dropped it. It was just that she’d never really considered herself a racist, after all she hated Zuko and he was her brother. The princess shook her head; she needed something to take her mind off all this.

She looked out at the captain; he was sitting awkwardly on the Komodo Rhino’s saddle. If they’d been moving he probably wouldn’t have been able to balance as he was, one foot over the side hooked in the saddle’s strap and the other foot up resting on his knee. His bowl was set in his lap and he was balancing his tea cup on his foot. The odd thing was that he looked perfectly comfortable sitting as such. He certainly was a strange man, but then again he would have had to be to join her team.

Then again it wasn’t like he had much choice was it. After all he’d been shipped to her by his superiors and she’d had hired him totally of her own will, well maybe a little influence from Mai and Ty Lee, but not much. Azula couldn’t help but wonder if the young captain wouldn’t rather be assigned someplace else. Of course she knew people didn’t like to serve under her, in fact she made a point to make it as predominantly unpleasant a task as she could. She wasn’t really sure why, but it wasn’t like she had anything against her servants. It was just that it was rather fun to see them scurry about in fear of her. Particularly those servants who were older then her, they just had a certain air about them that made it so enjoyable to watch them squirm under her well perfected death gaze.

The captain, however, seemed different. It was almost liked he actually enjoyed serving under her. Of course if she were to pick anyone to serve under she wouldn’t have thought of herself as a terribly bad choice. After all, all she asked was that he cater to her ever whim, which was technically his job. In return he got not only the status boost of having served directly under the most powerful woman in the world, but he also got relative freedom, as long as his jobs were done. He got to have lunch with them, of course he had to cook it but he was the chief, he got to be involved in their decision making up to a point. Plus he’d already sat at the head of a war meeting for her, not many ship captains could say they’d sat at the head of a table with some of the most noted and decorated men in the Fire Nation.

Azula shook her head a little and looked down at her now completely empty bowl. She sighed a little and leaned on one arm. While it had been amusing to contemplate the captain’s place in the world it had brought her right back to her original question. Was Ty Lee right about him?

The gymnast girl did have, admit ably more experience with the male gender than did the princess. Of course there were reasons for that, but both girls tried to ignore those. The fact remained that her comments dogged Azula’s thoughts, and if there was one thing the princess just could not abide it was having an unsettled mind.

Azula took a deep breath and got out of her chair. The princess set her bowl and tea cup down next to the stew pot and strolled around it to the window that looked out at the captain. “Captain, I have a question for you.” She said like it was of no real importance, and since the carriage wasn’t moving she was certain he’d hear her.

Tatsuya gulped down a mouthful of food and then whipping his mouth, on his sleeve his poor manners made Azula’s brow twitch a little, he turned to her. “Ask me anything princess. I’ll do my best to give you an answer.”

The budding conversation the drew interesting of the ever curious Ty Lee and the fact that Azula was going to ask the captain something interested the ever board Mai. Azula smirked a little. “Tatsuya…” The princess paused, examine her nails off handedly. Then she took a deep breath. “Where did you acquire that unusual halberd?” Ok, so she chocked at the last minute. It wasn’t her fault. Asking a guy if he liked you wasn’t at all similar to asking a man if he wanted to die. You knew the answer then. Besides, romance was more Ty Lee’s thing, and Azula had wanted to know where he’d gotten that halberd. “After all that’s clearly not standard Fire Nation equipment, is it? I don’t believe I’ve ever seen another one like it but I’ve never really paid too much attention to our weapons. After all I’ve always had my bending, and there’s not a warrior in the world that can defeat me in a bending competition.” The princess didn’t know why, and she hated herself for it, but for some reason she became just a little bit nervous. Azula didn’t deal with being nervous very well, she started to rant a little, and even though she knew she was ranting and sounded like a blabbering idiot she couldn’t stop herself.

Tatsuya chuckled a little and Azula wanted to dive in a hole, or burn him to a crisp but the later meant she’d need to find a new cook, and he would be very hard to replace. “No, you’re right princess. It’s not a standard Fire Nation halberd.” He removed the halberd from the saddle and held it out in front of him, setting it across his lap so the head pointed toward her. “I got it from my home town, just after I became captain. The smiths there aren’t the best in the world, like in the homeland, but they’re fairly good, and I lent them a hand with my bending for this particular blade.” He stroked the blade slowly, sliding his fingers across it being careful not to cut himself. “It’s my prized possession. I had top blade crafted to resemble the center of the Fire Military crest. The rear blade was supposed to resemble the edges of the crest, but it ended up looking more like a scorpion-badger’s sting, and the whole thing is a little top heavy due to the larger than average head.” He smirked a little and spun it around once; his hand was higher up on it than it would have needed to be if the blade was balanced at its center. The captain smiled at his weapon locking it back onto the Rhino’s saddle before smiling back at the princess.

Azula, who felt a little better since he hadn’t mentioned, or seemed to notice her little faux pas, “Mhm… very interesting captain, I look forward to seeing you cleave the enemy with it.” She turned around and shot the giggling Ty Lee a glare that could kill, had Ty Lee not built up immunity to it over the years. Mai didn’t look at the princess and just went back to reading.

“Well, that’s enough of that.” Azula said sitting back down in her chair. “Captain, get lunch cleaned up and then let’s head out, we’re closing in on the Avatar and we can’t afford to let him escape.” She said looking out the window at the captain. He nodded and hopped off the Rhino walking around to the carriage hopping in quietly keeping his head bowed as he gathered up the dishes from the girls. Azula sat in her chair hands interlocked in front of her as she tried to figure out what had just happened to her.

Ty Lee yawned a little and rolled over onto her back looking at Tatsuya upside-down as he took her bowl and cup from in front of her. “Say Tatsuya, how long do you think it’ll be before we reach this swamp place?” She yawned again and stretched a little. “Because I’m getting kinda tired, do we have enough time for me to take a quick nap?”

“We’re a few hours away still, but we should make good time once we get moving.” The captain responded, his arms full of precariously balanced dishes. “But I’ll have to clean these dishes before we can get moving so… yeah I suppose we’ve got plenty of time for you to take a nap lady Ty Lee.” He smirked at her and walked out of the carriage arranging the dishes in a line in front of him before hitting each one in turn with a sizable fire blast.

Azula smirked as Ty Lee yawned again and buried herself into a bed of pillows. Azula wasn’t smirking at the gymnast; she was smirking because she thought bathing the dishes in fire was a clever way of cleaning them off, particularly because Fire Nation pottery was all either metal or porcelain. Then the princess yawned herself. “Hmm… I think I’ll take a quick nap myself, Tatsuya, be a dear and wake me up before we enter the swamp will you?” She leaned forward a little and looked at the captain thought the open carriage door; he was trying to extinguish the remainders of lunch.

He turned around as he tried to stamp out what had once been the stew he’d meticulously prepared. “Oh, of course princess, I’ll alert you the moment we reach the swamp’s boarders.” He smiled a little and as soon as he put back what he’d gotten from the carriage’s roof, which gave the girls inside the carriage an interesting show, the team was off, toward the massively sprawling and somewhat eerie swamp.
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