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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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Azula gently and slowly opened her eyes as the carriage rocked to a halt. She glanced around without revealing that she was awake. Ty Lee was still sleeping; she’d rolled around and was now thoroughly entangled in her mass of pillows. Azula glanced out the window that looked straight ahead; the captain was dismounting the Rhino, taking his halberd with him as he walked around toward the carriage door, passing out of sight for a second. The princess glanced out the window to her left. There just outside was a massive tree and the wind carried the distinct stench of swap gasses. The odor made Azula wonder how Ty Lee could remain asleep, it smelled like, well like miles and miles of slowly decaying plant matter and stagnant water.

The captain walked around the carriage and gently rapped on the door before opening it slightly. “Ladies Mai, Ty Lee, Princess Azula… We’ve arrived at the swamp’s boarders.” He bowed his head a little and let the door swing open a little more. “I await your orders.”

Ty Lee covered her mouth and giggled a little before flipping over and pushing herself up onto her feet. She stretched her limbs in ways that would probably break most peoples’ bones. Mai yawned deeply fanning her mouth lightly and closed her book. “I wondered what that horrid stench was.”

Azula sat up, acting a little like she’d just woken up. She yawned and fanned her mouth a little. “Well, I suppose we should go in then…” She yawned a little more and stood up. She crossed her arms behind her back and walked past her friends and the captain hoping out of the carriage. The ground even this close to the swamp squished under her feet and she left boot prints pressed into the muck. “Captain?” The princess said with her standard air of authority that stated an order was to follow.

The captain’s head shot up and he stood half turning to address the princess without turning his back on the others girls present. He crossed his arms behind his back and stood at attention. “Yes princess?”

“You’ve had field experience with Komodo-Rhinos before correct?” Azula didn’t really pose this as a question, but more of an order that demanded a response. The tone she gave to her command would have made most of the princess’s subordinates squirm in their shoes, for some reason the princess was in a particularly foul mood at the moment, not that it showed.

The captain smirked closing his eyes and tossing his head back while still remaining at attention. “Well, yes I have princess, though I’ve never been part of a mounted unit exactly.” He opened his eyes and shrugged a little, turning toward Azula a little more. “I was once under orders to transport several dozen Komodo-Rhinos in preparation for the late Admiral Zhao’s assault on the North Pole.”

Azula smirked back, the captain tried to stay at attention like a good soldier, but his tone betrayed him. It was clear to her that he hadn’t liked his ship being used as a simple transport vessel. Not that she could blame him, but that was irrelevant at the moment. “So you have intimate knowledge of their maneuverability?” She really just wanted to know if the beast drawing her carriage would be too heavy to enter the swamp without sinking into the muck. She’d rather not get swamp muck on her favorite chair. Who even knew what swamp muck really was.

“Well I wouldn’t say intimate, but I know there’s no way you’re getting one into that swamp without it sinking into the muck never to be seen again.” Tatsuya smirked at Azula; she glared at him a little annoyed he figured out what she was really asking so easily, well that was really just an excuse to glare at him, she was really glaring at him just to glare at him.

“Well then I guess you’ll just have to carry our supply then Tatsuya, a few days worth at least.” Azula said as if it were the obvious conclusion, which it was, after all it was kinda why they’d brought him, that and cooking and cleaning and such. Cooking, cleaning, and carrying things were pretty much the only reasons they’d brought him along.

The Captain smirked and bowed to the fire princess. “Of course princess.” He acted like this wasn’t and unusual order for him to be given and walked over to the carriage. Climbing the side, he starting getting some supplies down.

“Azula!” Ty Lee exclaimed as she watched the captain throw supplies off the carriage roof. “You can’t make Tatsuya carry all those things… It’s mean.” She sort of mumbled that last part as she was standing next to Azula and didn’t want her braid set on fire, again.

Mai walked up on the other side of the princess and sighed. “Why not, I mean it is kinda the reason we brought him along right?” She met eyes with Ty Lee and shrugged.

“W-well…” Ty Lee tried to think of a response, but it was hard when Mai used things like ‘the truth’ and ‘logic.’

“It’s quite alright Lady Ty Lee.” The captain smiled down from sitting perched on top of the supplies on top of the carriage, he actually looked quite comfortable. He’d dug himself out a nice little seat so he could look over the supplies he hadn’t thrown down into a pile. “After all realistically, I’m the best person to carry out supplies. I mean we’ll need supplies, and someone has to carry them. Besides Princess Azula Lady Mai and yourself all rely on your agility in combat, if we were ambushed you three would be at a disadvantage to be carrying anything.”

Azula nodded, he’d made some good points. She’d never really thought on the subject beyond that that was why they had him, but he was right he was the best choice to carry things. Azula took some comfort in the knowledge that he didn’t just blindly follow orders as well; he was loyal to a fault, but thought about his orders, she was starting to like him. Not that she’d let Ty Lee ever know that. She paused to contemplate that that might be the reason why she was in a foul mood, but she shrugged and ignored it. “Exactly, and besides we’re noble women Ty Lee, I know you’ve been living with the circus but it’s beneath a noble woman of the Fire Nation to resort to such things as manual labor.”

Ty Lee pouted for a second, but then shrugged and smiled again. “Well as long as Tatsu’s ok with it I guess its fine.” The gymnast girl paused for a second. “So Azula how are we going to find the Avatar in this big swampy place?” She bounced on to a new subject with the same ease and grace that she bounced in any regard.

“Hmm…” Azula turned around and looked at the massive swamp that stretched out before her. The Avatar was in there somewhere, but it would take months, if not years to comb the entire swamp for one boy, even with an entire legion of Fire Nation soldiers. “That’s a very good question Ty Lee… I suppose we’ll have to work something out.” The princess turned around to look at her team. Ty Lee was smiling and watching as a bumble-fly circle her, Mai was leafing through the book she’d been reading all day, and Tatsuya was reorganizing the supplies he’d picked out so that he could strap them to his back. “Alright ladies, ideas?” “Oh I know how about we like… oh… hmm…” Ty Lee had good intentions, but she did tend to talk before she thought. “Oh we could like throw a big party and he’ll see it from his sky buffalo thing and come down to join us and then we can nab him.”

Mai rolled her eyes at the gymnast. “Yeah, we’ll just put a big sign that says ‘big swamp party here’ and I’ll bet the Avatar will just come running.” She sighed and closed her book. “We’d have a better chance just lighting the swamp on fire, the Avatar would probably come running to ‘save the trees’ or something like that.”

Azula thought on this, fire, destruction, and control of the playing field. “You know Mai, that’s actually a pretty good idea.”

Mai smirked a little. “Well I was serious.” She said that like it was obvious, which it might have been, had she not used the same monotone with which she always spoke.

Ty Lee stared at the goth girl a little. Azula coughed into her hand. “Yes, well… Captain?” The princess turned to address Tatsuya who was current arranging the supplies he’d picked out into a stack and tying them together. “When might we be prepared to leave?”

The captain was kneeling down to heft up his makeshift cargo pack onto his back. His halberd now strapped horizontally to this waist so he could still reach it with the backpack on. “Well I just need to send a hawk to the nearest Fire Nation base so someone will come and retrieve the carriage, but I should be able to do that from in the swamp, depends on if the hawk can fly out of trees.” He scratched his chin a little and walked over to the ladies.

Ty Lee leaned over and looked his supply pack up and down. It was set up in layers, one sleeping bag, then two more, then a wooden crate, and finally a wider but thinner metal crate. “Tatsu I think you forgot a sleeping bag.” The gymnast said confused, she righted herself and quickly counted the members of their group just to be sure.

The captain chuckled. “I didn’t forget lady Ty Lee, It’s just that I’ve never been able to get comfortable laying down to sleep. I sleep much better standing or sitting up. I think it’s a relic from my days on guard duty to tell the truth.” He chuckled a little more.

Azula raised an eyebrow at him. “Your sleeping habits are a relic from your days on guard duty?” She gave him a low grade evil eye. “I certainly hope you don’t intend to rekindle those habits should I assign you to guard duty captain.”

The captain paled a little and bowed his head. “I promise you princess, I shall do my best at to complete every task you assign to me.” He rose and scratched the back of his head. “Heh, in retrospect I probably shouldn’t have told you that huh princess?”

“No you shouldn’t have.” Azula smirked crossing her arms and turning back toward the swamp. “But it is nice to know you’re incapable of lying to me. Now let’s get moving.” And with that the princess lead her team into the dark expanses of the dank swamp. Mai and Ty Lee followed close in toe, Mai went back to reading her book while Ty Lee started admiring the various swamp plants. The captain hummed a bit of a tune and walked a ways behind the three.

The four walked for a good three hours before Ty Lee broke the silence. “So… anyone know where we’re going, exactly?” This caused their merry little band to stop in place, because it caused Azula to stop and think and that caused the other three to stop.

“Hmm… well.” Azula turned to address her team, arms crossed across her chest. “If we’re going to lure the Avatar out by setting this swamp on fire we should look for a wide open area to engage him in.” She looked around, where they were now the trees were too close, if she started lighting things on fire here and ended up in combat things could get difficult. “So Ty Lee think you could pop up a tree and find us a clearing?” Azula smirked a little over at the gymnast who smiled back and was up a tree and out of sight in half a second.

Another half a second she reappeared hanging upside down from a vine, she lowered herself down next to the princess. “It looks like there’s a clearing about half the size of the royal barge’s deck not too far in that direction Azula.”

Azula nodded and Ty Lee flipped down from the vine. The royal barge was huge, even a clearing half the size of its deck should be more than enough space to fight in. At least as long as she was careful not to get her back pressed to something that was on fire. “That should be fine, ladies let’s move out… You too captain.” She hadn’t actually forgotten about him, she just wanted him to think she had. The four kept their formation as they walked.

After the path they followed, which much to Mai’s discomfort had them knee deep in swamp muck, widened Azula began to light the tree top on fire with short quick shots to the top of their trunks, right where the branches first started to grow out. By the time they reached the clearing Ty Lee had seen there was a raging forest fire going on behind them. Azula spun on one heel, and looked back at her team and the raging fire behind them. “Well I think that’ll get their attention.” It was about a minute after that that a large mass of vines wearing what appeared to be a mask made out of bark thundered down the path that the Fire Nation children had come down. The resulting waves of swamp water splashed over the burning trees and extinguished them. The creature loomed over the four youths and Tatsuya spoke. “That’s not the Avatar…”

Author's Note- I wanted chapter two to be titled The Swamp, to try and keep in line with Avatar Book Two Chapters... Tsk yeah right, that would have been one seriously long chapter.
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