The Princess and the Peasant - (An Azula Epic)

A Will of Her Own

The alarm sounded off throughout the vast fortress.

While the blinking red lights continued to flash ominously in the chaos filled halls.

Just as two gloved hands pushed open a pair of doors that slid open with a metallic groan.

And then Naoki stepped foot into the chamber with her machinelike brown eyes now gazing back at the far side of the hall.

Only for her lips to pull into an even larger smirk over what she saw.

Standing on the other side of the chamber was none other than Reynolds.

The large man stared back with utterly ruthless blue eyes while the young supersoldier just smirked goadingly back at him.

The two stared at one another for a passing moment while the crimson light flickered above them.

Their faces were accentuated with a red hue that only served to amplify the look of uncontrolled rage on the colonel's face.

The man clenched his jaw while the prodigy released an entertained laugh before he roared at the top of his vocal cords.

And then the fearsome commander opened fire on the smiling supersoldier while his yells echoed throughout the nearby halls.

Mai and Ty Lee sat in the chamber as they reeled for air with their eyes still wide in uncharacteristic fright.

They had held their breath for as long as they could while toxic gas began to blow into the room from the overhead vents.

In reality it had only been about a minute.

But it had felt like an eternity.

And they had been certain that they were going to die.

Only to find themselves gazing up in bewilderment when the gas abruptly shut off.

And the vents immediately began to cleanse the air of the poisonous gas.

"We're...we're alive." Ty Lee stated in a rasping voice with her brown-gray eyes almost tearing up in relief while Mai panted across from her.

"Someone...stopped the execution." Mai coughed in a relieved voice while she gazed around with still startled tawny eyes.

Not even a minute after the woman had stepped away from Azula's cell door.

Azula's amber golden eyes spun towards the door when she heard the door being unlocked from the other side.

And then her curled into a gratified smirk when she found herself gazing back at the woman from before.

She watched the aide wordlessly stride across the distance of her cell to release her from her bonds with a small briefcase in hand.

"As I said..." Azula trailed off in a smooth voice while her merciless amber golden eyes tried to hide any indication that she had any doubt that the woman would return.

"Don't get too overconfident. I have yet to set you free." Cynthia stated flatly as she approached the princess while the woman glared at her through the corner of her eye.

She couldn't deny that the woman had an imposing presence.

Even when she was bound in chains and unable to move the strange princess possessed an ominous aura of intimidation.

"What of my subordinates?" Azula questioned in a callous voice as she took pleasure in how her frigid gaze made the woman sweat.

"They are alive. I shut off the lethal gas before I came to speak with you." Cynthia assured in a hurried voice while the princess's eyes stare lessened in harshness marginally.