The Princess and the Peasant - (An Azula Epic)

The Sadistic Scientist and the Emerald Bomber

The heavy metal doors opened up with a screeching metal creak while a blaze of intense flame lit the pathway ahead.

Just as the team burst through the doors with their weary eyes gazing ahead.

"I...I hope that there weren't any more prisoners trapped inside." Elle stated as she panted for air while she gazed forward with worried amber eyes.

Her highborn friends hurried out alongside her.

Only to find herself instinctively jumping when her princess's voice rang out in her ears.

"Enough about that servant! Focus on the task at hand." Azula barked in an overbearing voice with her strict amber golden eyes staring harshly down at her serving girl's speedily nodding face.

She once more took great delight in how the younger girl so quickly submitted to her command.

"Y-yes, Princess." Elle squeaked in an obedient voice while her princess now smiled down at her in approval.

Mai and Ty Lee suppressed a sigh behind her.

And Zoi wordlessly stepped ahead of the group with her stony golden eyes surveying the area.

"Azula is right, Elle. I am sure that was all of them." Ty Lee assured in a sisterly voice while she offered the younger girl a comforting smile.

In truth she wasn't so sure of that.

But she knew that Elle had been through enough for one day.

And that there was no sense in making the poor girl worry any more than she already has.

"I can only presume that the way out is through this tunnel. Judging by the chill that is blowing through the air." Zoi remarked as she marched on with her elbow covering her face while her companions shivered as they felt the temperature change.

"Ugh! Let's just get back to the gateway already. I hate this country!" Azula growled as she stomped through the increasingly cold tunnel while her servant scampered after her.

"The sooner we do that the better." Mai complained with a scowl on her lips as she held her arms to her chest in an effort to stay warm under her coat.

And with that the two firebenders cleared the flames that were obstructing the passageway.

The team trudged to the end of the smoking escape tunnel as they all shivered when they felt the air become progressively colder.

Before the five girls came to a stop to find themselves gazing up at a long ladder that led to an unknown location above ground.

"Up there." Zoi stated in a composed voice as she began to climb the ladder while her comrades followed after her.

"Stay behind me, Elle." Azula ordered in a domineering voice with her possessive amber golden eyes turning to glance back at her young girlfriend's exhausted face.

"Wakarimashita, Azula-sama." Elle replied in a mousy voice while she scrambled after the much taller woman.

Just before the princess began to climb the ladder with her cold eyes gazing up above.

As her servant girl timidly ascended below her with her two childhood friends being the last to follow.

Elle climbed the ladder as she gazed up through the hazy tunnel with the princess advancing above her.

And then about one minute later an escape latch was shoved open by the captain's hand.

While the Fire Nation women and their young friend quickly emerged from the tunnel only to find themselves savagely assaulted by a wave of frigid air.