The Princess and the Peasant - (An Azula Epic)

Through the World Gateway

Reiko stood with her fists at her hips as she watched the wind sweep through the air once again.

Her audience stared gazed on with shock in their eyes as her pony tail blew gently behind her.

Elle audibly gulped as she trembled in intimidation from where she stood beside her mistress.

As Zoi now slid across the ice with her golden eyes gazing down at her arm in disbelief to see that a faint sheen of frost had started to form on her arm.

She grimaced as she heated up her arm with her firebending as she began to melt the ice from her arm.

And then she turned her astonished eyes back to the emperor's back.

'I can't believe it! I...almost failed to move out of the way in time! We...have to get out of here! We're too exhausted to fight her! We'll die if we remain here...or worse!' Zoi thought with a newfound urgency in her eyes as she jumped down beside her companions.

Azula's amber golden eyes were still wide in disbelief over the difference in power between the monarch and the waterbender that she despised.

Only for her ruthless amber golden eyes to finally recover as she glared back at the older woman just as she turned around to face them.

She still held onto her serving girl's hand with her callous eyes already trying to strategize a way to escape to the gateway.

Reiko now faced the stunned faces of team with her lips already curving back into another sanguine smirk.

And Team Naoki gazed on with astonishment in their eyes.

"Woah! Unreal!" Katsu exclaimed in an awed voice as she gazed on with entranced golden eyes.

Naoki gazed back at the scene with expressionless brown eyes as her crew gazed on in shock behind her.

She had already known that this would be the outcome from the very moment that Elle chose to oppose her.

Andromeda just watched from the sidelines with a disinterested expression in her eyes.

And Victoria simply stood with a proud smile on her lips as Team Azula still gazed back at her leader in disbelief.

"Now you begin to get an idea of what you are up against." Reiko stated in a voice of seemingly endless self-assurance while Azula's amber golden eyes narrowed into ruthless slits.

Her keen blue eyes glanced down at the princess's legs as she took careful note that the younger woman was struggling to even hold herself up on both feet.

"She.... she froze him and shattered him into pieces as if he was made of glass." Ty Lee breathed in a completely terrified voice as her exhausted legs shook underneath her.

Mai also stood stricken into silence with her tawny eyes gazing back at the older woman in ever growing fright.

"Stop being so dramatic, Ty Lee. So, she turned one man into ice. That was nothing. Any waterbender could have done that." Azula snarled with her teeth bared in defiance while Ty Lee shook her head in disagreement.

"No waterbender that I have ever seen could have done that. It almost appeared as if...she created that ice from her chi...like a firebender creates their own fire." Mai insisted as she stood shivering in the arctic winds while her teammates listened in disbelief.

Zoi shook her arm free of the melted ice as she raised her golden eyes to stare stonily back at the emperor's smirking face.

'Can this woman truly create ice from her own chi?' Azula thought with her merciless amber golden eyes staring back at the older woman in calculation.