The Princess and the Peasant - (An Azula Epic)

The Path in the Mystic Fire

Elle stared ahead with uncharacteristic anger in her amber eyes as she squeezed her fists at her hips while her shocked friends still stood supportively behind her.

As the highborn women turned to the old sage in still present horror.

"H-he took half of the Component...w-what...what now? What...do we do now?" Elle inquired as she asked what was on everyone else's mind.

Azula's amber golden eyes still bubbled over as she seethed with fire snorting from her furious nostrils.

"You are going to take it back, child...and until you do. You and your friends will not be able to defeat the Elder One...even if you find the Forge. You simply will not possess the stamina required to cleave your way it its core. And that means...if it awakens before you find and defeat your brother...all will be lost." Mava spoke in a momentous voice that had all five younger girls staring on in horror like never before.

"And the gateway...is now...closed." Zoi stated in a soft voice with her golden eyes wide in alarm and outrage.

"Why didn't you tell us this before, old woman!" Azula boomed as her flames spewed from her mouth while her subordinates stepped back in fright.

"Because I didn't know! I have spent over one hundred and fifty years trying to interpret these visions! And I doubt that you would have done any better!" Mava shouted with her staff angrily clutched in and while the team listened with astonished looks in their eyes.

The four highborn women exchanged a frightful look as they realized that must mean...

That Silah was of a similar age!

That meant that both Mava and Silah were far older than that of even Lo and Li!

But the age of their ally and their puppeteer enemy did not matter right now.

Just as the team noticed Elle sink to her knees in an overwhelmed emotion.

"We'll...we'll get it back Elle. Won't we, Azula?" Ty Lee asked as she reached out to touch the younger girl's shoulder.

"Of course, we will, Ty Lee. And when we do, he will die screaming in my flames for this." Azula snarled with her amber golden eyes glaring down at her serving girl's distressed face.

"He...he was willing to take the chance that...that I would die." Elle swallowed with her fists clenching at her sides while her companions listened in anger over her.

"And that is not all. There is more." Mava stated in a grave undertone while the group turned to her with disbelief in their wary eyes.

"What else is there?" Azula demanded with absolute anger in her regal voice while she glared on murderously.

Only for her amber golden eyes to narrow as she turned back to the mystic flames.

The three noblewomen and their young friend gazed on with anticipation in their eyes to see a great many faces forming in the flames.

"Despite the gravity of your situation...your path in the flames has become much clearer." Mava began with her hands grasping her staff while the team listened into confusion behind her.

They watched with bewilderment in their eyes as the first faces begin to take shape.

Only for their eyes to widen when they saw Naoki being pulled out of the rubble by a panicked Katsu and Kane.

And standing above them was Reiko!

"You have been defeated, Naoki. I have done what Princess Azula and her captain were unable to do. And now I will ask you one more time. Will you accept my terms and become my apprentice?" Reiko asked in a conceited voice with her arms crossed over her breasts.