Morning streamed in through the curtains of a young girl's bedroom. The fifteen year old sat up, her hair poofed out and pushed to one side. With a sigh, she got out of her bed and brushed her hair, combing it so it fell right into place. Tying a mint green ribbon into her hair so it stayed half up half down in a braid, the teenager dressed in her regular attire. Sage green dress, pale yellow neckline and trim. Slipping into her plain gray flats and delicately placing a silver tiara of flowers onto her chestnut brown hair, the girl looked like a princess.
"Off to start the day." She whispered to herself.
The girl walked through the halls of the palace, being so familiar with them she had no reason to look up from the book she was undoubtedly engrossed in. She snuck past many guards and managed to make it to the gardens which were bordered with a stone wall for her protection. She sat against the wall, reading her book peacefully until someone took it from her.
"Whatcha readin', princess?" He asked. The princess looked up and sighed with a smile on her face.
"Can I have my book back, Jet?" She asked. Standing and reaching to grab it, but Jet was sitting in a tree and kept it out of her reach.
"What's this about anyway?" He asked, flipping through the pages.
"The Southern Water Tribe. Since, well, I can't see it myself." She replied, folding her arms across her chest in mild annoyance.
Jet shrugged and tossed it back to her. "I've met a few people from there once. A brother and a sister."
"Really?"
"Yeah. Moving on, how have you been?" Jet said, leaning back just enough so he would be hanging upside down by his legs on a tree branch.
"Been better."
"What's wrong?"
"Long Feng is still trying to find me a suitor." She sighed.
"Rosabella, you can't let him do that to you." Jet said, jumping down from the tree and tilting her head to look at him.
"I don't have a choice, Jet." Rosabella pulled away from his touch. "I have to do this, for my people."
"You would really let yourself be unhappy with a man you don't even love, for you people?" Jet questioned. Rosabella didn't meet his eyes.
"You should go now, Jet. Before the guards catch us talking."
"Fine. But, we're talking about this later." Jet said, before jumping the wall and running away. Rosabella hugged her book to her chest and walked back into the palace. Finding a cozy spot by a window, she sat down in a cushioned chair before reopening the book and reading. Taking a glance out the window, she notices a carriage passing by the palace walls.
A boy in the carriage looked up at the walls, seeing a feminine figure in the window. He looks up as she looks down and can only catch a glimpse of chocolate brown eyes before the carriage moves out of her view. The boy, Sokka, turns back to his friends as his sister, Katara, speaks up.
"What's inside that wall?" She asks. Noticing the giant wall.
Sokka notices some of the Dai Li agents. "And who are the mean-looking guys in robes?"
"Inside is the royal palace. Those men are the agents of the Dai Li, the cultural authority of Ba Sing Se." Joo Dee, the tour guide for their friend group explained. "They are the guardians of all our traditions."
"Can we see the king now?" Aang asked. Aang appears to be, and acts, like a twelve year old boy. Even though he was stuck in an ice burg for one hundred years since he's the Avatar.
Joo Dee laughed. "Oh, no! One doesn't just pop in on the Earth King or the princess."
Sokka shared a look with his friends, they all had the same thought: Since when was there a princess of Ba Sing Se? The carriage stopped outside a nice looking home. With white stone walls and orange tile roof.
"Here we are, your new home." Joo Dee said, smiling annoyingly per usual. A man in a green robe ran towards them and bowed, present Joo Dee with a scroll. She took it from his hands and opened it, reading the printed message inside. "More good news. You request for an audience with the Earth King and the princess is being processed. And should be put through in about a month. Much more quickly than usual." Joo Dee smiled.
"A month?" Sokka repeated, shocked at how long they had to wait before seeing the king.
"Six to eight weeks, actually." Joo Dee corrected with a smile.
Inside their new home, Joo Dee accompanying them of course, Sokka worried if they could see the Earth King and the princess any sooner. He had to know who the princess was, and if she could help them.
"Isn't it nice?" Joo Dee asked them, referring to the home. "I think you'll really enjoy it here."
"I think we'd enjoy it more if we weren't staying so long." Sokka crossed his arms over his chest. "Can't we see the king and princess any sooner?"
"Princess? What princess? The Earth King is very busy running the finest kingdom in the world, but he will see you as soon as time permits." Joo Dee answered his question, acting as if there wasn't a princess of Ba Sing Se. Sokka scowled, knowing something wasn't right in the way Joo Dee neglected the idea of a princess.
"If we're going to be here for a month, we should spend our time looking for Appa." Aang suggested, gaining even Momo's attention.
Joo Dee bowed to Aang. "I'd be happy to escort you anywhere you'd like to go."
"We don't need a babysitter." Toph said, from her spot sitting on a cushion next to Katara. Toph was a twelve year old girl who was blind and had black hair, her bangs covered her silver eyes. She didn't wear any shoes because it would block her feet from being able to feel vibrations.
"Oh, I won't get in the way." Joo Dee insisted, getting in Toph's way after the young girl attempted to walk by. "And to leave you alone would make me a bad host. Where shall we start?"
Princess Rosabella walked through the palace, heading straight for the library. It was like her sanctuary. When she was in there, no one felt the need to bother her for any reason besides a summoning from her father or Long Feng. The teenager searched for a new book to read until someone cleared their throat from behind her. Rosabella turned around to face the person. There stood a member of the Dai Li.
"Princess, I hate to bother you, but tomorrow evening there will be a party for the bear, and of course, to celebrate your fifteenth birthday."
"Bosco?"
"Yes. The King, and Long Feng wish for you to get sleep early tonight." The agent concludes, albeit nervously.
"Of course." Rosabella agrees, returning to her room for sleep.
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For His Princess
Fanfiction" "Let me tell you the tale, of the princess and the warrior" " It all started in Ba Sing Se, when the Gaang was on their way to deliver important news to the Earth King. From books to scrolls, the pricness has studied what she can in order to prep...
