Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed, two...
I woke only to be in the courtyard of the palace. But something was wrong. The left side was on fire while the right side was fine. Suddenly fog appeared and blocked my view. Once the fog cleared up I saw two people... My mother and father.
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(No ones pov) "Daughter," The voice was one she knew well. Spinning about Azula tried to push aside the curtain of rain to find her father.
"Why are you here?"
"I don't know," Azula stammered through chattering teeth.
"You do. It's because you have failed me," Ozai sighed, "otherwise you wouldn't be here."
"I haven't failed you," Azula protested, "I have done everything you have asked of me. I have done it all. Please, I haven't failed you!"
"Don't grovel. You have and you know it!" Ozai snapped.
"Father," Azula trembled.
"Ozai, enough." Ursa interjected.
"Now she speaks! Now she appears!" The Fire lord spat.
"She is a child!"
"She was never a child to you!" Ozai hissed,
"She was never yours to begin with! You gave her to me!"
"I gave you nothing! You stole her from me the moment I held her," Ursa's voice quivered.
"You made her what she is."
"A monster," Azula mumbled.
"Yes, child, your mother believes you're a monster," Ozai crowed.
"But I am the one who corrupted you. The one who stole you. No, she gave you away."
"I did nothing of the sort!"
"You did!"
"I love her. That's more than you can say. I have always loved her. I only hate what you did to her. What future you stole from her," there was a fire to Ursa's voice.
"Stop!" Azula could barely hear herself amidst their bickering, "Stop it. Please, no more. No more of this!"
"Listen to me child," Ozai begged, "you know what I have done for you. What she neglected you for. For that boy who you call brother."
"Enough!"Azula's voice rang out like a gunshot.
"Please. I don't want this. I have never wanted this!Neither of you have asked me how I feel. You fight these battles on my behalf and I have no voice over your thundering words!"
"You were never meant to," Ursa sighed, "You were always meant to follow. Me or him."
"I am a leader."
"You were never a leader child,"
Ozai snorted, "you followed orders. My orders! You built yourself a palace that came crumbling down on its own. You built an illusion about yourself. Twisted your own perception. You were never a leader-never in control to begin with, even if you killed the Avatar, you aren't a leader."
"Neither of you love me," Azula whimpered, "I know that now. You love the idea of me. That's all you've ever cared for. What I could be-not who I am. Now, because of you, I am nobody. I have never been anybody."
"Azula-"
"No! You listen to me Mother!" Lightning arched across the sky reflecting a violent and shattered gleam in Azula's eyes. Her emotions came tumbling in like tidal waves from out of the blue, "I am nobody. I have nothing, no love, no home, no family, and the only company for me is with my demons!"
"You have everything I have given you. What could you want aside from that?" Ozai asked.
"I want nothing more than to die. I want to live in silence for the rest of my life away from you. Away from this family you have created. I want to waste away. To sleep until there's nothing or leap from the balcony and feel what's it's like to fly before I break. I love death more than I love myself," the princess' tears feel.
"I can't be fixed. I-I close my eyes and I see you or mother. Your memories, the ones you gave me, won't leave. You have damaged me in ways I can't fix. No matter how badly I want to be someone. Someone I get to create I can't do it. I cannot escape my past no matter how far away I run."
"Darling," Ursa's voice was soft, "please don't talk like that."
"Oh shut up," Ozai sneered, "you can't win her now. She doesn't love us anyways so there's no hope left in your fight. At least her duty to me holds her in place."
"He's wrong. I love you," Azula croaked,
"but I hate you so much. I hate you because you left me to love a monster instead. To love a man I call father."
"I never meant to hurt you," Ursa replied.
"But you did. You both did! And this life you want me to choose-I can't. I can't pretend nothing happened mother, but I can't return to the person you made me father. So I choose nothing. I choose this. Forever if I have to," Azula spoke firmly, turning her face up to the rain, "and I will only leave when I have reason to. When I know that I have a chance. A chance at real life. A chance to stop hurting and wishing I was never born to begin with."
"Ah! The only real life you wish for is with that circus freak! You will never be free me," Ozai spated.
"Ozai that's enough!" Ursa shouted.
"But our daughter is in love with a disgrace of a noble!"
"ENOUGH!" Azula shouted!
Something in Azula snapped as she felt a strength she never knew. Her eyes started to glow white like that of the Avatar State. She started levitating. She summoned to blue flames in her hands.
"I'VE HAD IT WITH YOU TWO, I REALIZE WHO I AM! I AM AZULA TEN! AND I WON'T BE YOUR TOOL ANYMORE!" Said the angry Azula.
Suddenly Ursa disintegrated in ash and flew into the sky.
Now it was father versus daughter.
Azula shot flames into her father but he deflected it. Ozai was a great fighter and could win easily. But Azula was in some kind of Avatar State and started to gain the up hand.
Suddenly Ozai shot lightning into Azula. Azula realize she was finished. It reminded Azula when she killed Aang while he was in the Avatar State. Suddenly someone jumped in front of her... Ty Lee.
Azula was now enraged. With all her power she shot lighting into her fathers chest... he feel to his knees. He disintegrated into ash flew away in the spiritual sky.
