The Broken Princess: A TyZula Fanfiction

Chapter 1: The Letter

"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN?"

"Azula you know you can't just go off and do what you want yet, you were literally released 4 months ago." Zuko replies calmly.

"THAT'S LONG ENOUGH FOR ME TO BE ALLOWED TO LEAVE. YOU WONT EVEN LET ME GO FOR A DAMN WALK."

"Azula I- "

"Look. I just want to see Mai and Ty Lee. You can even have me escorted."

"I can't let that happen. Not after how you reacted when they visited you there."

"I was- "
"NO! You're a danger to them."

"Can I at least leave my room for more than just food? Maybe a walk on the Palace grounds?"

"You know I can't let you. The doctor said- "

"OH, FOR FUCKS SAKE, I DON'T CARE WHAT THE DOCTOR SAID. SURELY IT WOULD BE HEALTHIER FOR ME TO GO FOR A- "Azula stops herself after realising she had unconsciously thrown something at her mirror across the room. She takes one look at the damage before realising that she had thrown the gift Ty Lee made for her before everything went wrong.

"Get out... please"

Zuko takes the hint but before he shuts the door, he tells Azula with fear and concern in his voice "I have a meeting with your doctor in about an hour. I'm leaving now and will return in around 5 hours. I will discuss giving you more freedom in the Palace grounds and the possibility of- "

"I thought I said get out"

And with that Zuko leaves and Azula quickly cleans up the broken shards of mirror being careful to not also pick up the broken pieces of Ty Lees gift. She sits at her desk and pulls out the paper that she had been writing on. She reads back on what she had already written.

"My brother once told me that a well written story is told from the beginning. I am convinced that Uncle Iroh told him that first, but I suppose it is correct. This letter is for everyone I care for so whoever finds this first either pass it on to Zuko, Mai or Ty Lee or make sure the others read it as soon as you can get it to them. And then when you are finished, either burn it or use it as part of my biography or whatever. This is my true-life story. I won't lie in this no matter how much I want to. I swear on everything I hold dear.

As a child I was raised strictly by father. He wanted me to be the best Fire bender in the nation. In fact, he wanted me to be the best bender in general, so I had harsh training sessions every day. They consisted of techniques, martial arts etc. And since father deemed it necessary, I was to learn whilst doing. He ordered his best soldier to fight me with all his power after showing me everything once in a 2-hour session. I had no practice and was thrown straight into it. Training lasted hours at a time until I was able to fight well enough. And then the sessions would last as long as it took me to beat him twice. Suddenly my sessions were changed. I was supposed to train on my own on weekdays for maybe an hour or two and on weekends I was to train with the soldier for 8 hours with only 1 break for lunch and 5 minutes between each fight... unless I lost then it was two. These session changes happened only because father decided it was time for me to go to an official school rather than being home schooled.

When I first arrived at school, I was afraid? No more like... extremely against the idea because I didn't want to go there and only have people talk to me because I'm the crown princess... and also because I was afraid that nobody would like me or I wouldn't be good enough. On the first day I met Mai she was the same age as Zuko, and she was the one who showed us around. It was clear that she had a little crush on Zuko instantly even though she showed almost no emotion. Then Zuko was taken away by someone who I assume was a teacher and I was left with Mai. It was kind of awkward at first because of the two-year age gap but somehow, we got along quite well even though we didn't say too much to each other. That day I didn't go to any classes and instead had to meet with teachers and learn the layout and rules of the school.