The Princess and the Peasant - (An Azula Epic)

The Former Holder

"Peasant! I said look at me!" Azula barked in a loud voice as she snapped her fingers in her serving girl's face just as her girlfriend finally registered her presence.

"Yes, Azula-sama?" Elle answered in a loyal voice as she turned to meet her mistress's strict gaze while she calmed when she felt the older woman's strong hand grasp her cheek.

As her big sisters also gazed at her in shared concern.

"Are you alright, Elle? What did that girl tell you?" Azula questioned in a possessive voice with her hot breath sweeping against her little girlfriend's trembling cheek.

"Oh! She just told me that she would see me later!" Elle exclaimed in an unconvincing voice while she shivered pleasantly under the older woman's dominant stare.

"Really? Is that all?" Azula pondered in a forceful voice with her well-manicured fingers holding her little handmaid's cheek.

"Mhm. That's all." Elle stated with a sigh when Azula let out another dominant growl as she glared strictly back into her love-struck eyes.

"You are a terrible liar, peasant. In any case it matters not. I will deal with her if she attempts to harm you." Azula declared in a controlling voice as her hand fell back to her side while her serving girl swooned once more.

"O-oh, my princess charming..." Elle trailed off in a gush with her big sister's observing fondly while her mistress smiled at her once more.

"It will be okay, Elle. We'll protect you." Ty Lee assured with a nod while Elle smiled in appreciation.

"Yeah. We will." Mai agreed with a nod of her own while Zoi observed calmly from where she leaned on the wall.

Only for all five of them to turn their heads when the old woman tapped her staff on the floor once again.

"Enough distractions! It is time that we returned to focus, young Component. Whatever happens outside of this tree does not matter. I don't care if the Fire Nation burns to the ground while we speak. So, it shall burn then! All that matters is this talk." Mava announced as she hobbled forward once more with Team Azula listening closely once more.

"So be it, old hag. But you had better be worth our while." Azula spoke in a rude voice with her lifelong friends groaning beside her in renewed embarrassment.

Leave it to Azula to continually disrespect the likely eldest person in their nation!

"Forgive us, Wise Sage! We eagerly await your wisdom!" Elle cried out as she bowed respectfully at the approaching old woman while Azula lazily lounged in her seat with a returning smirk on her lips.

"Your friend may be bloodthirsty, but she was right. You must get in touch with your heritage." Mava stated as she made her way closer while the highborn women listened in growing intrigue.

"Her heritage?" Zoi questioned in a piqued voice as she watched the hunched over sage nod her head.

"I speak of course of the former holder...the one who held the Component before you." Mava explained with a wrinkled finger now pointing down in the young girl's awestruck face.

"How do we find out who the former hold is?" Ty Lee pondered in an amazed voice as she sat with her still healing foot comfortably on the floor.

"Are you inferring to past lives? Like the Avatar Cycle?" Azula asked in a stern voice with her authoritative eyes gazing at the old woman's aged face.

"No. As I said before. The passage of the Component is not like the Avatar Cycle. Each Avatar is a reincarnation of a past Avatar. The current Avatar of today shares a connection with the past lives of all Avatars." Mava instructed in a voice of boundless knowledge while the group listened in fascination.