The Princess and the Peasant - (An Azula Epic)

On the Other Side

The highborn girls gradually opened their eyes to find themselves gazing on in alarm to see that they were in the back of a vehicle.

One unlike the which that they have ever seen.

And most infuriating of all, was that they could barely move!

It was if their bodies had been...chi blocked!

And their wrists and ankles...were in shackles!

The princess spun around with her furious eyes sweeping about to find herself behind a steel cage in the corner of the armored car.

Across from her was her captain seated in a similar cage.

Zoi gazed back at her with alert golden eyes while the angered noblewoman tried to sit up only to find that her body had been...numbed.

"I can't move...my body." Azula snarled with her teeth clenched together while her enraged eyes rapidly glanced about the car.

Before she stared out from the back of the car to find herself facing her three companions also in restraints sitting on benches outside of her cage.

Her amber golden eyes narrowed dangerously when she saw her young girlfriend passed out beside Ty Lee.

With her frigid eyes already burning with fury as she silently scanned the sleeping girl's face for any sign of injury.

Mai and Ty Lee sat in their seats with looks of anger in their eyes as they quietly listened to the sound of the military vehicle driving through the snow.

"They disabled our chi." Zoi spoke with frustration lacing her stony voice while she gazed out at her companions faces.

And if the cages that they placed herself and the princess in were anything to go by.

The soldiers had correctly deduced who could and could not bend.

"I'm...I'm sorry, Azula. This is all my fault." Ty Lee muttered as she gazed down into her lap while Azula sat glaring daggers out of her cage.

"Is the girl unharmed?" Azula asked in a hardened voice with her cold eyes staring back at Elle's dozing face.

"She's okay, Azula. Although I have a suspicion that none of us will be if we don't figure something out quickly." Mai remarked in a low voice with a scowl on her lips while Azula seethed with her lips pursed into a regal glower.

They listened to the sound of the strange vehicle rolling through the cold ground.

As they gazed back at one another with alerts looks in their eyes as they tried to think of a way to escape their bonds.

"When we get out of here...I don't want to hear one word about mercy!" Azula snapped with her cold eyes glaring ahead while her two childhood friends flinched as they quietly nodded in understanding.

And then in that very moment the older girls heard their young friend beginning to stir in her seat.

They all turned to gaze in Elle's direction with concern in their eyes while the handmaid came to.

"Are you alright, Elle?" Ty Lee asked in a tender voice as she gazed down at the younger girl's face from where the serving girl sat beside her.

Only for Elle's amber eyes to immediately fill up with unhidden worry as she peered back up at the taller woman.

"They...they took my backpack, but otherwise I am okay. They didn't hurt you did they, oneesan?" Elle pondered in a fretful voice as her lip curled up while Ty Lee managed to crack a loving smile.