A/N: I blame Ani DiFranco for this story. She is my favorite artist and if you haven't heard of her, you should look it up, but not if you're under the age of 16. She uses a few strong pieces of the American language here and there, and to prevent myself from rambling about how awesome she is, I will give a heads up about this story.

I believe that love can change people but so can money and power. The character Azula in this series has always interested me, and once I heard the song Pixie by Ani DiFranco, I thought about Azula, the character I had always been fascinated on the kid's cartoon show, and I decided to write a song based fanfiction! Basically Azula gets what she wanted but she craves something else, something someone who hates everyone shouldn't want.

This first chapter is how I imagined the battle scene between Zuko, Katara, and Azula in Sozin's Comet.

I hope you enjoy, please review politely. Thank you so much for reading! Mwah! *blows kisses*

Disclaimer: As much as I wish I was as talented as Ani DiFranco, I do not own her lyrics, her guitar, her voice, or any guitar chords used in the song Pixie by Ani DiFranco. Nor do I own the cartoon show Avatar: The Last Airbender. Wish I owned Zuko though…..

Pixie

Chapter 1: Filthy

"I'm a pixie, I'm a paper doll, I'm a cartoon. I'm a chipper, cheerful free for all, and I light up a room."

Golden almond shaped eyes flickered with crazed excitement as they landed on their targets. The eyes belonged to a beautiful pale girl, her lips an angry dark shade of red and her long black hair that was usually in a neat bun hung in delirious waves and framed her flawless heart shaped face.

She was panting unattractively, but she didn't care about that. For the last 30 minutes, she and her opponents had been battling and she hadn't slept in weeks due to the war and her excitement of finally achieving her dream. She would achieve her dream. She would be The Fire Lady, the heartless Fire Nation leader. No, the heartless ruler or the WORLD! But these two imbeciles she was fighting were trying to keep her from that.

Her eyes darted quickly back and forth between her two opponents. Her scarred idiotic brother and the waterbending peasant SLUT that he was in love with both smugly faced her, thinking that they were wearing her down. And oh, she knew that her brother loved the small waterbending girl, and that he loved her more than he ever even cared about Mai. The girl with the golden eyes knew that she hated the beautiful waterbender. And anyone Azula hated had to be destroyed.

Azula hated that the peasant made her brother strong and she was going to end that sad excuse of a girl's life, just to watch Zuko suffer before he perished himself at the mercy of his own flesh and blood sister.

Azula, her golden eyes twinkling with malice, pulled energy from the recess of her being and concentrated, and the next thing she knew, blue lightning was dancing around her fingertips. Azula took in a deep breath and gathered all the excess energy she could muster, so just in case the lightning didn't turn Zuko's peasant waterbender to ash, Azula wouldn't be too weak.

Azula steadily created more crackling lighting until it pulsed in the air all around her petite body. She smirked when she noticed that Zuko himself was mimicking her and creating his own blast of lightning. "Zuzu, you may want to remove your pretty little whore from the battlefield. She looks too delicate to be damaged, but I doubt you paid much for that trash anyway." Azula commented, her voice dripping with false sweetness. Her cold remark definitely did her job, for she saw her brother's face fill with anger and the color of the lightning around him turned a brighter blue.

The waterbender lifted her arms and in a few rapid moments, the air was filled with what looked like hundreds of water spikes. Azula's eyebrow twitched with annoyance. She should have not fired so many servants and if she had been prepared and had been expecting them, she would have had all the fountains and sewers emptied out. The waterbender basically had an endless supply! Azula chastised herself for her mistake but then she realized she had to focus. She would take them both down in the quickest and most painful way possible.

"Katara." Zuko said, ruining the tense stillness of the empty palace grounds that the three were in. The waterbender glanced at him out of the corner of her eye in acknowledgement, for she didn't want to pull her eyes away from Azula because she knew Azula fought dirty and Azula would attack.

"I need to do this myself. She's my sister, and I am the one who will be the Fire Lord. So, I need to be the one that defeats her. Just in case something goes wrong, please defeat her. She cannot rule. She would cause the demise of all the Fire Nation and the innocent people in it." Zuko stated, never turning to face Katara.

Katara's sky blue eyes widened in shock and a hint of fear glistened in them but she nodded and her ice spikes instantly melted and fell to form a puddle on the ground.

Suddenly, an insane peal of laughter rang out from Azula's throat and the lightning around her begin to crackle and it whirled all around her body in a quick circle. "Nice speech, Zuzu, but you forgot two things. One, you cannot defeat me and neither can your tramp and the other thing you forgot dear brother…. is to tell her you love her." Azula choked out between her frightening giggles.

She saw Katara look at Zuko in shock and he turned his head to look her. "I love you, Katara." Zuko whispered and Katara said it back, immediately and with tears streaming down her face she took a few steps back from him as the lightning around him turned an even brighter color. Azula's smirk vanished. She had been expecting a dramatic scene, where both of them realized that they had been lying to themselves but that was not what she got. Azula gritted her teeth together. She should have known that something had gone on between them on the trip there. That was the only answer.

But Azula was not one to be outdone.

"I'm glad you told her, Zuzu. But didn't you tell Mai that you loved her too? Hm... Well anyways…" Azula said offhandedly. "It'll be the last words you'll ever hear her say!" Azula screeched and the lighting around her flowed into her hands.

"RUN KATARA!" Zuko commanded and Katara obeyed.

Zuko shot a bolt of lightning at his sister and she easily dodged it and ran at her brother. He shot another bolt of lightning at her and she nimbly ran around it to the right. Zuko thought she was preparing to attack him and raised his arms to block her. But instead of attacking him, she jumped over his arms and one foot landed harshly on the top his head and then the pressure was gone and Azula was running across the roof.

It was enough to make Zuko lose his balance and he toppled over, landing on his face. He realized what Azula was doing and he quickly scrambled to his feet and began to follow her on the ground.

"Leave her alone, Azula! Your fight is with me!" Zuko yelled up at her and she laughed bitterly. "My fight is with everyone you truly love, Zuzu, and you love her the most. She's level with Uncle, isn't she?" Azula questioned and when she received no response, she knew that she was right.

Lightning flew up right past Azula's face and she took a step back, surprised. When she looked down, she saw that Zuko was preparing to use firebending to propel himself to the roof. Azula saw that the waterbender was tired and was leaning against a statue, thinking that she was hidden. Azula took a running leap off the roof and landed directly in front of the girl. Before she could move, Azula grabbed her upper arms and slammed her so hard against the statue that it shook, and little pebbles flew off of it. Katara let out a cry of pain and raised her knee and kicked Azula in the chest.

Azula flew backwards and slammed into a pillar. She saw that the waterbender had a water whip spinning back and forth between her hands, resembling a snake preparing to strike.

Azula knew better than to charge at her, she didn't want a black eye at her crowning ceremony. She saw that the girl supposedly named Katara was taking careful slow steps away from her and Azula took careful steps forward until the two were back where they started, in the middle of the square.

"I tire of these games, girl." Azula spat and Katara smiled. "I was just stalling you." Katara shrugged and Azula's eyes widened as she realized she had been so focused on the girl that she had forgotten about Zuko. She turned around just as he let out a yell and flew down from the roof towards her, his fist raised and charged with blue lightning. Azula knew she couldn't let him make contact and she raised her hand a stream of lightning flew out of her palm and connected with Zuko's stomach.

The blast tossed him backwards and onto the ground where he rolled over and gasped, his hand putting pressure on his burnt stomach as he cringed in agony.

"ZUKO!" Katara screamed and dashed towards him, her hands covered in glowing water. But Azula's mouth watered at the opportunity to get rid of her and she gathered all the lightning she had in her to make one powerful shot. If it hit, it killed. Zuko was merely injured and would live. But Katara was a different story….

"Get away!" Zuko croaked at the girl he loved, stretching his hand out towards her. "I can help! I love you, Zuko." Katara cried out as she neared him, tears streaming from her face.

Azula realized that she was hidden behind Katara's fluid body in Zuko's line of vision and without an ounce of remorse, without a second thought she raised her hand and the loudest most terrifying color of blue lit up the sky.

The world seemed to move in slow motion for Azula and her own heartbeat echoed in her ears as she watched the girl she hated she most lose her life… and it was all because of Azula.

Azula saw Zuko lips form the word "NNNNOOO!" His pale hand was reaching, reaching out for his love. But she couldn't hear his pitiful feminine cries over the roaring of blood in her ears. And she watched the tormented expression on his face with pleasure.

Azula slowly lowered her hand as she watched Katara's slim, curvy body convulse. The peasant girl's mouth was open in a permanent scream of unbearable pain and true horror. But still, Azula could not hear her over the steady drumming of her own exhilarated heart.

After what seemed like hours of watching the waterbender die and watching her brother's despaired face, Azula's hearing returned. She heard the poor waterbender's screams. The girl had a very husky, alluring voice when she was talking but when she was screaming… Her voice was shrill and it made Azula's skin crawl.

Suddenly the golden eyed girl felt nauseous. She did not know why and she could not explain it but the sight of Katara's flesh burning made her feel something.

You could call it a moment of sanity, call it a moment of regret but as the waterbender collapsed to the ground finally, her voice permanently silent and her mouth frozen in an 'O', the moment was gone.

Azula's eyes focused on her brother whose adrenaline must have been pumping because he was on his feet and charging at her, despite his crippling injury.

Azula, although not prepared for the attack, handled it like she always would and with a swift kick to the jaw, Zuko was down.

"Sorry about your prostitute, Zuzu. How about I buy you another? She wasn't all that pretty anyway. And you know that firebenders don't feel love! Just pleasure, my dear brother." Azula taunted, leaning over her brother like she had done when they were younger after she had beaten him up.

Zuko let out a furious growl and Azula felt something in her chest again. Almost like an emotion.

She squashed the idea and told herself it was just because she was tired.

"Goodnight." Azula said and she punched Zuko in his burned stomach so hard that he became unconscious.

Once she was sure he was really unconscious, Azula walked over and stood over the low class waterbender and murmured:

"Filthy."

A/N: So, that's how this story starts. I know, I know, Katara died and Zuko got his ass kicked… for now. I'm sorry if this is a cliffhanger. Review politely please and let me know what you think. Thanks so much for reading. And it will get better, I promise!