Chapter One
(Prologue)
A fire nation ship is cutting through the ice trying to reach Fire Nation waters and take the princess Azula, back home to the fire nation. Azula is five years old and is accompanied by Shayna, a twenty five year old firebender who has been tasked to protect the princess. Shayna has been like a mother to azula all her life, more so than her real mother who disappeared and is presumed dead after Azula was born.
"A prodigy",
Shayna whispers while watching the five year old firebending princess defeat one of the guards.
"She certainly is,"
the captain of the ship says, also watching the young firebender.
"She will definitely make our nation proud when she becomes the firelady".
Azula runs up to Shayna with a smug smile on her face,
"did you see me Shayna, I defeated him".
"You certainly did Azula, well done".
Shayna said, and Azula's smug smile turned into a wide smile of pride. That smile turned into a look off alarm when the ship started rocking and shaking, and their where yells coming from the deck.
"What is going on up there,"
Shayna yelled while running upstairs to the deck, while Azula followed. "There is a storm coming", a crewman yelled.
There were waves crashing into the side off the deck, crewman were flying over board, it was awful.
"Shayna, get Azula downstairs and protect her", the captain yelled, and made his way to the control room. Shayna grabbed Azula and ran down the hall to her sleeping quarters.
"What is going on Shayna, are we going to be ok", Azula asked, looking very scared.
"Were going to be ok Azula, I will protect you, I promise".
Thirty minutes later the captain ran into the room, "Shayna you and Azula need to get into the lifeboat and get out of here".
"But there is only one," Shayna tells him,
"I know, there is no one else, just me and two other crewman, and the captain goes down with the ship".
Shayna nods, knowing that he is right. The captain kneels down in front off Azula.
"Azula, you and Shayna are going in the lifeboat, and you are going to get to safety. Remember what me and Shayna have taught you".
Azula nods while looking at the ground with tears in her eyes. No the captain was not her father or her brother, but he did teach her a lot of what she new. The captain stands up and hands Azula a dagger, a present he was going to give her when they got back home. Azula carefully took the weapon in her hands gazing at it in awe and wonder. "Thank you".
" You are welcome Azula".
The captain ran both of them to the lifeboat. Shayna got Azula in the boat and settled her into the seat. When azula was in the seat Shayna turned to the captain with tears in her eyes, and launched herself into his arms. "Goodbye, Brother", Shayna says trying to hold back her tears. "Goodbye, Shayna".
Once Shayna is out of her brothers arms, she sat down next to Azula. The captain sent the boat down into the water. Shayna could not watch, so she drove the boat away from the sinking ship. Twenty minutes into their journey, the storm had not let up and a huge wave was moving fast towards the boat.
"Azula, you need to hold on and don't let go," Shayna told her.
Before Azula could grab onto the rail, the wave smashed right into the boat and everything went black.