Hello everyone. I'm both excited and nervous. This is my first fan fiction. I've been reading fan fiction for years and I've just recently decided to write my own. I decided to start with something that got me into fan fiction: the pairing of Azula and Ty Lee from Avatar: The Last Airbender, or as the pairing is more commonly known, Tyzula.

So a few notes about this story before I start:

1) This story is actually inspired by a Tyzula fan fiction I read a long time ago here on . It got started but never finished, and has since gone missing. Because I like the premise of the story and how it fills the character roles, I've decided to do my own version of the story. I would like to give credit to the original writer for the idea, and say that I am in no way copying your story. I'm doing like TDDolphin has done and writing my own version of it. Please don't kill me.

2) This is a Crossover between Avatar: The Last Airbender and Beauty and the Beast. The latter of the crossover is inspired mostly by the Disney version, but it will have some of the elements from the classic Grimm Fairy Tale in it.

3) This is an Azula Redemption story as well as a Tyzula story(the two together are my favorite kind of Tyzula stories). This story has no way to do with the canon of the ATLA universe or the plot of the original series. Elements and specifics will be used for the story, but somethings will be different. Hope you are all ok with that.

Well, enough talk. Let's get right to it!

Prologue:

Once upon a time the world was divided into four nations: The Air Nomads, The Water Tribes, The Earth Kingdom, and the most prosperous of them all, the Fire Nation. And although the other kingdoms were much larger, it was the Fire Nation that brought advancement to the world. The Fire Nation was known for many things: advancement in machine industry and military strength, the Capital which rested within the remains of a sleeping volcano, but nothing was so greater known in the Fire Nation than its long line of rulers.

The lineage of the royal family was a long and complicated one. The Fire Nation was ruled either by a Fire Lord or Fire Lady, a being who surpassed all others in everything. Some ruled with kindness, others with force. Some obtain the throne through right of passage, others through deception and betrayal.

Long ago, a young brother of the rightful heir to the throne despicably usurped the throne from his brother, after the oldest had lost his only son in battle. As a result of the deception, the Fire Nation was thrown into civil war and divided the many islands of the Nation. The Nation's Capital, Caldera, remained the stronghold of the war as it was home to the Fire Lord's royal family.

In order to assure the his reign was law, the Fire Lord searched the globe for a suitable wife and forced her to marry him. They conceived their first born, a son, but time revealed that he would never be a worthy heir in the eyes of the Fire Lord. Their second child, a daughter, was a different story. The child's fire was blue, a mark of a prodigy in the royal bloodline. The Fire Lord has his heir, and he named her Azula.

From the moment she could crawl, the princess's life was taken away from her. She endured endless hours of education, firebending training, and intermediate tutoring from her father's royal council. The girl was a true prodigy, showing grand marks in politics and military strategy. Her blue fire grew brighter and hotter the more she practice, until she became a fire bending master. The princess had become more than a prodigy, she had become a weapon.

However, despite having everything she could ever want, the princess grew to be cold, hateful, selfish, spoiled, and unkind. She emulated her father the more time she spent with her, until she had a heart as cold as his. What's more, the girl's mother – who abandoned her family when the girl was very young – had shown fear towards the princess for emulating her father, and showed favoritism towards the prince. As a result from her neglect and abandonment, the princess never learned what true love was. He would never know happiness.

By the time she was 14, the princess had been declared the rightful heir to the throne, and joined her father's royal council. At this point, the civil war had reached its peak, and many of the Fire Nation's citizens had abandon their homes and left for the other three nation, tired of the Fire Lord's rule. The princess developed a plan to end the civil war through brutality. Her father, however, stole her plans and presented them to his council before her; casting her aside like she was nothing. Hurt, the princess challenged her father to an ancient duel known as an Agni-Ki, with the winner becoming the ruler of the Fire Nation.

On the day of the battle, the princess expected the Fire Lord to hold back, but her proved to be as ruthless to her as he was to anyone else who challenged him. It was clear to the Princess: her father was afraid of her, just like her mother and everyone else who came to know her. With a cold heart, the princess killed her father in cold blood. With the throne now hers, the princess united the nation and ended the civil war. But she wanted more.

Empty inside, the princess announce war on those who had abandoned the Fire Nation, thus declaring war on the other three nation for harboring their citizens during the civil war. The Princess believed that this would bring her happiness and peace she had been deprived off.

One night, on the night of a lightning storm, the Princess received a visit from a elderly man. The old man told that he had heard of the Princess's plan and had come to persuader to stop while she still had time. In exchange for sparring the Fire Nation and the peace of the world, he offered her a single white lotus. The princess laughed at the old man and sneered at the gift, turning him away. But he warned her not to be deceived by her ambitions, for true happiness was found through love and by the love from others.

The princess turned him away, and the beggar's form melted away to reveal Agni, the god of Fire and Light. Scared and frightened, the princess's instincts told her to fight, and she engaged Agni in battle. The two engaged in an Agni-Ki that lasted long and destroy most of the Capital in the process. The princess was a prodigy, but she was no match for Agni himself.

The princess was defeated, and in an effort to save herself from destruction begged for forgiveness. But it was too late. For Agni had seen that their was no love in her heart. As punishment, Agni used his power to transform the princess into a hideous monster, and placed a spell on the capital and all who remained within it. Before he left, Agni left her with a magic mirror as the princess's only window into the world outside the Capital. Ashamed of her horrid appearance, the princess concealed herself with her Castle.

The lotus Agni had offered her was truly an enchanted lotus. It would bloom and will until the princess's 21st birthday. If the princess could learn to love and be loved in return before the last petal fell, she and everyone within the capital would be free of the curse. If not, she would be doomed to remain a hideous monster for all time.

As the years passed, the princess fell into despair and lost all hope.

For who could ever learn to love a monster?