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A New Era

Chapter One

Jailbreak

The sun was setting over the edge of the volcano. Just as that happened, the moon revealed itself from behind a cloud.

Tonight's the night, thought ex- Fire Lord Azula as she looked up at the moon. To think, I never would have thought I'd get stuck in the Boiling Rock. I always thought that it would be Zuko in here. Ah well, no matter, I'll be escaping tonight.

The bell rang over the prison yard. "Everyone back into their cells!" shouted a sentry from the wall overlooking the yard. Azula grinned. I won't be going back in my cell.

Her plan of escape was quite simple. In fact, it wasn't even originally her idea. It had been the warrior Sokka's idea to escape in one of the coolers. Since that escape failed a few months ago, the guards and the warden had forgotten all about it.

It was perfect. Azula would get in line to go back to her cell, but instead of actually entering her cell, she would dash out of line and use firebending to attack her cell neighbor, whom she hated because he would always talk about how Azula failed through the window on the door. It drove Azula insane, and there were a few times where she had already been in the cooler for attacking her neighbor.

Tonight's different. Next to hurting my hated enemy in this dump, I'll also escape tonight. And as they filed through the prison to their cells, Azula let out a high-pitched screech. It was supposed to be a laugh, but nobody who heard it would have thought so.

Next thing the guards knew, she was in the air launching a blue fireball at her cell neighbor. The man cowered in fear. He probably was burned badly, but Azula never had the time to look, because as soon as she landed, guards were all over her.

"You're crazy!" said one female guard.

"Take her to the coolers!" shouted a man that was approaching him. It was the warden. He had a special hatred for Azula because so did his niece, Mai.

And so, Azula's escape plan had begun. She was dragged through the Boiling Rock Prison to the outer wall, where the coolers were. Two guards threw her inside and slammed both doors shut.

Time for my hard work to pay off, thought Azula, as she remembered how she had gotten all the screws and bolts holding the cooler out. With that final thought, she placed a few kicks in the side of the cooler, and it popped right out of the wall, and she slid down the slope to the beach of the boiling lake.

She gave the cooler a mighty push, and she was off. Nobody would ever see her floating in the lake to safety. The moon was covered by the clouds once again, and it was pitch black. She only realized that she had reached the other side when the cooler groaned and stopped moving.

She leaped up and out to freedom. Now I just have to get off the island. Time to put my practice to good use. Azula had been practicing raising her stamina privately in her cell. This way, she would be able to firebend for much longer periods of time. That meant that she could now use her firebending to propel through the air to the nearest piece of land. There, she would lie low for awhile while she figured out what do to next.

Azula took three deep breaths, preparing to launch herself into the sky.

"Goodbye Boiling Rock! I won't miss you." And with that, she launched herself into the air and flew into the sky. Anyone looking outside would have thought it was a shooting star.

They had no idea of the chaos that would be created by that "shooting star."


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