Chapter Three: The Fire Princess

The Avatar and his friends were sleeping on their sleeping bags or flying bison, except for Toph who was more comfortable on the ground. The Xiaolin Monks were also asleep a little ways away. Toph suddenly woke up hearing a noise coming from the woods. It sounded like a scream, a girly scream at that. Kimiko stirred a little and looked at the blind bandit.

"Something wrong Toph?" She asked rubbing her eyes.

"You wouldn't have happened to here something, did you Kimiko?" The girl asked.

"No." The dragon of fire answered. "Why?"

"No reason…" Toph trailed off. She was certain that it wasn't the wind, she had very good hearing. Was there someone out in the woods? Toph started to walk off.

"Where are you going?"

"I'm gonna take a walk." Toph answered and then sighed, partly out of irritation, when she felt Kimiko stand up and dust herself off.

"I'll go with you." Kimiko said, "Now that I'm awake it's not like I'll fall asleep again any time soon." She said dusting herself off and fixing her hair. Toph made no effort to stop the other girl and they both set out together, plus Toph could talk to Kimiko now about certain things.

After they were away from the campsite Toph spoke up, "You and your friends have weird names." Toph spoke up; Kimiko looked at her slightly confused. "Clay, Omi, Kimiko, Raimundo, their not common names. The last one's even weirder."

Kimiko couldn't help but laugh a little at Toph's comment to Raimundo's name. "True, but I could say the same thing about your names though."

"Where are you guys from?" Toph asked. Kimiko just realized her error in saying that sentence. Toph had a smile on her face that said 'I'm onto something.'

"Doesn't matter," Kimiko said, "We probably won't be able to go back for awhile." The fire dragon then attempted to change the subject, "So what are you looking- er feeling for anyway?"

"Someone had screamed out here. It sounded like a guy screaming like a girl, but I guess it was just the wind." Toph didn't actually believe that, but it was night out anyway and their friends would probably worry if they found them gone. "Come on let's go back to camp." The blind girl took the lead and Kimiko followed, thinking about what Toph said, a guy who screamed like a girl…

'Yup that's Jack alright.' The Xiaolin warrior thought to herself. It was then that she remembered something important, Jack still had the warp whip, and if they wanted to leave this place they had to find Spicer.

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As for Jack Spicer, let's just say he was enjoying himself.

"Oh my gosh, this thing is so cool!" Currently Jack was overlooking a large vehicle made of metal. "So you really travel in this thing Azula?" He turned to address the girl, who was also the one who saved him from the Platypus bear.

"Yes we do." Azula said in a rather bored expression. Jack Spicer turned to face her, a huge smile on his face.

"That is so awesome." Jack cheered. "Wait we?"

"Yes, myself and my friends Ty Lee and Mai, they're busy right now so that just leaves you…and me." Azula said a wicked smile on her face. Jack was sweating a little, even though this girl saved his life there was something about her that really frightened him. "So Jack…tell me about yourself."

Jack began sweating more, "Uh, let's see uh, well, I'm an evil genius and I build robots as a hobby. Their was one I built called a chameleon-bot which could shape shift into anyone I wanted it to, oh and there's a detecto-bot which can find active Shen Gong Wu, oh and a butler robot that-"

"Jack," Azula stopped him mid sentence "I don't want to learn about your little toys."

"Oh," The evil boy sounded slightly startled, "Well what do you want to know?"

"How about you tell me where you're from." Azula said moving her fingers up and down Jacks jacket feeling the material, "You clothes are very unusually for someone who lives around here."

"Oh, well you see…I'm not." Jack said simply, "You see, while I was fighting the Xiaolin Dragon, I panicked and used this." He held up the Warp Whip, "And next thing I now, I'm here."

"Interesting…" Azula said trailing off. The sudden sound of several rapid footsteps caught her attention and two other girls on giant lizards (Jack froze at the site of the large creatures) came out of the forest. The girls got off and Azula turned her attention away from Jack and towards them. "Well?" She asked.

"Nothing." The shorter girl dressed in a pink circus outfit said. "Looks like your brother and Uncle left the area."

"Really." Azula said, but she sounded very confident, "Well they won't get very far, not with my fuddy-duddy Uncle the way he is." She gave a sigh, "No matter, put the Mongoose Dragons in their stalls we'll move on tonight."

"Well if you nice ladies are leaving, I better be going as well." Jack said finally finding his voice, "So I'll just-"

Azula grabbed his arm as the boy tried to run off, "No, stay. I insist." Jack gulped; he had a feeling that something very bad was going to happen to him.

It only took fifteen minutes, maybe less to get the dragons into their stables and get the machine moving. Jack was by himself in another room, not like he had a choice anyway sense one of the girls, one with black hair called Mai, through him in it and locked it on the outside. There were no windows and only candlelight protected him from pitch black darkness.

Jack rubbed his temples, "Oh, what mess did I get myself into?" He asked himself. A noise outside the room made Jack jump about a foot. The door opened and Azula stepped into the room closing it behind her.

"I hope your enjoying your stay." Azula said turning to face him. Jack didn't say anything at first, but when the silence between them became unbearable Jack spoke up.

"Sooo, you're after someone and your uncle?" Jack asked. Azula nodded.

"My older brother and Uncle have disgraced the Fire Lord by interfering in the conquest of the North Pole and the Northern Water tribe. Plus my brothers a miserable failure, so there's no point in him walking around to disgrace us even more." Azula pushed a strand of hair away from her eyes.

Jack winced slightly at the way Azula described her brother, whoever it was. It reminded him of the way Chase young looked down on him. Only there was a difference between Chase and Azula, Chase was a warrior who lived over a millennia and a half long, Azula had to be no more than fifteen and calling her older brother inferior. Something was very wrong here.

She looked hard at the evil genius. "Jack, I want you to help me."

Jack bit his lip unsure what to say, "Well, I guess I could build a robot to help fight against him, but I'm not much of a fighter or anything really."

"Do you know of someone who could, help me?" Azula said pretending to play innocent. Jack though about it for a moment.

"Well there are a lot of evil people, Wuya (but she no longer has any powers), Hannibal Roy Bean, whose like this evil talking bean, Chase Young," Jack goes into fan boy mode here, "whose this awesome powerful Heylin warrior that can do all sorts of cool things and turn into a large lizard. How cool is that?"

"…You worship the ground he walks on." Azula concluded.

"Yeah, pretty much." Jack said "Thing is Chase doesn't help people unless he feels like it, which quite literally happens once in a full moon."

"I have ways to convince people to assist me." Azula said looking over her nails, "Most of them are…rather painful." She looked at Spicer, "Jack; take me to your world and this evil man's lair and you'll be handsomely rewarded."

"Okay…how?"

"You want to rule the world right?" Azula asked. Jack nods, "Well, have you ever wondered what it would be like to be Fire Lord?"

"Fire Lord?" As Jack imagined himself on a throne with his robot minions and the citizens below doing all his work, a happy smiled formed on his face. "Deal!"

"Excellent, we'll leave tomorrow." Azula said walking back to the door, "I'd suggest getting a good nights rest." She closed the door and Jack fell apart.

"How do I get myself into these messes?"

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The next morning came around and the Avatar and his friends were cleaning up the campsite. Meanwhile the Xiaolin Warriors were talking amongst themselves. Raimundo, Kimiko and Clay changed back into there Xiaolin robes since their street clothes made them stand out pretty easily, and they only had one pair anyway. Omi always wore his Xiaolin robe.

"Raimundo," Omi spoke up, "Although I respect you as leader, do you think it is wise hiding our true nature like this?"

"Omi, think about it, if we say we're from a parallel world they'll think we're nut jobs." Raimundo pointed out complete with the finger spinning motion next to his head. "I think it's best if we just lay low and find Jack as fast as we can."

"And how are we supposed to find Jack?" Kimiko asked. "I mean it's not like we know our way around this place or anything."

"Kimiko's right." Clay agreed.

"I know I know," Raimundo said, "Get off my back." He sighed , "Look let's just stick with Aang and the others and, I don't know, wing it or something. Hopefully we can keep a low profile and not become suspicious."

"What if we do come under suspicion Raimundo?" Omi asked.

"I don't know, why are you asking me?" Now the Brazilian boy was practically yelling. Omi took a nervous step back from his friend. The bald monk carefully picked his words before saying the next sentence.

"It's just…I have this very bad feeling that something is very wrong with this place." Raimundo calmed down and the three taller monks listened to the shorter one. "The balance in this world feels very wrong."

The other three monks opened there senses, to try to understand what Omi was talking about. "Omi's right." Kimiko said surprised, "I didn't notice before, but something feels very off."

A long moment of silence between them was broken when Sokka and Aang approached the Xiaolin Dragons.

"We have a problem." Sokka said.

"Is something wrong?" Clay said.

"There are too many people to ride on Appa." Aang said. "So we're gonna have to walk."

"Great more walking." Raimundo muttered. He was really starting to miss Dojo.

"Relax, we're gonna travel to the Earth Kingdom Capital, Ba Sing Se." Sokka said, "That way you'll be safe behind the strongholds walls and we'll be able to teach Aang Earthbending without having to worry about getting ambushed by three dangerous ladies."

Omi was gonna ask about the dangerous ladies thing when Katara came over. "We should get going, if we want to cover a lot of ground before night fall." She said. "We have a lot of walking to do."

"Yes, we're not traveling on Appa today!" Toph shouted in happiness of not having to ride the ten ton flying bison.

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Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee waited outside their large metal transportation for Jack Spicer. While waiting they were talking about their future plans, or more accurately, Azula was giving them orders.

"Mai, you'll take over the hunt for my brother and the Avatar until I return." Azula ordered.

Mai looked uncomfortable with this order, but nodded anyway. The machine door opened and Jack stepped out. "Ready Azula?"

"Yes." She simple answered standing beside him.

"Now I warn you, even if we do this, you might come up empty handed."

"I never come up empty handed." Azula scowled. Jack shuddered at her cold tone and activated the warp whip. In an instant they vanished.

End Chapter Three

Here's a list of the Shen Gong Wu the dragons are carrying:

Omi: Orb of Tornami.

Raimundo: Sword of the Storm (used in first chapter).

Kimiko: Star Hinabi.

Clay: Eye of Dashi.

They also have the Falcon's eye. I liked this chapter because Azula is so fun to write and I hoped you liked it as well.