Azula was aware of what was happening around her which have never happened before. She knew that she was being held by something. Her hands close to her body, unable to move even by an inch. Her chin nearly touching her collarbones. Shallow breathing and loud beats of her heart were the only things she could hear. Everything else was muted. She has never felt anything when she was trapped, then she could have only suspected, but now, in this moment something was entirely different. She was able to feel her eyes, she had a sense of smell, touch, hearing. It freaked her out and she started struggling. After some hard struggle, she finally decided to open up her eyes. She did not expect to see THAT. A light, real light shining on her face. It was an incredible feeling, one she hadn't felt in a long long time. But that feeling helped her understood that now she didn't feel or hear spirits. She was free. Somehow.

Just when Azula realized that an utterly new fire ignited inside of her. She felt the power rushing through her. Filling her with a new sharpness. Smoke started rising around her and now she realized that she was being held by some kind of roots. Roots that could never match with her fire. Soon she was able to move more and in the end get free. She fell to her knees, now discovering that she was in a cave. In front of her, she could see an opening, one that she could probably barely fit in. Afer some rest she stood up and stretched her arms, legs, her whole body.

Azula was bright, a fast thinker some would say. It resulted in her noticing that even after being held by probably a very long time she felt fine. No deficit in muscles, hair no longer than beyond her shoulders. She was completely fine. One thing that intrigued her the most was if she could still bend.

She decided to test that so she extended her arm and tried to create a flame. Even a very little blue one would be satisfactory. And she did create a flame but not a flame she once knew. A red flame. She was devasted by that. One thing that she was proud of was gone, her blue flame, her blue fire, her blue sparks that illuminated her grey world were gone and she didn't know why.

That was probably the most disconcerting news she has ever heard or received. But Azula being Azula tried again and again and again but nothing worked. She then turned into meditation hoping to find the problem in herself, her chakras. She wasn't in a hurry after all that time spent, one minute or one hour did not matter.

While she was meditating she went to a place she knew so well - her core, her I. There was still a fire there but it was weakening? No, it wasn't that. It was lack of a fuel. Lack of a goal. Once she knew what she wanted but now? She did not know that. It was still a troubling problem. She had to find a new goal, a new thing to protect. But Azula was determined, now there was no point in giving up. Afterall she was standing on her own two feet, breathing air, feeling bugs sitting on her skin, hearing her heartbeat. That was life.

Azula finally went to that opening hoping to find something, someone who could be able to tell her where she was, what year it was and who was ruling The Great Fire Nation. Her country, her Mother, the land she was bonded with on a spiritual level. It was calling to her even in the woods, even thousand miles away, her Mother was calling and that was all she needed to know for now, that she is still somewhere from where she can reach her nation. She needn't have to travel there to soothe her spirit she had to only new her Mother was calling her out.

Azula was calm when she stepped outside the cave.

AN: Hi! I want to thank for any reviews I received and say that today after I saw them I immediately had a motivation to write, so I did and I hope It's not THAT bad.

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If you want to know where this story is going I can only say that there is going to be a romance between two women, mainly Katara and Azula. I am not sure about side ships though... We will see. You too because only because I am an author of this story I still don't know exactly where I want to go with it. I have a general idea and that's enough for now. Sorry If this Author Note is a little bit too long for you but I just want people to have a general idea of what person I am. I now that is not enough to know a person but you have to start somewhere.

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