Azula stared at the boy seated near her father. If you wanted to ask the definition of handsome, look at him and you will see every inch of detailed meaning the word handsome could be. His skin is tanned from summer's training and his golden eyes are the very glamour of luxury. His lips are not pouted and not smirking; just the perfect arch. His nose and brows once added perfected the face of the boy. He has the face that could make Chan unattractive and a body architecture that would make Zuko a boy. He is a man. That's it! He is a man!

Azula never saw General Cheng's face before. Sure, she already heard of his name and saw him in many meetings but, he was wearing his helmet and she was also sure that he was not the general before. A new appointee? New or not, he must very good at war because it was her father himself who chooses the military ranking.

Zuko stared at his sister staring at the general. He already saw that look when she saw Chan but, there was something was off. Well, compare and contrast: When she was looking at Chan, her eyes are glued to him like he is the only person in the world, her face had the expression that she wanted to be his girlfriend and she was smirking from ear to ear. Scene two: She, staring at Cheng? Was it Cheng? Whatever the new appointee's name was. When she was looking at Cheng, her eyes are glued to him like he is the only person in the world, her face had the expression that she wanted to be his wife and she is so stunned she could not bring herself to smirk from ear to ear.

"This," Ozai broke the silence "is Cheng Li. He is the new General of the Fire Nation, appointed by me of course. He is an expert battle tactician, and, if you may wonder, Zuko," he shot his uninterested son who was then playing with his utensils, "why he was never heard by you before, it's because he only works for me and I, alone could pass judgment to his opinions with regards, battle plans of course. He is the Son of one of our nation's governor and so, was able to get himself in the war room when he wants to and made himself useful there. As in with use. In short, before becoming a general, he is one of my best royal advisor."

Oh great! Now my father trusts this piece of waste more than he trusts me! Why! I wasn't even allowed to enter the war room back then and this bullshit, is allowed to enter his office and be his advisor? Lalalala! OUCH!

Zuko winced when Azula pinched his belly. "What the hell is wrong with you? Stop acting like a retard!" Azula hissed at his ears.

"what did I do?"

"You are pouting like a child while blowing your stray hair"

"Wow! I'm surprised you can still piss me of! I thought you were so absorbed in staring at that dude" Zuko said as he let a lazy eye roll towards the general's direction.

Ozai was busy talking to his other guest when he was disturbed by a pained hiss. What the hell is wrong with that boy? My parenting is awesome!"

Zuko's foot hurt. The pawn of evil stomped on it.

"Azula, called Ozai, would you like to give the general a tour to the palace?" Ozai asked his daughter, but all of them new it was not a question. It's a command.

"It would be an honor my lord, to have your daughter to give me a tour of the palace.

Something is not right. Zuko thought. He is my father's advisor and yet he does not know the palace? Pweh! He must be a moron. Or is it only my father is up to something?"

Zuko eyed the general as he followed his sister out.

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Azula was walking in the palace hall side by side with the handsome general. True to the fact that the man beside her is drop dead gorgeous, Azula still is no fool and, she new, something is up.

"General, I, actually, am not going to give you a tour of the palace." She said in her usual baritone.

"Oh? Now that would be sad princess. Why not?" Cheng's voice is rich that not even Azula could identify if the disappointment was real or not.

"Because I knew my father sent you here for a purpose. Ah-ah" Azula silenced him with a finger gesture. "He said that you are the royal advisor he trusts so much. Then, my, it's a surprise that you do not know the palace so much. You must have stayed here for a long time didn't you?"

"Hah!" Cheng laughed at her. "You are indeed a prodigy princess. No wonder why you father is very proud of you but, ah-ah," he silenced her with a gesture of a finger. "You're father is not telling a lie."

"Of course I know that" Azula defended."My father is not a liar." He lies when necessary. "So,tell me why you are here?"

"He sent me here to give you this" he said as he handed Azula a cloth. Azula then opened the cloth and was shock at what she saw. "Now, if you don't agree, don't burn me. I only follow your father and you can decline if you want to."

Azula stared in awe at the golden chain in her hands. She lifted it up and carefully examined it as if seeing something of its kind for the first time. The gold is piercing like a Firelord's eyes and the red rubies in it are the rarest. And speaking of the rarest, it was indeed one of its kinds for the necklace's pendant is a dazzling blood diamond. It looks like a frozen blood.

"It is beautiful" she said in a whisper so clear. "But, I have to think about it first." She said as she returned the jewel to Cheng Li.

"I understand princess but, you don't have to give it back. Just wear it when it feels like yes."

"Good" Azula said trying to maintain her poise as she slid the necklace in her pocket.

"I am still interested to tour the palace though. Again" He said with one of the most beautiful smiles Azula saw.

"Okay, follow me"

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The day was long but thanks Agni it's over. Prince Zuko was walking happily in the palace halls that would lead to his quarters when he bumped into someone.

"Use your right eye dum-dum!" Came the hateful hiss of a female.

"Oh I'm sorry, it's just that you are short I could barely see you. BIOTCH!" the prince replied in a sarcastic tone before putting an emphasis at his last word.

She was about to burn him into cinders when a jolly voice rang in the hall.

"CONGRATULAIONS AZULA" Ty lee called out. Azula paled.

"For what?" Azula asked, acting ignorant. Zuko stared at his sister confusedly then to her acrobat friend.

"You're engaged!" She sang happily only to have the princess explode her fuse.

"I AM NOT! WHO EVER TOLD YOU THAT IS A LIAR!"

"Oh." Ty lee said disappointed and scared at the raging princess. "But it was your father who told me."

Azula did not know how to react. Her father is not a liar. Only when necessary. And its not like him to play pranks to her friend. That is so below him. Which means, he made the decision for me.

"Excuse me," Azula said before she left. Zuko pulled back the guilt stricken acrobat who was about to follow her friend.

"Don't. it's bad timing"

Zuko sped up to follow his sister.

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Azula entered the throne room and did her best to stay calm. No matter how angry she is, she could not just throw rage on her father if she does not want end up like Zuko.

"Father, may I talk to you?" Ozai then dismissed all his servants. When all of them are gone, the firelord gestured for his prodigy to speak.

"Father, why did you do that?" Zuko was just in time for their conversation just started.

"Do what?" He could hear his father perfectly clear.

"You made the decision with regards to my marriage with General Cheng." Zuko tried his best not to gasp as not be heard. He knew it! His father was up to something. But that was not what he expected. Sure he knew that his father would eventually shove Azula to married life but, he was not expecting it now; not now that when a war is threatening a great rebellion would come. He leaned closer to listen.

"You know that time will come you need to get married. And Azula, the age difference is not that much. You are 17 he is 21. And he comes from a family with excellent social status and his lineage could be traced to Sozin's cousins." Ozai stated the obvious facts to her unsatisfied daughter.

"But father, you know that I could still decline" She finally talked back with a higher voice.

"Its not that you cared about love so much, is it Azula? Don't be such a broken romantic. AND I MADE THE DECISION SO DON'T YOU DARE QUESTION IT!" Ozai growled like an angered beast and Zuko saw fear in his sister's eyes as she slightly stepped back. " And you now what Azula? You MISSED!"

'missed?' Zuko doesn't get it. Azula however paled.

"Father" she tried to talk. Her eyes holding back tears that threatens to fall.

"I talked to your doctor's and you missed it this month. You're pregnant."

In the throne room, the princess was on the floor, kneeling down, tear stained and begging her father to forgive her. In the throne room, the tyrant was seated on his throne looking at his daughter with no remorse, this time, not hiding the disgust in his eyes. in the throne room, in the part of the room where thick red curtains fall by the golden room, the prince seems to have his blood drained from him.

_O_H_N_O_!_!_

"I'M SORRY! I'M SO SORRY. FATHER I'M SO SORRY"

"ENOUGH! THEY MIGHT HEAR!" Ozai roared and it echoed in the entire room. Then suddenly he calmed down. "You are not forgiven Azula. You will ruin the name of the royal family. And what will they say about you? That you are a whore? And to me? To me? I am the firelord and my family should be the model of the nation. What did you do? And has it ever come into your mind who the father of that bastard is?" he hissed.

Azula did not reply on this. The statement only made her cry more. She could not tell her father that it was the blue spirit for it would brand her a traitor and he would not think twice on killing her.

"Now, I need you to marry Cheng Li. This will cover up the shame you brought upon the family. Its an order Azula. If only you are not talented, I would have ripped that infant from your belly. But that coming from you, it may be as talented as you and be of use to the nation. I will let your husband decide on the child's fate if ever he finds out. Agni knows my hands are clean."

In his own quarters, Zuko was ripping of his bed cover and burning his other belongings. "Azula, you're pregnant" the words of his father still echoes in his mind ever so clearly. What the hell am I going to do? I need to talk to her. I need to tell her.

He ran towards Azula's room and was surprised to see that the hall was empty. The silence was deafening but he find it most comforting. But then, when he reached Azula's room, there was screaming.

FATHER PLEASE DON'T! TELL THEM TO STOP! ! I BEG YOU!

"You are not going to embarrass me Azula," he said in an emotionless tone.

Zuko does not know what is going on and concern overcame him and he went inside. He saw his sister in bed, her underwear of, exposing her vagina as medics were holding her in place, leg wide open. They forced something in her mouth.

"Father, what are they doing?" Zuko asked angrily as he pushed one of the medics off her and fire bending the other.

"Stand back Zuko" Ozai ordered.

"How could you watch her like this?"

"I have no choice. If I leave this room, she will incinerate them. Plus, in case you have noticed, I am not looking at her. I am faced at the wall." Ozai said his face on the wall.

"father" Azula pleaded him. Zuko knelt before her bed and then chose to cradle her. Her legs are now chained apart. He could feel the embarrassment that she is feeling. "mm-umm make-m them stop-p." she is already sobbing as he cradled her in his arms. He turned to give his father a pleading look.

"Do you want me to scar you again Zuko? And you Azula, do you want me to punish you the way I punished your brother?" Azula bit her lips and Zuko held her tighter. The medicine they shoved in her mouth seemed to have worked because she seemed to relax.

Ozai dragged his son up and pushed him out the door.

"She needs to be a virgin if she should marry Cheng" he said before he slammed the door at his face.

Wait for the next chapter. There would be lemon.