A/N: Sorry for the long wait! I got an acting gig so I've been ridiculously busy with that but I felt inspired so I decided to write. This chapter will be intense! You'll get to see how Azula's mind starts to change through how Katara and her mother change, I just wanted to let ya'll know so you get what's happening! It actually may be the last... I haven't decided if I want this story long or short so I guess I'll just start writing and see what happens! Enjoy
Pixie
Chapter 6: Changes
"Maybe you just had the worst day of your life. But, you know, there's no excuse. So, just suck up and be nice."
Azula hated everything and everyone.
Ever since her blow-up Jet had not been around and a month had passed, and now her royal advisers called her in for another royal meeting.
How tedious and pointless.
Azula was not listening and only listened when suddenly a member of the committee stood abruptly and began to yell.
"Princess Azula, to become Queen, you have to be wed. For months you have been avoiding this topic but we are no longer afraid of you. For the future of the Fire Nation you have to make a decision!"
Azula felt her mind going blank as all of her royal advisers starred at her, waiting. No one knew what they were waiting on, but all the same, everyone held their breath.
"I am the princess and you dare to talk to me in that manner! Ha! You're not afraid of me? Well you should be, but not for your own safety." Azula spat quickly and stood up. Today she was wearing her pretty Fire Nation outfit that she had worn to the beach with Zuko, Mai, and Ty Lee and she was the most beautiful and terrifying creature that any of the advisers could fathom as she stood up and began to walk towards the committee member who had spoken out of turn.
"I know where you live. You live right beside that nice little restaurant two blocks from here, first house on the right. And I know you have a beautiful wife, a newborn daughter, a two year old son, and another four year old daughter. And I know for sure that tonight, when I go to your nice spacious home and torture them all in front of you until they beg for death that then you will be afraid of me. You just made a selfish mistake. Now, your whole family will pay." Azula said cruelly, her red lipsticked lips turned up into a smirk.
The adviser's face turned a pale white and his bottom lip trembled. He thought of something, anything that would save his family.
"Mai is my daughter too!" He said quickly.
Azula smirk only became more menacing.
"She's a traitor to the Fire Nation so even better."
She was back to her old self and she was happy with that. She turned and began to walk back to her seat.
"You are a monster." He whispered harshly and Azula stopped dead and slowly pivoted on one foot until she was facing him again.
"What. Was. That?!" Azula snarled.
The adviser rose defiantly to his shaking feet. "You are a monster just like your mother said."
Before she knew what was happening, Azula had bent lightning out of her fingers and the man lay scorched on the royal meeting hall's polished wood floors.
She glanced at her fingers in surprise. Bending lightning usually took at least a little bit of time and concentration but she just did it so suddenly.
All of the adviser's faces were full of terror.
"My mother is dead. If any of you reference her again I will make sure you suffer. He had it easy." She warned. "GUARDS!" She called out.
Two large guards rushed into the room.
"That man over there was Baku Lee. Kill everyone that is in his home, and then burn it down. And have maids come in here and clean up his mess." She hissed.
"Oh and I will be wed to Prince Zuko. I will contact the wedding planners and set the date for next week. Meeting dismissed." Azula stated calmly and she walked out of the meeting room, her black hair swinging behind her prettily and gently, as her mind though thoughts ugly and cruel thoughts.
As soon as she was in her room she was overcome with the stench of decaying burnt flesh.
The waterbender was lying the middle of the floor, her mouth hanging open in a scream that would never be heard, and smoke floating up from her scarred flesh.
Azula covered her mouth and fell to her knees.
"Stop it... please. Katara please!" Azula begged, as she fought the urge to gag.
Suddenly the smell evaporated and Katara was on her knees, looking Azula straight in the eyes.
She was human or at least looked to be.
"You called me by name and you said please." Katara whispered, and Azula felt her eyes well with tears.
"Anything to make you go away! Anything! I'm not crazy! You're not real." Azula said, her voice choked with angry tears.
"You loved me didn't you?" Katara asked suddenly, cocking her head sideways.
"Shut. Up." Azula cautioned but Katara shook her head, a smirk appearing on her lips.
"The bitch has feelings. What a surprise! Well no one loves and no one ever will. You've signed your own death warrant, Azula. Someone will kill you and soon. And everyone will rejoice. Zuko will become the rightful king and you will become a rightful member of the dead." Katara snarled and suddenly she was gone.
Azula starred at the spot Katara had just been in and then she stood abruptly to her feet and walked over to her desk. She began to write a public declaration announcing her and Zuko's marriage, that would be held in the throne room in three days.
"You're making a mistake." Azula's mother sang from the corner of the room.
"No, I was the mistake wasn't I to you mother?" Azula questioned as she finished writing.
"Azula, I loved you. Monster or not." Her mother spoke gently.
Azula shook her head quickly. Something was wrong, something was very wrong. She couldn't think straight. Why couldn't she think straight? Everything was jumbling. Her hands were shaking. Something was happening.
"Mother, go away, I need to sleep. I need to sleep." Azula murmured as she crawled into bed and for once everything was silent.
Three days later, Azula was being dressed, primped, and pampered by a team of Fire Nation women.
For three days she had heard nothing from either her mother or Katara and as she looked in the mirror she felt oddly reminiscent of the day of Sozin's Comet when Zuko and Katara had attacked her.
She's making a mistake.
She loves Jet.
Why was she about to marry Zuko?
For the attention that she had never gotten as a child.
Suddenly, Azula realized that it was not her own thoughts that were running through her head. Her mother and Katara were talking about her and she was hearing it in her head.
As the realization hit her, hear ears started ringing, and Azula cupped them and bent over at the knees.
She just wants love
All she ever wanted
She never got it because she was mean
She used that to get attention
I love her
That's a lie. No one loves her
What. Was. Happening?!
She choked back a scream and just as suddenly as it started, it was over, and her ears were fine and the thoughts inside her head quiet.
As she straightened, she saw that all of the servants in the room were starring at her.
"I'm sorry. My head hurts. Please finish." She said politely. The servants glanced at each other, incredulous. She had spoken so politely to 'peasants'.
As soon as Azula spoke, she knew that the words were not her own. She had not opened her mouth and spoke.
The words sounded more like her mother's.
A/N: I lied! This was the build up to my critical chapter and this story will end the next chapter. I hope you guys still enjoyed it! I'm so sorry how this turned out but my fingers have a mind of their own! That was not at all what I had in my head but thank you for reading. Love ya! Mwah! *blows kisses