A New Life
Chapter 6:
Bad School Day
The two girls squealed, jumping up and down. "Finally we are going to school!" They screamed at the same time.
Aura and Ty Lee walked to the building along with the other kids. They had an almost identical purses, Ty lee's was pink while Aura's was red. They were wearing the school uniform, which was a red dress with black trimmings along the collar and a black belt, red pants under a black and gold boots.
While they were walking Ty Lee noticed a dark haired girl with two buns on both sides of her head, she was standing on the shadow of a tree. Ty Lee grabbed hold of Aura's sleeves and pointed at the girl. At first Aura looked confused but then she noticed the dark shadowed girl.
"Let me guess, you are gonna go to her and try to cheer her up. Plus try to be her friend." Aura joked.
"Don't be like that!" Ty Lee pouted. "She needs some cheering up! I can see it in her aura."
Aura smirked, "What are you gonna do? Say some cheerful fraises, annoy her and drag her into school. Oh! And say that 'we are gonna be best friends forever'?" Aura said sarcastically.
Ty Lee nodded innocently, "Although, I didn't think of the annoying her part. It's actually a nice idea!" She said fake looking thoughtful.
Aura groaned, "You can't seriously be considering this!"
Ty Lee giggled at her friends misfortune, "Come on! It'll be fun!" She linked her arms with Aura and walked her to the girl.
Aura grumbled, "That's what everyone says before something goes wrong!"
"Don't worry, it won't happen this time." Sometimes her friend's optimistic ness was annoying. She sighed out of frustration and brushed her side bangs away from her eye.
"Hello! Girl under the tree." Ty Lee waved. The girl stared but then looked off to the side.
"Now, let's go! It's obvious that she doesn't want us." Aura whispered to her friend while pulling her arm and managing to turn her around.
"Wow, wow, wow, wait a second I'm not done yet." Ty Lee turned to face the girl. Aura face palmed herself.
Ty Lee jumped right in front of the girls face, literally. "So what's your name?" The girl ignored her. "What's your name?" Ty Lee poked the girl on the head. The girl snatched Ty Lee's hand away from her face.
"If I tell you my name, will you leave me alone?" the girl said in a monotone voice.
"Maybe." Ty Lee cajoled.
The girl sighed and said in her usual monotone voice, "My names Mai."
"Hi, nice to meet you Mai! My names Ty Lee and the annoying girl over there is Aura." Aura shot her a glare.
"Now you can go." Mai dismissed.
"But I said maybe, not yes."
Obviously Mai was annoyed with Ty Lee right now. "We are gonna be best friends!" Now Aura felt like burning something. "We are gonna be late to class. Let's go!" Ty Lee walked forth as she gestured them to come.
Aura gave Mai a pitying look, "Don't worry, she's actually fun if you get to know her."
"How can you live with this?" Mai said gruffly, for the first time showing some amount of emotion. Aura shrugged.
They were headed to their classroom and it seemed liked they were in the same class. Ty Lee hugged the two girls and dragged them to their home room. Mai was seriously hating this, Aura could see it in her face even though the poor girl was trying not to show it.
Ty Lee made them sit in the front with Aura being the one behind Ty Lee's desk and Mai beside Ty Lee.
Ty Lee made an unfortunate attempt at playing Quiz Each Other with Mai, as she liked to call it.
Another girl sashayed in the classroom. She demanded confidence, attention and fear. Her hair was done in a topknot fastened by the crown of the Royal Family, her bangs were falling to the side of her face. She sat right beside Aura. For some reason that girl was making her uncomfortable. The girl seemed to notice how she acted.
"Hello, my name is Azula." The girl, Azula said. Recognition flashed behind Aura's eyes as she heard the name.
"You are the princess!" Aura looked at the girl in amazement.
"Yes, and you are?"
Aura remembered herself over the amazement, "Oh, ah, my name is Aura." She stuttered.
At that time the teacher walked in. Everyone stopped talking and faced the front of the class. "Hello students, my name is . I am your teacher this year. Welcome to The Royal Academy for Girls. This is a place for education. This is a place for you to learn..." The teacher drawled on about the numerous things we will be learning in school. Finally when she was done with that we introduced ourselves to the teacher and the rest of the class. For some reason Aura imagined school to be funner.
"Alright, whoever is a Fire Bender stand up, so that I can see who will be taking the lessons." Aura stood up and so did Azula. She looked around the room and noticed four other girls so they must be fire benders too. "Good, while the fire benders are having their lessons the non benders are having free time. Your lessons will start tomorrow." We sat down. The teacher started boring us to death again.
Later on, Ty Lee and Aura sat together on a table and ate their lunch. When the teacher dismissed us, Mai ran out of the classroom before Ty Lee could drag her out with her so now it was only Ty Lee and Aura. After they were done they went out to the playground.
They spotted Mai sitting under a tree looking pretty bored. Without saying a word Ty Lee stood a not too far away from the tree and she started showing her acrobatic skills. She did cartwheels, somersaults and handstands. A crowd was gathering around her.
From the corner of her eyes Aura saw Azula approach Mai. They were talking about something, but she didn't know what. She had a bad feeling about this.
After awhile, Azula strode through the crowd. Azula's pointer and middle finger were pointing at Ty Lee. Aura knew what was coming so she stood just in time before Azula threw a jet of fire in front of Ty Lee and extinguished the flame. Ty Lee stumbled in the middle of a cartwheel. Aura came right in time to catch her fall.
"What are you doing? You could've hurt her!" Aura yelled at Azula. Mai came right in time to see what has happened and she was giggling uncontrollably. "It's not funny!"
Azula just narrowed her eyes. "You are not supposed to know how to do that."
"Why not?" Aura challenged.
"Because nobles don't learn fire bending until they go to school."
"So what? I found fire bending scrolls at home and learned ahead of time."
"Ok" Azula walked away.
"That's it? Your not gonna say sorry to her?" Aura shouted.
Azula turned around, "Dont tell me what to do." She glared. Aura was speechless.
When Azula was out of sight, Aura threw a funnel of fire in the direction that the princess went, "The nerve of that girl!"
Ty Lee's eyes widened, she never saw her friend like this, "Wow, Aura relax. She's a princess what can you expect?"
"Your right. I should just calm myself." Aura took a deep breath and then she heard the teachers calling them in. It was time to go back to class.
Azula and Mai were the first one to come in the class. "Alright Mai, I'm gonna show that girl to not get I my way!"
Mai looked confused, "What do you mean?"
"Just watch." Azula smiled evilly and sat on her desk. Mai followed her example. After awhile other students came in. Finally Aura and Ty Lee came in and sat on their usual spot.
As soon as Aura sat down, Azula swiped her feet under Aura's chair producing fire along the way. Aura yelped as the chair was consumed in fire.
"Hey!" Aura threw her own fire at Azula almost burning the princesse's sleeves.
At that time Mrs. Wong walked in, seeing the effects of the girls' fighting. "What has happened here!"
"I swear . It wasn't me. Azula started it all." Aura pointed an accusing finger at Azula.
"What! You almost burned me!" Azula almost yelled, looking furious.
"You two, to the principals office!" pointed at the door.
"What! You can't do this to me! I'm the princess of the Fire Nation! My father is the son of Firelord Azulon! I'm pretty sure he can fire you or even send you to the colonies!" Azula smiled satisfied.
"I have permission from your mother to do this. Now to the office!" Mrs. Wong ordered. She handed Azula and Aura a paper explaining what has happened. They walked out of the classroom together, side by side, in silence until they came halfway to the principals office.
Aura was the one who spoke, "Why did you do that?" They stopped walking.
"Because I wanted to." Azula said like it was the most normal thing in the world.
"Oh, really 'cause normally people didn't go around throwing fire at someone who's doing a cartwheel!"
"Well, Mai seemed annoyed by that girl. What her name again? Ty Lee. So I thought I would be doing her a favor!"
"Well, it was the wrong thing to do!"
"Whatever!" Azula walked on.
"This is going nowhere!" Aura groaned.
"Well, if you want let's just call it a truce." Azula face her.
"A truce." They shook hands.
They entered the principals office a short while later and explained what has happened. They waited for their parents to come and by the end of school their parents knew what they had done. Ursa picked up Azula and for Aura it was both her parents. They had a lot of explaining to do at home but later on the two girls will realize that this was the beginning to their friendship.
A/N: Yay! Finally Azula and Mai is here! I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter! I worked on this the whole morning. I had no school today so didn't know what to do So I just finished the chapter. I guess this ones a bit sloppy than usual but I'm too lazy to change it. Anyway, Hope you enjoyed! Please review, it actually gives me the motivation to continue writing!
