Hello, awesome people Novablade 67 here again. Sorry for making Azula a bit ooc last chapter, but it was necessary for what's coming later in the story. And as i've said, this crossover will be a little different than most Dbz x ATLA crossovers. I will admit that I got inspired after reading a story called Dragons of the Sapphire Flame, definitely with the read. Go check it out. If you're at all interested in more stories i've written and are still in the progress of working on, just do a search for the following titles: Flame Haired Saiyan, Hero from the future of another Timeline: Goku Black's reincarnation, Alien Gods of Metropolis, Saiyan family of Fairy Tail, Blue and Crimson Haze, and Demon Slayer Shinobis.Well, enough about that onto the story! P.s. - There will be a sequel, don't worry! This story I foresee going at least 12 to 14 chapters.

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Chapter 7- Those bound by fate II: Wavering Princess

Azula had found a way into Ba Sing Se, somehow. She'd recently found out that the Dai Lee's former leader Long Feng, had been discharged from his post by the earth king. And of all people to soundly defeat him in convincing fashion, it was the boy whom she'd just fought. Every time she thought about that boy, her heart ached. She wanted to see him, but as a princess of the fire nation; Azula knew that she shouldn't be having such feelings for him. She couldn't help it though, she wanted to see him again so badly. The more Azula thought about Hunter, the more she reflected on what he said to her.

The words "You're an important person to me, Azula" kept ringing in her head over and over again. Then there was that name Hunter called her when he left her, "Azula Himé". She didn't know why but, for some reason that nickname made her happy. "Am I.. falling for that boy?," Azula asked herself. She'd considered the possibility that she was falling in love with Hunter, but she had brushed that off as an impossibility. Or.. was it? Azula didn't know anymore and it was driving her crazy just trying to rack her brain around it.

But she'd worry about that after she caught that useless idiot, zhao. She had an idea of where he'd be, especially if the avatar was within the city. As the princess of the fire nation, Azula needed to focus her attention on completing her task and one of the main reasons why she was in Ba Sing Se in the first place. Zhao's capture was just the distraction she needed anyways, she'd deal with her confused feelings later. But there also was the possibility of running into her brother zuko, and her uncle Iroh as well. If they found out about her inner struggle whenever the blue haired teen was around.. she didn't want to think about what Zuko would say.

Ty Lee saw that Azula was obviously sweating over something in her mind, and she had a pretty good idea of what it was. The acrobat approached the princess by putting a hand on her shoulder. Azula turned and saw that it was Ty Lee. She relaxed herself and let her friend walk up beside her. "Have something on your mind Azula?," Ty Lee asked. "Yes, but it's nothing I can't handle.," Azula answered. "Azula.. heh, you're thinking about my brother again aren't you?," Ty lee asked with a smirk. Azula wasn't expecting this and was a little surprised that she figured it out so quick.

The princess started stuttering as a hint of pink lined her cheeks. "W-What? I-I have no idea what you're talking about!," Azula said trying to deny her friend's claim. "Azula, you're not a very good liar. Epecially, when it comes to my brother, Hunter. You get unusually nervous and a little bit fidgety whenever he's around or is the subject of conversation.," Ty Lee said as she prodded Azula. As best as she tried, Azula just couldn't come up with a decent rebuttal to that. "Ty Lee, whenever your brother is around I find myself dealing with confusing emotions that I've never had to deal with before. Why must that brother of yours cause me so much confusion? Why must he be in my every thought? and why does what he say grip me so and cause me to question my father?," Azula ranted clearly frustrated at what had been going on inside of her.

Ty Lee smiled at this, she knew exactly why Azula was like this. It was obvious to anyone who'd seen them interact with each other. Azula was falling in love with Hunter, and she was falling for him pretty hard too and there was no denying that fact. "Azula, I know exactly why your dealing with the emotions you are and why you've been wavering lately.,"Ty lee answered. This piqued azula's interest as she was generally curious to hear what Ty Lee had to say. The brown hair and brown eyed girl smiled genuinely before answering. "You're conflicted because of your feelings for my brother. Even though you don't really know him, you care about him alot more than just a mere acquaintance would. Azula, You... You like Hunter, don't you? No, that's not right... You're in love with him, aren't you?," Ty Lee explained.

Azula's eyes widened as her face flushed deep scarlet at what Ty Lee was suggesting. "W-What?! N-No! I am not in L-l-lll-love with H-Hu-Hunter! That's absurd! Although... I do find myself preferring him over most boys my own age... But, that's completely unrelated!," Azula said embarrassed. Ty Lee gained a sly smirk as she witnessed Azula's reaction to her claim. "Uh huh, not very convincing Azula. Just admit it, you like him alot don't you? Besides, I've seen the way you are around him ever since that first encounter a few months ago in omashu.," Ty Lee answered smirking.

This got Azula thinking, was Ty lee right? Was she actually falling for Hunter? She had to admit, the thought was actually quite a pleasant one to think about. But she had to ask herself, was she falling in love with Hunter? As the princess thought about it, the more confused she got. The only way she'd know for sure was when she saw Hunter again. That settled it, she'd know for sure when she saw Hunter again. With the drill destroyed, there was no easy way into Ba Sing Se. They'd have to go underground, but they'd need to fit in. Fortunately, she knew just where to get some earth Kingdom attire. The Dai Lee was the perfect place to start, and they just so happened to be underground. It was perfect. Azula, Ty Lee, and Mai all set out to acquire said attire and infiltrate the Dai Lee.

They'd be one step closer to finding the avatar and his friends. They managed to track down some stray Dai Lee agents and quickly defeated them. After acquiring said attire, Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee were able to infiltrate the city by masquerading as Dai Lee agents. This worked wonders as none of the Dai Lee or Long Feng suspected a thing. Although the drill was destroyed, the fire nation army had broken through the walls of Ba Sing Se. While their princess and her friends were down below the city searching for Zhao and the Avatar, the battle for the city was raging on above ground. It would only be a matter of time until Ba Sing Se fell to the fire nation army, so Azula and her friends would have to work quickly.

Speaking of Zhao, he was entering the catacombs of the city courtesy of an earth bender. He had told the earth bender that he'd let him see his family again if he just cooperated. The two finally broke through the ground and into a large cavern underneath Ba Sing Se. "P-Please sir, can I see my family now?," The Earth bender pleaded. "Ah.. Yes, I'll send you to meet them now. On the other side that is!," Zhao said as he stabbed the man in the heart with a small flame dagger. The Earth Bender dropped to the floor dead as his blood pooled out from the wound he received. "Now, to find the avatar and kill him. If I do that, I'm a hero. Many generations will sing my praises. And most of all, the princess will be mine for the taking. No flame eyed boy will stand in my way, even if he is the golden dragon's reincarnation. I'll kill him and the avatar, then no one will stand in my way of being the next Fire lord.," Zhao told himself.

That would prove to be no easy task. The avatar he could handle easily enough, the flame eyed boy though... He was another matter entirely. Though Zhao had more experience in battle on his side, he couldn't deny the fact that the blue haired teen was extremely powerful for his age. And as much as he wanted to disregard it, the flame eyed teen was a formidable warrior and very talented as far as Fire benders went. He'd have to be careful in how he dealt with him, especially since he had that spiky Lavender haired form.

That other form drastically increased his power and every single one of his other physical attributes. What was most frightening about it was, he couldn't pick up on his chi when his hair changed color. What he could feel was an enormous amount of pressure surrounding the teen. He couldn't put his finger on it, but something about that form seemed.. otherworldly. Zhao would find out soon enough, he figured. Right now, he needed to find the avatar and his group of friends.

With Aang and the others

Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Hunter finally had a minute to catch up with Toph, Goku, and Asura after learning of Appa's location from Hunter. Hunter had been telepathically communicating with Asura the whole time while he was busy with Azula and her two friends. He was apparently underground and being held captive by the Dai Lee. It wouldn't be easy getting to him though, they'd have to go through the Dai Lee first.

The Gaang weren't even underground for 5 minutes when they were suddenly surrounded by Dai Lee agents, led by Long Feng. The older earthbender had wanted revenge on the blue haired teen after he publicly humiliated him in front of the earth king himself. Hunter was about to step forward when Asura and Goku put their arms in front of him to stop. "Why don't you let us handle this one, bro?," Asura asked. Goku smiled and nodded in agreement with his saiyan brother before adding his own two cents to the conversation. " Besides, don't you want to save your strength for in case we run into Admiral what's his face again?," Goku said smiling. Hunter raised an amused eyebrow before chuckling as he couldn't help it. "I think you mean admiral zhao, goku. But whatever you say guys, they're all yours.," Hunter answered chuckling.

Long Feng smirked before he responded to their little banter. "What? Too scared to face me yourself?," Long Feng taunted him. Hunter knew what the older bender was doing, he was trying to get him riled up so he'd lash out at him. But the flame eyed teen knew better than that. Besides, he'd seen that trick one too many times not to know it. It was the oldest trick in the book, no way he was falling for that.

Asura and Goku cracked their knuckles before they went to town on the dai lee agents. Faster than they could blink, the two saiyans were onto them. Goku had remembered some of the moves he saw his girlfriend, Ty Lee, use on Katara and implemented those against the dai lee agents. one, two, three, four, five, six hits were delivered within the span of a couple seconds before the dai lee agents could react to Goku's onslaught of short and quick jabs. As they discovered, they couldn't use their bending soon after and that left them at Goku's mercy.

Meanwhile Asura wasn't so easy with his opponents, he was very rough with them. Asura was nothing short of a monster to the Dai lee agents, who couldn't wait to get away from him. Going so far as to critically wound a great deal of them, Asura made quick work of them while dragging several of them in the dirt with his hands and a few others with his fists. The dai lee agents facing Asura were either on the ground, or slammed into the brick wall of these underground passageways.

Long Feng was the only one left now, it was him against Goku and Asura. Observing how these two fought, he didn't like his chances very much. He never got much time to think because the two saiyans were onto him in a heartbeat. The older bender could somewhat handle Goku's blows, But Asura's were a different story. It was because of the drastically different styles of martial arts that long feng couldn't adjust and was eventually overpowered by the saiyan brothers. Goku flanked him from the left and Asura from the right. Asura stuck his bulky arm out to catch long feng by surprise and knock the wind out of him. Goku then came in and socked him in the gut, before sending him flying with a kick to the face. Long Feng got up again only to be ambushed by the two saiyans again. Every time he'd attempt to fight back, he'd just get hit even harder by the two saiyans.

Eventually, the two saiyans made certain the former head of the Dai Lee wouldn't get up again. Asura stalked up to him with a scowl on his face as Long Feng still resisted. "Move.," Asura said irritated. "What did you say, boy? You won't get past me.," Long Feng said. "I said move. You're in the way!," Asura said as green energy began to form in his palm. Seeing that Long Feng wouldn't move by choice, Asura gathered the green energy and tossed it at the older bender. Long Feng laughed at first.. until it exploded when it made contact with him. A large explosion of green light blew a hole through the wall ahead clearing the way to a cavern. The former leader of the dai lee was tossed from the blast and into the water below.

Hunter sweatdropped at this. He knew it was necessary, but Asura may have went a bit overboard. "Uh... Asura, don't you think you went just a tad overboard there?," Hunter asked as he dead panned. Asura sweatdropped upon seeing the massive hole he created and the smoking body of Long feng. "Oh.. Heh heh, my bad.," Asura said. Once inside the cavern, the gaang looked around. Hunter could sense that they were getting close to Appa, but had started to feel very tired for some odd reason. He of course never showed that though Goku and Asura knew something was up with their friend.

They were almost to where Appa was when they ran into.. Dai lee agents. "There's more of these guys?! Can't we get a break for once?!," Sokka whined. "I don't think our enemy will give us a break sokka.," Hunter said a bit strained. They started fighting off the Dai lee agents when Aang attempted to enter the avatar state. Lightning shot from out of seemingly nowhere and severely injured aang. It was revealed to be Zhao, who was laughing maniacally. That was before Hunter drove a full powered fireball at him. But that was the last straw, something caused him to get really weak and he started to sweat profusely. The flame eyed teen drop to a knee and was gasping for air as his vision was getting more and more blurred by the second.

Amongst the Dai lee, Azula noticed that something was wrong with the boy who'd been in her thoughts constantly. Her fists clenched when she saw what that idiot Zhao was about to do. He was going to kill him! Not if she had anything to do with it. Without even thinking, she stood in front of the kneeling form of Hunter. " Get out of here, run!," Azula shouted. The Gaang was confused, was Azula saying to run? "Ugh, don't make me repeat myself! Run! Don't worry about your friend, I'll make sure he stays alive.," Azula said determined and more than abit worried for the teen. Katara reluctantly scooped up aang and bended water to escape to appa who was waiting for them. Asura and Goku soon followed them. once they were in the air, Katara took some water from her pouch and used it to heal aang. This allowed him to regain consciousness as he awoke to a smiling but tearful katara who embraced him in a hug.

With Azula

Hunter couldn't take it anymore and he collapsed on the ground face first, he was burning up with a fever. Azula saw this and grew very worried about him, she rushed to his side as she felt his head. Sure enough, it was hot. The boy was burning up with a severe fever and she noticed that he was clenching his chest around the heart area, like something was attacking his heart. She couldn't stay here, not with the boy like this. She saw two dai lee agents and gave them orders. "You there! Earthbend a stretcher and hurry! We can't afford to lose this boy to whatever this is that's attacking him. He's too important to the fire nation's future!," Azula ordered. The dai lee agent earthbent a stretcher and placed the ailing teen on it while taking him back to their base camp. Zhao was frustrated at what he was seeing, the fire nation princess was ignoring him and choosing some fledgling teenage boy over him! Zhao attempted to end the boy's life only to have Azula remind him just how powerful of a fire bender she was by making him taste dirt. Azula left disgusted with Zhao and quite angry at him for attempting to assassinate the boy she was falling for. She'd tend Hunter personally herself if she had to. He couldn't die, not yet. She wouldn't allow him to die before the two of them had a chance together.

Azula's room on her ship

There laid Hunter, the boy Azula had found herself falling more and more in love with. She couldn't have feelings for someone who was her enemy. Was he really her enemy though? She knew she very deeply cared for him, but her station wouldn't allow for that. Oh, screw the rules! It was driving her crazy! Azula had finally made up her mind though, she couldn't deny it anymore. She.. was in love with Hunter and she knew it. The fire nation princess leaned down towards the now peacefully sleeping boy's face and kissed his forhead that was beaded with sweat. She blushed afterwards, knowing that there was no turning back now. Azula had to completely admit it to herself, she was in love with Hunter.

She sat back down by his bedside, waiting for him to wake up. Azula would confess her feelings to him once he awoke from his slumber. She actually managed a smile, she was looking forward to seeing Hunter awake again. Azula couldn't wait to tell him, boy would he be surprised. For now though, she was content on putting her hand on the boy's hand while silently praying to Agni for him to spare Hunter's life.

To Be continued... Next chapter, Chapter 11: Those bound by fate II: Wavering princess pt II