Author's notes: This is a merge of the Phantom of the Opera (book) if you have not read the book I highly suggest it and Avatar the last Air bender.
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Chapter Six A Visit to the Mysterious Tea House
Fire Princess Azula decided to have Ladies Mai and Ty Lee investigate the matter of the tea house that the waterbender frequented in the lower rings of the city.
Leaving behind them the broad walls of the upper rings outside the vast array of the court splendor to the trains and all of it's track leading to nearly to everywhere you could possibly imagine in a city as grand as Ba Sing Se. They made their way through the market street of the refugees and looked at the tea house in question. They could not see it too clearly because it was in half shadows due to the large trees that branches covered over the dull green and brown of the building.
They were almost along in the huge, gloomy tea house; and a great silence surrounded them. It was the time when most of the city's lower class has gone home for the night. The refugees had deserted the streets for the time being, leaving an eerie calm in the environment. A few rays from the street lamp light, a wan, sinister light, that seemed stolen from an expiring luminary, fell through the door's opening. Everything in this deceptive light had adopted a disturbing and fantastic shape. Inside the tea house the tables and chairs looked like the angry side of a mountain, whose sharp cliffs would gladly impale a weary traveler who has lost their footing. Ladies Mai and Ty Lee made for the curtained room in the far left hand of the house, ploughing their way like a pair of sailors who leave to their ship and try to struggle to the shore through the ruff waves after a hurricane. Around the top of the door frame hung dolls and masks, grinned and grimaced, laughing and jeering at poor Lady Ty Lee's distress. And yet Lady Mai seemed to recognize the dolls. Their names were Hei Bei, Oma, Shu, Chang'e Tui, La, Makoto, Kyoshii, Suzan, Gyantou, Byaaku, Roku, Hotaru, Agni, Izanagi, and Koh, whom we all know him for being the stealer of faces, looked down upon the tow disguised fire nation women who had ended up clutching to each other like two children afraid of the dark.
I had said that they were distressed. At least, I presume so. By reading Lady Mai's report to the Fire Nation Princess I had gathered that she was impressed, and from what I have researched from her father's Memoirs she was not one who was easily impressed. To quote Lady Mai's Report:
'Per Azula's request, Ty Lee and myself went to check out a pathetic excuse of a tea shop that the Avatar's water bender is said to frequent. I would do just about anything to get out of the palace and, away from the sad excuse that they call their king and is smelly pet bear , that I've had the pleasure of being assigned to clean up after. At first glance at the dirty semblance of a building it looked like every other boring piece of architecture of the dull city, until we went inside and I must admit, the atmosphere in there was like nothing I had ever seen before, above the curtained room that the owner said the waterbender always sits in, there were various dolls and masks of sprits, gods, avatars, and guardians from all four nations. They all seemed to be pointed in a manor to drive off any one from the room. Upon entering the room I noticed a figure behind one of the support beams cloaked in shadows. Ty Lee must have seen it as well. Ty Lee said nothing nor did I. I instinctly went for my one of my knives while Ty Lee seized my arm and shuttered. We stood in place for some time, with out moving, with our eyes fixed on the same point; but the figure had disappeared. After the encounter we left the tea house and communicated our impressions to each other and spoke about the shape. However what Ty Lee saw and what I saw were two completely different things. I had seen a lean build frame with a grinning blue face, whereas Ty Lee saw what appeared to be a woman cloaked in shades of navy and violet.
Shortly afterwards Ty Lee and me returned to the room in the tea house, then we took the liberty of moving all of the furniture, lifted the covers on the table and chairs, and even went through the lengths of opening all the curtains of the dimly lit room. However neither Ty Lee or myself were able to determine what the shape was. Altogether, the room was like any other room in this pigeon-rat trap hell hole. '
"Some one is trying to make a fool out of me!" Princess Azula glared. "There is another one of the king's useless festivals this Saturday, ladies: perhaps we should enjoy the festivities from this Tea House, ladies?"
Author's notes: Ok, ninety percent of the dolls and masks that are named I pretty much came up with.
I found this chapter pretty hard to write because of Mai's character, I am not good with emo characters so I may have came off a little too over the top with her.
The Next couple of chapters are going to be longer and allot more fun to write, sometimes these chapters that build up for stuff later on are a bore but I promise you that there is a good reason why I put them in. I will try to have the next chapter up very soon (I just need to figure out what song I should have Jun sing as Oma,)
