Chapter 14 Katara Takes It Bad
Azula woke up as she saw the first rays of dawn creep through her window. She felt the arm of the avatar draped over her naked body. She rolled out from under him and grabbed her nightgown from the floor and a towel. She was going to head down and take a bath seeing as she was still sweaty and gross from her first sexual experience last night. She didn't really feel too different, just a little sore. She walked out into the courtyard and made her way down to the stream that she always bathed in. She slowly lowered herself into the water and laid back against the edge.
Azula let the cool water flow over her as she thought about last night. At first it had been painful and awkward, but the second time Aang took her it was less awkward and much longer, she was maybe even starting to enjoy it a little. Times like this she wished that she were still close to Mai and Ty Lee so she could have someone to talk to. She knew that her brother and Mai had been having sex for the months after he came back from Ba Sing Se with her. She also knew that Mai and Ty Lee talked about it a lot, and she had been a part of some of these conversations. Mai made it seem like for the first couple of weeks it was kind of strange and not very exciting, but slowly Zuko learned what he was doing and then Mai started to really enjoy it.
She was scrubbing her body with soap as she laughed to herself that she was sure the avatar would get better at this much quicker than her brother as Aang was superior to Zuko in every way. The more they had sex it would serve the dual purpose of hopefully making Aang more skilled at it and making him fall deeper and deeper under her sway. She remembered Mai talking about a flower, the kimoki flower that if you drank in tea or some other way would prevent you from becoming pregnant. She had plans to do great things in the coming year and would need no distractions.
Azula thought about the next aspect of her plan and that was for the avatar to support her, as she becomes Firelord. She figured the best way to do this was to drop subtle hints about how she always wanted to be firelord, and about how untrustworthy Zuko was and how he had already stabbed Aang in the back. Her plan had been so successful so far she was one thousand percent confident that everything else would run smoothly. She smiled as she could already picture herself on the dragon throne where she belonged.
Azula finished washing and then just relaxed in the water for about another hour. The sun was starting to rise into the sky as she got out of the water and started to dry herself off. She threw her nightgown on and wrapped her hair in a towel as she started to walk up the stairs back towards the courtyard. She figured if Aang was still out she'd do some firebending practice and let him sleep in for as long as he needed. Once Azula reached the top of the stairwell she saw a long dark-haired girl in blue robes that she recognized as Katara pacing back and forth. She thought this ought to be interesting.
Azula walked confidently into the courtyard pretending to not even notice the other girl. Katara stopped pacing and got a horrified look on her face as she saw Azula walk past her towards the temple doors. She quickly screamed, "Azula what the hell are you doing here, spirits, what did you do to Aang! I swear if you hurt him I'll leave nothing left of you to throw back in prison." Azula stopped and said " It's Katara right? Don't worry the avatar is fine." Katara had opened her waterbending pouches and the water had covered both her arms as she seemed to be getting ready to fight. The waterbender said firmly "Why are you here, and what did you do to Aang?" A smirk spread across Azula's face as she said "I did things to him your prude little self can only dream of now. But don't worry I here you got my brother as a consolation prize."
Katara's face turned red with anger as she quickly swung a water whip at Azula. Azula shot a fireblast to vaporize the water. Katara screamed at Azula as she whipped more water at her, "Tell me the truth, why you are here you evil bitch, where is Aang?" Azula did a quick back flip as she dodged the water attack and laughed as she landed and said "I will tell you the truth peasant, Aang is asleep in my room he's tired after last night, I really wore him out." She could see the rage boiling inside of the water tribe girl as she attacked very sporadically and pathetically with no focus. Azula kept dodging each attack and watched the frustration grow in her enemy. This girl had been the one to defeat her on the day of her coronation and Azula had been waiting for her chance to crush the peasant. Now though she realized that victory over the girl was already won. Azula had taken from this girl the love of the most powerful man in the world and the anger she was now displaying proved just how much it hurt her.
The water tribe girl finally got Azula by the ankle with her water whip and tripped her down to the ground. Azula was a bit frustrated that she couldn't really firebend at the girl but figured it would look best for her to be passive when Aang came to break this up. She felt the water around her legs freeze as Katara stood over her sharp intimidating icicles floating in front of her rage still burning in her eyes. Katara said threateningly "Now Azula tell me why you are here and what you did to Aang."
Suddenly she saw the peasant girl get pushed forward several feet and fall to her knees as she was hit with a powerful airblast. Aang's voice boomed through the courtyard "Katara what are you doing here, I told you I didn't want to see you." Katara turned towards him and said, "Aang thank the spirits, Azula is here to attack you, I stopped her." Azula just laughed as she melted the ice that was containing her and said "Did you hear that Aang she saved you from me." Aang turned to Azula and said firmly "I'll deal with her Azula, please just go inside." Katara looked horrified and confused as the two talked and she spoke up "Aang why are you letting her inside, what is going on here." Azula walked over towards the door and said softly "I'll be inside to talk when you finish with her, don't worry it will be all right, she can't hurt you anymore." She kissed him softly on the cheek and squeezed his hand. She walked towards the door to the temple but Aang pulled her back and gave her a deep hard kiss on the lips as he whispered in her ear "I love you." She then turned away a blush on her cheeks as she walked into the temple.
Katara was still on her knees paralyzed with confusion at the scene she had just witnessed. Aang walked towards her and said "Katara you shouldn't have come, I don't want to see you." Katara said meekly tears starting to fall from her eyes "What she said, what she told me, it's true isn't it?" Aang said, "I don't know what she said but if she told you she lives here that was true, she's been living here for the past few weeks." Katara said in an accusatory voice "And you and her, you've slept together." Aang said "Yes." Suddenly the tears seem to disappear and anger returned as she stood up and slapped Aang in the face shouting at him "You dare make such a big scene and treat me the way you did over what happened that morning when you've been fucking your own little whore all this time." Aang screamed back "Do not call Azula a whore, she's so much more than you ever were Katara, I thought I loved you, but now I feel one hundred times what I ever felt for you with Azula."
Katara started crying again as she eeked out "I don't understand Aang, how could you do this to me, why were cheating on me with the bitch who killed you." Aang shouted back defiantly "I wasn't cheating on you, she was here but we were only together for the first time last night. I wouldn't ever do that to someone I supposedly loved, unlike you Katara. How long have you and Zuko been going behind my back." Katara fell back to her knees and pleaded "Aang I don't know what happened, please forgive me, I don't love Zuko I still love you." Aang just laughed and said, "You love me Katara, haha you love me so much you just had to go and show Zuko how much you loved me." Katara said, "Aang we were drinking some wine after our victory, I just don't know what happened. I'm so sorry." A single tear fell down Aang's cheek as he said "Well Katara that makes me really believe in just how much you loved me." A sad laugh escaped him as he finished "You loved me so much that only a few glasses of wine could make you betray me. I'm done Katara, if you ever want me to get over this and be able to see you again I need you to leave now." Katara said "Aang I know you are hurt but Azula just can't be the answer, she is-" Aang cut her off and said "Don't say anything about her Katara, I don't want to hear it, I'm in love with her, she is my everything now so just leave. I'm going to go into the temple and when I come back out I expect you to be gone." With that Aang turned his back on Katara who was sobbing slumped over on the ground and walked into the temple.
Aang made his way down to Azula's room and knocked on the door, she said, "Come in Aang." He opened the door and saw her sitting on her bed and he took a seat next to her. Azula
turned to him and said, "How are you doing?" He shrugged his shoulders and said, "Oh you know, we yelled at each other and then she cried and I cried then we yelled some more. I told her to leave, I hope she goes." Azula pulled him into a hug and said, "Don't worry Aang you don't need her anymore you've upgraded to a princess." Then she captured his lips with hers. They kissed for about a minute and then Aang pulled back and said, "Thank you Azula, two days ago I was broken, and now being with you I feel like I'm the luckiest man in the world." Azula smirked at him as she caressed his cheek and said, "You got me, that does make you the luckiest man in the world." Then she kissed him again.
She pulled out of the kiss and stood up quickly and said "Aang let's go somewhere." She grabbed his hand and pulled him up to his feet. Aang let her yank him up and said "Ok Azula
where do you want to go." She smiled and said, "Let's fly to the closest Fire Nation city, as much as I appreciate all the clothes you've bought me I think I'd like to go shopping for some I pick out for myself. I think I'm ready to be introduced to the world as the avatar's girlfriend." Aang leaned in to kiss her and said "That makes me so happy I can't wait to be seen out in the world with my beautiful princess." They left her room and made their way to Appa and hopped on his back. Aang said "Yip, Yip" and Appa took off. Azula smiled as she watched the world pass beneath her, she was on her way back to her homeland and soon she would return for good triumphantly as Firelord.