A/N: I cant believe i made it to chapter 14! Thank you for all the reviews, follows, and favorites. Please review to have me continue!
Chapter 14
"So we finally make it to ba sing se, and there is a huge fire nation drill trying to break the outer wall, its our luck I swear!" sokka exclaimed
"Universe just hates you snozzles."
After a mini argument, they finally set a plan. Destroy the drill from the inside out.
"Thats an amazing plan azula, its so diabolical!"
"I never heard a comment on something so horrible sound so cheerful." Mai's monotone voice said. Then again, only ty lee would be able to do so.
"It's the most strategic plan, I don't know what my brother is up to but-" Azula turns away from her friends "Its all about holding the right cards, we will try brute force first-" meaning the drill. "Although, destroying ba sing se would be more fun if more manipulation was involved."
"And you always been so good at it azula! Remember that one time-"
"Yes yes yes, Im amazing, we covered that." "If this doesn't work, we'll destroy ba sing se from the inside out."
"your sister's here."
"My luck." He paused. "What is she doing?"
"Just trying to drill through the outer wall."
Kaji expected zuko to spit out his tea he was drinking, instead zuko just sighed.
"Just like a thorn festers in skin." zuko said
"Eh?"
"Nothing, I like to work out problems through analogies." zuko said. And it made sense to him. A thorn is something bad, it will continually bother you tell you deal with it. However, a thorn is attached to a rose and a rose could be useful.
"Please don't explain the analogy to me, It will only confuse me."
zuko smiled
Not even a week later zuko will have changed his mind about azula being useful. Zuko knew the dai lee would double cross anyone. And it seems they admired azula.
"Agni only knows why." Zuko muttered frustrated.
"You're a firebender, and I'll prove it!"Jet exclaimed.
'Are we really gonna do this' zuko thought just before jet pulled out his weapons.
'Guess we are.'
"There is something seriously wrong with this place."
"What did the second jo de scare you?"
"Its not even a common name!"
"Not to mention they were exactly alike, creepy."
"Lets just focus on finding appa."
"The flyers will hopefully help-" katara started to say as she ran into someone- "Jet!"
"Come on jet, where did the dai lee take you?" Katara asked
"I told you, I don't know!"
"Here, let me try something." As katara used her healing abilities on his head-jet finally remembered.
"They took me somewhere near the water, like a lake."
"Wait-!" "Remember where jo dee said she went to vacation?" "Lake laogai!"
"Thats it!" Jet confirmed "Lake laogai."
"we need to move the resistance." Zuko said
"Wait, what?" kaji asked
Zuko said, "you know how azula was trying to get through the outer wall with a drill?"
"Yahh..."
"Well shes now In the city and unfortunately-"
~~~~Two days prior~~~~
Earth king: "I humbly welcome our allies the kyoshi warriors!"
"Well thats not good." kaji said
"No, its not. And shes getting the dai lee on her side." Zuko added and his mind drifted to his earlier conversation with azula...
"So the whole army is outside the wall."
"Pretty much zuko and don't take all the credit with father. I brought the brute force."
"The brute force that will only we able to act if I had taken control of the government."
"I don't think so zuzu" Azula relished in her new nickname for her brother.
Azula went on to explain how much a hold she now has over the dai lee and how-
"Ba sing se is not really the prize after all."
Zuko raised an eyebrow.
"It's the crown!" "And I will have, I know about the resistance and their plan to attack on the day of black sun. I already sent word to father." "No earth kingdom peasants will stop the fire nation!"
'ok good she doesn't know of the fire nation involvement' zuko thought.
"You can have this city, but I will have the crown and the avatar's head on my mantel to cement my title has crowned heir to the thrown!" Azula said and dramatically existed the room
Azula's confession that she was gonna kill the avatar was bad. With the threat of azula taking over ba sing se, aang wouldn't leave here. It would come down to a show down.
As zuko's army and resistance sets off for chamaeleon bay and out of ba sing se,
"So where are you going" kaji asked zuko
"To see a guru of sorts. I need to learn a lost fire bending technique."
Silence
"cool cool, well be safe!"
zuko swore kaji and sokka should met. Hopefully there would be a day they could.
"Chief hakoda, theres another letter for you." his right hand man said as he handed hokoda the letter signed by the resistance of the earth kingdom.