"You're dead! Dead! This is just an image. Ha..ha...Yiyi's dead...that's right, heh..I killed her.."
"My Princess…"
Katara took her place next to Zuko who was being protected by the blue dragon, flinching as Azuleus growled at her. Yiyi placed her hand downwards as if telling her dragon that Katara was not a threat.
"Azula. What happened to you?"
Azula narrowed her eyes at the question, sending a fury of fire blasts towards the female as if the fire would dispel her imagination. Yiyi stood in her spot, clapping her hands together and creating a divide between Azula's fire. Creating a ring of lightning around her, Azula shakingly points it towards what she believes to be her imagination of Yiyi.
"Yiyi!" Zuko coughed out, holding his hand out to try and help his beloved. Yiyi catches the lightning and redirects it back up towards the sky, causing Azula to stare in disbelief.
"Leave me alone! LEAVE ME ALONE!" Azula yelled out as she continued to attack the female. Yiyi felt her chest tightened, watching the beautiful Princess who once stood proud and tall turn into a mentally unstable weak child. The Princess dropped to her knees in tears as she held her head in pain, "she's fake...it's all just an imagination…" she thought to herself. Yiyi walked up to the female and placed a hand on her head, smiling sadly at the distraught female.
"I'm not an imagination, Azula... When did this happen to you?"
"It's all your fault, everything is all your fault!" Azula hissed, crying into her hands. "If it wasn't for you. Mother would have loved me, father would have loved me. I would've been the happiest princess in all the nations."
"My princess...you did have everyone's love. Perhaps not Ozai's but you had Princess Ursa's love." she whispered back, stroking the younger's hair and feeling hurt that she never noticed how unstable Azula became.
"No...No...mother thought I was a monster, father thought I was weak and ashamed of me. My brother never wanted to play with me and even my friends betrayed me. It was all your fault, you took them away from me!" The female screamed in agony, her eyes shaking from how unstable she was, slightly panicking as she was short of breath.
Yiyi took a step back creating a tornado of fire around her and the Princess, the beautiful fire shot up to the sky, revealing fiery images of past memories.
"Azula, look up….look at these." Yiyi smiled, looking at the images of the two girls laughing happily together. She held onto the young princess, gripping on her hand as if trying to calm her down.
"This looks pretty on you Azula!" TyLee's voice echoed through the flames as an image of TyLee holding out a robe to the young Azula.
"Geez My Princess…" Yiyi's voice echoed over as an image of the young maid holding out a cup of tea to young Azula and dabbing at her sweat.
"No….those are fake…." Azula shook her head, tears streaming down as an image of her mother kissing her younger self breezed over. Azula's young laughter could be heard swimming around the tornado of colorful fire.
"No Azula, those are your memories. The memories you forgot, the memories you buried away yourself." Yiyi replied. Turning to the young Princess, she held out two fingers to the female, smiling softly. "You were the one that created this."
"Hey Hey! Since we're all stars of the academy, we should make it somewhat memorable!" a young Azula's voice whispered.
"Like what?" Mai questioned back
"Oooh, let's make a hand insignia!" Tylee suggested as she raised two fingers up, placing it next to her cheek cutely.
"That's it!" Azula remarked, holding out two fingers in front of her. Yiyi questioned her Princess, as she placed her own two fingers in front of her.
"What's this? Peace?" Yiyi questioned. Azula shook her head, pulling the little maid's finger closer and connecting them together.
"A star." Azula smiled as Mai and TyLee joined in, the four tiny hands creating a star together.
"We'll be together, forever!" TyLee exclaimed happily as the four girls hugged each other.
"Azula, come back." Yiyi smiled, keeping her fingers out to the female. Azula shakingly watched the images, glancing back and forth from the female in front of her and the fiery clips.
"Was I your friend?" Azula questioned, nervously looking at the two fingers she held up, grazing over the other's finger.
"No." Yiyi replied softly, gathering her hands, she pushed them downwards as the tornado of fire dispersed with her command. "You were more than a friend Azula."
Walking towards her dragon, she knelt down and placed a hand on Zuko's head, smiling at the male. The two looked over to the young Princess who was now crying hysterically, digging her head within her arms.
"You were family."
Zuko groaned as he stood up, trudging over to his younger sister in pain and dropping in front of her. "I'm so sorry Azula…" Using one hand he pulled his sister into a hug, although he was still in pain from her attack earlier, the pain his sister felt was probably far worse than what he was currently feeling.
"It's all my fault Azula, I should've protected you. I should've been there for you." Zuko apologizes sadly to his sister who cried into his chest.
"Katara, watch over them. I still have things yet to finish." Yiyi whispered, looking over to her dragon and smiling. "Thanks for being there for Zuko."
Climbing onto her dragon, Yiyi was ready to depart to her next battle, gazing far into the distance and seeing a fury of red fire shooting into the bright red sky. "Let's take him down." Azuleus growled in approval, flapping his giant wings and ascending to the sky.
"You come down here right now!" Zuko yelled out in anger, looking up at the ascending dragon. "Yi Ruolan. Come down here right this instant!"
Yiyi looked down at Zuko as his eyes narrowed at her, causing her heart to drop to the pit of her stomach, never seeing the young Prince look like that before.
"Azuleus, down." she whispered to her dragon as she descended with the other's command. Zuko stormed over, leaving Azula to the waterbender who tied her up in chains.
"You don't have anything to say to me? You're just going to leave without saying anything?" Zuko questioned, grabbing the female's wrist harshly and pulling her to him. "You just come whenever you want and go whenever you feel like it? Do you have any idea. ANY IDEA, how I've been these past few days?"
Yiyi placed a hand on Zuko's chest, seeing the bright red mark on his chest from Azula's earlier attack.
"Zuko...I'm glad you're safe." she smiled, looking at the male who had tears pooling out of his amber orbs.
"Safe?" he choked out, feeling his heart tear apart. "You...You…" He didn't know what to even say, he was so happy to see her alive but angered that she didn't bother explaining anything to him.
"I love you Zuko." Yiyi whispered softly, placing a hand on his cheek and leaning in to kiss the male. Zuko sighed once their lips connected, feeling a spark, not from someone's attack, but rather from the two's state of intense longing for union with another.
"Don't leave me….please...don't ever leave me again." Zuko pleaded, his lips quivering as he deepened the kiss with his beloved. "Please...Yiyi….please. I felt so lost without you."
"Zuko." the female started, pulling away from his kiss and staring into his deep red eyes. "I want to see Ozai one last time."
"Why?" the prince questioned, looking at the girl through tear filled eyes. "Why do you even want to see him again?"
"To end things once and for all." she replied, waving her hand in a circular motion to summon her dragon.
"I'm coming with you."
Whilst Zuko and Katara battled with Azula, Aang took down Firelord Ozai by taking away his bending, causing the once powerful Firelord to be weak and vulnerable. Zuko and Yiyi arrived ontop of a rock where Aang and Ozai stood.
"Dragon?" Ozai gasped out, trying to sit up from his position. "I thought…"
"All dead? I thought so too.." Yiyi smiled, walking up to the male and kneeling to be at his eye level.
"Are you here for me?" Ozai questioned, taking a strand of the girl's hair shakingly and smiling at her as if he was looking through her. "Ruyi, are you here to save me?"
"Ozai, I told you before. Ruyi is gone...I'm not her." she replied, slapping the male's hand away.
"No...Ruyi.." he croaked out, trying to prop himself up. Taking out a dagger from her waistband, she unsheathed it and smiled menacingly. Aang quickly took his spot, and placed a hand on the female firebender's shoulder, shaking his head as if saying 'don't do it'.
"Ozai, remember the day you took mother by force?" she questioned, pointing the dagger at his chest and piercing his skin through the blade. Ozai groaned out in pain as the female in front of him smiled in anger.
"Ruolan!" Aang shouted, gripping onto the female's shoulder even tighter. Yiyi glanced upwards at the airbender, smiling at him and shaking her head through teary eyes. Seeing this, the Avatar faltered a step back and looked away, not wanting to see what would happen next.
"Remember the day you came to mother's funeral?" she questioned further, pushing the dagger further into his skin. Ozai held onto the female's hand, trying to stop her from pushing the dagger deeper.
"I loved your mother…" he whispered out. "I loved her so much…"
Yiyi let go of the dagger, rolling up her sleeves to reveal the scars on her forearms and bicep. "If you loved her, would you have treated me like this?"
Zuko kneeled next to his father and winced at the dagger that stuck out from his chest, looking at his beloved, not knowing what to do.
"It was your father's fault! He got in the way of our love! It was Ursa's fault for getting in the way of our love! Ruyi loved me, she loved me!" he spat, growling in anger at his son and the female. "You would've been my daughter if I had done the deed first. We would've been the most powerful family in Fire Nation history!" he laughed insanely. He suddenly stopped laughing and looked at the girl seriously. "Even if your mother had died, I could've bore another child….with you. We would've had a beautiful son or daughter. Yiyi, come to me. I'll treat you better than before, I'll let you do whatever you want. I won't trap you anymore as long as you come back to my side."
Zuko growled out in anger, remembering the day he found Yiyi clawing for her life away from Ozai's grip. He pushed the dagger fully into his father's chest, eyes blinded through hatred and anger.
"Not a chance."
Ozai gasped out from the sudden impact, trying to shove his son off as pain surged throughout his body. Yiyi watched in shock, not expecting Zuko to ever attack his father to the point of taking his life.
"You disgust me. You won't be able to touch her ever again. Father." Zuko hissed out the last part, pulling the dagger out and watching the blood spew from his father's chest as he dropped to the floor.
"Yiyi…." Ozai whispered, holding his hand out shakingly to the young female who watched without a change of expression. "My dear Ruyi…You're still as beautiful as the day I met you…"