Aaaaaannnnddddd here we go again! I wanted to upload this chapter really fast as this week probably I won't be uploading chapter, job issues, anyway, Welcome to Hamza 9236, Yeah, Shaina looks similar to A18 a little xD, but anyway, you answered first and also gave your request, it will be done during this week, I promise!

Not so much to say by now, enjoy the chapter!

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Chapter 12: Non deserving power

Days have passed since Aang's crazy idea started to take effect, for the moment the situation was really calmed and because of that, his training on lightning bending with Azula was proceeding according to his own plan

Even with all those things being considered, almost at the dawn of day 5, Aang was still having problems on shooting a proper lighting, it was getting the best of him and his new teacher, Azula, was starting to lose her little patience

"Day 5, we're getting close to the weekend and yet still you can't produce a proper lightning."

As Aang was getting tired, Katara decided to apply an opposite reaction –"You're doing fine Aang, don't let the pressure affects you."

Something that made Azula a little angry "Words of joy doesn't help now, water peasant."

And Katara would retaliate on the same way "And do you think that pressuring will do, why not to apply something different?"

That last question gave Azula an idea "Good idea…"

Moments later 2 guards were taking a big pot filled with water, then both of them dismissed, and started to give instructions "Water is a natural conductor, you manipulate the water while the avatar puts his hands on it, the result should end on a more powerful lightning shoot."

It was a really good plan, surprising the avatar and even more to his girlfriend "That… sounds really nice, ready Aang?"

After Katara's question, Aang nodded "Yes."

And both proceeded with the plan, Azula gave some directions "Don't forget the steps, in order to shot you need a perfect position, your fingers like antenas"

Like a little dance, Aang was performing it while being surrounded by the lightning, Katara then made some water float near him and, once he was done, put his hand on the water, the result was perfect, a tremendous thunder shot to the sky that even scared some citizens on Ba Sing Se, one that made the pairing really happy, and hugged each other

"Aang you did it, you performed a perfect lightning!"

"No, we did it, it was thanks to you Katara!"

As both were close to each other, the moment was interrupted by some claps coming from Azula "Yeah, nice romantic moment, but you still need to do it by your own."

"I know that" Both Aang and Katara stomachs started to do some sounds "It means that is time for dinner."

"I will go for some food."

As Katara was leaving, so did Azula to return to her jail, looking at her being so lonely, gave Aang an idea "You know, Katara prepares really delicious food, don't you want to stay?"

"Why?" Azula said not even looking at her student

"Well, is like a way for me to thank you for teaching me to manipulate the lightning, just as a gesture"

Thanking her, not like she would believe something like that, at least not so easily "Like I would to…" but her stomach said otherwise, ashaming her and that was evident on her face "Fine, you win…"

Late at night, Azula was sleeping on her personal jail, but apparently nothing was fine for her, maybe a nightmare?

"How can this be?"

And that was because she was near to Katara and Aang, as both were happily talking and sharing their food, Azula was only watching them being like that, she didn't know how to feel, if angry or sad or with nausea

But maybe there was more about that, why she had to feel like this?

"When did everything started to turn so differently?"

But the answer was pretty obvious, as from the trio of her friends, she was the only one with fire bending skills, at age 6 she was showing signs of being a prodigy, but one day, she had a question to her father, approaching to him near the turtle duck pond on the palace, he was just there, looking at the animals, maybe relaxing?

"Daddy?"

"What's wrong my dear Azula?

"On class everyone is afraid of me… even Mai and Ty Lee a little, because I'm already a fire bender when no one else can…"

As she was looking sad, prince Ozai approached to her, his smile transmitted her confidence "Don't let that affect you my daughter, you're much better than any of them and you're showing it, don't let anyone who feels inferior talk pests about you, you're Azula, princess of the fire nation, a fire bending prodigy, and you should be proud of that…"

Those words, that advice, it felt like it changed a lot on her, since that day, she started to show a lot of security, pride and selfishness that eventually could lead to a psychopathic road, somehow, being on prison, her visit to her mother, leading a group of raiders that with time she rebranded was making her go to the worse… until…

"I cannot believe that you lost with your pathetic brother…"

She was left aside by her own father, and lost once more against Zuko, a non-talented bender, but that for now, showed better skills that her, how can this be if she was so perfect? Or maybe she never was, and that treason gave her the other side of the same coin

"My powers are both my blessing and my curse…"

At the next day, she continued checking Aang's progress with the lightning, it was going fine but pretty slow

"You will need even less water if you want to do it by your own" As he failed with less water, that ended Azula's patience "Not all the time you will be alongside your girlfriend, if you don't do it by your own it will never be perfect."

"Said the perfect lady" Katara finally confronted her "If you do it so great, then shot a lightning as fast as you can."

It was a reason to start a heated discussion "Like the one in which Zuzu protected you?"

As both were almost going on hands, Aang stopped them "Please ladies, is no time to start a fight."

But Azula didn't pay attention to his words, and decided to attack "Fine then, look at this!" and as fast as she could she moved both of her hands… but nothing happened "What the hell?"

That was odd, she tried on her own style, moving slowly and then… nothing, that caught both Aang and Katara totally off guard

"What's going on with my lightning?" then Azula tried to shot blue fire, but not even a spark, with regular fire just a little breath "My powers, how in the hell is this happening?!"

The water bender noticed that, it was an easy analysis to do "It is exactly what happened to Zuko 3 years ago…"

After what Katara said, Azula was near to berserk "What happened with him?"

Aang explained "Well, as he was on a process of changing his mind, so did his fire bending… he lost his powers."

It was like an ice bucket for the proud princess, if already was hard enough for a regular bender, but she was the prideful princess of the fire nation! "So… I'm powerless because of helping you? Do you know how that makes me feel?!"

Azula wanted to discharge her frustration with the avatar, but he took some steps back "Wait, hold on your horses, there is a way to help you to get your powers back!" Aang defended himself "We have to go to the sun temple!"

Katara had her doubts "Are you sure about this? Maybe is not a good idea."

"Well the last time you said that, it turned out to be a great idea" and Aang made some sparks to appear on his fingers

Something that made Katara smile "Fine, I will support you this time."

"And I hope that you know what you're doing, as far as I know, the people from the Sun temple hates the fire nation."

"Not now with Zuko on charge, don't worry Azula, everything will be fine."

…..

"The masters for sure will eat her alive."

After less than a day of travelling on Appa, that was the answer the two obtained from the chief of the sun temple

"Ah, maybe that was not what I expected to hear" Aang laughed a little with some shame

But Azula pointed at the chief with a finger "Listen old man, I just have one objective on mind, to recover my powers in order to teach the avatar a proper lightning bending, if that's not enough for you…"

"It will depend on what the masters think about you" and he directed Azula to the Eternal Fire "Take a little of it, and go up to the top of the mountain, then wait for the masters there but remember, you must not let the fire to disappear."

She did the task with ease, and then asked Aang "Time to go on the bison."

But Aang said no, moving his head "Aaahhh… For this you have to walk."

Her face was just priceless"…You must be joking…" as she looked to the chief and the rest of the Sun's people there, all of them negated it "What a life…"

As her ascension to the mountain started, Aang had to check her while being on Appa, something that frustrated Azula a lot, even at one moment of the ascension she had to stop, it was being really annoying, especially as the Sun's people were just walking like nothing happened

But after almost an hour of walking, Azula finally made it to the top, near the stairs who would lead her to the fire masters

"Well, not like is an ugly place at all" as the sun's people arrived and started to make a circle, she asked to the chief "Now what?"

"Go upstairs and offer your flame to the masters, then wait for your judgement."

The princess looked on Aang's direction, he was just waiting and then she resigned, walking upstairs while the sun's people were doing their ceremony to welcome a new judgement, not too much time to go up, Azula then looked to the two sides, two enormous caves were there

"Well, here goes nothing, here is my flame masters, my offering to you."

After just some seconds and while everyone was expectant, then the two finally arrived, Ran and Shaw, the red and blue dragons started to fly on the sky on circles, takin Azula absolutely by surprise

"The fire masters are dragons? Well if Zuko has one it only makes sense but still."

Aang was nervous after looking all of this, but then something was different, the blue dragon, Ran went inside of his cave, leaving Shaw to come closer to Azula, looking fiercely to her eyes, for the first time on her life, she felt really nervous, afraid, pretty strange feelings coming from her, even like that she offered her fire to the beast who just blew it… then a roar

"Oh no!"

Something that made Azula run downstairs, as expected, everything went wrong and Shaw was approaching to her with a clear intention, killing her, but then Aang intercepted the dragon

"Please fire master, have mercy of her, I know that she did horrible things in the past, But I need her to help me, there is a huge danger on this world, and learning this sub arts is crucial for me on this time…" the dragon was starting to smell him "Please…"

Like that, Shaw returned to the cave as fast as possible, while downside, Azula was gasping, never on her life she felt like that, totally defenseless

"What does that mean?"

As Aang approached to her and so did the leader of the Sun warriors, the chief declared the following "The masters Ran and Shaw gave their verdict, Azula, princess of the fire nation, because of your acts, the way that you use your powers, until you make a deep change of consciousness, you're totally unworthy of being a fire bender, now leave this place, you are a disgrace!"

As that, the princess just started to walk out of the place, totally devastated and trying to contain her tears as much as possible, the avatar wanted to talk with her but she didn't want to, just wanted to go anywhere

"Can this be just any worse? How much do I have to lose?!" she screamed, her frustration was visible, she already lost the only thing she had, now there she was, alone, powerless, no friends or family at all, and not even a place to go to sleep… but after some meters downhill, Aang and Appa approached to her "Why you just don't leave me here? I'm powerless now, you did it avatar, like you did with my father."

"You still need to go back to jail, I cannot tell Kuei that I broke my promise."

She just didn't want to hear anything from him "Ja, get lost, I don't want to see your face."

"And where are you going? If you walk alone, powerless, anyone who is a bad person could take any advantage of you."

Making her stop on that moment "Why in the hell can't I just be far from you now?"

Already at night, Katara was waiting for the two, as Appa landed and both Aang and Azula came down, she asked.

"How was it?" and Aang negated with the head "I see, something like that could have been predictable."

As Azula was walking back to the jail, Aang was paying attention to her "Somehow, I still feel bad, of course that Azula did a lot of bad things but still, she helped me to obtain lightning bending."

"You know that she deserved it Aang."

"Well, yes, but is the same situation that happened with Zuko, his fire bending disappeared because he started to change, and I believe that with Azula is happening the same."

That was giving them some hope about what could happen with the exiled princess "Guess that maybe you're having a positive impact on her?" Aang giggled "Well, she still needs to help you but we don't know how long it will take for her to really change… wait, I have an idea."

That made Aang smile "Really Katara?"

"Yes, it sounds stupid but you showed me that there are no stupid ideas…"

…

"I won't allow it."

Kuei was firm on his decision, but Aang wanted to insist

"Please king Kuei, I know that Azula is a criminal, but is just a change of punishment, not to set her free" Aang asked

"Is not because of me, if It depended only on me, I of course would let her go out of the jail to community service, but is an order coming from the fire lord, one thing was your training, but this is totally different."

Katara then said "She is powerless now."

And that surprised the king "What, how?"

"A change of mind started on her head, and fire bending is related to that" she finished explaining

"So powerless…" if something, Kuei wasn't a bad person, and both Aang and Katara were his friends, maybe it wasn't a bad idea after all "Fine, I will allow it, what type of service do you have in mind?"

Aang had an idea "Well, she was a princess who gave a lot of orders to other people and made everyone afraid of her, so maybe a job in which she has to offer service to others…"

…..

"This is ridiculous, me, as a waitress?!"

Both Aang and Katara were guiding Azula on Ba Sing Se streets, that was the idea, for her to know how people felt when receiving orders

"Do you want your powers back or not?" Katara asked

No other options, anything on that moment was better than the prison, bad food uncomfortable beds, dirty clothes, maybe working as a waitress wouldn't be that bad, besides, if that was the only option to become a fire bender again, it looked like an obvious choice "More than anything else in the world"

The avatar was confident on the plan"Then this is the only way, don't worry Azula, for someone like you, it shouldn't be that difficult…"

Little Aang knew that, because of her past actions, no one would really help them to this, even on their first idea, the old tea shop in which Zuko and Iroh were working before the Jazmine Dragon opened its doors

"I will never help anyone like that monster!" and the owner closed the door pretty violently

"I think that we need to continue trying besides, thanks to Kuei, we have a really long list of places we can try… "

And again, Aang was being too positive on the situation, each door in which the three were knocking was closed and help negated due to Azula's criminal record, it would take them almost near sunset, to reach the last restaurant

"Is our last chance, Sweet Toast Café Shop" Katara knocked the door "Excuse me."

But certain old and fat lady opened it, looking at the trio with a really serious face

"Oh, the avatar…" then she looked at Azula "Everyone knows you, you were the one who invaded Ba Sing Se three years ago and collaborated with the death of the dragon of the west, my daughter hates you for that, why are you here?"

Katara decided to speak "Her punishment changed to community service miss…

"Lena" the old lady said

"Miss Lena, Azula needs to work on a restaurant like a normal person in order to fulfill the punishment."

"Why not to go to another place…?" Aang showed the list, with all the restaurants being crossed "I see."

"You're our last hope miss Lena, please" even both Aang and Katara made big eyes for her, something that ashamed Azula.

It was logical to reject that criminal to work on her restaurant, but then she felt something on her ear, the wind, a voice? It influenced her, that was for sure

After thinking for some seconds, the old lady had something to say "But first I need to know something, avatar, you are friends with Zuko, the fire lord, right?" He nodded -So you must also know my daughter, Jin."

"You're Jin's mother?" Katara asked "What a great coincidence."

"Yeah, please avatar, tell me, how is my daughter doing?"

He smiled "Jin is right now in Omashu, training with King Bumi to become a profitable earth bender, while she has no talent, is giving her best to accomplish her goal."

Something that gave Lena some little tears "So an earth bender, I knew that my girl had something special with her…"

"But she has no base, why?"

After that question coming from Katara, the old one said "Because I didn't want to be alone… with her father dead and her brother and sister gone, she was the last one who was helping me on the restaurant, I didn't want her to leave… guess that I was being selfish with her."

"That's too sad" the avatar said

"Your daughter felt that you were cutting her wings."

Azula finally interfered, something that made Katara a little angry "Why can't you be a nice once on your life time?"

"Because this lady needs to know, did you ever talk with your daughter about what she wanted on her life?" Lena negated with the head "So that's why she left, you didn't even know your own daughter, how sad.

The avatar looked at her really seriously "Azula, that's so…"

"True" What the old one said, interrupting Aang on the process, caught him and Katara off guard "She is saying the truth and I know it, I made her to do whatever I liked to do and because of that she hates me now."

While silence was on the air, Azula continued "Well, at least you recognized your own mistake, I know of people that think they are so perfect that, when they commit one, thinks that it is fault from others…"

Somehow, she wanted to say that she was talking about Ozai, but deep on her mind, she realized that her choice of words would be appliable for her also, something that made her feel bad, then Aang asked Lena

"So…"

Nothing to think on that moment for Lena "She can stay and work for me, Jin's room is free so she has a place to be on this city."

"That's great!" both Katara and Aang celebrated

"What a good new" Azula didn't know how to react "So, when do we start?"

"Tomorrow, you have to learn how to cook and serve the food to the guests."

"Fine for me" and she went alongside Lena

"Good, so, that means that for now my training is over."

"Yeah, we should return to Agni in order to help Zuko to plan a counter attack against the evil avatar."

As the pairing were leaving, Azula said something "By the way avatar, before you leave… If this doesn't work, let me tell you that, even if I'm powerless, I will kill you."

Not like she was totally serious but still, something to be considered, hours later, as Aang was flying on Appa and Katara on the fire nation globe, using the bison to go faster like a truck, as she had to return the vehicle back, both of them were talking

"Do you think that Azula can really change? 3 years after the war and she was still a danger to the world."

"Hopefully she will, and as an ally, someone like Azula could be of so much help against this new enemy."

Wondering what can go on the future, the two continued to fly to the horizon