She was too fast, too agile, and too skillful.

They could barely keep up with her.

Sokka started climbing up to the hole to catch up with his friends and the clever princess. Just as he reached the top, he saw Azula "jump-flying" towards him.

As confused and exhausted he was, he tried to find a solution to their current situation. He needed to catch her this time. Their time was running up and he needed to finish this. The beautiful princess was strong and fast, but he was strong himself as well. He was a man, and he could do this...

Azula was pretty satisfied with her plan so far. Team Avatar was getting tired, and the eclipse would be over soon. They fell straight into her trap. Just a little longer and the mission would be complete.

With the help of the Dai Li agent, she jumped towards the hole where the tall warrior boy was looking at her confused. He was clearly annoyed and clueless. What would he do now she wondered with a smirk.

He ducked back while she reached him, flying over him elegantly.

Almost.

Sokka could feel her nice scent. Everything happened sudden, when Azula felt two arms hugging her waist and two strong legs trapping hers between them. They fell hard on the ground. First, Sokka was under her, but he immediately turned themselves around so that he would lay atop her, in control of the situation.

Time seemed to stand still for a while. Both out of breath and shocked, their faces only inches away, looked into each other's eyes.

As weird as it might be considering their current situation, they both always knew that the other was attractive, but right now, they were amazed. Especially Sokka was extremely marveled by her beauty. They could feel each other's breaths and even everything else since their bodies were pressed tightly together.

Azula's eyes started narrowing and she started moving to get out of his grasp. He immediately stood up a little, so that he wouldn't press so much against her. His hand held her pinned down on her shoulder and he grabbed his sword and held it over her heart, so that she would stop moving.

Aang and Toph reached them. Sokka looked at Toph, put his sword away and slid his strong arms around Azula's waist. In a matter of seconds, without Azula and Aang being able to process it, he stood up fastly with her in his arms and pinned her against the wall, not too harshly though. He didn't want to hurt her intentionally. Toph bent the earth and trapped her arms, so that she would stay put.

"Sokka is your name right?" Azula asked a smirk spreading across her face "What do you think will happen now? Do you believe your antics scare me?"

Sokka narrowed his eyebrows and came closer to her, his hand on her shoulder again.

"Listen now Azula" Sokka replied with a slight growl "Don't make this any more difficult! Where is the Fire lord?" spelling the last words slowly.

Azula just kept smirking which drove Sokka mad.

"Tell us where he is now!"

"Sokka, this won't help, she isn't going to tell us anything" said Aang.

Sokka looked at Aang and turned to Azula again. An idea coming into his mind. He didn't know if this was crazy, but he wouldn't let this day go to waste. And he wouldn't let the princess win, no matter how attractive she was.

"You know what? Don't tell us where he is" he said to Azula.

She watched him a bit confused now. Now his lips curved into a slight smirk.

"I have a better idea" he said and turned around again.

"Did you guys bring those metal handcuffs? The ones the mechanist gave us?" he asked.

His friends just stood there for a moment, clueless of what he was planning.

"Yeah, but she is already trapped, and she can't bend" Toph replied.

"Just give me one of them" Sokka said.

Toph handed him one of the handcuffs. Sokka looked at Azula and she started laughing.

"You are funnier than I took you for warrior boy, you think metal handcuffs will scare me now?"

He smirked again "Yes, I think they will. These are made from the hardest metal, not even an excellent bender like you can escape those"

Azula stopped laughing altogether and was surprised by his comment about her being an excellent bender. On the other side she was thinking about if he was going to do what she was thinking he would do. No, he wouldn't dare that right?

"Since the eclipse is over soon and you as good as sabotaged my whole plan, I will make the best out of the situation"

With every word he uttered, everyone else grew more and more confused.

"You are coming with us princess!"

"WHAT!?" yelled Toph and Aang in unison.

"Are you out of your mind Sokka?" Aang asked

"If we take her, we can try to make a better plan on how to destroy the fire lord. I don't know, maybe she can even help us" he whispered towards his friends.

"I'm hearing everything you say oh "whisper-master! You are going to regret that. Besides you aren't going to accomplish anything in your favor with this plan of yours" Azula interrupted.

"Yeah, we'll see that princess" he replied smiling.

Azula found him weird.

"Do you really believe you'll be able to kidnap me and get out of here without anyone catching you?"

She wouldn't admit it, but his open-mindedness and self-confidence made her unsure. Would he really do that without getting caught. She would fight him anyway, but part of her wanted to see if he really could get away with this. Even if he sounded funny and weird, he was an intelligent man.

"I am not too fond of this idea, but I also think she could be of use" Toph commented.

Aang thought for a moment and looked at Azula, then to Sokka "Alright, let's go"

Just as Azula tried to protest, Toph moved the rock wall behind her, so that she would fall unconscious. Sokka turned around and looked at Toph with narrowed eyes.

"What? She would have made everything more difficult. I didn't hit her hard, it is enough for us as long as we reach Appa" she said.

They freed her hands from the earth only to cuff them with the metal cuffs. Sokka held her carefully, not to hurt her any further and threw her body over his shoulder, since it would be easier for him to run and safer for her to not hit her head.

He felt weird, carrying someone for the first time, and a beautiful woman, the fire nation princess too boot. The more he thought about it, the more he was asking himself if this was really a good idea or not. They would try their best to get information out of her. And of course, he would give his best, that no one would hurt her and that she wouldn't hurt anyone either. He was responsible for her, and he would treat her well, no matter if she was the daughter of the man who led this war.

Flying on the back of Appa, Sokka watched Azula the whole time. She was still unconscious. The rest of the group weren't fond of the idea at first. But his father, now left behind, said he trusted Sokka's instincts and knew he would do the right thing. Katara agreed after a while too, halfheartedly, yet trying to trust her brother as well.

Azula was interesting thought Sokka to himself. Not only her beautiful looks and marvelous bending. She gave him an energy he couldn't quite describe and never felt before. They barely knew each other but he felt responsible for her. Responsible to not let any harm come to her. A warmth was born inside of him and without his control and realization, he smiled warmly at her lying figure. He believed amazing things were going to happen from here onwards...

Maybe she would become part of their group one day, who knows. Everyone could learn to look at things from different perspectives. All logic was against what he was feeling, but he couldn't help it. His rage turned into hope and warmth.

Next to him, Aang sensed the energy and didn't dare tell him anything about the dream he had some days ago of him with Azula. He smiled too and kept flying Appa, also having a good feeling about this.

Far away behind them, a prince was flying towards them with a balloon. Well, that would be a crazy ride…

A/N: Of course the are going to end up as a couple!

I couldn't wait for this promp, it was the first one I've written. Hope you liked it as much as I did.