#14: Surprise on a Vacation
Prompted By: Koka Kola Veins & Clueless

"Surprise!"

And with that word, Azula is hit in the stomach by something very hard and very cold that explodes upon impact with her muscles. She spins around, golden eyes narrowed on whoever had the gall to hit her with a snowball. Ty Lee. Of course.

Azula hates the South Pole. People keep talking about how much nicer it has gotten, but she cannot fathom how anything could be worse than this. And now, shaking even under the fur parka she feels trapped in, she has been assaulted by a ball of snow.

"You want to see a snowball, Ty Lee?" Azula says, reaching down. The acrobat shrugs and grins. "I'll show you a snowball."

"Now?"

"No. No, I'm saving this. For when it will actually be a surprise." And Azula takes the snow in her ridiculous tri-fingered gloves, and slips beneath an icy rooftop.

Azula leans against a wall, exhaling smoke every few breaths to try to warm up. But it is freezing and she is about ready to throttle one of the dignitaries. She bites off one of her gloves, juggling the snowball carefully around herself. And with a little, tiny bit of blue fire... melts it into a weapon of ice a waterbender would be jealous of.

Hitting her with a snowball...

And so Azula plots and connives, and just after the elaborate dinner with Chief Hakoda and Azula's sniveling brother, Ty Lee is walking with some of her new friends. She makes friends everywhere she goes and it is repulsive.

From the perfect position, she plucks up the ball of jagged ice and ─

"Surprise!" shouts Zuko, and Azula hits the snow. Coughing, her tongue suddenly cold, the beautiful snowball of carnage rolls away down the slippery stairs.

"You ruined my snowball of carnage!" Azula is being picked up by the soft hands of her fiancée as she tries to be intimidating while covered in snow and wrapped in a parka. "I will make you pay so hard that your pasty little children owe me debts."

"They'd probably sigh a lot about it," Ty Lee remarks, sniggering. "There's no fathoming the depths of my hatred for my dad that one time ruining our aunt's snowball of... what? Of... death?"

"Carnage. Snowball of carnage. I melted it to be bladed, "Azula sighs, but there is no point in explaining herself to these blithering morons. "Well, you both surprised me. I hope you're proud of your accomplishments today."

"I'm going to sleep with the lamps on," Zuko says, smirking. And he is gone.

"It was still pretty surprising, princess," Ty Lee offers feebly. Azula rolls her eyes.

"I hate surprises anyway," Azula admits under her breath.

She presses her lips against her fiancée's, and completely ignores the fact that her tongue tastes like water tribe food.

A snowball hits Azula in the back of the head, sheared in half by her ruby crown.

"Ew, guys, get a room!"

Katara.