Gladiator: Mark of the Rogue

by Soulhope The Wolf

When Sokka's father surrenders to the Fire Nation to save his wife Sokka leaves the tribe. After finding the lost city of the water tribe he trained by the cursed king of city. 5 years latter working as a mercenary Sokka is captured by Azula and sent to Gomaku a gladiator arena for the miner league. 5 years later the war is over and a board Azula is looking for a gladiator.

4. Quenching

Gladiator mark of the rouge

Chapter 4: Quenching

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It has been seven years since the war ended with the Fire Nation victory over the world. Shockingly King Kuei surrendered after Ozai road into the city on Fluffy his daughter's mongoose dragon. Ozai road in to Ba Sing Se holding a white flag, on the day of the comet were he gave Kuei the two options. Surrender or be wiped out like the air nomads appeared to be. He even told the king that the comet would be there in but a few hours. Kuei decided to surrender rather than risk his people.

To reword Kuei, Ozai made him the governor of Ba Sing Se. A month later with Yue's help the Fire Nation took the Northern Water Tribe from within the tribe itself. After the northern water tribe fell, Ozai renamed the four nations into the United Empire of Elements and built the Imperial City near the original colonies.

Bato the leader of the water rebels seemingly disappeared during the capture of the northern tribe.

Chief Hakoda now known as Water Chief after he beat Arnook for the title newly created title. King Kuei is now known as the Earth Lord, a woman named Haman was named the Wind Mistress, and Ozai took the title of Phoenix Emperor, Lord of Flames.

The man known as the Faceless Tiger has been sent to the Gladiator Prison of Rome in the Mother Land. Rome was the largest of the eight gladiatorial prisons.

The Gladiator Prisons are a form of entertainment used to deal with dangerous prisoners who have been sentenced to death. The Gladiator Prisons also help fund several state programs with the lucrative gambling the fights draw. The prisons house a battalion of Yuyan Archers to inshore no prisoner escapes and no harm comes to the spectators.

Rome was also the only prison that had fights that pitted dangers animals against their gladiators. Rome was also the oldest and largest of the gladiatorial prisons. The gladiatorial fights are called the Gladiator League.

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Rome Gladiator League Prison

A young man of average height with dark skin was doing pushups using his left hand well he was turning a page in a rather think book every few seconds. The man had a long scruffy beard that went down to his chest along with long strait brown hair that fell to the middle of his back. Although looking unkempt his hair was free of dirt and grease and his beard was well groomed.

"Gladiator you will be fighting today. Man commander Zhao really hates you he is throwing you in the pit again after the fight you had two days ago." Ji the oldest of the Yuyan Archers stationed in Rome.

"That's because I forced him out of the war when I removed his left leg during a sea battle with the former Earth Kingdom. Despite there being water bender medics on board, they could not reattach his leg since I threw it over board. Lucky for him my sword was hot enough to catteries the wound as I removed his leg through the knee. In addition, after I came here he was mad I killed my opponent during my first match despite being heavily injured and going up against the Champion at the time. Therefore, I think Zhao has a good reason to hate me but I do enjoy making him mad by living. So we are even." Gladiator states in a somewhat deep voice as he shuts his book.

"Despite the fact that Zhao hates you, you can still have that large cell reserved for the champion so why do you stay in this small cell Gladiator?" Ji asks the young man why he stays in the 6x8 cell.

"I like it its small but cozy and I did get a comfortable bed for it. Besides, I'm not one for luxuries. Here I think you grandson will like this book. Now I need to get ready for the pit." Sokka says as he hands Ji the book he was reading.

"The Storm God vs. The Eight Headed Dragon? Sounds good I may read it first, you are on at two, and I do not know what Zhao has in store for you this time, but Zhao has been is in a very good mood today. All I could procure for you on such short notice was a pair of gladius you made three weeks ago. I do not see how you break such quality swords. I mean you are the only other in the empire who is being contracted to make swords for the high-ranking officers of the empire." Ji says with a smile as he leaves Sokka to get ready.

"I brake them because Zhao will not let me use the smelter to make quality pure steel when I'm not commissioned to make a blade. Since Zhao gets half the pay and is a patriot and wants his countrymen to have a quality blade. The Gladiator weapons I make are of a lesser quality because I have to pound the slag out of the blade and cannot add a new source of carbon to it. My old sword was meteorite steel hardened with bone and wood ash it was much stronger, purer, and less brittle. Too bad the princess broke the thing when she captured Me." gladiator says with a smile.

"I managed to snag last two of gladius you made last week. They are in your locker with the rest of your weapons." Ji says.

"Thanks that is why you are the one who will get my account when I meet my end. What's it up to know again?" Sokka asks as he towels himself off.

"You are up to about half a billion Yuan's. Any way I will leave you to get ready now." Ji says as he leaves the cellblock.

Near Rome

A new Fire Nation prototype small-scale troop transport that resembled a battle train was making its way to the Rome. Inside the tank is the special operations group known as the Battle Angels. At the driver's seat was Azula and next to her was a pregnant Toph. Sitting behind them is Mai, Ty lee, and Yue with Katara in last row of the seats.

The girls have all matured and filled out over the last seven years but little else had changed for most of them. Toph now stands at five foot one and a quarter inches and was still the shortest girl in the group. She now had surpassed her mother's cup size by having large D-cup breasts, which looked even bigger on her small frame. She has an onion shaped ass that also matched her mothers. She also matched her mother by being three months pregnant.

Yue and Mai remained mostly unchanged except that Mai had a wedding band on her left hand having recently gotten engaged to prince Zuko. She had slightly larger breasts and a larger butt. Katara grew to be an almost carbon copy of her mother. Ty lee grew to stand at five foot five and had D-cups and a larger ass now but she still dressed in shades of pink. Yue stayed the same just looked a bit more mature.

However, Azula had changed the most she now stood at five foot four, and had her haircut at the same length it was repaired to after The Faceless Tiger cut off her topknot. It now fell to the bottom of her neck with her bangs staying the same length. Azula did not grow her hair back out because she liked how she looked with short hair. Azula was greatly disappointed that her boobs did not grow any bigger though.

However, the biggest change was the small diagonal three-inch scar under her right eye that was given to her by The Faceless Tiger. Both Katara and Kya had offered to make sure the scar would not scar, but Azula had asked them to make sure it would scar. Azula wanted to keep her scar so she would always remember to never underestimate her opponents. Azula also wears a black gauntlet on her right hand, the same katar dagger gauntlet that gave her the scar on her face. She had Hakoda and her daddy modified it so she could wear it on her right hand and would fit her properly.

"Why are we heading to Rome again?" Toph asks as she reaches into her purse for some leachi nuts.

"Because Azula is looking for a fighter to take the top spot in the Fighters League since Fire Nation law prevents her from participating and she wants to take Chan down another peg." Yue says from her seat were she was filing her nails.

"That dick who you dated for a month well we were recovering on Ember Island you caught in bed with some bounty hunter. Didn't we set his house on fire along with breaking the foundations? That was fun we should do it again." Toph says as she eats some more of her leachi nuts.

"Same piece of scum. Do not forget I had to pull Azula away before she set him on fire. Should have let her do it with how much of a pain he is again even though his fighter is only in the 400 bracket. Moreover, Toph how are you not sick you normally would be puking by now. As a matter of fact you should be puking anyway with how bad your Moring sickness is?" Katara asks Toph looking confused at the youngest member of the Angels.

"Best thing about The Duke knocking me up is it cured my motion sickness, at least temporarily. It was funny watching Papa intimidate my hubby after learning I had a bun in the oven. I still can't believe how fast the trio got a wedding together." Toph says as she eats more nuts.

"I still can't believe you're the first to get married Toph, I thought it would be Aang and Sugar Queen who would tie the knot first." Yue says using Toph nickname for Katara.

"And I thought Ty lee would be the first to get knocked up that was fifty Yuans I lost." Azula says with a small smile without taking her eyes off the road.

"Hay I am not a slut or a whore. I may spend the night in a mans bed from time to time but I do not do it without making a guy wear a condom. If they say, they don't want to wear a rubber and try to get wrought with me I make them incapable of getting it up for a few months. Then I steal his wallet and leave to get some ice cream and gamble on Fighter League the next day." Ty lee says proudly.

"We know you drag us off to watch the fights at least once every three months." Toph dryly states with her mouth full.

"Toph don't talk with your mouth full. Katara why does your dad have a box reserved at Rome I thought he preferred to watch the Fighter's League?" Azula asks Toph just sticks her tongue out at Azula.

"He is a fan of the Champion of Rome. You know the guy who is called Gladiator since he refused to give his name when he was imprisoned." Katara states as she looks out the small window of the transport.

The girls would continue to gossip until they reached Rome.

Rome carriage lot…

Azula noticed that Lady Chin-Ta's carriage was double-parked. Azula hated Lady Chin-ta who was a former Earth Kingdom noble who now served on the Imperial Council. The woman told her she should find a good man and start making babies last year. The woman was lucky it was her little six-year-old sister's birthday and Azula would not ruin her sister's birthday by setting the hag on fire. Azula loved to get petty revenge and she had passed that onto some of her friends. However, Azula did not want to pass it onto her sister so she held back from getting revenge at the time.

With a wicked smile, Azula drove four-ton troop transport into the beautifully crafted and expensive carriage that Lady Chin-Ta bragged about into kindling. After getting out of her transport, Azula set the carriage on fire as well.

"Was that Lady Chin-Ta's fifteen hundred thousand Yuan carriage?" Katara asks as she climbs out of the transport.

"Yep she was double parked. It looks better like this anyway it was kind of gaudy." Azula says with a bit of a crazy look in her eyes.

"This is a definite improvement to the thing. The stupid whore said I should start pumping out little air benders with Aang. I mean shore we got engaged three months ago but I am only twenty-one I am not quite ready to start popping out babies." Katara says with a similar look in her eyes.

The rest of the girls dragged the two young woman away from the ash pile that was a fifteen hundred thousand Yuan carriage before they did something else to it. Waiting for the group at the entrance to the grand arena was Water Chief Hakoda and Warden Zhao.

"Princess Azula Lady Mai, Lady Ty lee, Lady Beifong, Lady Yue and Lady Katara welcome to Rome. To celebrate your visit I have scheduled some special events." Zhao says politely as he bows to the young women.

"Thank you for having us Warden Zhao." Azula says

"Katara give your old man a hug." Hakoda says with a smile.

With a smile, Katara gives her father a big hug.

"Is your mother still mad?" Hakoda asks as he releases his daughter.

"She has calmed down a bit so come home already. If you don't come home soon she will just get madder at you and you will get a worse punishment." Katara says with a bit of an evil smirk on her face.

"You have been spending too much time with Azula, Katara. I will head home with you girls." Hakoda says with a depressed look.

Hakoda forgot about Katara's engagement party two months ago and has been hiding out by taking on multiple diplomatic missions well waiting for his wife to calm down.

"Now let's hit the betting counter." Ty lee yells excitedly as she throws her right arm in the air.

With the tension properly broken the group heads into Rome.

Standing at one of several betting counters was a lovely woman with long black hair and brown eyes. She had a nice hourglass figure and was dressed in the uniform of the female clerks. The uniform consisted of tight black and red cheongsam.

"Hay Ming I would like you to meet my daughter Katara and the rest of the Battle Angles and two thousand Yuan's on Gladiator to win the Beast Battle Royal." Hakoda says to the woman behind the betting counter.

"It's nice to meet you Princess Azula, Lady Katara, Lady Mai, Lady Beifong, Lady Yue, and Lady Ty lee. Would you like some advice on who to bet on?" Ming tells the group as she takes Hakoda's bet on Gladiator wining the Beast Battle Royal.

"What's a Beast Battle Royal?" Azula asks not being familiar with the Gladiator League.

"A beast battle royal is were the top twenty five fighters enter the pit along with ten of the deadliest species of animals and fight to the death. Now the animals are all males and some are endangered but were all breed here there is no poaching going on. We release several of them into the wild at a ratio of three to one. The beasts are released when the first gladiator enters the ring then every five minutes a new gladiator will enter the pit. The favorite to win is Lu Bu at five to one as he will be the last to enter. The gladiator who Hakoda there always bets on is a 1000 to one since he is the first to enter. Although he has won the last four Beast Battle Royal's, he always entered the beast battle royal at number ten. This time he is the first to enter and he shattered his sword again yesterday so he is using two gladius to fight with instead of a two handed broad blade long sword." Ming says with a practiced smile.

"Didn't you work at the palace prison a few years back?" Azula asks after looking at the woman closely.

"Yes Princess I did but Rome was closer to my home island and my father had been very sick. Phoenix Emperor Ozai allowed me to transfer here and he paid for my father's care. Dad died peacefully in his sleep a year later. Your father sent flowers and I hope he received the thank you letter I sent. Now would you like to place some bets there will be a few exhibition matches, in the gladiator league that means no killing. This is because the exhibition matches are mainly the new prisoners who are learning how to fight." Ming says as she sees Ty lees confused look.

"But the Beast Battle Royal can get very gory." Ming says with a look.

"Let's place are bets. Ty lee is mad at men again so she will enjoy this more then she will admit to." Toph says with a sassy smirk on her face.

"Hay, you don't have to say that out loud." Ty lee screeches at Toph with a fierce look that just made the girl look cute.

Azula placed a few small bets on the exhibition match before choosing to place six thousand Yuan, which was almost all she brought with her on this mysterious fighter known as Gladiator. The groups parted with Zhao as they made their way to the royal booth instead of Hakoda's normal booth were they found a great surprise.

"Daddy what are you doing here?" Azula shrieks in shock.

"Your mother kicked me out of the house for two days for Poppy's baby shower and knowing my great friend and right hand man would be here I came here. That is why I am here and I arrived here yesterday. How are you girls doing?" A somewhat sheepish Ozai states with a smile to his daughter.

When in the presence of his family and there close friends Ozai let his emotions show more. This was something he learned was ok during his time with Hakoda. Azula made a profit along with Ty lee and Ozai on the exhibition matches.

2:00PM Gladiator's privet locker room

Gladiator placed on his plate armor consisting of a black breastplate and a white stomach guard. On his shoulders were a pair rectangular black pauldrons that are pointed at the ends away from the shoulders. His pants were thick leather that had a built in cup to protect his sensitive bits. He wore a pair of greaves that covered his shins. Next gladiator puts on his weapons belt on, the belt had five beaver tail daggers with ebony wood handles (have one of these took me forever to edge it). Finally, he strapped his facemask on. The mask had a set of fangs between two ovals etched into it and covered his nose and mouth. It also acted as a filter for most poisons and other airborne toxins along with allowing him to breathe under water for a time.

Gladiator walks to the gate; he found out that he would be the first to enter into a beast battle royal. The match was to honor the Phoenix Emperor and his daughter who were attending the arena today.

The gate rises Gladiator steps out into the dirt of the pit. The pit is changed for the beast battle royal's or beast vs human fights the pit is changed from an obstacle-filled death trap to an environment reminiscent to the beast's natural habitat. Gladiator took in the way the pit is decorated as he dipped his hands into the sand outside the gate as he always did to dry his hands out. The human gates all had sand before entering the pit and today the pit was a forested area. The ring in Rome is called the pit because it had a high elevation so that regardless of the environment the audience can see the action.

Finishing his ritual Gladiator stands up and walks into the pit ready to fight. This was his first time entering at the top spot of the beast battle royal and no one has ever won entering first in the prisons five hundred year history. Gladiator hears the beast gates open and sees the beasts enter. The first is a large spiked scaled Wind-Raptor.

Wind-Raptors are a species of feather-dragons with the body of the Achillobator giganticus (a species of Dromaeosauridae (raptor dinosaurs) with the head of the Dromaeosaurus. They had a pair of large wings with massive flight feathers. The Wind-Raptors feathers come in multiple different colors. The average Wind-Raptor is about twice the size of an ostrich horse. Wind-Raptors thanks to their dragon lineage are able to both fire bend and wind bending which is the predatory form of air bending. However there fire bending is limited to the breathing of fire. Their main diet is sky bison or other large beasts. They are one of the few domesticated alpha predators and this is only do to their high intellect. Thanks to their dragon lineage, they can form a chi bond with a bender. Unbounded wind raptors live for hundreds to thousands of year's well-bonded ones, like bound dragons they chose to die with their bonded humans.

Some Wind-Raptor show there dragon lineage when a scaled raptor is born. These scaled Wind-Raptors are much bigger than normal Wind-Raptors. They are the size of a dragon, are very aggressive, and are the true alpha males as they are always born male. The scaled wind raptor is also able to breed with dragons to create a normal healthy dragon.

The Wind-Raptor in front of Gladiator had red and black scales, with blue eyes that matched Gladiators own. The most distinguished feature of the Wind-Raptor was the white scar scales going down his left eye and several on his chest. One of the scars on his chest was just to the left of its heart. Both Gladiator and this massive beast had a history as Gladiator gave him the scar to the beast in his first beast match. Gladiator was to defeat the scaled wind-raptor. Gladiator was also the first living thing to defeat the wind raptor in its five hundred years of life.

Gladiator was preparing to take the Wind-Raptor down with him when it did something to shocking. It creates a ball of wind in its mouth that contained a red flame inside it. The wind-raptor proceeded to offer Gladiator a sphere of wind, which meant it, was offering to bond itself to the man. Gladiator proceeded to sheath his right sword, reached out, and accepted the offer. The sphere was absorbed into Gladiator's hand into his body and mingled with his chi. As Gladiator took in the sphere into his body an equal amount of his chi was absorbed by the wind-raptor bonding the two together. This bond allowed them to share thoughts, sights, and sounds.

Up in the royal box

"Amazing, they formed a chi bond that is rare with non-benders epically since it is with a scaled Wind-Raptor and a red one at that. The only way for them to bond with someone is to be defeated by the one they bond with." Ty lee comments with a look of aw.

Ty lee has spent the last seven years studying zoology under Colonel Mongke. Her area of expertise is chi bonds of bending animals.

Warden's privet box

"That beast should be getting me my revenge against Gladiator for me. However, this is a good chance for Kraken to show his stuff. Let my pet play." An enraged Zhao yells to a man on his right.

"As you command warden Zhao, sir. He will be released." The gravelly voice of one of the Yu Yuan archer's states as he walks to the radio receiver built into the wall.

The archer picks up the unit that looks similar to a bulky CB radio handset.

"Zhao orders the release of Kraken." The man's gravelly voice states into the receiver.

"Yes sir." A voice comes from the other end of the line.

In the beast cages

"Zhao wants his pet entered into the match next. Guess Zhao wants his pet to be debut against both are scaled Wind-raptor and Gladiator. I feel bad for them Kraken will slaughter both of them. After all he only listens to Zhao as the guy raised him from birth." One of the beast handlers says with a bit of a shiver.

The arena

Gladiator and his new companion watch as the next gate opens and out comes a gold and blue Giant rhinoceros beetle. This is Zhao's pet: Kraken. Sokka nods to the wind-raptor conveying his plan to kill the beast before he charges at the large bug. All the audience sees is a black and blue blur as gladiator jumps and drives his swords right into the beetle's large left eye.

As the beetle screeches in pain the wind-raptor grabs its opened mouth and proceeds breathes fire down its throat and mouth cooking the insect's throat. The giant beetle falls down to the ground unable to breath, it dies as the next gladiator enters the pit.

With Zhao

"I hope he dies he killed my baby." Zhao yells crying twin waterfalls as he watches his beloved beetle falls to the ground slowly dying.

The Final Round

Gladiator was bleeding from a head wound and hand a dagger lugged in his side that luckily missed a vital spot. Since the blade is barbed, so it would not dislodge easily which was good for him since it was one less thing to worry about. Gladiator is covered in gore and missing the top right part of his armor witch was laying five feet away from him a pile of melted scrap. This was courtesy of one of the fire benders he killed. His missing armor reviled a bit of a burn scar that was a hook shaped burn along with a strait burn mark a few centimeters below it. It was time for the final participant to enter the arena. Gladiator took his duel welding fighting style. He held his left gladius in a reverse hold and his right weapon held in the normal fashion. The two weapons had been beat to hell during the duration of the Beast Battle Royal.

As the gate to the pit opened for the twenty-fifth time and out came a man who towered over Gladiator by two feet. He was wearing a set of black plate armor with a demon face engraved into the chest plate. In his hands was a halberd with a sickle like hook on one side. On the other, a broad half hexagon shaped axe head. The shaft was steel wrapped in leather that was etched into a phoenix tail feather pattern. At the bottomed is a four-point mace head, each protrusion sharpened so they it cut on a glancing hit. On his head, he wears a hairpiece with two long pheasant-hen tail feathers. (Dynasty Warrior's 8 Extreme Legends version of Lu Bu.)

"Hello Gladiator I am Lu Bu twenty year champion of Shu prison. I transferred here because I heard about your reputation; I feel you will give me a good fight. I will wait for a water bender to heal you up before I kill you. I want to kill you at your best boy." Lu Bu states looking at the other fighter with an apprising look.

"Stay back big guy this is a one on one fight. I really need to think of a name for you." Gladiator states to his wind-raptor as he rubs the large creatures head.

The large beast turns around and starts to eat some of the dead beasts. Wind raptors have a metabolism and can go for two years between feeding and still fight at peak efficiency. However, they prefer to eat about once a week. Wind-raptors get there metabolism from there dragon blood lineage. Some Dragons can go around fifteen years without eating.

"Are you sure you don't want medical attention first? Like I said I want to kill you at your best." Lu Bu states with a look.

"Your concern is touching but I am a Cimmerian Warrior this is just a scratch for us. Let's do this thing." Gladiator stats as he rushes at the bigger man flipping his left sword into a proper hold as does.

"I will give you a good death then." Lu Bu says as he charges Gladiator.

The two meet each other in the center of the pit there weapons pushing into each other's.

The royal booth

"That mark." Azula says thinking aloud as she noticed the part of the scar on Gladiator's chest. Azula focuses back on the match an apprising look in her eyes.

Back in the pit

Gladiator kicks off the ground flinging himself back instead of continuing to push against the bigger man. Lu Bu fallows swinging his halberd at gladiator who raises his swords blocking again. Due to the inferior steel of gladiators blades the weapons crack, instead of allowing them to break and taking a big injury Gladiator drops his blades as he drops his swords, they shatter as they hit the ground. Gladiator ducks under Lu Bu's swing and into the big mans guard. As he rises from his crouch, Gladiator activates a mechanism in his right gauntlet and a foot long black katar dagger deploys with a click. Gladiator proceeded to punch the blade through Lu Bu's armor into his liver, he then pulls back and slams it into Lu Bu's right kidney. He pulls his weapon out and punches one last time into the man's left kidney.

"A good fight, so this is what it feels like to lose. I want you to take my halberd and use it as your own." Lu Bu says as he stumbles back slamming his weapon into the ground to hold himself up.

"Lingqi" Lu Bu whispers before he bleeds out dying on his feet.

The audience stares in shock before they stand up in their seats giving Gladiator a standing ovation. Gladiator gives the audiences a small bow before wrapping his arm around Lu Bu to support the dead man before taking his halberd. He then drags the dead man out of the arena. He used his link with his wind-raptor to head into his pen for now. Then the gladiator heads to the medical bay to get his wounds patched up and give Lu Bu to the arena Cornier.

Royal box

"Daddy I need to talk to Ming, so let's get our winnings." Azula says as she leaves the both the gleam in her eyes worrying her father a bit.

"She has the same look in her eyes her mother gets when I get in troubled." Ozai says to Hakoda with a shiver. The other man just nods his head as he gets up and fallows the girls out of the box.

On the way to the cashers counter to get their winnings Azula bumps into an old Water Tribe man in orange monk robes. Azula stumbles but the old man falls to the ground.

"Oomph watch were your walking young lady." The old man says from the ground.

"When did you start watching matches in the Gladiator League uncle you pre…? I am so sorry I thought you were someone else. Your voice is very close to my uncles. Here let me help you up." Azula says embarrassed as she bends down to help up the elder.

"You should be ashamed of yourself", Azula left eye starts to twitch as the man speaks.

"Making a lady help up an old man up, you may be Phoenix Emperor you are also a gentlemen!" the old man says with a look that makes Ozai think of his father.

"He is right dear daughter let me help him up." Ozai says as he bends down to help the old man up.

"Are your hips ok you did take a nasty fall?" The philanthropist in Ozai kicks in.

"My hips are fine but my back hurts a bit." The old man states as he helped up by Ozai.

"When was the last time you visited a doctor? As you know I am Phoenix Emperor Ozai what is your name elder?" Ozai asks.

"I am Mako the Chronicler it's nice to meet you. I have never had the need to see a doctor and I'm glad you are remembering your manners young man." The old man says with a smile.

"Then to apologies for my insensitivity and forgetting my manners I invite you to the palace as a guest well you get a full medical checkup Mako." Ozai says with a small bow.

"I would like that. I hear your brother is a skilled pai sho player I look forward to having a match or two with him well I am there." Mako says with a smile.

"If you would accompany are group to the cashier so we may collect are winnings and my daughter can move on in her latest scheme. We will then leave for the capital aboard my personal troop transport with Chief Hakoda." Ozai says with a smile.

"Can I drive?" Mako asks with a hopeful look on his face.

"I will give you a lesson but that will wait until we are out of the base so you don't hit anyone." Ozai says with a smile, he always loved to teach it is why he made time to give lectures at the Fire Nation's Capital University.

"I don't scheme Daddy I plot. There is a difference so don't even try to argue with me?" Azula stats looking offended.

"Yes dear." Ozai says knowing better to argue with Azula when he was not in an official meeting.

"Toph could you take Mako and get something to eat and yes I will pay." Ozai says as he hands Toph two hundred Yuans.

"Good I am starving and so is my growing baby. Come on old timer lets go eat," Toph says as she grabs the old man's shoulder along with the money.

The rest of the group makes their way to the cashier.

"Hello Ming I need you to set up a meeting with Gladiator and myself." Azula states with a look.

"Daddy I want him as my fighter your will help me with that. After all you band me from competing after I killed my fifth opponent." Azula says seeing her father's reaction to her words.

Ozai gulps as her glare produced some real heat and he just nods in compliance.

"Ming, please do not let Gladiator know this is why I am meeting with him." Azula says with a happy smile.

'Why did I not just keep ignoring Zuko and nurtured Azula more? Instead, I became friends with a fellow father and decided to start treating Zuko as my own again. Then Azula started spending more time with her mother and now they both scare me. Unfortunately, that just made me more attracted to my wife. To make matters worse they just had to become friends with a pair of woman just as strong willed as they are. At least I am not alone in my misery.' Ozai thinks well glaring at Hakoda who just gives a nod in agreement as if he read the other fathers mind.

"He will be in treatment for about an hour then I will send him to a meeting room. Do you want an armed guard in the…you don't want an armed guard do you princess." Ming says as Azula raised her eyebrow at her.

"Correct. I am glad I am talking to a woman instead of an ignorant man. Also, make sure he wears his right gauntlet. I'll be wearing my gauntlet as well daddy. You and Uncle Hakoda can wait outside if you want, but I may decide to do what the room was made for. Ming I would like my winnings in two cases." Azula tells the woman.

"We will wait outside; I will have a bucket with." Ozai says looking a little green.

The meeting rooms are built so woman could pay to have sex with the gladiators if they wanted to. It was also one of the more lucrative side business in the gladiator league.

"Good. Ming I would like the best room in the arena for my meeting." Azula says with a smile happy to torment her father.

"Lady Chin-Ta has the room reserved for today." Ming says to Azula with a frown.

"I am sure lady Chin-Ta would graciously take the second best room so her Princess can have the room. She has been pushing me to find a man after all." Azula says with a smug look on her face.

"Katara could you go patch up gladiator for me I want him ready in 30 minutes." Azula asks her friend.

"You insult me 30 minutes to heal thoughts scratches it will take me ten since I will give a lecture on removing barbed weapons to the students here. After all I am the best medic in the world now." Katara says with a smile.

"Thank you Katara and I gave you 30 minutes because I want him nice and clean for are meeting. Ming could you please go with her and inform the man I will be waiting in the room." Azula tells the two woman with a smile.

"Yes your highness." Ming says as she steps out from behind the counter and leads Katara to the infirmary.

"You're welcome. Ozai I am sending you my bill." Katara calls over her shoulder.

Ozai rolls his eyes as the girl slips into the crowd, she always tells him that when he has her do work on some soldiers or other high ranked people. However, it did keep her free clinic stocked in the latest medical technology and medicines. This allowed both Katara, Kya and Kana to treat many of the less fortunate members of the Empire. In fact that the clinic was also the prototype of the new teaching hospitals, he built across his empire.

Katara and her family with his wife's help pushed him to create medical insures. This in turn helped to keep the hospitals stocked with vital medicines and take some of the costs off the Empire.

"Ty lee go buy me some condoms." Azula tells her friend causing Ozai to fall in the most dignified face plop ever witnessed.

"On it" Ty lee says with a smile as she goes into a handstand.

"Wait" Ozai, says to Ty lee.

"Get her Steel Sheath condoms at least. I'll pay and you can keep the change." Ozai says holding up a hundred Yuan bill from the floor. He would be dammed before Azula was knocked up out of wedlock because a cheap condom broke.

"You got it Fiery Lord." The bubbly Ty lee says as she grabs the bill with her toes before running off to one of the shops in the arena.

'I hope she is just fucking with me. If she is not at least she is getting the strongest condoms on the market.' Ozai thinks to himself as he stays on the floor.

"Do you need some help there Ozai?" Hakoda asks his best friend.

"No I just lay here for a bit longer." Ozai says.

"I understand what you're going through I did the same thing when I caught Aang coming out of Katara's room for the first time." Hakoda says as he leaves his friend on ground as Azula collects her 6 million Yuans with a smile of glee on her face. She may be rich but she did like to win.

"At least you knew what happened the day before I don't know what is going to happen. Let's get are winnings." Ozai says as he gets off the floor and heads to the counter.

To Be Continued

I base some stuff off a couple movies in this chapter. Tell me the movies in your review if you know what they are from.