Avatar the Last Airbender: Hundred: Scenes

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So, Azula makes her short debut into the story. It's short because…well, you'll see. Also, it tends to jump alot, but remember...Azula is crazy!

Hundred: Scenes

Arc I

The Princess

Three months after the end of the war, Azula killed herself.

Despite the actions of her brother – unknown to her – she never recovered from the illness that took over her mind, leaving her to drift between the memories of her childhood and those last few days before her break down.

Awakening in her bed, Azula stared up at the large canopy above her, seeing but not acknowledging the burnt sections or tears that had come to pierce the rich fabric. As she lay there, her brain tried to figure out what day it was as she couldn't seem remember the previous days or any recent event in her life.

"Ah, that's right," she mumbled to herself before smiling up at the ceiling in triumph. "Today is my coronation."

Moving to sit up on the bed, Azula frowned when she realized her arms movements were hindered by two large metal cuffs wrapped around her wrist. Holding them up to better see them, her eyes narrowed in thought before a girlish giggle escaped from her mouth.

"Ty Lee! Is this another joke?" she asked around, wondering where her acrobatic friend was hiding. There were so many spots to hide in her large chambers and it seemed both her friends were playing hide-and-explode, even though Mai usually complained of having to play the game.

Swinging her legs off the bed, she tilted her head in surprise when she found her legs chained together as well.

"A little over-board, isn't it Ty Lee?"

After her friend failed to respond, Azula shook her head before spotting her dressing table and remembering that she had to get ready for her coronation. Standing, she made her way over to the dressing table, the chains making her shuffle and hop to get on the raised platform, but she was giggling happily as she did so, thinking what a fun game it was.

Grabbing her brush laying amidst broken shards of glass, Azula combed out her hair in strong strokes, ignoring the pull on her scalp when she caught snags before yanking the strands of hair out. Going to pull her hair back into a topknot, she was frustrated as the shorter clumps of hair continued to fall out, falling into her eyes and around her head in miscellaneous clumps.

Looking up after throwing the brush across the room, she blinked at the image in the mirror, trying to recognize the person staring back at her, before laughing.

"That servant girl has the most horrible hair I've even seen! Ty Lee, Mai, come look at her hair!"

Still laughing, Azula hopped down from the platform before shuffling around her room trying to find an outfit to wear for her coronation. After all, it wouldn't do for her to show up in dirty and stained clothing.

"A Fire Lord must look presentable," she announced to the servants who seemed to have disappeared. Help was getting so poor these days. "Yes…presentable…"

"Azula." Freezing at the kind voice, Azula shook her head before continuing to tear through her closet for something to wear. "Azula…"

"Stop bugging me Mother! I don't want to play with Zuzu! He's such a wimp," she protested, tearing a gown from its spot to throw it on the floor. Why did Mother insist she play with him? He was a weakling and a mama's-boy, not like her.

"I should drown him in the pond," she mused as she tore at the clump of hair that dangled in front of her eyes, not minding the thin trickle of blood making its way down her forehead. "Then I will become Fire Lord!"

She paused before glancing around the room.

"My coronation….I need to dress…"

Humming under her breath as she grabbed a robe off the floor near her bed, Azula tried to put it on only to be blocked by the chains around her wrist, which prevented her from putting her arm through it. Finally frustrated, she tore the robe, widening the hole already present in the material until it was split from collar to hem.

Leaving the destroyed robe on the ground, Azula figured she was presentable for the ceremony and made her way over to the large doors leading out to the hallway only to find them locked. Struggling with them, she finally gave up and started pounding on the doors, the bruises on her hands stinging from the blows.

"Mother! Mother, unlock the door! I'm sorry for hitting Zuzu!" she yelled. She had only been teasing! Why couldn't Mother see that? "Mother!"

Grinning when the doors opened, it quickly faded into a scowl when she saw who was on the other side.

"Zuzu."

"Azula," Zuko said shortly, taking in Azula's torn clothing, the messy and erratically shorn hair, and the blood still dripping down her forehead. "You're injured."

"I feel perfectly fine. I'm on my way to my coronation," she told him smugly before grinning widely, her eyes wide and slightly unfocused. "Once I'm Fire Lord I'm going to do what Father failed to do and kill you Zuzu!"

Golden eyes widened in surprise before Zuko's eyes closed as a flash of pain and sadness passed over his face. "You are to remain in your room Azula."

"I can't have the ceremony in my room!" Azula protested before narrowing her eyes as suspicion ran through her at Zuzu's odd behavior. "Unless you plan on being Fire Lord? I won't allow it! I'll kill you before I let you become Fire Lord!"

Lunging at Zuko, she almost had him when the guards who had been standing next to him - unseen by her until that moment - stepped in front of him and grabbed her outstretched arms. Turning to glare at them with frantic eyes, she struggled to break their hold.

"Release me! I am your Fire Lord!" she screamed before turning to glare at Zuko who was watching her, a look of pity in his eyes that only pushed her anger to a higher level.

"Don't look at me like that! Don't look at me with pity, not like she did! I killed her for that!" she yelled him and Zuko frowned in confusion, which only prompted Azula to start laughing hysterically. "You didn't know that, did you Zuzu? I found our Mother in some Earth Kingdom hole and I killed her for looking at me in pity, like I had become some monster!

"Do you understand, Zuzu? I killed our Mother!"

Laughing uncontrollably, Azula wasn't aware of the guards pulling her back into her room as Zuko hurried down the hall before throwing up in one of the large potted plants lining the halls.

"Mother!" Azula cried out, wrapping her arm around her legs as she curled up alone in her bedroom again. "Mother!"

The scenario was only one of the few that constantly occurred due to Azula's poor mental health. A month after his coronation, Zuko was no longer able to visit her, the mere sight of him sending Azula into an uncontrollable rage.

It was dark the last time she awoke. Remembering her coronation was that day, she went to get prepared, no longer even noticing the chains on her wrists and ankles. Combing the few strands of hair that hadn't been pulled out or cut close to her head during her fits, she hummed before looking up.

"Azula…"

"Look Mother! I'm going to be Fire Lord!" she told the figure standing behind her.

"My beautiful girl, I'm so proud of you!"

"Not as much as Zuzu," she grumbled before shaking the thought away. She was becoming Fire Lord, she was the stronger sibling, and this was her day.

"Azula, come with me. I want to show you something, just for you."

"No Zuzu?"

"Just you."

At that Azula grinned and scrambled over to the balcony doors were her mother stood. "What is it? Is it armor? A new firebending Master? My last one couldn't teach me anything! I can't even light a candle!"

"Look Azula, just for you!" Seeing Mother step out onto the balcony, Azula tried to follow only to find the doors held together by thick metal chains. In a moment of her old resourcefulness Azula grabbed a sharp hair pin off the floor and jimmied the lock holding the chains, inflicting a shallow cut along her palm after the first failed attempt. Grinning as the doors swung open, she stepped out on the balcony, breathing in the first breath of fresh air for what felt like forever.

"Over there Azula!"

"I can't see it!" Azula whined, trying to find what Mother was pointing at. Watching amazed as Mother stepped off the balcony onto the air, she blinked when Mother turned towards her and smiled softly.

"My smart girl. If you come out here you shall see everything."

"Coming Mother," Azula told her, struggling onto the balcony railing and using one of the posts to keep her balance. Glancing down at the two story drop, she ignored it before looking at Mother again. "Look Mother!"

"There you are! Come on," Mother said, extending her hand. "Come see what's just for you!"

"Mother," Azula sighed happily, glad Zuko wasn't here to take up Mother's attention. Reaching out her hand, she took the step forward necessary to join Mother, who smiled the entire time Azula fell to the ground where she would never rise again.

sSSs

Ending A/N: So…how about that? Within the story, she did kill Ursa, it wasn't just something she blurted out to bug Zuko with. I thought that was a twist and would explain her gradual slip from reality in the third season.

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Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender belongs to Nickelodeon and its creators. I just muddy the waters a bit.