Chapter 13 Deadly relations
He had felt it shaking the earth like a colossal landslide but he knew it wasn't. He could feel it moving near him the colossal object rocketing by him but he had ignored it as nothing more than an odd happening. Today however he knew what it was. The giant machine stood in front of him, a giant metal object. It appeared to him as some sort of vessel of transportation. It was empty. Nazca expanded his mind looking for where they had went. He found their tracks, three lines of dirt that had been pushed down. He followed unsure where they were headed. Minutes later he felt the tracks come to a split. He felt one path taken by one of the beasts and another path taken by two of them. He decided that it would be best to follow the road taken by the two beasts. Nazca walked forward heading along the trail. He walked for a couple minutes and then he felt them. Two girls where riding on the lizard-rhinos. Then he recognized them. They where maybe fifty feet away from the girls. It was Katara and Sokka. The sky-bison was nearby as they had recently got off of it. Nazca felt the two girls walk towards them. The one girl was taller with flat hair and was wearing a cloak like dress. The other girl was shorter with a pony tail wearing a light top leaving part of her stomach exposed and a mini skirt. The ponytail girl walked with a spring in her step whereas the cloaked girl walked rather gloomily. He felt them confront Katara and Sokka and exchange a few words. Then the cloaked girl pulled stilettos out of her cloak and throw them at Katara while the ponytail girl attacked Sokka. He felt Katara block the stilettos with a small swing of frozen water. Then cloaked girl launched another attack pinning Katara to a nearby tree. The ponytail girl however hit Sokka's limbs in and odd fashion causing them to lose movement until both his arm and a leg was limp and he attempted to head but the girl. The girl tried the same blocking technique but just ended up hurting her hand. Sokka fell backwards from the sudden loss of balance and landed at Katara's feet. The two girls approached the two members of the water tribe and Nazca got ready to go rescue them but then the sky-bison which had remained off to the side flew down, smacked its tail and sent the two girls flying into the river. Nazca smiled as Katara and Sokka got on the sky bison and left and then prepared to follow them. The n he realized looking back at the girls, he could learn a lot about the enemy right now if he played his cards right. He smiled to himself then walked out of the seclusion of the trees just as the girls got out of the water.
"How's it going ladies?" Nazca called over to them.
The two girls looked up, surprised at the new comer. "Get out of here," the cloaked girl told him but the ponytail girl flipped into a handstand and rolled over to him.
"Hi," she said flirtatiously.
"So," Nazca began, "What are you fine ladies doing all the way out here."
"We were following the avatar," she said smiling.
"Shut up Ty Lee," The cloaked girl said, "We don't exactly want the entire world knowing who we are, for all we know he's from the earth kingdom."
Nazca laughed, "Earth Kingdom, who do you know from the earth kingdom that's a firebender," he said while creating a small plume of fire making sure it remained red instead of his usual white.
"You're a firebender," The girl called Ty Lee said.
"And you're Ty Lee," he said smiling, "The name's Nazca. So why are you guys soaked?"
The cloaked girl sighed, "We just got our butts kicked by the avatar's pet. By the way I'm Mai."
Mai and Ty Lee, Nazca stored that information, so they were chasing Aang.
"You girls want me to make you a fire and some tea?"
"That'd be very nice," Ty Lee said.
Nazca got to work gathering wood for the fire and herbs for the tea. He brought a pile of would together and lit it using fire bending. He walked into the woods out of sight once the fire was started and made sure that he was out of sight. The he stopped and inhaled. He reached out with his mind exploring the earth beneath his feet. He gathered up as much metal as he could then brought it out of the earth . He washed the metal and then fashioned it into a tea pot. He walked back towards the fire then stopped once he heard them talking. He crept as close as he dared and listened in to the conversation.
"…did you see him, he's really cute," Ty Lee said.
Really cute? Thought Nazca intrigued. He expanded his mind to the shape of Ty Lee. She seemed pretty although he couldn't really tell. Whatever he thought jumping back to the conversation.
"Who cares what he looks like we have no idea who he is, we should leave know and see what Azula is up too."
"C'mon can't we stay for a little bit longer, I'm still soaked."
"I doubt Azula will care how wet we are when she finds out we were humiliated by the avatar's friends and instead of helping her we're goofing off with a random boy."
"Please," Ty Lee said desperately.
"Whatever," Mai sighed.
Just then Nazca walked out of the forest, teapot and herbs in hand. I've got these herbs I found so I'll whip us up a refreshing cup of tea huh."
"That sounds great," Ty Lee said happily.
Nazca filled the pot up with water and the herbs and then set it on the fire.
"Where did you find the teapot?" Mai asked.
"I have a camp not far from here and I left to grab it." Then Nazca felt someone walking towards. "Someone's coming." he said.
Mai stood up worried, "Quick hide!"
"What?!"
"Now," she whispered forcefully. Nazca quickly ran into the woods and hid behind a tree. He reached out with his mind quickly visualizing the incomer. She had hair down to her shoulder and was wearing some sort of spikes on her shoulders. He felt her jump, propelling herself with firebending, across the river.
"Where's the avatar?" he heard Mai ask.
"He escaped with the help of my traitor brother and uncle, but it is no matter. I managed to wound the fat slob known as my uncle."
"You mean he didn't redirect it this time," Ty Lee asked surprised.
"Yes," the girl said smugly, "It seems my uncle isn't as good as he thought he was ."
So, Nazca thought, Iroh must be this woman's uncle and that means her brother would be Zuko. Then he remembered, Iroh can redirect lightning, he took mental note of that and thought he should try it sometime, he would just have to figure out how. He snapped back to the conversation just in time for him to hear the girl say, "So who were you talking to?"
"No one," Mai sighed, "What made you think that?"
"Oh come on don't lie, I saw him running into the trees before I came and I haven't heard anything since so he must still be there," she said with a smirk.
"We honestly weren't talking to anyone," Ty Lee said innocently.
"Oh really, then whose this," She said referring to Nazca who had just stepped out of the trees and started walking towards them.
"Hey," Nazca called, "I'm Nazca. How's it going?"
"Very well," the girl said dryly, she then turned to Mai and Ty Lee, "So you two were lying to me."
"We weren't lying," Ty Lee scrambled, "We had no idea anyone was even near here."
"It's okay Ty Lee," Nazca said, "You don't have to keep covering for me. Hi," He said, addressing the girl, "I was just out camping and I saw these two girls, I didn't realize talking to them was a crime," He said laughing.
"It might soon be," she said not amused.
"Hey, I'm just trying to make a conversation, I'll leave if you want me too."
"That would be nice," She said with a false smile.
"Whatever," Nazca said then he turned around, "Oh by the way what was your name, my uncle's an admiral and I'm sure he love to hear about this."
The girl smiled broadly, the evil proud on her face, "Oh I'm just princess Azula heir to the throne, please don't tell your uncle, I'll do anything," She said feigning innocence. Then her expression change to one of annoyance, "What's your uncle's name?" she demanded of him.
"Um," Nazca stuttered, racking his brain for a name, "Admiral Fahn," he said thinking of the man he had took the life of using blood bending.
Azula smiled, "I'll make sure I throw in a good word for him," she said with a sinister smile.
"I'm so sorry," Nazca said backing away, "I didn't know please forgive me, don't do anything to my uncle," He begged.
"We'll see," she said, smirking, "Now, leave," she commanded him. Nazca turned away, running. He smiled to himself, hopefully if there was an admiral Fahn he wouldn't get in too much trouble, scratch that he thought, let him get into all the trouble he can, that's one less admiral.