Right now the words are flowing which is really good news for all of you out there waiting for more :) I really like this chapter and I think it is much better than the last two not to speak of the enhanced length. So enjoy and pls review to keep the flow alive ;)
"I´m still in an igloo, don´t I?" Azula whispered in the dark. No one answered her, of course. Once again she repulsed someone , not anyone but propably the only person she ever trusted that did not fear her. Azula sat up and looked around to her surprise she wasn´t alone. Sokka was sitting in a chair next to her, sleeping. She smiled,left the bed and walked out of the igloo careful not to wake up Sokka. Naturally it was very cold outside but Azula controled her breath warming her surroundings every time she exhaled. Everywhere around her was water be it in its liquid or icy form. Everyone around her was from the watertribe. She was the only thing, the only person that did not belong here. She was fire, daughter of the dragons, heck she even breathed fire! And yet she could not return to the place she belonged. She felt sad about this before but everything that happened since she first roamed the earthkingdom mad these thoughts more clear to her than ever. Deep within her thoughts Azula did not noticed Sokka approaching her from behind. "So what is the deal with your hair? Did you ran into a scissor bender?" Sokka had to laugh about his own joke. Azula turned around and smiled "I followed some fashion tips from my brother." "Zuko? I always thought he just wears whatever Jin orders him to wear.". Azula laughed about that comment "So Zuzu became a henpecked husband, who knew?". "Yeah," Sokka said with a smirk, "that earthkingdom girl really has him under her leash. Didn´t you heard he married?". Azula shrugged with her shoulders "Who should have told me? And it wasn´t like I was visiting crowded places. Turns out people in the earthkingdom don´t like me." she sounded bitter. "Well now you are here and people will like you." Sokka tried to assure her. "I don´t think so, look I don´t belong here. Everything here is made out of water, ice and snow everywhere. How do I fit in here?". Sokka grinned "Well you are pretty cold and icy yourself. I thing you should fit in well.". Azula smiled she was propably the only person who saw this as a compliment. "So what happened, why are you here and most importantly why the hair?". "You mean besides to annoy and confuse you?" she grinned as did Sokka "Besides that...". Azula sighed the memories of the last year were some she would rather forget than recall.
Azula finally arrived at the shores of the earthkingdom. Since she left the ship she came to the deciscion that she would head for Ba Sing Se. Nobody would recognize her in a city as big as Ba Sing Se and maybe, just maybe she could stay there until she really knew what to do with her life. What to make out of this situation.
"You went to Ba Sing Se?", Sokka interrupted her, "Are you crazy, that had to go wrong." "Do you want me to continue? Or do you want to taunt me?" "Sorry, go on."
After traveling for days without meeting anyone when she finally arrived at the outer wall more and more people crossed her ways and everyone of them looked at her suspiciously. But nobody seemed to recognize her or at least that was what she thought. The guards made no trouble and she arrived at the monorail station of Ba Sing Se with relative ease. "Funny ", she said to herself, " for hundred years people of the firenation tried to enter Ba Sing Se without success and I´ve done it two times in one year without problems." although the fact that this time she came as a refugee rather than a conquerer occurred to her. This must have been the same feeling Zuko must have had when he arrived here, Azula realised. She shook these thougths off and instead looked around as the monorail continued its way towards the lower ring. The enormous agrarian zone was marked by the war, with burned fields scattered all over the land making them look like scars from the air. And even from up there Azula could spot the trails of the tanks and siege engines that came here under her command. She could feel no regret knowing fully every other command from every other nation would have acted the same way she did and yet seeing all these marks of war all over this country made her feel different. She had traveled through the earthkingdom before but never alone. She was always escorted by an army,servants who safely guided her around the most war-torn regions. Not that she would have cared back then anyway. But now seeing all this destruction all around the land and knowing that she was responsible for a good part of it was a strange feeling. In the end she always assumed that being under the firenation rule would be the best for everyone, even if it meant destroying their nation first. That all she and her nation wanted was really the best for all the other nations. Although if she had to be honest she knew she left that path by the time she suggested burning down the earthkingdom. But then again anyone in her position would have acted that way. There was no need to feel sorry, at least not for her military deciscions. Deep within her thoughts Azula did not noticed the monorail had arrived at the lower ring until a guard told her to leave the train. For a moment she considered teaching that impertinent guard a lesson about giving orders to the princess of the firenation but then she just obeyed quitely. The banishment had already taken away much of her pride and Azula despised herself for that.
"And than I checked into the next inn I saw and rested. Which is what we should do now too. I talked for hours can we continue tomorrow?" Azula asked Sokka. "Yeah seems like a good break, not much happening at that point of the story.". "Right so how about eating something?" she knew that Sokka couldn´t say no to that offer. And that he wouldn´t question wether really nothing happened that night which means he would never know that all Azula did that night in the inn was crying, feeling depressed and lonely. And most of all missing, missing a special watertribe peasant who could make her laugh anytime he wanted to. "Are you coming Azula? All that talking made me really hungry." Azula smiled, "Especially because you´ve done so much of the talking." "At least I did all the listening!" and there it was again, he could not fail. Azula had to laugh...
So the next chapter will have the second part of the memories, I have some good ideas for that one XD Stay tuned