Life is cruel.

The Dai Li agents in the fire nation capital numbered around 120 in Ba Sing Se around 24,000 many of them in the earth kingdom capital vanished before Earth kingdom soldiers could arrest them.

Azula woke up at her usual time. 5 AM in the morning she put on her training clothes after a quick breakfast and walked to the Royal training grounds while she was finishing up her stretches five Dai Li agents came up to her one of them said "what should we do about the water tribe girl?"

Azula looked over at them and said she did not have any information that would pertain to anything besides she had already pieced together that her father had fought the avatar she knew her father would most likely win so most likely the rest of her group was dead." Let her rot for now" the Dai Li agents nodded heads and quickly bowed and lefted. Azula was about to begin her training session when a fire Sage came running up to her and quickly bowed and handed her a piece of paper.'

Azula grabbed the note and read it over she quickly burned it. Fury now was the only thing in her eyes her father had been defeated by the avatar and Ba Sing Se was now back in Earth kingdom hands she knew it was only a matter of time before the avatar would come for her. She quickly motioned for the guards to come to her she then said to them"get me the war Minister and the generals to meet me in the throne room immediately for a war Council meeting.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-0=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- war Council meeting

General Shinu had just talk about how their losses in the earth kingdom would affect their war plans the earth kingdom would most likely push back and secure at least a good 60 miles outside of the walls of Ba Sing Se.

General Bujing was about to say his piece when Azula cut him off"I do not care about the earth kingdom right now I'm more worried about are homeland the avatar defeated my father and a whole fleet of airships. What we need to deal with is the avatar do any of you have any suggestions.

War Minister Qin stood up and said "since we have the avatar bison he will have to travel by foot so he will have to attack by sea so I believe Admiral Liang will have to fill us in on the earth kingdoms Navy." Then the war Minister sat down

Azula nodded her head she knew the avatar would not attack by himself she looked at Admiral Liang and said "what is your opinion Admiral Liang."

Admiral Liang stood up "since the north pole incident we've tried to avoid encountering the avatar because of the fact that it takes a year to make a ship if we order the home Fleet to attack I believe the battle would be 50-50 chance of success or defeat and with the home Fleet gone it would weaken the war effort greatly the earth kingdom may take back all of the land that disgraced General Iroh conquered. So I believe we should let the avatar attack the capital directly and then have the home Fleet and the remaining airships keep him trapped here so we can finish him off once and for all that is what I believe would be the best outcome. I believe we would have a 75%." Chance of victory. than the Adm. sat down

One of the generals was about to yell at the Adm. when Azula motioned for silence she got UP and walked over to the map of the fire nation she looked at it for a long moment before looking at the Adm. she took a deep breath and ask the question that had been bugging her." How many casualties do you believe we would have?" The Adm. looked at the new fire Lord "I believe 80% of the soldiers stationed here would die along with 45% of the home Fleet and the vast majority of the airships."

Azula knew that the generals would have nothing better to offer. so she would have to fall back on her plan B. she then walked up to her throne and sat back down and then spoke "it seems that this war will carry on for 4 to 7 more generations before we can achieve victory so I think we should end military conflicts with the earth kingdom and water tribe's for now"

many of the generals were shocked by Shinu said "we cannot surrender to them fire Lord Azula!"

"You misunderstand I want this war to go in favor for us we are going to have to develop weapons that can effectively counter the avatar's power but until then we cannot win this war without great loss and I will not be the one that will send 5 generations to their deaths. I have already taking care of most of my plan you see we have over 10 million war prisoners we must send a letter to the avatar and offer a truce and if he refuses the retaliate by killing all the war prisoners and then we continued the war with no mercy for our enemies killing man woman and child that are not fire nation will force the avatar hand in this. He will not be able to handle the burden of this war turning into a bloodbath. well return all OF The earth kingdom land minus the islands but keep the majority of air nomads land minus the temples and the main eastern island. The other nations people will accept this I have already sent out letters to the presence in the fire nation after this meeting all the fire nation's prisons throughout the world will be given the same orders if we fail to reach agreement. We will kill all non-fire nation prisoners."

Many of the generals just looked at her in stunned silence but a few actually applauded her plan "we will see if the avatar truly wants piece you all are dismissed"after all the generals and admirals left the new fire Lord let out a sigh she would not sacrifice some many of her people just to kill one person she also knew in the long run the fire nation was more technologically advanced so when they developed a weapon that would remove the avatar from the pitcher she knew she would probably not live to see this but was the best chance for victory in the future. She rubbed her for head with her hand trying to ease her headache that had been growing since she had heard the news of her father's defeat that she heard someone clear their throat War Minister Qin was still in the room.

"Fire Lord Azula I would like you to end the construction of the smaller war balloons. They are not effective enough to be used for anything other than target practice for the enemy." He then pulled out a piece of paper"would you please sign the termination papers"Azula looked at the paper and agreed with the war Minister it was a waste of material as she was signing the documents she asked him a question." War Minister Qin do you believe you could give this letter to the earth kingdom base outside of the jaded rock provinces?" it was a the closeness earth kingdom base to the fire nation." Is this the truce paper?"the war Minister asked she nodded her head as she finished signing the last paper we need to send this as quick as possible before the avatar attacks to save face. I'm interesting you with a great burden can you carry this out?" He quickly nodded his head"it would be a great honor." "Good you may leave now"

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-0=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ba Sing Se with the avatar it had been two days since the war meeting

Aang was sitting in Iroh tea shop the past two days have been very hard finding out that Zuko was dead and that they are certain that Katara was alive Iroh's contacts in the fire nation had told him that much. But Aang was so worried about her and Appa.

Just then he walk-in "twinkle toes your not going to believe this the fire nation is calling for a cease-fire. Aang was in shock. General How, Sokka and Suki walked in after Toph.

Sokka spoke "so you know it's hard to believe Azula would be the one calling for peace but there's a catch"

Aang looked at Sokka with concern on his face "what's the catch." "She wants you to give up the majority of the air nomads land."Sokka

Aang face lit up with anger"she what she thinks she can take my homeland I will never let her take the air nomads land!"

"Aang if you do not agree to this she will kill all the prisoners of war in the fire nation."Aang had trouble believing this she was using human lives to force him to surrender to her terms then it dawned on him Katara was a prisoner of the war she would be killed he felt sick she was willing to kill so many people just for power and she was worse than her father.

General How then spoke she will meet you at the fire nation capital. A fire nation airship will pick you up here in two days."

"What will you do?"the General asked aang -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-0=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Leave a comment should aang let the war end or continue it to bring balance back to the world fully?

the Next chapter will be told through Aang mostle.