"You! You hurt Appa!"

Well that was unexpected. So was the massive wave of earth that threatened to crush her. Looks like Zuzu hurt the Avatar's pet, and they gave her the credit. Of course they would.

Azula dodged the wave and the words. "I don't know what you're talking about. I've been here waiting for you the whole time." They knew Zuko had blue fire too, so that must mean...

"You hit him with lightning! Don't play innocent!" Ah, Zuzu! Good for you. She smiled and they attacked. She was quickly bored with the accusations and demands hurled at her. It was funny to watch their mouths move and try to guess what they might be saying without listening. One of her less violent hobbies. Blah blah blah, where is the Fire Lord, blah blah, blah blah.

"What, I'm not good enough for you? You're hurting my feelings."

The water tribe peasant threatened her with that pointy black sword of his, and actually called her powerless. What a simpleton. Oh, and the earthbending girl thinks she can tell truth from lies?

"Are you sure? I'm a pretty good liar. I am a four hundred foot tall purple platypus-bear, with pink horns and silver wings."

"...Ok you're good, I admit it." Toph stomped and thrust her hands, encasing her in rock. "But you really ought to consider telling the truth anyway." She raised an eyebrow. As if that would make her talk. What sided they think she did? Sit around all day giving orders?Her father is Fire Lord Ozai, she had been trained to conquer and rule the world since she could crawl.

Then her Dai Li freed her and the real fun began.

The Avatar was quick and had power, but he had no idea what to do with it. His moves were painfully predictable once she got used to airbending movements and the freestyle nature of it. And he was so defensive! She'd thought learning water and earth bending styles would have made him more adaptable and aggressive. Apparently not.

The water tribe boy almost didn't count.

But the little earthbending girl was a prodigy. An earth equivalent of herself almost, and with her blindness to force her into adapting and improvising to see with her bending. Possibly the most powerful earthbender, and only twelve. Toph Beifong was stronger than the two Dai Li agents she had with her, if flashier and less agile. Such a shame she wasn't with the Dai Li.

Maybe she would come around when there wasn't anyone else left.

So she dodged and ducked and ran around, leading the three on a merry chase and letting her Dai Li distract them. Then her agents disappeared and she was alone. She almost smiled at Toph, clever little girl.

"Wait! Aang, Toph, stop attacking. Don't you see what she's doing? She's just playing with us! She's not even trying to win this fight!" Well drat, the water boy was onto her.

"Not true, I'm giving it my all." No sense abandoning the game just so soon.

"You're trying to keep us here and waste all our time!" It was unnerving to be accused by the blind girl, talking at the wall yet pointing her way. "Um right, I think your friend just said that, genius. And since you can't see, I should tell you I'm rolling my eyes." Really, she walked right into that one.

"I'll roll your whole head!" Oh to have an ally like Toph. Aggressively arrogant with the skill and power to back it up. But Sokka stopped her, and managed to talk the trio into ignoring her and leaving to try finding the Fire Lord.

"You'll - never - find - him!" Her voice came out like the childish taunt it was. "Not - listening!" He called back in kind, not even stopping. Oh, she'd make him stop.

"Your name's Sokka, right? My favourite prisoner used to mention you all the time. She was convinced you were going to come rescue her. Of course, you never came, and she gave up on you." That got his attention. He rushed her and she readied her knife but the blind earthbenders was too good, pinning her to the wall with solid rock.

"Where. Is. Suki?" She smirked at his attempt to intimidate her, though the dark blade was interesting enough. She recognised the make and the design on the hilt. Oh, Piandao, you should have known better. The princess took her time in replying, and then drawled out each word as slowly as possible.

"Ah yes, that was her name. Poor Suki, all alone with the absolute worst criminals in the Fire Nation. And you haven't tried to save her. Fancy that. Do you know what they do with pretty little girls in prison? By now she's probably just starting to like it."

Oh she would treasure the look on his face forever. So much guilt and rage he choked on it. She couldn't help but press on, he was too hilarious. She felt her inner fire return, but decided to have a little more fun first. "Do you think she'd survive childbirth? She looked strong enough, but then she has been so depressed lately. Fire Nation blood proves strong, perhaps it'll be a firebender. I wonder if she'll be able to guess who the daddy was?" No point in telling him of the strict rules enforced in their prisons; if they want to think them monsters, who was she to correct them?

He swung his sword to take her head clean off, predictable as always, and she spat fire at his face. He flinched and stumbled back just as her hands exploded free off the rock. She flipped free of the horrified group and shouted back to them.

"Dad's all the way at the end of the hall, then down a secret stairway on the left. I'm sure he'd be more than happy to see you now." And then she took off. They would waste time deciding what to do, then eventually head back to their little group, giving her all the time she needed to get to the airships.

Or maybe they would be stupid enough to face her father. One could only hope.