Day 4: Azula as the Avatar AU
Genres: Drama/Adventure
Rating: K+
Setting: Southern Water Tribe
"Where is she?" Azula demanded as she stepped onto the icy terrain, only to be met with terrified faces.
A scrawny ponytailed boy let out a battle cry and charged at the princess with a club.
She nonchalantly sidestepped the boy and airbended him into a snowbank. "The WATERBENDER! WHERE. IS. SHE?!"
"Here," a voice called from the crowd of petrified villagers. A blue-eyed woman stepped forward. "I'm the waterbender."
Two guards went to apprehend her but Azula stopped them. "Wait." She approached the woman and sneered. "Let's see."
"Excuse me?"
"Let's see you waterbend."
The woman looked around nervously and slowly raised her arms.
Suddenly, Azula was hit in the back with a sharp waterwhip. She turned to find a younger girl staring her down.
"It's ME!" the girl growled as she was seized by some guards.
"Katara!" her mother cried.
A guard grabbed the woman's wrist. "You dared lie to Avatar Azula?" He formed a flame in his other hand. "You will pay – "
"Enough." Azula dismissed the guard. "There's no need to shed the blood of a simple peasant. We have what we came here for."
"You going to kill me?" Katara snarled.
"Kill you?" Azula laughed. "Spirits no." She stepped toward the girl. "I need a waterbending teacher. You are going to teach me."
"Even if I wanted to teach you, which I don't, I couldn't – I'm no master, I – "
"Yes, you are a sorry excuse for a waterbender, but…" The Avatar pulled out a scroll from her back pocket and handed it to the girl. "…you can and you will learn."
Katara unraveled the parchment, her eyes doubling in size. "A waterbending scroll!"
"You don't have to be treated like a prisoner, you know."
She solemnly nodded. "Okay. I'll go."
Azula smirked. "Excellent."
(To be continued on Day 7…)