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This chapter is another short one. Once again it is mostly fluff and light flirting on Azula's part.
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Love-Struck – Chapter Thirty-Nine
"So, I take it that was the end of the slave rebellions?" Azula pondered while she still sat above Elle with her dainty companion resting her head upon her armored belly.
"Yeah. But Crassus got what he deserved about twenty years later." Elle answered in a worshipful voice while she continued to melt under her girlfriend's soothing hand.
"Did he now?" Azula almost cooed in a manner that a mother would humor her child.
"Mhm. He invaded another empire…the Parthians. He went in ill prepared…and he lost horribly." Elle stated with her palms grasping at the older girl's red robes.
"What happened to him after he lost?" Mai questioned with noticeable distaste for the man for crucifying so many slaves.
"They poured molten gold down his throat. He was never satisfied…no matter how rich he became. So, they gave him all he could swallow. Apparently, the Parthians had a sense of humor." Elle revealed with a slight shrug while the three highborn women gazed at her in surprise over the ironic method of execution.
"Good." Ty Lee growled with a trace of disgust that was shared by Mai who nodded in agreement.
Azula just rolled her eyes over what she believed to be the other girl's oversensitive natures.
Ty Lee more than Mai.
"How unfortunate for Crassus. Now then…I suppose that is enough history for now. Elle." Azula commented with a finger underneath her chin while she delighted in how her handmaid peered up on command.
"Yes Mistress?" Elle replied without delay in a love-struck voice while she gazed up at Azula's smiling face with spellbound amber eyes.
No one commented on how it was peculiar that the girl admired a former slave yet still insisted on addressing Azula as 'Mistress'.
"There are…some things I wish for you to do for me tonight. That is…if you are my good girl. Are…you my good girl Elle?" Azula purred with her fingers brushing against her loyal handmaid's cheek while the tiny girl gasped in horror over the query.
All the while both Mai and Ty Lee gazed at Azula in disapproval already knowing that the spoiled woman was going to make the poor girl work until she collapsed later this evening.
"O-of course I am! T-there is no one that loves you more than me Azula-sama!" Elle cried out as she listened to Azula's silken chuckle flow into her ears while the princess's fingers slid in her line of vision.
"Hm. So good. In addition to a long foot massage…you will also be polishing my armor clean tonight." Azula ordered with a smug smirk on her domineering lips while she ignored her childhood friends mildly angered stares.
"Yes Azula-sama!" Elle exclaimed with more cheer than one should have over cleaning another's body armor.
"So obedient…while you're at it will you polish my boots as well?" Azula continued in an irresistible voice with her fingers brushing against the smiling girl's fair skin.
"Azula!" Ty Lee scolded in a protective voice only to sigh when the poor girl cried out in affirmative.
"Of course, Princess! I'll be sure that your boots are sparkling clean!" Elle agreed with a happy nod which earned her another pat to the head by her powerful girlfriend.
Her cheeks turned a lovable shade of pink once more while she beamed up at Azula's regally smirking face.
"Splendid! Such a good girl! And do be sure to get between the toes of my soles. You'll do that for me…won't you?" Azula questioned with her lips curling into a pompous smile that grew even larger when the girl rapidly nodded her head once more.
"If my princess says to get between the toes then I get between the toes!" Elle chimed with her chest puffing out in a show of innocent pride while her big sister's face palmed in unison.
"Perfect! You are just the best pet! I would like for you to bath me afterward. I've worked up…quite an unpleasant sweat. You'll wash your princess…won't you?" Azula cooed with a shameless smirk while she stared down at her pretty pet with possessive amber golden eyes that delighted in the girl's submission.
All along the two noblewomen continued to balk at their leader from beneath their palms over their spoiled friends' audacious demands.
Spoiled was an understatement!
Azula had to be the most entitled woman on the entire planet!
"W-what parts of your body do you wish for me to w-wash Your Highness?" Elle requested with her cheeks a bright shade of pink while she listened to the princess stoop down to breath against her ear.
"All of me." Azula announced in a supremely sadistic voice while she remained bent over her tiny handmaid with her hands grasping at the girl's trembling shoulder blades.
And that was to say nothing of the joy she gained from watching both of her childhood friends gaze away with an uncomfortable blush on their cheeks.
Even Mai too was blushing.
"A-all of you?" Elle stammered in an adorably abashed voice while she shivered pleasantly when the much taller woman's warm breath blew against her neck.
"All of me." Azula repeated with smugness dripping from her voice while she held her dainty girlfriend's body against her chest plating.
"Azula…the girl's…only thirteen…and she's…more innocent than other girls her age. Let her finish going through puberty before you start getting sexual with her." Mai spoke at long last with concern in her tawny eyes orbs while Ty Lee nodded in agreement.
"Did I say anything about sex? It's just a bath Mai. The girl is going to be seeing much of my naked body. She may as well get used to it…in truth she should be honored. Not many get to gaze upon my divine body…" Azula boasted with an arrogant smirk while Elle still trembled in her arms only for her friends to gaze at her for what seemed like an eternity.
"U-uh having another person wash your…ahem womanhood is most definitely sexual Azula." Ty Lee protested with a blush still her cheeks while she gestured between her legs.
"Oh fine! All of me…but that part of me. Are you still with us dear? Is anyone home?" Azula taunted with a hand waving before her adorable girlfriend's speechless face while small blonde sat frozen in silence.
While the two noblewomen watched in sympathy for their innocent young friend.
Azula was already the most forceful woman they had ever known.
They had no doubt that this was an overload for poor Elle's pure hearted mind.
"S-say what now?" Elle blurted out in a dazed voice with confusion in her amber eyes while the princess smiled down at her.
"A-Azula please don't give the poor girl a heart attack! Her love for you is so adorable! You're putting too much on her all at once!" Ty Lee advised only for her concern to fall on deaf ears.
As usual!
"Ah. I was just checking. So…will you wash your princess's tired body in the springs?" Azula inquired with her chin resting on the top of Elle's golden head while she smirked down at her trembling pet.
The girl was just too adorable.
Even she had to admit that much.
"O-okay. S-sure." Elle stuttered with a nervous gulp only to smile timidly when her looming girlfriend patted her head once more.
"Wonderful! Isn't she just precious? I just knew that it was a good call taking this one in." Azula exclaimed with a gratified smile adorning her haughty lips while she held the quivering girl against her chest.
"I-it sure was Azula." Ty Lee answered with her finger scratching against her cheek while Mai sighed heavily beside her.
"Are you done tormenting the kid now?" Mai asked in a dull voice only to frown when Azula's smirk grew even larger than before.
No. Of course not.
This was Azula they are talking about.
"And…would you be so kind…as to…dry me off afterward? I mean…if that's not too much to ask." Azula remarked with a finger curled up beneath her chin while the younger girl nodded her shaky head.
"Too much to ask. You have some nerve Azula." Ty Lee huffed with her arms folded over her breasts.
"Just say no kid. Your life will become a lot easier if you just say no." Mai implored with annoyance in her tawny eyes while Elle sat blinking in a spellbound haze.
"W-wakarimashita." Elle agreed with her thumbs twiddling in her lap while Mai groaned in the background only for a victorious smirk to creep onto Azula's controlling lips.
"Oh Elle…." Ty Lee sighed with a hand over her forehead while she watched the poor girl sit like a rabbit frozen in shock.
"Marvelous! Now I want you to take special care when you…dry my ass off understand? I would…be displeased if I should get my pants wet when I put them back on. Think you can do that for me Elle?" Azula purred with a hand stroking Elle's flushed cheek while her subordinates now gazed at her in utter disbelief.
"Azula!" Mai exclaimed with a stunned countenance while she gaped at her friends smirking face.
"A-as y-you s-say A-Azula-sama." Elle blurted out in a jumbled voice while Azula leaned over her shoulder smiling down at her.
"That's my little handmaid! Good girl!" Azula cooed with her hand ruffling her young girlfriend's hair while the petite girl just nodded numbly in response.
"Are you done now Azula?" Ty Lee almost growled in a protective voice while she angrily tapped her bicep.
It was clear that despite what Elle said earlier that the girl was far too sweet to ever refuse any of Azula's endless demands!
So, it falls upon her and Mai to speak up for the poor girl.
"Oh no. Not quite. There are a few more labors that I would like to add. But only if I am not making you uncomfortable!" Azula sighed with a hand sweeping through her hair while she held Elle's paralyzed face against her chest only for her companions to glare at her.
"Say no Elle. Say no!" Mai advised with her tawny eyes narrowing at her leader's conceited smile.
"H-huh? W-what did you say Azula-sama?" Elle squeaked in an adorable voice while her heart raced even faster when the smiling princess peered at her over her shoulder.
"Hm. I was just asking if you would be so kind as to make sure that the floor that my tent is to be placed on is absolutely spotless." Azula commented with a broad smirk on her powerful lips while she snaked both of her arms around the wide-eyed teenager.
"Azula someone else can do that! For Agni's sakes I would gladly do it for you if you just leave the poor girl be!" Ty Lee exclaimed only to slap her forehead once more when Elle gave a confounded nod with her amber eyes as wide as dinner plates.
"I-I w-would be h-happy to P-Princess." Elle stammered in a pitifully love-struck voice with her heart thumping rapidly while Azula continued to exhale on her shuddering cheek.
"You should be ashamed of yourself Azula. She looks like she's about to pass out!" Ty Lee lectured with a scolding frown on her lips that her friend ignored.
"Aren't you just darling…you'll do anything to please me won't you?" Azula purred with her lips near Elle's overwhelmed cheek while they all listened to the young girl audibly swallow down her anxiety.
"T-that's so. B-because you are the holder of my heart." Elle confessed in a love-struck voice only for her trembling to increase by tenfold when Azula touched her cheek to her own.
The other two members of Team Azula couldn't help but stare at their selfish leader with a spark of disapproval in their eyes.
"You're starting to piss me off Azula." Mai muttered with a sliver of anger in her eyes while Azula's eyes briefly glared her way before stroking Elle's terrified face with a well manicured fingernail.
While Azula never physically hurt Elle she strongly felt that the princess was obviously playing with her young friends' emotions.
Even though Azula had affection for the girl. Azula will always be Azula.
"Ignore them…oh my pretty little peasant. I am so pleased to own your little heart…and the rest of you…as well." Azula drawled before placing a chaste kiss on her jittering handmaid's cheek while she stared down into the younger girl's love-struck amber eyes.
"A-Azula-sama…" Elle whined like a placated kitten while she gulped when strong arms crushed her into an armored chest only for a dominant amber golden gaze to stare back at her from less than an inch away.
"You like that?" Azula purred with her breath sweeping against Elle's skin while the smaller girl nodded in her powerful arms.
The two noblewomen just groaned in frustration while they gazed back at one another with their eyes conveying their shared worry.
Elle may have the courage to challenge the Avatar but it damn apparent that the girl was completely helpless to Azula's dangerous charms.
"I-I confess I-I like it when you kiss me Azula-sama." The blond-haired girl admitted in a meek voice only to find herself gulping in delight when the princess growled against her cheek.
"Then I shall continue to do so. Tell me dear…I am so terribly hungry…but I can't quite trust anyone here to cook my dinner. An assassin may well attempt to poison my meal…you are the only person I can trust with the task. Would you…cook it for me?" Azula questioned in a silken voice in the same moment that her stomach rumbled while she smirked against her spellbound pet's cheek.
At this point the two noblewomen were staring at their leader in unimaginable astonishment over her gall.
Yet they understood well enough that they couldn't say a word to deter Azula from playing out her little game with the innocent girl.
"O-of course I'll make your dinner Princess. A-anything to keep you safe. I-I'm your loyal girl." Elle stuttered in agreeance with a deep flush on her youthful cheeks that only grew when Azula smashed their cheeks together.
"Are you finished now?" Ty Lee pondered in a sisterly voice while Azula just smirked haughtily over the love-struck girl's shoulder.
"I can tell…so lovely…and so delightfully submissive too. You'll be sure to massage my feet, afterward won't you? That is…unless I am overworking you." Azula sighed with her palm restraining Elle's smaller face into her cheek while her handmaid loudly gulped in response.
"Ugh. And you wonder why you were single before meeting Elle." Mai scoffed only for Ty Lee to flinch alongside her when the princess's amused amber golden eyes transformed into a murderous glare.
Only to find their young companion inadvertently come to their rescue.
"D-do…do I-I get to cuddle with you in your tent tonight Azula-sama?" Elle requested in a mousy voice while her princess confidently peered into her eyes with her powerful hand grasping at her little head.
It was just astonishing that after all of that the poor girl only asks Azula for a cuddle!
"Azula…you better say yes." Ty Lee stated with a shoe tapping on the forest floor while her spoiled friend continued to smile smugly.
"That depends…are you going to massage my feet?" Azula inquired in a captivating voice that had her pretty pet shuddering blissfully.
"O-of course I'll massage your feet Azula-sama!" Elle cried out in a childishly excited voice while she smiled when Azula's silken chuckle flowered into her ear.
"Hm. Perhaps…you would be willing to make it a full body massage?" Azula spoke with a charming smirk on her lovely lips while she stared directly into Elle's widening amber eyes only for the smaller girl to quiver when her palm cupped her cheek.
The two noblewomen nearly fell over in shock at just how far Azula was taking her flirtations with their naïve little sister.
"A-Azula!" Ty Lee sputtered with her face as red as a tomato while Elle continued to shake in fear of her inexperience.
"P-please s-show m-mercy to me Azula-sama. I-I don't know what to do…" Elle whimpered in a self-conscious voice while her mighty girlfriend held onto her chin with a domineering smirk on her red lips.
"I'll take that as a yes. You're an amusing little peasant…you please me. So very much. I like you…Elle. Fear not. I'll take care of you." Azula assured in a sigh with her hand grasping at her emotional handmaid's chin while the much shorter girl averted her eyes from her amber golden gaze.
"O-oh Azula-sama…." Elle swooned in a heartfelt voice with a hand over her robes only for her heart to nearly leap out of her chest when Azula bent over to place a loving kiss upon her forehead.
And despite Azula's prolonged display of selfishness the two couldn't help but gaze on at the kiss with softened eyes.
It really was sweet seeing just how much their innocent friend adored the princess.
"I won't let any assassins hurt you. They are going to die screaming in agony in my flames if they so much as lay a finger on you!" Azula snarled in a terrifying voice that sent shivers down the spines of her subordinates while her lips momentarily lingered upon the stunned girl's fair skin.
"M-my princess right…my dream come true." Elle mumbled in a lovable voice while the older girl stared down at her with a gigantic smirk upon her dominant lips.
"You're one weird girl Elle…if Azula is your dream come true." Mai stated in a bewildered voice while she shook her head.
"But so super, duper cute!" Ty Lee exclaimed with a returning smile on her lips.
Azula just sat on her exhausted backside above the terribly intimidated girl with a broad smile on her red lips.
Her dominant lips brushed across her gasping handmaid's skin all the while exhaling in her spellbound pet's face.
The powerful princess released another protective growl in the quivering girl's face while she continued to grasp at her young girlfriend's cheeks.
As her adorable little love interest melted like butter underneath her dominant touch.
This little thing was hers and hers alone.
AN:
Alright so this is a small but amusing chapter that shows how helpless Elle is to Azula's charms.
Azula is used to being pampered. And without all of her other servants at her command. There is only one person that she can look to fulfill her every order. And that is none other than our gentle Elle.
I also want to state that Azula does indeed have a sweet tooth. She just isn't used to sour candies like sour patch kids. Being royalty, Azula is accustomed to eating gourmet cakes and pies, and other high priced items that Elle is not used to.
Elle is used to eating what she can to survive, and she has not led the privileged life that Azula, Mai and Ty Lee have.
I feel that Azula would be way more likely to enjoy a fine dessert than a cheaply packed discount candy. Most especially something sour like gummy worms and sour patch kids.
Anyhow. That's all for this chapter!
Next chapter is going to be very emotional. We are going to learn the name of the man that killed Elle's parents. He'll come into play in book two. I decided that it would serve the story more if he was an actual character. Instead of a random face from the past that we never meet.
Stay tuned next time for chapter forty!
Ghosts of the Past!