The Princess and the Peasant - (An Azula Epic)

by grither55

Princess Azula believes that she was born with a divine right to rule, and she rules through fear alone. Until, a commoner girl enters her life by giving her a fire lily. Through this act, Azula finds herself undertaking a life-changing journey with her new companion to ascend the throne, save the world from an otherworldly threat, and find her humanity. Femslash.

43. Two Worlds

This chapter is a really long one.

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Two Worlds – Chapter Forty-Three

Team Azula strode at a leisurely pace through the forest in order to accommodate for both Ty Lee's broken ankle and their young friends breathing condition.

Azula found herself sighing in mild annoyance while Elle walked alongside her already chatting her up once more.

The two noblewomen could only watch in amusement while the princess listened to the girl with patience that she would never show even them.

Not even Ty Lee could get away with pestering Azula so frequently.

The princess furrowed her brows in bewilderment when the girl began to talk about the former slave once more.

"What? You think an escaped slave is more respectable than this Julius Caesar and this Augustus?" Azula questioned in a subdued voice so as to avoid hurting the girl's feelings while Elle baffled her when she nodded adamantly.

"Yeah! It's easy to accomplish great things when you are born in a position of great wealth in an empire as vast as Rome…well a Republic at the time. And it's even easier to accomplish your achievements when you have millions of slaves to do all of the hard work for you. Rome was built upon slavery. Without the slaves they would have been nothing. They may be deserving of their fame…but in my opinion. That is nothing compared to someone who fought to free hundreds of thousands. There…is no cause more noble than freedom." Elle explained with a resolute nod while her three friends listened curiously.

And once more the two noblewomen fell silent.

It wasn't like they disagreed with the girl.

It just made them uneasy knowing that Elle would eventually be torn up to find out about some of the Fire Nation's nastier dealings.

And judging by the frustrated look in Azula's eyes they could tell that the princess had not been expecting this.

"No cause more noble than freedom. Curious words. Coming from a girl who is practically begging to be my slave." Azula scoffed with an amused smirk returning to her lips only for the petite girl to chew on her lip.

"Azula…" Ty Lee trailed off in yet another sigh while Elle shook her head in disagreement.

At the very least Azula was making an attempt to be nicer.

Not that it was likely to last long.

"You seem to misunderstand Azula-sama. I'm not your slave. I'm here because I have freedom! I choose to serve you." Elle insisted gently while the older girl stared at her in revived puzzlement.

"Hm. You're not? Because it would appear that I now own your freedom." Azula retorted in a playful voice with her arms crossed over her armored breasts.

"Oh no! I serve you with pride because you are kind to me…and because you treat me well. I defer to your will because I know that you look after me…if you treated me even remotely like Felix did. I would…leave. Even if it broke my heart. I am still free." Elle spoke in a soft voice with her statement causing Azula to lose her smug smirk.

All three highborn women gazed at her in unease over how she casually stated that she would leave if Azula ever were to become abusive.

A sentiment that both Mai and Ty Lee silently agreed with.

"You are the one who presumes erroneously servant. While I will always make good on my promise to never abuse you. I still own you. And you are not free to leave. If I must leash you for you to understand that…then so be it." Azula commented with a domineering gleam in her cold eyes while her subordinates shuddered once more.

"Azula…please…please no leashes." Ty Lee begged with a worried frown only for her plea to fall on deaf ears.

"I know you would never hurt me Azula-sama! Because we're best buddies!" Elle cried out with her hand tugging on the princess's sleeve while her big sisters gazed on fondly over her joyful cry.

"Of course, we are…best buddy." Azula snorted with a pompous voice that seemed lost on her handmaid while Elle happily held onto her sleeve.

"I swear Elle. You're a strange girl if this is your dream come true." Mai stated in her usual dry voice while Azula smiled down at the girl with an unnervingly possessive stare.

The way Azula gazed at this innocent girl was the most disturbing thing of all.

It was a gaze of fondness that reassured her that the princess would make good on her word never to harm a hair on Elle's head.

But it was also the gaze of an easily provoked lover one that would turn to violence at a moment's notice.

After witnessing Azula's savage reaction to those two girls bullying Elle she had no doubt that the princess would end up brutally murdering someone in Elle's name.

It was almost bound to happen at some point.

"I guess I am strange! Because I think Azula-sama is dreamy." Elle chirped with a hand on her cheek while Azula swelled in pride upon hearing those words.

"Humph. Naturally. I am a goddess after all." Azula remarked with her head tilting to the side while she smiled arrogantly only for her childhood friends to groan in annoyance.

"I really…really wish you had never dubbed Azula a goddess Elle." Ty Lee complained with the smaller girl walking happily under her arm.

"But Azula-sama is a goddess. A-at least to me." Elle admitted shyly with a love-struck smile while Ty Lee patted her back fondly.

Mai continued to sigh in aggravation when Azula's smirk grew even larger.

Only for all three of them to watch warily or in Elle's case excitedly when Azula slammed her fists together with the flames of war burning in her callous eyes.

"It's decided then!" Azula called out without warning while she smiled in a pleased manner that had Ty Lee scratching her cheek nervously.

"Uh…what's decided Azula?" Ty Lee queried with a slightly fearful smile when her friend turned to smile back at her.

"This little tiger monkey has just given me the most wonderful idea." Azula revealed with her fingers tapping along her crossed arms while the petite girl smiled brightly.

"I did Mistress?" Elle asked in a delighted voice with her two big sister's peering at her oddly.

Once again baffled that she continued to choose to address Azula as 'Mistress' yet she expressed a high admiration for freedom.

In a weird way they could see that Elle felt that she only gained her freedom by serving under Azula.

It made sense to Ty Lee but it was a notion that continued to baffle Mai.

It was just all the more proof that the poor girl has lived an unnaturally miserable life.

So much so that she felt servitude under Azula was a life of freedom.

But given that their young friend was quite clearly happy serving Azula they didn't really see an issue with it.

For now, anyway.

"After I cement my dominance over this world, I shall require all across the world to worship me as a goddess! They shall all lay tributes before my boots or suffer my wrath when I dominate this world!" Azula announced in a maniacal voice with her arms spreading out to her sides while the three gazed at her in disbelief.

And now the two noblewomen could only shudder in distaste while they gazed down at their young friends brightening smile with mildly scolding gazes.

"Thanks kid. Thanks." Mai grunted with a scowl while the princess continued to smile maliciously.

"You go Azula-sama! If you put your mind to it you can do anything! I am sure you will make a flawless Godde-" Elle cheered only for Ty Lee's hand to gently slide over her mouth.

"Elle…" Ty Lee sighed with a hand over her forehead while the princess smiled down at the smaller girl.

"Ty Lee! Remove your hand from my little worshiper's mouth or I will burn you to ashes!" Azula ordered with a domineering finger pointing at Ty Lee's nodding face.

The fact that Azula just called Elle her 'little worshiper' only served to heightened their anxieties.

"Good luck with that Azula. I'll be one of the countless millions refusing to pay tribute." Mai scoffed with a defiant smirk while Azula turned to glare at her.

"Then you shall suffer my wrath for your insolence. Isn't that right servant?" Azula asked with a smug smile while she turned to Elle's beaming face for further praise.

The two noblewomen shook their heads fondly when the adorable girl cred out in agreement once more.

"Mhm! You better give her tribute oneesan I don't want to see you get burned to ashes." Elle commented with a finger pressing into her lip while Ty Lee listened in humor once more.

That was when Azula paused in her step with a truly arrogant smile that had both of her childhood friends flinching in realization that something terrible was upon them.

"I hereby declare that after I become Fire Lord that the first day of every month will be known worldwide as Azula Day! A day of recognition of my glory and divine beauty!" Azula shouted with her fists clenched at her shapely hips while the two noblewomen nearly fell over in horror.

"A-Azula…isn't that rather tyrannical?" Ty Lee asked in a frightened voice only for Azula to proudly shake her head.

Now that Azula had the idea in her head there was no way to get her to let it go!

Once the princess sets her mind to something, she becomes terrifyingly determined to make it a reality!

Just like Ba Sing Se!

"No Ty Lee. That's not tyrannical. Now if I made everyday Azula Day…that would be tyrannical." Azula purred with a sadistic smile that had her childhood friends shivering in terror.

Only for both noblewomen to gaze down in comical disapproval when joyous clapping resounded into the air.

And the powerful princess turned to smile down at the girl with a fond smirk on her regal lips.

"I-I want an Azula Day! Please Azula-sama! Please! Can we have an Azula Day when we get home?" Elle whined adorably while her big sisters stared at her in fright.

"Oh, very well. I suppose I could allow it. My little admirer wants an Azula Day. And I shall see it done. I now decree that the first day upon our return home will be Azula Day! It's a day to love me…so do try to get me a proper gift." Azula declared with a beyond hubristic smile while the two noblewomen exchanged a miserable glance.

"Just send me to prison already." Mai muttered with a scowl while she marched on ahead of her selfish leader.

"I-I promise that I'll write you a lovely poem Azula-sama…." Elle trailed off in a love-struck voice while she swooned under Azula's confident gaze.

"Elle…you already write Azula poems on regular days of the week." Ty Lee reminded in a sisterly voice while she resumed walking with the shorter girl.

"Ignore her my pet. You should feel no shame in offering your goddess tribute. And I for one will not accept anything less than your upmost devotion!" Azula huffed with her finger jabbing Elle's rapidly nodding forehead while her handmaid smiled timidly under her stern stare.

"Azula…do you really have to start making her call you goddess? Isn't mistress enough?" Ty Lee grumbled while Azula smirked with her hand patting Elle's smiling head once more.

"A-Azula-sama…I love you." Elle murmured sweetly with her big sister's gazing at the selfish woman in disapproval once more.

As much as Azula clearly liked Elle it was also obvious that the princess shamelessly used the girl to boost her ego on a regular basis.

"You are such a good girl. I can't wait for that bath…" Azula cooed in a silken voice before removing her hand from the smaller girl's hair just as she began to walk ahead of her handmaid.

"A-and I can't w-wait to give you a b-bath P-Princess." Elle stuttered in a fretful gulp when Azula's posterior began to sway in her line of vision.

"Azula…" Ty Lee growled out just as she began to stomp ahead while the smug woman continued to sway her ass before the poor girl's overwhelmed eyes.

"What? All I am doing is walking. Is it against the law for a princess to walk?" Azula scoffed in a haughty voice with her hips swaying ahead of her admirer's widening amber eyes.

"You really are shameless Azula. The girl hasn't even hit fourteen yet and you're already swaying your ass for her." Mai stated with her tawny eyes directing the smirking woman a scolding stare.

"P-please spare me Azula-sama. I…don't know how to handle this." Elle pleaded in a pitiful voice while Ty Lee scowled at the princess's swaying back.

"It's okay Elle…just look away. Just…uh…look at the trees!" Ty Lee advised lamely with a finger scratching her cheek while Mai snorted in slight amusement.

"Precious. Isn't she Ty Lee?" Azula chuckled in a confident voice while she strode with a fist on her hip before she effortlessly swayed her posterior ever so slightly.

Never failing to notice how the younger girl's worshipful amber eyes followed her backside with every motion that she made.

It was just adorable how the girl was spellbound by the slightest motions that she made.

"Yeah she is! Though not in the way you're thinking!" Ty Lee snarled before gazing down at her little sister.

Only to find herself amused when she noticed how the poor girl couldn't gaze away from her friend's ass.

She could only sigh when Elle quickly gazed away with ashamed eyes while she offered the shy girl another pat to the back.

"There's no need to be ashamed Elle. It's okay to have desires of the body. Especially when she purposefully puts it in your face!" Ty Lee exclaimed with an angry huff while Elle still gazed away with embarrassed amber eyes.

Innocent amber eyes that found it hard to look away from the princess's round bottom that was accented so wonderfully by fine crimson pants.

Only for the young girl to turn away from the hypnotic backside once more before she released a truly adorable whimper.

One that did not go unnoticed by the smirking Azula.

"Something wrong dear? Are you…coming down with something?" Azula pondered in an irresistible purr while Elle gazed around like a panicking puppy.

"Yeah! You!" Ty Lee shouted with a narrow of her eyes while her friend chuckled once more.

"C-can we j-just go back to talking? M-mercy Princess. M-mercy." Elle protested in a confuddled voice while she gazed at a passing tree.

The two noblewomen gazed at her with clear sympathy in their eyes only for the sadistic woman to finally relent in her seductive game.

"Oh, so be it. When you plead so adorably how can I say no? I shall grant you a brief stay from execution. You may resume talking now." Azula taunted with a wave of her hand just as she began to walk beside the three once more.

All the while never being bothered by her two friends scolding stares.

"Ugh. Look Azula. If you are going to be doing this every day for over two years then just take the girl into the nearest river and just shove her face between your legs already. At least it will spare us from this torture." Mai complained with her words causing the younger girl to yelp in fright while Ty Lee blushed deeply.

"Mai!" Ty Lee yelled with a reddening face while the other woman shrugged carelessly.

"What? I am just saying that I would rather not watch this for two and a half years." Mai answered with her arms folded over her breasts while Azula smiled proudly.

"Are you still with us Elle? No? Are you sure the girl didn't get wounded Ty Lee?" Azula teased with her palm waving before Elle's overwhelmed face only for Ty Lee to slap her hand away.

"I am sure! I wonder if you'll still smile if the poor girl has a heart attack." Ty Lee replied with a reproachful frown only for the princess to roll her amber golden eyes.

"Please Ty Lee. Now you are just being melodramatic. My handmaid isn't going to have a heart attack from me swaying my hips and ass for a few moments." Azula retorted with a haughty roll of her eyes only for her pretty handmaid to blink her eyes in confusion.

"Say what now?" Elle blurted out only for her big sisters to gaze at her in comical entertainment.

"My…my…my…you truly are an amusing little thing." Azula stated with an arrogant smirk while Elle audibly gulped once more.

"So anyway Shorty…about Spartacus…I take it that his name is pretty famous huh?" Mai conversed in a bored voice with her eyes gazing at the younger girl's brightening face.

No doubt she was also glad to focus on something that wasn't Azula's hips.

"Oh yeah! Most people know his name even if they don't know any of the details. The only people that don't are really young kid's that are too lazy to read up on history. He wasn't the leader of the largest slave rebellion in history for nothing. I mean just think about it! Out of the millions upon millions of slaves born in history what were the chances he would achieve such fame? That's impressive no matter how you look at it! He's a major historical figure no matter what anyone says." Elle answered with returning excitement in his voice while even Azula listened in grudging curiosity.

Both Mai and Ty Lee were in agreement with Elle.

But they could tell Azula wasn't.

And so, they had no choice but to keep their mouths shut out of fear that they might push the princess's mercy too far.

"Even so. A slave is still a slave. I am much more interested in hearing about these…emperors and dictators." Azula remarked with a hand below her chin while Mai let out a snort that prompted her to turn to glare at her friend.

"Well, that doesn't surprise me given how…" Mai trailed off with a bead of sweat on her brow when Azula's eyes enlarged into a truly monstrous glare.

"Go on. Finish your sentence Mai." Azula sneered with her fingers curling up before her smiling face.

The meaning of the order was crystal clear.

It was Azula's way of saying that all mercy will vanish if Mai tells Elle that the Fire Nation practiced in the slave trade.

"I…disagree. Such distinctions have no meaning. Any one of us could have been born a slave in another lifetime. I-I bet you wouldn't be saying that if you were born as a Roman slave Azula-sama. You…would try to rebel too. And then some arrogant person would look down on your when you were killed for it." Elle muttered in a bothered voice while Ty Lee listened in rising concern.

The princess's smile faded away as she gazed at her admirer with growing surprise in her amber golden eyes.

Both Mai and Ty Lee could tell that Azula was becoming frustrated with Elle's words.

Azula no doubt expected that she would be able to convince the girl otherwise because their young friend was hopelessly in love with her.

But Elle was proving surprisingly resilient with her beliefs. Timid, but persistent.

"Naïve girl. I was born with a divine right to rule. I would not have been born a slave under any circumstance. I was fated to be…royalty." Azula insisted in a proud voice while her handmaid frowned in a way that she strangely disapproved of.

"No. No, you weren't. There is no divine right in genetics. It's…just luck." Elle retorted in a quiet voice only for Ty Lee to flinch when Azula spun around to glare at them.

Thus far Azula has expressed an astonishing amount of patience for the girl and a surprising level of tolerance for just about anything her handmaid said.

But they could tell that the princess did not approve of those words.

"Azula…." Ty Lee warned before the princess could snap at her innocent friend.

"What would you know about my birthright? You didn't even know anything about royalty until you met me!" Azula snapped before turning away with a scowl on her red lips while Elle gazed down at the ground.

"T-that's got nothing to do with it. Y-you're just deflecting. That doesn't disprove what I said." Elle stammered with her eyes avoiding the now angered amber golden stare.

"Just stop it Azula." Ty Lee almost begged with a frown while her friend still glared at the smaller girl's bothered face.

"Deflecting! You think that I am afraid of you!" Azula hissed only for Mai to place a calming hand on her arm.

"It hasn't even been ten minutes and we're already repeating this Azula." Mai spoke with a stern countenance as her hand fell back down to her side while her friend glared at her.

"Just because I like this girl does not mean that you and Ty Lee can tell me what to do!" Azula yelled with a sliver of madness in her amber golden eyes that prompted Mai to slowly back away.

"I-I didn't say you were afraid Princess. I said you're deflecting. Felix used to do the same thing…whenever he wanted to act like I was stupid." Elle muttered before turning away while Ty Lee now frowned at Azula's hardened face.

'Why is she so obsessed with slaves? I had known her to be a pacifist and a vegetarian but I had thought that I could sway her…after seeing how she ran to my aid.' Azula thought with a puff of fire escaping her nostrils while she began to stomp ahead.

"Azula-sama?" Elle began hesitantly while the older girl turned to cast her a mild glare.

"What?" Azula questioned in a slightly colder voice than usual while she glared at Ty Lee when the noblewoman held Elle closer as if she would strike her.

"Why…are you getting so angry about slavery?" Elle inquired to the sudden nervousness of all three of her highborn friends while Azula stared at her with surprised amber golden eyes.

Yet even so the princess expertly concealed her apprehension while her lips pursed into a frown.

'Elle's smarter than Azula gives her credit for. Azula's not going to be able to hide this from Elle for much longer. I can already tell that Elle is going to be angry when she finds out.' Mai thought with a worried look in her tawny eyes while Azula hesitated for the briefest of moments to answer.

For the briefest of moments Azula strangely felt her throat become…sticky while she quickly formed the words upon her tongue.

And most puzzling of all was how her heartbeat increased momentarily while she scowled back at her innocent pet.

That was when she realized much to her fury and humiliation that she has become so fond of this girl that she becoming bothered at the thought of her admirer abandoning her.

It was absurd that she should feel so attached to a mere peasant!

And yet she was!

'This is unlike Azula to get tripped up with a question…she took too long. It's already too late.' Mai thought with a returning impassive countenance just before the princess spoke.

"I could ask the same of you Elle. You ask why the Crown Princess of the Fire Nation looks down on a slave? Slaves do not become emperors. Slaves do not become Kings." Azula declared in a beyond strict voice only for her furious frown to increase when a rare spark of offense flashed in her handmaid's eyes.

"Like c-commoners and p-peasants, right? People that are born low should just shut up and accept life as they're told by the ruling class? That's what they tell people like me when they don't want you to question why you can't afford anything but moldy bread!" Elle exclaimed with her amber eyes flaring in emotion while the taken aback princess glared back at her.

"I didn't say anything about commoners and peasants. You did. Not me. I said slaves." Azula stated in frustration while Mai rolled her eyes at her back.

That was a poor answer Mai mused.

Especially considering that many commoners and peasants lived a life that was scarcely better than slavery.

It was likely because there was only so much Azula could say before it became obvious.

Even to the most naïve person like Elle.

"B-but you would if I wasn't here! You'd probably say it as soon as I fell asleep! Because even your favorite peasant is still a lowly, dirty peasant, isn't that, right?!" Elle cried out with an unusually incensed face while Ty Lee attempted to offer her a comforting hug.

Suffice to say that it was obvious that the girl's anger took Azula completely by surprise.

If only because it wasn't a topic that the princess could easily back out of.

"Azula. Please." Ty Lee implored with a deep frown while Azula seethed in her direction.

"Foolish girl! If I thought you were lowly you wouldn't have ever left that street! If I thought otherwise, you wouldn't be clinging to me day and night!" Azula bellowed with a puff of fire escaping her lips just as she stomped closer to attempt to amend her young girlfriend's worries.

It only served to fuel her frustrations knowing that she liked this one.

That it was no longer a simple matter of parting with her handmaid.

She no longer saw the girl as just a pet, or just a servant, just a commoner or just a peasant.

She was…all of that yes.

Such was the nature of their dominant, submissive dynamic.

And yet the girl was something much more at the same time.

There was no doubt in her mind.

She saw this one as much more than all of the other peasants.

More than any slave.

Elle…had an otherworldly charm that captivated her interest.

The girl radiated…something precious…something valuable.

She was a cut above.

The girl was…innocent and she had class.

Elle was something…magnificent.

Who would have ever thought that she would be this fond of a peasant?

'Is this…love? Am I…starting to fall for this little peasant girl? Is that it?' Azula thought with her boot stepping into the forest floor while she clenched her fists at her sides.

"Give her to me Ty Lee. Mai can help you walk." Azula demanded in a terrifyingly possessive voice while Ty Lee stared at her with a frown on her lips.

Not because she would have to walk with Mai.

But because of the way Azula continued to talk down to Elle.

"No. No matter how much you try to label her as such Elle isn't a dog. She's not a pet. She has her own feelings. Unlike you Azula…I don't look down on her. I am just trying to be her friend! Maybe you should try it." Ty Lee argued with her arm still around the smaller girl's shoulders while the now frowning girl peered off into the tree line.

In the very moment that she said no.

But she and Mai shivered in even greater fear of Azula than before when the princess narrowed her frightening amber golden eyes back at her.

Somehow Azula was even more terrifying now that she had someone to care about than before!

"I said give her to me. She is mine. I would think that I made that perfectly clear by now. When I want her. I will have her." Azula insisted in an increasingly glacial voice while she stood staring back at Ty Lee's increasingly fearful face.

And it most surely did not escape Mai's notice that Azula was starting to behave just like she feared she would.

Like a terrifying stalker!

"A-Azula-sama stop threatening my oneesan!" Elle called out over Ty Lee's shoulder while the older girl gazed down at her with moved brown-gray eyes.

And now the princess stood with a displeased frown on her lips while she gazed directly into Elle's emotional amber eyes.

"Hm. Come here dear. I'm not mad at you. Silly girl." Azula cooed in a sweetened voice that had Ty Lee staring at her in disapproval.

It was clear that Azula was trying to lure Elle in until the girl eventually melted like butter once more under her lethal charms.

"W-well I'm mad at you." Elle mumbled in a softer voice while Azula took another stomp closer.

All the while her amber golden eyes brilliantly considering how she could once more sooth the girl's mood.

Just as she has always done.

Every time, without fail.

Strangely enough, she has actually come to enjoy comforting her little pet.

"Azula…p-please just leave the poor girl be." Ty Lee requested in a shakier voice than before only to back up when Azula stepped closer.

Azula's regal lips curved into a scowl while her anger rose after witnessing Ty Lee act as if she was going to harm them!

"I am not going to hurt her Ty Lee! I just want to…walk with her. Why are you mad at me Elle? Don't you want to walk with your princess?" Azula purred before placing her hand on Elle's quivering arm.

As she began to smile charmingly when Elle began to tremble with her eyes widening in nervousness.

"N-no. You are doing it again. You are trying to take advantage of my inexperience by overwhelming me instead of answering my question. You can charm me with your body…but that won't change what I believe. I…might be meek but my beliefs are rock solid." Elle declared with a shake of her head that took Azula aback just as Ty Lee began to slowly walk with her.

The princess's lips dropped into an even deeper scowl.

While she began to stomp ahead with a displeased look in her eyes while she glared at her handmaid's aggravatingly disconcerted face.

The girl was far too mushy for her own good!

"She has a point Azula. It's only natural that a girl going through puberty will be easily swayed by the body of the person she loves. Why don't you try to talk to her instead? Without knocking her down." Mai suggested in a frustrated voice while the other woman angrily folded her arms over her breasts.

"I have been talking to her! I have spent more time talking to the tiger monkey than the two of you combined!" Azula retorted with a foul tempered huff while she still gazed at her pet with greedy amber golden eyes.

It irked her that the girl resisted her charms.

'I suppose…that I will just have to correct that later on. Hm. I'll put the girl to work pleasing my body. And then we'll see how strong her will is.' Azula thought with a confident smile returning to her red lips.

Yes, once this one was in the springs with her there was no doubt that all of the resistance will fade from her body.

"You…asked why I cared. I…care because I care about all living beings. Slavery…is an archaic and primitive function. It hinders the development of humanity." Elle stated with a reflective countenance while Ty Lee attentively listened to her.

As did Mai.

The two women gazed at their adopted sister with softened eyes while the princess sighed haughtily once more.

That was the one thing that bothered the both of them.

Elle has shown that she wasn't as simple as Azula thinks.

And Azula just sighs it off as if the girl's beliefs are just childish nonsense.

"You are such a troublesome thing. I thought I told you not to worry your little mind over the state of this world." Azula remarked in a more patient voice while she shook her head fondly at her young girlfriend's adorably worried face.

The girl was cute…she won't deny that.

"I-I know Azula-sama…. but it's how I am." Elle mumbled with a smile cracking through once more while Ty Lee affectionately patted her back.

"Don't worry so much about that right now little sister. Everything will be alright. Let's go enjoy the walk!" Ty Lee exclaimed in a cheerful voice with the blushing girl tucked underneath her arm while Elle leaned into her protective embrace.

All the while Azula glared at Ty Lee through the corner of her greedy eye while her gaze never left the other woman's breasts with her handmaid's face being pressed into it once more.

"Ty Lee! My breasts only!" Azula barked with a spoiled snap of her fingers while her two-childhood friends rolled their eyes defiantly.

"It's a hug Azula! When girls hug each other it's kind of inevitable that their breasts will press against each other! Especially when there is a difference in height." Ty Lee retorted with a heavy sigh while the smaller girl adorably smiled against her chest.

"My breasts only." Azula repeated in a tyrannical voice with her eyes narrowing into a terrifying glare that had Ty Lee huffing angrily.

"Whatever Azula. Your breasts only. Snuggle hog." Ty Lee grumbled before shifting Elle's head just slightly away from her bosom but not fully.

An act that did not go on unnoticed by the possessive Fire Nation Princess.

That was when all of Team Azula was distracted by a childish cry of joy from the young girl pointing in excitement at a small animal on a tree.

"What's that Azula-sama! I've never seen anything like that before!" Elle cried out with an infectious smile while Ty Lee warmly patted her back once more.

And even Mai couldn't resist the urge to smile.

The princess stared ahead with bored amber golden eyes at a small squirrel toad scurrying up a tall tree trunk.

"Oh, that it's…just a squirrel toad." Azula answered flatly with her hands on her biceps while she turned to gaze at her handmaid's adorably enthusiastic face.

Once more she was completely baffled by her young friends' behavior.

In all of her life she has never seen anyone get excited over something as trivial as a squirrel toad!

"I-it's so weird but so cool! We don't have squirrel toads where I come from! We have squirrels and we have toads! But not squirrel toads!" Elle chirped in a delighted voice with her mouth agape in wonderment.

And unknown to her.

Her claim was just as baffling to Team Azula as the squirrel toad was to her.

"You mean…they are two separate animals?" Mai pondered with a curious blink of her eyes while she eyed her young friend once more.

She had long since abandoned any doubt regarding to Elle's story.

But even so.

It just made it all the more fascinating to ponder what Elle's homeland was like.

"Hm. How strange." Azula spoke with an amuse look in her eyes while she still studied her pretty handmaid's beaming face.

Only to blink in amusement when her pet turned to her with a mutually bewildered look on her youthful face.

"Huh? That's not strange Azula-sama. Your squirrel toad is strange. But it's really awesome! Maybe I can take one back with me?" Elle pondered with a happy smile while Ty Lee giggled only for the princess to stomp her boot in disapproval.

"Absolutely not servant! The last thing I need is for you to fill the palace up with filthy forest creatures!" Azula snapped in a voice akin to a mother disciplining her child while she fixed her handmaid with a beyond imposing glare.

"M-maybe we could have one in the Royal Palace gardens after you become Fire Lord?" Elle whined only for her shoulders to slump when Azula pointed a domineering finger down at her.

"I said no Elle! As your mistress my word is final!" Azula snorted with her fists on her hips while the adorable girl pouted in Ty Lee's arms.

"B-but…" Elle stammered only to be silenced by a dominant stare that sent a pleasurable shiver down her spine.

No matter how much she disagreed with Azula over their beliefs she couldn't help but enjoy belonging to such a magnificent woman.

She…really liked being Princess Azula's girl…

"Aww. Cheer up little sister. I'll put all the forest creatures you want in the garden at my house. And then when Azula's being a meanie you can visit me and we'll hug in the garden all day!" Ty Lee assured in a warm voice with the younger girl gasping in delight against her chest.

"Really oneesan!" Elle squealed with her joy earning her another crushing hug.

While Mai stared on in amusement and Azula glared at them once more.

"Yeah! Really! And I bet Mai would be willing to do the same at her place!" Ty Lee shouted with a huge grin on her lips while Elle peered over at the other woman's sighing face.

The princess had been expecting her more stoic subordinate to say no.

Only to be surprised by Mai's answer.

"Whatever kid. If it will make you happy…" Mai agreed with a small smile while she shook her head.

Team Azula watched their young companion shout out in excitement once more while the princess released another jealous growl.

"My oneesans are the best!" Elle called out in a truly happy voice while both noblewomen smiled back at her fondly.

Only for the sound of the spoiled princess to stomp her pointed boot in the grass.

"No! I am the best. And you had best remember that peasant." Azula boasted with a prideful smirk while she brushed her dark bangs from her eyes.

"So…does that mean that you're going to top us with an even bigger wildlife garden Azula?" Mai questioned in a smug voice that had Azula glared at all three of them.

"Yeah Azula. When you become Fire Lord, we could have a whole forest of critters running through the palace hall ways." Ty Lee snickered with her little sister smiling in excitement while the princess pursed her lips in disgust.

"Only if I get to cook the little dears for dinner." Azula sneered with a ruthless countenance only for her soft-hearted vegetarian girlfriend to pale in horror.

It was just another reminder that feeding this young girl was going to be a pain in her ass!

"N-no! Y-you can't eat them Azula-sama. Animals are my friends…" Elle protested in an innocent voice that had Ty Lee rubbing her back tenderly.

Only for her head to spin around to gaze at Azula's supremely haughty face when the tall woman's belly rumbled once more.

"Mhm. I assure you dear. They are my friends as well. I just love them so much that I want to put them in my belly." Azula remarked with a hand rubbing her growling belly while her childhood friends glared at her in disapproval.

Only for the princess to groan in annoyance when her words prompted her pet to shoo the forest creatures away.

"Have a little bit of decency Azula. Elle didn't get to have a childhood and she's trying to live it now. It's cruel to talk about killing them in front of her." Ty Lee advised in a sisterly voice while Azula scowled as she stomped through the tall grass.

"Well excuse me for needing to eat Ty Lee!" Azula barked with a huff only to scowl at her sensitive handmaid when the girl scared off another squirrel toad.

"It's okay my forest friends! Every time Azula-sama tries to hunt I'll just shout out a warning so you'll know to run away!" Elle announced in a concerned voice with her big sisters listening in amusement.

"You most certainly will not. I had thought you understood how important it was for your princess to nourish her hungry belly." Azula sighed with her smug eyes scanning her well-manicured nails while her stomach growled once more.

"Oh! I do Azula-sama! Don't you worry! We'll find a whole tree full of fruits enough to last us a year! I just know it!" Elle insisted with a gentle grin while Azula rolled her intelligent eyes at her.

"Really? Well, it's good to know that you've thought this through." Azula snorted in a sarcastic voice while the two noblewomen smiled at the younger girl.

"Oh, it's nothing really! I just go along with the flow! I try not to worry about simple things like hunger. Because I know that it will all turn out okay in the end." Elle explained to her bewildered companions.

"Ugh. You and your…'flow'." Azula muttered with a finger massaging the bridge of her nose while Elle smiled brightly back at her.

"What will flow will flow and we'll flow their together." Elle commented in a cheerful voice while Ty Lee pulled her in for another hug only for Azula to glare at them once more.

"You're so adorable Elle! I just want to snuggle you all…day long." Ty Lee cooed in a teasing voice with a smile while she turned to her leader's murderous amber golden glare.

"Ty Lee…now I can't but sense…as if you are purposefully pushing your breasts in my pets face." Azula declared in an ice-cold voice while Ty Lee still hugged her blushing girlfriend into her bust with a warm grin on her lips.

"I have no idea what you are talking about Azula. I am just hugging her." Ty Lee stated with an innocent smile while Elle giggled in her arms.

"You know Azula. I never thought I would see the day when you wanted to shove a girl's face in your chest." Mai taunted with a small smirk while the princess huffed with her arms folded over her breasts.

"She is my pet Mai. Pets sleep with their master." Azula scoffed with a smug shake of her head while she swayed her hips unbothered by Ty Lee's disapproving stare.

"Well Azula. I can only hope that you don't talk to Elle like that when she's your Fire Lady. She'll be the mockery of the court if people hear you demeaning your wife like that." Ty Lee scolded with a returning frown while the other woman turned to scowl back at her.

She knew well enough that Azula knew that she was right.

But before the princess could reply her attention was regained by her young girlfriend's voice calling out to her.

"Azula-sama?" Elle began with a finger under her lip while the mighty woman turned to smile at her.

"Yes Elle?" Azula responded in a restrained voice only for her young servant while she offered her innocent girlfriend a charismatic smile.

She understood that her little girlfriend was a sensitive sort.

And as much as she hated to admit it.

She knew that taking her anger out on the girl was a foolish thing to do.

'No. This one…has a special place in my heart. I must…attend to her…more delicately. It would not do to lose her. It would be a waste of wartime power…and…otherwise.' Azula thought with her fist rubbing against the bottom of her chin while she surveyed Elle in approval.

"If you find a way to my homeland….do you think that I would be famous like Spartacus for being the first from my homeland to visit the four nations?" Elle asked in a childishly hopeful voice while she listened to Azula release a haughty snort that she has come to adore.

Team Azula now gazed at their young companion with a taken aback looks in their eyes.

Yet they all knew that Elle was making a very good point.

"Hm. I suppose that it is possible." Azula sighed in a grudgingly fond voice while she eyed her handmaid's brightening smile.

"I'd say so little sister!" Ty Lee exclaimed in a voice of warmth while she placed a hand on the cheerful blonde's shoulder.

"Maybe I'll down in history as Elle Turner the Legendary explorer! The first to brave a dangerous foreign land! And the first to make contact with the beautiful Princess Azula!" Elle announced while puffing out her chest in a show of innocent pride only for her three friends to gaze at her in amusement.

"Legendary explorer that wouldn't have survived if not for said princess's charity!" Azula snorted in slight mockery while she held a palm over her chuckling mouth.

But even so. She couldn't deny that she truly found her handmaid's cheer to be strangely pleasing.

"Elle Turner the Legendary explorer…and she who tamed Princess Azula." Mai teased with her lips curving into a smirk while Azula spun around to glare daggers through her head.

The princess's fists clenched at her hips while she glared at her two-laughing friends.

"Tamed! The tiger monkey hasn't tamed me! Say that again and I will destroy the both of you!" Azula roared with blue fire escaping from her lips while she narrowed her eyes at her snickering friends.

"I'll be known as the only person on Earth to have gone to this wonderous new land! Yep! I'll definitely be famous!" Elle cried out with a relaxed smile unaware that her three friends were now staring at her as if she had just spouted a second head.

The three highborn women gazed at each other in bafflement before one of them finally spoke.

"Uh…Elle…this is Earth." Ty Lee informed in a confused voice while Elle's smile vanished from her face while she gazed at her in shock.

Azula held a hand to her chin while she eyed her bewildered admirer with a mutual puzzlement in her amber golden eyes.

She had come to believe that Elle was telling the truth long ago.

Preposterous as it may be.

The girl was a complete oddity, from the moment she spoke to Elle in her litter it was obvious that she didn't belong here.

She seemed…foreign…otherworldly even.

And then came the bits and pieces of information of places, people and customs that she has never heard of.

And most convincing was her little music player and her oddly shaped inhalant devise.

And most recently…that ancient coin.

And that was to say nothing of the recent revelation of Elle's awakened power.

And yet for the first time since she has come to believe Elle's story to be valid.

She couldn't help but wonder.

Was it possible…that Elle was just…confused?

But how could that be! It wouldn't erase all of the evidence that points towards her story being…true.

"B-but I'm from…Earth. That's…what the homeland I come from is called…Earth." Elle protested weakly with her friends gazing at her stunned face in disbelief.

Team Azula stood in a state of rare perpetual shock while they gazed between each other and their young companion's open mouth.

"Your homeland…it's…called Earth?" Mai queried in a stunned voice with her tawny eyes growing to the size of dinner plates.

"I-it is. In place of the Fire Nation…and the Earth Kingdom…we have many continents that are just as big. Our continent…Eurasia is even bigger than the Earth Kingdom. Another Continent…North America…is much bigger than the Fire Nation. And then we have…South America…and Africa…Antarctica…" Elle trailed off in a confuddled voice with Ty Lee gazing on in awe over her shoulder.

"A-Azula…what does this mean?" Ty Lee asked in a voice of tremendous disbelief while she turned to see that even Azula looked completely astounded by the revelation.

The princess stood in silence with her mouth ajar in an uncharacteristic astonishment.

'How is this possible!' Azula thought with her hands falling to her hips in her shock.

There was no way that Elle was lying!

Was this girl truly from another Earth?

Mai stood in just as great a shock while she still gazed at Elle with her eyes widening in amazement.

"A-all of this time…I never thought to ask anyone the name of the planet that I was on…this is…so surreal. This is Earth…but not…my Earth. I truly am from another world." Elle spoke before falling to the ground in her disbelief while Ty Lee dropped to the ground beside her.

"Is it possible…for there to be…more than one Earth out there?" Azula inquired in a perplexed voice while her three subordinates listened in a speechless silence.

"That's…I just don't know what to say." Mai muttered in awe before gazing down at the kneeling teenager with widening tawny eyes.

"In…all of these weeks that I've been here…I foolishly presumed that when you spoke of the…earth that it was just a general term for…the dirt. I…didn't even think to ask for a globe…because I was…happy…for the first time in my life. I…had found…a home." Elle mumbled with her hands on her sleeves while Ty Lee placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.

The three highborn women were deeply moved by their young friends touching statement.

"This…is your home Elle. Team Azula…is your home. Isn't that right…Azula?" Ty Lee comforted in a still bewildered voice while she sat behind her shocked adopted sister.

The princess glanced up from her musings with her cold eyes now gazing down at her loyal handmaid with a spark of affection in her hardened eyes.

"It is. I am your home Elle. This changes nothing between us." Azula assured with a wave of her hand before taking a step forward while she loomed over her overwhelmed pet.

"B-but how…Mistress? How…would I get from my Earth…to here?" Elle breathed in a tone of utter shock while Ty Lee soothingly rubbed her shoulder.

"I…am not sure. But fear not my peasant. I will find out…and then I will take care of your…little dilemma for you." Azula remarked with her crimson lips returning to her usual smile while her cold eyes never left her lovely handmaid's back.

Her desire for this one has only gotten stronger.

Another girl…from another Earth who worships her like a god and wishes to spend her entire life waiting on her hand and foot.

On top of that, said girl was head over heels for her and she was the holder of an ancient opposing force against the Avatar and the Spirit World.

"W-well Elle like I said before. If anyone can figure it out it's Azula!" Ty Lee insisted with her palm on Elle's shoulder while the girl still knelt staring down at her hands.

All three of them could tell that there was something else on their young friend's mind judging by Elle's unusually worried countenance.

"What's wrong…Elle? Are you okay?" Mai questioned in a softened voice while she continued to peer down at her distraught little sister.

"Two…Earths…that's even more far out than…if our planets were so far apart in space that we didn't know that there were humans on another world. W-what are the chances…that there are two planets called Earth in the same universe? Is this…a whole different dimension? Or…is it…something else?" Elle stammered with her amber eyes staring down at the grass while her friends listened in mutual confoundment over the theory.

"She's…raising a good point." Mai stated in an astounded voice while she turned to the princess's contemplative face.

"Regardless Elle. I will find out the answer for you all the same. As I told you before. All you have to do is serve me. And I will mend all of your woes." Azula declared with a charming smile on her lips while the two noblewomen listened in awe.

All things considered; it was a compassionate statement considering that it was coming from Azula.

"I-I thank you Azula-sama…I truly do. But now…I can't help but wonder…" Elle murmured in a still unsettled voice while she sat back in a state of shock.

"Wonder what?" Azula answered in a still attentive voice while she stood standing high above her distressed handmaid.

"I…suppose…I should tell you what happened before I came here. I…sort of gave you a simplified version of the events. I said that I left my house…and traveled without direction…only to find myself here. But I…didn't tell you about what happened in between." Elle admitted with a frown on her lips while Azula pursed her lips in rising curiosity.

"Well out with it then. I did tell you that you are not permitted to keep any secrets…I own that now as well." Azula ordered with a sigh before she seated herself beside her handmaid and her childhood friend.

And without even considering it Mai sat down beside Elle as well.

While Elle gazed at all three of their concerned faces with a moved smile on her lips.

Mai and Ty Lee offered the emotional girl a compassionate smile and Azula offered her a piercing glare.

"A-arigatou gozaimasu minasan." Elle stuttered with a sniffle while Mai patted her shoulder fondly.

"Think nothing of it kid. We care about you." Mai spoke in a voice that was laced with sisterly affection while Elle smiled up at her.

"That's right! You're the little sister of the group! It's our job to look out for you. Isn't it Azula?" Ty Lee soothed in a gentle voice while she smiled down at the younger girl's heartfelt face.

"It is. Now I demand you tell me your minds secrets or the first thing you're doing when we get back is polishing all two hundred shoes and boots in my footwear collection." Azula commanded in a beyond stern voice with her sadistic words causing her handmaid to begin trembling in the lovable manner that she adored.

The other two women turned to glare at their smugly smirking princess while their poor little sister now looked as if the very life had drained from her body.

"T-two hundred Azula-sama?" Elle whimpered while she gulped under the captivating woman's entrancing glare.

"Two hundred dear. Two hundred. A princess has to have a fresh pair for every new day…for every occasion that might come up." Azula purred before swatting Mai's hand off her pet while she scooted her butt closer before bumping Ty Lee aside with her hip.

"Azula…" Mai trailed off in an annoyed voice while the princess now sat over the petite girl with her hands on her knees.

"You're being greedy Azula. I wanted to sit by Elle!" Ty Lee complained with a huff before sliding in closer while Elle turned an adorable shade of red under their combined attentions.

It had not gone unnoticed to the group that Elle desperately sought guidance from them as older girls and the innocent girl clearly enjoyed being led by other women.

It only served to make all three of them desire to look after the naïve girl even more.

"O-oh…okay. If y-you say so Azula-sama. Then it must be so." Elle stammered with a returning flush when Azula scooted until she sat right before her while reaching down to gently stroke her cheek.

"Please. Not now Azula." Ty Lee sighed while she sat on one side of her little sister while Mai closely sat on the other side.

"Hm. Very good. You may begin your tale now little lady." Azula commented with a smug smile while the much shorter girl blushed adorably under her touch.

"I…I…was captured and taken to…a facility where they…experiment on people thought to be…gifted." Elle confessed with her tresses sticking to her face while a look of shared rage was now on all three of her companion's faces.

Azula's smile swiftly vanished and in its place was a tight scowl as proof of her fury.

The mighty woman was so furious that her body began to heat up once more while her childhood friends gazed at her in amazement.

It almost looked like the princess's bending was reacting out of an instinctual desire to protect their young friend!

In all of the years that Mai and Ty Lee have known Azula they have never seen her look as furious as she does now.

The only times that can even come close to the princess's current rage was when she scarred those two girls and when Elle told her about what her brother and this killer have done to her.

"Experimentation?" Azula demanded in a frightening voice while she loomed over her distraught handmaid with her hand possessively cupping the cowering girl's cheek.

"Yes. It's…basically shadow slavery in a prison facility hidden from the general populace. They replace your name with a number…and put you through a series of…grueling tests." Elle explained in a quiet voice while Team Azula listened in rising alarm.

And the two noblewomen turned to Azula's enraged face while she glared back at their accusatory faces.

Now they understand why Elle was got so upset with Azula when they talked about slavery.

Given what the girl has been through with her brother and these unnamed people it was obvious why Elle felt so strongly about slavery.

"D-did…did these people do something to you Elle?" Ty Lee questioned with unnatural fury in her voice before placing a comforting hand on Elle's shoulder.

"I-I was only there about a month. They…mostly deprived me of food and observed me for any indication of a talent beyond my paintbrush and pen. And…no matter how many times I told them that I was just…a dud. They would not release me. Because doing so would draw awareness to their…a-activities." Elle spoke in a muted voice while her princess continued to stare down at her with callously amber golden eyes.

"Revolting." Mai growled with anger in her tawny eyes while she her fists clenched in her lap.

Not that the Fire Nation was any better with what they were doing with the enslaved prisoners of war in the labor camps.

Both were disgusting.

And she could see that there was a small spark of conflict in Azula's hardened eyes.

Most likely because the princess never expected to feel sympathy for a girl who escaped two different kinds of slavery.

"Only a month? How did you get out so quickly? There is no way that you escaped on your own!" Azula inquired in a harsh voice while she still cupped the smaller girl's dainty chin.

Ty Lee frowned at her leader over how she trivialized it by saying 'only a month'.

"W-well you see their purpose was to create the perfect supersoldier. And…any individuals who do not meet that criteria were to be…d-disposed of…" Elle trailed off with a fearful gulp while her friends stared down at her in anger.

"You a supersoldier? It took them a month to figure out that you were a poor fit? I had ascertained that you were feeble the moment we first met." Azula snorted in a rigid voice only for her two-childhood friends to stare at her angrily.

"Azula! Have some decency!" Mai exclaimed with a flare of anger in her composed eyes while the princess scowled.

No doubt trying to pretend that for once in her life she actually cared about someone other than herself.

"Until…today I thought myself a dud. B-but now. I think they were looking for this…Component that I have in my veins." Elle confided with a serious countenance while she peered up at her mistress's strict visage.

Mai and Ty Lee cast Azula another worried glance while they carefully noted that the princess's face was split between genuine concern for Elle's well-being.

And her lust for power.

They could clearly see that Azula was even more pleased to possess Elle than before.

'Interesting…it is not only a weapon against the Avatar and the Spirit World. But it is coveted by Elle's people as well. And now I possess it. I will have to watch over this one very closely. She belongs to me and me alone.' Azula thought with her icy eyes never leaving her handmaid's pretty face.

This could only mean one thing.

Even if Elle's people possess no knowledge of bending. There must be select individuals aware of the powers that await when one masters their chi.

"Once more. How did you escape?" Azula pondered with grudging concern in her cold voice while she greedily grasped at Elle's shaking face.

"I…uh…got lucky. They…they failed at most of their candidates. Most of them…d-died before me. But…they created one true supersoldier. She…was everything that they wanted. They…experimented on her for so long that she lost the ability to feel pain…they did it all right. Except for one thing…they lacked the proper measures to control her forever…" Elle commented with a finger nervously rubbing at her cheek while Azula's amber golden eyes suddenly lit up in curiosity.

Team Azula sat in a spellbound silence while they all peered down at their young companion with varying levels of apprehension in their eyes.

"And this supersoldier escaped." Azula remarked with a finger under her chin while her little handmaid nodded her head in confirmation.

"About a month into my 'stay' there was a power surge that shut down her…containment cell and she broke free of her restraints for the first time in over eight years." Elle muttered with her meek amber eyes gazing back up at the princess's stony countenance.

"Eight years…" Ty Lee repeated with a shudder while she gently held onto her adopted sister's shoulder.

"How foolish of them…and fortunate for you. I presume I would not be speaking to you…otherwise." Azula sighed with a deep scowl still adorning her beautiful red lips.

"All…I could hear were blood curdling screams…I…don't know what she did or how she did it…but by the time she opened my cell door. Everyone was dead. The hallways were…l-littered were slain guards. And then I saw it! I recognized her face as soon as the light shined over her. She…was the older girl I encountered during the child hunt. Naoki." Elle revealed with a swallow while Azula listened with intrigue flashing in her hardened gaze.

An unnerving unease spread through all three members of Team Azula after hearing that one of the children Elle spoke about from her childhood was captured for over eight years!

"A-at first I thought that she was going to kill me. Instead she broke me free and told me to come with her. And so, I ran after her. Until I came here…I had never seen anything like her before. It was the first time in all my life that I had ever seen…anyone use a power of any kind and it was…amazing. She moved so quickly and she easily cut down anyone in our way." Elle admitted with a flash of awe in her eyes while her big sister's listened in similar amazement only for her mistress to lightly flick her forehead.

"No one is as amazing as me! And don't you ever forget that!" Azula barked in a spoiled voice while she watched her adorable girlfriend rapidly nod her head.

The two noblewomen just sighed in frustration over their spoiled friends' boundless arrogance.

"Y-yes Princess! Not as amazing as you! But still amazing!" Elle chirped with the first hint of a smile on her lisp when Azula's hand began to pet her hair.

"Humph. That's what I like to hear." Azula spoke with a haughty flip of her hair while she petted Elle's plush head beneath her strong hand.

"Are you done now Azula? Can the poor girl talk without you interjecting your oversized ego?" Mai asked in a deadpan voice while Azula turned to scowl at her.

Only for her young companion to continue before the princess could discipline her.

"She released another girl I had once met long ago Katsu…and several others. And then we made a rush for the gate with Naoki at the head…we broke out. Only after knocking down the doors together. Only to discover that we were on an island in the middle of an isolated lake and so Naoki stole a boat…and we escaped." Elle conversed in a youthful voice while her older companions listened in a captivated silence.

Only for Ty Lee to pull her into a crushing hug while the princess turned to glare at the other woman with narrowed amber golden eyes.

"I…am so sorry that you had to go through all of this Elle. Don't worry. We'll protect you! We really will." Ty Lee declared in a compassionate voice with Elle's emotional face against her bosom.

"We will." Mai agreed with a furious nod.

"I have already assured the girl that we would. Now get your breasts out of my girlfriend's face!" Azula growled with her palm still in her blushing girlfriend's hair only for Ty Lee to huff in annoyance.

"You are such a snuggle hog Azula! I can snuggle my baby sister if I please!" Ty Lee retorted with her arms still locked around the smaller girl's chest while Mai groaned in aggravation.

"Wrong! Law ten clearly states my chest only!" Azula sneered in a beyond smug voice while she shoved her body into Elle's in an attempt to push Ty Lee away.

"Anyhow if you two are done smothering Elle! Back to Elle's story?" Mai queried in a deadpan voice while she glared at the other two women.

"We're not smothering her Mai. We're showing her love." Ty Lee insisted with a grin while Mai pointed down at Elle's face being squished between her body and Azula's.

Ty Lee blushed a guilty shade of red while the entitled princess rudely jabbed her elbow in her face with the blushing teenager being smashed against the other woman's armored chest.

"My breasts only." Azula commanded with a haughty smirk while Ty Lee pouted as she glared back at her.

"It's so nice to be a part of the team!" Elle exclaimed in a muffled voice with her face being pressed being the two women while Mai gazed at her in sympathy.

"I-I'm so sorry little sister! I didn't mean to squish you!" Ty Lee cried out in a worried voice before finally scooting back while the smaller girl smiled back at her.

"It's alright oneesan. I didn't mind." Elle assured with a nod only for Mai to shake her head.

"See? The girl likes being dominated. The more forceful the better." Azula commented in a victorious voice while she patted Elle's blushing head only for the other two girls to shiver in renewed pity for her handmaid.

"So…what happened next Elle?" Mai asked in a still concerned voice while all three of them returned their focused to the younger girl's trauma.

"I…traveled with Naoki for while. She…didn't remember me from our childhood. She…didn't remember anything really. She was…tortured her so brutally that she…forgot her real name. I wish I had known what her name was…then I could have helped her…" Elle spoke with renewed sadness in her voice while her three friends listened in shock.

All of Team Azula but for the princess herself felt immense sympathy for this 'Naoki'.

And they all were coming to realize just what type of horror their young friend had just barely avoided.

"Unbelievable…I can't imagine what it would take to forget your own name. That's…sick." Mai muttered in a disturbed voice while she frowned down at Elle's innocent face.

To think the same thing could have happened to this girl that she has come to call little sister.

"H-how did she…come upon the name Naoki?" Ty Lee inquired with a tear in her eye while Azula released an uncaring sigh.

To their curiosity Elle shuddered before answering the query.

"From… a book that she stole. There was a character in it by the name of 'Naoki'…. he…was a soldier of destruction. She…told me that was what she was going to be. I…departed ways with her. After I realized that she had plans to commit genocide. I'm not that sort of person…I could never do something like that." Elle replied in an unnerved voice while all but her princess paled over her answer.

"Genocide…it sounds like they created a monster." Mai stated in a sickened voice while Ty Lee shivered in agreement.

"Please. It sounds like they created the ideal soldier. I for one would like to meet this 'Naoki'." Azula announced with an uncaring look in her cold eyes while her two subordinates gazed at her in disagreement.

But they were not surprised to hear Azula say as such.

"Well! It's…a good thing you went separate ways from her…and found more…respectable company." Ty Lee commented dryly with Mai snorting in agreement while the princess glared daggers back at them.

"More respectable indeed. I am royalty! And I will have you know that I have been a just master to the tiger monkey." Azula scoffed with her hand pulling Elle closer by the collar of her shirt while the two noblewomen cast her stares of disapproval.

"That's so! I find Her Highness's rule to be quite satisfactory! This is what I was searching for!" Elle squeaked with a brief spark of cheer while her head rested against Azula's armored chest only for her girlfriend's lips to curve into a pleased smile.

The two noblewomen stared at their young friend oddly before sighing in exasperation.

They had both long since come to understand that Elle truly enjoyed Azula's domineering behavior and that there was no sense convincing the girl otherwise.

"You truly are a strange kid…if this is what you were searching for." Mai remarked in a fond voice while she eyed the younger girl's relaxing face.

"Young girls are so enraptured by my dominance that they crave it even before they meet me." Azula boasted with a conceited smile while she allowed her petite handmaid to lean back against her plated bosom.

Mai and Ty Lee just stared at their leader dryly but knew better than to protest their insane friends' words.

"After that she tried to insist that I come with her…to help me awaken my gift. I told her that I had no talent other than artwork and that I had no powers of any kind. But still she insisted otherwise. But…I told her that I was searching for something lost to me…." Elle continued in a reminiscent voice while her family listened in a spellbound silence.

The three highborn women sat in a speechless silence while their young friend gazed at all three of them with a truly appreciative smile on her lips.

"I said that I would know I was there when I found it because it would feel right. Home. I would know I was there when I got there. A-and I knew I had found my home the moment I laid eyes on Azula-sama in her royal litter." Elle confessed in a bashful voice with her thumbs twiddling in her lap while the three stared at her in a speechless awe.

Team Azula already knew that Elle had been searching for a home.

But no matter how many times they heard it. It never ceased to hit even Azula hard in the chest.

"A-Azula…" Ty Lee trailed off with a tear brewing in her eye while Mai also gazed at Elle in pity.

"Cut out the water works Ty Lee! She found me and she isn't going anywhere." Azula snarled with her arm possessively snaking around Elle's shoulder while the small handmaid pressed her face into her breast.

"Yes…I found home. I walked into the woods…and I followed the flow. I didn't know where I was going! I just flowed like a butterfly in the breeze." Elle spoke with a smile while her companions listened in returning amusement.

"Did you pick up any food for this 'flow' other than the commoner candy that we just ate?" Azula snorted with a roll of her regal eyes while she began to pet her handmaid's hair once more only for the girl to melt under her stern hand.

"Mhm! I bought about twenty bags of candy for my journey. And then I walked…and walked until I ran into someone." Elle explained in a nonchalant voice while Azula sighed above her.

"I for one am glad that your flow went well little sister! You're so pink! And cute too!" Ty Lee cooed with her chin in her palms while she smiled at Elle's blushing face only for Azula to glare back at her.

"Ty Lee! Take your eyes off my pet!" Azula barked in a pompous voice with her hand resting in Elle's hair while the other woman released an annoyance sigh.

"Who did you meet?" Mai asked in a curious voice while she turned to stare at her companions in annoyance.

It seemed like she was the only one capable of paying attention to the girl without either gushing over her or demonstrating possessive behavior.

Azula and Ty Lee were torn out of their mild bickering when Elle developed a worried countenance once more.

One that truly concerned them.

"An…emperor. I…met Emperor Reiko." Elle answered with her amber eyes flickering in recognition of the mysterious woman while the princess gazed down at her in unhidden intrigue.

"Now this…I want to hear." Azula purred with a hand rubbing the underside of her chin.

"An emperor? I've heard you mention her name before. Is she a big deal…on your…uh Earth?" Ty Lee questioned in a still bewildered voice while the smaller girl nodded rapidly.

Mai listened alongside her friends with an unusual look of curiosity in her usually bored gaze.

The chance to learn about another world…another Earth of all places was just too surreal to ignore.

"Yeah. About as big of a deal as Azula-sama. Maybe even more. Considering that she's one of a small group of people with any sort of abnormal power. I've heard it said that she possesses…unnatural strength. Like…the ability to crush stone in her bare hands kind of strength." Elle revealed with her eyes gazing down in deep thought while Team Azula listened in growing wonderment.

"Wow. It sounds so different than here. What was she like? Is she an ass like Azula?" Ty Lee asked with a playful smile while Azula glared at her through the corner of her eye.

Only for her and her fellow noblewoman to watch in humor when Elle shook her head no.

Which earned a strict stare from the cold princess in question.

"Oh no. Reiko was much more approachable! I was really scared offending Azula-sama by giving her that flower but Reiko gives off a much more cordial aura. She saw me walking down the road…and she greeted me kindly. She…asked me if I needed any help and she didn't even call me a dirty peasant!" Elle announced with a speedy nod while her big sisters gazed at her princess's scowling face in anger.

"Dirty peasant? You called Elle a dirty peasant after she gave you a fire lily?" Ty Lee demanded with her shoe tapping on the forest floor in her anger while her spoiled friend glared back at them.

"Ugh! It was just a comment Ty Lee! Now if you could cease pestering me so I can learn about this Reiko that would be wonderful." Azula retorted in a moody voice while both women gazed at her in judgement.

"Right. Just a comment." Mai snorted in a distasteful voice while her leader glared at her once more.

Only for their attentions to be regained by their young friend once more.

"I-I started to panic when I realized who she was and that I had forgotten to bow when she approached me! But she told me to just call her Reiko. And that formalities were unnecessary." Elle narrated with her finger scratching at her chagrined cheek while her big sisters gazed at Azula's annoyed face once more.

"She sounds friendly…compared to Azula." Mai agreed with a small smirk on her lips while Azula's amber golden eyes burned a hole through her skull.

"I thought so too! She had such a welcoming personality. She was…so easy going. She even found my backpack for me! With everything in it. I had lost it in the woods when those men captured me. She…even went on a walk with me." Elle chimed with an awkward smile while her mistress glared down at her.

"She returned your backpack? An emperor returned your backpack to you and you don't think that…odd in the least?" Azula commented with a narrow of her eyes while the other two women gazed at her in a wary understanding.

Azula made a valid point. That was suspicious.

"Y-yeah. I…kind of started to think that something was off…when I began to ask myself how she found my backpack and then…knew that it was mine when she saw me. She…began to walk with me. She had a smooth smile. I even started to forget that she was royalty." Elle admitted while she chewed on her lip with her three friends listening in concern.

"Huh. Now she's starting to sound a bit creepy. Azula's an ass but at least she isn't creepy." Ty Lee piped with her playful eyes gazing at her friend who growled back at her in offense.

But even so Ty Lee had a point.

"And then…she took me to a small diner. What Azula-sama would consider a commoner restaurant. She…bought me a meal…and herself one as well. She ate her food without complaint. She…almost seemed like a mother. She had a…very maternal aura." Elle mumbled while the three women gazed at her in disbelief.

Now it was beginning to sound really odd.

Almost like poor Elle got played.

"Elle…what did she talk with you about?" Mai queried in an uneasy voice while she eyed her younger sister closer.

It sounded…almost predatorial.

"Many things really. She told me that helping children was a passion of hers. She said that she couldn't stand to watch a child wander in the streets alone. She said that she wanted to help me." Elle responded with a hand tracing her sleeve while Azula's lips pursed into a thin line.

Without a doubt the woman sounded much kinder than Azula. But also…just as manipulative.

Possibly even more so.

"Did she try to do anything obscene with you?" Azula pressed with an unusually protective glimmer in her cold eyes that managed to bring a smile to Ty Lee's lips.

"Hm? Oh no. We just…drank cola and talked. Her personality was so maternal…I hadn't felt that since…mother died. For the first time in many years…I began to relax…and I started to open up with her. I…told her about Felix. And how I had just escaped a child prison in the territory region. And then she said something that almost convinced me to leave with her." Elle told her unnerved friends while she gazed off into the forest foliage.

"I can only hope that you didn't tell this…Reiko too much. I can already tell that you were being deceived from the moment she approached you." Azula declared with a displeased scowl on her red lips while she glared ahead.

It was strange for her to be so protective.

But she was already vowing that she would kill this woman if she finds out that she did anything to harm her admirer.

That was once she discovers how Elle found her way…to their Earth.

The two noblewomen nodded in agreement while they gazed at their young friend's face in rising worry.

This woman's maternal aura was so profound that it almost left a doubting effect on the girl's mind.

Almost like Elle was wondering if she had meant her no harm.

"I…still remember it as it were yesterday. She…looked right at me and said…in the friendliest voice. "You have a great talent in you. I have…never seen anything like you before. How would you like me to show you how to use it?" I said well I am pretty skilled with a paint brush but I am always eager to learn more; she quirked a smile…and she laughed with me. It…felt so good to have someone to talk to. Someone…that didn't want to hurt me." Elle recalled with a nod while her three friends listened in both sympathy and growing anger.

The red flags were going off more and more with every word that Elle said.

"Elle…" Ty Lee trailed off before placing a hand on the smaller girl's shoulder while the princess frowned down at Elle.

"And then…she asked me if I would like to come with her. I couldn't believe it. A world-renowned person wanted to take me in. She said that she could give me a place where I belonged. And then she held out her hand to me. And before I knew it, I reached out to take her hand." Elle lamented with a far-off look in her amber eyes while the princess's angered scowl increased all the more by the minute.

Azula knew well enough that she had no right to judge.

After all deceit and manipulation was her specialty, one that she has used to crush more enemies than she can count.

And yet…there was something about this one.

Was it her purity? Did it anger her to think of someone staining her admirer's gentle heart?

The three highborn women listened in soaring concern when the younger girl chewed on her lip in seemingly increased worry.

A habit that they have all noticed the girl do when she was worried.

"The very moment that my hand touched hers I was shocked. Her touch…was cold! I understood why they called her the Winter Emperor. Her body temperature was unusually cold! She smiled and apologized for not warning me ahead of time." Elle continued in a perplexed voice while Team Azula stared down at her in disbelief.

The detail had the princess gazing on with her amber golden eyes widening in a flicker of grudging awe.

"What? That's really abnormal. Firebenders like Azula have a warmer body temperature. A waterbender wouldn't have a cold body temperature. What could cause her to have such a cold temperature?" Mai stated in a puzzled voice while she frowned down at her little sister's fretful face.

"And then for the first time since we arrived in the diner, I glanced away…almost by mistake. Only to stare at the clock in shock to find out that three hours had passed since we stepped in. I felt so secure that I never even noticed that I was talking for hours." Elle mumbled with her hands in her lap while her friends reeled around in alarm.

"Three hours? You really do scream easy prey." Azula almost hissed while her worried subordinates listened in growing unease.

"Azula! That's…cruel. Elle lost her parents…she went through all of that horror and she…was just searching for a mother figure. You can't even begin to understand what she's been through. So, you really shouldn't judge her." Ty Lee insisted with a deep frown on her lips while the princess scowled back at her.

"A-and then I finally noticed that the owner of the diner was trembling in fear. And the entire restaurant was empty. It was…just us." Elle stammered with her hands shaking in nervousness in her lap while the older girls stared at her in trepidation.

It was almost downright terrifying hearing how this woman charmed Elle into talking with her for three hours without even once glancing around to notice that they were alone.

All but for the owner!

They could tell that this woman was unnatural without having even met her.

"I…stood up and she stood up. And for the first time since I had met her, I started to pay attention to her appearance. She…was so tall. Even taller than Azula-sama. Her eyes…were a shimmering ocean blue. Long blonde hair…like me but…it was a platinum blonde. She was wearing a black…military uniform. And she was…very imposing. I started to feel small…very small. And then she held out her hand once more. This time…she was wearing white gloves. She said come with me child and I will give you a home." Elle spoke in a quieted voice as she sat chewing her lip.

While her three highborn friends listened in an enraptured silence to her every word.

"And then she told me…that she wanted to recruit me into a special team of hers that she was building. At the time I didn't understand what she meant. But now…I do. She…was talking about creating a fighting force of gifted individuals. She…must have wanted this." Elle remarked while she gazed down at her open palms in innocent puzzlement.

Team Azula sat staring at their young friend in complete astonishment.

Before today if they heard that anyone wanted Elle for a fighting force they would ponder if they were being purposefully cruel.

"Yes, I certain that you would make for a prime warrior candidate with that little breathing condition of yours." Azula commented with her brows furrowing in perplexity while she held a hand to her chin.

'Just what…is the significance of Elle's power?' Azula thought with a mixture of genuine concern and lust for power in her amber golden gaze.

"S-she told me that once I join her. There is no more pain…no more suffering. I…almost thought that I had found what I was looking for. She…didn't seem evil. Not like the people at the prison. I could tell that she genuinely wanted to assist me. But I also…noticed something else in her eyes." Elle muttered with a nervous shake in her voice while Ty Lee held onto her shoulder.

"What Elle?" Ty Lee asked in a distraught voice with a protective look in her sisterly eyes.

Elle glanced up at all three of them before turning to Azula's contemplative face.

"A hunger for power…just like Azula-sama has in her eyes right now. But hers was different. Azula-sama doesn't try to hide it." Elle answered before swallowing nervously while her big sisters turned to glare at Azula's taken aback face.

"Azula. Don't look at Elle like that." Ty Lee implored in a bothered voice while the other woman pridefully gazed away.

Even so they were deeply concerned over the description of this woman.

And the young girl seemed to be growing all the more worried with every second that passed them bu.

"She…had the gaze of an obsessive collector. As…if I was a treasure that she absolutely had to have. And beyond that…a single-minded focus on something that I could not quite put my finger on. I…felt like if I left with her…that I would never be able to travel the world on my own as I wished. I told her that I deeply appreciate the offer but…that I needed to find something important to me…I told her that I needed to find home." Elle explained with a shaken countenance while her friends gazed at her in evident relief.

"And you don't find it suspect that she didn't take you by force? There should be no reason why she couldn't take you. Not unless it worked out all the same for her…if you went separate ways." Azula advised with her callous amber golden eyes staring down at her naïve handmaid's worried face while the girl held a finger to her lip.

"W-well I was wondering…if it was possible if she had something to do with my predicament. But…she seemed so kind. She even bid me safe travels. Safe travels! Safe travels!" Elle blurted out before sitting up in a panic while Azula gazed at her back with her intelligent amber golden eyes already narrowing into slits.

Only for the princess to gaze on in bewilderment when her admirer swiftly removed her backpack from her back and dropped it onto the grass.

All three highborn women stared on in worry and confusion when Elle began removing one item after another.

Soon a small hill of the girl's belongings began to pile up behind her while Team Azula stared at her in soaring urgency.

"Elle! What are you looking for?" Ty Lee asked with a hand on the frightened girl's shoulder while she gazed down in nervousness at the growing pile of items.

As Elle continued to cry out the same words over and over.

"Safe travels! It couldn't be! It's just a coincidence isn't it! No! H-how didn't I notice this sooner! S-she left a spy chip in the communicator that she gave me!" Elle cried out in horror while the others stood up behind her with an unnerved puzzlement in their eyes.

At her feet lay a small circular device that she had torn the back off of only to find that a minuscule black chip that glistened in the bright sunlight.

Her amber eyes were agape in realization while her hands limply fell down to her sides as she vividly recalled her parting words with Reiko.

The door closed with the jingle of the bell while the young girl walked out with a statuesque blonde-haired woman of Eurasian descent striding beside her with her hands behind her back.

The emperor strode beside the much smaller girl with her blue eyes staring down at Elle while she turned to smile up at her as she bowed at the waist.

"Arigatou gozaimasu. But I can't go with you." Elle announced with her head bent while she swallowed in fear that she had just provoked the mighty politician's wrath.

The emperor's uniform blew gently in the mild breeze while she gazed down at the girl with slightly taken aback blue eyes.

"You would refuse my offer Elle-chan? I would see to it that you have a home. A place where you belong…a safe place where no one can harm you. I would look after you…like a mother would her child. As I have done with many children." Reiko insisted with a slight frown on her full lips while she stared down at Elle's ever smiling face.

"Sumimasen…but I cannot. I…am lost…and I must find what I am looking for…on my own. Perhaps…in the future…after I have seen the world for myself." Elle answered with a shake of her head just when she heard the older blonde sigh above her.

"I can't help but feel as if it is a bad idea for you to wander on your own. Are you afraid that I will hurt you? Is that it?" Reiko pondered with a finger under her chin while the petite girl arose from her bow only to speedily shake her head no.

Ah…a lie.

This girl was a poor liar.

"N-no. It's just that up until now my life has been subject to the whims of others. I would like the chance to figure life out for myself." Elle stammered in a timid voice while her still gulped as she gazed up into blue eyes that were studying her very closely.

The rumors were true about her.

She was…so tall! Taller than most women and without doubt one of the strongest people on their entire planet.

Some say even the strongest.

"Hm. Very well then dear. See the world for yourself. Every rotten bit of it. And when you've seen enough. Remember that you still have a place amongst my flock." Reiko sighed with her lips in a grin once more while Elle beamed brightly up at her.

She won't lie.

She was both disappointed and…perhaps even hurt that a young girl this helpless was fearful to come with her.

But…she also understands that Elle has just cause for her rational.

"Wakarimashita! Thank you for the meal! The onion rings were very good!" Elle chirped with a bounce on her feet while the older woman chuckled smoothly above her.

"Dōitashimashite Elle-chan." Reiko responded with a shake of her head while she smiled down at the cheerful girl's smiling face.

"I hope we meet again. After I've found what I am looking for." Elle declared with a still sunny smile while Reiko peered down at her with something akin to a fond gaze.

"As do I. Tell me though…what is it that you are searching for?" Reiko questioned with a gloved hand gently touching the girl's delicate shoulder while Elle shivered lightly under her touch.

"H-home. I am going to travel the lands until I find a place…that feels right." Elle stuttered with heavy emotion in her amber eyes while the ruler's blue eyes widened in puzzlement.

A home…was what she just offered this young girl.

"I…see. I would be lying if I said that I understood. I wish you the best in finding this…home. And should you ever decide that this home just may be with me. Give me a call…on my personal line with this." Reiko commented with her cold breath exuding from her lips while the much smaller girl blinked in curiosity when she held out a specialized phone in her hand.

"You…honor me Emperor." Elle answered in a stunned voice before she swallowed once more under Reiko's concerned gaze.

All the while asking herself if she was making a big mistake by turning down the powerful woman's offer.

"It's nothing. Helping people is what I do. I look after my flock…take this for travel." Reiko spoke with a tilt of her head before removing her wallet from her pocket.

Elle could only stare up in disbelief when a large sum of paper currency was placed in her trembling hand.

"I-I…don't know what to say." Elle muttered in an adorable stutter while the towering ruler chuckled once more.

"Just take it kid. I will see you again someday. And I can assure you that I will personally punish the people involved in your abduction…and your brother as well." Reiko assured with her fingers trailing off the tiny girl's shoulder before her hand fell back to her side.

"A-arigatou gozaimasu Emperor." Elle whispered with a far-off look in her hazy eyes while Reiko finally began to turn away.

"Safe travels Elle-chan. Until we meet again…farewell." Reiko concluded in a reluctant voice just as she turned to offer Elle a parting glance.

"Farewell…Emperor Reiko!" Elle called out with a final bow at the waist while she watched the tall woman smile at her before turning to stride away.

And that was the last she had saw of her monarch.

She had never even considered the thought that her own ruler could have been behind this!

The princess gazed down at her handmaid with her amber golden eyes widening in paranoia to see a miniscule black metal circle in the opened crevice of the device.

It was almost the size of an ant, and it almost seemed like nothing at first.

Until it shimmered with an unnatural crimson hue under the rays of the Sun.

"What…what is that Elle?" Mai pondered in a shocked voice while Elle tore the tiny tracer out of the phone with her eyes widening in obvious hurt.

"A…communications device. It's…. been recording me ever since I parted ways with her." Elle murmured in a stunned voice just when Azula snatched it from her while she stared down at her with her amber golden eyes agape in rage.

"You mean to tell me that someone has been listening to me since I took you in! Foolish girl!" Azula roared with her fist tightening on the tiny device while her subordinates gazes on in fright.

"I-I'm not sure. I-I don't know if there's a way to make communications lines travel across…wherever it is that we are. T-they might need to physically take it back to listen to the data on it!" Elle answered without delay while she gazed up at her furious mistress.

"A-Azula! Don't be mad at Elle! She…couldn't have known!" Ty Lee pleaded after taking a painful step forward while her bad foot wobbled beneath her.

"Why would they put it on you if they had no way for you to return? Don't you get it! They used you as a disposable pawn!" Azula snapped with a spark of anger that developed in her eyes while she watched Elle's shoulder slump.

"I'm…an unwilling probe…who better to send…than the sickly girl? Why…why does everyone always want to hurt me?" Elle spoke in a barely perceivable voice while her big sisters placed soothing hands on her shoulders.

The realization was a truly terrifying one.

Elle did not find her way here by mistake.

She was most likely sent as a test…a disposable test.

That Azula just happened to take pity on!

The two noblewomen and their downcast adopted sister watched while their leader glared down at the tiny communications device.

"If anyone is listening to this. You are going to regret the day you crossed Princess Azula! If I ever meet you…I am going to immolate you slowly. Oh, and one more thing. The girl belongs to me now." Azula snarled with her regal lips pursed into an imperious scowl before she clenched her fist and squashed the tiny device into microscopic shards.

Azula watched it spark in her hand before the remainder was consumed in a blue flame.

As she gazed on with her teeth ground together.

She found herself wondering if she has a new enemy to worry about.

Elsewhere.

Somewhere far, far away.

The emperor sat on her throne while she gazed ahead at a screen with blue eyes widening in unrivaled delight.

She listened to a wrathful voice shouting out to her into her throne room.

"Princess Azula…. a princess from a nation of fire and a world of elements…. how riveting. I can't wait to see what awaits in this mystical world of yours." Reiko declared in a smooth voice with a totalitarian smirk upon her lips while she reclined in her throne.

She stared down with a gloved fist resting against her smirking cheek.

"You are mistaken Elle-chan. I wish no harm upon you. It was not I that sent you. All I did…was place the bug in your phone. Farewell kid. We will meet again one day soon enough." Reiko remarked in a reflective voice while she watched the signal die off on her screen.

To think that there was actually another world somewhere out there with human life.

This was truly a fascinating world changing discovery for the history books.

It was just simply renascent.

AN:

Alright so that was a long chapter.

And yes, Azula's world is called Earth. And Elle's world is also called Earth.

The reason why Elle never thought to ask for a globe is because she just escaped many years of misery. She didn't care where she was. All that mattered was that she was finally happy with Azula.

Elle is intelligent but still naive. She thought that the term 'earthbending' was just a general word for dirt, clay, etc.

And look at it this way. How often in our daily lives do we mention the name of our planet? Unless it's Earth Day. I don't think to do it in casual conversation.

There is still much more to learn regarding the nature of Elle's travels.

Now, whether both 'Earths' exist in separate galaxies in the same universe or whether the two planets are in completely separate universes remains to be seen.

It's likely going to be one of the two but as for which one. We'll have to wait and see.

And regarding Rieko.

What Elle meant to say when she was describing Rieko is that she could sense genuine compassion for her well being in her eyes. But it was overshadowed by an ambition that frightened her.

With Azula, Elle can sense that Azula's desire to protect her overshadows any ambition that would be detrimental to her well being.

Now, as we saw. Rieko could have just apprehended Elle with ease. So, she at least has some sense of decency to refrain from physically harming Elle.

I will state flat out that Rieko didn't try to kill Elle. She wants Elle alive and she has a smidgen of fondness for her.

And while it might appear to Elle that Rieko is fully responsible for her travel between worlds...

The situation is more complex than that.

Rieko is going to be a big character in the following books. But for most of book one. She obviously won't be present because she's on a completely separate Earth.

Also, I will share that I created Rieko as a character before I created Elle. I have her general character down pat and what her Earth is like. I have played around with her in a few sample stories that I never published, and I decided that I would intermingle her and my other original characters into this story.

Their planet has undergone a great deal of turmoil of their own, just like the Avatar world.

As the story develops, we'll get to see that what affects the humans on one Earth, affects the humans on the other Earth just as greatly. The idea is that the two planets are connected, hence Elle's passage to Azula's world.

And yes, Rieko was able to hear every word that Azula and Elle said when they were in range of Elle's backpack for the last three or so weeks.

I have an explanation for that, and I will give it now to clear up any confusion.

After Elle's voyage to the Avatar world, and after she landed in the Fire Nation. A residual gateway was left open that allowed Rieko to set up an experimental satellite that delivered her the data on the bug that she left in Elle's phone.

As we get to see more of Rieko, and learn where she rules, what her ambitions are, and how she treats people. We'll get to see how she contrasts with Azula.

Rieko will become both an enemy and an ally to Azula. As for which side she'll lean more towards. We'll have to wait to find out.

And as for Elle's past. I am going to eventually write a two chapter Elle Gaiden. So, we'll eventually get to see her life before she met Azula in greater detail.

Elle lived with her brother, and parents. Until soldiers killed most of the people in her town.

On that day she met Naoki and Haley, who were also victims of the soldier named Strados.

After they parted ways, Elle lived with her brother for many years, and she experienced Felix's descent into cruelty.

At some point she fled, and due to her naivety over her eagerness to escape her brother she was captured by a group of people who had some sort of connection to the attack on her former town from around eight to nine years ago.

What they intended to do with Elle, we can't yet say for certain. This was the first inkling that Elle got that she had some sort of special power. But she didn't want to believe it, as she has a very low self worth. And she desperately wanted to convince her captors that she was of no use for their purposes.

As fate would have it though, Elle lucked out. She would have remained there for a long time and never met Azula, Mai and Ty Lee. Had Naoki not escaped from her cell.

Elle and Naoki met for a second time, and as Elle said herself. Naoki didn't remember her.

After that they escaped, and soon parted ways.

Shortly after that Elle met Rieko who was searching for the gifted youths who just escaped the secret prison.

And then after she parted with Rieko she wound up in the Fire Nation.

Naoki will also become a big character later on.

Also, the fact that the Fire Nation deals in slavery is eventually going to blow up in Azula's face. That's one of those things that Elle will not abide by. As for how that will play out. We'll have to wait and see.

And in case anyone is curious. Yes, I prefer writing female characters. It's partly because I get sick and tired of every major hero and villain in fiction almost always being a guy. And usually if a female character is included they are primarily of little importance.

This is why I love Azula so much. She is a strong, dignified, powerful female character.

So, that's why I chose to make one of the big villains of the story a woman. That being Rieko. For me, it's a pleasant change in pace.

This is also why Zoe has become quite the favorite of mine.

Anyhow, I can only hope that if you're reading the story that you enjoy a similar change in formula than we get in most fiction.

And regarding Zoe, she comes back in the picture next chapter!

But enough of my rambling.

Happy Azula Day everyone!

Be sure to thank Azula for all that she has done for you, or you may find the Dai Li knocking on your door.