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.

124. The Lull

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The Lull - Chapter One Hundred Eighteen

Later that evening.

Many tents were set up in the background of a scenic forested area that was about a day's ride from the royal barge.

Several members of Team Azula were seated on logs as they prepared to make dinner.

Azula herself stood in her royal tent removing the armor from her tired body as she began to change into a fresh pair of clothes.

Only to turn her head with a playful smile on her lips when her handmaid peeked her head through the flap of their tent.

"Azula-sama? You called me…eep!" Elle squeaked as her face turned red while she blushed under her mistress's entrancing stare.

She began to twiddle her thumbs as she fought to remove her eyes from the older woman's perfectly shaped panty covered ass that was pointing in her direction.

Only for the half naked princess to roll her amber golden eyes as she pulled her red pants up over her ass.

"Oh, just come in peasant." Azula called out with a haughty smile on her lips as she turned to watch the blushing girl make her way into her tent.

She observed in sadistic amusement through the corner of her eye as the girl timidly made her way over.

"I-is there something that you needed Azula-sama?" Elle pondered in a bashful voice just as the woman came to a stop standing over her.

Her cheeks turned an even darker shade of crimson when she saw her princess's bra covered breasts now hovering over her head.

As she averted her amber eyes from the older girl's dominating amber golden gaze.

"Yes, you." Azula remarked in a silken voice with a charming smirk on her red lips while she gazed down at her little girlfriend's adorably overwhelmed face.

"M-me?" Elle stammered with a nervous gulp while the princess loomed over her.

"No, my other girlfriend…you silly girl. Still…to answer your question I have need of you." Azula snorted with another roll of her amber golden eyes while reached out to brush her fingernails against her little girlfriend's smiling face.

"What…what can I do I for you Princess?" Elle pondered in a soft-spoken voice as she gazed up into stern amber golden eyes while the woman's long fingers trailed against her cheek.

Just before a proud scowl formed on the princess's lips as she gazed down into the younger girl's lovable amber eyes.

"I just wanted to ask you…how you are holding up after everything that you recently went through." Azula growled out in a moody voice as she turned to scowl off at the wall of her tent.

Elle smiled gratefully up at the princess with a moved expression in her gentle eyes.

"Thanks to Her Highness my flow still shines brightly." Elle assured with a jubilant smile on her lips while her mistress's callous amber golden eyes turned to glance back down at her.

She felt her heart begin to race wonderfully under the woman's possessive gaze just as she felt a strong yet careful hand cup her chin.

As she began to fiddle with the sleeves of her robes as she peered shyly back up at the older woman's stony face.

Only for her amber eyes to widen in love-struck anticipation when she found herself pulled up into the princess's mighty arms.

She let out a quiet gasp when she saw Azula bending down over her to gaze powerfully down into her starstruck eyes.

As she felt elegant fingernails comb the hair from her wide eyes as a deep blush began to overtake her youthful cheeks.

And not a moment later she felt the breath leave her body when the older girl's lips firmly connected with her speechless forehead.

"Good. I would have you no other way." Azula grumbled in a prideful voice with her lips lingering against her little girlfriend's quivering forehead.

She scowled as she wrapped a greedy arm around the trembling teenager's golden head.

As she allowed the smaller girl to fall face first into her half naked breasts.

She stood there holding her little admirer in her muscular arms as she found herself unable to resist tenderly stroking her fingernails through the girl's blonde locks.

"O-oh my queen…my divine queen." Elle mumbled with her face resting against her princess's pillowy breasts while the much taller woman's lips began to curve into a confident smile.

"That's right my pet. I am indeed your queen." Azula purred with a dominating smile on her regal lips while she savored how it felt to have the girl's face pressed between her warm breasts.

She stared down at the petite teenager with her ruthless amber golden eyes expressing a flicker of fondness in her harsh amber golden gaze.

As she held her small beloved in her toned arms just as she let out a low growl that flowed into the girl's trembling ears.

"That's so my princess and I am your royal servant." Elle stated in a content voice as she let out a blissful sigh while the woman's breasts pushed against her blushing face.

While the princess found herself unable to fight the growing smile on her lips.

"I must say Elle…I am vastly pleased with how well you are taking to learning about this history between our bloodlines." Azula spoke with her red lips forming a satisfied smile while she ran her fingernails through her pet's lovely hair.

Only for her amber golden eyes to stare down in bewilderment when she felt the girl's dainty hands reach up to grasp her own.

"Azula-sama…I have something important that I must say to you." Elle declared with a resolute edge to her devoted voice while Azula's beautiful face arched an elegant brow over her.

"And that is?" Azula inquired in a sophisticated voice with her regal brows furrowing as she assessed her serving girl's pretty face from where her pet leaned into her breasts.

"Hearing that I may have the blood of ancient royal servants running through my veins has only made my desire to serve you grow even stronger." Elle informed in an absolutely dedicated voice while she gazed up into her mistress's astonished amber golden eyes.

The Fire Princess now stood with her lips parted in an expression of surprise as she stared down into her handmaid's lovably passionate amber eyes.

Only for her lips to begin to curl back into an even wider smile as she held the smaller girl in her naked arms.

"Really? Has it now?" Azula questioned with a smirk on her lips while she found herself enjoying how the girl gazed up at her as if she were a goddess in the flesh.

And if she didn't know any better…

The look of admiration in the girl's eyes had only grown since learning of their mysterious shared history as master and royal servant.

And if you asked her, it was utterly adorable.

Just before her smile grew once more as she raised a brow when her servant girl earnestly held her hands in her own.

"It has Azula-sama! My heart now burns a hundred times greater with an intense yearning to serve Her Royal Highness!" Elle exclaimed with an emotional smile on her joyful lips while Azula's amber golden eyes widened in astoundment.

And that was all it took for the merciless woman to stare down at her innocent companion with a marveled expression in her stunned eyes.

And just like that the Fire Princess found herself unable to help gazing down at the pure-hearted girl with an even stronger stare of appreciation in her awed eyes.

"Elle…I…" Azula trailed off with her words dying in her throat as she glanced down into her loving serving girl's amber eyes.

"My home is in your royal service Azula-sama and Component or not there is no place that I would rather be than serving the princess of the Fire Nation. Which is why I wish to serve you in a greater capacity…in any way that I can. If there is anything that you need…anything at all Mistress. Please don't hesitate to give the order. No matter the command…l will obey." Elle explained in a tremendously committed voice while her much taller princess listened in shock from where she stood above her.

The princess still stared down with her amber golden eyes still conveying a taken aback amber golden gaze.

As she soon found that her lips were inexplicably breaking out into a giant smile.

"Elle…do you really mean that?" Azula asked with a sliver of fondness permeating her glacial voice while she gazed down at her handmaiden's adorably devoted face.

Only for her smile to grow even bigger when the girl began to kick at an imaginary pebble on the floor.

"O-oh course I do Azula-sama…I-I…I desire to serve my queen more closely than before at all hours of the day and night. T-that is if my queen will allow it." Elle stammered in an endlessly enamored voice with a bright shade of crimson overcoming her overwhelmed cheeks.

She started twirling her thumbs as she averted her gaze with a nervous expression of devotion in her amber eyes.

As she let out an audible gulp as she waited to hear her mistress's response.

Only to find herself letting out another soft gasp when she felt two mighty hands take a hold of her face.

She now gazed back up into powerfully assertive amber golden eyes that sent a delightful shudder down her spine.

The older girl now gazed back down at her with a beyond pleased smile on her lipstick painted lips.

"My…you truly are precious. Very well then dear. You will forever accompany me wherever I go as my most paramount royal servant." Azula announced with her palms falling from the girl's adorably eager face while a supremely gratified smile graced her red lips.

Just as she raised her head higher with a proud smile pulling at her royal lips when the girl fell into a bow at the hip.

Elle now stood as she sunk into a bow at the waist.

As the older girl stared down at her with unequaled approval in her ruthless eyes as she folded her hands behind her tall back.

"I-I promise that I will not let you down Azula-sama! I shall serve you to my fullest ability!" Elle cried out with a sweet smile on her lips while the princess smiled down at her in approval.

She blushed as she gazed up into her older girlfriend's unspeakably controlling yet protective amber golden eyes.

While she fidgeted cutely on her feet as she found herself lost in her mistress's all-encompassing stare once more.

Only for her amber eyes to widen when a loud rumbling sound flowed into her ears while her gaze quickly drifted in humorous horror to the princess's bare growling belly.

And not even a second later the handmaid sprung to her feet in a trained panic while the princess's smile enlarged by tenfold.

"H-how may I serve you on this evening Princess!" Elle quipped as she bent her head in reverence while Azula gazed down at her with a vast smile on her curling lips.

"You can start by cooking your queen dinner." Azula remarked in a delightfully spoiled voice with a broad smirk on her full lips while she set her fists on her womanly hips.

Only for her smile to spread out even further when she watched the girl hurriedly bow to her once more.

"If my queen says to cook dinner then I cook!" Elle chirped in a voice of limitless warmth while she watched the princess turn away with a smile on her refined lips.

"That's my girl. I'll let you know when I think of anything else. And be assured I will." Azula purred as she turned to glance back at her little girlfriend's preciously excited face with a huge smirk on her royal lips.

Just before she turned away as she began to pull down a long-sleeved shirt over her head while she relished in every moment of the younger girl's seemingly infinite worship.

She watched through the corner of her eye in approval when the girl bent her head in a show of difference.

"Yes, Azula-sama. As my queen commands." Elle stated with her hands at her hips while she smiled back at the older woman's smirking visage.

"You are dismissed now royal servant." Azula called out in a voice of effortless leadership while she observed her beaming handmaid scurry out the flap of her tent.

And not even seconds later the young girl was gone once more.

She let out a fond sigh as she shook her head.

And then she reached her hands up into her dark hair as she adjusted her crown.

As she listened to her belly growl even louder than before while she found herself musing that she was looking forward to eating the girl's cooking once more.

A half an hour later.

A campfire now burned at the center of the small encampment while the group sat around the fire.

As Elle watched Zoi set down a crate of food stores for them to choose from.

Azula sat beside Mai and Ty Lee with her chin propped up in her open palms while she watched the two.

As she found her amber golden eyes were unable to gaze away from her girlfriend's pretty face even for the briefest of moments.

The two noblewomen glanced at their leader with observant looks in their eyes as they quietly took note that the princess seemed to be ordering their young friend around even more than before!

"So…Elle. Is it true that you are from a land beyond that spirit portal that we saw? Like those soldiers and the redheaded girl that you knew?" Nako asked with great curiosity in her voice from where she sat on a log.

Her words prompted Jiao and Saro to also turn to their teenager with looks of astonishment in their eyes.

"Mhm! I'm from a world far away! But this is my home now…I belong…in the Fire Nation." Elle spoke in a soft voice while the captain turned to gaze at her with a small smile on her lips.

Just before she found herself smiling up at the older woman when the warrior placed a hand on her shoulder.

Everyone else in the camp never failed to notice the way that the princess's amber golden eyes sparked with a possessive gleam over another woman even placing a platonic hand on her girlfriend.

Both Mai and Ty Lee stared back at their little sister with fond expressions in their eyes.

"A world far away…" Nako trailed off in a fascinated voice with her brown eyes gazing back at her peculiar friend in awe.

"So, that's why you're so strange." Jiao commented with a slight smile on her lips as she lounged beside the mutually intrigued Saro.

"No kidding. That's…. incredible." Saro stated with his golden eyes also staring back at the young girl in marvelment.

Only for all but Elle and Zoi to shiver when Azula's unbelievably tyrannical amber golden eyes landed on the three like a predator about to devour her prey.

"And it goes without saying that you three will keep what you have heard to yourselves. Because if I should find that a single one of you has betrayed my confidence…" Azula trailed off in a menacing voice with her amber golden eyes glaring at all three of her sweating subordinates faces.

The seductress above all.

"I-I wouldn't do that Your Highness…I would never betray you." Nako protested with something akin to horror in her skittish voice while Azula's beyond strict gaze passed over her nervous face in approval.

"U-understood Princess. I won't tell a soul." Saro agreed in a subservient voice while the princess eyed him coldly.

Before the royal matriarch turned her domineering amber golden eyes to the seductress's intimidated face.

And even though she did say it out loud.

She couldn't help but find herself pleased that the woman had seemed to become more submissive to her orders after witnessing her might in battle.

"Oh…come on do you really think that I would do that Your Highness? While I may be a free spirit, I am not an idiot. I am not dumb enough to gallivant around broadcasting your secrets to the world at large." Jiao insisted with a huff while she still sweated under her princess's callously focused glare.

The noblewomen excluding the captain gazed back at the woman with unconvinced looks in their eyes.

"Jiao has a point Princess. She has nothing to gain by conspiring with your uncle and the rebels." Zoi spoke as she gazed over Elle's shoulder back at Azula's cold face while her princess just scowled back at her.

As her lover turned to gaze with a measure of appreciation in her direction.

Only for Mai to let out a snort as she rolled her tawny eyes.

"I doubt that you would be saying that if you two weren't fucking each other." Mai commented in a monotone voice with her bored eyes gazing ahead while Ty Lee blushed beside her.

Azula sighed as she rolled her eyes while she lounged back in her seat on her posterior.

"Oh, please Saolin. You are in no position to bring my lover's allegiance into question. Most especially not when the worst that Jiao is guilty of is slight backtalk here and there. And most assuredly not when considering the extent of your lover's treason." Zoi reminded with a trace of a hardened edge to her stony voice while she gazed back at the now embarrassed woman.

The princess glared on in unspoken agreement over both her uncle and brother's treason.

As Jiao smiled coyly as she lounged back with her blue eyes gazing back at her warrior of a lover.

Before Azula turned her controlling gaze back to her young girlfriend as she watched the girl hum adorably as she searched through the food stores with her captain.

"Elle. I command you to tell me more about this Reiko." Azula ordered as she reclined with her palms resting on her log while the others turned to gaze back at her pet once more.

"What is it that you wish to know Mistress?" Elle pondered in a tone of bottomless worship that managed to bring a wide smile back onto her princess's lips.

"Such as what her rule is like…and things of that sort." Azula remarked with her stony amber golden eyes gazing back at her little girlfriend's hurriedly nodding face.

As she found her lips adorning a gladdened smile over her companion's endless difference to her will.

The three noblewomen turned to gaze back at their adopted sister as she held a hand under her thoughtful chin.

"Um…well…her rule can be extraordinarily generous and tyrannical at the same time. She is probably more charitable and loving than your father…from where I have heard of it. But…but I…I have also heard that her temper is the stuff of nightmares. They…they say that when she rages that she takes life away… like winter approaching at the end of the autumn season. I…I suppose I'll find out next time I see her…again." Elle answered with a fretful gulp while she stared down into the crate with apprehension in her amber eyes.

The group gazed on with something along the lines of concern in their eyes.

As the princess's amber golden eyes took on a colder stare as she found her new protective instincts over her handmaid were now burning in full force.

"That is nothing for you to concern yourself with servant. The next time we see her I will handle her. I am your mistress after all and what sort of mistress would I be if I didn't defend what belongs to me." Azula commented in a smoothly sanguine voice with her haughty lips forming a wide smile while she enjoyed how her pet now swooned under her possessive stare.

"O-ooh Azula-sama…I just love it when you get possessive of me." Elle gushed with her little hands on her cheeks while Azula's lips curved into a delighted smile.

Both Mai and Ty Lee just shook their heads fondly over their little sister's terrible habit of digging herself into these sorts of holes with Azula.

"Do you? Well then, I shall continue to do so to your little hearts content." Azula purred as she sat back as she reached for a bottle of wine as she set it beside her while she smirked greedily back at her submissive girl's pretty face.

It truly was gratifying being worshiped at such an unimaginable level by such a lovely little thing.

Just knowing that the girl was all too eager to follow any order that she gave her pleased her to no end.

And she couldn't deny that there was something very rewarding about being able to sit back while her little girlfriend worked to pamper her every royal whim.

"A-as for Reiko…her lineage of rule isn't quite like your long distinguished royal lineage Azula-sama. Don't get me wrong…she comes from a powerful family that is said to have roots in Japan. But I don't think that the Oshiro family even ruled an empire before her father came to power." Elle stated in a timid voice while her Fire Nation friends listened in fascination.

Azula and Zoi's attentive eyes sparked with an ever-growing keen interest in the woman that they now saw as their new rival.

"You mean that they weren't rulers until her father?" Ty Lee queried in a riveted voice while Mai listened in interest beside her.

"W-well…as far as I know the Oshiro family has been in possession of a mighty genetic power for a great many generations and they have traditionally held great power politically but not as monarchs. But not all Oshiros are born equal. Apparently…when her father was born…his power was much greater than those that came before him. And…with Rokuro's strength his family was able to start conquering lands and finally lay down the foundations of a new empire." Elle explained in a mousy voice while her princess and her subordinates listened in a captivated quiet.

Azula's amber golden eyes flickered with intrigue to learn that Reiko and her father were that much more powerful than their ancestors.

"A-and I heard that when Reiko was born…that she was born with such horrific might that she was able to strong arm her father into surrendering the throne to her at a young age." Elle revealed as her words provoked a sense of shock in the air.

As the Fire Nation team gazed on with widened expressions in their taken aback eyes.

"She defeated her father…as a kid?" Mai asked in a rightfully unnerved voice while Ty Lee sat in a speechless silence beside her.

"And…and I have also heard that she runs what she calls an 'open throne room' system." Elle added in an animated voice while Azula listened closely as she gazed at her back.

"An open throne room system?" Azula questioned with an elegantly raised brow while her serving girl nodded in her direction.

"Unlike here in the Fire Nation. Anyone can become ruler. Even commoners. Provided that they can remove Reiko from the throne first." Elle remarked as she gazed back at her friends surprised faces while the group listened in intrigue.

As Azula now stared on with disbelief in her amber golden eyes.

The mere concept of a peasant being crowned as ruler was an utterly absurd one!

Even if said peasant was of formidable might.

"You mean to tell me that anyone can become king just by kicking the previous ruler from the throne? I like the sound of that system. Better watch out Princess." Zoi commented in a teasing voice with a smirk on her lips while her princess turned to cast an intimidating glare her way through the corner of her eye.

"It's…it's not as simple as it sounds oneesan. Reiko rules at the top of a culture of treachery and deceit because there simply isn't anyone capable of defeating her. And not for a lack of trying. I heard that Andromeda has tried a great many times…all to no avail." Elle explained in a helpful voice as Azula and the others listened in a piqued silence.

"The airbender?" Azula queried with her brows furrowed while the rest of her subordinates who were not present tilted their heads at the mention of an airbender.

"Mhm. I have heard people say that Andromeda's ambition is the stuff of legends. She wants Reiko's throne more than anything in the world but she hasn't been able to take it. And that is why they say that Reiko keeps Andromeda on as her second in command. So, she is forced to forever watch as what she craves is forever out of her reach." Elle informed in a story tellers voice while the group listened in a bewildered silence.

The team now gazed on with baffled looks in their eyes over the prospect of keeping someone as second in command that openly sought to replace you.

Only for Azula's ruthless lips to curve into an approving smirk as she held her bottle in hand while she poured herself a tall cup of wine.

As her smirk grew even bigger when the sound of her growling belly prompted her pet to peer back at her with adorable urgency in her eyes.

And just like that all but Azula watched in humor when Elle began to dig through the stores at an alarming rate.

All in the hopes of finding something that will both satisfy the woman's rumbling belly and at the same time please her queen's refined palette.

"Such a good girl. I have to say…I approve of that idea. Perhaps after I become Fire Lord, I will keep Zuzu and my fuddy duddy uncle around in chains just so that they can have the privilege of gazing up at my divinity for all of their miserable days." Azula purred in a sadistic voice with her fingertips curling underneath her chin while her childhood friends fell into a fearful silence alongside her.

"Azula-sama?" Elle pondered in a self-conscious voice as she over the crate while her mistress turned to smile at her back.

"What is it now Elle?" Azula inquired with a lazy smile on her lips while her growling belly continued to make her little girlfriend gaze around in panic.

As her childhood friends sat casting pointed stares of disapproval at her smugly smirking face.

"You…you haven't said what your royal decree is for everyone's dinner…and I…" Elle trailed off in an apprehensive voice while the princess still smiled back at her.

Mai and Ty Lee just scowled back at their spoiled friend as their own bellies began to complain.

Leave it to Azula to want to impose her own choice of dinner on each and every person present.

"I-I…I still have trouble making out these labels…will you please help me?" Elle requested in a voice of low self-worth while the others gazed on with surprise in their eyes.

Only for Azula to frown as she stood up from her seat while she began to walk over to the girl's side.

Just before the much taller princess plopped down on her butt beside her petite girlfriend.

She turned to scowl back at her captain's taken aback face from where the woman sat on the other side of her petite beloved.

"I…I didn't know that young Elle was struggling to read our writings. If I had…I would have helped her myself." Zoi commented with something akin to guilt in her voice.

The princess now loomed over her shamefaced girlfriend with her lip stick painted lips adorning a moody scowl.

"Azula, maybe now that we found the sage when we get back Elle can start to focus on her academics so that she doesn't fall further behind." Ty Lee suggested in a sisterly voice while the princess sat scowling over her red-faced little sister.

Mai folded her arms over her breasts as found herself irked by how the princess had thus far refused to let the girl attend a Fire Nation school.

"I had already planned as much Ty Lee. I intend to personally begin overseeing the girl's studies myself as soon as we return." Azula stated in a prideful voice as she turned her gaze back to her adorably distressed pet.

She scooted her butt closer until she came to a stop looming above her worried serving girl with a smile already returning to her lips.

"A-arigatou gozaimasu Azula-sama." Elle stammered as she found herself enjoying how her far taller girlfriend was leaning in to loom in her line of vision.

And then soon after that all of the others fell into a marveled silence when their princess set a surprisingly gentle hand on the ashamed girl's dainty shoulder.

"Of course, your queen will help you dear." Azula commented in a voice of boundless poise as she pulled her pet in under her arm.

And then the small teenager sat there under her mistress's arm with a dreamy expression in her love-struck amber eyes as she gazed up at the confident face of the older woman in admiration.

As the princess began to read the labels on the dried food stores with effortless ease.

"That one says…" Azula instructed in voice that almost verged on maternal as she held her little girlfriend into her side with a protective smile on her lips.

As the petite teenager smiled shyly as she listened vividly with adoring eyes gazing up at the woman in unrivaled reverence.

It didn't matter to her that at the moment Reiko may well be stronger than her mistress.

She had only one mistress and that was Azula-sama.

She was the only one that she serves.

And the only one that she will follow with pride.

Sometime after that…

Elle now sat cooking with a bashful expression still on her lips while Azula sat over her drinking her wine with a charming smile on her crimson lips.

Her blush deepened when the older woman's hand remained greedily latched around her small shoulder.

As a pot of ingredients now cooked over the fire.

The rest of the group stared back at the couple with speechless expressions in their eyes.

What was even more astonishing was the fact that their Crown Princess had ordered a fully vegetarian meal to be cooked in the honor of their strange foreign friend.

"You're being surprisingly affectionate today Azula." Mai commented in her usual dry voice with her taken aback tawny eyes gazing back at the couple.

"So cute! You and Elle look so pink together Azula." Ty Lee gushed with a wide smile on her lips while Azula held Elle under her arm.

The younger girl smiled sweetly with the princess's arm coiled around her neck.

While the princess rolled her eyes as she swallowed a regal drink of her wine.

"Obviously, I am affectionate with her. She is my girlfriend Mai and I will hold her whenever I please." Azula snorted with a slow roll of her eyes while she found herself savoring how her little girlfriend clung to her belly.

Mai nodded her head as Ty Lee still smiled back at the couple.

As Zoi now sat beside Jiao as the warrior stirred the contents of the pot.

"A vegetarian fire stew in our young comrade's name it is then." Zoi remarked with a small smile on her lips as she gazed up from the pot back at Elle's moved face.

Mai and Ty Lee did much the same.

As Nako, Saro and Jiao knew better than to question their Crown Princess's choice of meal.

"The kid deserves it. She worked hard for us today." Mai stated in a supportive voice as she glanced fondly at her little sister's heartfelt face.

"That's right Mai. Elle has more than earned it." Ty Lee spoke with a beaming smile while she gazed back at her little sister's adorably bashful face.

"Friends…you move me…" Elle trailed off with great sentiment in her sensitive voice while she sat on the log under her princess's arm.

Only for her heart to begin to thump pleasantly when her mistress turned to glance down at her with amber golden eyes that sent a pleasurable shudder down her spine.

"I concur with your big sisters. You have served me superbly today. You deserve a reward. Not only have you brought me the key to destroying the Avatar Cycle once and for all. This power of yours has delivered me the allegiance of the old sage. Along with the knowledge that I can grow even stronger than my father and uncle could ever dream of. My conquest of the world is imminent and my brother and his pitiful peasant friends have no hope. And it is all thanks to you servant. Well done. Know that your queen is supremely pleased with you. You can have as many vegetarian meals as your little heart desires." Azula spoke over the fire with a sanguine smile on her elegant lips while she gazed down at her handmaiden's emotional face.

As the group listened in a fascinated silence as they all gazed back at the young girl's dedicated face.

Ty Lee and Mai shuddered in near pity for Zuko and the unfortunate Avatar.

"I... I don't need a reward Azula-sama. Knowing that I have served you well is all the reward that I ever need." Elle responded in a profoundly passionate voice as she blushed when her princess's hand patted her shoulder.

As she smiled shyly as they sat side by side with the camp fire crackling before their faces.

The Sun began to go down in the forest around them.

And the others sat in a taken aback silence.

"You can have anything that you want Elle…the world is ours for the taking and soon we shall take it. And when that day comes. I will sit on my throne not just as the ruler of the Fire Nation but all of the other nations as well and even the Spirit World itself…and perhaps even your homeland as well." Azula declared in a stunningly confident voice with a broad smirk on her beautiful lips while her subordinates listened in admiration.

"All I need is you Azula-sama. It's enough for me just to be your girl." Elle assured in a sweet voice only to find herself smiling even more brightly when she felt her mistress's arm tighten around her shoulder.

And then just like that she sunk into the older woman's side while the princess hugged her underneath her mighty arm.

Azula now sat over her with the barest trace of a fond smile having already formed on her full regal lips.

The rest of the group stared back with astounded expressions in their eyes as the princess hugged the girl under her arm.

It truly was a shock to see their ruthless Crown Princess express such a loving side for their pure hearted companion.

"Aww!" Ty Lee exclaimed with a cheery smile on her lips as she watched her little sister smile up at the princess from underneath her arm.

"Then you shall have me peasant." Azula commented with a possessive smile on her lips while she tenderly crushed her little girlfriend's blushing face into her body.

"M-my princess." Elle swooned with her hands grasping at her mistress's clothes while the princess's strong arm held tightly onto her smaller body.

"My pet." Azula sighed in a greedy voice with a smile on her lips that was reserved for her serving girl alone.

Elle smiled in agreement as she sat with her face resting into the princess's warm body.

Zoi gazed up from where she sat helping to cook the stew while her comrades watched in silence around her.

Just before all eyes turned to the captain abruptly stood up from her seat while she gazed in the princess's curious direction.

"My thoughts exactly Your Highness. That throne is yours. We are going to win this war and all other wars to follow. And mark my words by the end of this war each and every person here will hail you as Fire Lord." Zoi announced with her deadly serious golden eyes staring back at the face of her smiling princess.

"I approve of your devotion Zoi. I would settle for no less." Azula stated in a conquering voice with her cold amber golden eyes gazing back at her subordinate in approval.

While her warrior smirked back at her as she thrust a bottle over her head.

"Let us drink comrades! In the name of our future Fire Lord Azula and our cherished comrade Elle!" Zoi called out in a boisterous voice with a grin on her lips while the rest of the group was roused in agreement.

"To Fire Lord Azula and our friend Elle!" Nako shouted with a smile on her lips as she held up a drink for a toast.

"I second that notion! To our future Fire Lord and to our new comrade!" Saro yelled out as he held up a bottle while Jiao raised her arm to do the same.

Both Mai and Ty Lee smiled in the direction of their blushing little sister as they repeated the gesture.

"Yes, and if ever want to hear any tips on how to satisfy your royal lover in bed you can always come to me." Jiao offered with a playful smile on her lips while she watched the younger girl turn red under the princess's arm.

The two noblewomen turned red as they turned to direct a chastising stare in the smiling seductress's direction.

As the princess now sat smirking above her young girlfriend's adorably overwhelmed face.

And then not a moment later the entire team cheered out the names of their leader and their young friend.

"To Fire Lord Azula and Elle!" The team called out together while the princess smiled with her arm wrapped around the emotional girl's neck.

Azula turned to glance down at Elle's adorably speechless face with a sophisticated smirk on her lips.

The couple gazed back into one another's eyes as they teenager melted like butter once more under the older woman's domineering stare.

And not a second later the young girl squeaked when she was swiftly crushed under the princess's armpit once more in a suffocating embrace.

The princess smiled as she took another graceful drink from her cup with her content sighs flowing into the air.

And a little while after that.

Elle now stood in a bow before the seated princess while Azula smiled fondly back at her as she held herself high on the log with all the poise of royalty.

Just as the sound of the princess's growling belly rumbled into the air once more while Elle's amber eyes widened in panic.

As the princess graced the girl with a spoiled smirk.

"Go on royal servant. Go help Zoi finish up. Your queen is famished. After you two are done. I'll even let you serve me my bowl." Azula remarked with a pleased smile on her red lips while she watched her serving girl bow her head in reverence.

"As you say Queen." Elle answered in a voice of endless devotion as she bounced from her bow while her mistress smiled back at her.

And not a second later she turned around to scurry over to work beside the captain who now sat over the pot.

The noblewoman turned to glance over her shoulder with a smile on her lips as she watched the shy teenager take a seat beside her.

Azula now sat on her log with her palms resting on its wooden surface while her amber golden eyes watched her pet work to please hr.

Her smile never once left her gratified lips as her two childhood friends gazed on from their places around the fire alongside her.

Just as Ty Lee turned to smile back at the princess's unusually focused face as Azula intently observed her little sister work.

"You seem to be giving Elle more attention lately Azula." Ty Lee stated with a smile on her lips while the princess coldly watched the younger girl.

"Yeah. You seem even more overbearing than before." Mai remarked in a deadpan voice with a smirk on her lips while Ty Lee stared on in amusement beside her.

"I have to Ty Lee. I have a rival now." Azula replied with her icy eyes taking on a colder stare while her childhood friends gazed at her in bewilderment.

"A rival Azula? Are you talking about that woman…Reiko?" Mai pondered with a raised brow as the princess's lips pursed into a regal scowl.

"I should think the answer to that question is obvious. I mean…it is clear that this one will not be satisfied with anything less than a woman of royalty." Azula sighed with her beautiful hand waving in her innocent girlfriend's direction while Elle cooked beside the warrior.

The two noblewomen gazed after their adopted sister with expressions of amusement in their eyes.

"Clearly. Pleasing Elle is no simple matter." Mai snorted with humor in her voice as Ty Lee giggled beside her.

Only for the princess to let out another spoiled sigh as she lounged back in her seat with her controlling eyes observing her pet hum as she cooked over the fire.

"It truly isn't. It is…burdensome really dealing with her insistence on pampering me day in and day out. Some days I don't even know how I handle it. But she wishes to serve her queen…so I allow it. Indeed. Only a woman of royal birth is worthy of owning this one." Azula spoke in a conceited voice as she arrogantly studied her fingernails on her folded fist while her two friends now cast her prolonged stares.

"Wow Azula. I have never given any thought to how difficult it must be to be having your own girlfriend serve you hand and food all day long." Ty Lee quipped in a sarcastic voice while Mai snorted in laughter beside her.

"I don't expect for you to understand Ty Lee. After all, you aren't royalty. But still…I can't help but wonder…" Azula trailed off with another sigh as she gazed in the direction of her handmaid while her two lifelong friends gazed at her oddly.

An even deeper scowl formed on her lips as she sunk back on her bottom in her seat.

As her fingers gripped the log that she was sitting on in a rare display of insecurity.

"What if…this Reiko is stronger than me? And then what if…the girl decides that she would rather have an Ice Queen instead of a Fire Queen?" Azula inquired in a hushed voice that only her friends heard with a great scowl entrenched on her regal lips while the two noblewomen sat in a taken aback silence.

And while the moment was fleeting.

The two girls could have sworn that they caught a momentary glimpse of fear in the princess's proud amber golden eyes.

The princess pursed her lips into an anxious thin line with her amber golden eyes gazing after the humming younger girl in worry.

Only for the prideful woman to turn to Ty Lee when she felt the other woman set her hand on her shoulder.

"Even if this woman is stronger than you. That isn't how relationships work Azula. Couples that are in love with each other don't just leave one another because someone else is stronger." Ty Lee explained in a soft voice so that the others did not hear while the princess listened with a frown on her lips.

"Are…you positive Ty Lee?" Azula asked in a guarded voice with her cold eyes turning back to watch her girlfriend dutifully work over the fire.

"I am positive. And anyways that girl worships you. The only queen that Elle has eyes for is you Azula." Ty Lee assured with a grin while Azula's lips curved back into a proud smile.

"She does, doesn't she? It is only fitting really as I am her goddess. Really…how can an ice queen or an earth princess ever compare to me?" Azula conversed with an enamored undertone to her haughty voice as she coiled a long fingernail in her dark hair.

The two nobles listened to their friends attempt to play off her concerns in entertainment.

"Azula…if you can defeat the Avatar then I have no doubt that you will be able do the same with this Reiko and anyone else that tries to come after Elle." Mai said with her tawny eyes turning to gaze protectively at Elle's back while Ty Lee hurriedly nodded her head in agreement.

Jiao, Saro and Nako sat off to the side engaged in their own conversation.

As the princess smiled once more as she offered her two childhood friends a rare look of friendship.

"Of course, I will. In the meantime, I will show the girl that I am the only queen worthy of her worship and that only I…can give her the absolute rule that she is looking for." Azula remarked with a dominating smile on her crimson lips while she took a graceful sip of her beverage.

The two noblewomen gazed after their naively oblivious little sister in pity once more.

As the princess smiled once more when Ty Lee patted her arm.

"Oh, you worry too much. She loves you and you alone." Ty Lee assured in a hushed voice as she smiled back at her royal friend's relieved face.

"Ty Lee is right. I am sure that Elle will see that no one can enslave her quite like you do." Mai advised with a humored snort as Ty Lee gazed on comically at Azula's now widely grinning face.

Only for the three highborn women to turn their gazes back to the captain and the handmaid as the two cooked over the pot.

The trio stared on with surprise in their eyes to see the ruthless warrior was showcasing a shockingly gentle side as she patted the younger girl's shoulder.

"Marvelous work little sister. You truly are a talented young chef." Zoi complimented with a fond smile on her lips as Elle beamed up at her.

"Thank you oneesan! But I am not anywhere near as good of a chef as you." Elle responded in a soft-spoken voice as she hummed while the warrior sat over on a log.

"You are young Elle. You'll have plenty of time to build up your recipe book." Zoi stated in a relaxed voice with her hand on the smaller girl's shoulder while Elle smiled as she gazed into the fire.

"Would…would you be willing to give me some lessons in Fire Nation cooking Zoi?" Elle pondered in an adorably hesitant voice as Zoi turned to glance down at her with surprise in her eyes.

The three highborn women stared on at the two with disbelieving looks in their eyes.

The others turned to gaze back at the noblewoman and the serving girl with similar bewilderment in their eyes.

Just before Zoi regained her composure as she placed her palm back on the bashful girl's shoulder.

As a smile now formed on her lips as she let out a good-natured chuckle.

"It would be my pleasure Elle." Zoi answered with affection in her thawed voice while the rest of the group still observed in a stunned silence.

Only to find herself releasing a sound of surprise not a moment later when the smaller girl latched onto her belly.

"I promise that I won't let you down Zoi!" Elle cried out as she hugged the older woman while Zoi smiled down at her.

Mai and Ty Lee gazed on in amusement as Azula's lips pursed into a venomous snarl.

And not a second after that an enormous blue inferno roared to life behind the now frightened subordinates while the princess sat glaring back at the duo.

"Zoi! Detach from my pet! Go hug your own peasant!" Azula barked in an inconceivably pompous voice with her oppressive finger pointing in the woman's smirking direction.,

Jiao gazed on with unbothered blue eyes as she smiled while she drank from a chalice.

"Princess, do not bother me and my young pupil when we are in the kitchen!" Zoi called out in a defiant voice with a smirk on her lips while Azula glared daggers back at her.

"I am your Crown Princess Zoi. I will bother you whenever I please." Azula snorted in a coldly refined voice as she drank her alcohol while her controlling eyes still glared at the other woman.

"Did you hear Azula-sama? I have a cooking instructor!" Elle chirped in a joyful voice while the warrior held herself with an aura of pride over her.

As Ty Lee giggled from where she sat by the amused Mai.

The princess rose a brow as she studied the two with an authoritative amber golden stare.

"I heard amply servant. Although I will warn you Zoi. I will have you know that I already find the girl's cooking to be satisfactory as it is. And if the service that she provides me should falter because of you…" Azula trailed off with a menacing edge to her callous voice while her warrior nodded her head in understanding.

Her cold eyes stared harshly back at her cutely blushing handmaiden's face as she swirled the contents of her cup.

As she savored the way that the girl instantly submitted to her gaze.

She found herself trying to squash her desire to hold the girl once more.

"Zoi? A cooking instructor?" Mai queried with a snort while Ty Lee grinned back at Elle.

"You might be surprised that the captain's cooking is almost as legendary as her prowess in battle." Saro commented with a smirk on his lips while the highborn women listened in grudging intrigue.

"Judging by the captain's sinfully delicious courses that she cooked back on the isle I am inclined to believe it." Nako stated as she stared on hungrily while the scent of the stew began to flow into the air.

"What next instructor?" Elle asked in a lovable voice as she blushed when Zoi patted her shoulder once more.

"Put in the spices Elle." Zoi instructed with a small smile on her lips as Elle speedily nodded her head.

As the team sat there in a taken aback quiet as they watched the Fire Nation warrior continue to guide the young girl in making the fire stew.

Azula found herself staring on with increasingly hungry amber golden eyes as her belly continued to grumble in protest.

And strangely enough…

She realized that she was actually relieved that her little handmaid was still her usual jubilant self.

And it wasn't too long after that the stew was simmering to near completion while the noblewoman and the servant exchanged a proud look with one another.

Before they turned to gaze into the pot as they relaxed while the campfire flickered before their faces.

As the sound of many forest animals and insects resonated into the air.

Only for the highborn women to turn to their young friend in surprise when her voice just barely flowed into their ears.

"Naoki…wherever you are…I hope that you will be okay." Elle spoke in a gentle voice with her amber eyes gazing up into the evening sky in worry.

While her friends gazed back at her with taken aback expressions in their eyes.

As Zoi stared down at Elle with a look of recognition in her softened eyes.

'She's…still worried about the redhead?' Azula thought with her surprised amber golden eyes gazing back at her young beloved's naively tender face.

"Please survive your training." Elle murmured in a reflective voice while her companions listened in marvelment.

A half an hour later…

Mai and Ty Lee helped themselves to bowls of stew.

They gazed over their shoulders as they sighed in exasperation as they watched their little sister dart left and right in a mad rush to please her spoiled queen!

"Hurry up peasant or I will punish you! I expect you to work even harder to pamper me in order to make up for losing those two friends of yours!" Azula bellowed in a sadistic voice with a haughty smirk on her lips as she sat with her arms folded over her breasts.

The three noblewomen just gazed her way as they watched their adopted sister frantically rush forward with a tray in hand.

As the other commoners in the camp paid no mind to the peculiar couples' interactions.

"I-I'm hurrying Azula-sama! I'm hurrying!" Elle cried out in a fretful voice as she scurried forward while her mistress sat back with a smile on her lips.

"You know Azula. You could always get up and get the bowl yourself." Mai remarked in a deadpan voice while Azula let out a haughty scoff.

"Absolutely not. It is the job of my royal servant to fetch it for me." Azula snorted in a spoiled voice with her toned arms crossed over her chest.

As the noblewomen rolled their eyes outside of the line of vision of their entitled leader.

The princess turned her cold gaze back to her small handmaid as the girl padded to a stop before her.

Her belly let out another loud rumble as she sniffed the pleasant scent of the stew.

And her amber golden eyes gazed down at it imperiously as if searching for even the slightest flaw.

The serving girl quivered with her amber eyes peering back at the older woman in hopes of getting her approval.

Just before the controlling women accepted the tray as she turned to stare back at her emotional servant with a pleased gleam in her strict amber golden eyes.

"You may now get yourself a bowl servant." Azula spoke in an ever-dominant voice with her stern eyes gazing back at her worshipful girlfriend while she held her tray in her lap.

Only for her smile to grow when the girl sunk into yet another adorable bow.

"Yes Mistress! I shall do that right away!" Elle exclaimed as she smiled in adoration back at Azula while the woman gazed back at her coldly.

As she hurried back to the pot as the others were scooping out their servings.

Only to find herself gazing up in surprise when the captain held out a tray for her.

"You did great Elle. Now go enjoy your meal and don't let her make you work anymore tonight." Zoi commented in a stoic voice as Elle accepted the tray with a bright smile on her lips.

Ty Lee and Mai gazed pointedly back at the princess's spoiled smiling face in disapproval.

"Arigatou oneesan!" Elle chirped as she began to walk back towards her girlfriend with a smile on her cheeks.

As the tall princess stared back at her with callous amber golden eyes that make her cheeks turn red in delight.

Only for the woman to pat the log beside her thigh as she gestured for her to come sit beside her.

"Come peasant. Sit and eat with your queen." Azula ordered in a heavy-handed voice with her possessive amber golden eyes watching the bashful girl plop down on the log next to her.

"O-oh my queen…I would love nothing more than to do just that." Elle stammered in an utterly love-struck voice with a swooning flush on her youthful cheeks.

She gazed up at the much taller woman in admiration.

As the princess stared down at her timid face with amber golden eyes that she once more found herself becoming absorbed in.

The seductress paused with a smile on her lips when she saw her warrior lover carrying back two trays in hand.

"Let's eat Jiao." Zoi stated with an attentive edge to her stony voice while her lover nodded.

And then soon after that the noblewoman seated herself on a log while the younger woman sat down right beside her.

Zoi glanced down through the corner of her golden eye with a smile on her lips as she watched the shorter woman scoot closer towards her.

Until their hips were soon touching not even a second later while the commoner smiled up at her noble lover.

And then the couple began to eat.

Nako and Saro did much the same from where they sat on the other end of the fire.

Mai and Ty Lee followed suit as well while they gazed between both Zoi and Elle with impressed looks in their eyes when they began to taste the fire stew.

As the princess now took a graceful bite of her stew with her lips already creasing into a pleased smile.

She now turned to glance down at her emotional handmaiden with an expression of great fondness in her cold eyes.

Her serving girl gazed up at her royal mistress with an innocent smile on her hopeful lips as she listened to the woman swallow her taste of the stew.

As she waited for what seemed like an eternity for the princess to deliver her verdict.

Only for her amber eyes to widen when a strong palm lowered into her hair.

And just like that she sat there in awe while the princess patted her head.

"This fire stew is magnificent Elle. Good job dear." Azula purred with a smile on her regal lips as she patted her little girlfriend's blushing head.

Only for her smile to widen when she watched the girl slide in to sit hip to hip with her.

"I-I am so glad that you think so Azula-sama." Elle spoke in an abashed voice with a shy smile on her lips as she began to eat her stew.

The older girl still gazed down at her in approval through the corner of her strict amber golden eye.

And with that the ruthless Fire Princess and her young servant girlfriend began to eat side by side.

The petite girl periodically gazed up at the face of the princess in limitless adoration as she watched the princess elegantly chew her mouthful with a wide smile on her lips.

The rest of the group ate their meals with their impressed eyes gazing between the two unlikely cooks.

Until about twenty minutes later.

The night sky now dominated the forest skyline.

As the team now sat back with content expressions on their faces after finishing their delicious meal.

The warrior now lounged in her seat with a fully belly and her lover cradled underneath her muscular arm.

While the princess stared down with cold amber golden eyes as she watched her girlfriend crawl underneath her arm.

As she snaked her greedy arm around the girl's neck as she pulled her in closer.

"That was good! You two really outdid yourselves!" Ty Lee exclaimed with a smile while she gazed back at her little sister's smiling face.

Mai nodded in agreement as she sat back beside her friend.

"My Elle's cooking is always flawless." Azula remarked in a boastful voice of rare praise as she gazed down at the younger girl's moved face seated under her arm.

Nako and Saro grinned in mutual contentment.

Only for Azula to spin her head around when the sound of a loud burp resounded into her disgusted ears.

While everyone else turned to the captain's shameless face with humored expressions in their eyes.

As Zoi now stretched out in her seat with Jiao under her arm.

The three highborn women seemed somewhat taken aback that the seductress seemed totally unbothered by the other woman's lack of manners.

"Get some class Zoi." Azula snapped with her amber golden eyes gazing back at the other woman in judgement only for Zoi to snort.

"Fuck class. I do as I damn well please. Isn't that right Jiao?" Zoi scoffed in a dismissive voice with her arm wrapped around her lover while the shorter woman leaned into her side.

"That's right. My Zoi is a warrior through and through…and I would have her no other way." Jiao muttered with a rare affection in her voice while the muscular woman smiled down at her.

As the princess scrunched up her brows over the shameless reply as she let out another snort.

Before she let the other woman's absence of manners go in favor of pulling her pet into a greedy embrace.

As she now gazed down at the adorable teenager once more with a sliver of fondness in her cold eyes.

She allowed her lips to pull into the barest hint of a smile when she felt two dainty hands cling to her belly.

"Azula-sama…" Elle trailed off in a worshipful voice as she smiled with her arms wrapped around the older girl's belly.

"How would you like to share another drink with your queen?" Azula pondered with her captivating amber golden eyes gazing down at her young girlfriend's lovely face.

"I would be delighted Azula-sama." Elle answered as she smiled up at the woman's strict visage just as a drink was passed into her hands.

As she sat up under the older girl's arm while she took a bold drink.

The princess gazed down with pleased amber golden eyes as she watched her young love drink the wine.

An hour later…

The campfire burned brightly while the members of Team Azula drank joyfully with one another.

Azula sat with her stony eyes attentively watching her girlfriend as Elle let out an adorable hiccup.

Ty Lee sat watching the two with a smile on her lips.

"Don't drink too fast Elle." Azula commented with her experienced eyes staring down at her serving girl's buzzed face.

Only for her amber golden eyes to take on a questioning gleam when the younger girl abruptly reached up to hold her hand.

"Dance with me Princess." Elle requested without warning in a lovable voice as she hiccupped while her mistress rose a regal brow over her.

As the others turned to the couple with still astonished expressions in their eyes.

"What? Dance with you here? What…what do you think you are doing peasant!" Azula responded in a confused voice when her little girlfriend pulled her to her feet.

"Dance with me Azula-sama!" Elle cried out in an overjoyed voice as she pulled her taken aback mistress over her shoulder.

As the much taller woman stumbled after her with her amber golden eyes glaring down at her.

The rest of the team stared on with shared amusement in their eyes.

The three noblewomen laughed in humor at their leader's proudly angered face.

"How dare you give me orders peasant! It is I that is queen here not you!" Azula barked in a moody voice while she found herself unable to resist allowing her girlfriend to pull her to the fire.

She glared through the corner of her eye at the amused faces of her gathered subordinates.

"P-please Azula-sama." Elle pleaded with another hiccup while Azula let out a haughty sigh over her as they walked to the fire.

"Aww Azula! That is sooo pink! She wants to dance with you!" Ty Lee gushed with her smiling face in her palms while she giggled as her scowling friend was led past her.

"Oh…very well I suppose I could permit it. But only if you follow my lead." Azula spoke in a strict voice with a smile on her lips as she reasserted control by pulling the younger girl after her.

"Now this I have to see." Zoi commented with a snicker while her princess glared at her through the corner of her eye.

The seductress watched with humor in her curious eyes from where she sat against her lover.

Nako and Saro stared on with utterly bewildered expressions in their eyes.

"But if any of you should breathe a word of this to anyone…then I will burn every last one of you on a blue pyre leaving only the sound of your dying screams to quench my flames!" Azula announced in a terrifying voice as she glared at the faces of her subordinates while a look of terror swept over the previously joyful air.

"P-please don't immolate me Princess! I swear I'll keep my mouth shut!" Nako cried out in a panicked voice as Azula smirked while she strode past her.

"You are such a natural romantic Azula." Mai remarked with a snort of laughter while Ty Lee chuckled next to her.

And now all eyes were on the princess and the peasant as the two strode towards the fire together.

Just as the older girl turned to gaze down at her girlfriend as the girl dug through her backpack.

As her amber golden eyes now expressed a hidden entertainment over the younger girl's brief surge of boldness.

Only for her brows to furrow when she heard a music flow into the air of the speechless camp.

Saro and Jiao in particular gazed up from their seats with astonished expressions in their eyes.

As they studied the girl's musical device with piqued looks in their widened eyes.

"I…I have never seen a music box like that before." Saro stated in a taken aback voice while Azula scrunched up her brows as she stared down at the cheerful girl.

"Neither have I." Jiao spoke in an entranced voice with her blue eyes gazing on in rising curiosity.

"That's because it is from young Elle's homeland." Zoi informed with her arm around her lover's back while the younger woman gazed on with newfound awe in her blue eyes.

Saro gazed on with understanding in his still intrigued eyes.

Ty Lee let out another girlish giggle beside the entertained Mai just as a foreign beat began to pick up.

While the speechless group listened to the sound of a male singer's voice as it began to play in unison with the music.

Only for the princess to be taken by surprise when her girlfriend started to happily dance to the music.

"Girl, close your eyes. Let that rhythm get into you. Don't try to fight it. There ain't nothin' that you can do. Relax your mind. Lay back and groove with mine. You got to feel the heat. And we can ride the boogie. Share that beat of love." Michael Jackson's voice sang as it played all around the couple.

Azula still stared down at her girlfriend with bewildered amber golden eyes as she watched the girl began to flow to the music.

"Whimsical commoner…whatever am I going to do with you?" Azula questioned in a refined voice with a sophisticated smile on her regal lips.

Her amber golden eyes stared down at her small beloved as Elle joyfully swung her hips to the music.

As Elle happily danced with her hands moving before her brightly smiling face.

"Whatever Your Highness wishes. I am yours to do with as you please Azula-sama." Elle replied in a voice of endless joy as she swung her youthful body to the beat while her princess smiled in approval.

All while the other six stared on with taken aback expressions in their eyes.

And not even seconds later the tall princess began to skillfully dance her hips to the music in unison with her young beloved.

The group sat in a disbelieving silence with even Zoi lacking the courage to comment as her princess swayed her body to the foreign music.

As a fond smile graced the princess's lips as she moved her boots through the grass with the campfire illuminating her content countenance.

"Now that is the kind of answer that I just adore." Azula purred in a supremely alluring voice as she swung her hips to the music with her hands swaying before her smiling face.

"I wanna rock with you (all night). Dance you into day (sunlight). I wanna rock with you (all night). We're gonna rock the night away." The song continued to play in the ears of the two girls as the lovers grooved to the music.

The princess of the Fire Nation found that she was unable to stop herself from smiling widely as she gazed down at her lovely girlfriend's sweet face.

As the serving girl smiled happily with her golden hair swaying freely behind her.

All the while as the team still stared on with disbelief in their gaping eyes.

"Rock with me Fire Queen!" Elle called out with sweet laughter as she bobbed her head to the music as she swayed around the campfire.

Azula loomed over her with a spellbinding smirk on her lipstick painted lips as she gleefully twisted her hips to the beat with her boots tapping on the forest floor.

Only for the younger girl to let out a lovable cry of joy when she was seized in the older woman's powerful grip.

And just like that the princess began to sway her much taller body with her gasping little lover holding onto her palms.

"Out on the floor. There ain't nobody there but us. Girl, when you dance. There's a magic that must be love. Just take it slow. 'Cause we got so far to go. When you feel that heat. And we're gonna ride the boogie. Share that beat of love." Michael Jackson's voice sung in the ears of the two lovers as they joyfully danced in step with one another.

"I confess that you have surprised me peasant. This is a side of you that I haven't seen before." Azula remarked in a smoothly dignified voice with her words purring in her little girlfriend's overjoyed ears.

She smiled widely as she held onto her lover's hands as she swung her womanly hips to the music.

While she never once let go of her little lover's dainty hands as she guided the girl in a romantic dance.

"I wanna rock with you. I wanna groove with you." The song continued to play all throughout the campfire as the two girls joyfully bounced their hips to the beat.

The rest of the encampment sat in a stunned state of silence.

As the princess of the Fire Nation found herself unable to fight the smile that was growing onto her beautiful lips.

She clutched her girlfriend's smaller hands under her own as she swung her head back with her dark hair blowing in the breeze around her.

As she moved her hips back and forth with a grace that was only befitting of woman that was born of true royalty.

While the laughing teenager followed the older girl's lead as she moved her smaller hips in unison with that of the princess's.

"I love you Azula-sama." Elle spoke in a blissful voice as she held onto the older woman's strong hands while callous amber golden eyes softened as they stared back down at her.

"And I…just may feel the same peasant." Azula responded in a barely audible voice with a fond smile forming onto her lips that only grew when her little girlfriend gasped in delight.

And not a moment later the young girl lost her balance as she hiccupped with a deep blush spreading across her cheeks.

Only for her gentle eyes to widen when she was swiftly caught in a pair of mighty womanly arms.

And that was all it took for her to find herself gazing up into her mistress's all-encompassing amber golden eyes.

As the older woman stared back down at her with her lipstick covered lips now adorning a contently enamored smile.

As the two lovers stared back into one another's eyes with the bashful smaller girl finding herself lost in the much taller woman's dominant amber golden gaze.

The two girls were so caught up in each other's eyes that they never noticed that the music had stopped.

Nor did they even register the stunned stares of the rest of the encampment.

"O-oh my beautiful queen…" Elle stammered in an absolutely love-struck voice with her heavily emotional eyes staring up at Azula's smiling visage.

"My lovely little commoner." Azula sighed with her cold amber golden eyes staring down at the smaller girl while she allowed her girlfriend to fall into her arms.

Just before she finally registered the presence of her subordinates as she turned to glare out of the corner of her tyrannical eye at their jaw dropping faces.

'Elle…truly is innocent. We must protect her…no matter what happens.' Zoi thought with her golden eyes staring back at the peaceful girl in astonishment.

"A-Azula! That was the sweetest thing I have ever-" Ty Lee began to ramble only for Mai to silence her with her palm.

The princess glared back at their frightened faces with frigid amber golden eyes as the young girl still hung in her arms.

"None of you say anything." Azula hissed in a dangerously ruthless voice with her amber golden eyes glaring back at the fearfully nodding faces of her subordinates.

Just before she began to guide her lover back to their seat with her callous amber golden eyes gazing back down at the girl's serene countenance.

The serving girl's face happily pushed into her tall mistress's bosom as she was wordlessly led back to their spot before the fire.

Only for the princess to gracefully seat herself on the log once more with her young lover still under her powerful arm.

Her frightening amber golden eyes stared imperiously ahead as she practically dared her intimidated subordinates to say another word about their dance.

Only for nothing but silence to continue to reign over the fire.

As she leaned back in her seat with her little girlfriend hiccupping adorably under her muscular arm.

She found herself unable to resist holding Elle close with her arm gently wrapping around the smaller girl's back.

Elle continued to hiccup cutely in her princess's mighty arms as she savored the way that the older woman held her with such care.

And finally, an hour after that…

Saro and Nako had retired to their individual tents some time ago.

Azula still sat on her log with Elle under her arm while she regally drank from her cup.

As Mai and Ty Lee also continued to drink wine as they gazed back at their young friend with fond looks in their eyes.

Just as the group turned to Zoi when the woman stood up with Jiao under her arm.

"Jiao and I are going to retire for the night." Zoi announced with an amorous smile on her lips as she began to walk towards her tent while her lover smiled knowingly in her arms.

Azula watched the two go with a disinterested look in her amber golden eyes.

And soon after that the tent to the noblewoman's flap closed up.

Jiao landed in a pile of pillows with a smirk on her lips as she gazed up at the statuesque woman towering over her prone form.

As her eager blue eyes watched as Zoi threw her shirt onto the floor behind her.

The noblewoman disrobed with a confident smile on her lips.

And right after that a pair of boots went flying into the corner of the tent behind her.

Until the tall noble soon stood nude with her pants in a heap at her bare feet with her lustful golden eyes gazing down at her smaller lover.

As the warrior watched through the corner of her salacious eye as the woman teasingly parted her robes.

"What are you waiting for…my dragon…aren't you going to mount me?" Jiao asked in a low voice with a tantalizing smile on her lips as she gazed up at the far taller woman's naked body.

She seductively pulled down the robes on her naked body as the captain stared down at her with lascivious golden eyes.

And not even seconds later the younger woman cried out in delight when she found herself firmly pinned to the ground under the noblewoman's larger body.

As the muscular woman now sat on top of her with a lecherous smile growing onto her lips.

Only for the seductress to cry out once more when a pair of powerful womanly thighs snaked around her excited neck.

She savored the sensation of the noblewoman's round ass seated dominantly upon her now naked breasts.

As her mouth fell open in anticipation when she found herself gazing up at her lover's looming bush.

And soon after that she released a muffled cry when the noblewoman's womanhood connected with her open mouth.

"Lick Jiao!" Zoi commanded in a forceful voice with her strong hand resting in the younger woman's dark hair.

Her eyes began to lid back in her head as she let out a loud moan that was heard throughout her tent.

The seductress passionately lapped at her moaning lover's womanhood.

And mere seconds after that the moans of the two lovers were heard loud and clear throughout the camp.

The three noblewomen and their young friend froze up in discomfort in the same moment that Zoi's aroused cries pierced the air.

Azula now sat with her teeth gritted together in unhidden aggravation.

"Zoi! Cease that noise right now or I so help me I will throw a lightning bolt at your wretched tent!" Azula boomed in a beyond imposing voice with her irate eyes glaring in the direction of the other woman's tent.

And even Saro and Nako stared up at the ceilings of their tents with widely uncomfortable looks in their eyes.

"Ride me Zoi! Ride me!" Jiao shouted in a voice of maddened arousal with the taller woman's nether regions slamming down on her waiting tongue.

She passionately made out with her lover's clitoris with a wide smile on her lips.

As her head bobbed on the pillows as she lay there in submission with the warrior's hand in her hair.

The mighty noblewoman moaned with her golden eyes lidded in absolute bliss.

"Oh Jiao! Fuck yes! This is why I brought you along!" Zoi called out in a lustful voice with her moans resonating into the air as she excitedly rode her lover's pinned face.

Her eyes grew even wider with immeasurable delight when she felt the seductress's tongue move about inside her with rapid intensity.

"I did not need to hear that!" Mai groaned with a redden blush on her annoyed cheeks as she glared in the direction of the warrior's tent.

"N-neither did I…" Ty Lee complained with a heated expression on her cheeks.

Only for the three highborn women to turn to their young friend in amusement when they noticed that she was gazing back in the direction of the tent with adorable bewilderment in her innocent amber eyes.

"T-that is some snuggle that they are having in there." Elle commented in a lovably naïve voice while her three friends nearly fell out of their seats.

As the princess now sat over her girlfriend with a palm over her groaning face.

Ty Lee found herself unable to gaze back at her little sister with a fond look in her eyes.

"D-do…do you think that we could all have a snuggle like that sometime Azula-sama?" Elle inquired in a cluelessly intoxicated voice as she hiccupped once more.

And just like that an unsettling silence swept over the campfire.

Both Mai and Ty Lee sat with their faces as red as tomatoes.

As they swallowed in fear while Azula's monstrous amber golden eyes glared right through them.

The two nobles wisely kept their mouths shut under their princess's penetrating death glare.

"Ugh. Elle. Let's…. just get to bed." Azula remarked in a snort as she abruptly stood up with her little lover in her arms.

She held the hiccupping girl in her arms as she began to quickly stomp her way towards her tent.

As the buzzed-up teenager swayed with her princess's hands holding her steady.

The two noblewomen coughed as they sunk back in their seats while they watched their two friends vanish in their tent.

And ten minutes later…

Dim candles lit the royal tent.

The princess now lay comfortably on her back in her royal nightgown with her tall body sprawled out like a true queen atop her many luxurious pillows.

As her bare breasts now pushed from the cleavage opening in her gown.

She now held her little lover in her robed lap with the young girl's hiccupping face hiding in between her warm breasts.

Her cold amber golden eyes glanced down as she coiled the intoxicated girl into a protective embrace.

Just as her fingers began to stroke the quivering girl's golden locks from her lovely amber eyes.

And in that very instant the candles in the royal tent went out with a wave of the princess's hand.

Azula now drew the smaller girl even deeper into her arms with her growling lips drawing closer to Elle's hiccupping forehead.

Just before she placed a chaste kiss on her handmaiden's sleepy forehead while she snarled into the girl's skin.

"They…they almost took you from me." Azula muttered in a momentary break from her ruthless voice as she crushed her little girlfriend's face into the crook of her neck.

"Azula-sama…please keep me forever." Elle mumbled in a vulnerable voice with her face hiding in the older girl's neck while she shook when her mistress's arms held her into her body.

"Of course, I'll keep you pet." Azula grumbled in a pridefully thawed voice with her lips lovingly kissing her pet's forehead once again.

A huge smile began to pull onto her beautiful lips as she tenderly caressed her little lover's hiccupping face.

As she stretched out her bare feet at the foot of her bed of pillows as she curled up with Elle in her arms.

She stared down with coldly vigilant amber golden eyes at the petite girl starting to fall asleep upon her naked breasts.

Just as her smile grew even larger when she heard the younger girl let out another adorable hiccup with her intoxicated face falling into her soft breasts.

"P-promise me that I will always be your pet, and that you will always reign over me as my q-queen…and that…you will always own me." Elle hiccupped with a flush on her drowsy cheeks as she happily relaxed her face in between the older woman's pillowy bare breasts.

She felt unbelievably strong arms coil around her once more.

As the princess's full lips now adorned a beyond gladdened smile.

"Hm. Now that is just too adorable. I promise you dear that you will always be my pet, and that I will always reign over you as your queen, and that I will own you for all time." Azula purred in a dominantly affectionate voice with her warm fingers gently stroking her little beloved's mumbling face.

She lay on her long back with her arms holding her girlfriend's once more hiccupping face into her breasts.

"Goodnight…Azula-sama…" Elle murmured in a blissfully tired voice as she closed her eyes with her face buried in the older woman's soft breasts.

And not even a second later she passed out snoring face first in the princess's bosom while long fingertips still tenderly caressed her murmuring cheek.

"Goodnight…Elle." Azula mumbled in a softly contented voice with her head resting on her pillow while she held her little girlfriend into her chest.

And then she quietly reached out to grasp a hold of the breathing mask from her lover's portable breathing stabilizer that she had constructed for this very trip.

Before she set the mask over her girlfriend's snoring face while she gazed down with icily protective eyes as she watched the girl's snores start to stabilize.

And that was all that was required for her lips to curl into a beyond pleased smile.

Just as she opened her mouth to let out a loud yawn while she sunk into her bed of pillows with a tranquil smile on her lips.

She coiled her mighty arms around the smaller girl's dainty body as clutched her girlfriend's face into her breasts.

As she let out a gratified sigh with her head sinking into her plush pillow.

While she glanced down at her little lover's sleeping face through the corner of her cold eye with a wide smile still adorning her lips.

Just before she released another sleepy yawn as she curled up on her bed smiling with the younger girl protectively dozing in her arms.

"My…my Fire Queen." Elle muttered in her sleep as she slept with her face breathing peacefully in her girlfriend's breasts.

Only for the princess's strong womanly arms to tighten around her young lover's small body when she heard those adorable words.

As Azula smiled with her face resting on her pillow as she began to close her content amber golden eyes.

"My dearest Elle." Azula murmured in reply with her drowsy eyes closing shut while she clutched the sleeping girl in her coiled arms.

And soon after that she too drifted off into a deep sleep with a smile still gracing her sleeping lips while she lovingly held her smaller lover's dozing face into her breasts.

Yes indeed. She has what matters most.

Her little beloved.

Her Elle Turner.

And she would see to it that her Elle was protected at all costs.

No matter what it took.

Even if she had to burn down entire worlds whole.

She would do it.

For her girl.

AN:

Loligang, I can't say much on what Sayomi can do right now. Book two is probably a good 120 or more chapters away. Sayomi may get another cameo at the end of book one, but other than that we won't see her or get to know her until book two.

She'll come into major focus in book two, but until then. I don't want to spoil my hand.

So, for now I will just say that she is highly talented at using her chi for combat. She is highly gifted, on a similar level as Naoki. But she is Azula's age, so she is somewhat older than Naoki and she has more experience than Naoki.

On a more personal note, I have been struggling a lot lately with my health. I haven't told many people, but I got a 'minimally' invasive craniotomy back in December to remove that pineal tumor that I mentioned a few times as a possible cause to my intractable migraine pain that I have had for over three years.

Unfortunately, the brain surgery did not work, removing the small tumor did not take away my intractable head pain and in fact it seems to have made it worse. So, the surgery was basically pointless and I went through a brutal recovery in the first month or so all for nothing.

And now I am back to square one, and at some point this year I will probably be doing that inpatient ketamine infusion treatment that I have mentioned before. My doctors are also looking the possibility that I might have a CSF leak which could be the cause of my pain.

Anyhow, I am getting through it as I always do. I just wanted to mention it because writing this story has helped me cope with the pain and the stress of it all.

As for this chapter, it was mostly more of the wind down.

Azula is going to finally teach Elle how to read and write in the language that they use in the Avatar world.

Elle has been getting by until now, because Japanese and Chinese have some similarities. And she mostly just cooks for Azula, and she was able to get an idea of what was what in the palace kitchens. She might have even figured out certain words or make out short labels like for example a jar of salt being salt.

But she still cannot read the specifics of the language on the detailed labels on the supplies that Azula brought with them.

If anyone is wondering why Azula did not start to teach Elle their language yet or enroll her in some kind of schooling. It is important to remember two things, one being that Azula is a selfish person and two, they have been away from the capital since chapter 22.

In the start of the story Azula was curious about how Elle wrote in a foreign language of her own, and Azula ordered Elle to help her learn to decipher it. And so Elle devoted time to helping Azula learn to begin to understand her English writings.

Azula being Azula, wanted her needs to be tended to first before she helped Elle. And it is also important to keep in mind, that Azula wasn't as close with Elle back then as she is now.

They spent two weeks hunting for Team Avatar prior to their battle, during that time Azula was bonding with Elle and slowly starting to see her as more than a servant.

And after that, they were stranded on the desolate island for almost ten days, and after they were rescued, they spent a day or so in Fire Mountain and then departed to search for Mava in the Forgetful Valley. And the events between chapter 72 and now all happened over the course of a single day.

Ever since they were stranded, Azula hasn't had the time to teach Elle because they have been constantly involved with some threat or search of some kind. Which is why it has taken Azula so long to start to teach Elle.

And in the end, it is going to take Elle quite a while before she feels comfortable reading and writing in the Avatar world written language. Azula is going to enroll Elle in language lessons once they get back in the caldera. Until then, Elle will make do with Azula helping her personally with language lessons over the next few chapters.

And on another note, Elle has a new cooking instructor in Zoi.

I hope everyone enjoyed Azula and Elle's dance.

And as for the short sex scene between Zoi/Jiao. Because Elle is underage and I do not want to come under fire by having Azula break her promise and get wild with her. The occasional sex scene between Zoi and Jiao will be the only sex scenes in the story for the time being.

Anyhow, that's all for now though.

Stay tuned for next time.

For chapter one hundred nineteen! Back to the Royal Barge!