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.

141. Blood and Chocolate Covered Cherries

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Blood and Chocolate Covered Cherries - Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Five

At the candy store in the royal market.

Azula stepped imposingly into the vast store with her callous amber golden eyes gazing down at her young girlfriend's pretty face.

As she reached for her coin purse to purchase whatever the girl wanted.

Only to find herself glancing down with a flash of bewilderment in her ruthless eyes when she felt a gentle hand touch her own.

"That's not necessarily Azula-sama. I have been saving up my pay. I'll cover it." Elle stated in an endearing voice as she smiled up at the older woman while Azula arched her brows over her.

"You've been saving up your pay for candy?" Azula asked in a voice of royal elegance as she stared down at her girlfriend's jubilant countenance.

"Now I need you to turn around and step outside the shop Azula-sama." Elle commented in a cutely mischievous voice while the princess now narrowed her amber golden eyes down at her in a piercing glare.

"Just what are you planning? And who do you think you are to give your mistress an order?" Azula questioned in a severely strict voice as she glared down at her handmaid's grudgingly adorable smiling face.

"It's a surprise Azula-sama. I can't tell you. Now please step outside the shop." Elle requested in a sunny voice as her princess scowled down at her with her amber golden eyes sending a pleasant shiver down her spine.

"It's not your place to give your queen orders peasant." Azula snorted in a haughty voice as she folded her arms over her breasts while she tried to ascertain what her girlfriend was planning.

Only to find herself glaring down at the girl when Elle actually had the gall to glare back at her.

"Please step outside the shop Princess or I won't give you any foot rubs for a whole month." Elle huffed as she stared up at her princess's now glowering face.

"Now listen here peasant…" Azula growled with her amber golden eyes glaring down at her pet's unyielding face.

A scowl adorned her lips as she snapped a spoiled finger down in her little girlfriend's smiling face.

"You had better hope that this is worth my time. Because if it isn't…I will punish you!" Azula barked with a pompous snort as she jabbed her finger in her girlfriend's pretty face while her handmaid beamed up at her.

Before she turned around with her boots stomping across the floor of the large candy store.

And then she pushed open the door with an irate hand while she started to close it.

Just as she strategically left it open a crack as she just barely outside with her amber golden eyes glaring off into the distance.

Only to find herself turning to gaze over her shoulder through the corner of her domineering eye when heard her serving girl's lovely voice flow into her ear.

"Hello! Is my order ready?" Elle asked in a kindly voice as she smiled widely back at the owner of the candy store.

The princess stood outside as she tried to squash the tiny blush that almost formed on her proud cheeks.

"It sure is. Everything is all set." The owner of the candy store answered as she lifted a large box onto the counter.

"Everything is perfect right?" Elle inquired in a fretful voice as she bit her lip while the owner of the store hurriedly nodded her head.

"O-of course everything is perfect. Like I would sell anything for the princess that wasn't perfect." The confectioner assured in a hastened voice.

Azula's ears perked up after hearing those words as she shamelessly tried to peak over her shoulder.

As an elegant frown still adorned her beautiful lips as she continued to listen in.

"Okay now that will be…" The owner's voice trailed off from inside the shop.

Just as the sound of a sack of heavy sack of gold hitting the countertop resonated into the air.

"Have a good day!" Elle exclaimed as she padded out of the shop with her large gift box in hand.

Just as the princess turned around to glare at the door as she watched her handmaid step out.

Only for her callous amber golden eyes to widen a flicker of a fraction when she saw the girl holding an absurdly large box.

She found herself struggling to say anything as Elle bashfully avoided meeting her gaze.

"What did you purchase Elle?" Azula questioned in as aloof a voice as she could muster as she found her regal lips into the barest sign of a graceful smile.

"I-I'll show you when we return to the royal carriage." Elle stammered in a love-struck voice as she smiled shyly while her mistress now smiled back at her.

And then the princess and the peasant began to walk back to the carriage.

Azula continued to gaze down at her petite lover's lovable face through the corner of her strict eye with a strangely eager smile on her lips.

About twenty minutes later.

The princess sat down on her cushioned bench as she watched with interested amber golden eyes as her handmaid closed the door behind her.

As a graceful smile still curled onto her red lips as she observed the girl scamper forward with the large box in hand.

Only to find herself gazing down in surprise when her girlfriend lowered herself into a faithful bow on the floor of the carriage.

As Azula's lips pulled into an excited smile as she elegantly folded both of her hands in her robed lap.

She stared down with endless approval in her ruthless eyes as she watched the girl bow before her with her box in hand.

"You…purchased a tribute for your queen?" Azula pondered in an unusually subdued voice with her lips curving into a vastly satisfied grin.

"T-that's so Azula-sama." Elle stuttered in a beyond enamored voice as she bent her head in a show of worship while the older woman sat with a smile on her lips above her.

"Just what did you buy for me pet?" Azula purred in a silken voice as she reclined on her cushion as if it was her throne while she took great delight in watching the girl bow at her feet.

Only to find her lips pulling into a truly giant smile when she saw the girl hold up the large box over her head in offering to her.

"T-this…this is for you Queen." Elle announced in a hopelessly love-struck voice as she swallowed in intimidation under the mighty princess's all-consuming gaze.

Azula's lips continued to curl into an even bigger smile as she reached down to accept the large box from the girl's outstretched hands.

Before she set it down in her robed lap while her controlling amber golden eyes glanced down in fondness to see the girl still bowing before her with an arm held out over her chest.

Only to shake her head with a spark of fondness permeating her cruel gaze as she then gazed down at the gift box.

Just as her lips parted into an even greater smile as she took in the lovely gift ribbon and a gift tag that read as follows:

To: Princess Azula.

From: Elle.

And then with excitement that she couldn't explain she began to open the gift as she carefully removed the ribbon.

And not even seconds later she opened up the large box.

Only for her callous amber golden eyes to widen in awe when she found herself gazing down at an enormous box of the most exquisite gourmet chocolate covered cherries that she has ever seen!

She sifted through the box with her lips parting in awe as she took in how each row was a different kind of cherry with each covered in a different flavor of chocolate!

And that was all it took for her to realize that her girlfriend had been saving up her pay to purchase her this gift!

'To me…this is just pocket change but to her this has to be nearly an entire week' worth of her pay! She did this…all for me!' Azula thought as she struggled to contain her delight while her lips were now adorning a supremely wide smile.

She turned to stare down at her lovably shy girlfriend still kneeling faithfully on the floor.

"Peasant…get up here." Azula remarked with a grin on her lips while she set the box aside as she patted the seat next to her with an inviting hand.

She watched with fondness in her cold amber golden eyes as her small girlfriend trembled as she stood up before her.

"I-is the gift to your liking Princess? Y-you…you like chocolate covered cherries, right?" Elle pondered in a highly abashed voice while she averted her eyes from her princess's highly pleased amber golden gaze.

And then she timidly sat down on the cushion beside her mistress while she twiddled her thumbs in her lap.

Only to find herself released a surprised squeak when two mighty hands shoved her back against the wall of the carriage.

She gasped as she gazed up with her amber eyes widening in an overflow of emotion when she saw the much taller woman looming above her.

And that was all it took for her heart to begin to thump in her chest at a quickened rate.

As she stared up at her princess's beautifully smiling countenance as the larger woman climbed atop her.

Only to quiver in awe when the older girl reached out to take hold of her chin while she felt her princess's breath sweep against her cheek.

"Do I like them? I adore them peasant. Just like I adore you." Azula chuckled in a sensual purr as her lips drew closer to her young girlfriend's cutely stunned cheek.

Her lips continued to curve into an ever-larger smile as she possessively wrapped her arms around her pet's small neck.

"Y-you adore me?" Elle stammered in a profoundly confuddled voice stared right back into her older girlfriend's entrancingly dominant amber golden eyes.

Only for the princess to roll her over her in the haughty manner that she has come to admire.

"No. I despise you. Of course, I adore you, foolish girl." Azula scoffed in an arrogantly captivating voice with a sanguine smirk on her lips as she straddled the girl's smaller body.

She gazed penetratingly back into her little girlfriend's trembling amber eyes as she pinned the girl against the wall of her carriage.

As she exhaled her warm breath in her serving girl's starstruck face.

And then her lips impacted with her young girlfriend's own.

She held the paralyzed girl down as she placed a tender kiss upon her handmaid's inexperienced lips.

As Elle sat there with a stunned expression in her eyes as she blushed as deeply as can be.

She gazed right back into Azula's domineering amber golden eyes as the older woman's lips crushed into her own.

And just like that the princess withdrew with a confident smirk on her gorgeous lips as she took great delight in gazing down at her girlfriend's adorably surprised face.

"A-Azula-sama…" Elle whispered in a voice of intense veneration while Azula smiled as she peered back into her awestruck eyes.

"Yes, Elle?" Azula answered in a silken voice that flowed like music into her young girlfriend's shaking ear as her breath brushed against the girl's cheek.

"I…I don't view you the way the rest of the world views you. T-to the rest of the world…you are either a princess or an enemy that must be defeated. But I…I see you in a different light." Elle murmured in a barely audible voice while her princess's brilliant amber golden eyes gleamed with curiosity.

"Then how do you see me?" Azula pondered with insatiable intrigue in her smooth voice while she braced her little girlfriend's shoulders.

"I-I…see you as the goddess of my life." Elle confessed in a tone of limitless adulation as she swallowed while she stared up into Azula's surprisingly delighted amber golden eyes.

The princess held herself above her girlfriend with a look of rare astonishment in her stunned gaze.

As she found herself failing to fight the contented smile that was curving onto her lips.

"Y-you are no mere human to me. You…you are a goddess shaped by divinity…my fire g-goddess and I…I love you for it." Elle spoke in an adorably enamored voice as she smiled bashfully up into her girlfriend's now widely grinning face.

"Oh, Elle…you little romantic." Azula trailed off with a sliver of affection breaking through her ruthless voice as she ran her fingertip along her girlfriend's quivering lip while she straddled her handmaid's lap.

She stared greedily down into the girl's so cutely reddened face as she leaned in even closer.

As the two lovers gazed back into one another's eyes as the peasant girl continued to blush under her princess's all-encompassing dominating stare.

"O-oh Princess…." Elle stammered as she savored the way that her princess affectionately traced her fingertip along her face.

Only for the princess to let a sigh escape her charismatically smiling lips as she poked her little girlfriend's love-struck cheek.

"You should know…that I…happen to…like you as well peasant." Azula purred with a fond smirk on her lips as she stared back into her girlfriend's shyly smiling face.

Only for her callous amber golden eyes to flicker with even greater fondness when the young girl let out an angelic giggle.

"C-can we go spend a few hours somewhere private to overlook the ocean together?" Elle asked in a timid voice as she smiled while her princess's smiling lips exhaled against her skin.

As Azula held a contemplative finger underneath her chin before she lazily shrugged her robed shoulders.

"Well, we do have a few hours to spare and there is that favorite cliff of mine outside Hari Bulkan that offers a magnificent view of the ocean." Azula commented in a thoughtful voice with her palm resting beneath her chin while she stared possessively back into her little girlfriend's excited amber eyes.

Only for her smirk to grow when the girl began to shake her robes with an eager smile spreading across her lips.

"Please show me your favorite cliff Azula-sama!" Elle exclaimed in a joyful voice as she held onto her princess's opulent robes while the older woman offered her a charming smile.

"I suppose I could take you there. After all, you have pleased me with this lovely little tribute." Azula spoke in a boundlessly refined voice as she sat up back onto the cushion beside her brightly smiling girlfriend.

And then she turned to roll open her carriage window with a ruthless expression overtaking her visage once more while the girl sat up alongside her.

"Servant! There has been a change in our route! I command you to take me to my favorite seaside cliff!" Azula ordered in a supremely authoritative voice with her sharp words cutting through the air like a whip.

Her frigid eyes stared out with no emotion in her gaze as she listened to her royal coachman shout back in response.

"As you command Princess Azula!" The royal coachman answered in a servile voice as he pulled on the reins of the komodo rhino while it marched through the road in Hari Bulkan.

And then the window was pulled shut by the princess once more.

Azula settled back into her luxurious seat with her hands in her lap while her cold eyes gazed ahead.

Before she turned to glance down with stern amber golden eyes as she watched her little girlfriend shyly scoot closer to her.

And then seconds later she felt two delicate hands wrap around her toned bicep.

As Elle now leaned in affectionately into her princess's expensive robed side.

Only for her overjoyed smile to widen when she felt the older woman wrap an around her little shoulder.

She pushed her face into her princess's blood red robes as she let out a blissful sigh.

As Azula sat above her beloved with her merciless amber golden eyes reflecting a violently protective gleam.

She held the petite girl under her arm while she listened to the sound of her royal carriage rolling down the road.

About an hour later on an isolated seaside cliff outside Hari Bulkan.

A fine red towel was now lain out over the grass with the gift box of sweets and a picnic of gourmet foods that were reserved solely for the consumption of only the highest class of society.

Azula now sat on the towel with her arm wrapped around her little beloved's shoulder.

And Elle's backpack now resided on the towel beside the two lovers.

As the wind lightly blew through their hair as they gazed out over the ocean together.

Elle peered up at the princess with a smile of warmth on her lips as she watched the woman conclude eating a bun.

As Azula gracefully swallowed her lunch with a refined smile on her regal lips as she let out a gratified sigh.

Before the princess turned to gaze down at her lover as she watched with cold amber golden eyes as the girl's hair flowed freely over her upper back once more.

"W-would you like to try some of your chocolate covered cherries now Azula-sama?" Elle asked with her voice conveying only the highest esteem for her princess.

Azula smiled from where she lounged on the towel before her little love as her belly let out an eager rumble.

Only for her smile to grow when she watched her panicked pet immediately pull the large box of candy over as she gazed down at the girl in approval.

"Hm. That does sound appetizing. I do wish to taste these tributes for myself. Bring them to me." Azula ordered in a voice of casual control as she sat with one hand over her belly.

She observed her young girlfriend sat the gift box down before her.

Before she rose an elegant brow when she noticed that her pet was peering back up at her with an even more bashful expression than usual.

"C-can…can I watch you eat them Azula-sama?" Elle requested in a cutely enamored voice as Azula arched her brows in the refined manner that she has come to adore.

"You want to watch me eat them?" Azula questioned with a tiny hint of bewilderment in her stern voice as she stared down at her girlfriend's reddened face.

Elle twiddled her thumbs as she avoided gazing into the princess's eyes as she gulped adorably under Azula's ever present stare.

"I-I…um…like watching you eat Azula-sama." Elle admitted in an utterly love-struck voice as she stared down at the towel in fear that her princess would tease her.

The princess sat gracefully on her towel with her amber golden eyes staring down at her timorous girlfriend with amusement in her gaze.

Only to find herself letting out a soft sigh as she leaned over to sit above her small girlfriend with her legs folded beneath her.

"What is it that you like about watching me eat Elle?" Azula inquired in a tone that she strangely hoped was nonjudgmental while her brows still furrowed in curiosity.

She found herself enjoying watching the girl tremble under her captivating amber golden gaze.

"W-whenever anyone else eats…it's so unsightly. But…but when you do it. You are always so graceful. E-everything you do…you do with the posture of a true queen and I…like watching you do everything that you do." Elle explained in a mousy voice with a love-struck blush taking over her cheeks while she averted her eyes from her mistress's entrancing gaze.

And that was all it took for a flattered smile to pull onto Azula's lips as she stared down at the girl with hidden affection in her callous gaze.

"That's because I am a queen Elle. Every move that I make is graceful." Azula remarked in a beyond hubristic voice while she stared down at her little girlfriend's overwhelmed face.

"S-sumimasen. I…I know it's weird." Elle mumbled in a highly abashed voice as she sat blushing in her seat.

Only for her amber eyes to widen in renewed joy when she felt a strong hand pat her head.

She finally peered back up at her princess to see that the older girl was smiling fondly down at her.

"No, dear. I think it's adorable." Azula assured in an alluring voice that carried into her girlfriend's ears while she patted the blushing girl's head.

She found herself pleased by the sight of a bright smiling already making its way back onto her girlfriend's lips.

"I-I am adorable for my princess." Elle stated in a voice of lovable affection while she grasped onto her princess's luxurious robes as the woman smirked down at her.

"You certain are. Aren't you? So, adorable that I just can't help but oblige you." Azula purred as she sat back on her bottom while she reached into the box of sweets with a broad smile on her lips as she felt the girl embrace her belly.

She plucked one in between her regal fingers as her girlfriend smiled sunnily up at her as she raised it to her opening lips.

As her smirk grew even larger when she saw the way that the young girl was staring up at her with a lovable anticipation in her little eyes.

"As a show of my appreciation for this tribute…your princess will gladly eat these chocolate covered cherries for you." Azula commented in an exceedingly spoiled voice as she dropped the sweet onto her waiting tongue.

She started to chew it in a purposefully delayed manner as she gazed down into her little girlfriend's captivated amber eyes.

Only for her ruthless amber golden eyes to widen in pleasant surprise when her taste buds exploded in delight.

"T-there shouldn't be any cherry pits. I made certain to tell the confectioner lady that I would be very upset if my princess was insulted with cherry pits." Elle piped in an innocently worshipful voice with a smile that only grew when her head was patted in response.

She watched in admiration as her princess chewed the cherry in her luscious lips with a wide smile on her lips.

"I presume between the cost of these sweets and the many tapestries of my royal likeness that you decorated your chamber with…that you spent all of your gold on me?" Azula remarked in gratified voice as she elegantly swallowed her morsel while a spoiled smile still graced her lips.

She gazed down with coldly protective amber golden eyes as she watched her handmaid plop her little head up on her robed thigh.

As she lowered her hand into the girl's golden hair once more as she resumed absentmindedly petting her girlfriend's head.

She reached for another chocolate while the girl smiled brightly up at her.

"Mhm! I spent an entire week's worth of pay on Her Highness!" Elle chirped in a carefree voice as she sprawled out on her princess's robed thigh while Azula glanced down at her with deadpan amber golden eyes.

"You didn't buy anything for yourself that didn't involve me?" Azula asked in a sophisticated voice as she stared down at her innocent girlfriend with a fondly domineering amber golden gaze.

"Nope! I don't need anything. You're all that I need Azula-sama." Elle responded in a relaxed voice as she lay on her back with her hands folded over her belly.

Azula gazed down with her lipstick covered lips expressing a momentarily moved emotion as she digested her loyal companion's sweet words.

"I-I…hope that you like them Azula-sama." Elle stammered in an admiring voice as she watched in admiration as the princess dropped another sweet into her open mouth.

Only for another shy smile to appear on her lips when her head was petted once more.

She eagerly cuddled into her princess's lap as Azula's palm rested in her soft hair.

"They are delectable dear. But aren't you going to have some?" Azula replied in a silken voice with a charming smile on her lips as she chewed on her morsel.

She stared down at her beloved's easygoing face as the girl just smiled up at her as if she had just descended from the heavens.

"I bought them for you to enjoy Azula-sama. Your company is all the treat that I require." Elle answered in an untroubled voice as she stared up at the older girl's beautifully smirking face as fingers caressed her hair.

"Surely, you don't expect your princess to eat all of these on her own." Azula snorted in a dignified voice as she gestured to the absurdly large box of sweets.

She gazed down at the young girl's chipper countenance with a possessive flicker in her callous eyes.

"Silly Azula-sama! They aren't meant to be eaten all in one day. They are for you to savor for the weeks to come!" Elle informed with a wide grin on her lips while she once more found herself lost in her princess's spellbinding amber golden eyes.

Only to find herself trembling in submission like a scolded puppy when the powerful woman narrowed her eyes down at her.

"Even so, I insist that you have some. You are my girlfriend after all…it only natural that I would share with you." Azula spoke in an aloofly strict voice as she reached down to grasp another cherry.

Her amber golden eyes peered down at her serving girl's trembling face as she enjoyed watching the girl submit to her stare.

"Open your mouth peasant." Azula commanded in a voice of absolute authority with a smirk pulling onto her lips.

She observed her little girlfriend smile as Elle opened her mouth on command.

And then she dropped the chocolate covered cherry into the girl's waiting mouth.

"Yum! They are good Azula-sama!" Elle cried out as she chewed on her cherry as she affectionately pushed her head even deeper into her princess's comfy lap.

A jubilant smile still adorned her lips as she felt her mistress pat her head again.

As the princess smiled as she dropped another cherry into her own open mouth.

"I have a question for you pet." Azula stated in a tone of casual dominance as she smiled while she chewed on her morsel.

"And what would that be Mistress?" Elle pondered in a tone of unfathomable devotion as she found herself unable to gaze away from Azula's mesmerizing amber golden eyes.

"If I were to give you enough gold to make you one of the wealthiest people in the world…. what would you do with it?" Azula queried in a smoothly inquisitive voice as she stared down at the girl sprawled out in her lap.

She watched with amusement in her ruthless eyes as the girl imitated a seemingly contemplative pose.

"Hm! Well, the first thing that I would do is start a network of animals shelters to help out all the animals in the world." Elle responded in a cheerful voice while her princess scrunched up her lovely nose in contempt.

"Ugh. Are you serious Elle?" Azula snorted in a regally harsh voice as she stared down at her handmaid's beaming face.

"Yep! If you still want me as your romantic partner when you become Fire Lord. I would like to open a royal animal shelter." Elle answered in a sweet voice as she smiled up at her princess's incredulous face as the woman wrinkled her nose once more.

And for reasons that Azula couldn't explain.

She felt a momentary twinge of something akin to pain deep within her frozen heart over the prospect of discarding the girl for a lover of higher status.

And she also couldn't help but feel her stomach twist up in some foreign emotion over hearing that the girl thought that she might cast her out.

Only to angrily shake her head as she scowled down at her little girlfriend's happy face as she snorted out flames from her nostrils.

She allowed the girl to continue to worm her way into her lap as Elle pushed the back of her head into her robed lower belly.

'The last thing I need is for this girl to open up a royal animal shelter!' Azula thought as she rolled her intelligent amber golden eyes down at the smiling girl in her lap.

"Naïve peasant. You belong to me and I will settle for no other lover. But even so…there will be no royal animal shelter." Azula declared in a voice that brook no room for argument while she stared sternly down at her young girlfriend's now gratefully emotional face.

A scowl pulled onto her lips as she resumed petting her beloved's hair as she felt the girl melt underneath her palm.

"A-and after that I would help out all of the people around the world in poverty." Elle stuttered in a gentle hearted voice while her princess rolled her haughty eyes once more.

As she curled up with the back of her head propped up upon the older woman's robed belly.

She enjoyed how her head rose and fell every few moments with the motion of Azula's belly rising and falling with her ever breath.

"And t-then…I would spend every last coin that was left on you." Elle concluded in a lovable tone as she smiled up at her princess's beautifully taken aback face.

"You…would just give the rest of your riches back to me? You…wouldn't keep any gold for yourself?" Azula questioned with her ruthless voice conveying her surprise while her pet shook her head to her astonishment.

"N-not a coin. I…I would buy you every gift that I could possibly think of. I-I would build shrines in your name and monuments in your honor. I…I would do it all for you Azula-sama. Because you…y-you are my fire goddess." Elle explained in an innocently devoted voice as her sentimental amber eyes gazed up at her princess's speechless face.

While strict amber golden eyes stared back down at her love-struck face as she trembled under the older woman's gaze.

And seconds after that she giggled when a mighty hand patted her head once more.

"My…you truly are my most committed worshiper aren't you dear?" Azula remarked in a voice of sensual control while she smiled down at her little serving girl's adorably giggling face.

"I-I worship you with pride Azula-sama…." Elle trailed off in a deeply enamored voice as she pushed her face into her princess's belly while a hand petted her head.

As Azula's lips curled into yet another one of her confident trademark smirks as she reached out to snack on another cherry.

"I can tell." Azula commented in a smug voice as she deposited another morsel onto her waiting tongue while she smiled down at the young girl cuddling into her belly.

She began to contently chew it as she turned her frigid gaze to stare out at the sunlit ocean below.

As Elle lay happily on her back with her amber eyes gazing out at the ocean from her girlfriend's cozy lap.

"O-ooh P-Princess…." Elle murmured in a voice of bottomless infatuation as she listened to the much taller woman gracefully swallow her morsel above her.

"My pet." Azula sighed with a tiny sliver of fondness permeating her rigid voice as she greedily held the girl's head against her relaxed belly.

Her lips still adorned a contented smile as she patted the mumbling girl's soft head of hair.

And she couldn't help but ponder…

'If I give her even more gold…. I wonder what other tributes she will purchase me?' Azula thought with a flattered smirk on her beautiful lips as she caressed the young girl's head.

Obviously, it went without saying that she could buy herself anything that the girl would think to purchase for her.

But that wasn't the point.

It was so much delightful to watch her little lover place gift after gift in offering at her feet.

And as curious as it may be…

She found that it felt oddly pleasant…trying to guess what her girlfriend will purchase for her next.

"Azula-sama?" Elle asked in a tone of boundless respect as she tugged on the woman's robed sleeve while Azula glanced down at her.

"Hm?" Azula answered in a lazily content voice as she popped another cherry in her mouth while she sat back on her towel.

"W-would you like to listen to romantic music with me?" Elle questioned in a head over heels voice while she peered shyly up at the older woman's stony face.

Only for Azula to release a sigh as she elegantly swallowed her cherry.

"I will allow it." Azula grumbled in a cold sigh as she stared down at the grinning girl with a fixated amber golden gaze.

Just before she felt two dainty arms embrace her belly yet again as she released another sigh.

And then she watched the girl spring up from her lap while she reached for another cherry.

As she briefly scowled as she gazed down at her momentarily empty lap.

As perplexing as it was…its brief vacancy displeased her.

As strange as the urge may be…

She preferred her pet to be in her lap at all times.

Just as she turned to stare coldly at her little girlfriend's back as she watched with greedy eyes as her pet began to dig through her backpack for her music player.

"Oh! I also wanted to let you know that the totem seems to be keeping that voice out of my head!" Elle exclaimed in a happier voice as she smiled back at her princess's imposingly merciless face.

The princess's stoic amber golden eyes formed a frightening stare as she exhaled a puff of flames from her nostrils.

"Good. I do not permit anyone to be in that little head of yours but me." Azula stated in a wrathfully possessive voice as her lips adorned a terrifying scowl.

Her frigid amber golden eyes took great joy in how the young girl shook so adorably under her glare.

"O-only my princess may control me. N-no one else." Elle stammered in a voice of tremendous devotion as she dug through her bag.

The princess's scowl curved back into yet another one of her sanguine smirks.

"That's right peasant. Only me." Azula spoke in a beyond dominating voice with her amber golden eyes staring greedily at her little handmaid's back.

"A-Azula-sama is absolute. M-my princess is as infinite as the stars in the sky. H-Her Highness's rule over me cannot be broken by anyone or anything. I-I am safe under her authority because her reign over my life is supreme." Elle stuttered in an intensely worshipful chant as she withdrew her music player.

Azula now sat with a huge smile curving onto her crimson lips as she gazed at her little lover with limitless approval in her controlling amber golden eyes.

"I assure you Elle…my rule over your life is most definitely absolute." Azula purred in a voice of utter dominance as she twirled a finger in her dark hair.

She smiled confidently when her young girlfriend turned to stare back at her with adorably emotional amber eyes.

As her callous amber golden eyes reflected another violently possessive stare.

She let out a domineering hiss as she watched her little beloved quiver in appreciation under her controlling gaze.

"Don't worry your little mind over it, Elle. Your goddess has complete control over you. Really dear…I do." Azula announced in an inconceivably authoritative voice with her mighty hands resting over her folded knees.

She stared imperiously back at her young girlfriend's adorably relieved face with an expression of endless dominance gracing her strict lips.

"I-I submit Azula-sama." Elle stated in a voice of unlimited homage as she bowed her head in respect while the princess's fierce amber golden eyes continued to make her tremble.

"And I rule peasant." Azula declared in a voice of incalculable control as she narrowed her imposing eyes back at her pretty beloved's submissive face.

She sat with a commanding posture about her as her dark hair blew about in the warm summer winds.

As the peasant girl never once gazed away from her princess's immeasurably domineering gaze.

As Elle bowed in deference without shame under the older woman's intimidating stare.

It was just how their relationship worked.

She served and her princess ruled.

And in return she was granted protection at her side.

And she wouldn't have it any other way!

And not a moment after that the princess stared down with callous amber golden eyes when a small blonde blur leaped into her lap once more.

While a deep scowl graced her lips as lowered a hand into the girl's golden hair,

And then she sat back on her bottom as she possessive drew Elle into her robed lap yet again.

A short time later….

Azula lounged on her towel with all the grace that was befitting of a woman of royalty with one hand at her hip and the other in her beloved's hair.

Her cold amber golden eyes stared down at the young girl propped up against her robed belly once more.

As she arched her elegant brows as she listened to sentimental music began to float into her ears from the girl's foreign device.

Only for her ears to perk up when she heard the sound of a male singer's voice resonate into the air from the girl's headset.

"Wise men say. Only fools rush in. But I can't help falling in love with you. Shall I stay? Would it be a sin? If I can't help falling in love with you?" Elvis Presley's voice sung over the seaside cliff while the princess let out a haughty snort as she stared down at the small smiling girl in her lap.

She turned away with a proud scowl on her regal lips as she fought to destroy the tiny blush that was forming on her proud cheeks.

And throughout it all Elle never stopped gazing up at the face of the prideful older girl with an endlessly enamored expression in her amber eyes.

As the princess continued to trace her fingertips through her little lover's hair as she found herself begrudgingly captivated by the melody.

"Like a river flows. Surely to the sea. Darling, so it goes. Some things are meant to be. Take my hand, take my whole life, too. For I can't help falling in love with you." The singer sang into the ears of the two girls while the speechless princess cradled her small beloved in her lap.

Azula turned to stare back down at her young lover's sweet face with her tyrannical amber golden eyes communicating a rare expression of appreciation.

All the while as her cold eyes continued to thaw when she felt the girl reach up to hold her hand.

'I…have never been this loved before…not once in my life. I…must protect this girl.' Azula thought with her merciless eyes staring down at the innocent girl in her lap.

Her lips shook in a sense of long buried emotion as she found herself fighting to prevent a joyful tear from falling from her eye.

"Like a river flows. Surely to the sea. Darling, so it goes. Some things are meant to be. Take my hand, take my whole life, too. For I can't help falling in love with you. For I can't help falling in love with you." Elvis Presly's voice flowed gently into the ears of the two lovers as the song softly reached its conclusion.

The princess and the peasant still stared back into each other's eyes.

As Elle blushed as she smiled lovingly with her head resting upon the older girl's robed thighs.

And Azula found herself unable to fight the fond smile from forming onto her lips as she began to pet her handmaid's hair once more.

"What was that Elle?" Azula asked with just a sliver of curiosity in her pridefully stony voice while the young girl smiled radiantly up at her.

"That was Elvis Presley. He was one of the most famous singers from my Earth. He died a long time ago before the great war. Did you like it?" Elle responded in an intimate voice as she gazed dreamily up into her mistress's brilliant amber golden eyes.

Only for her smile to grow larger when she felt the princess affectionately pat her head.

"I did peasant. I did." Azula confessed in a coldly protective voice as she gently patted her handmaid's head with a relaxed hand while the girl smiled up at her.

As she still reclined on her towel with a contented smile still gracing her regal lips.

And soon enough the two girls found themselves listening to song after song.

While they lay side by side in each other's arms as they both gazed back into one another's eyes.

Azula was now laying on her robed side with her small lover held in her arms.

The princess opened her lipstick covered lips wide as she smiled when her little girlfriend fed her another chocolate covered cherry.

As she elegantly chewed the morsel as she stared back into her serving girl's worshipful amber eyes.

While the young girl smiled warmly back at her from where she lay in her embrace.

"Y-you look so beautiful when you eat Azula-sama." Elle stammered in a boundlessly love-struck voice as she held onto the older woman's robes.

As her princess smiled down at her as she gulped down her cherry.

"I know. Everything I do is beautiful." Azula boasted in a supremely egotistical voice as she smiled charmingly down at her small lover.

Only for her lips to eagerly open up against while the girl held out another sweet before her face.

She smirked as she enclosed her lips around her serving girl's trembling fingers as she seductively sucked it into her closed mouth.

As she stared forcefully back into the girl's stunned amber eyes as she chewed it in an alluringly slow fashion.

While sensitive hands continued to clutch the princess's expensive robes as Elle quivered under the older woman's sensual amber golden gaze.

Only for the princess to glance down with her graceful brows raising when the girl slid lower into her arms.

Just as she found herself watching with excitement in her controlling amber golden eyes when her lover moved her head lower.

Until the girl's face was hovering just over her robed womanhood as she swallowed her cherry down her throat.

Only to gaze down with surprise in her callous amber golden eyes when Elle planted an affectionate kiss on her robed belly.

"Azula-sama…" Elle murmured in a voice of deep veneration as she pulled on the older woman's lavish robes while she kissed Azula's well-muscled belly.

Only to find herself smiling shyly when she felt a hand lower into her hair as she continued to kiss along the princess's stomach.

Azula's curled into a dominantly confident smirk as she watched the girl worship her belly.

"There you are peasant. Worship your goddess." Azula commanded in a tantalizingly silken voice as she shuddered when she felt the girl trail more kisses down her belly.

While her hand glided down the young girl's neck as her fingers grazed the girl's collar.

Only for the girl to let out an adorable squeak when grasped a hold of the collar in her domineering fist.

As she had to fight to control her womanly urges as she rubbed her thighs together in anticipation for the day that she could finally sit on the girl's face.

"O-oh Queen…you know I do." Elle spoke in a voice of innocent worship as she placed a tender kiss on a robed womanly thigh.

Her cheeks turned the color of pink as she felt her princess grip her collar in her stern fist.

As she momentarily paused to stare right back at the older woman's robed nether region

Only for her blush to deepen when her face was shoved even closer as she stared back in a trance at her princess's clothed groin.

"One day Elle…you'll be kissing that part of me." Azula commented in an irresistible voice that flowed like sugar into her little girlfriend's stunned ears.

She smiled as she coiled and uncoiled a fingernail in her hair as she stared down at the girl lingering before her womanhood.

Only for her smirk to grow when she watched her beloved gulp with her entranced amber eyes peering back at her robed region.

"D-do…do I have your permission to give you a kiss there Azula-sama?" Elle pondered in a hopelessly spellbound voice while the princess glanced down with surprised amber golden eyes.

Azula now held a contemplative fingertip underneath her smiling lip as she considered her lover's request.

There was something that delighted her to no end about how the girl phrased it as if the action itself was an act of worship.

Before she lazily shrugged her shoulders as she mused that it couldn't do any harm.

"You may Elle. But only once." Azula purred in a tone of graceful poise as she stared down with beyond eager amber golden eyes as she held up a strict finger to emphasize the order.

Her thrilled amber golden eyes stared down as she watched the girl lean in before her robed thighs.

As her lips began to curve into an unfathomably gigantic smile.

And not a second later the Fire Princess found herself shuddering when innocent lips pressed into her clothed womanhood.

As she felt a spark of pleasure shoot down her spine as she let out a gasp escape her royal lips.

Her fist clenched on her little lover's neck accessory as the girl's lips still pressed into her robed ladyhood.

"M-my goddess…" Elle stammered in a madly in love voice as she flushed with her lips still pressing into the older woman's shivering robed lower region.

She listened to her princess let out a moan as she smiled timidly with her face still pressing into Azula's warm body.

"Oh, peasant…" Azula sighed in a voice of sensual desire with a hint of an affectionate smirk on her lips.

Only to force herself to pull the girl away from her womanhood before she lost control and broke her vow.

And then seconds after that she yanked the squeaking girl back up into her arms before her smiling face.

Elle lay on her side with her cheeks as pink as can be as she felt powerful arms snake around her once more.

As her princess's fingers traced along her shivering cheek as she peered back up onto Azula's enchanting amber golden eyes.

"M-my dominant…" Elle murmured in a sweet voice with a beyond abashed smile on her cheeks while Azula smiled back into her trembling eyes.

She quivered when she felt two might hands cup her cheeks once more.

"My submissive." Azula cooed in a voice of natural grace as she leaned her taller body down to peer into her little lover's adorably awestruck amber eyes.

And that was all it took for the two lovers to lean in to peer back into each other's eyes.

The two girls who were worlds apart in social class smiled back at one another as their lips drew even closer.

And that was all it took for Azula to kiss her young lover upon the lips once more.

While the princess's lips curled into a captivating smirk as she kissed her little lover's love-struck lips.

"A-Azula-sama…you rule." Elle whispered in a passionate voice as her nose pressed into her princess's own while the older woman smiled back in her line of vision.

"And you serve Elle." Azula purred with her smirking lips retreating from her girlfriend's lips while she exhaled sensually in Elle's trembling face.

She brushed her fingertips along the young girl's cheek once more as they continued to touch nose to nose.

And then she let out a sigh as she held the smaller girl in her arms as she felt her handmaid hide in her cheek.

A little while after that…

The princess now sat back in a seated position on her robed bottom with her little lover held underneath her arm.

The peasant girl clutched the wealthy woman's lavish robes as she burrowed into her girlfriend's breast.

As the two lovers gazed out across the ocean together in each other's arms.

"Do you see that Elle?" Azula questioned abruptly in an aloof voice as she gestured out over the water while her girlfriend gazed on in confusion.

"See what Azula-sama? The ocean?" Elle asked in an innocently pure voice as she sat underneath her princess's arm.

Only to peer on in puzzlement when Azula shook her head.

"No girl. You see the world that I will rule. That way there is south which the Southern Water Tribe lies. I will rule everything to the south all the way to the South Pole." Azula remarked as she pointed out over the water in a coldly confident voice while her lover stared on in astonishment.

Before the young girl trembled as she watched the mighty woman then point in the opposite direction.

"And that way up there is north…I am going to rule all that you see all the way to the North Pole where the Northern Water Tribe resides." Azula stated in a sanguine voice with her fingertip pointing north while her amber golden eyes hardened into that of a gaze of a true conqueror.

Her handmaid listened in fascination from where the girl sat beneath her bicep.

Before the servant girl turned her eyes in captivation when the older woman then thrust her finger east.

"In that direction is east…where the Earth Kingdom awaits and the very city that I conquered when I was fourteen years old. I am going to own it all Elle. Everything all the way to Ba Sing Se!" Azula declared in a tone of unstoppable conquest as her ruthless eyes stared out over the ocean's waters while her stunned beloved held onto her robed side.

Only for the young girl to gasp when her head was turned out in the direction of the west over the Fire Nation mainland.

"That way is west! Where I will sit on my throne in Hari Bulkan as the ruler of this entire world! I will rule from north to south to east to west! But that is not all!" Azula announced in a voice of thunderous dominance as she sat elegantly with her speechless lover in her arms.

"I-it isn't Azula-sama?" Elle stammered in a tone of timorous admiration as she clung to her princess's toned arm.

Just as she let out a gasp when a vast wall of blue flames flared up around them on the seaside cliff on all sides!

She trembled as she gazed up at her princess's mightily harsh face as the older woman sat over her with her hand on her shoulder.

"I am going to crush this Elder One and after I do, I am going to conquer the Spirit World! But my conquest won't stop there! It will continue all the way to your homeland! Where I will squash this Reiko underneath my boot! And then I shall own that world as well and if any other lands out there should exist! I will own them as well!" Azula bellowed in a strikingly imposing voice with her flames burning intensely all around the entire cliff face while her little girlfriend quivered under her arm.

As an intimidating scowl adorned her lips as she turned to glance down into her lover's widened amber eyes.

She narrowed her powerful gaze as she stared back into her beloved's delightfully submitting gaze.

"And throughout it all I will always own you!" Azula snarled with her fingers resting over her shaking small girlfriend's collar while she glared penetratingly down into the girl's widened innocent eyes.

As she snorted out a puff of flames from her nostrils as she let out a low growl that resounded into the girl's trembling ears.

Her lips continued to crease into a mighty glower as she felt her little lover reach up to grasp onto her hand.

"Y-you own me Azula-sama." Elle agreed in a voice of boundless submission as she smiled shyly up at Azula's intimidating countenance.

The princess lessened her glare ever so slightly as she stared hard down into her lover's adorable amber eyes.

"I do. Never forget that. You're…mine." Azula grumbled as she pulled Elle into her side with her arm clutching her quaking serving girl close.

"I-I could never forget. I b-bow to your rule Princess." Elle stuttered in a voice of everlasting worship as her hands held onto her princess's grand robes.

"I know you do Elle and I…appreciate it. You are…my most valued companion." Azula muttered in a powerful voice as her callous amber golden eyes stared out through her wall of gigantic flames.

"And…and you are m-mine as well Azula-sama." Elle mumbled as she pushed her face into her princess's bosom while an unbelievably strong arm wrapped around her petite shoulder.

Only for an abashed expression to overtake her cheeks once again when she saw the much taller woman stoop down above her.

Just as her eyes grew wide when she felt her princess place a soft kiss on the top of her head.

And that was all that needed to happen for a bright smile to overcome her cheeks as she then felt a strong hand lower into her hair.

As she sunk back into her mistress's breast with fingertips dancing through her hair.

"That's a good girl." Azula purred in a voice of softer dominance once more while her imposing amber golden eyes stared down at the girl pushing her face into her breasts.

"O-oh Azula-sama you are so confident. You are so dreamy when you talk about conquest. I could listen to you tell me about your rule all day long." Elle swooned with a hand on her gushing cheek as she felt a hand hold her face into a soft robed breast.

Azula's lips pulled into yet another dominating smirk as she pulled the girl under her arm.

"Then rejoice my pet…because my rule has only just begun." Azula spoke in a voice of total authority with her amber golden eyes forming a stare of unrivaled superiority while her girlfriend shook in worship in her arms.

And just like that her callous amber golden eyes widened with a supremacy unlike any ruler to come before her as her ascending chi exploded from her body.

And not even seconds the blue flames transformed into an enormous pillar as they spiraled into sky all around the marveling handmaid.

Elle gazed up into the sky with her mouth open in wonder as she watched her mistress's flames form a towering pillar into the sky above them!

Her amber eyes widened as she watched closely as core elements of of the tremendous pillar of fire began to become so hot.

That they were starting to transform into a hypnotic blue plasma!

As she grasped onto her princess's mighty arm while the older woman crushed her face into the side of her robed breast.

"A-Azula-sama…you are going to be a great ruler for the world! The ruler we need! Y-you…are going to lead us all well! I…I know you will!" Elle cried out in a voice of innocent passion with a kind-hearted smile on her lips as she held onto her princess's powerful well-muscled arm.

And then she let out an enamored sigh as she felt the older woman's forceful palm push down onto the back of her head.

The princess sat with her lovely lips forming a beyond confident smirk as she affectionately held her little lover into her robed breast.

"Of course, I will Elle. This is what I was born for! I was born to rule…to rule you and everyone else in existence! And you were born to be mine! Now and forevermore!" Azula called out in a voice of absolute power with her vocals carrying all throughout the air into her stunned lover's ears.

Her smirk grew even bigger when she felt the girl excitedly pull on her robes.

"Yes Azula-sama! A thousand times yes! Y-yours." Elle exclaimed as she hid her face in the older woman's warm breast while a strong palm remained clamped down on her head.

As the princess simply smiled as vastly as can be as she sat authoritatively in her seat with her young serving girl under her arm.

Hearing the girl voice, her adorable support for her rule only filled her with an even higher desire to rule!

Her motivation to seat herself on the throne has never been greater!

Her little beloved believes in her!

And her warrior as well!

And she has won over the belief of both of her childhood friends!

And she also has the faith of her loyal pilot and inventor Nako!

And the loyalty of her Dai Li and her many soldiers in the Fire Army!

And so many more!

She was amassing her own following of supporters that were loyal to her and her alone!

And with that following…

She will squash her father!

An hour later…

The royal carriage rode through the large commoner city on the way up the road back into Hari Bulkan.

While the princess lounged with both of her boots planted on the floor of her carriage and her young lover still held underneath her arm.

As her ruthless amber golden eyes stared imperiously ahead as she allowed the girl to snuggle into her body.

The handmaid gazed in relaxation over the older woman's as she watched the royal carriage roll through the street.

Only for her amber eyes to widen in recognition when she saw the carriage pass a face in the street that she had seen before!

It…was the man who hit her in the alley before she was taken in by her princess!

Azula turned her head to glance down at her beloved with her brows furrowing in a questioning manner to find herself watching the girl frantically shake her robes.

"What's wrong Elle?" Azula asked in a cold voice once more while her glacial eyes took note of the urgent look in the girl's eyes.

"I-I saw him out the window in the street Princess! I…I saw the man that hit me in the street before you saved me!" Elle blurted out in a panicked voice as she tugged on her mistress's robes while her princess's amber golden eyes widened with boiling fury.

"Stop the carriage! Now!" Azula boomed in a terrifyingly vengeful voice as the frightened royal coachman swiftly forced the komodo rhino to a stop.

And just like that the royal transport abruptly came to a halt while the princess stared out the window with furious amber golden eyes.

"Where?" Azula snarled in an utterly livid voice as her enraged amber golden eyes glared out her carriage window.

Just before the serving girl pointed with a shaken finger in a crowd of people in the city.

While the flames of war blazed in the princess's merciless amber golden eyes as she followed her servant's finger.

"T-there! It's…that man Azula-sama!" Elle stammered in a heavily emotional voice while her princess glared on in fury above her.

And then in that very instant Azula's bubbling amber golden eyes enlarged when she caught sight of a face in the crowd that she had memorized from the time that she spent in her lover's memories.

And just like that the middle-aged man disappeared in the throng of people.

The princess pushed her bottom off her lavish cushion with her wide amber golden eyes still gazing in the direction where the man had vanished.

Only for the rage in her eyes to grow to an even more titanic height when she heard a sorrowful sniffle beside from beside her.

As she turned to gaze down at her little girlfriend with her amber golden eyes widening in royal fury when she saw a tear streaming down her cheek!

"H-he didn't just hit me Princess…he made fun of me." Elle stuttered in a deeply sensitive voice while the princess listened in anger beside her.

"What? He…made fun of you?" Azula questioned in voice that was akin to a volcano that was about to erupt as she glowered down at her saddened girlfriend.

It was a foreign concept to her.

To actually care if someone was abused and ridiculed.

And yet…she did.

"H-he told me that I was scrawny…too small to ever have a real w-woman's body. B-but that…I would fetch a high price…because I have a golden head." Elle admitted in a crestfallen voice as she wiped at her eye while the princess's amber golden eyes narrowed into infuriated slits.

The princess trembled in her royal rage with her amber golden eyes still staring furiously down at her gentle-hearted companion's downcast face.

As her eyes widened in suspicion as she began to spew flames from her open lips.

'Fetch…a high price?' Azula thought with callous amber golden eyes taking on a violently volatile death stare.

"I-it bothers me you know…being small. B-but I can't help my size." Elle muttered with another sorrowful cry while Azula's amber golden eyes darkened above her.

Only to find herself crying out in surprise when a powerful hand effortlessly pulled her to her feet!

She gazed up with endless admiration in her widened amber eyes as she watched her princess arise to her feet over her!

As she the older woman held onto her wrist as Azula turned to stare imposingly down into her trembling eyes.

"There is nothing wrong with your size. You are beautiful as you are." Azula stated in a frozenly furious voice with her beautiful lips pursed into a royal glower.

Her amber golden eyes still glared down into her young girlfriend's moved amber gaze.

"A-Azula-sama…eep!" Elle cried out as she suddenly found herself almost being pulled in the air behind her furious mistress.

She stared on in awe as the woman nearly kicked down the door of her carriage!

And then before the royal coachman could even say so much as say a single word!

The princess began to storm her way through the city with her little beloved being pulled along behind her!

While the serving girl squeaked as the powerful woman led her with such might that she it was almost like she was being dragged like a sack through the city!

As she gazed on with endless adoration in her innocent eyes as the intimidating woman pursued the direction that the man went in.

In fact, the princess's anger was so volcanic that she didn't even pay any mind to the way that her people were bowing to her as she marched by.

No, her only thought was brutally punishing the man that dared to both mock and strike what was hers!

Ten minutes later in a tavern in the city.

The people all around the bar talked with one another as they drank throughout the tavern.

While a middle-aged Fire Nation man sat at a bar stool while the bartender set a beer down before him on the counter.

Zuru grasped his beer in hand as he held it to his lips while he took a relaxing drink of it.

He was so absorbed in his drink that he failed to notice that the tavern had started to become unnaturally quiet.

Only for his hazel eyes to stare on in confusion when he noticed that the bartender had dropped to the ground to prostrate in deference.

Before he finally heard the sound of footsteps coming to a stop behind him.

While all eyes in the tavern were now on their imposing princess who stood in her opulent robes with a young golden-haired girl standing behind her.

"Savor that drink. Because it is going to be the last one that you ever have." Azula greeted in a chillingly monstrous voice while the startled man now turned around to face her.

As her beloved shook in fear behind her arm.

Only for Zuru's hazel eyes to widen in terror to find himself staring back at the horrifically terrifying face of his Crown Princess!

And standing right behind her was that…little foreign girl!

"P-Princess Azula! I…I don't understand. H-have I done something to cause you offense?" Zuru asked in a terrified voice while he gazed back at the young woman's volcanically glowering face.

The rest of the tavern was deathly silent as every citizen prostrated in deference to the unspeakably powerful woman.

"As a matter of fact, you have. My companion tells me that you struck her in the face." Azula snapped in a voice devoid of kindness while the man shrunk in fear under her boiling glare.

"T-this is just a misunderstanding! Y-you must have me mistaken for someone else!" Zuru exclaimed as he shook in utter terror under the princess's tyrannical glare.

"Liar! Y-you punched me and tried to abduct me numerous times!" Elle yelled with anger in her voice as she stepped up beside her mistress while Azula glanced down at her through the corner of her cold eye.

And for a fleeting instant Azula's merciless amber golden eyes flashed with approval to see her girlfriend not hesitate to confront the man.

Before her amber golden eyes narrowed into a piercing stare once more as the man trembled as he paled in fright under her venomous glare.

As she began to march forward with menace in her step as the man began to cower in terror against the bar.

"N-no Princess! I swear that it isn't true! I didn't-" Zuru pleaded in a desperate voice only for an unfathomably mighty fist to impact with his right cheek.

And that was all it took for the man to soar to the ground of the tavern in a heap with a stray tooth now landing on the floor a short distance away from him.

While the entirety of the tavern gazed on with awe as their princess stood towering far above the now paralyzed man.

As Elle grasped at the sleeves of her school uniform as grateful tears made their way from her eyes.

She stared at her mistress's tall robed back in profound adoration.

"Guards! Arrest this man! Take him to Hari Bulkan Prison!" Azula commanded in a voice of royal wrath that split through the tavern like thunder.

The sound of soldiers rushing into the tavern resounded into the air as she glared down at the man's bloodied fear-stricken face.

And just like that the dazed Zuru was hauled to his feet by the city guards while the soldiers faithfully met their princess's piercing gaze.

"What is the charge princess?" A city guard asked in a dutiful voice while the princess stepped forward to gaze harshly back at them.

"The assault and attempted abduction of a Fire Nation citizen." Azula declared in a sharply ruthless voice with amber golden eyes forming into a stare of absolute conquest as the half-conscious man slumped in her soldiers' arms.

Elle gazed on with her lips forming a highly emotional smile as she watched the guards drag the man away.

"P-Princess! Please!" Zuru shouted as his pleas were ignored as he was hauled away while he swayed in the soldiers' arms.

And then soon after that the man was pulled through the doors of the tavern.

Before the powerful princess turned to stare down into her beloved's teary amber eyes.

Her cold gaze conveyed her murderously protective wrath as she clenched her fists at her robed hips.

'There is only one fate for those that dare to strike my Elle and that is death.' Azula thought with her lips curling into a callous scowl while she watched her beloved tremble in emotion under her glare.

"Come girl." Azula ordered in a tone of effortless authority as she waved for the girl to follow while she turned around to walk away.

And with that the princess strode toward the door of the tavern with her little girlfriend rushing after her heels.

"Y-yes Azula-sama! As you command Mistress!" Elle cried out as she hurried after her princess's furious footsteps.

And soon enough after that the princess and her peasant exited through the door of the tavern.

All the while leaving behind the occupants in the bar who were still gazing on with shock in their eyes.

And a great many even a sense of newfound respect for their princess because the man had been accosting people in their neighborhood for months.

And just like that…he was gone.

No longer a threat to anyone in their city.

Two hours later at Hari Bulkan Prison.

Zoi and Ty Lee had both been summoned to the prison by the princess after being informed that Azula had apprehended the man that had struck their young friend upon her arrival in the Fire Nation.

As soon as the two noblewomen had learned that the man had been arrested.

They had both immediately had a sinking feeling that he would not be walking away with his life.

And now the man was slumped over in the lowermost interrogation cell with blood dripping down his face from a merciless interrogation.

Azula stood in a room glaring on with unforgiving amber golden eyes beside Ty Lee.

Just as Zoi stepped into the room while her two companions turned to her to see what she had found out.

The captain now stared back at her comrades with something akin to a disgusted expression in her eyes that took even the princess aback.

"His name is Zuru and he works with the slave market. I can only presume that Elle's unique hair color drew his eye….and that the reason he was trying to abduct her back then was so that he could sell her in the slave trade." Zoi announced in an unusually revolted voice as she stared back at the horrified faces of her fellow aristocrats.

Even a woman as cruel as Azula was deeply unsettled at the thought of her innocent companion being sold as a slave.

Ty Lee was now staring on with her brown-gray eyes widened in horror as she looked as if she was going to vomit.

And the princess was standing there with her mouth open in shock while her fists hung at her robed hips.

"Which very likely would have occurred…had you not granted Elle your protection by bringing her back with you to the Royal Palace." Zoi stated in a grim voice while her princess listened with an expression of boiling rage in her narrowing amber golden eyes.

"Azula…our gentle Elle…was almost sold as a slave." Ty Lee spoke up in an appalled voice as she turned to gaze at the princess.

Only to find herself shuddering when she saw the livid glower in Azula's bubbling amber golden gaze.

"What was this nothing doing looking for slaves among the Fire Nation mainland in the first place? It is against the will of the Fire Lord to engage in the sale of Fire Nation citizens. Water Tribe and Earth Kingdom people only." Azula demanded in a glacial voice as her fists clenched at her hips while her captain stoically met her imposing stare.

Given the recent peasant uprisings.

If she allowed this to continue it would only give even further rise to rebellion.

And as such, there was no way that she could allow such brazen predating on the commoners to go unpunished.

Ty Lee turned away as she tried not to let it show that she was bothered by the princess's cruel logic.

Hearing what this man tried to do to her precious little sister made her furious too.

But unlike Azula she was able to see that the problem was much larger than this one man.

The problem was the Fire Nation slave trade which allowed someone to do something so horrible in the first place!

"Well, first of all Princess. It couldn't have been more obvious that Elle was not a Fire Nation citizen at the time and secondly." Zoi replied in a fearless voice as she stared back into her princess's intimidatingly glaring face.

Azula stood seething in her royal robes with her amber golden eyes still staring icily back at her unafraid warrior.

"What else do you expect from someone engaging in the slave trade? The very nature of partaking in slavery necessitates the absence of honor and consideration for your fellow human being. And you expect them to have any kind of respect for boundaries?" Zoi countered with an expression of unmistakable contempt for the practice in her golden eyes while the princess gazed on with coldly unamused amber golden eyes.

"Well, then. Perhaps I need to make an example of this one to send a message to the rest of the slave traders that such blatant disregard for our law will not be tolerated." Azula remarked in a chillingly baleful voice as she began to walk with menace in her step past her two subordinates.

Only to find herself scowling when she sensed that Ty Lee was sending an emotional stare her way.

"What are you doing to do about this when you become Fire Lord Azula? If this isn't a sign that we need to change things then I don't know what is." Ty Lee asked in a still distressed voice while the princess stared coldly at her from the corner of her eye.

"I am not having this discussion right now Ty Lee. In case you haven't noticed I am in the middle of punishing Elle's abuser." Azula stated in a callously distinguished voice as she rolled her amber golden eyes while she brushed past her unsettled friend.

While both Ty Lee and Zoi stared after her back as she swiftly stalked down the prison hall.

'None of that matters to me right now.' Azula thought with her callous amber golden eyes gazing imperiously ahead while she listened to the sound of her two subordinates following after her.

Her sole singular thought was that she made the man that struck her beloved scream.

In the lowest prison cell, the sound of a cell door opening up clanged into the air.

And in the corner of the cell sat a table of interrogation tools.

The sound of elegant boots striding across the floor of the cell carried into the prison's ears.

As the beaten Zuru raised his fearful eyes upward only for his expression to pale once again when he saw the princess standing imposingly in the door of his cell with his hands folded behind her back.

And flanking her from behind was the equally ruthless captain and the unnaturally scowling Ty Lee.

As he trembled in intimidation under Azula's malicious glare as her amber golden eyes stared venomously back at him.

"Zoi has informed me that you have been probing the Capital for prospective slaves in Fire Nation citizens. Which is a direct violation of the will of the Fire Lord…care to explain?" Azula commented in a voice of unnerving poise as every step that she took made the man cower even further under her callous amber golden stare.

While both noblewomen also glared back at the sweating man from where they stood obediently behind their princess.

"N-not Fire Nation citizens Princess! I…I wasn't aware that she…that she was a companion of yours…and before I approached her, I made certain that she wasn't a Fire Nation citizen!" Zuru explained in a frantic voice as he sat shaking in his chains while all three highborn women stared coldly back at him.

Azula's predatory amber golden eyes still stared monstrously back at his fear-stricken face.

"Well, she is now!" Ty Lee shouted with anger in her usually kind voice while the man sunk back under her glare.

"She is a Fire Nation citizen!" Azula thundered in a terrifyingly authoritative voice that sent the slaver cowering against the wall from the force of her volume alone.

"I-I give you my word Princess that I h-had no knowledge of that!" Zuru exclaimed in a beyond terrified voice while the princess's amber golden eyes gazed imperiously back down at him.

Only for Azula to come to a stop before the table of interrogation tools while her prisoner stared at her with fearful hazel eyes.

Her hand glided across the table with a purposeful sadistic slowness that only made the man tremble even more.

As Zoi and Ty Lee stood behind their princess scowling back at the man's pale face.

"What was it that you told her? That her golden head would bring a high price? That she is otherwise too small to ever possess a woman's body? You should know I disagree…I happen to find her to be just the loveliest little angel." Azula spoke in a voice of lethal sophistication as her fingertip lingered over a case of torture tools.

Her frigid amber golden eyes stared over her robed shoulder down at the slaver's trembling countenance.

As both noblewomen stared furiously back at their prisoner with even greater fury in their wrathful eyes.

Just as the sound of a click resounded into the cell while the prisoner shook in dread of what he feared was about to come.

"Of course, I should think so. The little dear is my lover after all…." Azula announced in a tone of silken menace with her every word dripping with royal rage while she grasped a steel baton in her enraged fist.

Her cruel amber golden eyes turned to stare in judgement back at Zuru's now utterly horrified face.

And that was all it took for the gravity of the situation to finally sink in for the deathly terrified prisoner.

"I would say that I felt sorry for you. But that would be a lie." Zoi snorted with a shake of her head while her pitiless golden eyes staring back at the man's now simply hysterical face.

Ty Lee shivered despite her own fury as she stood beside her fellow noblewoman with her arms folded over her chest.

As the princess began to stalk forward with the metal baton in her clenched fist.

Until Azula came to a halt looming over her cowering prisoner with the man shrinking away into the wall under her tyrannical glare.

"P-Princess…I-I…didn't know that she was your…if I-I had…I…I w-would have n-never…" Zuru stammered in a voice that was consumed with terror while the princess's domineering amber golden eyes glared down at him through his skull.

Zoi and Ty Lee also glared back at him from where they stood behind their leader.

Only to find himself releasing a pained shout when the bottom of the princess's boot abruptly impacted with the front of his face.

And then he was forced against the wall of the prison cell with the woman's boot planted upon his bruised face.

His widened hazel eyes gazed up at Azula's supremely intimidating glowering face as the young woman stood with her boot on his face towering above him.

"Silence worm! You no longer have the right to speak!" Azula roared in a terrifying voice that rang into her prisoner's ears like thunder while she stomped down with all of her weight on his whimpering face.

Her vengeful amber golden eyes stared down hard at the man's face as he cowered underneath her oppressive boot.

As the two noblewomen watched in silence behind their leader as Ty Lee shuddered once more.

"You are no longer a Fire Nation citizen. You don't have any rights. You are now for all intents and purposes my testing slave to be used as a test subject for my bending." Azula declared in a voice of ruthless absolute authority as she removed her boot from the man's petrified face.

And then she set it back down on the floor below while she gripped her baton at her hip.

Her penetrating amber golden eyes glared down in royal judgement at her prisoner's delightfully panicking visage.

All the while as the usually kinder hearted Ty Lee swallowed as she watched the man cower with still hateful brown-gray eyes.

'Testing slave…' Ty Lee thought as a chill traveled down her spine while the princess loomed menacingly above her quaking prey.

"In simple terms…this means that I sentence you to a long agonizing death." Azula remarked in a callously tyrannical voice as her icy words cut through the tense air like a whip while she glared down at her new slave's horror-struck face.

"N-no! N-no! P-please P-Princess no!" Zuru shouted in a hysterically terrorized voice as he thrashed in vain in his chain against the wall while the princess calmly walked forward.

Only for an imposing shadow to loom over him as he shook with a paling expression on his face while the princess stared back down at him with utterly superior amber golden eyes.

As if he were nothing more than an insect that was about to be squashed underfoot!

The two noblewomen watched from where they stood further back in the cell with captivated expressions in their eyes.

"Let's start with firebending first, shall we slave?" Azula pondered in a voice of frightening calmness as her fists sparked to life with searing flames.

And not an instant after that the cell was illuminated by the ominous light of the princess's blue flames.

While blue flames burned upon Azula's fists as she gazed down at her captive's futilely recoiling face.

As Zoi and Ty Lee stared on with awe in their eyes as they once again took in the rapidly increasing heat of the already intense blue flames!

"I-I b-beg your f-forgiveness P-Princess A-Azula!" Zuru screamed in a beyond desperate voice as Azula towered over him with the heat from her flames already beginning to lick his terrified face.

Only for the princess's lips to curl into a cruel sneer as she wordlessly stooped down above his cowering form.

His hazel eyes widened as large as humanly possible as he watched a burning hand loom in his line of vision.

As he madly struggled in his bonds in a failed attempt to escape the princess's wrath.

Azula's amber golden eyes formed into seething slits as she glared down at the violently writhing man with her open hand approaching his face.

The girl was the first to give her a fire lily!

And the first to write her a romantic poem!

And the first to ask for the hand of the princess of the Fire Nation in a dance!

She even painted her royal likeness many times over!

She swore her life to her!

She was willing to die for her!

Today she purchased her a large box of chocolate covered cherries just for her!

And last but never least she was the first person to ever truly unconditionally love her!

Elle has done more for her than anyone else in her entire life!

And this man…

'He demeaned her! He struck her! He tried to abduct her! He conspired to sell my little beloved into slavery!' Azula thought with her amber golden eyes enlarging with volcanic rage as the infernos of war burned in her merciless gaze.

And that was all it took for her furious eyes to narrow into a stare of immeasurable wrath.

"I do not offer it!" Azula snapped with fire pouring from her regally scowling lips as her hand swiftly descended before her screaming prisoner's widely terrified eyes.

And just like that she ruthlessly grasped a hold of the man's writhing face in her burning hand.

And mere seconds later the sound of an ear-piercing agonized scream shot forth into the air throughout the prison cell.

Ty Lee gulped as her legs shook underneath her as she averted her eyes away from the disturbing scene.

The man deserved every bit of it for what he tried to do to her little sister.

It didn't make it any easier to watch though.

While even Zoi stared on with a widened look in her golden eyes.

As she silently watched the man scream at the top of his lungs with her princess's blazing hand violently restraining his wildly flailing face.

The princess's relentless fingertips pressed into the man's screaming skin as her burning digits were permanently branded into his flesh.

Zuru continued to release piercing screams with his eyes widening in agony as if they were about to burst from his eye sockets!

And soon after the skin even began to melt from his face!

As Azula gazed down with compassionless amber golden eyes as she cruelly watched half of the man's face melt away underneath her merciless hand.

Only for the tortured man to suddenly find himself slumping to his knees in a broken heap when the princess's hand finally released his maimed face.

His agonizing screams still filled the lowermost cell as the two noblewomen stood in a stunned state behind their leader.

As the princess stood tall with her baton in hand as her aura began to exude from her body while she glared down at her mutilated prey.

And not even a second later the baton began to churn with a controlled dose of lightning generation while she clutched her torture tool at her hip.

While both Zoi and Ty Lee's eyes widened even further as they watched the current of lightning crackle from the steel baton.

"Now then…let's see how you handle lightning generation." Azula commented in a severely heartless voice as lightning sparked from her powerful body.

Her lips creased into a cold-blooded glower as she watched with tremendous satisfaction in her eyes when the man was violently thrown into the wall of the cell.

As her merciless amber golden eyes took great pleasure in observing the man scream even more as he was nearly electrocuted by her deadly currents.

She bared her fangs like a dragon about to devour her prey as she gripped her electrified baton in hand.

And then she brought it down on her prisoner's screaming head with thunderous force!

Azula's lips were entrenched in an expression of unfathomable wrath as she swung her baton down on the man's bleeding head once more!

As the two noblewomen gazed on with speechless expressions in their eyes while they watched their leader begin to violently beat the man to death!

As Zuru's helpless wails echoed into the air in unison with every mighty swing of the princess's lightning charged baton!

And it didn't take long after that for a distinctly disturbing cracking sound to filter into the air.

While the beyond broken man now lay in a heap with his blood running across the floor of the cell.

As Zoi and Ty Lee stood in a shocked silence with their eyes glued to their princess's robed back.

Azula now stood panting lightly with her dark hair swaying before her merciless amber golden eyes as her baton fell to the floor below with a clang.

As she stared imperiously down at the man crumpled before her feet while she listened to his damaged moans resound into her ears.

She extended one hand as she pointed two fingers down at his maimed form while lightning began to spark from her fingertips.

And then she snarled while she remorselessly released a discharge of lethal voltage from her deadly fingertips while the man's body convulsed violently upon the prison floor.

And not even seconds after that the cell sparked with a calamitous flash of lightning while the noblewoman still stood in a stunned quiet.

And just like that it was over.

The slaver now lay lifeless in a wreck on the floor of the cell.

Azula now stood over him with her smoking fingertips falling back to her robed hip.

As Ty Lee tried to suppress the shudder that was making its way down her spine once more.

While there was no doubt that Elle was influencing Azula into slowly but surely becoming a better person than her father.

One other detail remained certain.

'When Elle is threatened…Azula is even more frightening than before!' Ty Lee thought as sweat dripped down her cheek as she audibly swallowed.

And even a woman was as ruthless as Zoi was still gazing at the body of the slain slaver with astonishment in her golden eyes.

Only for Azula to straighten herself to her full height while her callous amber golden eyes gazed down at the man's brutalized dead body in contempt.

Before she took her companions aback when she removed her gold pouch from her hip.

And then she threw a handful of gold coins over the slaver's bloodied corpse while a cruel sneer graced her lips.

"You think it's amusing picking on Elle. Here's a donation to your funeral." Azula spoke to herself in a low voice as her amber golden eyes watched the coins rain down over the now lifeless man's bloodied face.

Before she turned around with her robed legs striding across the floor of the cell.

Her intimidating amber golden eyes stared back at her two subordinates taken aback faces.

Ty Lee more so than Zoi.

Just as she gazed out of the corner of her ruthless eye at her strongest soldier's still surprised face.

"Zoi. Clean this up before anyone else sees this." Azula commanded in a voice of cold authority while her childhood friend still gazed on in shock.

Only to gaze on with approval in her merciless amber golden eyes when her captain nodded her head in understanding.

"Understood, my princess. I won't leave this cell until there is no trace of what happened here." Zoi assured in a devoted voice with her stony golden eyes watching as her princess glanced at her in recognition.

And then Azula sauntered past her two companions while she swiftly strode out of the cell.

She gazed ahead with a remorseless gleam in her frozen amber golden eyes as her imposing fists hung at her hips.

She had meant every word that she said.

Those that dare to try to hurt her little lover will receive no mercy from her.

And that was a promise that she would continue to keep.

AN:

Jigoku-kage, thank you again for your concern. There is a bit more risk with it than a normal nerve block. But, it is considered the first step before surgery, and it is less risky than the surgery itself. I am hoping it helps.

There are a few things that I want to mention in this afterword.

I had a few people ask me if Azula would ever come across the man that struck Elle. I had it in my outline for Azula to eventually punish him.

One thing that we have learned about Azula's feelings for Elle. She becomes unspeakably furious when Elle is harmed. We saw the seeds of this when Azula burned Elle's two bullies.

After their bond started to become inseparable, Azula expressed a violent desire to protect Elle after she was ambushed by Iroh, and this later culminated in a frightening show of vengeance when she beat Hoshin to death after he almost killed Elle. And again when she punished the boys for making Elle cry in Fire Mountain.

The man that hit Elle was involved in the slave trade, and he was illegally searching for prospective slaves among the Fire Nation populace. Though Elle was obviously a foreigner, he was still probing the Fire Nation public.

This highlights the horrors of the slave trade, and as Zoi pointed out, by definition slavers cannot have ethics as their business involves the sale of their fellow human being.

It shows why the Fire Nation needs to stop practicing in slavery if they are to progress as a nation.

The reason Azula killed the man, is because she believes in her families divine right to rule. And I don't find it in her character, that she would let this man off with a slap on the wrist after he almost sold her lover into the slave trade.

If you were paying close attention, there was a brief mention of Elle noticing a flicker of plasma in her spiral of blue flames.

I mentioned earlier in the story that I intended for Azula's flames to evolve into white fire. Then I read about white fire and while it is extremely hot, it is actually a little bit below blue fire in terms of heat.

Since it wouldn't make sense for Azula's evolution in her flames to be less hot than they already are. I decided that the most proper next step for her is for her blue fire to evolve into a blue plasma.

The reason why Elle was able to notice this, is because she has an unusually keen ability with sensing energy.

On a personal note, I am doing extremely poorly. Things aren't going well for me. I still haven't been able to get the targeted nerve blocks that I am waiting for. The problem is that my pain has gotten even worse again.

It has gotten so horrible that I haven't been able to write for a whole month. Because of the pressure in my head and neck, I am having severe vision strain when I try to focus on anything. My vision is blurring and my eyes start to water.

This means that when I try to write, the strain over my eyes becomes so great that I cannot look at the screen and that means that I cannot focus enough to form the dialogue between the characters.

This new level of pain threshold depresses me, because I truly love writing this story. I have been writing it consistently since March of 2019. I have had times where my writing has been slowed from the pain, but this is the first time that it has gotten so bad that I cannot write at all.

And it's not because I don't know where the story is going. As I have said before, from the start I intended for this to be a long running story series, the type that goes on for numerous years.

I know where the story is headed, the rest of my outline of plot points for book one is measured at 126 pages in word. The book two outline is about 144 pages long and the book three outline, the final book in the series, is currently 93 pages long.

Usually, unless it is an intense battle, I am able to just look at a plot point that is occurring and create the dialogue quite easily. Lately, though it is a struggle.

I have the next eighteen chapter arc written, which will start after the next chapter. Usually by the time I post a new arc, I have at least a few chapters done of the one that follows after that. However, I have only just started the first chapter of the arc that will come after the next one.

And while you might say, take a break. Writing this story and writing in general makes me happy, and not being able to write makes me depressed.

I am really hoping that my UOM doctors will be able to lower all of this pain soon. I am crossing my fingers that I will be able to get back into my groove soon.

Anyhow, that will be all for now though.

Stay tuned for next time.

For chapter one hundred thirty-six! Day Two at Academy!