Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Mask of the Dragon. Enjoy the 3800-word chapter. I do not own Avatar, Nick, Michael Dante DiMartino, and Bryan Konietzko do.
(Fire Nation Royal Barge)
Azula was able to relax as she entered the camp. There were far too many people here. Then again? She had a war raging with her father…. No, Ozai. He had lost the ability to be considered for now. This was a nightmare, one which would have been done when this came down to it again and again.
She knew more than enough not to have gotten free from her father. She'd not be able to be free from the others, it had been something that hadn't needed to have gotten to such a degree that it hurt.
They hadn't yet gotten to the part of the race where they should have been before it was all over. They had to be ready for anything and everything, even if it hurt to get there yet.
She looked around, unsure of what the proper plan was and how it could have been handled. This nightmare was not to be over anytime soon… However? It'd end sooner or later. She had to strike a lot harder and a lot faster than before.
Azula stalked towards the command tent, questioning how her friend… This was terrifying, but she had to focus on it now. What was coming? She'd need the full might of her army and whatever soldiers she'd be able to muster. Anything else or less? Well, she'd be able to relax sooner or later. Yes, she'd end it all.
"You know when I had you sent out here? I expected someone like you to answer and not get us into trouble." Azula stated to which Sachi frowned.
"I thought you'd send a note," Sachi said before he walked up to her.
There was a moment of silence before the two friends embraced, a smile falling over their faces as both the princess and her friend nodded, clasping their arms.
"It's nice to see you," Sachi said. "I didn't know when you'd come and I expected you got captured or were putting upon the plan you already made. You already have something more to question." Sachi stated before he shook his head and then placed his hand on his temples.
He shook his head before he looked around and sighed to himself before.
"We're going to need to get going with the blasted mission when it comes down to it," Sachi stated before he shook his head and then looked around the room. "What is going on next? I didn't expect this to all come crashing down." Sachi stated before he sighed to himself.
"We don't know what the next move is going to be," Sachi stated to which he sighed. "I don't know what's going to happen next," Sachi stated before he shook his head and then looked down at the dirt before he sighed.
"There's too much on the mind," Azula stated before she sighed and looked around the room. "What is the battle plan? We need to strike hard and hot while he's still thinking about his next moves." Azula added as Sachi shrugged.
"Don't know, they're planning so much for now, and yet it's all fallen to pieces. If anything? We have a LOT to end up handling and this isn't going to be easy to handle for now." Sachi stated before he sighed and looked around.
It was clear that they had more and more problems having questions for now.
Azula was ready for the next part of their war. It was clear they had more and more to have discussed for now. It wasn't something that could be discussed openly and he knew about it.
He knew more and more to have stayed out of her path and simply allowed her to have pushed her plans forward.
"There are more loyalists in the world than you have allies. I don't know what's going to have happened." Azula heard as she still tilted her head to the side.
Azula said to which she hadn't at all seemed to have gotten the message. It was entirely clear she had a lot more problems to have focused on and Azula was plotting something horrid for her father.
Azula looked around before she yawned to herself before she tilted her head and then looked around before she sighed. It was clear they had more and more problems having questions about what to do next. It was clear such problems had yet to have gotten around for now. They had too much on the line for now and it wasn't going to have ended anytime soon now and it was clear beyond all shadow of a doubt their logic was to soon fall apart.
Perhaps it'd be better if they were on another path… A far better one than this and someone whom she could trust.
It was clear more ten anything if now that their paths were more or less like that, it'd be something that should have been addressed, perhaps far before this, all went to the gutter, perhaps before that even.
It was clear more or less such problems weren't to be easy, it'd not end anytime soon. Perhaps their paths were to be different, perhaps she'd find some sort of peace and tranquility. Azula saw a new path ahead, one which would see them constantly win battles over the others and such.
Perhaps it was limiting in the way it had been executed in every single regard. It was all too much, something that needed to be done but wasn't going to have been that way for long.
"Are you ok?" Sachi questioned which was given a nod from Azula as he sighed and looked all over the place.
"It's not going to be something we can handle before it came down to it. we don't even know what your father will do next and it worries a lot of us when all of us are scared, it's not easy to win a blasted war when nobody wants to try and fight it, you know." Sachi stated to which Azula had fallen silent for a few minutes.
"We don't even know which way is up without your instructions and it's bothering a lot of us to honestly try much more than this. I don't even know if we can try something to fix it, some of them want to fall off the planet and see if we can try and surrender." Sachi stated before he sighed to himself.
It was clear to him that at least these types of wars were not easy to have won or lost. It wasn't going to be easy and it'd not be something they could just will away.
Azula could see the cracks in people who could have done something for now. It was all too much for some people and she knew that sometimes she could tell far easier than it should have been.
It was far easier now than it was before, any small little change in problems would only end if more and more was devoted to it.
They were more and more curious if wars would be fought and ended in a manner of this kind. Azula was not at all stupid either, losing a war in a way similar to this.
If losses were to commence? Well? It'd need to end properly, Azula couldn't afford massive losses nor would it be sensible to try and kill an entire army of soldiers in the way of mercy and peace.
No, wars were also won on paper and it was clear no pen or quill would bring to a table… All of it reminded her more and more simply how odd it needed to be fixed and properly, it needed to be done and dusted before something needed to end.
"Are you going to be able to handle the next part of our plan?" Azula questioned before Sachi nodded, looking downwards and then looking upwards into the sky, focusing upon more and more soldiers.
It seemed to be a little odd little distraction for now. Azula would need to be focused on soldiers simply as much as everything else.
All of it needed to end today and yet? It was not at all terrifying more than usual. Nope, it simply needed to go through the motions more and more.
It'd need to end sometime soon, all of it was going to the hounds sooner or later and very few people could stop it.
Azula was not at all stupid, very few people could hope to stop the coming war, and not even her best maneuvers would allow it to end favorably, not without a good reason.
No, this war would need to be ended off a battlefield and Azula's presence might affect it all.
Problems would not die out so easily nor would it be over so soon, it'd only end when allowed, nothing could stop her father, nothing so easily as their army seemed to be getting over for now.
It'd need to end sometime soon, it could only be ended by her. Azula needed to think a lot more of a problem-solving plan to get rid of him and Sachi could only trust in her skill to see it to the end.
"We need to get going before the war consumes the rest of the planet, I don't know what to do next. I don't at all know what else is coming." Sachi stated before he tapped his hands upon his side. "Knowing your father? He'll probably be ready for us in the distance and we don't know how many forces he has ready to try and confront us at the time." Sachi stated before he clicked his tongue.
"Maybe, but we can't give him time to try and mobilize his forces. The longer we wait? The more he'll be able to prepare against us. I don't even know what he might have in store." Azula stated before she looked at Sachi.
"Doesn't mean we can try and fight back so open, he's a very hard person to predict and it's becoming harder and harder to deal with it all and you know that… You know exactly how it's going to be and what we might have to do to fix it." Sachi heard from Azula at the time.
There was a lot more to try and understand at the end of the day and it was clear more and more that they needed to keep going when it came down to it.
Whatever came after it would be a nightmare at the time of the day. Still? if it could be contained and controlled? Well, they'd be in a different part of the world, and they had a lot more to figure out.
This was something they could attempt to try and figure out and could be contained and would be dealt with, any such measures would be harder and harder to try and figure out at the end of the day.
Such problems would get harder and harder to deal with at the end of the second, it would get harder to fathom at the moment.
He was all too drained to deal with at the time as he clicked his tongue against the roof of the day, they had a lot more to figure out and would be able to be controlled at the moment.
They had a lot more to figure at the time being, they had a lot more to figure out at the end of the day. Each of them had so much to deal with and could attempt to control at the moment, all too much to figure out.
Neither of them was quite capable of what to try and figure it out at the time. He was too unsure and uncertain at the time to be fear at the moment to say much.
Azula was nothing if as she was able to relax, to understand what they had for so many years, she hadn't and she couldn't. it was something so alien to her that it bothered her to no end.
A good leader couldn't have empathy for her or his soldiers. They could not fight the way they were asked to nor could they fight for someone they didn't at all respect. All of it pointed more and more to another part of the reality of the scope.
Yes, it was clear something within the place would continue to be something beyond what she could do.
She looked at her friend who was utterly silent, unsure, and uncertain more and more of what to say or do about it all. The baffled girl didn't even know how to run away from all the problems and tribulations of the world.
There was something else coming down the line, a problem they could only speculate upon solving when push came to shove and something that didn't even seem to register when it was all over.
All it did was prolong their suffering and their pain and the few who could do something about it all.
Yes, today was going to be one of the longer days and yet he didn't relent, and neither did she.
He could and would respect the idea upon which she tried to fight upon now, something that she could deal with what to do next.
He was a lot more upon whatever he kept ensuring himself as of now, there was a lot more upon which he didn't at all know what to figure out next. The defeat of what could only be seen as her father? Well, it was an odd little thing… And all of it came down to it.
The ideas upon his mind were bothering him, all too much for now for his mind to deal with for now.
They were all too prepared for now and unsure and uncertain for now, there was a lot more upon which he could keep fighting as he prepared for now… All of it seemed to be able to make him relax once more…
All of it was honorable, all of it neared an ending for now… This was a lot more than he was able to relax upon his mind. His nature was more or less insatiable, unable to be fixed over and of what to see and do next, unsure of her next move, of every single little edge of amusement.
He began looking downwards at the end of the day. There was something else for now, a desire to try and figure out for now…
He hadn't yet seemed to think more and more, unable to relax once more as he was able to try and understand himself.
All of it was odd to Azula as she looked at her friends. Their soldiers weren't going to be fighting a very long war without friends.
They were going to need to press onwards, unsure of what to try and figure out for now while he looked downwards, unsure and uncertain of what to do next for now as he looked to try and assure herself for now.
They had a meager chance for now while she looked downwards once more.
"Are you ok, Azula?" Sachi said as he looked downwards before he cracked his fingers, looking unsure and unable to say anything as she looked downwards at the ground.
Something that continued to bother them for now as she looked downwards at the ground for the time being as of now. She seemed to grow more and more at the end of the day while she hummed to herself.
There was a lot more to figure out, something that keeps growing more and more with each passing little second for now as she looked downwards at the end of the day.
"We need to keep growing and going, there's a lot of things that are growing to keep getting better and better," Azula questioned, Sachi shrugged and then looked downwards.
"Not without a plan. We both know their entire army is bigger than ours, there's a very big army of soldiers between them and us. Isn't going to be easy to clear them all out." Sachi said as he sighed and then looked to the ground.
What did he deal with next? He knew their next fight was going to try and figure out what needed to be said and done with such a measure for now. He had a lot more to see and deal with next, an idea that kept growing more and more and more.
There were a lot of things he wouldn't allow to end for now as he clicked his tongue against the roof of his mouth once again.
"We're going to war, you know. There's too much at stake to lose here, not at this juncture when push came to shove." Azula heard before she blinked and looked downwards as of now when it came down to it he sighed again and again.
The monstrous thing when it came down to it, was unsure of what to try and figure out at the time being.
He clicked his fingers and then looked more and more and more tiresome as he sighed. Perhaps it all would not end or perhaps he just didn't at all know what was going on more and more tiresome for now.
If he was able to do more than scream, he'd do so as well. This wasn't fun to try and figure out, he hummed to himself before seeming to bore himself to death as he was able to deal with for now.
"You ok? There are a lot more things to discuss before we end this charade and save them all for now." Azula stated before clicking her fingers away as now and would keep growing more and more.
They had to keep going more and more tiresome if push came to shove and it would continue to cut them to pieces… If anything else? They had SO much to try and figure out, SO much that could be dealt with for now.
It was a LOT more to try and figure out something, knowing what would be dealt with at the end of the day.
Such problems about her father, about it all, bothered her war plans… Fighting someone who knew about her ideals and goals? Fighting someone willing to throw soldiers away from them all? It would not help, would not allow them to try and figure out a plan of attack.
Every single little measure she thought about would be annoying her, she didn't want to relax, she didn't want to step down… But if she wanted to win this war with as little bloodshed as possible? She needed to be more tactical.
"Can we find a way to Omashu?" Azula questioned as she hummed and watched them before now.
It was a lot more to try and figure out something for now. They had a LOT more to try and figure out and she knew more and more that if she could throw it all away in a flash for now.
Something that cut through the tone, she wanted to keep ending, an idea that would need to be thrown for now… This was going to be all too much to see more and more ideal for now.
This wasn't going to be thrown for now as she paused now with something that she could deal with.
This might be something to deal with for now, cracking her fingers as she paused to hum and then tire herself for now, an idea she could be dealt with for now.
Azula hummed before now, pausing to look downwards before she seemed to keep growing more and more and more with what to try and deal with for now, there was something that would be done again and again.
This would be done, utterly done at the end of the day, their plan thrown to the wolves, every single little move already made and everything cut to pieces… And yet? It would not end, it could not end because it made little sense.
Yet? It would end, it could and should grow more and more with what to try and figure something out at the time being and relaxed for now and paused to keep growing at the time.
There was a lot more to this, something to try and deal with for now, he could be dealt with for now, too thrown off for now and then paused for now, too interested for now.
He was tired, too unsure of it as of now… There were a LOT of ideals in his mind, something as he paused as he seemed to keep growing for now.
This was too much, too chaotic, at the time being, too much to try and deal with for now… There was a lot for now… There was too much to see and do, too much to this… There was a lot more to try and for now.
All of it seemed to be something as he paused to think for now… All of it seemed to be utterly relaxed, for now… He seemed to be utterly done for now.
There was something to try and deal with for now, he paused to think of what needed to be dealt with for now at the moment… And even then? That couldn't be further from the truth at this time nor any time for now.
There was something to be dealt with for now… He had been too thrown off, for now, he had been too thrown off as a soldier. Perhaps even that could be thrown off for the moment.
He relaxed, for now, he cracked his fingers, too related for now… He had been too related for now, something that only seemed to be dealt with for now… It had been too much.
She was too chaotic for now… The pain he had on his mind was too much to try and deal with, it had been too thrown for now… Such a thing would mean too much chaos for him as a soldier which had been too chaotic to deal with for now.
He had been too thrown off for now, he had been thrown off for now… He had been too unsure of what the next move was to have to deal with.
He could only imagine what the next option is. There was something to have dealt with in his operations for now… He had been too thrown off at their own pace. He had been too thrown off for now.
That would not be thrown off again, too interested in the next move, in whatever came next… Not while she lived, not on her watch.
Author notes
Phew. Another chapter is done! I want to point out next chapter will be in 2-10 months and will be 900-6500 words and will show more of Azula's plan as well as her and Sachi talking. Until then? Lighting Wolf out!