A Circus

From the map we were still in the Fire nation. Except this was on the furthest island of the fire nation acting as a what seemed to be a tourism outpost for civilian ships. I made the decision to dock at a slightly further area.

Azula stood behind me, "Why are you not docking at the obvious dock?"

"Its a civilian dock a military presence is actually against the guide lines. I assume this is due to a mixture of reasons. There is a secondary dock further along where any military ships dock. Since you are the princess we could dock at the civilian dock, buuuuut... I think if we act like a normal military ship it will be good for us."

"Understandable, but are you planning something with Ty Lee?" "Oh right I need to go over that with you and Mai. Don't interact with Ty Lee until after the show, and once done follow a script I am going to give you."

Mai had come up to the deck with us within a few seconds. "A script? She's our friend why would we need a script."

I stared at Mai like she was an idiot, and looked at Azula. "How would you get Ty Lee to join us Azula?"

"I would ask her first and if she refuses I would likely make her performance so extreme she can't really continue her show. Since either she would have to always do that new performance or she would need to out do that performance."

I motioned, "See what I mean, that's why you two get a script." I have a small flash card to Mai and handed a full page of things to Azula. "Why does Mai get a card while I get what looks to be a whole page?" I stared at Azula, "Mai what would you do?"

She scratched her chin, "I guess I would watch Ty Lee's Show and then ask her about how she's been?" She paused for a moment, "If she's happy I likely wouldn't ask her to join us."

I motioned again, "See what I mean? That's why she's got a cue card. Instead of a cue page."

Azula frowned and Mai held in a laugh. Mai's attitude actually increased by 1. "Great now once we dock we will be sneaking in. Put on your most casual clothes, we will be sitting with the regular crowd."

Mai and Azula spoke at the same time with two different responses. "You mean we have to sit with the sweaty freaks?" "I am the princess why would I sit with a bunch of peasant children."

I facepalmed, "UGH! Number one if your worried about sweat I got a nose plug and towel for you Mai. Number two Azula the reason why we would sit in the regular crowd is to hold humility."

I had my backpack on me so I swung it in front of me. "Here's the towel and Nose plugs, they are made from mint so you know they might burn. Azula here's a hat wear it on your head."

I had recently learned Tamlin had a second pretty useful skill. He apparently knew how to sew, I had found this out when I was patching a hole in my backpack actually. Likely caused by my stash of Jennamite, that shit was still growing and was pretty sharp.

Azula was staring at the hat, "Why does this say...Oh wait this says Ty Lee doesn't it?" I frowned, Azula was looking at my hard work like it was garbage. Sure I made a baseball cap from scratch, but it was still pretty good. Azula looked at me and smiled, "I'll wear it if you tell me why I should?"

"Do you know how some people have like signs or posters to show support over their favorite athletes?" She nodded, "I see this is supposed to be something like that. A supposed show of sincerity?" "Pretty much yeah, wearing it will not only catch some attention. It will also like you said show sincerity. As Ty Lee will not only notice it likely, but also recognize you. If I am right she will also appreciate the craftsman-ship."

Mai nodded, "She likely would, it looks like something she would wear." "Exactly! Now, Ahem Ahem... Okay Y'all got to fancy of clothes and we gotta git down there. Go change and look like me!"

Azula and Mai didn't like my try at a country bumpkin accent. To be fair it was not far off from a stereotypical southern accent. So people likely wouldn't talk like that anywhere in this world. "Fine I can see you guys didn't like my fake accent...I won't use it."

"Good because that was awful." Mai just nodded and walked away. "I'll put on something more... confined." Azula just stared at me, I stared back. "Fine I'll go change. I'll put on something that will match this...Hat." Azula left leaving me to stand on the deck alone.

"I should probably tell the crew that they can enjoy the circus..."

-----Slightly shorter, but this will obviously have a pt2 and that will likely be a longer chapter.-----