21 - Execution

The Fire Nation ship docked at the prison harbour and the soldiers descended in an orderly formation.

Azula was in the middle with an annoyed expression on her face, but nevertheless anyone could tell that the current soldiers were way different from the ones Levi and the others fought, just their aura alone sets them apart from normal soldiers.

The entire prison was eerily silent with only the corpses of Fire Nation soldiers lying around everywhere, if not for that big wooden ship docked a little distance away Azula and her forces would have thought that the enemy had already left.

Frowning her beautiful brows Azula ordered, "Commander, pick ten soldiers to go ahead and scout, try to locate where the enemy is hiding."

"Yes your Highness.'' said the commander before going to execute his order.

Even though it was just a remote fire nation prison in the middle of the ocean it was actually quite big so if a hundred people decided to hide on it, it would take a while to find them.

"Don't forget to also search that ship." added Azula with the commander affirming.

Thirty minutes later the commander and the scouts were done searching both the ship and the prison as they regrouped with the main forces with stressed expressions on their faces.

"Your Highness…" Said the commended pausing, not knowing how to silver the news before continuing, "It's like they had just disappeared into thin air we couldn't find even a trace of them." Reported the commander with a weird tone of voice, he couldn't figure out how that could be possible.

Hearing the report Azula frowned, she was renowned not only for her outstanding combat ability but also for her wit and Intelligence, but, even she couldn't figure it out.

'How could they just disappear like that.' Thought Azula frowning she just couldn't figure it out.

Moving to the edge of the prison she leaned on the railing as she looked at the water deep in thought, she frowned a little while looking at the water, before suddenly and out of nowhere her eyes widened like saucers seeming to realize something.

"THEY'RE UNDER THE WATER." She shouted at the top of her lungs as she threw a huge torrent of fire at the water and backed up.

The water where the fire was thrown solidified into ice blocking the attack before melting back, right after that dozens of people jumped so high out of the water and into the prison-like dolphins surrounding the fire nation soldiers before they could react to Azula's warning, Levi was amongst them holding a spear as he looked at Azula.

'I expected no less from the fire nation princess.' he thought.

It was also his idea to hide underwater, using water bending to create a vacuum under water and ice bending to extend tubes of ice under the prison where it wasn't visible to let air in.

The reason they waited so long to attack was to move the injured back into the ship after the Fire Nation soldiers finished searching it and also to rest as much as possible, as for the captives from before they just killed them before going underwater, they couldn't have any extra weight hindering them.

Levi's heart hurt when that happened as he couldn't be the one to deliver the killing blow on them and collect some experience points, but he couldn't ask to kill them either or else he would look like a psycho.

"ATTACK." Shouted Hakoda as both sides rushed at each other and everyone engaged in the fight.

Levi rushed forward spear in hand as he used observation on Azula.

[Name: Azula.

Age: 6.

Level: 10.

HP: 120/120.

SP: 110/110.

CHI:100/100.

Description: The princess of the fire nation, she has been doted upon by her father since she was young and developed a superiority complex, she is currently on a training mission assigned to her by her father, fire lord Ozai, to stop the southern water tribe from rescuing the prisoners.]

'Heh, pretty impressive for a six-year-old child, not as good as me when I was at that age but impressive nonetheless.' thought Levi remembering his sibling's states that were nowhere near hers.

'No wonder she always kicked their asses in the show.' he thought, remembering what he had seen in his past life.

He didn't rush towards her straight away as that would be too obvious and would arouse suspicion exposing their plans. He rushed to a nearby soldier instead and engaged with him in combat.

From the get-go Levi could already tell the difference in quality between this soldier and the ones they took out previously, he could still take him down either way but it would still require more effort and time and this guy wasn't even a firebender.

'This is going to be more troublesome than I thought.' thought Levi annoyed. His fellow tribesmen seemed to also be thinking the same as they engaged their own opponents and noticed the difference.

Thrusting his spear repeatedly at his opponent and in quick succession he didn't give him the chance to guard against him as he pierced his leg spilling blood everywhere when he took his spear out, before following with a thrust to the left of his chest piercing both his lung and heart and killing him on the spot.

[Killed an elite fire nation soldier +100 EXP]

Azula on her side has also dispatched a water bender a little distance away from him and looked towards him, as the only other child on the battlefield beside her it was impossible for him to not draw her attention.

"Humph." Snorting with an arrogant look on her face as if she owned the world she punched in his direction sending a fireball hurling his back.

"LEVI, BEHIND YOU, DUCK." Came a warning shout from behind him, not that he needed it with his danger sense, immediately he dodged to the side evading the fireball.

'Amazing, now that she took the initiative to attack me no one would suspect me if I go after her, this is going better than I expected. I guess my 10 points in luck aren't so useless after all.' thought Levi completely forgetting about his earlier complaint.

Just as Levi stabilized himself another fireball came flying his way that he dodged by just twisting his body to the side before running forward and getting closer to her.

Sadly for him, the princess of the fire nation wasn't just a random mob character as fire came shooting towards him one wave after the other drowning him, some he dodged, some he spun his spear around like a fan and disabled them and some he had no choice but to take directly suffering some minor burns which he didn't care about as it was possible to use water healing on it.

Nevertheless, he was getting closer and closer to the princess and the soldiers around her were paying him more and more attention which didn't go unnoticed by him.

'I need to divert their attention away from me or I won't be able to reach her, and quickly or else this bitch is going to kill me.' thought Levi as he kept dodging and countering.

If he used his water bending now he could easily defeat her, even without water bending if given enough time he could still defeat her but he wasn't afforded that luxury.

The people around him were dying by the second and the security around her was very tight.

Seeing another attack coming his way Levi seemed to think of something as he held his spear and threw it as hard as he could towards the princess.

[Ding]

[Due to a specific action a new skill is unlocked]

[Throwing (Active) - Level 1: Grants a 10% increase to the user's throwing accuracy, distance, speed and damage. The skill effects will increase with each level up.]

Levi immediately dismissed the system notifications as he didn't have time for this and looked at his spear.

The people around saw it just as a last-ditch struggle to win the fight but it was all calculated by Levi which may be why he unlocked the skill now and not before, but that was a thought for another time.

The spear flew quickly in a straight line but sadly for the young water bender it completely missed its target and zipped past her hitting the hard metal ground of the prison and bouncing away, Azula didn't even have to dodge it.

Seeing this scene the guards around Azula subconsciously relaxed and paid more attention to their fights.

It was normal after all, the boy could barely put up a fight with a spear in hand and now that he was unarmed he posed basically zero threat.

Of course, their logic would have worked in any other situation but sadly for them, they had met Levi, no one would expect a kid that could bend to not use it in a situation like this even when he was so close to death. And logically speaking a kid who is that good with a spear can't be a bender due to how long it takes to get to such skill levels.

Not stopping in his tracks, Levi continued to rush towards Azula as he observed each and every one of her minor muscle movements, sometimes he dodged to the side and sometimes he rolled until he was almost in front of her.

Azula frowned, not expecting the boy to be so slippery, she launched another fire blast at him as she prepared herself for melee combat she couldn't figure it out but she couldn't hit that kid no matter what and she knew that her last attack would only slow him down. And she was right as Levi came sliding down from underneath her fire blast. His hair burned a little but overall he was unharmed.

'I won.' Thought Levi with a wide smirk spreading across his face as he engaged the princess in close-quarter combat, something she was really confident in but once again Levi shattered her expectations as he delivered three fast jabs and a kick so fast that she could barely react by blocking a kick and a jab, the other two hitting her on the side of the head and in the middle of her solar plexus respectively, making her bend over and fell on her knees as she gasped for breath unable to stand.

'What is this? How is this possible?.' She thought,

she had never felt so helpless and weak in her entire life, let alone when facing a kid who seemed to be barely a couple of years older than her.

The only time she felt so helpless and so weak was when she was sparring with her father, and as she lifted her head to take a look at the boy that reduced her to such a state all she saw was her father's mirage standing over her before she had to cough and lower her head.

She was reduced to such a sorry state by a normal boy, by a barbarian and worst of all he wasn't even a bender Azula would have flown into a rage if she could right now.

"YOU'RE HIGHNESS." Came the shout of the commander and a dozen other soldiers but all Azula could hear were indistinct sounds from afar.

They had really messed up big time, just one slight miscalculation had landed the princess in mortal danger, and if anything happened to her their fate and the fate of everyone related to them would be even worse.

Acting quickly Levi bended water from the water skin pouch by his waist into his hand which he quickly condensed into an ice knife shocking all the Fire Nation soldiers and Azula

But he didn't give them time to think it over as he held Azula's neck and brought her up to her feet in front of him inserting the knife a little inside and drawing blood making the fire nation soldiers that were rushing at him stop in their tracks which in turn made the water tribe people stop fighting.

"Not one more step or I will kill your precious little princess." said Levi calmly but everyone present heard him loud and clear.

"Alright gentlemen." said Levi as he observed the commander and the soldiers around him with a slight smirk, seeing that they listened to his threat, "How about we talk about this like civilized men shall we? Of course we can still keep going if that's what you want." he said, moving the knife that already had its tip inside Azula's neck a little making her groan in pain. "Eeek." and making every fire nation soldier flinch.

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