Chapter 74

Azula cornered Avatar and his team. Currently, this was a very good chance to take them out. However, the large flying bison behind them seemed to be strong enough to fend for their team. Not to mention, the Avatar was the last Airbending. And his mastery over it showed that he too was a genius at it. And he knew how to control three out of the four elements.

Azula could take the risk. However, she thought of using him to serve her purpose. She wasn't sure if she could defeat the Earth King. However, if she let the Avatar go to the North Pole with a grudge against Haru, she would make them fight. When they exhaust each other, it would be the best time to take them out with one lightning bolt.

Making a sad, friendly and worried expression, she approached the bald kid, raising her hands.

He seemed to be 12. It shouldn't be hard to manipulate him.

"Stop. I didn't come here to fight you, Avatar. I'm here to ask you for help."

Aang narrowed his eyebrow. "What do you mean by asking for help? Is asking help gonna revive my dead friends."

"That happened 100 years ago." She said. "We're a different and peaceful nation now. We are fighting the Evil."

The boy and the girl from the water tribe looked at each other. They seemed to be in disbelief. They said the same line at the same time. "Can you believe their hypocrisy?"

She knew that these two can ruin her plan by telling the Avatar.

She looked at them, and she said.

"Where have you two been living, an isolated corner in this world." She said. "Seeing the temperature of the place you came from, I bet you don't know what taking a shower is."

Narrowing her eyebrows, the water tribe girl approached, her limbs numb.

"You don't know what it takes to wash off the smell of Sokka's clothes, so don't think that showering in some boiled water is something to be proud of."

"Hey!" the boy, Sokka, protested. "I don't smell that bad." He reached his armpits with his nose and sniffed a bit. Frowning, he looked forward." Maybe."

"I'm not here to discuss the stink of your brother." She took a deep breath. Looking at the Avatar, she said. "I'm here to ask the Avatar to resort to balance."

"What balance. The air nomads are dead, thanks to you."

Azula put her hands next to her hips. She bowed down, and she said. "I sincerely apologise for what my grandfather, Sozin, had done. We are a newer generation, and we are to ask for redemption."

The Avatar seemed to be hesitant and lowered his staff.

Azula noticed that. She couldn't leave such important detail slip from her eyes.

Even Sokka and his sister seemed to be confused.

Taking a deep breath, she raised her head.

A few tears started appearing in her eyes, and the Avatar team was stunned when they looked at her.

"You should know that we have been trying to correct our mistakes. We trusted the Earth Kingdom, and we were sharing our advances with them as compensation."

Azula here was doing her best to keep her face.

To cry, she had to provoke a memory that made her eyes tear.

She was thinking about the time she had burned Zuko's pants from behind. She thought about how he'd cried and went screaming to their mommy.

It was hilarious. Holding her laugh made her cry.

However, tears were necessary. It made the 12 years old kid unable, to tell the truth.

"Aang, don't believe them. They killed my mother!" said the girl.

"That soldier was punished severally for his war crimes," Azula said. "You don't know, but there had been a power struggle among the royals. My father wanted to end the war, but some people wanted to establish their domination. They wanted to take a base in the South Pole, and after we knew about what they did, we punished them. Now, we are trying to reach the South Pole resistance, so we may end this war. But they joined the tyrant of the Earth Kingdom." Her expression changed to anger. "He didn't want to end the war. He wanted to benefit from it. Thousands of our men were killed single handily by his hands. He said that he won't rest until he will destroy the whole nation."

She dropped to her knees, tears streaming more.

'This is so funny. The way I'm acting, I need a reward for this. Look at their dumb faces. Not laughing makes me cry more."

"Who do you mean by the Earth King." Said Aang, hesitant. "Haru is a good man! Everyone loves him. Besides, there is no logic behind what you said."

"Oh really." She looked at Aang. For a second, she almost revealed her true face. She screamed. "You have no idea what he is capable of. From an army of thousands, he cornered them with his lava bending. Our tanks turned into huge fans that cut the soldiers into pieces. Do you know what more he can do? He can create a colossal meteor in the sky which explodes.

"His title is Haru, the Hundred Man. Back in the beginning, he killed a hundred and twenty soldiers on his own. And the causalities had been raising ever since. He isn't a man who you can trust.

"At first, he became a prince of Omashu, and last, he is becoming the ultimate king. You think that his ambition would stop here. He would claim the Fire Nation too. That's why I'm begging you to restore the balance."

Azula crawled to the ground, and she put her hands on the Avatar's shoulder, raising her crying face.

The Avatar didn't seem to believe her. He was in denial, which meant that she planted the idea deep in his mind.

Of course, Azula had mentioned only the details that Aang can confirm.

She mentioned that he'd killed more than a hundred soldiers.

She didn't mention that he wanted to kill his village.

"Aang! Don't believe her." The waterbender girl said, pushing Azula away. "She is just trying to manipulate you. You've seen Haru personally." She shook Aang's shoulders. "You know how had taught you so well. If he was a tyrant, he would have taken the chance to kill you. There is no way he would allow someone like you to raise, let alone teach you."

"You don't know anything. He's blinded by rage!" screamed Azula.

"Shut the hell up," Sokka screamed at Azula. "You took the guy's parent into your prison for a long time. He and his mom had to work to pay high-rated taxes. Of course, he would hate you. What do you expect, him bowing on his knees and sucking your toe because you shared your technologies? I don't think you've been told this. But no one asked for your advances. Go back to your nation, and shove that technology up to your ass."

Sokka said. He wasn't young, and neither was the girl. But the Avatar was different.

As much as Azula desired to kill Sokka, she didn't.

"Just for you to know, I could have killed you, but I chose not. I advise you to verify my words. Ask about how cruel he's."

She pointed her fingers to the sky. A huge lightning bolt left her fingers, piercing the sky.

The gang looked up, jaw dropped.

"At any rate. It seems that Avatar is no good at restoring balance. We should just fight for the freedom of our citizens. By the way, you don't know that, but your so-called hero Haru is using our people as slaves and human shields for the walls." Azula said, standing up. She gave her back to them, and she walked back.

"Everyone, retreat! Mai and Ty Lee, let's go. A moment we waste on the block-headed Avatar is a moment our poor imprisoned citizens are suffering. Let's liberate them."

Just as she and her friends walked away, Mai muttered with a lifeless expression.

"Wow. The way you cried, even I believed that we are the good guys."

"Oh please." Azula's face changed in no time. "There's nothing much good and evil."

"You sure?" Ty Lee started walking on her hands. "The circus is good, and the ones who torture animals are evil."

Azula exhaled a long sigh, not wanting to enter with the monkey-like Ty Lee.

"Just get over it. I'm not sure of my ability to deal with Avatar and Haru. Even if he doesn't kill Haru, he would think that his reasons and methods are wrong. You know, the Avatar seems to be stupid enough that he would try to pull something like 'Oh, Haru, you have to stop. Revenge won't make you happy.' Stupid people like him are jokes in the middle of the war. They're what keep you reading history."

"You bastard girl."

"Watch your tongue, Mai." Azula sighed. ". I need to drink water. Geez… Holding my laugh made my throat itchy."

"I don't believe you! Haru is the most gentle man in the world! You are a big liar!"

Came a loud voice of 12 years old boy.

Azula turned her head. Aang was on his flying Bison, heading away.

"Don't believe him. He tricked you like everyone else in the earth kingdom! Don't see what he told you. See what he'd done."

She turned her face so he couldn't see her. She laughed.

The poor kid is in denial.

She knew that because she'd practised manipulation against her brother.

Now, it was time for Azula to chase Haru.

If he's really heading to the Fire Nation, then he would give a huge strike to their armies.

She also couldn't miss such a chance that he is in earthless spot.