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The Princess and the Peasant - (An Azula Epic) - Chapter 140 - Predator

The three highborn women of Team Azula trudged after Silah and their young friend with their paranoid eyes never leaving the woman's back.

Zoi stared on out of the corner of her eye at Jaran's lifeless face with a visible flicker of rage in her eyes.

And it wasn't just that the monster stole her glory.

No.

It truly revolted her to witness such a powerful warrior be reduced…

To being nothing more than this demented woman's doll!

Ty Lee walked with her unnerved brown-gray eyes trying not to look at the warrior king eerily striding like a protective sentinel behind his twisted master.

As Azula strode behind her handmaid with her callous amber golden eyes glaring from over the girl's small shoulder at her enemy.

Her gaze shifted over the puppet once again with her brilliant gaze expressing a sliver of frustration.

'Where are the cables? Is it possible…that she can control him without them?' Azula thought with her burning gaze staring back at the man's lifeless face in analyzation.

Only for her icy eyes to burn with even greater fury when the woman turned to gaze at her from over her shoulder.

Silah gazed back at the face of the glaring princess with a conceited smirk still adorning her lips.

And throughout it all Azula's cold amber golden eyes stared furiously back at her with fire nearly spewing from her pursed lips.

Zoi still glared on from where she walked beside her leader with her own golden eyes expressing a similar frustration.

"What's wrong Azula? Can't figure out how he operates?" Silah asked in a sickeningly taunting voice as she smiled darkly back at the princess's hateful glaring face.

And that was all it took for the two firebenders to stare on with a spark of a helpless rage in their eyes.

The meaning of the taunt was loud and clear.

There was more to the puppeteer's operation than just simple cables!

Only for the hunter to let out another soft chuckle as she reveled in their helplessness before she turned to stride ahead once more.

Azula and Zoi were left standing with their eyes glaring at the woman's back.

Ty Lee swallowed in unease.

As she shivered while watching the lifeless man walk so rigidly after the monstrous woman.

Until the trio was forced to resume their walk not even a second later when their young friend continued to nervously follow after the woman.

Elle padded along with her fearful amber eyes gazing up at Jaran's expressionless face.

Only for a chill to shoot down her spine when she found herself gazing up into lifeless light green eyes.

As Jaran strode perpetually in silence like a machine behind the woman in perfect sync with her.

Almost as if…he moved with her mind alone!

"Y-you know how creepy that corpse doll is right?" Elle questioned in a rightfully shaken voice as her highborn friends followed over her shoulders.

The three Fire Nation women stared out from behind the girl with ever present vigilance in their defensive eyes.

Only for Silah to pause in her step as she turned to smile over her shoulder at the young girl's trembling face.

And that was all it took for the glares of Team Azula to intensify as the woman smiled down at their innocent friend's unnerved countenance.

"Y-yeah. You know." Elle muttered with a bead of sweat making its way down her cheek as she averted her eyes from the woman's haunting gaze.

And even though she was completely and utterly terrified of her.

And quite frankly trying her hardest not to wet herself in her presence.

Even though she knew that the woman was unrepentantly evil.

She couldn't help but feel deeply saddened by the immeasurable loneliness that she could feel radiating from her very being.

It was a loneliness that surpassed that of even Naoki and Katsu.

And she realized that was what made her different from her brother.

Deep down inside…this woman was unspeakably lonely.

Her sorrowful amber eyes glanced down at the ground as she resumed her walk while she listened to the sound of her friend's footfalls sticking closely behind her.

Zoi's watchful golden eyes stared piercingly back at the pale woman's smirking face as she walked with her silver hair flowing freely behind her.

"You keep your eyes off her or I'll cut them out." Zoi stated in a frighteningly protective voice with her scarily focused warrior gaze remaining on her enemy's chuckling visage.

As Elle trembled in appreciation as she trudged forward with Azula looming over her from the other direction.

Azula stared on with her amber golden eyes expressing a possessively violent glare.

And so, it went as Elle padded ahead with Zoi hovering on one side of her almost like a vigilant mother.

And Azula towering over her petite frame on her left.

And Ty Lee walking directly behind her with her intimidated yet guarding brown-gray eyes watching the woman's every move.

All three women stared around closely as they observed that Silah was heading into the streets of Hari Bulkan towards the path to the overlooking peaks above.

"I…I am not going to lie to you Silah. You…scare the life out of me. You…you remind me of this horror movie I once saw called Tourist Trap…come to life." Elle commented in a disquieted voice as she walked with her amber eyes gazing ahead anxiously.

Azula resisted the urge to slap a hand over her forehead over the girl's foolish mistake of admitting openly that she feared the woman.

And just like that the three women could only gaze on with wary expressions in their eyes when the woman's almost too perfect looking face turned to gaze back at the girl once more.

And if they didn't know any better.

The woman's eyes almost looked pleased with what she had just been told!

And yet…there was a flicker of curiosity in the woman's dark green eyes that had not been there a moment prior.

"A movie? What…is a movie?" Silah inquired with a sliver of inquisitiveness breaking through her detached voice while she ignored the glares of Team Azula.

Only for the three highborn women to gaze at their young friend in surprise when her eyes momentarily brightened at the chance to talk of her pleasures from back home.

"O-oh! You…see a movie is a series of moving pictures that tell a story visually and audibly…with actors and actresses…almost like a play. But…you don't watch it live. It's prerecorded ahead of time…and you watch it from the comfort of your house through what we call a television set." Elle explained in a timid voice as the puppeteer listened with a look of captivation in her astounded eyes.

And even though the three highborn women had heard their friend talk of such things before.

They too couldn't help but listen with their eyes momentarily gazing at the girl in similar fascination.

Only for the princess to roll her amber golden eyes as she waved an annoyed hand before her scowling face.

"Now is not the time for you to go on about your peasant trifles." Azula scolded in a harsh voice with her cold eyes gazing down at her girlfriend's small quivering back.

Just before Ty Lee recoiled in fright when Silah abruptly whirled around to stare menacingly back in the princess's direction.

And even though Zoi would never admit it out loud.

Even she was stunned by the sheer killing instinct in the woman's gaze over such a casual topic.

"Shut your mouth Azula. You are in no position to dictate orders in my presence. If I wish to learn more about…these movies then I will learn about these movies. You are not my superior. You are my inferior. Test my patience again and we'll resume where we left off with me causing a volcanic eruption that will swallow this entire city whole." Silah ordered in a spine-chilling voice as she gazed piercingly back into the princess's outraged amber golden eyes.

Azula ground her lips together as she looked as if her amber golden eyes were about to burst from her head.

And Ty Lee had frozen in her tracks in horror as she now realized what the shaking was that she had felt earlier!

Even Zoi gazed on with marginally widened golden eyes as she glared back at the puppeteer in rage.

While poor Elle paled as she audibly gulped only to find herself breathing a sigh of relief when the hunter's eyes visibly calmed.

"And unlike you pampered aristocrats…some people here have an enlightened appreciation for the finer arts. I realize that artwork and individuality isn't highly regarded in your…vapid culture of indoctrination. But please…do be silent." Silah remarked in a voice of complete disrespect as she turned her sneering eyes away from the princess's now infuriated face.

And then she turned to gaze back down at the young girl's intimidated face with a smile returning to her lips.

Ty Lee futilely attempted to set her hand on the princess's shoulder plate.

As the princess's amber golden eyes conveyed a rare disruption from her usual perfect emotionless demeanor.

And Zoi for her part was gazing back at the puppeteer with a flicker of bewilderment in her eyes.

She would have never expected a woman whose entire power revolves around controlling the bodies of others to care so much about individuality.

"Sorry about that child. Now…about those movies." Silah commanded in a softly overpowering voice as her dark green eyes expressed delight over having wrestled control from the seething princess.

And despite the three highborn women's anger they couldn't help but gaze on in surprise to hear the woman apologize to the girl.

"W-well…this one…was a horror film." Elle answered in an even meeker voice than before as Silah's almost otherworldly eyes reflected a pensive gleam.

"A…horror film. Tell me…what it was about." Silah urged in a voice of yearning as she stared back at the girl's amusedly sensitive face.

Azula still looked as if she were struggling not to fire lightning at the woman on the spot for daring to order her in her own city.

As Zoi and Ty Lee never stopped staring back at the immortal woman with guarded gazes in their eyes.

"I-it…was about a man…named Mr. Slausen…" Elle trailed off in an overwhelmed voice as the beautifully tall woman chuckled down at her.

This woman…

She was quite possibly even more terrifying than Reiko and that man Nero!

Perhaps even scarier than Felix as well!

"That's not giving me much to go on. You're going to have to be…a little more illustrative than that." Silah commented in a voice of eerie poise as she smiled back at the young girl's fearfully nodding face.

All three highborn women still glared daggers back at her.

"H-he…well…he lured…people off the road to his property…where he m-murdered them with his telekinetic powers that he used to control…." Elle responded in an apprehensive voice as her amber eyes avoided gazing back into the woman's suddenly intrigued eyes.

Team Azula listened with a sense of morbidity in their eyes.

As they finally began to make the connection why the woman reminded their friend of this 'Mr. Slausen'.

"His…his puppets…h-his mannequins and then after he…killed them…they…they became mannequins." Elle admitted in a shaken voice as the hunter halted in her step with her eyes widening in understanding.

The highborn women froze up with their gazes reflecting a disturbed expression as they now understood what the girl was getting at.

"Ah. How fascinating…so he was a fellow artist…" Silah stated in a voice of genuine regard for puppetry as artwork.

The Fire Nation women stared back at the woman with incredulous expressions in their eyes.

"W-well…I don't know about that. He seemed…uh like he was much less sophisticated than you. He…was prone to blind fits of rage and he had split personality disorder. I…don't think he really saw it as artwork." Elle muttered in a skittish voice as she walked with her princess scoffing over her shoulder.

The two noblewomen just gazed back at the woman's pale sunlit face with even more of an unnerved gaze than before.

It was also plainly apparent that the Elle was treading carefully to avoid saying anything that would offend the woman and provoke her into as similar state of rage.

"Hm. So…he was a simpleton. But still…he was creating artwork…even if he was too stupid to realize it." Silah replied in a voice of serious reflection as she eyed the girl in fascination.

"I…I suppose you could say that. It's…implied that his descent into madness began when his wife…cheated on him with his brother. He…uh murdered them in his rage…. he was immediately overcome with remorse…so he remade them into his mannequins. And that's…what led him to start killing people who came to his house." Elle spoke in a mousy voice as she gazed nervously up at the woman's captivated face.

Silah listened with her predatory eyes almost seeming to relax as she held a gloved hand underneath her chin.

As Team Azula stared back at the woman with stunned expressions in their eyes over the way that she almost seemed…

Soothed by their young friend talking.

The princess stared back at the woman's pale face with pitiless amber golden eyes before she glanced down at her girlfriend in contemplation.

As she found herself recalling words that the girl had once spoken to her…back when they first met.

Mhm, you know I once aspired to study psychology…either that or become a professional artist.

Ever since I was little, I've found myself inevitably drawn to the darkness…I have the ability to empathize with the sort of people that…most people consider immoral…or bad.

'Is she…actually trying to empathize with this…monster?' Azula thought with her callous amber golden eyes incredulously studying the girl's face as the handmaid chewed on her lip.

Only for her eyes to express even greater aggravation when she realized that she was!

As Zoi and Ty Lee stood gazing on in a strange sense of bewilderment as they too caught on to what their adopted sister was trying to do.

And suffice to say…

They weren't certain if they should label it brilliant or suicidal!

"He…he…was also…very lonely. Not that I'm saying that you're lonely!" Elle blurted out in a hastened voice with an awkward smile on her face while Silah arched a silken brow.

Team Azula observed in unease as an unreadable glimmer of something appeared in the woman's dark green eyes.

"Tell me…how…the story ends." Silah instructed in a voice of abnormal fixation as she stared back at the young girl in profound contemplation.

"H-his final victim killed him. But she…was driven insane…because he turned…all of her friends into mannequins." Elle concluded in an apprehensive voice as she scratched at her cheek while her three friends listened in horror behind her.

And that was all it took for an unsettling wind to sweep through the air as they gazed back at Silah's almost excited face.

'Elle! Do not give her ideas!' Ty Lee thought with terror like no other in her eyes while Silah's lips curled into another one of her monstrous smirks.

Before the immortal woman turned to smile back at the two unusually disturbed firebenders with her dark green eyes simply gleaming in delight.

"So, he lost the hunt but his final victim was left scarred for life by his actions…. how poetic…it's almost…too beautiful for words." Silah stated in a tone of heavy absorption as both warriors' eyes narrowed into slits back at her.

The three highborn women could only gaze on with stares of unnatural astonishment in their repulsed eyes.

"I…I guess that's one way of looking at it…I…found it more depressing than poetic…but everyone has their own opinion." Elle answered in a timorous voice as she gulped while she sensed the way that Azula was glaring down at the back of her head.

"I wonder…Azula…is that how our story is going to end?" Silah pondered in an unnervingly predatory voice as she stared back at the Azula’s scowling face with her pale lips still adorning a smile.

Team Azula stood rooted to their spots with their stunned gazes unable to leave the hunter's smirking face.

"After I kill you…and Zoi…and Ty Lee….and Mai…and everyone else close to you. After I've remade you all into my puppets. Will she kill me in retribution? Will she be left broken by the power of my hunt?" Silah questioned in a disturbingly engrossed voice with a smirk gracing her lips.

And that was all that was needed for the horror in the air to increase by tenfold!

As the highborn women gazed back at their depraved enemy almost in a sense of disbelief over how deep her depravity ran.

Even two women as ruthless as Zoi and Azula were floored by the gravity of the woman's statement.

And just like that Azula stepped forward to loom over Elle's quivering form with her tyrannical amber golden eyes taking on a stare of equal monstrosity.

"Y-you…really want to turn…my friends into puppets…." Elle stammered with her amber eyes reflecting a look of unimaginable torment over the prospect over losing her adoptive family.

Much less in such a terrifying manner!

Silah just smiled as she stared back at the enraged faces of the three highborn women.

"That is not going to happen. Our story will have a much different end. One that will end in you screaming in agony at my hands." Azula hissed in a voice of expert frightening authority as she glared venomously back at Silah's chuckling face.

Zoi glowered in agreement as she too towered over her adopted sister's unnerved small frame with her muscular arms crossed over her breasts.

"I must agree with the princess. Our tale won't end in anyway with you traumatizing young Elle any more than she already has been." Zoi stated with unmistakable wrath in her voice as she bared her teeth imposingly while the young girl shook in appreciation.

And even the unsettled Ty Lee managed to narrow her eyes into a determined stare once more.

Silah tilted her head back with a chillingly entertained smirk gracing her pale lips.

"I suppose we'll just have to see, won't we? It has been a long two hundred and one years. Who knows what will happen? Although I feel it is only fair to warn you sweetie…" Silah trailed off in a voice of palpable menace as she stared back into the faces of the three highborn women.

Azula's amber golden eyes burned with royal wrath over being addressed by the disgusting woman as 'sweetie'.

"My body…has no need for sleep." Silah revealed in a voice of absolute sadistic glee as she watched in joy as Azula's proud amber golden eyes tried not to widen in disbelief.

Zoi's golden eyes flickered too with shock at the claim.

And Ty Lee felt as if her very spirit was leaving her body.

"I also don't require food or water…and that means that my perfect body has long since rendered the need to eliminate waste of any kind as obsolete." Silah explained in a voice of maximum cruelty as the four members of Team Azula listened in shock.

She savored the way that the two firebenders were trying to act as if they were unbothered by her words.

And not a second later both Azula and Zoi watched in alarm when the woman abruptly sprang forward with terrifying agility!

Just as blue firebending sprayed forth into the air in unison with that of the captain's own.

Only for both firebenders to skid back in urgency with the handmaid now being pulled back under the captain's protective grip.

Until Azula found herself staring beyond her blue flames with her amber golden eyes agape in a foreign sense of disbelief.

Silah now stood before her with her gloved hand resting on her plated shoulder as she smiled back at her.

And Ty Lee found that she was still unable to will her body to move in the face of such a terrifying adversary.

"When your eyes get heavy…and you feel the need to hit that luxurious royal bed of yours…as you drift off into dreamland. I want you girls to remember…that I run at full capacity around the clock." Silah boasted in a joyfully sinister voice as she leaned in to grin perversely back into Azula's pridefully disbelieving face.

And within seconds…that feeling of being prey that the three highborn women had felt had amplified by many levels!

Just as Azula swatted the woman off her with a furious fist as she glared back at Silah's smirking face with her cold eyes flashing in paranoia.

"Y-you…mean you don't sleep at all?" Ty Lee asked in a weakly protesting voice as Silah smiled back at her.

"O-oh my…" Elle stuttered lamely with her petite hand still in Zoi's own as the warrior gazed back at the killer in incredulity.

"And yet…you still ran from our last encounter and as I recall Mava stated that you would have died had you remained in her barrier." Azula stated with her teeth baring like a dragon's fangs as the puppeteer chuckled as she ran a gloved hand through her hair.

"Which means…that it must be possible for you to die." Zoi snarled with her teeth clenched in similar unease as the serial killer laughed softly yet again.

"Perhaps I can…perhaps I can't. I guess you dragons will have to try to decipher that mystery out for yourselves. Just as Jaran and so many others have tried before." Silah purred with her gloved fingers trailing through her hair as the two firebenders stared in loathing back at her.

She smirked back at the two proud women with her warrior king standing behind her once more.

Before she turned away with another chuckle as she resumed her walk while the four members of Team Azula gazed after her in an unsettled silence.

And now the three highborn women understood more than ever the horror that the unfortunate warrior Earth King had encountered when he ran into her on that fateful day nearly eleven years ago!

And with that Azula began to stomp ahead with her merciless amber golden eyes never leaving the woman's back.

While she vowed to make use of each and every moment that she spent in the vile woman's presence to uncover every detail that she could!

And then Zoi began to walk with the taken aback handmaid's hand in her own as her golden eyes never ceased in displaying an almost vigilant maternal gleam.

And Ty Lee could only stumble after her companions as if her feet were moving on their own accord.

Her terrified brown-gray eyes never once broke away from gazing after the horrifying woman.

And seconds later the unnerved team began to make their way into a street of the city.

As they just barely registered the sight of many nobles stopping what they were doing to bow down before the princess as she passed them by.

They could barely find it within them to even so much as process the presence of the growing crowd around them.

Many nobles gazed back at the seemingly foreign Earth Kingdom woman and man walking with their princess and her group.

Their one and only focus was the terrifying enemy walking before them as they continued to follow towards the pathway up a caldera peak.

Until the team suddenly found themselves halting in their footsteps when they were swiftly snapped turn out of their unnerved reverie.

"Watch where you're going you dirty Earth Kingdom…." A noblewoman started to rant as she was bumped aside by the marching woman in a green Earth Kingdom kimono.

Only to find herself falling silent with her eyes shaking in unspeakable terror when the dark green eyes of a horrific monster fell upon her.

Azula now glared over her armored shoulder with aggravation in her cold amber golden eyes as her lips still curled into a furious glower.

It was just as she suspected!

The more this monster strutted about their city the image of the powerful Fire Nation elite started to crack!

As Zoi, Ty Lee, and Elle stopped as they gazed out of the corner of their eyes at Silah's face.

As the woman turned to gaze at an almost unnatural angle to gaze eerily back at the now terrified noblewoman.

"Did…I just hear you correctly? Were you…addressing me fire ant?" Silah questioned in a voice of captivating predatory intent as her horrifying eyes stared back at the woman's terror-struck face.

The unfortunate noblewoman cowered with a fear like never before in her eyes as she shook under the woman's gaze.

As she also found herself staring back at what appeared to be the face of a dead man standing behind her!

The highborn women listened in incredulity over the way that the killer addressed the elite woman as 'fire ant'!

"N-no…I…wasn't talking to you…i-it must have been…someone else…" The noblewoman stammered in a transfixed voice as the pale woman's eyes stared intently back at her.

A strange sensation of anticipation overtook the street as even Zoi and Azula found themselves unable to move.

They could only gaze at their new seemingly inhuman enemy as they tried to gauge what she was going to do.

And then Silah marched one foot forward with her boot ominously treading across the stone street towards her paralyzed prey.

"Really? Because I could have sworn that you were speaking to me." Silah continued in a voice of simply unparalleled menace as she walked with methodical slowness towards the fear-stricken woman.

"I-I…I…m-meant no…" The noblewoman sputtered in a voice that was now consumed with an instinctual fight or flight instinct as she watched with frozen eyes as the woman walked towards her.

'B-by Agni! What…what a monster!' Ty Lee thought as she watched with disturbingly captivated eyes as the puppeteer advanced with all of the intimidation of the princess and more!

And then the hunter began to raise a gloved hand into the air to reach for the paralyzed woman's face.

Only for Zoi to spin around with her golden eyes watching in alarm when she felt the girl bolt out from her grip!

And not a second later…

The three highborn women stared on with a stunned look in their eyes when a spark of chi flashed before their lines of vision.

As Silah now arched her brows to find that her gloved hand had been boldly intercepted by the young girl's own.

Elle stood before the positively terrified noblewoman with her amber eyes gazing defiantly up into the hunter's own.

"Silah…leave her alone!" Elle exclaimed with a surge of astonishing bravery that took her three highborn friends aback.

The noblewoman stood there in a state of shock to see the strange foreign girl defending her.

And just when Team Azula had been prepared to leap to their young friend's air.

They were taken by surprise when the woman erupted into a loud laugh with her eyes gazing down at the girl in amusement.

"Are you serious child? Do you have any comprehension how evil the nobles in this city are?" Silah asked in a voice of overpowering presence as she gazed down into the handmaid’s shaking eyes.

The three highborn women stared on with rapidly rising discomfort in their speechless eyes.

And the princess's amber golden eyes glared lividly back at the puppeteer's deviously smiling face.

"E-everyone in this city isn't evil? I am sure that there are a few bad apples but Azula-sama and my oneesans aren't." Elle protested in an insistent voice as she stared up at the woman's devilishly smirking face.

Only for the sound of another loud belly shaking laugh to echo into the air as Silah held her gloved hands over her quaking belly.

Azula stared back at her laughing face with a greater hatred than she had ever felt before for anyone in her furious eyes.

As the two noblewomen stood in a prideless silence beside her as the hunter's chortles filled the air.

And all of the other nobles stood gazing back at the monstrous woman's face in an odd sense of primeval terror.

"Oh, aren't you just precious! You poor child! You're really being kept in the dark, aren't you?" Silah exclaimed in a snickering voice as she raised a gloved hand over her chuckling mouth while she stared down into the girl's naively confused amber eyes.

Azula exhaled flames from her murderous nostrils as her vision began to turn red.

And that was all it took for Zoi and Ty Lee to found themselves overtaken by a profound sense of shame.

'Azula…' Ty Lee thought with a tremendous sense of disgrace in her eyes as she stared back at the princess's proud face.

It was all only a matter of time before all of this will blow up in Azula's face!

And then the princess will be forced to make a choice.

Elle or the Fire Nation's violent imperial ways!

Only for the handmaid to force herself to recover as she frowned up at the woman's humored face.

"I…I don't know about that Silah but there is one thing that I do know. And that is that my mother taught me that all life has value. We're…. all human beings and we're…in this together." Elle countered in a passionate voice while dark green eyes stared down at her in amusement.

As Zoi gazed down at her booted feet with a scowl on her lips.

And for one of the first times in her entire life.

She almost felt…as if her pride in her nation was starting to wane.

Only for Silah to chuckle yet again before she withdrew her gloved hand with astonishing gentleness from the girl's grip.

The highborn women stared at the killer as her lips curved into another perverse smirk as she let out a final chuckle.

And then not a second after that the woman turned her dark gaze back to the noblewoman who still stood shaking like a cowering lop-eared-rabbit under her horrifying stare.

Before the hunter held a gloved hand to her sighing lips as she stared piercingly at the woman's sweating face.

"I am going to give you a small piece of advice. Use it as you will. At some point in the future…a great shadow of doom is going to fall upon this world and the walls of Hari Bulkan will not be able to shelter you from this coming storm." Silah began in a voice of terrifying intimidation as she stood beside the now speechless Elle with her eyes gazing back at the noblewoman's trembling face.

Team Azula listened with an abruptly returning sense of dread in their alarmed eyes.

Just as Silah raised her clothed finger to point back at the noblewoman's fearfully captivated face.

"And that means…that feeble noble sacks of flesh like you who have no combat prowess of your own are going to die. It may not be today…it may not be tomorrow. It might be two years from now. But know this. You and your entire family are all going to die." Silah informed in a joyfully cruel voice with her dark green eyes just gleaming in delight.

As she watched the woman shrink back under her penetrating gaze as fearful murmurs began to consume the street.

And within seconds.

Any doubt that the three highborn women and their young friend had about the woman not knowing the nature of their mysterious enemy dissipated into thin air!

"Bask in your wealth! Roll in your gold like the little hog monkey that you are! Laugh it up! Spend your time however you like! Enjoy your loved ones while you still can or just kill them! Beat your servants! Kill your neighbor! Go on a murder spree! Kill your Crown Princess! Defy your Fire Lord even! The laws of the Royal Family and society no longer apply to you! Anything goes!" Silah announced in a voice of spellbinding terror as she gazed back into the woman's nearly hysterical eyes.

The three Fire Nation women listened with their mouths falling up in shock over the unfathomable horror of the woman's words.

As Azula seethed with her amber golden eyes glancing around her as she watched noble after noble drop what they were carrying to the ground in terror.

As Silah's frightening clothed finger began to sweep about the street from one noble to another.

Yet throughout the whole affair her eyes remained locked on the horrified woman who was now sinking to her knees before her.

"Because Fire Lord Ozai…and Princess Azula…will not be able to save your worthless life from Vega's rampage!" Silah stated in a delectably evil voice as she stooped down to loom over the woman's entrancingly broken face.

Just as Azula, Zoi and Ty Lee spun around to gaze at the artist's back with their eyes agape in realization as soon as they heard the name that the old sage had prophesied.

Elle shook with her hands at her hips as the words of the old sage replayed in her mind.

There are more faces in the flames that pertain to you. Two that you already know…and one that you have yet to meet.

And that was all it took for the princess's fists to clench at her womanly hips as she stared furiously at the woman's back.

"You…will tell us what you know of this Vega." Azula demanded in a voice of near equal menace as she stomped forward.

Zoi gritted her teeth as she stood glaring hatefully at the puppeteer's back as the woman knelt down over the traumatized woman.

"And do you know what the best part is dear? It's one of your own! She's a Fire Nation citizen!" Silah declared in a voice of limitless cruelty as her laughter echoed into the air as she towered over the deliciously destroyed woman.

And just like that the eyes of the three Fire Nation women and their young friend grew agape in disbelief over what they were hearing.

"A-A fellow Fire National is going to kill us all?" A nobleman asked in a terrified voice as panic consumed the previously calm streets.

"That's right. I don't know how you did it but you actually somehow managed to inspire your most broken fellow citizen to wish to bring genocide upon you all. You aristocrats can give yourselves a real pat on the back for that one." Silah spoke in a voice of entrancing malevolence as she smiled darkly down at the woman on the ground before her.

As the sensation of fear continued to sweep throughout the streets.

And even the guards stood unmoving as they listened to the woman's terrifying speech.

The three highborn women shared a stunned look with one another as they attempted to process the depth of what the woman was claiming.

"W-what in Agni's name is wrong with this nation? We…we've actually inspired a Fire National to want to genocide us all? This…this nation is shameful!" Ty Lee blurted out in a suddenly revolted voice while she for once paid no mind to the look of prideful anger in the princess's narrowing amber golden eyes.

Zoi stood rooted to her spot with her golden eyes expressing a similar revulsion.

"I really have to hand it to that creature. It cannot be said that it does not have a sense of humor. It scoured the entire world for the worlds most shattered soul…a being so filled with hatred that it makes me look sweet in comparison. And once it found her…her Fire Nation name was removed…and she was recreated into its darkness as its new herald…Vega of the End! And that my dears…is who is going to slaughter you all." Silah explained in a voice of boundless wickedness as her dark green eyes swept about the panic filled street.

The four females of Team Azula listened with stunned looks of horror in their eyes over the implication of the monster that Mava spoke of having such tremendous power!

"V-Vega…that's a Spanish name from my homelands…this thing…it…it must possess reach…. beyond the four nations." Elle stated in a transfixed voice as her three highborn friends listened in recognition behind her.

The sheer gravity of the declaration took even Azula and Zoi by unease.

It meant…that this being must have the power to reach between their worlds at will!

"I would do it myself. But why should an Earth National bother when a Fire National is more than eager to do it herself?" Silah taunted in a voice of unspeakable maliciousness as she smiled down at the noblewoman's crushed face as another sadistic chuckle escaped her lips.

Zoi and Azula's boiled over into slits as they glared daggers at the woman's kneeling back.

Ty Lee and Elle gazed on with their mouths hanging open in fright.

And it went without saying that they were all struck by the unspeakable evil in Silah's words.

"However, if you are feeling really candid. I would be more than happy to make this your last day on Earth." Silah remarked in a tone of unmatched horror that put even the likes of Ozai to shame as she stared oppressively down into widely ruined golden eyes.

And just like that the once proud noblewoman broke down weeping in despair at the puppeteer's boots.

It was a sight so shattering that even Azula was gazing on with begrudgingly captivated amber golden eyes.

The rest of the team just gazed on in fixation with their eyes expressing a sense of shock over how far the woman would go just to destroy one woman who had insulted her.

And then the puppeteer reached under her robes as she withdrew a small dagger while Zoi's golden eyes burned with outrage.

Just as the captain began to swiftly march forward with her jaw clenched in disgust as she approached the crouching woman's back.

As Azula gazed all around her through the corners of her eyes with shock as she took in the scene around her.

Face after face that had been proud and noble before Silah had entered the street were now consumed in confusion and defeat!

And then Zoi pushed her way past her adopted little sister with her golden eyes still glaring down at the immortal woman.

Only for her eyes to widen when the dagger was dropped to the stone street with a sickening clang.

"Or you can always just do it yourself. It's all up to you dear. After all, I'm just a dirty Earth Kingdom woman remember? It's hardly my place to tell a 'superior' Fire Nation aristocrat like yourself what to do." Silah cooed as she reached her gloved hand down to pat the sobbing woman upon the head.

The entirety of Team Azula stood there in a floored silence.

As Ty Lee and Zoi gazed on with disgusted expressions in their eyes as the woman petted the weeping noblewoman like a dog.

And Elle could only gaze on with her amber eyes still conveying her horror over the woman's behavior.

"Well. I'll leave you to it then. You take care now." Silah chuckled with her gloved palm patting the destroyed woman's black hair once more.

Before she stood up to tower over the weeping woman with a sadistic smirk gracing her pale lips.

Just as she turned to glance over her shoulder at Zoi's utterly enraged face.

Her dark green eyes then glanced over Azula's supremely infuriated gaze.

And then it flickered to Ty Lee's revolted stare as the woman shook under her gaze.

Until she finally turned to glance down at the emotionally stunned face of the young girl before she turned to resume her walk.

Just as a hauntingly broken scream split into the air while Silah walked with a smile curving onto her lips as the warrior king perpetually followed at her heels.

The three highborn women watched in a state of horrific shock as it all happened in a matter of seconds.

And the traumatized Fire Nation citizens gazed on with a fixated horror in their eyes.

As the noblewoman was now thrusting the dagger straight at her heart!

Silah gazed back the faces of the unusually appalled Team Azula with a devious grin on her lips as the wails resonated into their ears.

Only for Azula, Zoi and Ty Lee's eyes to widen even further when a small form quickly dropped down to take hold of the older woman's trembling hands.

As a sense of captivation consumed the street as Elle now knelt before the broken woman with her hands just barely preventing the knife from piercing her chest!

Team Azula stood once again in a state of astonishment over the depths of their young friend's kindness.

And even Silah turned to glance back at the girl with a flicker of surprise in her dark green eyes.

As the young girl now gazed kindly back into the older woman's tear strained golden eyes.

"Don't listen to her. No matter what may or may not come…there is always hope for life. Because no matter what happens…we'll face it together!" Elle declared in a voice of stunning compassion that starkly contrasted the hunter's cruelty as she stared emotionally back into crying golden eyes.

And just like that…

The dagger slipped from the woman's trembling fingers and into the young girl's gentle hands.

"I-I…t-thank you…. dear…I…I will not forget that." The noblewoman murmured in a moved voice with tears streaming down her cheeks while a soft hand reached out to touch her shoulder.

Elle smiled as gently as she could back into the woman's face as she softly nodded her head.

Zoi gazed down at the young girl's back with a spark of a moved emotion in her stoic golden eyes.

'Elle…I am not going to let them hurt you. I vow on my pride as a warrior…that I will protect you. Even if it costs me my life!' Zoi thought with a committed expression overcoming her eyes as she clenched her fists at her hip.

"There is no need to thank me. I am just doing what is right…that's how my mother raised me and that's how I live." Elle answered in a softened voice with her hand gently touching the overcome woman's shoulder.

And then she wordlessly removed her palm as she smiled sweetly once more before she stood back up.

The dagger fell to her hip in her hand as she offered the touched woman a reassuring gaze.

"W-what…what is your name?" The noblewoman asked in a voice of profound gratitude as she stared back at the girl's sunny face.

The three aristocrats of Team Azula still stared at their companion's back with impressed expressions in their eyes.

"Elle…my name is Elle Turner…I am Princess Azula's royal servant and I too am a commoner." Elle stated in a voice of genuine kindness as she stared down into the kneeling woman's amazed golden eyes.

And then she turned around to walk away past her speechless highborn friends.

While the three highborn women watched in still quiet disbelief as their gentle friend walked past them.

As the hunter still gazed back at the girl with a detached stare in her eyes as the nobles began to mutter all around them.

"T-thank you Elle Turner! I shall never again look down on another commoner for as long as I live!" The noblewoman called out in a voice of tearful gratefulness as she sat on her knees.

Fellow nobles stood listening in amazement from where they stood gawking at the scene with awe in their eyes.

And the city guards still stared on with looks of fascination in their eyes.

Azula watched through the corner of her harsh amber golden eye as her girlfriend stepped past her with her regal lips still conveying her fascination.

As she remembered words that Ty Lee spoke during their final talk with the old sage.

I'll bet that Elle's kindness and Azula's strong leadership will make for a force to be reckoned with.

It was in that very moment that she realized that there was tremendous value to having the girl stand beside her as Fire Lord.

And it wasn't just because the girl held the power of the Component in her veins.

No.

It was so much more than that.

"See to it that you don't." Zoi commented with a protective edge to her voice as she stared down at the woman's swiftly nodding face before she turned around to walk away.

Ty Lee followed alongside her with her brown-gray eyes still gazing after the girl's back.

And despite the terror that she still felt.

She found that she couldn't help but allow the cheer in her eyes to begin to return as she managed a smile in her little sister's direction.

Azula resumed her possessive walk behind her little girlfriend with her callous amber golden eyes still staring venomously at the puppeteer's cold face.

Just as the hunter turned away with a cruel scoff escaping her pale lips while the three highborn women never once stopped glaring at her.

"Well…it looks like it isn't your last day on Earth after all…" Silah stated in a low voice with a chuckle leaving her lips while her predatory eyes made the noblewoman shake in terror for a final time.

Before she began to walk away with her warrior king striding at her back while her dark green eyes gazed ahead.

And with that the four members of Team Azula warily walked through the street with their gazes lingering on the monstrous woman's back.

Only for Silah to abruptly halt in her footsteps when predating dark green eyes widened ever so minutely.

And the three highborn women stopped in their walk as well when they turned with widening eyes to their young friend when they felt an indescribable fury flow into the air.

And then the killer turned to stare over her shoulder with her chilling eyes surveying the young girl's face closely.

Elle's bangs hung in her eyes as her entire petite body shook in uncharacteristic rage that stunned her three friends.

As the girl's chi was starting to emanate from her furious body as she bared her teeth like a dog that was about to attack.

Azula stared down at her girlfriend with a surprised look in her widened eyes as the puppeteer still eyed the girl intently.

She would have said that the girl's face of outrage was laughable.

If she wasn't seeing the incredible power radiating off her body with her own eyes!

As the captain and the acrobat stood beside their adopted sister with their taken aback eyes watching her closely.

'I see…so with enough provocation…she can be pushed into unleashing the killer within. How intriguing.' Silah thought with a smirk pulling onto her pale lips as she stared back down into the girl's trembling face.

The Fire Nation women stared between the two with their gazes still showing shock to see their friend look so livid.

"Is…that…killing intent that I sense in you?" Silah questioned in a disturbingly interested voice as all three highborn women rounded about to gaze in fury back at her.

She bent her head back with her smirk growing as she let out a thoughtful hum while the girl shook in outrage.

"Good! Let it out! Because you're going to need it if you have any desire to survive the struggle to come!" Silah instructed with her clothed finger pointing back at Elle’s enraged face as the girl's hair still hung in her eyes.

And that was all that was needed for all three women to bristle in defense of their innocent friend.

As they bared their teeth in the direction of the immortal woman's smirking face as menacing eyes gazed back at them.

Only for Elle to take the trio by surprise once more when she dropped the dagger to the ground at her feet.

She raised both hands to her head as she panted for air with her amber eyes gazing down at her feet.

And then to the bewilderment of the highborn women the sound of a slap connecting with human flesh resounded into the air.

As they now stared on in confusion to see that the girl had slapped herself as hard as she could across the cheek!

Even Azula's imperious amber golden eyes conveyed her bafflement as she stared down at the girl with an annoyed sigh exiting her regal lips.

And then Elle took a calming breath as she closed her eyes while her hands fell from her hair as her friends still blinked back at her in puzzlement.

And Silah was now blinking her dark eyes once more as she stared back at the girl in genuine incredulity.

And just as quickly as the rage had appeared.

It was gone.

The serving girl now frowned with her amber eyes opening up to gaze back at the hunter's taken aback face.

"There is no need for that. Because there is more than enough killer between the rest of us to go around." Zoi stated in a scarily focused voice with her icy golden eyes turning to gaze back at the puppeteer's recovering face.

"That's right! Elle doesn't have to kill. She's just perfect the way she is!" Ty Lee yelled out with her fists clenched at her hips while she glared back at the woman's pale face.

The girl listened with an expression of moved sentiment in her eyes as she bit her lip.

As the princess still gazed down at her with her domineering amber golden eyes displaying a possessive gleam that made her feel safe once more.

Before Azula turned to stare monstrously back at the hunter with her imposing gaze burning with the infernos of war.

"H-how…how can you be so evil Silah?" Elle questioned in an earnestly frustrated voice with her hands grasping at the straps of her backpack.

The puppeteer stared back at the girl with a budding interest in her chilling eyes that unnerved the three highborn women.

"When you stand where I stand and you obtain the power that I have obtained. Human concepts such as good and evil no longer apply to you. You…just are…. you become something beyond them. And that is what I am." Silah responded in a voice of unnerving calmness with her eyes staring back at the young girl's amusedly angered face.

As the three highborn women stared back at the woman with disbelief over her words in their eyes.

Ty Lee couldn't help but shudder with reviving fear in her enlarging eyes.

It was almost like the way that Azula has always believed that everyone less than Fire Nation aristocracy was beneath her.

Except…that Silah literally believed the bulk of humanity was unbecoming of her notice!

"That is not true! Morality always matters!" Elle exclaimed with her small fists clenching in her anger while her princess sighed behind her.

Only for the eyes of the aristocrats to narrow in disapproval when an almost twisted smile of fondness started to form on the woman's lips.

"Allow me to pose you a question child. When an ant is foolish enough to stand before a giant and insult a being far larger than her. What do you think will be the end result?" Silah countered in a frighteningly detached voice with her dark green eyes gazing back at the girl's unsettled face.

Azula's amber golden eyes brimmed with great fury over the woman's gall to classify Fire Nation elites as ants!

And Zoi and Ty Lee stood in an unusually stricken silence beside their unnerved adopted sister.

"If the ant wishes to survive…she keeps her mouth shut and steers clear of the giant's boots. Otherwise, she gets squashed when the giant passes by." Silah explained in a voice of striking cruelty as she stared back into shaken amber eyes as the girl profusely shook her head in denial.

"S-size…power…and species don't matter! It doesn't matter if it is an ant, a butterfly, a dog, cat, deer, human or any other lifeforms! We're…we're all living beings and we all exist in this circle of life together!" Elle cried out in a passionate voice as her highborn friends listened in a stunned silence behind her while the puppeteer smiled back at her.

Only for the hunter to simply chuckle as if she were humoring a little girl while she sighed yet again.

"Sadly dear. That isn't the way the world works." Silah stated in a dismissive voice as she turned to continue her walk with her puppet walking beside her.

Just as the three highborn women gaze on in alarm when the girl rushed after the woman's heels!

"Elle! Keep your distance from her! She isn't Azula! And she isn't Naoki! You can't sway her!" Ty Lee hollered with big sisterly concern in her voice only for her warnings to fall on deaf ears.

Azula and Zoi stared after the girl with worry in their eyes as she bounded after the woman.

As the princess's lips curled into a livid glower as she rushed after the girl with her amber golden eyes gazing after her in aggravation.

'If I don't keep an eye on that girl, she is going to get herself killed!' Azula thought with her ruthless amber golden eyes expressing a sliver of a long-buried emotion in her gaze.

The girl's delusional belief that she could change the ways of every monster that walked the earth annoyed her to no end!

She couldn't even believe that the girl actually thought she stood a chance at persuading this beast to change!

Ty Lee was right!

She was nothing like Naoki!

And just like that the three women swiftly sped after their innocent friend with their livid eyes still glaring at the woman's back.

"You're wrong!" Elle shouted in a persistent voice as she ran in step with the much taller pale woman while her silver hair glistened in the sunlight behind her.

Silah glanced down at the girl walking beside her with an almost dark sense of endearment rising within her eyes.

As all three women of Team Azula stared back at the woman with expressions of unsettlement in their eyes.

Under normal circumstances it was a good thing when one person developed a sense of fondness for another.

Even with the most ruthless of people it usually meant that the object of their affections would be safe from harm!

And yet with this woman…

They could all clearly tell that the more she took a liking to someone the more danger they would be in!

"Am I?" Silah laughed in a softened voice with her boot striding through the stone street up toward the caldera pathway.

"Yes! You are! You're just making justifications for your cruel behavior!" Elle argued as she rapidly walked with her amber eyes gazing up at the woman's humored face.

Only for Team Azula to stare on with vigilantly focused eyes when another soft laugh flowed into their ears.

"I have got to hand it to you kid. You're the only other person other than Mava in two hundred and one years to have the guts to argue philosophy with me." Silah remarked with an eerie liking to her voice as she smiled down at the young girl's frowning face as she ran beside her.

"S-Silah…you know you don't…have to be like…Mr. Slausen!" Elle blurted out without any warning to the shock of her three friends.

The hunter almost halted in mid step with her eyes marginally expressing her surprise as she gazed down at the girl walking alongside her.

"Darkness cannot exist without light! And that means that even in the darkest of hearts…that there is always a ray of hope! Even for you! We are all capable of change!" Elle explained in a heartfelt voice as she stared emotionally up into mercilessly caught off guard dark green eyes.

Azula and Zoi shook their heads in a sense of rising frustration as they followed behind the woman.

"N-no matter what you've done to your body to become i-immortal…you are still human at heart! A-and while nothing you do can ever undo all of the lives that you have taken! This…this planet is your home too and that means that if this…being is threatening all life on this world…that you can help us stop it!" Elle spoke in a highly spirited voice as she gazed up at the woman's almost pensive face.

The three highborn women stared on with unconvinced looks in their eyes.

'Elle…I get what you are trying to do…but I highly doubt that it is going to work.' Zoi thought with her watchful golden eyes gazing at the face of the woman that she has vowed to kill.

And she strongly suspected that even if the puppeteer had no involvement in arranging the massacre of Shung Wu.

That the woman was aware of who was behind it.

And after what they learned today…

Watch out for Vega. She has already begun to tear the Fire Nation apart and soon she will come for you.

Her stony eyes gazed on with a reflective gleam in her disturbed eyes as she ground her teeth together.

'What sort of cruelty…could we inflict upon one of our own to make her want to do this?' Zoi mused with her unsettled eyes gazing ahead in deep thought as a revolted scowl graced her lips.

And even worse than that was knowing that Mava had said that this woman…this Fire Nation citizen would be the third face to cause her adopted little sister great pain!

"Elle. Just give it a rest already." Azula snorted in a severe voice with her callous eyes gazing at the woman's pale face.

She found herself continuing to ponder just how much this beast knew about this…Vega.

"You have no comprehension of what you are dealing with child…and I am not referring to me. You truly have no idea what this creature is." Silah scolded in a voice of unnatural calmness as she stared back down at the girl's unnerved face.

The three highborn women gazed on with a returning paranoia in their eyes.

As Ty Lee swallowed with a bead of sweat dripping down her forehead.

It was nothing short of terrifying to meet this woman…with seemingly even more power than Azula and Zoi combined!

And to hear her express such caution in regards to this…entity!

"T-then why don't you tell me? Instead of berating me? Isn't it your benefit that we defeat it?" Elle stammered as she attempted to reason with the woman while she walked over her with a frown on her lips.

Only for the hunter to let out a bitter scoff as she gazed ahead with chilling dark green eyes.

"I will discuss this subject no further until we are out of the city limits." Silah replied with a sliver of snap in her voice as she swiftly walked ahead while her puppet lifelessly moved after her.

As Elle was left standing in her spot with her uneasy amber eyes gazing on in fear.

The three highborn women gazed on with expressions of disbelief in their eyes.

And for as much as the puppeteer unnerved them…

They couldn't help but be even more unsettled by the enigma that was this mysterious entity!

"I…don't believe it. She'll insult the Fire Lord to no end. But she…seems to hesitate to say anything bad about this…creature." Ty Lee muttered in a frightened voice with her eyes gazing on in unease.

"I would wager…. that is because in the end the Fire Lord is still human and because this…entity exists beyond the realm of the Fire Nation’s intercontinental empire." Zoi commented in a low voice with her golden eyes still gazing after the woman's back.

Azula pursed her lips into a similarly contemplative scowl as she glared after the woman's flowing silver hair.

'Just how much does this wretched woman know?' Azula thought with her imperious amber golden eyes staring on in calculation as she trudged ahead beside her girlfriend.

One thing was for certain.

She will find out.

No matter what it takes.

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