Avatar: Awakened Gamer

Chapter 50: Truths

"I taunted my brother when our mother died."

"Due to my greed, I wasn't able to see my loved ones even in their last moments."

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This went on for an hour, we were telling "half-truths" to each other. By now we both knew that we were telling the truth, but neither said anything.

"Princess Azula, the Avatar has escaped," one of the guards came. By the tone in his voice, he seemed scared that she would do something.

But instead, she calmly got up and opened the door, turning around just before she walked out, we stared at each other's eyes. "Wait here."

"Sure," I smiled. This girl was an intelligence stat grind, just by talking for an hour I had gained an extra three intelligence points. It was all in the beginning too, since after a while she started realizing that we were both doing the same.

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Katara and Aang were going back through the sewers. Waterbending their ways through it.

"How were you able to get to me?" Asked Aang, knowing that there were hundreds of guards around here.

"Sewers, air vents, steampipes," answered Katara with a disgusted look on her face. "I don't want to talk about it."

"Then where is Sokka? That sounds like something he would come up with."

Katara was worried about that too, he had told her that she shouldn't worry and that he will be with them, waiting with Appa. 

But as she saw the light at the end of the sewers, Katara was ready to breathe out a sigh of relief. But then remembered where she was and decided to hold her breath for a little longer.

Once they got out of the sewers, she was about to cheer, but stopped once she saw dozens of Fire Nations guard around them.

BOOOOM!!

They shot blasts of fire at them. But Aang came forward and used airbending to change the fire's directions, hitting the nasty water around them.

Katara didn't stand idle either, so she used waterbending to manipulate that same nasty water and hit the soldiers in the face with it.

"Aggghh!! It splashed in my face!"

"It smells so bad!"

"Some got in my mouth!"

Though she didn't do a lot of damage, the nastiness of the sewer waters was enough to make the soldiers fall in disgust.

"That's quite an effective method," a feminine voice rang out, making the soldiers forget their disgust and readily stand up. 

Katara saw that it was a young woman, with a dangerous look in her eyes. There seemed to be fire lit in her eyes. It seemed like there were hundreds of soldiers were there to accompany her. 

"Avatar, how about you get back in your cage? Maybe then I won't hurt your girlfriend." Azula said maliciously, the murderous look in her eyes intensifying. 

But suddenly, a roar came from the sky, confusing the Fire Nation soldiers. That was when Appa, landed down, and with a swish of his tail created a huge wind that pushed everyone else to the ground. While Sokka, who was riding Appa, smiled at Katara. "Told you I would be safe."

Katara wanted to go and hug him, she was worried and she could never get used to this. But decided against it as they had to escape, she and Aang got in Appa and flew away, before anyone else but Azula who shot blue flames at them could do anything. She had used a blast of fire to counteract the pushing power of the wind, making such a split-second decision wasn't something most people could do.

But even that, that didn't help her get the Avatar.

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As they were in the sky, Katara breathed a sigh of relief, asking her brother curiously. "How were you able to get out of there?"

"I have my ways," Sokka smiled. "My ninja ways."

She chuckled, for once not minding her brother's jokes.

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Azula looked at the Avatar as he escaped. She knew that her father would be disappointed. But strangely, she didn't feel as disappointed as she would have normally felt.

Instead, she calmly walked off while looking at her soldiers with disappointment. They all felt fear at her looks alone as she didn't need to say anything.

As she got inside the fortress, a panicked soldier came towards her. "Princess Azula! The prisoner, he…"

A Fire Nation soldier's helmet flew through the air.

Fwish!

Baam!

It hit the talking soldier on the back of the head, knocking him out. She saw Kuzon, his eyes looking at her hypnotically. He had a smile on his face. "Were you able to catch the Avatar?"

"I never told you we had the Avatar," Azula narrowed her eyes suspiciously, ready to attack him.

"The guards speak an awful lot. Better not have them know anything next time," Sokka said, he had sent the water clone to go and help Katara and Aang.

Initially, he had planned to go with them, and rejoin the group. But something more interesting had crossed his path.

"You didn't leave?" She questioned one last time, looking at his green clothes that were neatly suited. Showing that he didn't have any difficulty taking out the guards. "Also if you killed any guards, I will have to hunt you down."

"No, don't worry, I didn't kill anyone," Sokka reassured her and then added amusingly. "I didn't have time to escape."

'That is a lie.' - Azula thought.

She could tell by how casual he was about taking out the guards that he could have easily escaped while she was busy with the Avatar.

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