Chapter 32.3- And So the Dragons Danced

XXXXXX- LONG FENG

He stared at her. To his eyes, there was only one thing she seemed to represent. That was danger. Danger of a sort that could scarcely be compared. She had surrendered, as had the majority of her forces. He had them dead to rights, but still somehow he felt like he was not the one fully in control of the situation. It was the paranoia from his training, he told himself. The Dai Li were the best in the world at what they did, and with the remnants of the Earth Kingdom army acting as willing tools, he was more than enough to contend with the best that the Fire nation had to offer.

And yet, she still maintained that smirk. Like she knew something he did not. “I could kill you, you know. March you out of here and behead you before the sun goes down” He said finally, resorting to threats when his preferred tactic of waiting in silence for his opponent to speak had proven ineffective. Maintaining the staring contest with the girl any further would have done nothing to move his goals forward.

“I strongly doubt that. For one, whatever power you think you have will not last long. If you touch even a single head on thy hair the full force of the Fire Nation Army will land on your shores. They will tear your walls down brick by brick and your city in the walls will burn. It will be nothing but ash in no time. Have you not the slightest idea who I am?”

“Princess Azula of the Fire Nation. Yes, we had more than enough opportunity to hear you give orders to your men before we sprung our trap.” He replied with a sigh. Just like he’d come to expect from nobility. Spoiled and useless.

“Speaking of that trap, I just want to know. How did you get the jump on us?” She asked with a gleam in her eyes that he could not quite place.

“My people have been watching your people from the very beginning. It was not a matter of how, but when” he said, enjoying the way she frowned at his words. His predecessor had had a true talent for saying words and never making it clear what he meant by them. That was the same talent that he was using to his advantage here.

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“Are you sure about this, General?” Long Feng did not much like General Kali, but there were a few things the woman had going for her. She was a powerful earthbender, she had a no-nonsense approach to training her troops so they were easily the most well trained unit in the Earth Kingdom’s military, and perhaps most importantly, she was the only one that still commanded anything that looked even similar to an army on the side of the Earth Kingdom. All the others had done good jobs of either getting themselves killed or captured.

Jinpei was only the most recent in a long line of idiots to fall before the might was the Fire nation war machine.

“As sure as anything. The Princess and her Generals surrendered without contest once they saw just how outnumbered they were. This man? I have studied his every action. What spies we have in the Fire Nation have reported of his time in the Military Academy. Every single piece of information we have about him tells us that he’s the type that will not surrender.”

“What does that matter? We just kill him then”

“Wrong. He’s dangerous. He killed Bumi, and that alone should be enough to make you fear him. Fong might have been an idiot, but he and his men were well trained, disciplined as all hell, and dangerous. This man made short work of them. A survivor from that massacre testifies that he saw him cut men in twain with no blades held in his hands. No, it is simply too dangerous to give him the room to cut down dozens if n t hundreds of my men to capture this one fucker” He grit at the tone being directed at him but did not dispute her words. She was the warrior here, he would trust her strategy even if he did have reservations that had to be handled. Not the least of those reservations was the creature being g

A/N: Yes, I did not abandon this. Just having trouble getting it out of me and onto the page