thebastion | Day 285 [open]

Who: Azula & anyone
Open: Open
When: Day 285
Where: Northern Bastion
What: Azula arrives in Bastion.
Format: bracket-action but happy to match
Warnings: n/a for now.

[Azula was angry. Whether or she actually believed that her world had been destroyed, blah blah blah was a different question entirely. It all sounded crazy (this whole world sounded crazy - maybe it was all just one giant hallucination and that's a terrifying thought), but more importantly she had better things to do. If this was some kind of spirit-world shenanigan, she wanted no part in it. She had been in the middle of something important, damn it.

Which is why, naturally, she gets herself quickly and fairly easily from the Skyway to Bastion. If anyone was capable of figuring it out, it was her. And when she's on a mission to get to the bottom of something, that drive can move mountains.

When she questions the person who told her about this "calamity" she doesn't get answers she wants and sets a tree on fire in retribution, but the action is...oddly taxing? And for the first time in her career she actually feels like it's difficult to firebend which angers her more, RIP patches of grass.

Since all of that is clearly getting her nowhere she proceeds to go question anyone who is around in the most tactful and personable way possible:]

You there! Tell me what is going on here immediately.

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Fine. Don't expect anyone to mourn you when you bite the dust out there then.

[Wow, Rin.]

Don't you realize who you're talking to? I'm the strongest firebender in the world, crown princess of the fire nation. I could burn you and those stupid monsters to a crisp if I wanted to!

[Okay now that does sound familiar. Of course Zuko would have said it with far less anger, but the similarity is starting to come together in Rin's mind.

Not that she's going to say anything. Zuko already said once her sister was not some one she wanted to meet up with again, even here. There's no way Rin would rat her out just because some one of familial relation is being pissy with her.

... buuuuuut she is being pissy with her. And that sure seemed like a challenge. Rin straightened at that, rising back up while moving in to a slightly more defensive stance.]

You wanna dance, princess?

Gladly.

[for all that rin moves into a defensive stance, Azula goes offensive. She's not entirely clear on how her powers have been limited but she can fight even without the bending and she meant what she said about those pokemon (and rin) looking like easy pickings.]

[Rin isn't about to let two still-young Pokemon throw down with some one that can throw fire. They barely know two moves between the two of them, and while water might have some effect, it's not a chance Rin is willing to take.

Her, on the other hand? She might look like easy pickings right now, but that's not going to last.

Her hand reached for the sword she carried on her back, pulling the blade out. But it wasn't just the blade that came with it - bright blue flames followed, surrounding the sword and appearing in various places around Rin, including the tip of her tail. Not only that but her fangs and pointed ears lengthened, giving her a much more inhuman appearance than she had at the start.]

C'mon then! Don't leave me waitin' on you!

[The fangs and ears were a little bit surprising but the blue flames only make azula smile more because, hey, fire.

Her first attempt is to try to bend those very flames into an attack. rin has probably seen bending before since zuko is here, each movement a mixture of martial arts and almost dance, which azula always executes with plenty of style.]

[She has, but having some one attempt to use her own flames against her was... different and incredibly unnerving. While her training back home had stagnated somewhat in the wake of the upcoming festival and other things, she had been training with several people here on various ways to control her flames.

This was as good of a time as any to flex said control, just barely keeping her own power from jumping ship before narrowly dodging the oncoming attack.

Wow, okay, Zuko wasn't kidding about this one. Granted Rin only had to survive long enough for the Bastion to kick in it's failsafes, but she was beginning to wonder if she could even do that.]

[Grinning triumphantly, she knows she doesn't have to actually hit to be gaining ground here, not when it's so obvious how the attempt unnerved Rin. Azula thrived on fear, and this was no exception.]

Maybe you should have thought through your plan a little better.

M-maybe you shouldn't be such a bitch!

[Yeah. She was shaken. That much was clear, but being shaken for her hardly meant backing down.

And she did know soon enough the Bastion would put an end to this if it didn't stop on it's own, but like hell she was going to let Azula in to that fact or run like a coward before it got to that point.]

I ain't done yet! You can't scare me away that easily!

[Gripping the sword with both hands, she took a swing in Azula's direction. Blue fire launched from the blade as she had no intention of going at her full-on with the weapon.]

[Azula just laughs, not taking her seriously in the slightest. It's simple for her to jump out of the way of the sword but when she goes to attack back she finds she's....tired? unwilling?

Maybe she just didn't think enough of this girl to kill her. Waste of her time. Yeah that's totally it.]

Well I'm done with you, go play somewhere else.

[Rin recognized the sudden lack of desire to continue, and while she knew what was going on she wasn't about to give Azula the satisfaction of an explanation. It hadn't quite hit Rin just yet, but that was still enough to get her to pull back.

Naturally Oshawott took offense to this and instantly charged forward, intending to squirt Azula right in the face. If you're not going to finish the fight he will!]

Oshawott, don't--!

[she's seriously going to kill that stupid pokemon and it's really lucky bastion is doing its magic thing on her right now.]

I really don't think you want to do that.

[It's also lucky that Rin is fast enough to grab the little brat before he has a chance to let that Aqua Jet off at her.

But he does still activate it. Which means Rin is getting a nice splash back from the hand that she clamps over his mouth, leaving her a nice mess of wet and steam.

At least it wasn't holy water...]

... thanks, Oshawott.

Osha...

[He's sorry, Rin. Mostly.]

Whatever. Just get outta here if you're so damn eager to leave.

[this is hilarious what a great show.

but no ok she'll probably start heading off. thanks for nothing bastion she totally could've taken them.]

Only because I have better things to do.

[SO RUDE.]

Whatever!

[Rin doesn't even care anymore just goooo]

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