Sozi slammed the door behind her as tears ran down her cheeks. She had heard the entire conversation the adults had had in Korra's room. It hurt her that they were debating her fate, but it hurt her more that her uncle was willing to stop her by whatever means necessary. It had seemed that they were just starting to get along when this whole mess happened.

"You know sometimes I wonder how you could be my granddaughter," Azula taunted as she appeared before her. "You are nothing like me."

"You're right. I'm not," the little Firebender replied, growing a little courage. Her grandmother narrowed her eyes.

"It doesn't mean you can't be."

"What do you mean?"

"The potential is there," the spirit replied, circling her like a buzzard-wasp. "You just need to tap it, like you did before."

"I don't know what you're talking about," the child answered. Azula gave a wicked laugh.

"Oh but you do." Sozi fell on her knees as a sudden pain went through her head. It felt as if someone was stretching out her brain and then pulling out what they needed. Memories suddenly came to her in a rush.
"Mom? Who are you talking to?" she asked.

"No one, Sweetie. Go back to bed," the woman answered tenderly. The child nodded and returned to her bed.

"I won't allow you to take over my daughter's body."

"You don't have a choice," the spirit replied.

"She's your granddaughter! How could you want the life of pain and suffering for her?"

"I will hand her the world in a silver platter!"

"Stained with the blood of innocents!" the woman responded. "I will not allow it!"

"You don't have a choice!" Azula screeched and set the house on fire with a blue flame. The woman called onto her daughter. The child ran to her, flames everywhere they turned.

"The window!" she said pointing at a small window wasn't engulfed in flames. The woman hoisted the child up and she managed to get out, landing with a small thud.

"Mom!" she cried. The woman tried to climb out the window but the roof collapsed, burying her with the rest of the house. The child fell to her knees and sobbed for her mother's loss.

"Look! It's the girl who burned her mother!" a boy teased. The children giggled at the girl's sadness.

"Better be careful guys or else she'll burn us too!" another kid said.

"That's not how you clean!" the head mistress of the orphanage shouted. Sozi flinched and the tone of voice. "Do it again!" the woman added throwing the rag onto the floor.

The little Firebender nodded and returned to her cleaning as the woman stormed off. She let tears fall down her cheeks. She missed her mom.
"You weren't born to be treated this way," a voice said. Sozi frowned and stood up, looking around.

"What do you mean?"

"You're the granddaughter of the Princess of the Fire Nation. You shouldn't be doing this."

"I can't do anything about it. My mother died and I have nowhere else to go," the girl whispered.

"You're right," the voice agreed. "Alone you can't do anything, but together…well that's a different story."

Sozi thought about it for a minute. "Can you help me?"

Azula let out a dark laugh. "Of course."

Later that night the orphanage was engulfed in flames. She went through each corridor, making sure the entire building was alight with fire. The head mistress stood in front of a group of children.

"Stop!" she pleaded.

Sozi looked up at the woman, a wicked smile on her face. "Why? So that you can teach me how to clean after all of this is over?" the child cried.

"No, no, that won't happen. Just stop and I'll forget all about this," the woman continued nervously.

The little Firebender narrowed her eyes at her matron and the terrified children behind her. "And you," she began. "You were right, I will burn you!" she screeched throwing flames at them.

In the next scene she was on a ship. There were only a handful of men commanding the ship. The child leaned against the boat, looking at the nearby city. She overheard a few men talking.

"Isn't that Air Temple Island?" one of them asked, pointing at the place in question.

"Yup, that's it. Avatar Aang built it himself," the other man replied.

"I heard the new Avatar lives there."

"Yeah and so does the Fire Lord, Zuko."

Azula turned to look at the island. "So my big brother lives with the new Avatar?" She scoffed. "I guess I can pay a family visit" she added, jumping off the boat

"No!" Sozi cried, falling back to the present

"Yes, you did all of that! You have quite the twisted little mind, my dear. I only acted upon your deepest thoughts!"

"That's not true! I didn't want to hurt all those people!" the girl cried shaking her head.

"You're lying," Azula stated in a singsong voice. "You didn't fight back and you know why? Because that's what you really wanted."

"No," the girl whispered, falling to her knees. That wasn't what she'd wanted. She just wanted to go back, when things were normal. But she knew she couldn't. This was her life and it was falling apart.

"Sozi, open up. We know you're in there," Rohan called knocking on the door.

Azula scowled. "Get rid of them," she commanded before disappearing. The little Firebender wiped her tears away and opened the door.

"What do you guys want?"

"We're here to help you," Sam said.

"I can't be helped," the girl whispered.

"That's a lie and you know it!" Ty said .

"You're our friend Sozi, we want to help you," the nonbender continued.

"Yeah, but you have to let us," the Earth bender added.

The little Firebender broke down in front of them. "You can't help me. She's too strong."

"But you're stronger," the airbender said. "We know you can beat her."

Sozi looked up at her friends. They were right. She could beat her; she was the only one that could besides Korra. And she couldn't help her because of what she had done to her. She gave them a nod.

"You don't control me anymore. It's over," she said out loud. For a moment there was silence and then Sozi crumbled to the floor in pain, grabbing her head as the kids watched in horror.

"It's not over until I say it's over!" Azula screeched.

"Uh Ty," Rohan  began.

"This isn't the best time Rohan " Ty answered.

"I think thirty minutes are up, right?" the Earth bender continued.

"I hope so," Ty replied as all three children went into their fighting stance.
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"What are we going to do?" Karah asked her brother. He shrugged. Usually he was the one who came up with the plans but he was drawing a blank with this situation.

"I don't think there's anything we can do," he replied, changing the cloth on his mother's forehead. She had started to shiver after the adults left; it looked as if she might catch a fever.

"But we have to come up with something. We have to help Mom do things the right way. I mean Sozi is our friend. Maybe Aang could help us." The little Waterbender said nothing. "Mac, this isn't the time for your grudges," the little Firebender snapped at her brother's lack of sentiment.

"You're right," he said.

"Well of course I am! Can you just drop your personal-" she began but was cut off.

"It isn't that! You're right about asking Aang!" he explained.

"We can't leave Mom."

He rolled his eyes. Sometimes his sister was a little slow. "I know that."

"What's the plan genius?"

"Mom-"

"Mom can't fight."

"Ugh!" he yelled frustrated. "Will you let me finish!"

The little Firebender blinked at her brother several times. "Go on."

He exhaled to calm himself. "Mom is the Avatar," he started. Karah was about to make a smart comment when Mac shot his sister a look and successfully shut her up. "Aang is her past life. He is within her. Mom can help us reach him."

"Then what?" she asked curiously.

"Remember the stories Master Katara told us?"

"Which one?"

"The one about when Aang Energybended Fire Lord Ozai."

"Yeah, he took his bending." The Waterbender nodded.

"Well he knows how to do that. Now Mom can't right?? . She's hurt," he went on.

"But we can! But how? Only the Avatar can do that."

"Azula took over Sozi's body." His twin nodded.

"I'm listening," she replied. He gave her a look and she caught onto what he was suggesting and smiled.

"Two can play the same  game," Mac finished, smiling as well.
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Azula possessed her granddaughter.... but she dont know that 2 can play the same game 😈😈
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