Invasion of the Fire Nation Part 1

The lights of the Fairy Tail guild were still illuminated. Many of the guild-mates were gathered in the infirmary where they watched Wendy and Katara doing their best to try to heal Aang who was still suffering the effects of the poison dart. There were dark veins appearing on his body, he was sweating and was in pain as the contents of the dart were spreading all over his body.
"Well, how is he?" Sokka asked.
While Katara focused on healing his wounds, Wendy went straight to try and heal the poison, though this poison was much different from the poison that had infected Erza. It had progressed so quickly that all she could really do was slow it down. "I-I'm trying…" Wendy said. "But it's different from when Erza was poisoned."
"Just keep trying Wendy; we can't give up on him." Katara said, gently grabbing Wendy's hand.
Natsu let out a growl as he looked out of the window. "Azula did this. When I find her, I'm gonna beat the crap out of her!"
"Not this time Natsu," Zuko said walking up to him. "Normally I'd let you do whatever you want, but not this time. I'm going to be the one to take her down."
"Hey, she's the reason Aang is hurt. So I'm going to get her back for that!"
"Azula tormented me my whole life. If there is anyone who is going to get her back, it's going to be me!"
"This is ridiculous." Ryu muttered.
Erza had come in and smacked the two of them on their heads, instantly ending their argument. "Enough! We have a serious situation here, and you two are bickering like children!"
There was an awkward silence after Zuko's and Natsu's argument. "Sheesh." They all heard. Walking into the infirmary was Porlyusica. "Is this how Makarov raised his children?" she rhetorically asked. Porlyusica turned her head to Katara and Wendy. "Step away from him, I shall expel the poison from his body."
Wendy's nose was twitching as she caught a whiff of a scent that was very familiar to her. "It can't be she smells just like-"
"Why are you staring at me?" Porlyusica asked with a strict tone. "I told you to get out of the way, or do you want your friend to perish from the poison?"
"Y-yes." Wendy followed Katara to give Porlyusica some space.
"But the Fire Nation isn't done yet!" Lucy said. "They will send their army to finish the job, which means they will be coming to us."
Gray looked out of the window of the infirmary. "You know what that means, a huge fight in the streets, and they will be fighting to take us down in order to get to Aang."
Toph punched the wall and cracks were spreading from them. "The Fire Nation has always been a bunch of crafty cowards. Azula is no different, if she wants to get to Twinkle Toes, she's going to eat a face full of dirt if she tries!"
"I GOT DIBS!" Both Natsu and Gajeel roared to her, startling the earthbender.
"I want to help!" Everyone was surprised to hear that Wendy had said this and she had a serious expression on her face, her hands were in fists.
"Are you crazy!?" Carla said. "The Onibas job was one thing, but we are talking about a whole army with the intent to kill. I forbid you from partaking in this fight."
Wendy thought back to when Aang had first extended an invitation to join Fairy Tail. She could only helplessly watch him lying on his back while Porlyusica tried to expel the poison from his body. "I'm not a baby anymore Carla!" Wendy yelled. "I'm a Fairy Tail wizard so I'll act like one, whether you like it or not!" Many of the Fairy Tail members are surprised by this. "Aang would do the same thing for me, for all of us. So I'm going to fight to keep him safe, and there isn't anything you can do to stop me!"
While everyone was trying to take in what Wendy said. Toph let out a smirk while she folded her arms. Carla let out a sigh. "Such stubbornness, I can't imagine where you get it."
"Probably from you, mommy cat," Toph said. "Plus, she's a Dragon Slayer, stubbornness is kind of their thing."
Wendy smiled, especially since Toph was comparing her to a Dragon Slayer, sort of on the same level as Natsu and Gajeel.
Erza thought about their situation. "They aren't going to stop until they know Aang is dead, so we need someone to guard him while Porlyusica heals him."
"I can do it." Iroh offered. "I'm a former Fire Nation General myself, so I'll make sure they won't get past me." He said while playfully patting his huge stomach.
"No…" they all heard as Makarov walked into the room while wearing his Ten Wizard Saint jacket. "I will stay in the guild and guard Aang and Porlyusica. We'll need all hands on deck for this fight."
"By yourself?" Sokka asked. "Look I've fought the Fire Nation army plenty of times and they aren't pushovers," Sokka warned. "I'm not sure staying here by yourself is a good idea."
Makarov though quickly justified his actions. "Avatar or not, Aang is just as much a part of this guild as anyone. That makes him one of my children." He closed his eyes. "If any of those Fire Nation soldiers even tries to lay a finger on him…" His eyes were engulfed by a bright white glow. "They shall suffer a father's fury!"
Sokka was sweating. "Okay, then you'll stay in the guild. The rest of us will fan out and fight off the Fire Nation."
"Do you have a plan?" Erza asked.
"Other than beat the crap out of them? Yes, we have to go on the offensive, even though they are attacking us. But what about the citizens?"
"Already handled it." Makarov said.
"We thought this was a possibility." Iroh said. "So, Makarov, Mirajane and I have made arrangements with the mayor to have the town evacuated, in fact, it is happening as we speak."
As Iroh explained this, the entire town was being evacuated. People were in huge lines that led to the outside of the city. Some had wagons and animal driven carriages. There were orders given through megaphones that they must evacuate in an orderly fashion. There were some children that were crying and some people looked scared as some feared an attack from a monster or a dark guild.
"YEAH!" Natsu excitedly said. "Now I can go all out!"
Erza punched him in the back of his head again. "That doesn't mean you can go around destroying stuff. We don't want a repeat of Laxus' Fighting Festival." She looked to Sokka. "You mentioned a plan?"
"Right." Sokka said and he looked to everyone in the room, then he turned to Natsu, Gray, and Lucy. "Tell me everything you saw during your fight with Azula and her minions, don't leave out a single detail."
----That same night, the Fire Nation army were preparing to head out to invade Magnolia. Dark Ping was meditating somewhere in the forest and when a leaf was about to hit the ground. She generated a Phantom Blade and cut right through it with clean-cut precision. The leaf was cut clean in half right from the base of the leaf to the very tip. All while her eyes were closed. When she opened them, she looked down and was very happy with her work.
Jiahou was ordering around troops as they were wearing their Lacrima enhanced armor. Jiahao had similar armor but without the helmet and the Fire Nation lacrima insignia was yellow and orange instead of bright and dark shades of red. "Hurry up everyone; we don't have a moment to lose! This will be the greatest day in Fire Nation history; Phoenix King Ozai is expecting great things so do your best everyone!" All the soldiers in front of him performed a Fire Nation bow and they left to make their preparations.
Azula had a map of Magnolia in front of her on a board and she had Kobu, Hen and the distant Chun standing around her. "I am glad you got this map, Kobu." Azula said.
"Well, their merchants didn't have a potential invasion in mind when they sold it to me."
She looked around. "Now where is that Ping?"
Suddenly, she landed a distance for all of them, one knee on the ground and she was in a bowing stance. "Apologies for my lateness Fire Lord, I was training by myself."
Kobu looked at Ping. "All we need is a collar and you'll be indistinguishable from Azula's guard dog." Ping glared daggers at him for that remark, but she held her tongue. "I'm not your typical mindless drone; we have a similar goal so that's why I'm here."
Azula cleared her throat. "Right as I was saying, the four of you are our best chance of getting to the guild and taking out the Avatar for good if the poison didn't do its job. And it is an opportunity for the Fire Nation's first successful invasion in this world. So you three will go down these streets, they will be far from the guild initially but you'll be able to get there relatively unopposed." She said looking at Hen, Kobu, and Chun.
"And how do you figure?" Hen asked.
"Because, a huge bulk of our army will be the main attraction, We will charge straight ahead and take their strongest members on, head to head. Distracting them while your four take out any weak defenses the guild may have. Once that is done, we can collapse the city in around them, they will have no escape and we will take them out once and for all."
"And this will work?" The earthbender skeptically inquired, with his arms folded.
"It's not perfect, but it's the best plan we got." Kobu said. "But this will only work if we don't hold back. The faster we pincer the guild, the easier it will be from there."
"Fine." Hen said, feeling very eager to end this quickly. He then glared at all of them accept Chun who stood behind him. "But as soon as this is over, I'm done with all of this, got it!" he said with a threatening tone.
"That is only if we win, peasant!" Azula said. "You should know your place, colony boy."
"Oh I know my place, and that will be my foot up your-" Chun grabbed his arm and she sadly shook her head, telling Hen to calm down and let it go. He calmed down and he noticed his right fist was clenched and he released it. Hen then smirked. "Well, then you better hope we win, cause if you're not lucky, it will be Natsu who kicks your ass."
"I can beat that dim-witted flamethrower easily."
"Then prove it." Hen said with a smirk, Azula was really irked but she prevented herself from bringing down her fury onto Hen, he was still useful for the moment.
Both he and Chun left them and Chun had a scared expression on her face when she looked at him. "Hen, are you crazy!?" she said in a hushed yell. "If you talk to Azula like that… she'll make your life hell… trust me…"
Hen laughed. "Ha! I ain't scared of them. Azula, Jiahao, Ping… They are just a bunch of egocentric bullies that like to throw their power around. They think they are so powerful, that defeat doesn't even cross their minds."
"But Hen…"
"Remember what I said about starting a Revolution?" Hen said. "If the Fire Nation win this, it's likely those magic council guys will take notice and immediately strike them down. When that happens, you and I will find a way back home and we'll end this stupid war."
"B-but Hen…"
"We'll save him too, don't worry about it. Hehe, if there are some Fairy Tail members that even survived, we'll take them with!"
Chun looked down… "But what if we lose then? The Fire Nation is too powerful."
Hen gave a serious look to her. "I won't force you to come with me, I'd like you to, but that's your decision." He paused and then looked out into the distance. "Get aboard, or Get out of the way! That's going to be the catchphrase of the resistance. What do you think, pretty catchy huh?" he said with a smile.
Chun blushed slightly as she was surprised that Hen could even manage a smile despite what was happening. "U-um… yeah, I guess."
"Hey, no matter what happens, we'll always be together. I'll make sure of that." He took Chun's hand and gave her a serious look. She smiled in response and gave a nod. She had to believe that Hen's words. It was all she had left to hang onto, she didn't want to have to rely on him but it seemed she may have to if things get really bad.
----The morning sun was mere minutes from rising over the horizon in the town of Magnolia. Everyone at Fairy Tail was preparing to fight. Momo was worriedly standing outside the closed door to the infirmary.
"Don't worry Momo." The lemur had looked to Mira who stood over him. "Aang is very strong, he'll pull through, don't worry." Momo let out a series of unintelligible lemur chirps. "You can spend the day with me, Momo."
Momo complied and he perched himself on Mira's left shoulder.
Meanwhile, Sokka was going over the plan. "I hope this works. I can't believe everyone's riding on me to make this plan. I should have asked Erza to do it." Suddenly there was a cup of coffee in front of him. He saw Erza looking over him. "Hey, thanks."
"You thought a lot about this, haven't you?" Erza said. "Plus if anything happens, you know that we will be ready for whatever the Fire Nation throws at us."
"Hehe, yeah I'm worrying too much." He took a sip of the coffee Erza gave him, he then cringed at the amount of sweetness the coffee was. "Ugh! How much sugar did you pour into this? The whole bag!?"
"It's as sweet as I always make it." Erza flatly said. Sokka looked at Warren who walked to him. "Warren, perfect! You're going to stick by me so I can talk to the others with your telepathy."
"Got it," Warren said. "So how long do we have?"
Sokka touched Warren's shoulder. "That's all up to Bisca. Hey Bisca, do you see anything!?"
Bisca was a roof of the of a tall building and she was looking through the sights of her Magic rifle. This was so she could get a better look of the threat ahead. She heard Sokka in her thoughts through Warren.
She saw that on the edge of town, entering from the forest she could see the metal Fire Nation tanks leading the charge in a very wide formation. "We've got trouble." She muttered to herself. Looking through her sight, she could see that right in the middle of the formation was Jiahao and Azula. Both on armored Komodo rhinos, they also looked to have shards of lacrima on the armor that covered their bodies. There were also a huge number of Fire Nation tanks and that rode alongside the rhinos. Finally, she caught the sight of a few Fire Nation flags being waved by a few flag bearers.
Because of their huge numbers, their marching and the sounds of sharp metal rolling on rock could be very faintly heard. "That's definitely them alright."
…
Everyone was gathered outside the guild as they watched the sun starting to slowly rise. Some were going over their plans, while others were getting hyped for the battle. Bisca ran up to them. "Everyone! They are right on the edge of town. Lucy was right; they did bring an army, a big one!"
"That big huh?" Sokka muttered. "This is going to be tough."
Gajeel walked to Sokka's side. "They better be!" he said with a smirk. "It's about time I got a decent challenge."
Toph walked beside him. "Then you better be prepared, metal head, these guys don't mess around."
"Neither do I! Gihi!" Gajeel then thought to himself. "Crazy. Wasn't that long ago I was dead set on destroying Fairy Tail, now here I am fighting alongside them?" He then smiled to himself. "Life sure is crazy."
Macao and Wakaba were standing behind Toph and Gajeel. "I made a bet I would take out a bunch of Fire Nation guys," Wakaba said.
"Like you can keep up with me!" Macao said. "I'll be counting the whole time!"
Katara looked around and either saw her fellow guildmates preparing for the upcoming battle, or making jokes, or some taking it seriously and packing their weapons. She looked down guiltily because she knew that her group was fully to blame for the Fire Nation coming to their world. She felt like she needed to apologize to the guild, but before she could get the chance…
"Ah, don't get all sentimental on us." Katara saw Cana and Mira standing to her sides. "Don't go blaming yourself just like Aang does."
"She's right," Mira said. "It's as the Master said;" as she was saying this Makarov was asleep on the counter and was snoring with a snot bubble growing from out of his nose. "All of you and Aang are part of this guild, and are therefore a part of this family," Mira said with a smile while she held Momo in her arms.
Elfman pounded his fist into his palm. "Got that right! Those punks wanna pick a fight with us; we'll make them regret it!"
Juvia stepped up and Gray was next to her. "Juvia was welcomed into Fairy Tail with open arms, even after all I've done, the sadness I've caused. I will pay you back by keeping those monsters away from Aang!"
Zuko looked ahead. "It won't be easy. Azula has a plan, she always does."
"As if that is enough to stop us!" Zuko then saw the three members of the Thunder God Tribe standing by him, he knew that Bickslow had made that confident comment.
Freed was next to speak. "I know we also started off on the wrong foot, but we shall make it up to all of you." He drew his sword. "In the name of Fairy Tail, the Thunder God Tribe shall not fall to these tyrants."
"Freed…" Zuko muttered.
Evergreen grabbed Zuko's arm. "I'll leave these poor men sprawled across the ground by the time I'm done!" Mai angrily glared at Evergreen and she quickly let go of Zuko's arm as she backed away with white circles replacing her eyes.
Bickslow laughed while his arms were folded. "Alright! Who's ready to kick some ass, babies?!"
His dolls appeared behind him and sang. "We are! We are!"
Alzack had spun his magic pistols and placed them in their holsters while Bisca stood next to him while her magic sniper was over her shoulder she winked at the others who looked at them.
Suki in her full Kyoshi Warrior uniform had sheathed her sword and she stood in front of Mai, Ty Lee, and Reedus.
Lucy had prepared her keys while Gray straightened his jacket. Both Gajeel and Toph stood back to back with wide smirks on their faces.
Sokka walked out and he stood in front of everyone and they all looked at him, he had a serious expression. "H-huh? What are you guys looking at?" he asked.
Gray chuckled. "You're the one who made the plans, so we're behind you."
Sokka chuckled. "Y-yeah… I knew that!" Sokka had pulled out Appa's whistle from his shirt. "We will win today!" he blew on the whistle and a very loud roar was heard. Appa with black and gold armor covering his body had landed in front of them. Where his forehead was, the Fairy Tail insignia was painted in gold.
"Holy smokes!" Katara exclaimed.
"Appa looks cool!" Natsu yelled.
"I thought Appa would have needed some armor," Sokka said. "Reedus helped by painting it out for me. Then we could have it built to fit him perfectly."
Reedus smiled as he held up his paints and paintbrush in his hands.
Katara smiled as she saw that everyone looked like they had their backs in this fight. She felt an armored hand on her shoulder; the hand belonged to Erza as she smiled at her. "You are part of Fairy Tail, so your battles are ours." Katara nodded and looked straight ahead and nodded.
Wendy held her hand and she had Happy and Carla floating behind her. "We will fight them together." She declared.
"Aye, sir!" Happy said clenching a fist with his paw.
The Fire Nation army had already marched and progressed far into Magnolia's central, main street with a very large looking army supporting them. They all stopped. Only a small portion of the soldiers walked forward, leading them was Jiahao, to his two sides were firebenders each holding the flag that bore the symbol of the Fire Nation.
"Fairy Tail!" Jiahou yelled as he let his voice project outward through a megaphone so that everyone at Fairy Tail could hear him. "We are the Fire Nation, and by the decree of our leaders Phoenix King Ozai and Fire Lord Azula, the Avatar is to be taken immediately into our custody where he will face justice for his crimes against the Great Fire Nation. Anyone who aids him will be severely punished! We demand you to surrender the Avatar to us, and stand down!" There was a brief silence and no one from Fairy Tail had moved a muscle. Jiahao was confused that nothing was happening. But he was surprised to see that cracks were appearing on the ground under their feet. "What!?" he exclaimed.
The floor just inches in front of Jiahao exploded and shooting out were both Natsu and Virgo. The former's fist was on fire. The sheer shock on Jiahao's face was prevalent and he screamed as Natsu fist made contact with his face and he flew far back, knocking a few Fire Nation soldiers down with him. Virgo had trapped the flag bearers in the ground.
They both were then looking at the entire Fire Nation army who had their shocked faces hidden by his masks. Even behind the wall of rhinos and tanks. Chun, Kobu and even Hen could barely hold back their shock. Dark Ping was only furious.
"Pre-emptive strike: Complete!" Virgo said.
Natsu pointed at all of the Fire Nation forces in front of him. "YOU WANT HIM?! COME AND GET HIM!"
There was an explosion of dark energy from within the large army and bulldozed her way through the soldiers. Her hair was standing up on end and she had a phantom blade in her right hand. "YOU'RE MINE NATSU!" she angrily exclaimed. This surprised Natsu but he was saved from being cut from Erza who was in her Flight Armor and she blocked the strike from Dark Ping.
"No, you're mine!" Erza said as she forced Ping to back off. Suddenly their sword fight had taken to the skies as Erza chased after Dark Ping.
Azula got frustrated. "What are you idiots waiting for!?" she yelled. "ATTACK!"
Sokka from the entrance of the Fairy Tail guild then yelled his command as he jumped on top of Appa with Warren with Ty Lee, and Happy. "CHARGE!" Appa took off into the sky and both armies were charging towards each other. Team Shadow Gear along with Mai had stayed back to defend the guild from anyone who managed to get past.
"NOW GAJEEL!" Toph exclaimed as she stepped hard on the ground in front of her and the approaching army.
"I know what I'm doin' brat!" Gajeel stuck his pillared arm into the ground and what happened was that a line of earth and iron pillars had shot out of the ground and managed to bulldoze and through the first wave of metal tanks and standing soldiers and firebenders that stood in their way.
Behind them were a pack of six Komodo Rhinos. Max leaped up and his right hand was covered in a circle of sand and he leaped up while Wendy was next to him while Carla held her in the air.
"Sand Wave!" spiraling whirlpools of sand were surrounding the running rhinos and the sand whirlpools were actually starting to lightly lift the rhinos off the ground.
Wendy's cheeks puffed as she was sucking in all the air around her. "Sky Dragon's Roar!" Wendy blasted a tremendous cyclone of air that mixed well with the sand to create a tremendous blast of sand that acted as a small sand storm. The rhinos were blown back and their riders fell off.
The soldiers behind the sandstorm got frustrated that their two attack waves were already taken down. Azula grit her teeth. "We're beginning the assault now, Team 2 hold the line, team 3 and others we are falling back!" Azula commanded. Though she could hear a loud roar as in front of her soldiers were going down as she could Natsu speeding through team 2 with little effort.
"WHERE'S AZULA!?" he roared. Azula grit her teeth after hearing his voice.
"Fine, you want me. I am right here!" she revealed as the rest of the Fire Benders fell back behind her.
Natsu smirked and sped his pace. "Yes!" his fist was on fire as he sped to her. "Here I come!" Azula smirked and she snapped her fingers, and out of the windows of empty homes, chains made of dark rock had clasped themselves to Natsu's wrists and ankles. The surprise was so sudden and he was lifted off the ground by the restraints. "WHAT!?"
"Dai Li agents." Azula simply said. "Think of them as a secret Earth Kingdom army, surely someone as dim-witted as you can even understand." More chains were shot from windows and Natsu was behind held tighter around his limbs so he couldn't move. "You didn't think it would be that easy, did you?" She swung her arms in a circular motion and circles of electricity were around her hands. "This is the end for you!" she shot a bright blue bolt of lightning aimed at Natsu's heart.
But before it could hit him, Virgo leaped in front of Natsu and took the brunt of the lightning bolt. As soon as she was hit, she disappeared into a gold light and was sent back to the spirit world.
"What happened to her?" Azula asked. A pair of water whips had slashed through the rock chains and Natsu fell back down. He found himself in between Zuko and Katara. The Fire benders behind her had prepared to fight and these Fire Benders had their lacrima enhanced armor.
"I'd rather not explain since you're about beaten!" Katara said.
"Ooh me? Not today, I've got somewhere to be, but you're welcome to try and find me." Suddenly a square hole in the ground opened and she jumped inside.
"You're not escaping!" Natsu yelled but as soon as he got to the hole, it closed and he punched solid rock.
Suddenly the Dai Li soldiers were sliding down the walls and there looked to be eight of them. Their backs were in front of the Firebenders and they glared at the Fairy Tail members that stared them down.
"Ugh, not these guys again!" Toph complained.
Just at the Dai Li were about to start their attack. Elfman was charging at them from the sides his right arm was transforming while he ran. "Beast Arm: Iron Bull!" Elfman had caused the Dai Li agents to disperse. They leaped on the buildings and they shot chains that stretched down to restrain him. Toph immediately stepped to him and placed thick walls on all corners to block the chains.
Katara made thick water whips that stretched from her arms as she tried to lash the Dai Li agents down from the walls, but they simply ran up to the ceilings of the buildings to escape her attacks.
"EVERYONE!" They all covered their ears, and this momentary distraction had allowed the large firebending team to charge forward. Toph had erected a very large wall from the ground before she covered her ears.
"JEEZ SOKKA!" Toph angrily roared. "Why don't you yell a little louder next time, maybe even the Fire Nation could hear your thoughts!"
"This isn't the time!" they saw Sokka with Warren, Happy and Ty Lee on top of Appa and they avoiding blasts of fire that was being thrown at them. "The Fire Nation has properly scoped out the town, almost every empty building where I am, they have taken control and are using that cover to try and shoot Appa and anything else of ours that are airborne down!"
Alzack then came up with an idea. "Sokka, if you can pick me up, I can help you shoot some of the Fire Benders down."
"That's great, but we've got a bigger problem! They've spread their forces, and they did it quite smartly actually."
"What do you mean?" Zuko asked.
"I flew over the city and apart from Erza fighting evil Ping. We've got three smaller forces that are using different paths to get to Fairy Tail. The teams are led by those three from before, Hen, Kobu, and Chun."
Lucy immediately looked at her Fairy Tail emblem and she looked up to the sky. Wendy on the other hand just looked shellshocked, because she just heard that one of the Fire Nation teams was led by Chun. The same name that belonged to the first friend she made in Magnolia. "It… it can't be the same person can it?" she remembered the bright purple flames that danced around Chun and how beautiful they looked. She couldn't imagine someone like her being with the Fire Nation. "Chun… please tell me it isn't true."
"I'm going to get to Chun!" Lucy said immediately after Sokka revealed the information.
"Lucy?" Gray asked.
"Chun is that same girl Juvia, Katara and Lucy fought before?" Juvia said.
Lucy nodded. "That's right, I'll stop her."
"Then, I'm going with you!" Wendy nodded.
"Wendy?" Lucy mouthed for a small second.
"Time is of the essence guys." Sokka reminded. "Team Shadow Gear won't hold them off when they get to the guild."
Toph smirked and looked at Gajeel. "What do you say, metalhead? I'd like the chance to remind Hen who the strongest Earthbender is."
"Gihi, not if I smash him first!" Gajeel said punching his hand into his fist.
Toph stepped hard on the ground. "Wouldn't you know it, he isn't too far from her here, let's kick some ass!" Toph made an earth wave below both her feet and she pushed herself to get to Hen while Gajeel followed.
"I'll take on Kobu," Katara said with a serious tone,
"You sure you can beat him?" Gray asked.
"Yes, I know I can. I've beaten him on my own before!" Katara said. "Where is he?"
Appa landed on the ground. Sokka looked down at Lucy, Wendy, Carla, and Katara. "I'll drop you guys off there." Lucy gave a firm nod while Sokka looked to the wall that held back the army. "That wall isn't going to hold them back for long."
"So what!" Natsu said punching his fists together. "I'll smash every last one of them Azula isn't going to get away with this!" he looked to where Zuko was. "Zuko are you- huh?" Everyone saw that Zuko and even the Thunder God Tribe had gone missing, only flashing, yellow, dotted outlines of their figures remained.
"Did anyone see where they went?" Ty Lee asked while still sitting on Appa.
…
Zuko was with Freed, Evergreen, and Bickslow through another street where they were fighting through a couple of Firebenders. Bickslow and Zuko led the charge as Bickslow's babies were raining down green beams from above, trying to take out as many Firebenders as possible. Zuko stood next to him and was throwing jabs and long lines of fire in order to force them out of their way.
Freed and Evergreen was taking care of the fast solders that decided to sprint past Zuko and Bickslow.
"Remember the plan. The quicker we take down Azula, the faster all this ends!" Zuko yelled as he shot he swung his foot, making a thick, disappearing arc of fire. The soldiers were distracted by this and when the flames cleared, Bickslow's babies were much closer to them. They all fired rapid fire shots that took down many people in that assault team.
…
"We can't worry about that now. They and Zuko can take care of themselves." Sokka said, "The Dai Li are here and are on the roofs, and so are a couple of archers and firebenders, they will make it difficult for us to move forward. Bisca taking down any archers she sees on the roofs."
Bisca was back at Fairy Tail and was firing shots from her magical rifle at Fire benders who tried assaulting the team from the roofs of buildings.
"But she can't see them all," Sokka said. "So, Ty Lee, Alzack you're gonna be on the roofs taking down Archers, Dai Li, anyone who isn't Fairy Tail up there!"
"You got it!" Ty Lee said.
However, they all heard slight screeching from the sky and they all saw that a large flaming boulder was speeding towards them. The boulder crashed into the wall that Toph had made earlier, shattering it. Appa roared as the soldiers were speeding through the destroyed blockade while climbing and moving around the shattered debris and the flaming rock.
"They brought their catapults too!" Sokka exclaimed.
Cana had three cards in her hand. "You'll wish you hadn't done that, Jolt of Fate!" a sea green magical seal appeared in front of her, and this spell had rained down bright bolts of lightning down on the armored soldiers. "Sokka, you get all the others where they need to be, the rest of us will handle things here."
Sokka then looked to Elfman. "Elfman, I need to borrow you for a bit, there is something I have planned."
Appa flew off into the sky and Sokka with, Lucy, Wendy, Katara, Ty Lee, Alzack, Happy, Carla and Elfman on top of him. Fireballs were fired at the bison but Sokka navigated away from them. A fireball and exploding card had hit some of fire nation firebenders.
They all saw Natsu, Gray, Cana, Juvia, Mira, Suki, Iroh, Macao, Wakaba, Reedus, Max, and many others stand in the way of the fire nation army and prevented them from progressing. "Your fight is with us!" Cana said.
"And mine's with Azula, so move out of the way!" Natsu yelled. "Fire Dragon's Wing Slash!" he slammed thick fire whips into the ground and the explosion forced some of the soldiers to disperse, but Natsu noticed the Lacrima crystals on their armor were glowing.
"Nice try dragon boy! Fire isn't going to work on u-" the bragging soldier was punched in the face before he could finish.
"Then I'll beat my way through all of you!" He roared.
But he didn't have to as a wave of water had engulfed and frozen over many of the soldiers, leaving them frozen in place. "As if we'd let you have all the fun, idiot," Gray said as he stood by Juvia who had caused the engulfing wave from earlier.
"I don't care about these guys!" Natsu started to sprint through the hordes of soldiers. "I WANT AZULA!" he exclaimed.
"Is Natsu, in love with this Azula?" Juvia innocently asked.
Suki internally gagged at the mere thought. "Please, don't even joke about that." In the distance, they saw some more soldiers heading towards them from a distance. "As long as we get most of the army's attention, they'll be less likely to splinter off into smaller groups."
"Then what are we waiting for? These guys came all the way. So let's give them a Fairy Tail Welcome!" Gray said.
----Azula had come out of the ground on the other side of town with a single Dai Li agent standing beside her. She saw a couple of commanders sending out Firebenders, and launching the fire boulders into the city.
"Report!" Azula demanded.
"There is a large group of them attacking our main forces, we still have our three splinter groups and a couple of advanced Firebenders guarding the edges of our territory."
"And Jiahao's group?" Azula asked.
"They have just started advancing, with all hope the Avatar will be eliminated within the hour."
"Good," Azula said with a smirk. "I wish I could have taken that honor myself, but I'll pull some strings with Jiahao." She saw magical attacks and fire attacks in the air around the central part of the city. "Fairy Tail will be the first to fall and when that happens. I will lead the Fire Nation here, while Father leads in our world. We will be unstoppable."
----Hen and a couple of firebenders were running through a couple of empty streets, taking a longer path to Fairy Tail while avoiding the fighting. "This sucks, I want to be able to fight, not sneak around them."
One of the masked soldiers looked to Hen. "Shut your mouth, this is what Azula demands if we are to achieve success today."
"Yeah, yeah… whatever Azula says is law and blah, blah, blah…" he said with a bored-sounding impression." He then remembered the last time he saw Chun before the battle.
…
Kobu, Chun, and Hen were about to separate into their smaller teams. Kobu stood discussing strategy with his men while Hen and Chun were speaking with each other.
"Got it? After this is done, come find me so we can blow this place!" Hen said.
"But what if I get there first, what if I have to be the one to-" Chun fearfully said. "Or what if I run into someone again… I'll have to fake being the perfect soldier again."
"Then take your time getting there, I'll be looking for fights so I'm for sure not getting to the guild first. Hopefully, it will be Kobu, and he's actually crazy enough to do it. If it turns out the poison already killed him, then they will find some way of letting us know."
"But still…"
"Just find me when it's all over, then we'll get the heck out of here and figure something out."
"U-um o-okay…"
Hen then looked away and smiled. "Heh, I have this gut feeling that everything will turn out alright… tell you what, once I get close to the guild, I'll come to find you."
"S-sure… But honestly… thank you. For all that you've done for me, I think I would have gone crazy if I didn't have you to drop all my baggage onto…"
Hen laughed. "Hey, I bench boulders, so carrying your baggage is no problem for me. Haha."
Chun giggled slightly. "You know what I mean."
"Yeah I do, and no matter what you want to do from here on out, I'll be there by your side."
"I-I don't know what to say?" Chun had looked down in an attempt to hide her blush. Then without warning, Chun planted a small kiss on his cheek which to no surprise… surprised Hen and he blushed as he stepped back. 
"U-u-um what!?"
"S-sorry!" Chun ran off while her face was red and Hen was confused by what happened still. He stood there standing for almost two minutes before he snapped out of it.
…
Hen was leading his small team while a lot of thoughts were in his head. "So what was that all about… does this mean she… Ugh, it doesn't matter, I just have to lose these bozos then find Chun and get out of here! Nothing's changed." Hen, while still deep in thought had tripped over a slightly raised tile he didn't notice before he fell on the ground. "Ow…" he winced. "That's what I get for thinking so hard…"
"All the better, you weren't so good at thinking weren't you?" he got up and he saw Toph and Gajeel standing a distance in front of him and the fire nation soldiers.
"Ha! I was wondering when you'd guys show up. I was getting bored here!" Hen started to comically stretch his muscles. "So we meet yet again, Toph and Gajeel, my two favorite enemies."
"Hah, funny I thought Natsu would be in your top two," Toph said folding your arms.
"He's a close third." Hen replied. "At least I got a good roll and didn't end up with stripper boy." He said referencing Gray.
One of the fire nation soldiers stepped up next to Hen. "What are you doing? They are the enemy! We should have attacked them by now!"
"What we can't talk anymore? C'mon, take that stick out of your ass."
"Enough, attack them!" the group of six firebenders charged right towards both Toph and Gajeel. But all six of them suddenly tripped and they fell to the ground.
"Sorry." Hen said. "But if you want to fight them." He then clenched his fist and an evil smirk was on his face. "You're gonna have to get in line!"
"What do you think you are doing you lousy colony tra-" he made a giant pillar that flung the six of them all across town.
Hen smiled and turned to Toph and Gajeel. "There, no more lousy distractions."
Gajeel smiled. "Gihi, now I really like this kid, makes me feel sorry that we're going to bury him into the ground." He then smirked.
"Hey, just so you know, he ain't stronger than me!" Toph exclaimed.
"Well, I guess we're about to find out, won't we?"
Hen started to get excited. "I get to fight Toph Beifong and Black steel Gajeel! Oh man!" he got into a tight earthbending stance. "I'm gonna enjoy this!"
"That makes three of us!" Toph exclaimed.
----While battles were happening elsewhere, Ty Lee was running on top of a ceiling and she dodged a couple of fireballs that were thrown her way. "Haha." She laughed as she leaped up and her hands landed on the firebender. She swung down and kneed him in the face, brutally staggering him. She spotted two Dai Li earthbenders sliding to her from a roof in front of her. They leaped the gap and were onto Ty Lee's roof.
The acrobat had leaped up and they shot their stone hands to her but they missed and she landed behind them. As she was about to sprint back to them, her ankle, however, was grabbed by a rocky hand from the roof and she couldn't move. She struggled as they got closer to her. But suddenly a figure crashed onto the roof.
When the dust cleared, they saw it was Erza, still in her flight armor. Dark Ping gently landed on the roof and saw both Erza and Ty Lee. "Well, well, well… isn't this a sight… Hello again Ty Lee," Ping looked at the Dai Li agents who were approaching the acrobat. "No, let me handle this one." She held out an illusion katana and slowly walked to Ty Lee. "So what can you do now? You're stuck, and I've stunned that tomato haired witch."
Ty Lee glared at Ping as she got closer. "Do what you want, but Fairy Tail will never lose!"
Dark Ping's smirk grew wider. "Haha, a pig's last squeal before the slaughter, it's too bad, you had a lot of promise, I teach you those chi-blocking techniques and what do you do? You run off to the damn circus, then you betray our Fire Lord and end up here. You had so much in the Fire Nation, high standard of living, and your friend was even a noble. How can you two stoop so low as to join a pathetic peasant-filled guild?"
Ty Lee only gave a serious look towards Ping. "Fairy Tail has done nothing but show us compassion and give us a home. They don't care whether we're in the Fire Nation or not!" Ty Lee then grinned slightly. "Besides, if they are so pathetic, how come they've kicked your butt every time."
Ping growled and had her sword close to Ping's abdomen. "Well, I'll be glad to cut you down!"
"TY LEE!" Erza yelled, quickly standing up, she threw a sword that smashed through the rock hand that trapped Ty Lee. Ty Lee bent under Dark Ping's stab motion, she rolled between her legs and was behind the swordswoman. She attempted to jab her back, but Dark Ping quickly turned around and grabbed her wrist. Ty Lee's eye grew and her big pupils shrunk.
"You thought you could chi block me!" Dark Ping laughed. "Oh, the nerve." She roughly turned her around and she shot two fingers down on Ty Lee's right shoulder. This caused her to lose the feeling in her right arm. Dark Ping then swept both of Ty Lee's legs and she fell onto the floor.
"Enough!" Erza then glared at Dark Ping, she stood up tall and pointed her sword to her. "Your fight is with me!"
Dark Ping turned her head. "Alright, but I'll make short work of you before I get back to gutting out this useless worm." She pointed her illusion blade at Ty Lee who was struggling to get to her feet
"You won't touch her!" Erza sternly said. "Because if you so much as try, I will drive my blade through you without a second thought."
Dark Ping giggled a bit. "Haha, oh yes, there it is. Erza Scarlet, I've heard many tales about the mighty Titania."
"As I've heard more than my fair share about the horrors of your military and of that coward, Ozai," Erza replied.
"That is Phoenix King Ozai to you, peasant!" Dark Ping had her illusion katana tightly gripped. "You should be honored, Titania, your guild will be the first of this 'Earthland' to fall at the hands of the greatest nation in history."
Erza tightened her glare and the grip on one of her swords. She remembered all the heinous things she had heard about the Fire Nation, all the evils they had done, the physical and mental stress that they put Aang through. Even now, he was still haunted by them. "You say the Fire Nation is the greatest nation in history…" Erza took a step forward. "There is no greatness in the slaughter of innocent people, just as Sozin ordered the annihilation of the Air Nomads a century ago."
"Get off your high horse! Since you know of our history, then you would know why Fire Lord Sozin did what he did. It was the only way to stop the rise of a new Avatar. And after how Avatar Roku betrayed his own Nation, I'd say that this little Airbender is just as much as a threat. So he must go down! And all those that stand on the side of the Avatar will face the Fire Nation's wrath as well!" she stopped and her attention was one-hundred percent on Erza. "Though, I have heard how you are the strongest in Fairy Tail, the scariest force in your little guild. Even that nuisance Natsu is afraid of you." Dark energy was building around her, her hair was starting to stand up by itself. "The strongest swordswoman of the Fire Nation, against the strongest swordswoman of Fairy Tail, I am very eager to see how such an encounter will play out!"
"If you desire a challenge Ping…" Erza was surrounded by a golden light and she was in her Heaven's Wheel Armor. "Then I shall provide!"
Both combatants charged forwards and as soon as their swords clashed, a huge burst of dark purple and white winds were blown all over the ceiling. The tremendous energy draft had blown both Dai Li agents off of the roof. As they fell, they shot their chains from their wrists and they managed to grab onto the ceiling across the street. Ty Lee was blown to the edge and she then leaped to another roof and it was a hard landing because of the wind blowing on her. She landed on her feet and rolled before ending up on her back. She used her one remaining arm to help herself onto her feet and she watched as Erza and Dark Ping were engaged in an aerial sword fight, her eyes could barely keep up with them, as she could only see streaks of white and dark purple crashing into each other.
"Be careful Erza…" Ty Lee thought.
----Kobu and his small team had gotten pretty far as they were already as far as the Kardia Cathedral. Unlike Hen, Kobu wasn't intent on killing time, or running into enemies."Heh, yeah this is where that crazy bastard Laxus was. I wonder where he is now?"
"Of course you'd wonder. You two so are alike!" The six fire nation soldiers were beaten back by thick blobs of water. Katara slowly walked out of a nearby alley before shooting a large bullet of water and that hit the gut of one of the fire benders and he was shot to a nearby wall and the water on his torso froze, keeping him fixed to the structure.
Kobu pointed forward while looking away from the remaining soldiers who still stood. "Head to the guild and confirm the Avatar's death. I'll stay here and deal with this!"
"You don't get to tell us what to d-" Kobu manipulated the water from his waterskin and he covered the soldier's face in a sphere of water. The soldier had to hold his breath and before the soldiers realized what was happening, Katara reacted first.
"No stop!" She exclaimed. She whipped a thin blade of water to Kobu which he avoided, this broke his concentration which dispersed the water from around the soldier's head. He fell to his feet as the water splashed onto the ground. He was taking deep breaths after he was nearly drowned.
Kobu turned to the others. "Did I stutter, go!" deciding that their priority was the confirmation of the Avatar's death, they all proceeded to Fairy Tail while picking up and lifting the soldier who Kobu had almost killed.
"You could have killed him!"
Kobu shrugged. "But he's alive, and he has you to thank for it. Either way, if the Avatar is still alive, then I'll be sure to wring out the rest of his pathetic existence with my own hands."
"Why are you doing all this!?" Katara yelled. "You're part of the Northern Water Tribe, I'd think you'd be against the Fire Nation! I remember what you said about your family, that they are being held by the Fire Nation. We can help you…"
Kobu raised an eyebrow and then he chuckled before he broke into an unhealthy, almost insane laugh. "Oh right… Did I say that? Yeah, about that-" He shot all of the water out of his water skin as a powerful jet blast of water and he hit Katara in her gut, forcing her to the ground. "I lied… as for my motivation for trying to kill the Avatar… well, you don't have to worry about that. I have to get to the guild before any of my useless teammates do, so if you don't mind-" he wrapped a thick whip of water around Katara's gut and he used it to toss her hard to a wall. "I'm not in the mood to be messed with, so if you won't stay out of my way, then you'll share the Avatar's eventual fate!" he undid his ponytail and he made scythe-like water whips. He let out an angry grunt as he shot his hands forward and the very sharp water projectiles shot to Katara.
Her eyes grew wide as she used her water to form a quick ice shield, but Kobe's water scythes crashed through it, shattering her ice like glass. Kobu was slowly progressing towards her, he had a dark expression on his face. He then remembered what Angel had said to him while he and Ping were trying to eliminate Aang back in the woodsea. "For Nirvana not to affect you, you must have quite the dark streak, Waterbender!" Knowing this to be true he wrapped water around his arms and darkly looked at Katara who had just struggled to her feet. "How right you were…" he thought.
----Lucy, Wendy, Carla, and Happy were running through an empty street, trying to find Chun as Sokka dropped them at where he had last seen her and her team of firebenders. "I still think you should have stayed back at the guild! You saw how strong that Azula person is." Carla said directing her advice to Wendy while hovering above both the smaller girl and Lucy.
"I'll protect you from Azula, Carla." Happy cheerily said.
"Hmpf!" Carla folded her arms in mid-air.
Wendy then stopped moving, she pointed her nose up and started sniffing the air. "Huh, Wendy? What is it?" Lucy asked.
"It can't be… it's exactly how Chun smelled when we first met…" she thought back to when they had met in town, when they talked at South Gate Park, and when they had ice cream before Chun had to leave. "Please don't let it be true." She couldn't believe that Chun would be a part of something so horrible, she didn't seem like that person in her head.
"Wendy!" the dragon slayer snapped out of her thoughts and she looked up to Lucy. "Are you okay?"
Wendy put on a fake smile and tried to assure Lucy that nothing was wrong. "N-no, I'm alright… But I think we should head this way!" she pointed to a road that turned left up ahead.
"Are you sure?"
Wendy gave a serious nod. "I think someone is close by!"
"Wendy has the nose of a dragon slayer, so we should follow her Lucy." Happy suggested.
Lucy smiled. "You're right! Lead the way, Wendy!"
"Eh? I-I mean… yes!"
Wendy led the way with Carla staying close to her, Lucy and Happy stayed close behind. "Chun, I said I wasn't going to give up on you! And I meant it." Lucy thought back to when they fought in the Tower of Heaven. She extended her hand to the tearful Chun and offered her to join Fairy Tail, and Chun was actually reaching back, and maybe things would have been different had Vidaldus not tried to use Juvia to try to kill her too.
She then thought back to when Laxus was trying to use his Thunder Lacrima to destroy the town. She swore to hear her voice after she herself riled up Fairy Tail to work together to destroy the lacrima. Chun had even said: "Thank you… Lucy…" That meant that what Lucy had said, somewhat resonated with the girl, and she even remembered seeing her lightning destroying two of the lacrima. She, however, kept that to herself. And even during the Fantasia Festival, she noticed both Chun and Hen looking down at them. She gave Chun a smile and a wink, as it was her way of showing her that she was still looking out for her. Lucy wouldn't give up on her, even if Azula or Jiahao had something over her, she would help her no matter what.
"Wendy, are we getting closer?" Carla asked as they approached the road in which Wendy said they had to follow.
"Yes, I think the scent is getting stronger- KYAA!"
There was a loud thud as Wendy had run into something, or rather someone. Wendy fell back and she and Lucy instantly recognized who she bumped into.
"Chun?"
Chun who had also fallen recognized the voice and her bright gold eyes instantly shrank when she saw the blue haired girl in front of her. "W-Wendy?!"
Lucy gasped, Carla was cautious and Happy looked confused. "Who are you again?" Happy asked.
Chun screamed when she saw both Happy and Carla hovering in the air. "AAHH FLYING DEMON CATS!" she comically screamed as it was the first time she laid eyes on them. Her eyes became white circles as she pointed straight at Happy and Carla.
"AAAH WHERE!?" Happy exclaimed, fearfully jerking his head from side to side.
Lucy then quickly noticed what happened. She looked at Wendy. "Wait, how do you know her?"
Wendy gave the same look to Lucy. "How do you know her?"
Carla flew in front of them. "Before we get sidetracked, look at what she is wearing!" she pointed a paw at Chun's mostly red outfit. "It's no coincidence, she is with the-"
"No way!" Wendy said, interrupting Carla. "There is no way Chun would be with-"
"It's true…" Chun said looking down in shame. "She's right… I am Fire Nation…"
Wendy walked closer to her. "So you're really a Firebender? Not a Fire Wizard?"
Chun shyly rubbed her arm. "I-I'm sorry, I didn't mean to lie. I just… but hold on, since when were you with Fairy Tail?!" Chun said noticing Wendy's Fairy Tail symbol.
"I… well I wasn't back when we met, I only just joined them a short time ago," Wendy said.
Carla folded her arms. "We shouldn't be making small talk with someone from the Fire Nation." She said. "She's our enemy."
"I don't see it that way!" Lucy said with a serious tone.
"L-Lucy…?" Chun muttered.
"Hey!" they all heard a male voice scream. "I heard something!" Chun's group of Firebenders started running towards them.
"No…" Chun said. "You guys have to run, I only just managed to lose them, they'll fight you if they see you!"
"I'm not going anywhere; I told you Fairy Tail doesn't run from bullies!" Lucy defiantly said.
"But why Chun?" Wendy asked. "Why do you want to hurt Aang?!" she asked, feeling betrayed.
"Wendy… you don't understand… Just please leave! I don't want to fight you, I don't want to fight any of you!"
"Not until you tell us what Azula has on you? What's going on?!" Lucy asked, stepping closer to Wendy and Chun.
"I can't… I can't…" Chun repeated as she started to shiver. She held onto herself for any bit of warmth she could.
"You can't what?" Happy asked.
"There they are!" Chun's team of firebenders had found her and they stood slightly behind her. "Stand down!" one of the masked soldiers ordered.
Chun was shivering and there were tears just hanging on to her eyelids. "Please… Go… Lucy, Wendy, you have to leave."
"Leave?" one of the soldiers said. "Who's side are you on?!"
"I'm not going anywhere!" Wendy exclaimed. "I am a part of Fairy Tail! Aang took me into this guild, they have become my family! I won't let you hurt Aang anymore!"
"Wendy…" Chun muttered while looking down. Her bright purple flames were building up above her right hand.
Lucy tried to plead with Chun one last time. "Chun… you're better than that! Please don't do this."
Tears were falling down Chun's face as the flames above her hand grew. "I'm sorry." She jumped back from Wendy and she shot a bright purple fire jab that went straight to her.
----Azula meanwhile was by herself elsewhere within the town, she decided to look for any Fairy Tail wizards that may have gotten to their territory on the other end of town. She heard humming and before long she stepped away from a bright green beam of energy that exploded on the tiled floor next to her. She noticed that there were five floating totem-like dolls around her. She ran as fast as she could, avoiding and managing to deflect any beams she couldn't dodge with blue fire jabs.
"Alright, show yourself, coward!" Azula spat.
"Yo!" she looked up to see Bickslow standing on top of a flagpole. "So you must be that Azula-chick I've heard so much about."
Azula looked amused and she smirked. "Is that so? I'm dying to hear what's been told of me."
"Heh, just that you're insane, self-righteous, and like bossing people around."
"Bossy! Bossy! Bossy!" Bickslow's babies chanted.
Azula looked slightly annoyed, never the less she maintained her confidence. "People have been calling me insane since I was a child, and as for bossing people around. As Fire Lord, it's kind of my job!"
Suddenly bright yellow energy bolts were fired at Azula from above. She jumped back and watched as the projectiles landed on the ground. She saw Evergreen land on the ground with her fairy wings extended. "So, you're Azula, are you?" Evergreen extended a fan in front of the lower half of her face. "You don't look so impressive. Nothing like my Zuko-sama described."
"Just give me time. I'll show you. I'll show you all how ruthless I can be!"
"We already know how ruthless you are." She heard. Freed's voice echoed as he appeared from runes in between the long distance that separated Azula and Evergreen.
"And just who are you people supposed to be?" Azula asked putting her arms on her hips.
Freed held onto his sword that was still sheathed. "We are the Thunder God Tribe, some of Fairy Tail's strongest, and we are led by your brother."
Azula chuckled in amusement. "Oh, is that it? So Zuzu's made some friends here?"
Freed unsheathed his blade and he pointed it to Azula. "You should show more respect to your elder brother, child. For he is a far better man than your father could ever hope to be,"
"Him? Manly? Let me stop you right there, he shivered like a cold puppy when my father challenged him to a firebender dual. And after, he begged for forgiveness with his tail in between his legs, he got what he deserved for his cowardice. Banishment. Along with a scar to remind him of his shame." She said tapping the side of her eye
"We don't take kindly to people who hurt our friends," Evergreen said, as Bickslow leaped from his flag pole and landed beside her.
"And you're just a spoiled little brat, who needs to be put in her place," Bickslow said
Azula clenched her fist and she swung her arm. "Shut your mouths! You should show respect to your superiors."
"You want our respect, you have to earn it." Freed declared.
"The only thing I want is your bodies burned to a crisp!" Azula said as she blasted a huge stream of fire towards Freed.
"Babies! Baryon Formation!" Bickslow's babies flew in front of Freed and they positioned themselves in a spinning circle and they fired a large lime green energy beam that clashed with Azula's explosive blue fire stream. This made an explosive blinding light that lasted for less than a second. This allowed Azula to close the distance between her and the Thunder God Tribe. She shot a huge, rolling disk of fire that had white, sharp, flaming edges to them.
Bickslow had taken the hit and he slid back with smoke rising off of him. Azula though didn't stop as she fired a sharp stream of fire to Evergreen, who quickly avoided it by flying into the air.
"I'll take all of you on!" Azula exclaimed as she generated lightning with the two pointing fingers on her hands. "I came to this world with a job to do, and I won't let a couple of weird circus freaks stop me!" Her lightning shot across the sky attempting to take out both Evergreen and Freed, who had used his runs to give himself wings.
----In front of the guild, Mai, Levy, Jet, and Droy were standing there, waiting to intercept any Fire Nation soldiers who got through. "I'm bored…" Mai dryly said as she was carelessly tossing her stiletto knife in the air and catching it. The heard another shot being fired from Bisca's magic rifle.
"But still…" Levy said. "We have to stay here and keep the Aang and Porlyusica safe."
"Heh, like they'll get past us!" Jet said. "If any of them get here, I'll get rid of them before they even know what hit them."
Suddenly a compressed fire jab was seen speeding straight towards Levy. But an arrow shot from Mai quickly ignited the flame before it could hit her. Levy had fallen to the ground as the projectile exploded in front of her face. She was immediately helped up by both Jet and Droy.
"W-what was that," Levy asked.
Mai held up her retractable sai and looked forward. "Trouble." The four of them were staring right at General Jiahao as well as an assault team of five unmasked, firebenders. Their uniforms were slightly different, in that they had sleeveless armored attire and had long headbands tied to their foreheads. The General had a red, glowing burn mark on his cheek from Natsu's earlier punch.
"Even you, Mai? Daughter of New Ozai governor, Ukano. You're part of this lowly guild too?"
Mai scoffed at him. "Yeah, that's right. Wasn't really my choice to come here, but neither was being arrested."
"And you'd happily defend the Avatar? What would your father say about this? You had a brilliant life, and you threw it all away."
"If it's all the same to you, my life is better here. And you better hope that Fairy Tail doesn't find a way back to our world, cause if they do. Both Ozai and my father will have a lot to answer for."
Jiahao got in a stance, and the rest of his firebenders did the same. "Stand down, if you surrender. I can promise you won't be tried for treason."
Mai only glared at Jiahao. "I dare you to try, Fairy Tail is my home now. So you can do whatever you want. Just know that if you actually do end up killing the Avatar, they will hunt you down to the ends of the Earth to take you down. And I will be one of them!"
Jiahao was taken aback by what Mai said. He grew a flame in between his hands. "So, a traitor to the end. NOW!" all of the firebenders including Jiahao had shot powerful streams of fire towards Mai and Team Shadow Gear, as they attempted to break down the last defense that Fairy Tail had in order to get to Aang.