Naga Meme!
I love nagas. I love nagas a lot. (Actually, I like all kinds of human-animal hybrids, as my mermaid, octomaid, selkie, drider, and scorpionman obsessions attest. HOWEVER. Today we are concentratining on nagas.)
This is an Avatar'verse AU where the Firefolk are nagas. For people who need references to what nagas are, I direct you here and here. ( Read more... )
This is an Avatar'verse AU where the Firefolk are nagas. For people who need references to what nagas are, I direct you here and here. ( Read more... )
The doors opened for her and the worthless human girl riding her tail. She slithered into the antechamber of the not-quite-temple, not-quite-tomb. It was hewn from the stone of the caldera wall, the floors and walls polished mirror-smooth. Embedded pillars carved with snakes and flame decorated the walls, and great bronze braziers stood unlit between them. At the far end, massive bronze doors remained shut.
The basalt doors slid shut behind her with only a faint scrape of rock, plunging her and the human into darkness. The human gasped. Azula simple remembered where the braziers were and ignited them.
Blue light ghosted weirdly over them. Azula curled her tail in a formal pattern, flicking the human off to sprawl on the floor.
"Great-grandfather," she called as the human pushed herself up to her hands and knees. When she tried to rise higher, Azula lashed out with her tail, crushing the girl to the floor.
"Great-grandfather," she called again, "I brought you something to play with."
The bronze doors swung open without a sound. Azula bent down and grabbed the human girl, hauling her upright and dragging her along.
Inside the bronze doors, there was Sozin.
The human girl stumbled, fell to her knees, staring in awestruck fear. A small part of Azula could not blame her, could not forget the first time she had seen her great-grandfather. Even now, there was something about him that muted her own pride in herself.
He was massive. Azula's coils were long and strong and still growing, because she was naught but a girl. Her father could wrap a deer in his coils while still having room for two or three men. But Sozin-
Sozin could have been a dragon. His coils were thick and hard with muscle, hard as stone, almost as thick as the human girl was tall. Imperial red scales bigger than Azula's hand gleamed in the red light of his flames, and his coils circled all around the great hall. His hair was white and his face lined with age, but his eyes were still bright and fierce.
"Great-grandfather," she said and bowed respectfully.
"Azula," he rumbled. "A human girl, of all things?"
"Yes." Azula settled herself, arranging her tail in a pattern of respectful interest. "An Earth Kingdom girl and a doctor. One who knows my brother and uncle."
The tip of her tail flicked, curled around the human girl's long braid. The girl stiffened, and Azula smiled.
"She's a pretty thing, isn't she, Great-grandfather?"
"Hnh." But Sozin did not look disinterested.
Azula bowed. "I'll just leave her here, Great-grandfather."
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Sozin sounds amazing. I hope this yields fanart. >.>;;
Azula, leave Song's hair alone!
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You just need to cuddle, Song. He's a sad Naga.
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