Azula Vs. Storm

Two powerfull woman who have proven themselfs in the field of combat will face other in a deadly dance. Which of the two will be the victor?

Azula Versus Storm

Azula

The person:

One of the most powerfull firebenders, Azula used blue fire, which is more powerfull then the orange and red fire others has shown to be using. Not only a powerfull warrior, Azula used guile and manipulation to reach her goals.

Born as the the youngest child of prince Ozai and princess Ursa, Azula also had a brother two years older then her, prince Zuko. She was named after her grandfather, Firelord Azulon and grew up in the royalty of the fire nation where she was surrounded by riches.
She quickly showed to be a firebending prodigy and combined that with a sharp wits, made her the favorite child of Ozai. Seeing in her the true heir, he took her in confidence and groomed her from a young age and thereby neglecting Zuko.
She enrolled in the royal fire academy of girls and met her two only friends Mai and Ty Lee there.

She was a true megalomaniac and desired power over anything else. Not only that, she was also very sadistic and enjoyed the suffering of her friends and brother.
This showed itself by the fact that she called her uncle Iroh a quitter and a loser after he left the 300 day siege of Ba Sing Se due the the death of his son.
She saw together with her brother behind the curtains that her father requested her grandfather to be named heir of the firenation and after the men started yelling, Zuko fled but Azula stayed.
After that, Azula spoke coolly to Zuko that grandfather had passed away and their mother was missing. She was later seen watching the coronation of her father. When Ozai was firelord, he spent even more time with his daughter and the relationship between her and Zuko got worse.

she watched with glee when Zuko fought and lost the agni kai and when her father burned the face of Zuko and banished him, she smiled. She became the crownprincess and the next three years were spent with training in firebending, combat and and strategy. It was during that time that she developped her trademark blue fire.

In her first appearence, her father gave her the mission to find and capture her traitors Zuko and Iroh, her brother and uncle.
She found her two friends Ty Lee and Mai and with them, formed a elite team to capture Zuko, Iroh and the Avatar. This search brought her through the earth kingdom, where she mastered shooting lightning, battled her brother and won easily. She also fought the avatar several times and took out the kyoshi warriors with ease.

She finally succeeded in taking out the avatar and took her her brother home. Here she played several games and hooked up Zuko with May. During a vacation on ember island, she confessed that she knew her mother loved Zuko more and thought about her as a monster.
After that, she was included in a important war meeting and suggested using a comet to burn the earthkingdom to the ground. Altough her brother was horrified by this, her father liked the idea.
When the Avatar group used the day of the black sun to attack the firelord, Azula distracted two of the group in a very good way untill the sun reappeared and she used her firepower to defeat them.

Later she battled Zuko and and Sokka (one of team avatar) but easily beat them. The group had tried to free one of the kyoshi warriors and were running away. It was on that day that Mai revealed to her that the girl loved Zuko more then she feared Azula and the two former friends attacked Azula. The betrayel and loss of her only two friends, slowly drove her insane.

The insanity got worse when Ozai called himself the phoenix king and named Azula firelord. She got suspicous that he saw her the same way as he saw Zuko and slowly began banishing all her servants and soldiers for various reasons. She also got into a emotional fit when she started hallucinating and saw her mother.

The day she was supposed to be crowned firelord, Zuko and the Avatar showed up. The angry Azula challenged Zuko to a agni ki and Zuko accepted, noting that something was off about her.
At first the two were evenly matched but Azula got more insane and worn down slowly. When Zuko taunted her to use lighting, she used it but aimed at Katara instead of Zuko. Zuko managed to redirect most of the attack but was too damaged to return to the fight. She then started fighting Katara, who managed to capture Azula in ice and chained her to the flour. when Zuko managed to rise again due to the healing of Katara, she broke completely and suffered a mental breakdown.
After the fighting, she was taken to a mental hospital.

I have talked about several of her aspects already. Her crualty, perfectionism and hunger of power are well known to all who have watched Avatar. What is less known, is her soft side.
She really was hurt when her mother got banished and she really longed for the affection and love that Zuko recieved.
It should also be noted that Azula was not a social person and she found it really hard to connect with others, especially boys. This especially shows in the fact that her two only friends main reason to stay with her was because they feared her.

The weapons:

Azula had only a few weapons and from those, she used only her firebending much. She has shown skill with two other weapons and so these will be discussed here also. Again, I will use other names for the categories that I am using. The first category will be hand to hand combat. The second category is weapons and the last one deals with special powers.


For hand to hand combat, I will use the martial art powers of Azula. There have been times where it was inconvienent for Azula to use her bending and that was when the martial arts skill most show themselfs. Since firebending is based on kung fu, it is very likely that the kung fu was the martial art of choise from Azula. Kung fu uses short and quick but powerfull attacks and sacrivise defense for more offense.
Azula has trained all her life in unarmed combat and has gained lots of skill. She has been shown to avoid and even redirect the sword attacks of her brother Zuko without the use of bending. That is a impressive feat on itself but you should also keep in mind that Zuko was a really accomplished swordsman and could even his father did not dare to attack him while Zuko had his swords.
Another example of kung fu used by Azula is when she took down several kyoshi warriors. The kyoshi were trained woman warriors that were masters of the martial arts and the small unit of Azula, May and Ty Lee took them out without using bending.
With the martial arts, I feel the need to mention her great agility, bodystrenght and acrobatics. This princess has been shown to run up walls without problems, do mid-air twirls, avoiding bending attacks with ease by jumping high in the air and she could support her body in a horizontal position with using only her arms with little effort. These attributes will be very usefull combined with the martial art skills of Azula and she will be able to dodge lots of attacks.

The weapon of choise is the shurikenknife. Azula used allmost no weapons during the whole series and focused on martial arts and firebending mostly. There is one exception, during the third book episode the black sun, the avatargroup attacks attacks the fire lord. Avatar Aang, eartbender Toph and waternation warrior Sokka chase Azula done and after they find out that Azula is just keeping them busy, they want to leave her. It is on that moment that Azula taunts Sokka about his imprisoned friend (the kyosi warrior suki) and Sokka charges at Azula. Azula hides a shurikenknife behind her sleeve but before she can use it Toph nails her hands to the wall.
The shurikenknife is a throwing weapon normally but the context of the fight shows that Azula would use it in  melee, had Toph not acted. This makes me think that Azula could use this weapon both ways and I will let her use this weapon both ways in this fight.
The shuriken knife is a small throwing knife that has lethal blades at all four sides. The picture I places here is of a modern shurikenknife, the weapon Azula uses has blades on all sides instead of the spikes on the three sides that the modern one has. Because it is slightly smaller then the hand, Azula could hide it very well on her body or behind her hand untill such times that she would use it.
Azula could use this weapon to throw at her enemies and inflict lethal damage. It is unknown how accurate she would be with this weapon but I can take it that she is very accurate since she forces herself to master a weapon and one of her friends was a master at throwing knifes.
The other use of this weapon is in melee but I would not advise such a thing. Azula will need to be very close to the opponent and one of the few ways to use it correctly is goating the opponent into attack, such as she displayed. Another problem is that Azula can cut herself if she is not holding this weapon correctly.
Because this weapon is only used in one episode and even there only once, It is my thinking that she would not use this weapon much and it would see limited activity during the battle. She will get only two shurkenknifes for that reason.
Lastly I would like to add that altough the shurikenknife is a very lethal weapon, It would also be use as a distraction weapon. When you try to avoid or block one weapon, you have little chance of spotting another attack that is heading your way.

The special weapon of Azula is her firebending. Not only is it her most famous form of attack, it is also her most powerfull weapon. During her teens, Azula managed to master firebending that much that she could the even hotter blue fire and mastered the use of ligtning at the age of 14. She is said to be one of the most powerfull users of fire and could use fire in ways earlier unseen. Another show of her skill is that she could produce the largests amount of fire at one time without much tiring. She has used her blue fire a lot during the shows run and showed a lot of power with it. I will give two examples of her power with the fire altough there are a lot more examples. The first one is the fact that she could use her fire to block attacks from all the other bending arts and even evaporate a large waterattack that was aimed at her. Another example is the episode: day of the black sun. I have talked about it with the previous weapon and I ended the example there with the hands of Azula being chained to a wall with the use of earthbending. Soon after that, the solar eclipse that has prevented her from using her fire ended and she easily broke her earth chains and attacked the three opponent with huge fireattacks before escaping her three opponents.
There are three ways Azula could use her art and I will talk about all three of them. The first one being her offensive attributes, the second are the other uses for her fire and lastly the electricity. I would like to mention that she has shown to shoot flames from her mouth but since she was insane during that time, I take it that she could not use this while she was sane.

Offensive, Azula couls use all sorts of firebending attacks. She used the normal fireballs and shoot them at opponents, jets of fire, whirling disk, blades of fire, large jets of fire, firestreams, fireslashes which are very long whips of fire and Azula could charge fire attacks.
Azula could use her fire other ways and will use those in the battle. The first one is a fireshield that can block a lot of attacks. She can also use her fire to propel herself forwards with a lot of speed. She can intense the heat in the air and even controll other fires in the area.
Only the strongest and most skilled firebenders can use this last way of firemanipulation. By seperating the yin and yan energies, they could create lighting and Azula was no exeption to this. She has shown to use electricity since the age of 14 is only one of the three fire users in the series to use this. It is such a powerfull attack that it will be a instant kill when it hits and a good technique to finish the fight. It does take a few seconds before it can be used though. One good example of this is when Azula shot Aang while he was in the avatarstate. The boy barely survived and only because of special healing water. He also was unable to use the avatarstate untill the last episode of the serie.

Lastly I would like to add that the firebending is the strongest during the day but it gets weaker when it is very cold or while its raining. Altough the blue fire will not be affected as much as the normal fire by this.

X-Factor
Azula was a frequent user of psychological warfare. She could set small ambushes during a battle, she was a expert lyer and the person who normally could spot lies was unable too. She also loved to manipulate people for her own uses. Both opponents and allies got manipulated and she has shown to use this in a battle setting to force the opponent to attack. This also includes taunting the opponent. All these abilities combined create the x-factor of psychological warefare. Basicly, she set up her opponents and forced them to fight in the way she wanted or make them extremely uncomfortable. Not only does this put pressure on the opponent but it seems she really loves it herself and that would put even more pressure on the opponent. She would also play dirty and aim on other people then her opponent to gain a advantage.

Links:

As always will I have a few links for you guys to read a bit further on Azula.

The first link is a bio on Azula:
http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Azula#axzz1mjlLXATF

The second link goes more in detail about firebending and its abilities:
http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Firebending#axzz1mjlLXATF


Now a youtube clip that shows the power of Azula with a song that suits her.

And the best clip for last. Azula: daughter of fire

Storm

The person:

A African woman who has endured harships and turned from thief to superhero. With the ability to controll weather, Storm is truely a devoted and powerfull member of the X-men and a dangerous mutant.

Ororo Idaqi T'Challa, Ororo Munroe and storm are three names to describe one person. She comes from a line of priestess, all who have white hair, blue eyes and the ability to wield magic. Her mother was a princess of a Kenyan tribe and her father a American photojournalist. Ororo was born in Manhatten and when she was six months old, the family moved to Egypt. When she was six, a airplain crashed into their house and both of her parents were killed. Ororo survived but was buried under the rubble near the body of her mother. This event led to her severa claustrophobio, something she still suffers from.
She managed to escape from the rubble and having only her mothers ruby and the clothes on her back. She was found by a gang of thieves and their leader named Achmed El Gibar thought her to become a thief.
She quickly became a prized pupil and was most skilled in picking pockets and picking locks.
One day, she tried to steal the wallet of a American tourist who turned out to be Charles Xavier. Using his telephatic powers, he managed to stop her but due to another mutant intervering, she got away. Charles noted that she was a mutant but did not tell her that.
After trying to escape Cairo and wander the country, she was almost raped by a stranger who gave her a ride and she managed to kill him. After walking through the saharah desert, she found out about her powers to controll the weather and manipulate the weather.
After arriving at her ancestral homein Kenya, she was taken in by a elderly woman who helped her with her powers and act responsible with them. During that time, several tribed started worshipping her believing Ororo to be a goddess.

It was in a battle against a mutant named Deluge that Ororo met the X-men and months after, Xavier recruited her. He explained that she was not a goddess but a mutant and had to use her powers responsible. She agreed to join the team and accepted the name storm.
Within the X-men, she did several missions and got to control her powers more and more. After years of service, Storm even became leader of the x-men and altough she was very insecure at first, she later became a true leader.

Storm had a lot of adventures with the x-men and during that time, she became leader of another mutant group by beating their leader in hand to hand combat, lost her powers, avoided being used by Loki to become a goddess of Thunder, got kidnapped, got killed and ressurected. Defeated another mutant named Cyclops in a duel over the leadership of the X-men. She also turned the X-men to become rougher and more pro-active and even work together with Magneto and got their powers back.
She got married to the black panter and became the queen of Wakanda and the most important mutant.
She then joined the fantastic four for a while and became a part time member of the x-men.

Storm is a powerfull mutant and may even be a omega level mutant. An example of her strenght is that she almost created another ice age and she can summon massive destructive storms when she gets emotional. She is kind, caring and cares about every living being on the earth. When she killed a man who tried to rape her, she vowed that she would never kill again.
She also tends to have problems with her self confidence and doubts on what she does. She has displayed this several times but she always manages to get het confidence back.
Not only is she strong and caring, she also has a iron will that cannot be broken, even not by the strongest of  all vampires. She is a expert thief, a expert gardener and due to her being married to a prince, she has highly influencial connections and diplomatic immunity.
I have summed up a tiny bit of the many adventures that storm had and I suggest that you guys read the whole bio that I will post at links.

The weapons:

I have already talked about the categories that I will use during this match and will not cover that anymore. I am going to say that Storm will not use any magic. I know she has magic potential but I have never seen anything that suggested she has used it in battle.

For hand to hand combat, Storm uses her martial arts. Trained by wolverine, Storm was a fierce fighter that could hold herself very well in hand to hand combat. She bested the leader of the mordocks in single combat without the use of weapons and she took out cyclops even though she did not have her powers during the fight. She also almost defeated magneto in single combat and during the movies, she has shown very good combat techniques also. And we should not forget that she was still a effective leader of the X-men even though they were powerless.
Not only did she have combat training from a ex-military, she also developed some skills during her time as a thief since she succeeded in killing a rapist that attacked her.

Storm in African costume

For weapons, Storm will use a large knife. Is has been known to carry both the knife and the staff. I have chosen for the knife because I could find more evidence supporting her using it besides one simple line. I could not find much evidence of Storm using the staff apart from one sentence.I do feel the need to say that Storm does not like killing and would only use the knife as a last resort weapon.
Storm started using her knife as a weapon when she lost her powers and during that time, she used the knife a lot in combat. In one instance, she stabbed the mutant who had invented the gun that had robbed her of her powers in the chest because she thought he was opening a portal.
After she got her powers back, Storm kept the knife with her as a backup weapon, where it found its use also. Not only this knife was used by her but she has also used other knifes including two made of bone against a opponent who used a knife also.
The knife is a dangerous weapon with one sharp egde and a blunt one. Made of metal, it could both cut and stab. Storm could also throw this weapon short distances. Storm was very good with the knife and has fought with it a lot. She showed her accuracy by throwing it multiple times and could disarm someone without killing him. Altough this is a last resort weapon and would not be used often, it would be a very dangerous asset for Storm when used and could be a gamechancing weapon.
Like with its opponent, when the knife is thrown, she could use it to wound or kill but also to distract the opponent and close in with something else. because this is mainly a melee weapon, Storm will get only one knife for this fight.

As for special, Storm has her weather control. Storm can see the world as colourfull energy patterns and can manipulate them. She can chance the weather in the sky to her liking and she can use her controll of weather to attack the opponent. She can use  weather elements from the sky to attack opponents (think storms and lighting from the sky), but she can also summon weather attacks from her hands.
Storm is greatly in tune with the nature and can influence it in several ways. She can command the weather to act in a way, she can give several commands to the weather and let it act in patterns and even her emotional state can influence the weather.
The weather is the form of attack that she is most famous and it is both her first choise of combat and the strongest form of attack that she has.
Her tornados have blown the hulk away and her winds have levitated buildings. Her ice storms can freeze or flash freeze opponents with ease and she even created such rainfalls and floods that she washed away dinosaurs. However, it can happen that her powers overwhelm her and then she can destroy city's with her storms. She once lost her powers that much that she almost put the world in another ice age.
However, altough it is easy for her to summons weather patterns, it is harder for her to clear the weather up.
Not only can she create weather, but she is also not harmed by weather and this include temperature and lightning. She can also create weather indoors and create weather over very small areas.
There are two ways that Storm can use her powers. She can use the weather to directly attack the opponent and she can use the weather in other ways to help her during the fight.


For offensive attacks, Storm can use lightning to hit or stun the opponent. She can also use her icestorm attacks to freeze a opponent, use tornados and other windstorms to blow the opponent away in a concussive force or confuse the opponent. She can also drown opponents using floods and use airpressure to crush the opponent.
The other ways to use the weather in battle include flying by hovering on the winds. Storm can use this to hover objects and opponents and deflect attacks using air pressure.
She can summon rainstorms, thunderstorms, windstorms, hailstorms and any other form of storms you can think of to throw the opponent offguard and or distract the opponent enough to give the win. I have already mentioned the stunning ability of the lighting. Storm can also influence the temperature in the air, altough she cannot get the temperatures unnatural high or low. The last power that I am going to name is the fog that she can summon and thereby making it harder for her opponent to see her.


I have talked about her powers, but her powers do have some weaknesses. Altough she can create weather that is uncommen in the area, she needs to get the weatherpatterns from the area. A example is that when she creates rain, that she needs to get moisture out of the area. Another example is that she cannot summon sandstorms in a city without sand.  She also cannot summon weather that cannot possibly exist on earth.
I have already said that she can summon weather easily but it is hard for her to disperse the weather and this may take some time which can be exploited by the opponent.
There is also the chance that she summons storms way too powerfull for her to control and she can hurt herself by them or innocent people in the area.

X-Factor

I will use two small x-factors for Storm that will be used as one strong x-factor. These are the x-factors of thievery and a strong will. First, I will discuss the thievery. Storm has learned how to steal from the age of 6, when she joined a gang of thiefs. She was a prodigy and one of the best at picking locks and pockets. The picking pockets can be used to take the shuriken knifes from Azula without Azula knowing. She will also notice small movements of the hand and other dirty tricks that thiefs themselfs employ. This well help her against some of the suprise attacks of Azula. She also may be able to spot the hidden shurikenknifes.
Because of her past as a thief, Storm is very stealthy and can sneak up to opponents and escape from dangerous situations.
The second X-factor is a indomitable will. Her training with the weather gave her a very strong will and even Dracula could not influence her. This means that the mindgames of Azula will work less or even not at all. I would like to say that even though she has a very strong will, that does not mean that she does not show emotions.

Links: 

As Always I have a few links for you guys

The first one is her bio. Since I have talked only a tiny bit about her adventures, I really suggested you guys read it because her biography is huge.
http://marvel.wikia.com/Ororo_Munroe_(Earth-616)

I have another link and this one gives more info on the different storms that have existed in the different universes.
http://marvel.wikia.com/Storm


Here is Storm in the last X-men movie: X-men origins.

And Storms powers and quotes in the animated series.

Weapon Edges

Kung Fu Vs. Martial arts

- Here, we compare two deadly martial arts with each other. The martial arts of Storm are very dangerous and mixes offense and defense in one combination of attacks. She has had some training as a thief but most of her training came from Wolverine and the other X-men. She is a very skilled practisioner now and her martial arts will be dangerous. The martial arts will come in use a lot because Storm does not need to kill with her martial arts, she can just controll or knock out her opponent.

The kung fu that Azula brings to field focusses more on short and powerfull attacks. With these quicks attacks, Azula can bring foe's down fast. However, the kung fu does lack defense because of its offense. So altough Azula has some very strong attacks, she is open to blows from her opponent. Her training comes from the royal academy of firebenders, where she would have learned the martial arts.

She also has a lot of strenght in her body can can deliver her blows with a lot of strenght and she has her agility to use to her advantage. She is very agile and can run up to walls and spin the air with ease. This will help her avoiding her opponent but also gives her some advantages in fighting her opponent.

- Weapons against armour is not possible since neither warrior does have any armour and the martial arts have no penetrating power. I will recall the blocking and dodging abilities here again. As for blocking, Storm can block the attacks of her opponent using her own martial arts but Azula has more problems with blocking since her fighting style is mostly attacks. That being said, Azula scores more points with the evading of attacks due to her better agility. This will make up for her lack of blocking and will put her longer in the battle then if she only did attacks. During the show, she has evaded lots of bending attacks and martial arts would be a small problem for her.

- As for skill, both warriors are incredible skilled. Azula had training from martial arts experts and one of her best and only friends used martial arts and pressure points to the highest degrees. Altough Azula would not admit it, she would have taken ideas from her friend. She has showed her skill a lot during the shows run and took out the kyoshi warriors. She also fought her brother Zuko and managed to avoid sword blows with ease.

Storm has a lot of skill also. Being trained by Wolverine and the other x-men, she also has more experience then her opponent. Storm has beaten some very powerfull opponents using hand to hand combat, such as Cyclops and the leader of the Mordocks. She also almost beat Magneto but they were distracted on the last moments.

In the end, both warriors have a lot of skill with their fighting style but I think that Storm has more skill because of her experience.

- Now I have to call a edge between these two dangerous martial arts. Azula has the advantage of powerfull and quick attacks, more body strenght and a better agility while Storm has a better defense and more experience in her battles. I can say without a doubt that the two will fight with the martial arts a lot and a decent amount of kills/take outs will be the result of it. This egde will also be a close edge as seeing how good the two are with their martial arts.

The way I see it, compensates the agility for the lack of defense and will the advantage of blocking be nullifeid Now it is strenght versus experience and I tend to give the egde to strenght. The more bodystrength combined with the powerfull attacks will deliver some quick kills. Also, My experiences in martial arts and fighting tell me that in a battle, experience does not help a lot since every mistake can be a fatal one and even experienced warriors can make mistakes in a battle.

Edge: Azula

Shurikenknife Vs.Knife

- Two small but lethal weapons will be researched here. Azula has her shurikenknifes, these throwing knifes are lethal and are primary used as throwing weapons. They have a decent medium accurate range and glide through the air very well. All sides of this weapon are lethal and so it does not matter which sides hits the opponent. The throwing knifes have decent penetration power but can also be used as a distraction tool, to throw the opponent offguard. Apart from its range uses, Azula can also use the the knifes in melee but they are very short and Azula needs to be close in to use it and Azula can hurt herself when used in melee. Maybe a very good aspect of these two knifes is that they are hidden. Many opponent will only see it when its too late.

Storm has a lethal knife herself and knows how to use it well. It mainly use is in melee where it can slash and stab. Storm will not hurt herself when using it. She can also throw her weapon but this weapon was not made for throwing and that will be more clumsy. However, it will still be a good distraction. I also need to name the X-factor of Storm here. As a former thief, she might be able to spot the hidden weapons before it is too late and even steal the knifes before Azula can use them.

- Weapons against armour will be very short. Neither warrior does have armour. Azula does have a lot of agility and will be able to dogde attacks. Other then dodging, she does not have defence against the knife of Storm. Storm herself has more defenses then Azula. She can fly in the air to avoid attacks or have gusts blow the knifes away before they reach target. She can also use her knife to block melee attacks if she can spot an attack.

- Now comes the skill department. Azula has never been shown to use the knifes. On the one instant in the one episode that she used it, she got attacked with earthbending before she could use the knife to attack. However, May is a very accurate knifethrower and Azula would have want to be on equal foot with her friend.

Storm has used her knife a lot while she was powerless and led the X-men very well during that time. Storm would have gotten a lot of training and a lot of skill with the knife, which is also obvlious on the fact that she can throw it very well. However, after she got her powers back, she would use her knife a lot less. She would also not use her knife to kill a opponent.

I would like to add that neither warrior used their knifes much and that this category will have the least skill of all and the least kills.

- For my final judgement, I can say that this one is close again. Neither of these female warriors used the weapons enough for me to say that one is particulary better then the other. Where Azula's knifes focus more on the throwing element, Storm focusses more on melee. Normally I would go with the throwing because when you have a better chance of killing on range and with dubbel the amount of knifes, you have the advantage. This time, it is different however because Storm can use the wind to blow the knifes away and when they come to melee, Azula has a chance to hurt herself. There is one last point that I would like to name again and that is the fact that Storm can pick the pocket of Azula and rob the firebender of her knifes. Storm can then use the throwing knifes against her opponent. These all give me the conclusion that Storm gets the egde here. But please keep in mind that this is still a close egde and neither warrior will resort to this weapon quickly. As I said before, the least amount of kills will be with the knifes and especially the knife of Storm will have very few kills. (That is one of the reasons the egde is so close)

Edge: Storm

Firebending Vs. Weathercontrol

- Here we have two very dangerous powers. Both of these are the main powers of the two warriors and both powers will be used most during this match. I will look at the offensive and defensive factors of both powers. After that, I will look at the defense against each power and the skill of both warriors. In the end, I will combine both offensive and defensive skills to get a picture on which power is better.

Azula has a lot of uses for her fire and she fight with it in different ways. By using her own bodyheat and chi energy, Azula can peform flaming attacks from both her hands and feet. She can peform all sorts of offensive attacks and showed to attack with flaming discs, flaming whips, fireblades, firestreams and ofcourse fireballs. However, she would be able to use the fire in other attacking forms. Normal firebenders would use red and orange fire but Azula has mastered blue fire. The blue fire is hotter and more dangerous then the red flames. Apart from her own fireattacks, Azula can controll all other forms of fire and attack with these as well. Azula can move swiftly with her fire, calling it up is easy and she can switch to different attacks with ease. Her agility will come into play also and she can peform fireattacks from the air to suprise her opponent.

I would need to say that the firebending fire acts different on other people. When the fire from bending hits surrounding objects, these object will burn as always but when the fire hits another person, it hurts but does not set that person on fire instantly. It can deliver severe burns however and I am confident that long exposure of the fire will burn the body of the opponent enough to leave a mess. Azula can also fire a jolt of electricity towards the opponent. It takes a bit of time to focus but when it is shot, it will kill.

The weather controll abilities are completely different. Storm can choose to attack with weather from the sky and from her hands altough I suspect that she would choose to attack from her hands more in a one to one battle since that is more accurate. Storm can call upon her attacks with ease also but when she summons a attacking storm from the sky or a large tornado, It will take a bit of time to dissolve it.

Using the powers of weather, Storm can shoot lightning that will kill a opponent, she can cast tornado's and other form of windattacks that can blow any opponent away and into other objects. When there is enough water in the neighberhood, she can summon a flood that can drown Azula, her icestorms can freeze her opponent and she can manipulate the airpressure to crush the princess.

These are not many powers they are rather different from each other. I also need to say that she will avoid using half of them because of the instant kill power. Of her attacks, she will use her wind abilities and icestorm mostly because of the power to knock out. (Note that when Azula is knocked out or in any other form incapable to fight any further, it will count as a victory of Storm)

I will also need to mention that when Storm summons a dangerous attack like a tornado and it misses its target, Storm will need to dissolve it before it does too much damage.

We have a few powerfull offensive powers but for me it is clear who is the winner. Azula has more attacks, that she will use during the fight and she can change between attacks in fluent motions where Storm needs to start with a completely different attack anytime she tries something else. What is more, Storm will try to subdue her opponent and in my experience is subdueing more difficult then actual killing.

Now for the other ways both powers can be used in the battle. This time, the roles are reversed. Azula has a few ways she can use her fire in the battle. First of all, she can heat the air up and make her own attacks more powerfull. She will also be able to use her fire to propel herself with a lot of speed and even fly in the air using her fire. She can also form a big shield made of fire that will protect against all sorts of attacks. The last way Azula can use her fire is by burning the surroundings. This might distract Storm while Azula can go in for the kill. As with the forms of attack, Azula can switch between these rather easy and even peform attacks while she jets forwards. It will also take little time and energy for Azula to summon these attacks.

Storm has some more abilities to use during this battle. She can hover in the air using the winds and with these same winds, she can push objects or her opponents away. She can also have a constant wind during the battle that makes it harder for her opponent to fight or move agile. She can use airpressures to block attacks from her opponent. Storm can summon rainstorms, thunderstorms, hailstorms and all other sort of storms to distract her opponent or even make the fighing more uneasy for Azula. Using lightning to strike near her opponent, Stom can blind or simply distract Azula and Storm can creates fogs that, combined with her white clothing and white hair makes it hard for her opponent to spot storm. Storm can also lower the temperature if she feels the need. These attacks does take little time and energy to be summoned but takes more time and energy to be restored. Storm can counter the fire by summoning a rainstorm or snowstorm and lowering the temperature. These things will not effect her but her opponent will be bothered during the fighting and there is the fire of Azula will give less damage because of this.

Azula will use her fire very good in the battle but most of these are to protect herself against her opponent in one way or another. Only the fire can be used to distract. Storm has some ways to protect herself but can also use the weather abilities to weaken the attack of her opponent or simply make it harder for Azula to battle this mutant. Her fog abilities will be a very usefull one also because it fits with the sneaking around that Storm is capable of doing. In the end, i think that the other abilities of Storm are slightly better then those of Azula.

- Now for the protection against the abilities. I have already talked about the fact that neither warrior wears any armour but there are other ways. Azula is very athletic and can dogde several aimed attacks, I can see her also dodge the thunder from the sky. Her main protection however, is the fireshield since it will stop most, if not all attacks. I would also like to make mention that the fire of Azula might be able to dissolve the water that Storm throws at her.

Storm does have defensive abilities also. Again no armour but Storm can fly up in the air with ease to avoid attacks and use airpressure to block the fire. Storm can also use her fog to great advantages here. You cannot hit what you cannot see. Lastly I need to add something. It is stated that Storm is not bothered by the weather and does not get hurt by lighting. This is very important because this completely negates the lightning attacks of Azula. For this, I take it that the lightning of Azula will act the same as normal lightning.

Both warriors have good defensive abilities against each other. I do need to say that I tend to think that Storm has slightly more abilities here to block her opponent then Azula has to block Storm. Also, a important attack of Azula will do nothing against Storm.

- Both warriors have enough skill with their abilities to be called masters. Azula was called a prodigy by both Zuko and Iroh. She has trained since she was a child and had mastered blue firebending and lighting by the age of 14. She also had the best teachers that could be provided. Her firepower was above all but the firelord and she was almost unbeatable with her fire untill she got insane. She also has a lot of practise with one on one battles because of the agni kay duels. Storm has trained with an old woman and after that with the X-men. She showed incredible things and there is a reason why most fans think she is a omega level mutant. I need to mention the dangerrroom training that would preper her against all different forms of encounters. Also, let us not forget that Storms has many years of experience and has lived much longer then Azula, thus having had more time to master her abilities.

Now I need to say which one has more skill and I am a bit torn. Both have shown incredible skill and have done feats that it very hard to overcome. It is my opinion however that Storm has more skill in total with her powers but Azula has more skill in a one to one duel.

- Now I have to give a final edge in these two powers. Both are extremely dangerous and will be very important in this coming battle. Azula has some very powerfull fire attacks and she has the advantage that she can use them fluently without restarting to attack everytime. She also has more experience in the use of fire in duels. Storm on the other hand, has more other ways to use her weather in the fight, which includes defense. She also has more overall skill with her weathercontrolling power and she can even command the weather as how a general would command his armies.

Storm also has the advantage of being able to summon her attacks in two different ways, either from her hands or the air. That being said, it will take a bit of time to create big weatherchanges and even more to call make it dissapear. There is also the fact that Storm can easily crush Azula with several weatherattacks but would never use them because she does not like to kill.

In this final matchup between the two most important abilities of the fighters, I need to give my egde to the one who's abilities will help the most during the fight. This is a very close egde and it was very hard for me to choose. I have pondered about this several days but in the end, it is my decision that altough the firebending will be able to kill more, Storm has more uses for her weather during the battle and can weaken the fire a bit. She also has the bigger potential to kill altough she would not use that very little. Thus Storm can influence the battle so that it will be harder for azula to kill and when Storm does lose controll of her emotions, she has the ability to destroy Azula. This last thing does not happen often and is not a compelling factor for me to give the egde.  

Edge: Storm

The fight

Azula jumped in the air to avoid a boomarang that was thrown at her. The weapon spun past her and she turned her attention towards a brownhaired girl in a blue outfit. The girl tried to attack using waterbending but Azula avoided the whips of water and threw a disk of fire at the girl. The waterbender blocked the attack with her water, only to find Azula closing in on her. The girl turned away to flee, not wanting to let the crystal fall in the hands of the fire nation but Azula had closed in on her and after a hard punch in the stumach followed with a punch in the face, the girl releashed the crystal as she fell to the ground. Azula grabbed the precious stone and walked away. 'Dai Li protect me' she yelled. The four men dressed in green reacted instantly and lifted up a wall from the ground that protected against a ball of earth. Three of the men concentrated on the small blind girl who had sent the ball of earth while the last Dai Li agent stood by Azula to do her bidding. Hidden behind the wall, Azula studied the green crystal when it suddenly turned red. 'On the wall highness' The last agent spoke as he send a ball of earth towards a young boy with an arrow drawn over his bald head. The boy smashed the ball in several pieces using his staff and as he turned his attention to Azula, the princess fired lighting that hit the avatar square in the chest. Aang flew of the wall and a bright light appeared. Seconds later, Azula and the last Dai Li agent were gone. Team Avatar took the three Dai Li out with ease and stood in amazement as their opponent had just dissapeared.

Azula opened her eyes as she felt the grass around her. Next to her, she heard the secret agent from Ba Sing Se moaning. Azula opened her eyes and saw a blue sky. She stood up and demanded from her warrior to follow her.

She walked over a strange street that she has never seen before. Azula was almost certain she was not in the earthkingdom anymore, she even doubted if she was on their own world.

Azula walked over a strange road when a machine, similair to the warmachines of the fire nation almost ran over her. Azula jumped aside to avoid the vehicle and as she walked towards the machine, a man stepped out. The man had a small mustache looked angry at the woman. 'Watch where you walk, you idiot. You stupid bitch.' Azula was in a few steps near this man and looked at him with icy eyes. 'You do not talk to a princess this way. Now apologise or feel my wrath.' She spoke, still the icy glare in her eyes. The man laughed at this before he spoke again. 'Now listen little girl. You either run very hard towards your mother or you will get a spanking you cannot believe.' When the man had spoken these last words, Azula attacked. She first kicked him between the legs and followed up with a punch to the chest. The man cried out in pain as he fell on the ground. He watched the unusual strong girl and saw how she created a ball of fire with her hands and hit his car with it.

All around Azula started people with running and screaming as the car was burning. They had seen this argument and they also had witnessed the ball of fire. 'A mutant' was the one word that Azula could hear as she snapped the neck of the man who had insulted her. She did not know what this word meant but she knew that this city would burn.

Storm walked through the hallway of the large mansion, followed by a strange blue creature that some might call a demon. The two had returned from a mission a hour ago. It had been a short fight against Mystique and Toad and after the two had fled, both of the X-men had taken some rest.

Now the two were called upon again and Storm knew that they would be heading for a new mission soon. Storm knocked on the door and a voice called that she could open the door.

When they entered the office, they saw a bald man in a wheelchair. 'Ah welcome Ororo and Kurt. Sit down the two of you' He spoke with a calm voice. After they sat down, he started. 'I know that the two of you have just returned from a mission but I have a new one ready. There are two mutants who are creating havoc in a small town, a man and a woman. I would like that the two of you will stop them and see how you can help.' Storm nodded while Kurt spoke. 'Das ist gut' 'Professor?' The female mutant asked. 'yes?' came Xavier. 'What kind of abilities do these two have?' Charles Xavier was silent for a moment and then spoke again. The woman can controll fire while the the man can control earth. Now go, it is important that they are stopped soon before Magneto gets them.' Storm knew that this mission was important and after they had recieved all the details, the two X-men hurried towards their mission.  

The fire forced the two police officers backwards as Azula saw how a woman was flying towards her out of the corner of her eyes. Azula took care of these two men with ease and turned to see the woman land before her. 'Stop this fighting please.' woman spoke. Azula was not in the mood for this and pointed towards the Dai Li agent. 'You, take care of him.' The man nodded and send a small wall of earth towards the white haired woman. Azula saw how the woman lifted herself up in the air to avoid being hit and when Azula wanted to take care of her, a creature appeared in front of Azula.

The creature jumped towards Azula with incredible speed and the female firebender was just able to avoid the creature. She took the moment after he had landed to deliver a powerfull kick in his face and send him backwards. She shot a ball of fire towards him but missed as he had dissapeared again. This time, he appeared right behind her and held the arms of the woman. 'Lissten to mich' he spoke but before he could finish the sentence, Azula gave him a powerfull ram with her elbow and the creature jumped away again. He dissapeared and appeared on the shoulder of Azula. Knowing that there was only one effective way to dealing with him, Azula delivered a firepowered punch on the cheek of the creature and threw him off her. Before the creature could do anything else, Azula concentrated herself and fired lighting towards him. The lightning hit the Nightcrawler in the chest and he fell down with a cry. “NOOOOOO' Came the sound of the woman and Azula made herself ready to fight.

Storm had dodged the wall with ease and was now watching the man with the large head. The man send a hand made of earth towards storm and by shifting the pressure of the air, she crushed it before the thing could reach Storm. She saw out of the corner of her eyes that the Nightcrawler was fighting the female and she send a gust of wind towards the man. The man erected a wall from the ground to block the attack and female X-man used the pressure shifting technique again to blow the wall in several small pieces. The warrior who was still hiding behind the wall got pushed backwards because of the blow and as soon as he rose up again, a small tornado was heading towards him. The tornado picked the man up as if he was a doll and threw him around at great speeds.

The tornado collided with a large building and the Dai Li was knocked against it. Storm then dissolved the tornado and after the man hit the ground, she flew towards him to check if he was alive and after she heard the satisfying heartbeat that confirmed that he was knocked out and not dead, she turned to see how the Nightcrawler got hit by lighting in the chest. 'NOOOO' She yelled out and blew a wind towards the woman. As the opponent got blown away, she quickly checked her friend and teammate. He was dead.

Azula fired a lightning attack towards Storm, but saw to her great suprise that the attack did not have any effect. This avatar was more powerfull then she looked, Azula thought. She then fired a ball of fire towards her opponent. Lifting herself up in the air, Storm avoided the attack. She then lowered the temperature in the area and started a hailstorm. It was at that moment that a disk of fire slashed across the side of Storm and the X-woman send a gust of wind as counter. The two princesses attacked each other without mercy and neiter of them had an edge over the other. Storm summoned a icy cold attack that would freeze a opponent. Azula lifted herself in the air with the use of her blue fire and created a long burning whip that headed straight for Storm. Ororo avoided the attack and shot a weak bolt of lighting towards her opponent. Azula stopped her whipping and ran towards and then up a wall. The lighting crashed under her and Azula away, landing nimbly on her feet. The hail was still hitting Azula and it was very annoying.

'Is that all you can do?' Azula asked playfully. Showing no emotion, Storm cast another bolt of lighting and Azula send her own lighting to counter it. The bolts exploded in the air and Storm took a chance of sending another freezing attack from her hands. Azula used her fire to speed away from the attack and then flew up towards a house. When she had arrived on the roof, Azula created another two disks of fire and and send them towards Storm. Using his the air to create a shield, Storm managed to block the attack and she then moved towards her opponent. Storm saw that the fire-user was pulling something small, she knew that it must have been a throwing object. Storm was right and Azula threw the shurikenknife with all her power. Instead of avoiding, Storm used the wind to blow the throwing weapon off course and headed towards the assaillant. The two started fighting a melee battle on the roof of the house and Azula launched several kicks and punches towards her opponent. Being able to block all of them, Storm sweeped the fire-user. Azula fell down and jumped up again, only to give one powerfull kick that send Storm from the roof and onto the street. Azula followed and the battle raged on in the deserted street.

'Kill me if you can' Azula said with a smile as she searched for her second shurikenknife that she could not find. Storm ignored any form of temptation and blasted her opponent away with a hard gust of wind. Azula flew backwards towards the wall of a house but she turned and used her feet to land safely and push herself forward. Aided by her fire, Azula pushed herself forward and headed straight towards her opponent, burning blades of fire ready.

Storm tried to flee away and was nicked in the side by the burning blade.

When Azula stopped and landed on her feet, lightning struck inces away from her and Azula was stunned for a few moments. Taking her chance, Storm managed to freeze the lowerhalf of her opponent. Before the the mutant could use her freezing powers to completely freeze Azula, the firebender burned herself free and delivered a powerfull kick that send Storm away.

Storm walked over towards her opponent when Azula suddenly started burning a house next to her. Seeing this, Storm knew she needed to act quickly. Drawing the knife she always carried on her person, she attacked the other woman, trying to wound. Azula stopped with the burning of the house and guided the knifeblows away. 'Is that all you have?' She mocked. Not giving in, Storm managed to slash Azula lightly in the shoulder and Azula decided she had enough of this. Running up on the wall, she pushed herself towards the opponent and gave a powerfull kick that forced Storm to release the knife. Storm screamed in pain and anger because she had to act now or the houses would be burned down and the people trapped in them would be dead. Using a great blast of wind that would normally be found in a hurricane, Storm blasted her opponent away and towards the outskirt of town. Her hair was a mess and her clothing had some burning holes but Storm did not pay any attention to it and changed the hail in heavy rainfall. Hoping that this was enough untill the firedepartment arrrived, Storm took a mobile phone and called te mansion. 'Need help, Nightcrawler dead, street burning. Hurry!' She spoke to Jean. Her friend said that everybody was busy but that they would hurry and come as soon as they had time.

Knowing that reinforcements would not arrive soon, Storm pushed her fatigue aside and flew in the way she had blown her opponent, seeying broken trees and overturned cars everywhere.

Storm was ashamed that she had let her emotions have the better of her and put innocent lifes in danger to take out this opponent. After some flying, she finally found the other warrior on a deserted soccerfield.

Hoping to startle her opponent Storm summoned lighting from sky and planned the lighting hit the earth near evil mutant.

As the lightning crashed downwards, Azula used her fire shield to protect from the attacks. Two lighting attacks were cast downwards and after those had failed, a small flood filled with water that had falled down because of the heavy rain came down on the big shield and after both fire and water crashed, they dissolved.

Storm knew that she had to do something quick and then suddenly got an idea. She created a thick fog that only covered the field so she would not disturb the firemen.

Not being able to see anything, Azula was angry. She was tired, wet and hoped that this fight would end soon. The powerfull avatar of this world proved more then a match and Azula was unable to see anything now. Knowing that creating a fire would only help her opponent to find her, Azula kept silent and tried to spot her opponent.

She felt a pain in her side and another on the back of her head. Azula tried to turn but slipped in the mud and fell down. As she tried to stand again, a blow of wind pushed her into some sort of net. The fog dissapeared and Azula noticed that she was caught in one of the two nets. She burned it to free herself but before she could raise up, she saw that the woman was holding her shurikenknife, ready to throw.

Azula watched her opponent, when she let her suddenly started to cry. The tears were not visible because of the rain but she sat silently, knowing that she was beaten.

'Do you surrender?' Storm asked. '...Yes.' The girl spoke, clearly defeated. 'I am sorry I attacked and killed your friend. I am on a strange world, unshure how I came here and I panicked. I tried to defend myself...'

Storm could not see any lie and knew that the battle was finally over. She dropped the shurikenknife in the grass and offered the girl her hand. 'I know a mansion where you are safe. A house where you are protected.' Storm spoke with kind words. Azula took the hand and stood up.

When she was up again, Azula suddenly attacked the mutant with a blade made of fire. The blade took Storm in the stumach and the suprised woman felt the burning pain. Azula then tripped Storm and unleashed the strongest fireattack that she could do. After a minute had gone by, Azula stopped and watched in glee as she saw the charred body of her opponent. Azula would first find a way to get home and then come back with an army. Now the avatar of this world was dead, there was nothing to stop her from taking this world for the fire nation.

Winner: azula

This was a very hard fight for me to decide who would win because both warriors were very powerfull and each of them had something diffferent to give them a egde over the other. Untill i started the battle, I was not shure who would win but I finally figured out who would win.

First of all, I would like to say that I think that Storm is more powerfull then Azula and would she ignore everything, the fight might turn out a lot different and she would have a better chance of winning this fight. However, her greatest weakness turned out to be a fatal point.

Since Storm would not kill and especially no innocent people, she would have her thoughts on two things on one time. The first is to beat Azula and the second one is to keep all the bystanders safe.

Fighting a battle against Azula is hard, fighting the battle while trying to keep the civilian casualties to a minimum is even harder and doing both things while Azula tries to attack innocent people is near impossible.

Even with that, Storm would not use her most powerfull attacks much because she would be afraid to kill her opponent and would be left with weaker attacks that would be more easy to avoid or block. 

Azula would figur out that her opponent would not kill her and turn it to the advantage by manipulating Storm. This would not work all the time but a good amount of times.

So in the end, the stronger warrior lost due to her moral beliefs.

Most of the kills Azula would make would be with her fire attacks and only very few would have been by her kung fu or shurikenknifes.

Storm would knock out her opponent a lot of times and only very few times actually kill Azula. Her main weapon would indeed be weathercontroll altough her martial arts would take up a decent amount of k.o's

In the ways of deadliest warrior, I would suggest that the difference would be less the 100 kills and close to 530 for Azula and 470 for Storm. From those 470, I think that around 120 would be actual kills and the rest knock outs.

Keep in mind that this is my opinion after researching both warriors and I hope that I have explained my reasons for this victory enough.

I thank you all for reading my work and I hope You guys will enjoy the Island of Fear.

Now I do not have any battle to announce but I will make that up to you by revealing a character that will not fight in the tournament but will play a other role in it.