A special task

Kuzon slept with Kara ( jk )

"Kuzon!" San called.

I gritted my teeth and made my way over. Usually only Kenji stayed and watched over us, but today he was with training I guess. My friend nudged me and I dropped the scrap metal and turned around.

"Hello" I said curtly. I wiped the grease on the vest they had given me.

San frowned at me.

"Don't you get a little hot wearing that while working with fire?"

He looked at me a bit too long and I quickly straightened out my tunic. I actually got extremely hot wearing the long sleeve and pants combination, but I had to hide my arrows.

"I'm fine." I snapped.

"Right." He said eyeing me again.

"Anyways Kuzon, I see you work faster than anyone else here, you're a pretty proficient Fire bender."

"Uh Thank you I guess." I was already uneasy. No way San called me over here to compliment me, all the guy did was embarrass me.

"I think you're a little ahead of the other guys, and I think you could really speed things up for us." He pulled out a giant sheet of paper with plans on it.

  He held it out in front of me and I cautiously took it. My eyes widened. So this is what we had been working on, an air ship.

"You see I promised my boss it would be done by tomorrow, but we're a bit behind schedule. If the boss man is angry, I'm angry, and you don't want me to be angry."

Great, I was being threatened.

"So I have to build this."

San clapped my back.

"I knew you could Kuzon, it's a pleasure having you on our team."

I gritted my teeth while he folded the plans and shoved them in my pocket.

"Oh and don't tell your friends about this project, they can stick to the plans we already gave them. It's best they don't know what they're building."

The rest of day was miserable. I hated being stressed out and feeling overwhelmed. This was the same anxiety I had at age twelve when I was tasked with saving the world in year. I hated not having the freedom to do what I wanted, I hated being used as someone else's weapon. The entire day I searched for Katara, occasionally seeing her from afar. I couldn't get close to her during the day, I'd have to wait until night to tell her.

Usually at night is when Katara would stop by my room, but she hadn't come by in two days. The first night I was really freaked out, what if she had gone missing. I saw her the next day at breakfast, she sat with the other guards with her head down. It was clear Katara didn't want to see me. Not that it was surprising, Katara and I weren't friends, she was my ex and we had a rather messy breakup. At times I thought... well I thought things had changed, but they haven't.

I rested on my cot pulling out the plans. I started to identify little pieces of the ship me and the rest had been working on. We were given small bits of the plan, not knowing what we were assembling. It wasn't enough, I'd have to stay up all night. As usual, the guards did their sweep. For a minute I thought I heard Katara and my heart thumped, but I was wrong. That's when San came bye my cell and unlocked it.

"Do your job Kuzon." He warned.

I nodded my head, and went back to my cot. I waited ten minutes before leaving my room. I carefully walked the empty hallways, making a small fire in my hands to see. Out of curiosity I walked to the training rooms.