Avatar Rose: Dawn

Ch.28: Nathan

Let's back up here.

"Let's wash up and fill our water bottles," she says. "Meet you back at this bench in 5 minutes."

She turns, walking to the lady's bathroom as I walk in the other direction to the men's. I feel blush rise up slowly to my cheeks, although I can't figure out why.

I stride into the bathroom and quickly wash up, but as soon as I've finished patting my hands dry, a blindfold gets slipped onto my forehead, and I stumble around blindly as streaks of water come flying at me, then catching on my hands, bringing them into a grip then freezing. The same thing, of course happens to my feet. I feel a ring of water come across my head, freezing into my ears. I cant hear or see anything. So I go limp. Hopefully they'll think I'm knocked out.

And then a big whacking pain comes down on my temple, and I really get knocked out.
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"She'll be here any minute, sir," a voice says quietly.

"Good," a man's voice responds. "Remember," he says. "We need the girl alive." I hear a large inhale. "I can't wait to get my hands on that handsome reward."

Suddenly, he's quiet and I hear 6 knocks on the door.

I hear the head guy hushing his men, and the sound of water flowing. "The girl's coming," I hear in a hushed whisper.

I quickly feel my restraints. Rope. But my hands are tied in front of me. I have a gag on too, and my feet are frozen together. As silently as I can, I unfreeze the water with the tips of my fingers, then bring a little up icicle to cut my bindings. As soon as they're cut, I hear a loud creak.

I rip down the gag. "ROSE!" I scream as 2 guys leap on top of me and pull me down. "RUN THEY'RE BOUNTY HUNT-"

And the gag is back on. I struggle with them until a guy, who I presume is a nonbender brings a blade to my throat and shuts me up.

Rose steps into the concrete room, her face just slightly illuminated. She shoots a scowl that could kill as she stares into the eyes of the head guy, who is holding on to a stretch of water. The ends of her fists light up in a deadly flame. "Let him go." she orders. The hunters laugh. And then we attack.