The Weak And Helpless (Yona of the dawn)

The White Dragon

Two days have past since we left Ik-su, I still worried for him. We thankfully made it to the mountains, but. I brushed off my worry for Ik-su as Yun spoke up "Climbings is rough, but I'm glad we don't have to worry about being watched." He said pleased.

Hak shock his head. "Don't lower your guard. There's no guarantee that Fire Tribe soldiers aren't patrolling the area." he scolded. Yona suddenly stopped walking we all stopped and turned toward her. "I need to learn swordsmanship." She murmured. We all paused. "What.......?" I echoed shocked. Yona turned toward Hak. "Hak you said you would teach me." Yona protested.

"No I didn't." He argued. "You can teach me well we travel!" Yona insisted. Hak raised a brow. "Princess, could you kill someone?" Hak asked. I stepped back afraid of what Yona's answer would be. "Yona...." I mumbled. "Even if I can't stand toe to toe with someone.
I want to be able to create opportunities for escape." Yona explained straight faced.

"Very well..." Hak grumbled handing Yona his bow and arrows. Happy with this she began to walk, or at least after Hak said she had to learn a basic weapon first. The day went by fast and we all went to bed.

We were walking again, Yona walking behind me the rhythm of her feet becoming as natural sounding as the chirping birds and the swaying of the tree branches. When she suddenly stopped nature seemed to pause with it for a moment.

I turned around to see her aiming her bow at a baby bore. I stared at her shocked, and glanced at the animal, it was pretty cute, with big eyes and a small body. It still seemed to have its baby fur. She drew her bow back and skimmed the animal a streak of blood landed on the floor as the arrow hit the roots of a tree, the bore squealed in pain and ran of in a panic.

Hak stopped and noticed Yona looking at the streak of blood from the bore, and walked over to Yona. "You almost had it." Hak said encouragingly. Yoan wiped away tears "I needlessly injured it. That's just cruel." Yona groaned miserably. Hak looked down at her. "Because you hesitated" he explained.

Hak turned toward me and Yun "Yun, May go on ahead." he called. "Sure, but you better come soon." Yun warned as we both began to walk ahead. As we walked a head mist started to cover the ground and make it hard to see I grabbed Yun's hand. "I'm scared." I mumble as I squeezed his hand. Yun squeezed my hand back and comforted me.

"No need to worry." He assures me. As we stumble along the mountain road my hand is suddenly ripped from Yun's hand. Yun yells out in surprise but his yell is cut off and I heard the clang of metal. "Yun!" I screamed. I wrapped my arms across my chest trying to stop my trembling and looked around wildly, my heart beat thumped almost painfully fast.

My heart beat rang in my ears, and even though I knew it, I was shocked by the sound, it really did sound like breaking glass. I let go of my chest gathering my courage and began to stumble forward again arms stretched out in front of me painfully aware of the fact that I was on my own. "Yun!" I cried worried. Something suddenly grabbed my hand. I flung my hand away, and began to run.

I ran off the trail and into the forest the mist grew thicker, I began to panic, my heavy pants ripped through the silence and I stopped. The mist was so bad I couldn't see two feet in front of me. My rapidly beating heart seemed to stop but, as someone's hand reached out of the mist toward me.

I stumble back aimlessly, I opened my mouth to scream but no noise came from my mouth except a small squeal. The hand then grasped my wrist and pulled my hand behind my back and did the same to my other hand. I kicked my legs in the direction of the hands but my feet hit air.

A blindfold was swung over my eyes and I was help in place by a pair of strong steady arms. My vision went dark and I blacked out.

I woke up teary eyed to see blackness, I was still blindfolded. I moved around and felt my skin touch metal. I put my tied hands in front of me and began to fell bars and realized that I was in as cage. I whimpered. More tears pooled up in my eyes. I began to cry silently. Where was Hak? I wanted to kick myself, for catching myself thinking this.