Aria has always been hated and persecuted for what she looked like...that is until she accidentally got caught by a certain fire prince. Surely he can be her hero, someone to save her from her insecurities, or is the burden to great?
Ever since I've been born, people called me a freak, and a monster. I didn't ask to be born this way. Neither of my parents look like me. I'm the black sheep of the 4 nations. I have red hair and deep blue eyes. My parents are both fire benders and have dark brown hair and amber eyes. Somehow, I have neither of those traits. I'm not a fire bender, I'm an air bender. Great right, wrong. My parents have tried to sell me off multiple times. Each time I escaped and came back home. I know it's stupid but I couldn't just leave the people who raised me.
My parents always told me that I was cursed. They said that before I was born, a witch put a curse in me. Not that I believe them. I think that nature just decided to hate me. Oh and by the way, I'm 16.
Anyway, enough about my curse. I am currently running away from my home. Nobody would care anyway. My parents would be way better off without me. I've given up on trying to stay with them. They don't care anyway.
Since we live in the fire nation, I have to be extra careful of soldiers. I plan to escape to Ba Sing Se to start over. Nobody would think to look for me there. I ran over to a tiny boat that I've seen laying there before and hopped on, hoping that the owner didn't need it at this very moment.
When I got the boat to sail, the sun was beginning to set. Even though I know that this isn't safe what so ever, I wanted to take a nap on the boat, in the water. When I think about it, that was a very stupid idea. There are all types of people ready to take advantage of a 16 year old girl. Then again they might just back away slowly because of how I look.
I laid down and got started drifting off to sleep.
Timeskip The Next Morning
"Mhmm" I groan. I can feel something poking my cheek.
"Stooopppp," I say. "I'm tryin to sleep here so back off or I'll shove a stick up your ass."
"Get up peasant." a male voice says.
"Who the hell you callin a peasant asshole." You could say that I like to curse sometimes, especially in the mornings. How are people awake in the mornings, it should be banned to be up this early in the morning. Whoever is a morning person, I don't like you. That's off topic.
"Do you even know who you're speaking to." the voice says angrily.
"I don't know and I don't care so fuck off I'm trying to sleep." I say. I haven't looked up at the person the whole time. I was tired and I needed my beauty sleep, so this guy could go jump off a cliff for all I care.
"Guard tie up her arms and legs. Make sure she won be able to escape." the guy said. Wait a minute, guards, why does he have guards. Oh Agni I made a rich guy mad. Now he's gonna make me his slave or something. Since my head was still being covered my arms, I had no idea what they guy looked like. I gotta use my awesome escape plan. Its never failed me yet.
While the guard was tying my legs together, I asked, "Hey do you think that you could tighten the ropes a little bit. My legs are rubbing against the rope and I'm getting rope burn."
"No." the guard said.
"Well why not?" I asked.
"Because I said so."
"You sound like my mother, wait just kidding, my mother doesn't care enough to talk to me." I said.
"That's sad, but still no."
"You my friend suck, and not for free either."
"Why you little brat!" the guard said.
"Can you at least loosen the ropes?" I said.
"FINE, if it'll get you to stop talking the yes I'll loosen the damn ropes!"
"Thank you Mr. Guard."
"Shut up."
"Okay." Mwahahah my plan never ceases to fail me. The guard finally loosens my ropes. Just enough for me to push my feet out and if I need to air bend I will. I slowly slipped my feet out of the ropes while the same guard was tying my arms together. My head was on the floor and I was silently counting the little cracks I could find in it. Wait a minute where am I? I'm pretty sure I'm not in my stolen boat anymore. Ughh, just more things to figure out. I'm guessing that I'm on the grumpy guys ship from the sounds of the ocean.
After the guard left the room, which was a stupid mistake and he's probably going to get fired, I got up and crept over to the only door I see in the room. I opened it quietly and tip toed down the metal hall. It's amazing how metal ships don't sink these days. I'm glad that my footsteps were unnoticeable because I'm an airbender. I looked around the corner and saw two guards, one of them being the guard who tied me up. I should have asked for his name, oh well. I saw a window :3. I'm gonna jump out of it. If I manipulate the wind around me when I jump into the water, I can act like a torpedo...until I loose my energy. Lets do this not stupid at all plan!
I smashed the window and made the wind around me cover me. Then I shot like a bullet through the water. Damn this is exhilarating. I saw a shadow over me and I looked up at it. How the fuck can this ship be as fast as me. I must be going really slow then.
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I am kinda tired again and I could definitely use some food. I guess I could stay on their warship for a while. Maybe I could meet some nice people, unlike Mr. Grumpy and the guard. Well I guess that's the plan. I shot up into the air and landed on the ship.
"Hi." I said.
"GET HER AND MAKE SURE SHE DOESN'T ESCAPE AGAIN." Mr. Grumpy said.
"I'm not escaping again, unless you decide not to feed me. Are you gonna give me some food?"
"No-I mean yes."
"I heard you say no, but I'm going to ignore that part."
And that's how I became Mr. Grumpy's 'prisoner'.
****** I just fixed a few grammar mistakes and I'm gonna publish another part soon. If you see anymore, don't hesitate to comment.*****
