Ylva

Chapter 11

A/N update: So a very kind user, fourarmedmonkey, informed me that i made a mistake while writing. I was saying north pole when they were indeed in the south pole so i went ahead and fixed that. Thank you very much fourarmedmonkey!

      When Ylva came to she was in her room, she was laying  in her bed confused.

   "Shouldn't the ship be rocking? Zuko wouldn't stop in the middle of the south pole for nothing." She thought to herself pondering, then it all flooded back to her. Arriving at the village, the Avatar giving himself up, the Avatar escaping, and most importantly the encounter with the two people who had tried to claim her as their sister.

     Ylva shot out of bed and onto the deck, when she arrived she saw some of the guards being thawed out by some of their fellow guards, and a few more guards melting the ship out of snow. She quickly water-bent the rest of the ice off the half thawed guards before she did the same the remaining snow covering the ship. She then turned to Zuko.

   "What happened after I got knocked out?" She asked.

   "The Avatar and his friends escaped, when we tried to stop them the Avatar brought the wall of snow down next to the ship, causing this huge mess." Zuko told her with a scowl. "We've been sitting here for a couple of hours."

   "Well now that we're no longer buried lets get moving the ship will need repairs." Ylva told him before walking back towards her room mumbling something. Zuko  watched her walk back toward her room with a frown. Why is she acting so strangely?  He thought to himself. He shook his thoughts away and started ordering his crew to get ready to leave.

Ylva was in her room with the door locked, she was pacing furiously, while replaying the scene that happened before she was knocked out again in her mind. She scowled when she was interrupted by a knock on the door.

    "What is it?" She said as calmly as possible.

    "May I come in?" A voice on the other side of the door asked. Ylva sighed and unlocked her door allowing Uncle Iroh to walk in. He closed the door behind him.

     "You seem stressed Ylva." He said once he was fully in the room. "Is it because of the run in with your blood?" Ylva gave a small rueful.

    "Nothing gets past you uncle. Yes I am stressed because of those two appearing out of nowhere," she said picking at her nails. She suddenly scowled, "I can't believed they tried to claim me as their sibling when they clearly disowned me right before my transfer. They can't call me their sister and then abandon me in my time of need." She said angrily, referring to the night she was captured.

     Iroh was now sitting on Ylva's bed while she paced and just sat there and listening to the young girl rant. After a couple of minutes she finally quieted and seemed deep in thought. Iron spoke.

    "Why did they disown you?" He asked. Ylva faltered for a second. If Iroh saw the flash of horror cross her features in that split second he did not show. She stopped pacing and looked at him.

   "The day I was captured by those fire nation ships, Me and my siblings found out about my power." She told him.

  "Your shifting power?"

"Yes." She lied. Even though she trusted her Uncle she was wary of the ship crew, she didn't know who was listening in on the conversation, and had vowed to herself that day that she would never let anyone else know about her fire bending. If the Firelord, Azula, or even Zuko knew, her life would not be so smooth as it is now even if she was in banishment.

   Uncle Iroh looked at her for a couple of seconds to see if she would say anything more on the topic, but when she remained silent he smiled and stood up.