“Let me go you Dai Li freaks!”
“Well, well, the little air bender has a mouth on her!”
The man I was assuming to be the head of the Dai Li paced in front of the chair I was thrown in, and then cuffed to.
“I’m an air master you jerk!”
“Sure you are, now tell me, what’s your name?”
Puffing out my chest, I straightened my spine.
“I am Princess Zabri Fa of the Fire nation, master air bender.”
My eye twitched slightly at the echoing laugh that came from the leader and bounced off the walls.
“Sure you are, and I am the Earth King.”
“I am, you stupid oaf- move my hair and remove my gloves and you’ll see. I have the arrows to prove it!”
With a simple snap, my head was forcefully tilted back. My bangs were brushed from my face, and my gloves removed. Leaning in to study my markings, the Dai Li man went from my forehead to my hands.
“Well, well, would you look at that!” Straightening his back, he signaled for my head to be released. “Lock her up away from the others. Our little master here can’t be trusted… yet.”
“Wha-what you can’t do this to me! I am a crowned princess of the Fire nation and I demand to be released.”
The man leaned down once more, a wicked smile gleaming on his face.
“You’re not a princess any more, from here on out you are to be a master commanding officer for her Majesty’s elite team. You will train them to use their air bending and nothing else.”
Hacking up the biggest spit wad I could, I shot it at the Dai Li agent’s face and hit him square on.
“You’d like to think that you stupid oaf- I won’t do jack for you!”
The man flung away the glob of spit, leaving large wet spot on his forehead.
“You say that now, but I have ways of making what I want happen.”
“Bite me!”
“Why you brat”
“You think you’re the first person who’s tried to break me? Yeah right- I’d like to see you try to get me to do anything- I’d rather die than serve under your ugly butt!”
The wicked grin returned, only this time there was a gleam in his eye that matched the evil in his smile.
“Oh, I can arrange that. Get me the iron.”
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I had been stripped down to my most under clothes, and despite the situation, all I wanted was to curl up in a ball and cry. I had never been so exposed in front of anyone ever before. I had also been blind folded; my mouth covered, dragged to a new room, and stripped of my clothes. Now I stood facing a wall, my hands cuffed to it. I could figure from the heat flickering on my back that I was near a large fire. Why, I had no clue.
“All, it’s all ready… wonderful.”
My heart raced in my chest, and tears prickled my eyes at the sound of the Dai Li’s voice. I did my best to calm myself, but not even in my advance training could I stop the waves of fear and anxiety washing over me.
“Where do you want it?”
“Hmm…”
I could the Dai Li man coming up behind me, and shuttered when his finger jabbed my spine right between my shoulder blades.
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The Only Hope
Teen FictionThe world has changed, and continues to do so. Yet the stories of my family, of how they nearly both destroyed and saved the world, continue to live on. Their actions created the future which is my present. Though, it's not a very bright one at the...
