Kiri's POV
Zuko, dad and I are having tea in dad's room. While the ship is being restocked. " See Prince Zuko, a moment of quiet is good for your mental well-being" dad tells him. I pour Zuko his cup of tea, before taking a sip from mine. Zuko raises the cup to take a sip, but the ship suddenly jerks. The vibrations cause the tea in the cup to go flying, soaking Zuko's face and hair. I laugh lightly as he grunts in frustration. He pushes his ponytail back, and rises to see what the commotion is about. I follow with Miko on my shoulder.
When we arrive, we see several soldiers stand poised, ready to attack. A large beast, called a shirshu, suddenly leaps onto the deck. A young woman mounted on its back. The soldiers flee from the beast. As Miko runs inside. "Look out!" one of them yells.
"Get back! We're after a stowaway!" the woman shouts.
"There are no stowaways on my ship" Zuko tells her as dad joins us. The shirshu tears off a chunk of the metal deck flooring and hurls it in our direction. Alarmed, we duck for cover. The soldiers and dad move to the side. The metal piece hits the doorway leading to the main compartments of the ship. Zuko looks on in frustration while the soldiers and dad take a firebending stance.
The shirshu sticks his head inside the hole in the floor and begins sniffing around. When it raises his head out of the hole. The stowaway appears, dashing away from the room. The shirshu shoots forward in hot pursuit of him. The man trying to flee; the shirshu lashes out his elongated tongue. It strikes the man who falls onto the deck, paralyzed, and with a terrified look on his face. "He's paralyzed" I say shocked.
"Only temporarily" the woman states as she jumps off of her shirshu. She lifts the man and slings him over her shoulder. "The toxins will wear off in about an hour. But by then, he'll be in jail and I'll have my money" she explains as she walks back to her shirshu.
"But how did you find him on my ship?" Zuko asks her. She slings the man onto the shirshu's back. Before looking at Zuko.
"My shirshu can smell a rat a continent away" she says proudly and mounts him. Dad says he's impressed. The woman cracks her whip and the shirshu leaps off of the ship running down the dock. I return to dad's room to finish my tea.
(Time skip)
Dad and Zuko came up with the idea to hire the bounty hunter to find the avatar. By tracking the female water bender using her necklace. So we tracked the bounty hunter down to a tavern. We see her calmly arm-wrestles a man, who gnashes his teeth and sweats. "Out of my way!" Zuko demands trying push his way through the crowd.
"Calm down Zuko" I say grabbing his arm. "Excuse me gentlemen, may I pass?" I ask.
"Certainly ma'am" one says and the make a path. I lead Dad and Zuko to the table. When we reach the woman, she is still arm wrestling.
"I need to talk to you" Zuko tells her.
"Well, if it isn't my new friends: Angry Boy, Lady Red and Uncle Lazy" she says.
"Actually our names are Zuko, Iroh and Kiri" I correct her. As her opponent strains to get the upper hand. She wins her match without breaking a sweat. The crowd cheers and throws money to her.
"Your beast trashed my ship. You have to pay me back" Zuko tells her.
" Well, I'd love to help you out, but I'm a little short on money" she tells him as she counts her winnings. "Drinks on me" she tells the bar and the crowd cheers. She moves to take sip of her drink, but Zuko grabs her wrist in anger.
"Money is not what I had in mind" he tells her.
"Actually we need you to find someone" I tell her. As Zuko shows her the water tribe girl's necklace.
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Kiri: Avatar
FanfictionI'm sure you've all heard about Yue and how the moon gave her a bit of it's life to give her life. But I doubt you've heard of Kiri, daughter of Iroh and younger cousin to Zuko. When she was born, she was close to death and would of died. Had Iroh n...
