𝐆𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 [ᴢᴜᴋᴏ]

Chapter 7

Episode 4, The Warriors of Kyoshi

I woke up to someone banging at my door. What in the Avatar's name happened, the sun hasn't even risen yet. I got up and opened the door rubbing my eyes. Zuko was standing in front of me tapping his foot on the floor. "What?" I asked looking up at him. Yeah, I'm not a friendly morning person.

"Get ready, uncle wants to see you" he stated walking away. "Okay your majesty." I whispered ironically after I closed my door.

I got ready and looked presentable and got out of my room. A sigh escaped my lips as I looked left and right but didn't know where to go. That stupid prince hasn't told me where I need to go. So I decided to take the left side. After I walked a bit I got on deck where a few guards were.

I approached the nearest one and tapped him on the shoulder. He turned around and took off his helmet and he didn't look much older than me, maybe four or five years. "Excuse me, where can I find General Iroh" I asked him smiling kindly.

He smiled back and replied, "He will be here in a few minutes, Miss." Did he just call me Miss? "Thank you. And you can call me Jasmine. No need for Miss." I said with a wave of my hand. "I am Kano" he introduced himself. He's cute.

Iroh walked towards us, "Good morning Jasmine." Iroh greeted me and I smiled in response, "I want you to join me for a cup of tea."

"Sure" I said but furrowed my eyebrows in confusion. Why would he want to drink tea with me this early in the morning? I followed him to a little table on deck. He motioned for me to sit down. I did as he said and waited got him to say something. I was sure he wanted to talk with me about something.

Before he said something he poured himself and me a cup of tea. I thanked him and took a sip. "I wanted to talk about your fire bending abilities. I thought about letting you train with my nephew but I first need to know how much you already can." Right, he mentioned something like that yesterday. "Well, as you know, I trained myself as far as I could." I told him.

He nodded and motioned with his hand for a guard to come. The guard came to a halt, "I want you to show me all the things you can." Iroh addressed me with this sentence and looked up at the guard, who was Kano, "And I want you to fight her, but no hurting, only as far as she can defend herself." He instructed Kano.

He wants me to fight with someone?! I mean my fire bending is acceptable for someone who trained herself but it's no match to a Fire Navy soldier's. I looked at Iroh in hope to find something that would tell me he was joking, but he was totally serious.

I hesitantly stood up and moved to the middle of the deck so I wouldn't hurt Iroh accidentally. Kano followed me and stood ready to attack me. I took a breath and concentrated on not using my water bending. I didn't notice Iroh motioning to Kano to start and it took me off guard.

A small steam of fire came towards me but I dodged it quickly but it burned my forearm a bit. I shook my head not giving the burn further attention. Before he could attack me again I shot two fire punches in his direction. When he saw that my fire was blue, he got confused and stumbled a few steps back.

This is my chance, I smirked and shot fire in his direction in any way possible so that he couldn't get a chance to attack me again. I must have paused a moment too long with my next attack that he could recover and attack me back. As I dodged his attacks, I took a few steps back.

I got to the edge of the deck and it was getting more difficult to dodge his attacks as he was coming nearer. Out of reflex I raised both my arms in the air clasping my hands together. With one swift and quick movement I swung my arms down until they almost touched the floor. My jaw dropped when I saw what I have just done.