Zuko's Baby Sister

Chapter Nine

"Princess!"

"Don't call the whore that! She lost her title when she ran away with the Avatar."

"Help me please! The Avatar and his friends kidnapped me!" I screamed after seeing Aang nod. "Zhao I only want you. Please."

*Earlier that day*

"Ah! Plum blossom!" The herbalist plucks a flower from the tree. Our friends were sick and well we heard of the lady and her medicines, but we were in a rush. For some reason Aang was tryna speed things along. Maybe it's because of what I caught him doing this morning. Puberty.

    "Finally!" Aang grabs for the bowl. "Thanks for all your help!" Just as Aang wants to yank the bowl out of the herbalist's hands, and she slaps his hands roughly away with her spoon. I giggled and stayed in my seat.

    "Hands off!"

    "Ow!" He whines slouching.

    "What do you think you're doing?" She asked holding the bowl.

    "Taking the cure to my friends." She laughed at the little air head.

    "This isn't a cure! It's Miyuki's dinner. Plum blossom is her favorite." The kitty I was petty jumped over to the lady.

    "What about my friends?" He asked.

    "Well, all they need are some frozen wood frogs. There's plenty down in the valley swamp."

    "What am I supposed to do with frozen frogs?"

    "Why, suck on them of course!" I gagged and Aang mirrored my disgust.

    "Suck on them?" I said gagging again.

    "The frog skin excretes a substance that will cure your friends. Be sure to get plenty because once those little critters thaw out, they're useless!"

    "You're insane, aren't you?" I snorted.

    "That's right! Well, don't stand there all day! Go!" She ushered us out. I jumped onto Aangs back as he jumped down to the lake.

"Stay right here, I'll get the frogs." He said, I nodded smiling. As he ran to find frogs, several arrows comes out of nowhere and pins Aang's pants to the ground; he airbends a shield sending some off them away. Aang removes one. My hands are grabbed.

"Don't try anything Princess."

    "Uh ... I think you dropped this ..." Aang screams as he sees the Yuyan Archers taking aim at him. Panicking, he frees himself from the arrow that had pinned his foot to the ground and runs. He falls off a cliff into a swamp and finds the frozen frogs. "A frog! ARDEMA!" Aang sticks the frog in his shirt and manages to get four more before getting one of his sleeves pinned to a rock. Aang waterbends an ice wall in front of himself. An arrow strikes the wall before two more land in the same spot and slice the arrows that came before it. The ice cracks and another set of arrows pin his other sleeve before a net is launched at him.

I look to Aang bounded at his legs and arms with chains, barely able to move. He looks angry and struggles against the chains. I was on the floor in front of him. We discussed the plan while we set alone.

    "So this is the great Avatar. Master of all the elements. I don't know how you've managed to elude the Fire Nation for a hundred years, but your little game of hide and seek is over." Zhao's eyes lower to mine and his smile darkened. "My betrothed.

    "I've never hidden from you! Untie me and I'll fight you right now!"

    "Uhh, no. Tell me, how does it feel to be the only airbender left? Do you miss your people?"Aang looks down sadly. I growled lowly. "Don't worry, you won't be killed like they were." Aang looks angry again. "See, if you die you will just be reborn and the Fire Nation would have to start searching all over again. So I'll keep you alive, but just barely." Aang takes a deep breath and blows at gale force at Zhao, who falls over. The air hits me as well pushing me over, like we planned. "Blow all the wind you want, but your situation is futile. There is no escaping this fortress, and no one is coming to rescue you."