The Assassin

Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: the Last Airbender. The characters who are not in the cartoon are fictional and do not represent anyone that I know.

A/N: I was watching some of the old Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoons and noticed that the last time that we see Smellerbee and Longshot was when they were in Lake Laogai. The writers decided to leave what happened to them up to us. This is what my warped brain came up with. This is mostly about Smellerbee.

A/N2: Rated T+ for violence, gore, and brutal death scenes. I don't think it's quite bad enough to be rated M, but let me know if you disagree.

Chapter 1

The scene starts out at the very place we last saw Smellerbee and Longshot. Smellerbee is on her knees leaning over Jet with tears in her eyes and Longshot has an arrow ready aimed at the door. Katara, Aang, Sokka, and Toph had just left to do their thing.

Longshot cleared his throat to get Smellerbee's attention. She looked up from crying over Jet and quickly assessed the situation. She noticed there was only one exit since neither of them were Earth-benders and Longshot only had four arrows left including the one that he had aimed at the door. She quickly wiped the tears from her eyes and grabbed her daggers. She took her place next to Longshot. They probably wouldn't survive, but she was gonna fight tooth and nail until her last breath.

Longshot and Smellerbee gave one last look at each other and nodded. They were ready. Right then ten Dai Li agents came in, none of which used the door. Longshot fired at one taking him down instantly. Smellerbee was filled with rage. Usually when they took out fire nation soldiers they just knocked them out and then tied them up and gagged them letting the villagers do what they wanted with them, but this time she was out for blood. They killed her leader, someone she looked up to as a big brother. She heard the rumors that said she crushed on him. That was just ridiculous. They could think what they wanted, but she knew the truth.

She swept behind one of the Dai Li agents and plunged the dagger deep into where his heart should be. Should be because she wasn't sure they had hearts. They were just kids and the Dai Li wanted to imprison them or kill them. Longshot looked like a young adult, but he was only fifteen. Still, being the youngest of the Freedom Fighters and the only girl made her have to work three times as hard to be accepted, but when it all came down to it, she and Longshot were the only ones who stuck with Jet. She was terribly angry, sad, upset, and vengeful. She was filled with spite and hate. These monsters deserved death.

Longshot was just incapacitating them as usual. He wasn't exactly paying any attention to what Smellerbee was doing. He was preoccupied with taking down his share of Dai Li agents. Just as he had shot the last one, he heard a death gasp. He turned around and saw Smellerbee covered in blood. She pulled the dagger out of the Dai Li agent's heart and headed to the one that Longshot had just downed. He was surprised when she went ahead and plunged her dagger into his heart as well.

She looked up at him with a hope that he understood why she had to do what she did. She wasn't sure if he did or not, but they had to get Jet's body out of there. He deserved a proper burial, or at least not being forgotten underneath a lake. She heard some more agents headed their way, but coming from the opposite direction. "Longshot, take Jet's body. Make sure he gets the proper burial for being a Freedom Fighter leader." He looked at her questioningly so she said, "Only one of us is going to make it out of here. It should be you." He gave her a look, "I don't care what you think, Longshot. Listen, I'm not big enough to get Jet's body out of here and let's face it – you wouldn't last long in prison, and I'd never forgive myself if you were killed. Do me a favor though?" Longshot nodded, "Don't forget me." He gave her another look, one that meant it was an impossibility for him to do so. "Hurry, they're coming." He gave her one last meaningful look, one that said that he'd come back for her, "I'll hold you to that." Then the thirteen year old did something that surprised both of them, she kissed him, "Now get out of here." she said while blushing. Longshot was also blushing deeply, but picked up Jet's body and ran out the one door.

"Let's finish this!" she said just as a mass number of Dai Li agents came in the room. They stopped short seeing a little kid holding a dagger dripping with blood and ten dead Dai Li agents around her. They were a little intimidated, but figured they could take her. She fought like she'd never fought before. Her headband was soaked with sweat, her face paint had smeared all over, and she was covered in Dai Li blood. There had to be thirty guys in there, but only ten left standing. She fought like there were two of her.

Long Feng entered the room and shouted, "Stop!" and so they did. Smellerbee was out of breath and took a moment to gather herself, but wasn't ready to give up, "Are you telling me that this young man did all of this to all of you?"

"Yes sir." said one Dai Li agent.

"Young man, what is your name?" Long Feng asked her.

"Number one: I'm a girl. Number two: that's none for your business, and number three: all you need to know is that I'm a Freedom Fighter and you killed my leader." Smellerbee said indignantly.

"You don't say. We may have some use for you. The avatar and his friends have escaped. They're on their way to see the King. There can be no sign of Lake Laogai by nightfall. I'll take the girl." Long Feng said which suited the rest of the Dai Li agents just fine since they were rather afraid of her. Long Feng encased her in stone up to her neck so she couldn't attack and just moved her with the stone to where he wanted to go.

They packed up everything and moved their headquarters to a new location. Smellerbee was taken to a prison camp. She was given a bath because she was covered in Dai Li agents blood and they didn't want the other prisoners to get the wrong idea. She was given a refugee outfit and put in with all the other female prisoners.

She cursed, swore, and spit at the guards so much it would have made a sailor proud. If they got anywhere too close to her, she'd scratch, bite, hit, kick, anything she could. The prison guards were afraid of her, which both thrilled and frightened the others. She didn't tell anyone her name so she was known simply as Demon Child. It suited her just fine.

A/N: The first few chapters are basically going to be character development of her. Then the actual story will begin.

A/N2: So what did you think? Reviews would be greatly appreciated.