Hello everybody. This is my newest project and I'm courious, where it'll leads me, becuase until now, I don't know, how long this story will be in the end, but I can promise, that I have a more chapters planned for this one. I wish all of you a lot of fun with it.

As Ordered

Joo Dee was siting in the small cell, as ordered. She didn't knew, where she was, or why she was brought to this miserable place, but in a strange way, it felt right for her to be here, like she deserved to be thrown in such a dark and dirty place.

Maybe the Dai Li had left Ba Sing Se with her, to bring her to this prison, but she didn't knew it and it didn't matter. A dense sadness was sneaking through her mind, but this was usual for her. This dull pain was always there and sometimes, she woke up in the nights with red cried eyes, but she didn't know why. Something was missing, it seemed, but she couldn't place a finger on it.

She could faintly remember mornings, when she had woken up with a sore throat, like she had screamed her lungs out of her chest all the night, but she couldn't remember why or what she might have screamed.

She had to sit on this chair since a weak now, like ordered, only leaving it, when nature called her or when she went to bed in the evening.

Or morning, she had no clue, because there was no daylight within this cell, only some glowing crystals, which never stopped spending a sickening green light.

Joo Dee felt, that something was wrong with her, sometimes, but this feeling faded, regularly, when doctors helped her to dense this fear, but they couldn't erase this threatening feeling, that she appreciated this strange hole in her mind.

She was Joo Dee, she has ever been Joo Dee, but she hasn't a childhood, friends or a family. She had sisters and brothers, Jong Dees and they were always her brothers and sisters. They were all the same and yet they looked different. And every time, when some of her brothers or sisters started to shape out unique aspects of a personality, they disappeared. When they came back, they were like her, again, but sometimes they simply vanished and the memory of them blurred as well, so all what was left was Doo Dee and Jong Dee, nothing more, nothing less.

Voices in the corridor in front of her cell, stopped her mind from wandering in the same circles, awaiting dutiful any order or command, the Dai Li might have for her.

"… long should we keep her locked away?"

It was the voice of a younger man, filled with worries.

"She'll stay here, until we receive a different order from Long Feng."

The other male voice belonged to an older man, but it also seemed, that he was concerned about something.

"But Long Feng isn't in command anymore, the Princess has taken over the Dai Li."

Joo Dee didn't know why, but she felt her fingernails pressing through the fabric in the skin of her upper legs at these words. She had heard fear in the voice of the younger man and as longer as the silence continued, as more she got nervous.

"That's why we're here."

There was something sinister in this quote, which made Joo Dee shiver in fear. Suddenly, the room seemed to be much smaller and much more miserable, than before.

"I don't understand? What about the Princess? We would betray..."

"The Princess doesn't care about her!"

The older man had screamed in rage at the younger one to cut his speech. The silence was gnawing at Joo Dee's mood. The cold prickle in her stomach made her sweat and she felt the urge to jump up from the chair, but her order kept her in place.

"And you think, this fact would spare us from her wrath, Gy Long?"

Joo Dee felt her throat tightening. Her mouth was so dry right now, but she had emptied her last jug of water an hour ago and they hasn't brought her a new one, yet.

"And don't forget the Prince, what about him?"

She was holding her breath, as she recognized the sigh from outside.

"It's too late to hand her over, now, Torak. We would only earn a fast death, instead of a long and painful one."

The voice of the old man was determent. Something in it was threatening Joo Dee to the bone.

"You have a plan?"

The voice of the younger man was trembling a bit. The door got unlocked and the agents entered the cell. The hard face of the older man let Joo Dee's blood run cold.

"I have. You'll see it, when we get there. Joo Dee, stand up, we'll travel a little."

The black fabric of the bag over her head made breathing difficult. It was pitch black around her, but Joo Dee had noticed, that she had been placed inside of a wagon. She felt dizzy, thirsty and dirty. Two weeks have passed, since the agents have placed her in this wagon and she got weaker and weaker during this torturing trip. She wasn't allowed to leave the wagon and she had recognized the arguments about giving her not too much water and food during the trip.

"Where do we bring her, Gy Long?"

Torak kept asking this question, since they had left the prison, but Gy Long hadn't lost a word about it, until today.

"We'll fulfill her old destiny, this is the only chance to save out lives."

"What?!"

The wagon stopped, suddenly and Joo Dee bumped hard against the metal walls.

"You can't be serious? I thought we would hide her and think about, how we could use her to save our lives!"

Torak was obviously shocked and confused and Joo Dee felt the panic rising.

"Don't be a fool, Torak. Do you really think, we could expect mercy from any side for this mess. Her existence is a threat for too many people, it wouldn't surprise me, if they would use the fact, that we had captured her as a reason to burn down the whole Earthkingdom."

Gy Long sounded angry. There was a coldness in his voice, which twisted Joo Dee's stomach upside down.

"But she's been addressed as useful, before. Long Feng..."

"She was useful, as long as Ba Sing Se had been in our hands, but now the Earthkingdom has fallen, Torak! Just as you said, Long Feng isn't in command anymore, but I won't bow before this spoiled Princess. My duty is to protect Ba Sing Se!"

There was so much loathing in his voice.

"The Fire Lord had ordered her death, long ago, but Long Feng has taken advantage of this opportunity. I'll only correct a mistake and disguise the hints to save, what is left from our kingdom."

Joo Dee's breath was panicked as she heard fighting sounds and curses from outside the wagon. The vehicle was shaken by some hard impacts and she screamed in fear, as the wagon flipped over. The name of the Fire Lord was burning like a torch in her mind and she had no clue, why this was frightening her, so much. The last thing, she felt was a hard hit at her head, before her body went slack.