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A girl's mission
Summary: A king, a girl and an impossible mission. How will she resist, how will she survive and how will she succeed? Zutara.
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Ozai stood in his room, faced away from the door. The door opened, a girl stepped in and closed the door. After the door was closed, she kowtowed, the man placed his glass on the bureau near him. Still faced away from the door and the girl.
"Master, you asked that I would come." Said the girl when she kowtowed.
"Yes, I asked that they would send you, Katara. Do you know why?" Ozai still didn't turned around.
"No master." Answered the girl honestly, her eyes still fixed on the floor.
The Firelord turned around and looked at the girl.
"Your parents couldn't buy food, because they were pour, to get some money they sold their only daughter. That's how you got here, in the royal palace, as a slave." Ozai came towards her.
Tears formed in her eyes, but she didn't let them fall. She didn't spoke and waited until her master would continue and explain why she had to come.
"My son, prince Zuko, is kidnapped by the rebels. I heard that you're a fighter. To be specific a deadly warrior, a person that can handle every weapon she holds and you never give up until you have what you want. That's a good thing and that's why you will save my son. You're not a slave anymore, now you're a royal hunter. Rise and look at me." Katara rose and looked in the golden eyes of the man, who stood before her.
"You're not only a warrior, you're also a beauty." The Firelord placed his index finger under her chin when he said this.
The girl trembled lightly, Ozai came closer to her, his lips stopped a few cm before her. Then he pressed his lips roughly against hers, not even a minute later he drew away.
"Go to Mai, she will give you better clothes and my daughter will do what is necessarily." Said the man softly in her ear.
He withdrew his finger from her chin, she bowed lightly and went outside the room. After awhile she found Mai.
"There you are. I thought you would never come." The woman led her inside.
"Take those ravaged clothes off, now you will wear clothes that were made for your mission." The black-haired girl gave her her new clothes.
Katara took them and went behind a screen to change. She pulled her slave clothes off and looked at her new clothes.
There were a pair of brown sandals, a black top and a black skirt.
The top ended a few inches under her breasts and the skirt ended a foot above her knees.
The royal hunter stepped from behind the screen and Mai checked her clothes.
"These fit you very good. I would say perfectly. Now you have to go to princess Azula." The woman pushed her towards the room of the princess.
Katara knocked at the door. Azula opened the door and looked at the blue-eyed girl before her. Her brown hair lay on her back and two hair stresses fell on her left breast. If you would look at the girl you would never say that she's a warrior.
"Good, you're here. Follow me." Azula stepped in the hall.
The princess walked towards the dungeons, followed by the girl. The gold-eyed girl opened a door and led Katara to the middle of the room.
The warrior recognized the room, she was brought here a few times for punishment, there wasn't much furniture in the room. Only a make-shift bed and shackles to hang a slave or servant to the wall or in the air for lashes or some other kind of punishment.
"Lay down." Azula pointed towards the make-shift bed.
Katara lay down on her belly, hands crossed under her head. The princess had a flask with a red-coloured liquid and a paper with a perforated motif in her hands.
The young woman lay the paper on the back of the warrior, then she spilled the red liquid on the paper. Katara almost jumped up when she felt the liquid hit her back, but Azula held her efficiently down with one hand. It hurt, so much was sure, but why did it only hurt where the paper didn't covered her back. After five minutes took the princess the paper away, then she dipped the rest of the liquid away.
The motif of the paper was marked in her back. Above her butt, you could see now a dragon with fire around his body.
"It's over. You're a royal hunter now." Azula stood up and Katara just whimpered.
"Stand up. My father wants to speak to you." The hunter stood up and left the room, searching for the room of the Firelord.
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"Why do you sent a girl with no experience?" Asked Ty-Lee.
"She's a deadly warrior and she will never give up." Ozai came towards his advisor.
"There are other royal hunters who are better trained and they wont give up as well." The woman crossed her arms while she looked in his eyes.
"Why I send her on this mission is my reason. Go back to the council estate, because I have a lot to do." The advisor bowed lightly and left the room.
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"Looks like you woke up." Jet came towards the shackled prince.
Zuko was shackled in the air, he just woke up, the last thing he remembered was that he looked at Ty-Lee and now he was here in a dungeon.
The head of the rebels took the boy's chin in his hand and looked with his brown eyes in the golden eyes of the prince.
"I guess that we have to wake you up a little bit, because you look like you sleep. Smellerbee start with twenty-five." Jet released Zuko's chin and stepped five feet backwards.
A scream filled the room when the whip made contact with the naked back of the prince. A second scream filled the room when Smellerbee lashed out again. Blood seeped out his wounds and fell on the ground, after the whip made contact with his body for a seventeenth time, his view became blurry. Zuko fell unconscious after the nineteenth lash. After his body had received twenty-five lashes Smellerbee stopped and left the room.
Jet looked at the captured boy and then at the blood covering the floor, he spit on the floor and left the room.
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Katara knocked on the door, in no time seemed the door to fly open.
"Come in Katara, and tell me, how did the marking go?" Ozai drew his hand around her shoulder and led her inside. "The marking wasn't as painful as I thought." Lied the girl.
She didn't liked the fact that Ozai was so close to her, especially now, since she's a royal hunter.