this is my first fanfici do not own the rights to Avater, i own nothing!
prologue-
"I will save her!"
"You kn-w what you risk"
"I'll ri-k anything-, I risk everything! If it's to s-ve HER!"
"If you do.."
"I know what I do…if…I…..Go-….bel-….pow-…innocent!"
I awoke with a start. After taking a moment to collect my thoughts, I sat up and pushed my hair out of my face.
"A nightmare, but I haven't had that nightmare in years! So why now?"
"I've got a feeling about this," I said to no one as I got up. Looking out the cabin's window, I saw it was almost noon. For a fire-bender I do sleep late. Time to get dressed and prepare for tonight.
The ship's cabin I was in was small, which was to be expected, as the ship was the same type that Zuko had: old. I was only using it for the week anyway. So I didn't even bother decorating it.
Tonight was going to be my first mission as a spy for the Fire Nation. Going to my closet, I remembered what Azula had said before I left.
"Father's giving you this mission to show everyone what you're capable of. I know you can do this; just come home quickly and be safe."
That's Azula-speak for, "Father's giving you this suicide mission to see if you're dirt or not. I taught you so I know you can do this, so get it over with and come home quickly."
The mission itself was simple: sneak in, get info, sneak out. The only problem was where I was sneaking into. The whole thing was supposed to be a three-day mission.
Remembering the 'thing' I had brought with me, I smiled. It's a good thing I thought ahead to bring it.
"Three days? Let's try one."
On the western coast of the Earth Kingdom stood one of the few remaining strongholds for the Kingdom: General Fong's fortress. And Tu-Xing thought he had one of the most boring assignments ever; guarding the top of the tower in the center at night.
"Why am I even up here?" he said. "I can't see anything. It's not as if the Fire Nation is going to come flying-"
If only he'd looked up.
He'd see a strange flying shadow, or at least a foot, coming at him.
on top of the fortress tower, i stood wearing what looked like black Air Nomad clothing, a saddle bag, hood and a plain white mask. Holding a glider in my hand I looked around to see if anyone had spotted my landing.
I then heard a groan.
Looking down, i saw that i was standing on someone's head.
"Ouch," I said as I jumped off him. "Bad night to be that guy." Looking around again, i placed the glider next to the unconscious man.
Walking to the edge of the tower i looked down checking to see if anybody saw me. Pulling back my over-long sleeves, i revealed my Tekagi-shuko, or 'claws' as some people called them.
A normal person would of needed to take the stairs to get up here. Normal person, that is.
General Fong was in his office reading reports from the platoon that was preparing to attack a Fire Nation colony, and drinking some 'chi enhancing tea.' in order to stay up long enough to complete his task.
As General Fong read the reports, he failed to notice the purple dust falling into his cup of the tea.
One sip and….nothing happened.
More dust fell in.
A sip and nothing happened…
More dust, again.
Another sip and nothing happened…again!
A small purple tablet fell in. One sip and he was out.
"Finally," i said with a sigh. Hanging from ceiling using a pare of claws was not as easy as it looked, my arm were getting tired.
i jumped down from the ceiling onto General Fong's table.
"What the monkey-feathers is in that tea?" I'd put enough sleeping dust in there to knock out ten men. Opening i saddle bag, i took samples of the unused tea for later. Whatever it was, it was mine now. As i jumped off the table, i looked around the office.
my gut feeling about this place was right on the money. Outside it was a fortress, but inside the tower it was just the General and two guards right outside the room. It would be suicide to come in by ground.
But by air…
I just knew taking that glider from the Mechanist last year had been a good idea, and nobody knew about it but me.
After writing copies of all the reports and putting them in my saddle bag, i looked around the office again to see if anything else was worth taking.
Stopping to stare at the sleeping General for a moment, i remembered something.
"Ozai said if the opportunity presents itself, I'm to kill General Fong."
After staring for a moment longer, i shrugged her shoulders. "Humph, too bad. I'm in a hurry." i said. i was not going to kill someone just because Ozai said so.
When i didn't see anything else worth taking, i slipped out through the window. i had managed to do in one night what was supposed to be a three-day mission. "Not bad." I said to myself
Now i just needed to get back home in one piece.
I walked around the Cornel to were my glider was, only to find a new guard looking at it.
"Gator-rats!" i whispered. i knew this was going too easily.
Taking out a blow dart gun from my sleeve, i took aim. As the new guard bent over to check on the other one, i fired. The new guard stood straight up, made a funny sound, and fell over his friend.
i ran over and whispered "Sorry," as i took the dart. Grabbing the glider and made my exit.
It was dawn by the time I made it back to the ship, making sure to collapse my glider and wrapping it up so no one could tell what it was. No need to tell my secrets.
When I saw the captain standing on the deck I already knew what he was going to say.
"And what are you doing back so soon?"
Yep, there it was; time to do my Azula impression.
"What do you think I'm doing? I'm returning from a completed mission. Now set course to the drop off point; I'm going to my room."
As I walked past the captain, he grabbed me by my arm. "It takes a day just to get here and you expect me to believe-"
"I expect you to believe the Fire Lord chose me for a reason. Now if you've got a problem, you can talk to HIM!"
He glared at the eyes of my mask for a moment before he unhanded me. "Set course," I said, before I went to my room.
Once inside I collapsed on my bed. Taking off my mask, I wiped away my tears and sweat. I thought I was going to have a heart attack there for a moment.
Outside I heard two guards talking.
"Who is that girl? To talk to the captain like that-"
"You don't know? She's a Colonel."
"A Colonel! But she's just a kid!"
"They say her mother was a servant at the royal palace, but..."
"But?"
"Officially her father is unknown, but everyone knows it's some noble."
"A noble's illegitimate daughter?"
"Yeah, the family doesn't officially recognize her so she's basically a servant. But for some reason the princess has taken a liking to her, made her a protégé. I hear they act like sisters, and as Azula's aide her rank is that of Colonel…"
"Why?"
"Who knows, but because of that, and because she shadows Azula everywhere, they call her…"
As they walked out of earshot, the name came to my mouth without my permission.
"The Dragon's Shadow."
Author- me
Beta - avatardestiny, EndlessFlame55