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Chapter One: One World to Another
Amber grabbed her cinched cowgirl's hat and slipped on the blue over shirt to her tan tank top as she ran up the stairs to catch her family as they went out the door to go to the movies. It was a half hour trip in a beat up old truck, and this was a fairly rare occasion. When they could afford a good movie, they would happily spend the money for the family bonding... Little did Amber realize that this trip would become the greatest adventure of her life.
Cassidy put on a little more lipgloss, and touched up her eyeliner. She would look perfect, and there was no doubt about that. A stringy shirt was draped across her shapely body, along with a mini skirt and flip flops, seeing as it was summer. She tossed a purse over her delicate shoulder and put her wallet in it. She didn't realize she would be leaving this world, and entering one of total difference, ripping her from the world she knew..
Amber almost fell asleep until a red 2004 mustang swerved in the path of the truck.
Cassidy screamed as the steering went out in her car and made straight for an old 1974 dodge truck.
Both threw their hands up and felt the jolt of the impact. Both felt the shiver up their spines as they suddenly dissapeared.
Zuko heard a scream outside his room. Then a thud, and a finally, a soldier groan and thump to the floor. He quickly grabbed a shirt and flung the door to his room open to see what the disturbance was. To his surprise, an seemingly harmless girl had K.O.ed his soldier during his nightly rounds. The tired Prince rubbed his eyes. Agni, not now! He wanted to sleep before more weird things happened. He called for another gaurd and had him drag the unconciouss one away as he carried the girl to the infirmary. He studied the young woman with curiousity. She was wearing a rather revealing shirt, a strip of clothe that went down to her lower thighs and wrapped around her stomach, and a pair of colorful sandals he had never seen before. Some kind of light make-up smeared on his silk robe and he mentally cursed. It would take forever to get out. The girl had extrememly light colored hair, a little strange, because he rarely ever saw this color anymore. It tied back into a long tail. She even had a strong perfume on that made Prince Zuko cringe and wrinkle his nose. He turned one more corner and handed her to the doctor that was about to rush out the door.
"I don't know how she got here, but I want you to make sure she is alive when I have her taken to the prison cells." The doctor looked relieved.
"Is this the girl you found overboard? She doesn't look wet." He commented. The Prince looked at him like he was crazy.
"Absolutely not!" He said. "I found this one just outside my cabin!" The doctor gave the Prince a confused look and grabbed the girl from his arms. Just as he was walking in, another firebender came walking around the corner with a dripping wet girl. This one had dark brown hair, and a very pale face. Her clothes were just like the other girl's, only this one had some kind of short sleeved over-robe that went over a tan undergarment.
"I'll take this one off your hands." The Prince said, daring the soldier to refuse him. The man heaved her off into Zuko's arms. He almost buckled under the girl's sudden weight. This girl was not as thin as the last, but she didn't look fat. He walked into the infirmary with the wet girl and the doctor had him lay the girl on the bed. Uncle Iroh came in groggily, rubbing his eyes and yawning.
"What's this news about two young women on our ship?" he said, nearly falling onto Prince Zuko. Zuko grimmaced and held his Uncle's weight.
"One was in the hall just across from my room, the other was found overboard." The Prince caught a wiff of his Uncle's unbrushed teeth and almost gagged. "Uncle go back to bed." The girl with the lighter hair came into his vision and his eyes suddenly lit up. A couple words jumbled in his mind, and a couple of the particular ones were romancing marriage grandchildren. He chuckled and nudged his nephew, pointing to the thinner one.
"Nephew, perhaps you should see if she is breathing right. She was found overboard." He reasoned, giving his nephew a push towards the blonde. Mortified, the Prince grabbed Iroh's arm rather firmly, and walked him to the door.
"Uncle, she wasn't the one in the ocean. The darker one was. Now go to bed!" He demanded, still embarassed. Iroh harrumphed at his Nephew's harsh words and manner.
"Just trying to help the process..." mumbled the still weary Iroh. Zuko neverminded him and looked at the darker haired girl. The doctor carefully monitored her breathing and checked her pulse.
"Status?" he said unemotionally. The doctor shrugged.
"She's extremely cold for her size, but pulse is normal and her breathing is fairly normal, a little weak, but normal." He answered. The blonde haired girl stirred and opened her eyes. She looked confused and afraid, and bolted upright, feeling up and down her body. She gave a sigh, then noticed the Prince and doctor. She screamed after one glance at the Prince, narrowly falling off the bed. Zuko's temper almost got the best of him, and as he took a step closer, she scrambled off the bed and cowered in the corner.
"Get away from me!" she screamed. Zuko, though ready to fireblast the coward, held his hands up in temporary surrender.
"Calm down. What's your name?" he ground out. The girl cowered even further when he took another step forward.
"Don't come any closer! I'm not telling you anything until you tell me who the heck you are, and where I am!" she snapped back. Prince Zuko noticed the darker haired girl moving. The blonde did too, but didn't dare take her eyes off of Zuko, just incase. He was closer to the dark haired girl, and he was nervous that she might have the same reaction that the blonde girl did. Her body shivered violently, then her eyes slowly opened, wandering around the inside of the infirmary.
"Where am I?" she mumbled. "What happened to my parents?" She coughed and rubbed her throbbing temples. Finally her eyes rested on the blonde, and they lit with recognition.
"You!" she said, a hint of anger behind it. "What are you doing here?" The blonde's eyes never left Prince Zuko. The dark haired girl followed the blonde's gaze, and her eyes finally rested on Zuko. She squinted in the dark candle light, then blinked a couple of times in disbelief.
"Prince... Zuko?" she said, her jaw dropping as he held her gaze proudly with a scowl in place. Then she said something completely unexpected. "You aren't real!"
Zuko scoffed.
"You are just a cartoon character!" the dark haired girl laughed. "Wow, I've had some wild dreams in my time, but this tops them all." Zuko walked right up to her and gave her an overheated pinch. She yelped in pain, then stared wildly at Zuko.
"You're... real?" she whispered in horror. The Prince relished her fear.
"What are you talking about, Amber!" the blonde said, spitting her name out like a curse. So that's her name. At least I don't have to ask. Zuko thought to himself. But it's curious that she knows my name... and what the Agni is a cartoon? The Prince took another step toward the blonde, who shrieked and continued her cowering. He heard a chuckle from the girl in the corner to his left, and whirled around to face the girl known as Amber.
"Where did you come from, and how did you get all the way out here on the ocean?" Prince Zuko growled. The girl shook her head.
"I don't know..." She answered simply. Zuko grabbed her forearm and shook it.
"Don't you dare lie to me!" he snarled into her face. She winced and gasped, reflexively slapping her captor hard on the face. The Prince, clearly surprised, let go of her and restrained himself from backhanding her. Amber had covered her mouth and her face paled further.
"I'm so sorry, Prince of the Fire Nation. Please forgive me.. Don't hurt me!" she begged, backing away as he reached for her again. He yanked her off of the infirmary cot and shoved her out the door.
"Give the other girl a dose of tranquilizers in some of my uncle's tea." Zuko shouted over his shoulder. "If she won't take it voluntarily, use your imagination. She's healthy enough to share a prison cell with our other guest." Prince Zuko hauled Amber down the halls, gripping her arm with incredible force. Once they reached the prison bloc, he selected one of the many open cells and threw her inside. She slammed into the floor.
"Welcome to your new home. Don't try anything, or else." Prince Zuko threatened, slamming the door shut and locking it securely. " By the way, I suggest you keep very quiet, lest my other soldiers find out I have women on this ship."
Amber stared around the cold metal cell and wanted to cry. She may have cheated death once, but death in this cell seemed inevitable. She curled up into a ball in the corner next to the door so the soldiers wouldn't see her, just incase. The fact that Zuko was crueller in person than on the popular series, Avatar: The last Airbender, made her shiver. And the fact that if his soldiers might commit unspeakable crimes on her or Cassidy without the protection of anybody scared her even deeper. Then she remembered Cassidy. Angry thoughts popped into her head as she remembered the priss that had so horribly gotten her kicked out of school. She remembered the terrible things Cassidy accused her of, and the promiscuity that she had spread around about herself was unforgivable. Great. Hopefully, I won't have to share a cell with her! Amber thought. Just as they rolled through her head, the door clinked open and the doctor walked in and sat the unconsious form of Cassidy on the floor. Amber rolled her eyes at this ironic gesture. Someone up there hates me. she thought. She moved Cassidy out of sight in the other corner of the cell close to the door, just to be a good citizen. Maybe if she worked up enough brownie points, she could work out a mutual agreement of peace between them. Amber curled back up into her corner and slept fitfully on the hard steel floor.
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