Chapter 2

Kira

"Aaaahhh! Let me go! Why are you doing this? The Fire Nation is evil, its trying to take over the world!" Kira cried

"Yeah...but they're rich! Har har har har har!" laughed Bibsha

" You were easier to catch then we thought! You's are what? 11? Har har!" said Terden

"I'm 15!" She protested

"It wont matter what age you are to the Fire Nation or us, long as we get what we want" said Bibsha

"Also age dont matter when your building railroad tracks! Har har har!"said Terden

Building. Railroad. Tracks?

The 2 men forced her to a caravan. They opened a latch and shoved her inside. She barely fit. The cramped space was filled with all sorts of knicks & knacks. "Ugh... a little messy back here huh?" she grumbled. Her head was filled with questions. Where were they taking her? What were they gonna do with her? What about Tib?Slowly the steady bumpty bump rocked her right to sleep.

" Ugh..." Kira woke up as the 2 men literally tossed her into a cage the size of a small cabinet.

Slowly they made their way through a winding road until they reached a lavish house. They set her down and knocked on the door. It opened and a man stood before them. The man gave her captors a glare, but then focused his attention on her. She glared at him.

He laughed " Well done my friends!" he said in a deep voice "Here is your reward!" He said handing the men a bag, most definitely filled with gold.

"Have fun!" the men called as they walked off.

The man snapped his fingers and two servants came into view. They picked her up and brought her to a truck. They threw her into the back. She heard the truck start and it rolled away.

Finally, a couple hours later...

"Well here we are! The desert!" one servant said.

" Great! More suffering!" Kira mumbled. She couldn't live like this, she had to do something! Carefully the servants unlocked the cage. Immediately she jumped out and kicked one in the face.

"Quickly! Cuff her! This is a tough one!" one guard yelled

The another guard shot a ball of fire at her. She jumped to the side just to be smashed in the face with a club.

" Ow!" Kira grabbed for her knife, but a guard grabbed her hand. "No!" she yelled pulling away, but to no avail. The guard grabbed her other hand and cuffed her. Still, she struggled.

" Knock her out!" Yelled a guard.

No! She ducked and leaned into the guard holding her. Bad decision she realized as he threw her into the side the of the truck. She hit her head and her vision blurred.

" Get her into a holding cell! Pronto!" was the last thing she heard before she blacked out.

" Hey! Psst! You awake?"

Kira awoke to a voice. "Wha-" she asked confused. Wait, where was she? Oh, she remembered, now she got captured.

"Good you're awake!" the voice, a boy's, continued "what's your name? Mine is Keen Shu!... Oh I must be scaring you, you are only a girl an-"

Only a girl! "Hey!" Kira protested.

Keen Shu laughed "I knew that would get you to talk...it always works. Really you should be scared because you're new. Don't worry...they wont gas us."

"Ah- of course not, I knew that. They're gonna make us work, with railroads?" Kira rolled her eyes.

" You're right! We have to build them. Where do you get your info? I need those people."

" Oh just two really horrible kidnappers that got lucky,... hear me? Very lucky."

"Uh-huh. Want me to tell you the schedu-" He was cut off by the sound of boots coming up the stairs. "Shh!" he said urgently.

The man's boots thundered down the hall stoping and then starting again every few feet. "Here's your food for today" the man said as he came into view. He shoved in a bowl of what looked like porridge.

As soon as the guard left Kira turned to the wall. "Hey Shu? You dont mind if I call you that, do you?"

"No, course not"

"So is this edible?"

Shu laughed "Yup not that tasty though. Although you have to eat it, its all the food you're getting"

No other food?

" Anyways I should tell you the rules. 1: no talking near the guards and 2: no talking to the guards. So for the schedule, wake up, work for about 6 hours, get food and go to sleep. Talking 'bout sleep, im pretty tired, so talk to you in the morning!"

Kira smiled to herself and finished eating her "mush" as she called it. She would talk to Keen Shu in the morning, she would.

Mika

Mika got on to the boat reluctantly, the only reason she wasn't fighting was that she didn't know if she could bend, and that she was in the middle of the ocean and didn't want to die in a watery grave. The other boat, the prison boat, started moving away first.

"C'mon girly, this way," a man, a prison guard, said. He tightened his grip on her small arm and pulled her towards the cells. In each, blood stains covered floors and walls, a few had some bones discarded on the floor. She didn't like the feeling the place gave her. She was pushed into an empty cell, one made of a mix of metal and wood. A single bed was in the corner, and two blood stains decorated the floor.

"What's a l'ttle girl doin' here?" a prisnor asked.

"Yeah, a delicate thing like that don't belong in a place like this." Another jeered.

"Ah, no worries, she'll be put in another cell soon enough… and then maybe put to work a bit. I'm sure we could make a lot of money off of you if we sold you… I bet Jim would pay a hefty fine for someth'n as small and cute as you…"

"Never," Mika said through gritted teeth, making a move to punch the guard before he closed the cell door.

"Nice try… little girl," the guard said, closing the door and leaving her all alone.

"Rise and shine, time to work," a guard said, opening Mika's cell door. She grumbled, but got up. The guard shackled her and brought her to the courtyard, "just keep on feeding the fire coal, got it? Mess up, and the warden will 'ave your head," the guard made an attempt to slap her arm, but she moved away. When he then settled for her backside, he smirked. She grumbled. In about a half-an-hour, her hands were black with coal and she felt like she could pass out any minute. The guard shackled her and brought her back inside, threw her into her cell, and left.

"Ow," Mika said, rubbing her wrists where the handcuffs dug into them.

"Food," a guard yelled, tossing in a stale roll of bread. Mika gulped it down instantly, hating that she so loved the feeling of it in her stomach. She sighed, hoping they'd get wherever they were going soon, so she could feel land again. She despised the ponytail clad idiot who threw her on this boat, he didn't even know who she was and yet, she was a traitor. She slammed her fist hard on the floor of her cell. She heard a crack and felt an incredible pain, but she didn't even care anymore. She just wanted to sleep, wake up, and replay this day until she was thrown into another cell. She hated life.

"Alright, prisoners, welcome to the desert. Hope you're not thirsty," a buff guard chuckled, shackling a prisoner twice the size of him with burn scars all over his body. Mika was shackled by a woman with a petite figure and big muscles that made her disproportionate. She was led onto a sand cruiser which brought her to a prison. It looked similar to the prison boat, made only of metal. There were two buildings. A big, tall building, that she guessed was were the prisoners were held, and a slightly smaller one, probably a house for the guards. Behind the buildings there was a railroad, at least part of a railroad. The other end which seemed it was just being made was surrounded by a low fence only up to her knees. Slowly she was led to the tall building. She was thrown into a metal prison cell that looked more like a cage than anything else.

"Ge' some sleep, you'll be wakin' up early in the morn'. An' workin," the woman said, locking the cell. Mika lay down on the bed soon, she was fast asleep.