"Don't worry I'll catch up with you guys soon I'm use to being on my own so I want to look around for a bit on my own don't worry I know how to protect myself." I said smiling to myself, I walked by many stores and wasn't remotely interested in anything I was seeing. I stopped something had caught my eye in the store I was now standing in front of, there were two blades crisscrossed hanging on the wall I ducked into the store. It was silent I walked around glancing at all the weapons they had in their but none of them called to me like the blades did. I stood there staring at them for the longest that's when I heard the clearing of a throat and I spun around, there in front of me was a man.
"Can I help you with something little girl?" he asked in a smug tone looking down at me I glared at him,
"How dare you assume I'm a little girl?" I snapped, "and yes you may help me I want to know how much those blades are" I said pointing to the one's hanging on the wall.
"Too much for you, besides what will a pretty thing like you do with blades like those? You'll hurt yourself" he said, that enraged me.
"Don't underestimate me…I'm more dangerous than you think" I said giving him a cold look,
"But you look as gentle as a cherry blossom in bloom" he said reaching out and caressing my face, I could smell the Sake on his breath and reacted out of instinct I smacked his hand away and spun bringing my dagger out of its sheath which was hidden but attached to my waist and pressing it against his throat.
"Don't…touch…me" I hissed into his ear, he suddenly looked mad and quickly moved his leg and kicked me in the gut I hit the opposite wall and clenched my teeth in pain. He came at me,
"You'll regret threatening me child" he said through clenched teeth, just then there was an open palm that caught the punch the guy threw at me. He growled glaring up at the person blocking me he wore a hood so I couldn't see his face but the man could and his face went pale white. The man stumbled back, as I pushed myself off of the wall,
"Just forget it the blades are nice but they aren't worth me putting up with you to get them" I snapped walking from the store. (Zuko's POV)
I glared down at the clerk until she was gone out of sight and far away enough not to hear anything; I grabbed the clerk by the front of his dressing and pulled him close,
"Why was she in here? What did she want?" I barked,
"S-She wanted the blades" sputtered the clerk pointing to the Crescent shaped blades hanging on the wall. "I-I told her that a pretty young girl like herself didn't need them, she n-needed someone like me" with a yell of pure rage I slammed my fist into the guy's face and sent him flying he hit his counter and sat there shaking in fear of me.
"How much are the blades?" he asked,
"T-They c-cost 20 gold" he stuttered I hit the man with a bag of gold that I threw and walked around the corner taking the crescent blades putting them in their sheaths and putting them in the bag. As I was about to leave the clerk says, "T-this is too much, I can't accept this amount of gold"
"Well I don't see anything else that interests me in this…heap they call a weapon shop" I retorted,
"W-wait…I'll show you the best blades I have other then the crescent blades" he said and pushed himself up climbing to his feet and quickly scuffling to a locked door, he unlocked it and went inside it was dark. I couldn't see what he was doing but the silhouette of his shadow made me believe that he was searching for something then he made a sound of relief and came scuffling back out quickly. "H-here…take these blades they can be combined into one and then pull apart to make two separate ones, I'll even throw the mask that came with them in for free" I nodded in silence and took the stuff from him. I left the store in complete silence willing the man to say a word that would suffice in me killing him but he said nothing and I was continent with that, but the rage inside me was screaming for me to return and destroy the man that had try to harm HER. Damn it…why am I feeling so protective of her? "Because she is a fire bender like me that is why I am protective of her and she's helping me to capture the Avatar" I said aloud to myself. You're lying to yourself again, you're falling for her "Ugh, Shut up" I said to myself and then quickly turned a corner almost running into the water bender the one that had danced in my head for so long that I thought I was going to lose my mind,
