"We're here" I hear Boss say.

I get up from where I was sitting on the bridge, reading a book, and look forward. There was nothing aside from forest.

"Weren't we going to Tremence?" I ask

"Tremence is being occupied by the Fire Nation. Docking there would be stupid. We're going to walk in, find the contact and get out."

He starts walking towards the exit, leading to the main passages of the ship.

"Cool." I say, following him. "When do we leave?"

"You're staying."

"Like hell I am." I say as we kept on walking.

"I need someone to watch Yin. Make sure that he doesn't try anything?"

"What the fuck is he going to do anyway? He wanted to join us. Where else would he go?"

"Luke. Please don't argue and just stay here."

I don't like it, but I don't want to get on any unknown bad side.

"Fine" I say.

"Thank you."

He gathers Tom and Dave and leave shortly after.

I see them leave and enter the dense forest.

I walk back inside, planning to get a few more chapters on my book before getting utterly bored and falling asleep.

I walk inside and see Yin straight ahead in the lounge, sitting alone at one of the tables. I walked past, but he heard me and the asked "Where's your leader?"

"Boss and the others just left. Why?"

"I wanted to ask him where I sleep."

"Where did you sleep last night?"

"In one of the bunks in the barracks."

"Then that's where you sleep."

I started to walk away, but he got up and caught up with me.

"Why do you get to sleep in one of the good rooms?"

We reached the first flight of stairs going up and started ascending.

"Because there are 4 authority figures on a standard Fire Nation ship. Captain, Navigator, Commander, and First Mate. I got lucky."

"Yeah okay, but why do I need to sleep in a huge room all by myself?"

We keep on walking, now on the second deck. "Because there's 5 of us and 5 minus 4 equals 1." I turned around a looked at him, smirking. "Don't tell me you're afraid of the dark."

He shakes his head and says "No. I just don't like being in a huge room alone."

We keep on walking. "Well" I say. "Chances are those numbers are going to change in a few hours and you won't be alone."

"Okay"

A few more minutes pass until we reached the third deck until he asked "Where are the others going?"

"Town called Tremence. Picking up some new recruits."

"You guys on some kind of recruiting spree?"

"You could say that?"

A few more minutes pass until we reached the fourth deck. And he asks "I'm sorry. What's your name again?"

"Luke. Our leader is just called Boss. The tall one is Dave and the other is Tom."

"Hm. Why aren't you going with them?"

I reach the stairs leading to the fifth deck.

"They wanted me to keep an eye on you."

"Because you're the second to newest one, I guess?"

"Yeah. How'd you know that?" I ask. Legitimately curious.

"It seems like it's descending in age."

"Well. You're wrong. Dave is the oldest here."

"Oh. I won't cause any trouble just so you know."

"Good to hear."

I reach the ladder leading to the bridge. I open the hatch and start going up until he says "You're going to the bridge?"

"Yeah." I respond. Already a foot off the ground. "Why?"

"I was going to ask if you could give me some pointers."

"Pointers?"

"Yeah. Like how to fight and stuff like that."

"How old are you?" I asked questionably as I came back down.

"10. You?"

"11. Sure. Let's go."

We go down back to the first deck. I told him to wait outside as I went to the storage room and looked for anything. Hay bales, punching bag, Fire Nation armor, etc. I grab the punching bag which is floor mounted and grab some armor. Luckily, the bag was shaped as the upper torso of a human and was slightly taller than Yin and around my height.

I bring it out and put the helmet and body armor on it.

"Alright. Go." I say.

He was already in a fighting stance, but looked at me and asks "What do I do?"

"Knock it down."

The circular base of it is 20 lbs. Impossible to knock over without prior knowledge. It's meant for punching which was especially amusing when he attempted to tackle it, but fell back on his ass.

I snicker and put my hand up to my chin in an arch that it fit in as I continued watching. He had a very obvious blush of embarrassment on his cheeks.

For the next few hours, I showed him the weak spots in Fire Nation armor and had him lay 10 punches within 10 seconds. None of which could touch any armor, but had to find its way through.

He didn't get it. He got 6 until he hit the base of the helmet while trying to hit the neck.

I is 6 PM now. Still no sign of the others. They've been gone for 6 hours.

I lean against the exterior wall looking at the forest, waiting for them to emerge until Yin walked out.

"Still not back?"

"No."

"Should we like… look for them?"

"I'm getting close to doing so."

"We don't want to lose sunlight. We should probably go now.

He was right. If we were going to go, it should be now.

I brought up the ramp leading to the ground first.

"What are you doing" he asks as I do it. "We need to go down there."

"We're not going on foot" I say. I motion for him to follow me and he does. I lead him down into the main storage area.

I hit a switch on my right and suddenly, the extendable ramp on the front of the ship separates and begins to descend. Light pours in revealing two Fire Nation tanks.

"No way." He says.

"Yep. We were attacked by two of those about a week ago. We kicked their asses and took their tanks as a parting gift."

That was the day I killed five people. I try to forget, but it lingers. It's just another thing that happened.

I lead him to the front tank and open the hatch. I go in first and he follows inside, closing the hatch behind him.

"Do you know how to start it?"

"Noo, but seriously. How hard can it be?"

"I look in front of me, but all of the levers and switches look the same. Not to mention the confusing gauges in front of me.

"Have you tried starting it?" he asks from behind me.

I sarcastically face palm myself and say sarcastically "Why didn't I think of that?"

"I was just offering suggestions."

"Please refrain from offering suggestions that suck ass."

I look back to the controls. There's got to be some way to start this.

I handle next to my seat. I grab it and try turning it. Nothing. I'm fiddling with it and realize that it pulls out. I grab it and yank on it. It makes a noise similar to one of an engine starting.

I hear Yin twitch behind and look back. He has hopeful excitement on his face. I pull again with the same noise. I pull one last time and it starts.

I slam the panel with joy and say with and quiet yell "Yes!"

I see a lever on my side and move it forward. The tank shifts.

I fiddle with the controls for a way to start moving and even start kicking around until we yank forward. I try to kick in the same spot and feel another pedal, but it does nothing. I feel around some more and move forward.

I look through the small slit in front of me and try it again. We're moving!

I press it harder and we exit the ship and go down the ramp. We're about to hit a tree, but I hit another pedal accidentally and it stops.

I'm breathing really heavily and so is he. He's seeing everything from the slit through which firebenders fire at others.

I'm an inch away from the tree and try pressing the stop lever and it moves me backwards.

"Okay okay." I say. "So this pedal goes back. Right?" I say a\as I press the left pedal.

"Yeah."

"And this goes forward." I say, pressing the other.

"Yep."

"Let me try something." I grab the wheel in front of me and press forward. I start moving, but turn the wheel. The tank turns to the left and then the right with the corresponding turns.

"Okay." I say. "The wheel is for steering."

"Yep."

I suddenly start laughing and say "Holy shit. This is awesome."

He starts laughing as well and says "I know. This is amazing."

I look for the dirt path and find it. I find the gas pedal and press on it. We move forward onto the path and start heading towards town.

"You have aa map right?" I ask.

"Yeah."

"Good. Because I do not want to get out to fetch a new one."

Don't normally do this, but if you could please review and say your favorite chapter so far and any predictions, I would appreciate it and if you have any questions, I'll try to answer them and if you have any suggestions, go ahead.