In case you forgot about what happened with Nya last time, she had freed almost everyone from the cruel and unjust Master Stephen who kept everyone as slaves, but before she has the chance to free everyone, Master Stephen and his guards attack Nya's treehouse and took all the slaves. Now, Nya must get everyone back. Luckily, she has a new plan.

Chapter XXIV: Almost Free

Nya was now on her way to the plantation again. She was hoping to trick them into letting her in again. But this time, she had a plan. She would go in and knock all the slave masters out again.

"I hope this works," Nya whispered to herself once the plantation was in view. She still couldn't believe what had happened the night before.

As Nya got closer to the building she could hear Master Stephen practically screaming orders.

"Put more back into it! Stop crying like a baby! Get me water!" Nya's face lit up at this demand.

On her back was a pole with two water buckets on either side. She perfectly balanced them on the pole as she slowly trudged up the pathway.

"Halt!" the two guards told her once she was at the door.

"Why?" Nya asked.

"Your voice is oddly familiar," the first guard said.

"Look up!" the other ordered.

Nya looked up and took off her hat with a smirk.

"The-the master of water," the second guard said as he backed away.

"Who me? No," she smiled.

"Who cares about some dumb water lily, anyway?" the first guard asked.

Nya responded by balancing the pole on her back and using her powers to take the water from the bucket and push the second guard into the nearby woods.

She then turned to the frightened guard and asked, "Who's next?"

It wasn't too much longer that Nya was safely inside the plantation. She now had her bamboo hat back on, and she still had enough water to pass off as a servant girl getting water. She trudged through the plantation, and soon enough, she found Mark. He was currently taking worms off of some plants.

She slowly walked over to the area and tried to pass off as if she was trying to water some plants.

"What are you doing?" Mark asked her.

"Master Howard told me to water some of the plants," Nya replied in a lower voice.

"He never asks anyone to do that until we're done worming. Are you new or something?" Mark asked.

"Or something," Nya answered in her normal voice.

"Nya? What are you doing here?"

"Shh! Be quiet! I'm undercover. You'll be out soon. I promise," Nya whispered.

As she started to walk away, she bumped into none other than Master Howard!

"What are you doing!" he barked.

"I came to water. I was unaware that they weren't done, though. I'm leaving now," Nya said in her lower voice again.

She walked away a lot faster now, but the master kept a close eye on her the rest of the day.

That night Nya went to her cabin, which she was sharing with a few other families, but when she got to the cabin there was no one there. It was weird considering the fact that everyone was supposed to go to bed at the same time.

"Hello?" she asked after closing the door. "Is anyone here? Hello?"

"Nya Lilly Smith, daughter to the master of water and fire," the voice belonged to Master Howard. "What does it feel like to get killed? I can imagine it would be quite traumatic for you," Master Howard said as he came out of the dark.

"How would you even know that?" Nya asked getting into a fighting stance.

"I talk to many people. Most claim it to be a crazy dream, but I believe it. It wasn't that delightful for me either," he replied.

"What?"

"The first time the pirates attacked the city. You ninja couldn't save me, and I realized that I needed to give my life more meaning, so that's what I did."

"So, you developed this in a little over a year?"

"I just finally decided to enter the 'family business'. Most of these people knew my father."

"I just hope Tony doesn't end up as cruel as you," Nya told him. She jumped up and tried to kick him, but he caught her leg and threw her into a nearby wall.

Nya groaned as her back hit the wall. The last thing she heard before passing out was the master laughing over her.

When Nya woke up, she saw sunlight through a nearby window, but she couldn't hear anything. Although Nya wasn't tied up like last time so that was a good note. Until her eyes finally adjusted to the light to see that she was in some sort of dungeon.

"This place is nuts," Nya said quietly to herself.

"Company?" she heard a voice say from the other side of the wall next to her say.

"Who's there?" Nya asked. She was a little on edge being in a dungeon, and all.

"I'm Julie," the girl said. She sounded a little older than Nya.

"I'm Nya. How long have you been here?" Nya asked.

"Not too long. Master Howard doesn't usually keep people here too long. He needs help. That's why we're the only ones in here," Julie replied.

"Oh."

"I'm supposed to be released tomorrow, but it's nice to have company until then."

"What did you do?"

Silence followed that question.

"Was it something really bad?" Nya asked.

Julie hummed to say yes.

"I won't judge. You can trust me," Nya told her.

"Well, I was harvesting corn for Master Howard when I saw a child's parents being let go," Julie started to explain.

"They actually let people go?" Nya asked.

"Sometimes. If-if they aren't useful anymore, but they weren't letting the child go with his family, which made me really mad, so I picked up a whip that a guard dropped the other day, and-Well, you can picture the rest," Julie finished.

"And you got thrown in here," Nya said as she looked up at the are, cold, wet ceiling. Wet ceiling. "Do you wanna get out early?" Nya asked her new friend.

Nya looked at the damp ceiling. It seeped through the walls, damaging the foundation of the dungeon.

"I suggest that you duck," Nya told Julie.

"Okay," Julie responded.

Nya used her powers to let the water dampen the walls even more than what was already done. As she did so, the walls began to crumble, and Julie let out a scream.

"Are you okay?" Nya asked.

"I'm fine. It just scared me," Julie replied.

Nya backed up as far as she could towards the door of her cell and continued what she was doing. The walls began to crumble, as did the ceiling, but when a chunk of the ceiling fell she could see bright, blue sky above her.

"Your still okay?" Nya asked.

"I'm fine, and-and I see a way out!" Julie exclaimed.

"Me too," Nya informed her new friend before she jumped onto the wall and grabbed a piece of rock that stuck out. She then used her upper body strength to throw herself out of the ceiling. When she looked in the direction of Julie's cell, she saw that she managed to climb out of the small window of the cell.

"Now what do we do?" Julie asked. She was an Italian looking girl with brown hair and hazel eyes. She was really very pretty, but she wore dirty clothes that had a few holes in them on the arms.

Suddenly, the two heard the master scream something about prisoners escaping.

"Don't worry," Nya said with a smile. "I have a plan."

That chapter was a little shorter than I would've hoped, but I hope you guys enjoyed it. Please tell me what you think of this chapter in the reviews, I would really appreciate it.

Next up, Lloyd and Pixal.