Sokka sat in his dark, cold prison cell in an angry silence. He was furious at getting caught.
They had stopped at a village to re-stalk their supplies. A storm had hit, and forced them to stay the night. It cleared off around midnight.
Katara and Aang were sleeping, when Sokka decided to go out into the garden and practice some moves he had learned on Kioushi Island from the warriors.
As he was doing this Zuko and his men had snuck up on him, knocked him out, and taken him on board the ship- a prisoner.
Sokka had just woken up about an hour ago. One of the guards had left as soon as he saw the boy's eyes open. No doubt to tell Prince Zuko.
"Hey! Wake up!" Barked one of the guards. Sokka's head snapped up. He must have fallen asleep. "Prince Zuko wants to speak with you."
The cell door was open. Another guard walked in and grabbed Sokka's wrists. Out of instinct, he fought back. Thrashing, and pulling, and twisting with all his might. Trying his best to escape.
Two more guards ran in and, after a bit of a scrabble, managed to shove Sokka's face into a wall, and tied his hands behind his back. Even though he knew that he couldn't win, Sokka couldn't help but try to shake them off.
They just held him tighter, and pressed his face harder into the wall.
The men pulled Sokka up and dragged him through the halls of the fire nation ship.
It was very- red. It was not decorated, but the colors were beautiful. Sokka was glad to see that the prince at least had good taste in colors.
"Ah, the prisoner." Sokka tore his gaze from the walls, and looked into the dark, unforgiving eyes of Prince Zuko.
He held in a whimper as the prince took Sokka from the guards, and lead him, forcefully, into an empty room.
Zuko shoved Sokka in before him. Then he closed the door, and turned his eyes so that they again, met with the soft blue ones that belonged to the Avatar's friend.
After a long pause Zuko asked, "What is your name?"
"Why should I tell you?"
Flames erupted from the fire prince's knuckles.
"Sokka!" He cried, before he could stop himself.
"That's better," Zuko said in a smooth tone. The flames disappeared, and the prince walked closer, causing Sokka to back away in fear.
"Sokka," Zuko said, trying out the name, "Where is the avatar headed? If you tell me, I won't hurt you." Zuko said this so calmly, and in such a promising way, that Sokka had to bite his tongue to keep from telling the prince everything he knew about Aang's plans.
Zuko sounded so- different. Like a- friend almost. This caused a flicker of courage in Sokka. "Do you seriously think I'd tell you?" He asked in a sarcastic voice.
"Yes I do," Zuko said in a dangerous voice, walking closer, as flames grew slowly on his clenched hands, creeping up his wrists.
Sokka's heart was pounding against his ribs. A little voice in the back of his head was screaming, 'Run, run, run!' but Sokka ignored it. He stood his ground as the fire prince came ever closer.
Zuko reached out with both hands. Sokka squeezed his eyes shut. He could feel the heat of the fire as it drew closer to his face. Zuko grabded the collar of his shirt roughly. His eyes flew open. Zuko pulled him so close that he could distinctly make out every crease of annoyance spread over the prince's face.
Lucky for Sokka the prince had extinguished the fire that had been there only moments before.
"You will yell me everything you know about the Avatar's plans. If you don't I will be forced to hurt you." At the last line Zuko's eyes flashed, promising that the "hurt" would be the worst pain Sokka had ever experienced in his whole life.
There was a knock on the door, and Zuko shoved Sokka away.
"Prince Zuko," A fire bender opened the door. "Commander Zhoa's ship has been spotted. It's heading our way. We think it might be chasing us."
"What? Bring the prisoner to the holding cell and- never mind, just tie him up in here." Zuko ran out, to see what it was that Zhoa wanted.
Was it possible that he had heard about Sokka?
"Prince Zuko," Zhoa smirked down at the young banished prince.
"What do you want?"
"I heard that you have a friend of the Avatar as your prisoner."
"So?"
"I would like to question it. Where is it?"
"I'm not telling you where he is. He's my prisoner, and I will question him as I see fit."
"Very well. Then I will take him by force." Fire shot from Zhoa's knuckles as he punched at Zuko. The prince managed to duck under it, but the Commander's men were on him in a flash.
They tied Zuko's hands behind his back, he pulled him to his feet. The prince struggled his hardest in attempt to get away. The men holding him twisted his arms sharply.
"Search the ship for a boy. Bring him to me. Now!"
"Yes sir!"
It wasn't long before the men emerged from belong, dragging Sokka between them.
"Take them to the ship, and put them in the holding cells."
At this order, Sokka felt a strong hand press a foul smelling cloth over his eyes, nose and mouth. He shook his head frantically back and forth, trying to get the cloth away, but who ever had it on him, held tightly.
Blackness quickly over took Sokka, and he knew that Zuko would be the next one to get the cloth in his face.
"Tie the water boy in front of Zuko. He won't use fire bending if he knows it will hurt that boy."
Sokka's vision was slightly blurry, and his head hurt terribly. It felt like he'd been sleeping for days. Where was he anyway?
That was Commander Zhoa talking. Suddenly, everything came flooding back to him. He was in Commander Zhoa's prison. They had taken him and Zuko from Zuko's ship.
Where was Zuko?
As his vision cleared, Sokka saw that there were three guards tying something around his waist.
It was Zuko! They were tying the boys together, at the waist, so that they were facing each other. Zuko's wrists were in between them, with the same rope that held their waists so close.
Sokka was disappointed to find that his hands were still behind his back where one of Zuko's guards had tied them originally.
After the guards left, and Sokka's head stopped hurting enough to think clearly, his cheeks turned bright red.
He and Zuko were tied very close, and Zuko's hands were a little to close to something Sokka didn't want the fire prince touching.
13CC: I hope you like it. Once I get 4 reviews I'll write the next chapter! Oh, and sorry if it totally sucks. Please don't flame me!
Alright everyone. I'm sorry to say that they won't let me upload any stories until next week on Saturday night. They said I put on an illegal story, even though there was nothing wrong with it!
I have finished the third chapter and have started writing the fourth. Each chapter I need four or five reviews, so as soon as I get them, I'll upload my chapters.