Chapter Twelve: You Can't Kill Him!
Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar. I do own Yoshiro and General Xokku.
"You aren't going anywhere, Prince Zuko," Zhao blocked the entrance.
Drat! Zuko thought.
"General Xokku? Father?" Yoshiro wondered on the ship.
I need to talk to him!
Yoshiro walked to his quarters.
"FATHER!" Yoshiro yelled inside the room, yelling with her eyes closed.
"Yoshiro!"
Yoshiro opened her eyes.
"Zhao? Zuko? Xokku? Why is everybody having a meeting? How come no one EVER invites me to these?" Yoshiro stomped.
"Yoshiro, this isn't a meeting!" Xokku said.
"It isn't? Then how come everyone's in here?" Yoshiro asked.
"We're at Kyushu!" Zuko said.
"Who's Kyushu?" Yoshiro said.
"It's an island, you audacious girl. Your father is…going to be executed," Zhao said.
WHAT! I can't allow this idiot to kill my father! Even if he's not my father, and killed my real parents, but still! And what does audacious mean?
"You can't kill him!" Yoshiro felt a flame burn in her fist.
"I'm not going to kill him. Fire Lord Ozai is," Zhao smirked.
"As if. He's all the way back at…uhh…" Yoshiro thought of the place.
"He's here, on Kyushu," Zuko said, rolling his eyes.
"Oh."
Silence.
"Well, as much as I love wasting time, the sooner General Xokku is executed, and then sooner this brat is put away, the sooner I go capture the Avatar!" Zhao exclaimed.
"Then what am I supposed to do?" Yoshiro shouted.
"…You'll be presented to the Fire Lord, and he'll choose your fate. Or you'll watch your father's execution," Zhao said, solemnly.
"I'm not letting you kill my father! And I'm am NOT watching his execution, since I'm not going to let you! I don't care what he did, but he raised me! I won't…I won't allow it!" Yoshiro screamed.
"Insolent girl, do you not understand? You weren't supposed to have been living, let alone being born!" Zhao yelled.
Yoshiro stood there, her face stained from tears. She clenched her fists.
"I hope you die!" Yoshiro screeched.
That girl can yell! Maybe if she keeps Zhao busy enough, I could make a run for it, Zuko thought.
Zhao ignored Yoshiro and handcuffed ((1)) Xokku.
"No."
"What did you say?"
"I said, no!" Yoshiro yelled. She shot out fire from her hands and made it hit Zhao's hand.
Uh oh. Bad move. I meant to hit the handcuffs…Run!
Yoshiro froze. She mentally kept telling herself to run, but she couldn't.
"I'll act as if that didn't happen," Zhao said, maliciously, while taking Yoshiro's father outside.
"No!" Yoshiro yelled, then faced Zuko.
"You're going to help me, whether you like it or not!" She grabbed his arm, but he yanked it back.
"Why should I?" Zuko said, coldly.
"Do you really think my 'father' deserves to be killed? Even you can't be that cold and heartless!" She stared at him, angrily.
"He defied my father's orders."
Yoshiro came up to him, and practically crushed his foot.
"Ouch! What was that for?" Zuko was hopping on one foot. It hurt that bad.
That girl has feet of rhinos! Yeowch!Not my fault if her father defied my father's orders! Ouch, ouch, ouch!
"Well, I'm going," Yoshiro ran out the door, following after her father.
((1)) - I wasn't sure if they were invented. They look like those handcuffs Iroh had in 'Winter Solstice' episodes.
S.E.: Bonzai! I have writers block no more!
Chi: Yay. Not.
Natasha: How rude.
Chi: Nuhhh uhhhh
S.E.: (sigh) You guys are lucky. You don't have to LIVE with them!