Chapter Thirteen: A Loss of Another Father
Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar. I do own General Xokku, Yoshiro and the executioner.
Note: Bring tissues. Or a big napkin
Yoshiro, while running after where Zhao and her father where heading to, she tore her outer clothes, and just had her orange top with the Fire Nation symbol on it, her red skirt and black pants.
"I have to stop my father's death!" Yoshiro said to herself, feeling tears trickling down her face. She wiped them off quickly and continued to run.
She then stopped where she was. A huge, no, enormous red temple appeared, with fire surrounding the top of the temple. Chiliads of soldiers were either guarding the entrance, or they were training.
Whoa. How am I going to get past them? If they see me…well…I don't want to think about it.
Yoshiro noticed her father, near the entrance.
I have to cause a distraction…
Yoshiro was now no more than sixteen feet away from her father and Zhao. She noticed a big rock near them.
She lifted up her hand, trying to control the rock.
"Aaagh!" Yoshiro felt all her muscle go into the rock and tried to throw it over the wall.
Stupid rock!
Yoshiro gave another try, and used both of her hands to levitate the rock over the wall.
BOOM!
Yoshiro looked. It worked. She smiled to herself and when they were busy, she slipped in.
"Father!" Yoshiro whispered as loud as she could.
The sad faced man turned to Yoshiro's direction.
"Yoshiro? Yoshiro!" Xokku smiled, but not too long.
"What are they going to do to you?" Yoshiro asked.
"I don't know. Zhao just left for Fire Lord Ozai. You need to leave. Who knows what'll happen to you…" Xokku said, forlornly.
"I don't want to leave without you. I don't want you executed!" Yoshiro felt more tears.
"I can't leave. My hands are cuffed, and if we left, we'd be in more trouble than we are now!" Xokku said.
Yoshiro clenched her fists.
"I'm going to see Fire Lord Ozai, and force him to leave my father alone!" Yoshiro said, bravely.
"You're probably going to die if you do that," Zuko appeared from the bushes.
"I knew it! I knew you would come!" Yoshiro said with an I-knew-it look.
"Zuko, what are you doing here? You were banished, remember?" Xokku said.
Yoshiro gasped. No one told her Zuko had been banished.
"How come no one EVER tells me these things?" Yoshiro yelled.
"No time to explain. Look, I have a plan-," Zuko was cut off by Yoshiro.
"That's a first, Zuko," Yoshiro said, laughing.
Zuko glared at her. She stopped.
"Look, if it isn't the bratty teenager and his girlfriend," Zhao looked at the two.
"He's not my boyfriend!"
"She isn't my girlfriend!"
"He's too ugly, anyway," Yoshiro took two steps away from him. Zuko gave her a death glare.
"Well, you are," Yoshiro shrugged.
"You and that spoiled, bratty teenager are going to be presented infront of Fire Lord Ozai, while your father will be hung by the gallows. By Fire Lord Ozai's orders," Zhao said.
"Can I at least have a few last words…to Yoshiro?" Xokku sighed deeply.
Zhao was silent until he replied,
"You have a minute."
Yoshiro ran to hug her father and said,
"I'm sorry."
Xokku smiled weakly and replied,
"You are a very gifted girl, Yoshiro. I'm not regretting that I raised you. Even if I killed your real parents."
"Father…" Yoshiro smiled. She stared at him, trying to fix his face into her memory.
"Time's up. Time for your execution, General Xokku," Zhao led him to the gallows, where a bunch of Fire Nation soldiers were cheering.
Yoshiro bit her lower lip. She had her pensive face on, and could feel her tears slide down her face.
"General Xokku. A traitor. He was given orders to kill a baby and bring back one of our own. He refused. And now he shall die because of it!" Zhao yelled to the crowd.
Yoshiro could hear mumbling in the crowd, about where the baby was and how they were excited to hang a traitor.
"Executioner, come!" Zhao ordered.
The executioner hung the rope around Xokku's neck.
Yoshiro was in fright. She felt like burning something, and crashing a rock on Zhao's head. But all she could do was stand there and watch her father die.
"Hang him."
The executioner pulled the rope, and Xokku choked out his last word,
"Yoshi…r…ro."
"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Yoshiro screamed. She felt fury running in her veins. Everybody turned to Yoshiro and Zuko.
She carved a piece of the ground, and smashed a nearby watch tower.
"You shouldn't have done that!" Zuko hissed.
Yoshiro just gave him a glare.
S.E.: WAAAAAAH! (cries)
Chi: (cry) (cry)
Natasha: That's a first...Chi is crying...(sniffles) (cry)