DISCLAIMER: don't own AVATAR.

There's not much 2 say cept that those lawyers I locked in closets r wakin up and I'm all outa KO darts.

THOSE 2 LAWYERS: uh, oh, hey buddy! So, this is wut happened 2 ya?

ME: a-HEM!

THOSE 2 LAWYERS: wut?

ME: aa-aa-aa-CHOO!

THOSE 2 LAWYERS: aaaaaaahhhhhhh! NOOOOOOOOOOO!

ME: whew! Now they got pneumonia! I'll have 2 take care of them, but not much. I wanna make sure they stay sick 4 a while. They'll probably b like this all the way 2 the sequel!

On 2 the story!

Chapter 12: Hit Me With Your Best Shot

This chapter is based on the song Hit Me With Your Best Shot by: Pat Benatar.

When Kellie woke up, she was surrounded with warmth. It reminded her of her room, only it didn't make her legs sweat. Maybe mom turned on the air conditioner? She thought. Nah, she would've heard it. Maybe I rolled to close the camp fire? Nope, she would hear the fire's crackle. Or maybe it's Appa's breath? Of course not! Appa's breath stunk really bad! Or maybe I've been captured again? Kellie honestly hoped it wasn't the last one. But to her dismay, when she opened her eyes, she was lying in a comfy bed, surrounded by red, gold, and black. Fire Nation colors.

"Why do painful things keep happening to me?" She asked sadly.

"Whatever do you mean by that?" Kellie looked up and saw Iroh in a corner, looking at her with keen interest.

"Well, it all started in the first grade. I was playing on a balance bar with a friend, but I went too fast and slipped, and landed on the balance bar, in a not quite right place." Kellie shuddered at the memory. The pain had been so bad she had been blinded. Thankfully only temporarily. Then she sat up and started to count off events from her fingers.

"Then in the second grade, I was playing with friends in a game of tag, on a piece of playground equipment me and my friends call the space shuttle, and my leg got caught on the third bar up. It was about 3 or 4 feet off the ground, and I fell with my leg still entangled on the bar. I landed on my head! Then in the third grade, I was playing tag again in the field this time, and I wasn't watching where I was going, and I ran into a girl. Somehow, her tooth came in contact with my lip and my lip got split. You can faintly still see the scar." Kellie pointed to a spot on her lip, and sure enough, Iroh could see a scar.

"Then, in the fourth grade, I was playing tag AGAIN, but this time on the big slide, and I got shoved off by this kid who's a real pain in the butt. And I sprained my wrist. Then, in the fifth grade, I was playing basketball when I tripped and tore up my arm. Then, last year, in the sixth grade, I tripped on the black top, and tore up my left leg. You can see some of the scars where my shin was torn up." She pointed to her left shin right below her knee, and sure enough, Iroh saw bout 4 or 5 white lines going across her shin like claws, telling where the scabs had been a few months before.

"Then, a few days ago, My forearms got burned, then along with my stomach, they got burned again. Then my arm got dislocated. I'm accident prone. And yet, life hits me with its best shots and I get right back up again." Kellie smiled because she had just quoted off of Hit Me With Your Best Shot, by: Pat Benatar. Well, sorta.

"You've been put through a lot. I'll see if I can get Prince Zuko to give you your own room. With everything to your liking."

"Really? Oh my god! Thank you so much! Even if it doesn't work out, thank you!" Kellie yelled joyously, and leaped out of her bed, ran over and hugged the old man.

Suddenly, the ship came to a screeching halt, and Kellie fell and landed on her bum with an 'oof'.

"Why'd we stop?" She asked, as she got up.

"I don't know. You stay here and hide somewhere. Don't come out till I get back. Understand?"

"Loud and clear, captain." Kellie said and she gave him a salute. Then climbed under the bed. Iroh calmly but quickly walked up on deck.

UP ON DECK:

Zuko had been training when another ship pulled up next to his. The ship came to a screeching halt and off the other ship came a man and some of his best firebenders.

"What do you want, Zhao?" Zuko hissed.

"Tisk, tisk, Prince Zuko. That's no way to talk to an Admiral. And as for what I'm doing here, I have heard that you have some clue to getting the Avatar. I want to see it." The Admiral said smoothly.

"My clue, got away." Zuko said, looking away. Just then, Iroh appeared on deck.

"Well then, you won't mind if me and my men search the ship then."

"Go ahead." Iroh's eyes widened. Kellie was in danger.

The soldiers looked in every room. They looked in every nook and cranny, checking everywhere, until they reached the room Kellie was hiding in. She thought they were going to leave when one guard said to his partner:

"Hey, don't forget to check under the bed."

The soldier stuck his head under and screamed in pain when he got a punch on the nose. Out from under the bed Kellie darted and attacked again. But she had forgotten the other soldier.

He grabbed her and yanked her off his partner. The bleeding soldier went off to the infirmary, while the one holding Kellie took her on deck.

Zhao was surprised to see one of his guards walk back on deck with a child.

"Let me go you bitch!" She yelled.

"Your clue got away, huh?" Zhao turned his head to Zuko and smirked.

Kellie stopped squirming when she heard the voice. Her eyes got wide in fear.

"Let's see what we have here." Zhao walked up to Kellie looked at her. She just sneered.

"She's a pretty one." Zhao said sickly as he ran a finger down Kellie's cheek. Her eyes screamed of murder, and then, Kellie's mouth made a move for Zhao's finger. Her mouth grabbed his finger, and she grinded her teeth into the disgusting flesh. Zhao surprisingly, just winced, and he threw her away.

"Aye, she's got a nice temper to match." He said with a sick grin. Kellie's eyes got even bigger and she began to scream/chant:

" PERVERT! ZHAO'S A PERVERT!"

Zhao slapped her across the cheek. Kellie tasted blood, she spat out a tooth, but she continued to scream.

"PERVERT! ZHAO'S A PERVERT!" She didn't stop screaming. And when she screamed, she screamed with blood issuing from her mouth. She heard several men run to the edge and barf, but she didn't stop.

Zhao started to hit her more. And once, he hit her with a flaming punch. That's when she heard Zuko and Iroh's voices sound,

"THAT'S ENOUGH ZHAO!"

Zhao, stopped, but first, he gave Kellie one strong blow to the stomach. Kellie took several large gasps, and she heard a commotion, but she didn't see it. To her, the world was nothing more than a black hole. Suddenly, she heard something, you might call it insanity, but I call it one of the Master of the World's gifts. Kellie threw her head back and began to laugh like a madman.

"What's so funny?" Zhao asked, anger beyond apparent in his voice.

"A song! I can hear a song! I can hear Hit Me With Your Best Shot playing in my head!" And then, Kellie began to sing the song:

Well you're the real tough cookie with a long history

Of breaking little hearts, like the one in me

That's o.k., let's see how ya do it

Put up your dukes, let's get down to it!
Hit me with your best shot!
Why don't you hit me with your best shot!
Hit me with your best shot!
Fire Away!

You come on with a come on, you don't fight fair

That's o.k., see if I care!

Knock me down, it's all in vain

I'll get right back on my feet again!

Hit me with your best shot!

Why don't you hit me with your best shot!

Hit me with your best shot!
Fire away!

Well you're the real tough cookie with a long history

Of breaking little hearts like the one in me

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case

You better make sure you put me in my place

Hit me with your best shot!
Why don't you hit me with your best shot!
Hit me with your best!
Fire away!

Hit me with your best shot!
Why don't you hit me with your best shot!
Hit me with your best shot!
Fire away!

And boy, Zhao certainly did try to put her in her place, hit her with his best shot, but she kept getting back on her feet and repeating the song.

Hit me with your best shot!
Fire away!

Eventually, Zhao and his men left, thinking the girl was insane. But Kellie kept screaming the song as they led her away into the infirmary, making sure Zhao heard her.

Fire away!

And she screamed into the night. She had been saved.

Alright! I'll continue this l8r! but plz, R&R! it makes my day.