DISCLAIMER: don't own AVATAR. God this is annoying.
Let's play a game! It's called: HOW LONG CAN I NOT SEND IN CHAPTERS BEFORE YOU'RE ALL SCREAMING FOR A NEW ONE?
Now, I'll probably lose at this game eventually, but I can always try again in the sequel, can't I? There IS a cheat code in this game, and it goes like this:
I WANT 5 OR MORE R&Rs BEFORE I POST A NEW CHAPTER. DON'T CARE HOW I GET THEM, I JUST WANT THEM. SO GO GET YOUR FRIENDS AND START READING!
Hehe. Seem fair enough? I get replies, u get chapters. That seems fair enough 2 me.
THE LAWYERS W/PNEUMONIA: ug.
ME: crap. 4got that I need to take them 2 the doctor. Read the story while I'm gone.
Chapter 20: Beauty Of The Drawing
Now, Kellie didn't take well to the slings. Especially since she had one on each arm.
(I'm FINE! My arms feel great! I don't need these slings, I haven't needed even after I woke up!) But the doctors insisted she keep them until her burns lightened up. (How are we supposed to know? This is just like when my dad got bit by a spider! We never knew if his leg was getting better until the scab came off! But these are SCARS, they'll never get better! When I get home, how am I supposed to explain these? Oh hi mom, yah, some lunatic of a Prince burned my arms to a crisp simply because he couldn't control his temper!) Zuko nearly did lose his temper after that one.
But one night, Kellie disappeared. Zuko yet again had been discouraged because he hadn't found her. But the idiot forgot to check on deck.
Kellie had found some paper and a pencil and joyfully ran on deck to draw. She was designing the body that she would one day make for Kierra. She wanted it to be beautiful. But every time she designed something, she put it in a pile of 'rejects'. Then, she got a crazy idea. She closed her eyes, and began to draw. This was a technique she had never tried: letting your hands do the work while you have no idea what they're doing. When she thought her hands were done, she opened her eyes. Kellie couldn't believe what she had drawn, it was a beautiful mermaid, but it had fairy wings. And the detail was beyond what Kellie was capable of. This was the drawing, this would one day be Kierra's body.
Zuko walked on deck, and saw Kellie sitting on the bow. Her slings had been flung onto the middle of the deck.
"You know, you're supposed to wear these." Said Zuko as he picked up her slings. Kellie looked up and grinned.
"Screw that."
"Come on."
"No." Now Kellie's grin disappeared and she got serious.
"I feel perfectly fine. I don't need slings."
"Why not?"
"Because, the doctors said I could take my slings off after 3 weeks. How many weeks has it been? 3."
Zuko shrugged and walked up and looked at all the drawings in Kellie's 'reject' pile.
"These are really good."
"Thanks."
"You should sell them."
"Why?"
"A lot of people would pay good money for one of these. Me and my uncle used to buy hundreds of these things back in the Fire Nation." Kellie stared at her pictures, then shook her head.
"No, I'm not good enough. Noone would waste their money on one of my drawings."
"Oh yah?"
"Yah."
"How bout we make it interesting? Tomorrow we're docking at a port. Go and try to sell some of your drawings there. If you can, I get half of your profits. If you can't, I'll buy all of them and let you keep the profits. Deal?" Kellie didn't like the idea of him keeping her drawings, but hey, she got profits!
"Deal." And she shook Zuko's hand.
The next day, Kellie wandered around the port, and would occasionally ask people if they would like to buy one of her drawings. But they would all say no. Finally, Kellie leaned against the post of one stand and looked at her drawings.
One of them slipped from the stack, and a young women that looked Katara's age picked it up.
"Miss, you dropped your drawing." Kellie looked up. She hadn't noticed the drawing slip from the stack.
"Huh? Oh, thank you. Say, um, would you like to buy that?" The girl looked at the sketch in her hand. It looked like a goddess of Water in combat.
"Yes. How much?" Kellie thought about it for a moment.
"3 silver pieces." The girl happily took out the three silver pieces and gave them to Kellie. Kellie nodded a thanks, and the girl ran off.
"I just HAVE to tell my friends about this girl!" The girl said excitedly. Kellie watched her as she ran to a group of girls. She waved her arms, pointed at Kellie, then showed her friends the drawing she had just purchased. The 10 or so girls looked at the drawing, then looked up at Kellie, and ran at her. Soon, there was a mob of teenage girls surrounding Kellie begging for a drawing. Eventually, they had all gotten a drawing, had all paid, and left Kellie. But they left to tell EVERYONE they could about the flame-haired girl and her drawings of Water goddesses. Soon, Kellie had only about a dozen or so drawings left when she received a tap on the shoulder. She turned around, and to her horror, it was Admiral Zhao.
He had seen many people in the port with drawings that were all basically the same, so he went off to find the person who made the drawings. He heard a group of teenage girls mention, 'flame-hair girl' and 'she did an amazing job. I'm going to get another.' So he searched the crowd for the girl he had beat the tar out of.
"Hey, pretty. I've heard about your drawings, and I would like to buy one." Kellie raised an eyebrow. Then she whispered in dangerously low tone,
"Sure. You can have one." And as Zhao reached out for one, she continued,
"WHEN I DRINK ACID!" Kellie yelled this for everyone to hear. Then punched Zhao as hard as she could in the face and disappeared between two stalls. By the time Zhao realized what had just happened, Zuko's ship was pulling out of the harbor.
Kellie leaned on the railing, gasping for breath. She had never in her life ran so fast.
"Now Zhao's gonna want my head."
"And unless you threw most of your drawings away, I want my half of the profits you got." Kellie turned around to face Zuko, and grinned.
"Here you go." And handed him half of her silver.
Yay! Zhao got a second debut! And this time, he got hurt! Go hurting Zhao! Well, remember the game, 5 replies or more and I'll write the next chapter. Like, peace, man. (hippies rule! Lol.)
INSANITY AT ITS FINEST
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