Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Avatar characters, setting, bending, etc. I only own Casey and Day.
My week's been pretty close to h-e-double hockey stick. My crush, who is also my best friend, told me that he has a girlfriend and has had her for some time. I just found this out, and I consider myself his best friend, and I've liked him for almost 2 years. I feel like I've just fallen into a bottomless pit and I keep falling through the darkness. Any advice? My heart's just been ripped out, so this chapter will be a little darker.
SeethingxShadows- Sure I'll tell ILuVeLeMrS! . Robert just is one of those people you can't stand to be around, and with Madison, she just likes to keep to herself, and you can easily see that. Bison? What are you talking about? Very expected, but this chapter may be even more expected. "I would have screamed too, but because he's gorgeous." Yea, he is, but how would you feel if this guy lures you into a forest when you least expect it and you know you're going to get captured? Ok, lost myself now.
ILuVeLeMrS!- Before I forget: SeethingxShadows wants you to review for her story since you read it but never review. I'm glad you like the name. She was going to be in another of my stories, but I'm never going to post it so I'm like, "Yea, I'll use her name." One Night is over with, 19 chapters, and One Day will be out within the next week, week and a half. I'm glad you liked the trailer. I wish I could've done more like that, but no time, so you'll just have to rely on what I've told you. Oh, and congrats on being my first reviewer for this story!
Demoncat5- Thanks, I'm glad you like the story so far. I kind of like Day's power too. It's strange but cool but mysterious.
Lin13- No, she can only see human memories, and are you hyper by any chance? That would be funny, seeing spider memories. That'd actually be a cool idea, thanks.
Firegurl107- Zuko touched her and she went blind, One Night is finished, 19 chapters, and One Day will be out in a week, week and a half, something like that. I'm glad you like the story so far.
Elf of rohan- Thanks, one day I had a splurge on how many powers I could make my characters have. Unfortunately this one wasn't among them, I had to make it up on my own, but it came very easily for me when I went into my old school and I remembered when I actually went there. That was my coolest "brain blast" ever. And I can't believe I just copied a line from Jimmy Neutron. (Shivers) I hate that show! Sorry if you're a fan.
albr62- Thanks, I'm glad you like it so far. It won't be very long though.
Lots of reviews! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Okay, in case you're wondering, she can only see human memories, not animal's memories, which is why she can pet Casey so easily. In this chapter, I make a mention from one of my other stories, Aishiteru. That only takes about 5 minutes to read (it's a one shot), so if you would like to, so it'll make better sense, you might want to read that before you read this chapter.
On another note, this story has no "oh! Let's make friends with Zuko or any of the other characters!" None of that, or any love, so if that's what you're looking for, I'd advise you to go somewhere else. Now, don't be mad at me, but this story also only has 3 chapters, so only 1 more chapter after this one, then I'm going to post another story that has nothing to do with this one!Now, on with it.
Chapter 2- Fights and Memories
I felt a hard but soft thumping against the back of my head as I slowly awoke. My head softly lolled against a metal wall, and I could feel the floor under me moving softly like I was on a boat. I slowly opened my eyes and Casey slowly pawed her way over to my stomach where she laid down. I moved around once I could see clearer, and realized the soft thumping was a blood vessel in the back of my head. I shifted around some so I could sit up better because I was on the floor slumped against the wall in a very uncomfortable position. It was then I noticed the iron chains on my wrists. I groaned, and laid an ironbound and gloved hand over Casey and began stroking her.
I'm not sure how long I was there for, but I know it must've been awhile because there was a small porthole, big enough that Casey could climb through,near the ceiling that offered a little light, and by the time I heard keys rattling in a lock outside the prison hold (where I presumed I must be), the window was giving barely any light at all. Then I heard the same sound of keys scraping a lock outside my cell this time, and Prince Zuko entered my "room" flanked by about 4 guards or so.
"Why am I here?" I whispered softly, staring up at Zuko.
"You shall be quiet until you are spoken to!" he replied. I groaned, knowing that this was the "military" policy, but I was also testing him to see how far he could go before he cracked. "Now, what do you know about the Avatar?" he asked.
"What was the point of asking me to shut up if you were just going to get me to talk again?" I asked, truly interested. He didn't like this one bit.
"You tell me where he is!" he pointedhis fore-finger at me.
"Oh wow! You're pointing your finger at me! How will I survive?" I said sarcastically. He really didn't like this. He motioned to his guards and they rushed forward and grabbed my arms, then they brought me up and forced me against the wall. I hit it with a grunt as memories rushed through my head and over my eyes, like white, transparent ghosts playing in front of my vision. Once the gaurdspicked me up, Casey jumped off of me and started hissing at them. Zuko didn't pay any mind to her.
"Now you listen here you wrench! You tell me anything you know about him right now, or you'll regret it." Thankfully he stayed 5 feet from me.
"Look! All I know is that he flies on a bison with his friends, Katara, Sokka, and his pet lemur! But that's it!" I finally said. Of course I left a few details out, not wanting to betray the Avatar, or the world rather, but Prince Zuko looked satisfied enough. He backed off a little, motioning for the guards to drop me, and they did. I landed hard on the cold metal surface of the ship.
"Thank you. You shall be rewarded." He said. I wasn't through with him yet.
"Yea? Like how? Getting to get out of this cell? I actually like it here. It's very nice where no one can see me and I can't see them." A vein pulsed in his temple; he was very obviously ticked.
"Fine. Have it your way! You will stay down here. Have a nice day." he finished harshly and left. I sighed, glad to have them leave and the memories taken away.
For the next several days, it was very lonesome on the days that Zuko didn't come and question me. But each time I told him the same story. I didn't even talk to the guard posted outside my cell, but why should I? I'd asked for this, hadn't I? Besides, I liked the quiet the best. After the first 3 days, we had stopped at a port, and while I was sleeping, someone had slipped a new set of clothes through the bars, because I had found them when I'd woken up.
Casey was having a blast. She could easily slip through the bars, and the soldiers didn't seem to mind, so she'd be gone for maybe an hour chasing the ship rats and come back very happy. I think the guards actually liked watching her and found her amusing, because one time, no, more than one time, she'd been playing chase with a rat, and a heard a man chuckle, and since the guard was the only man there, it had to be him. Unless the walls here could talk of course, but if so, I wish they'd come out and talk to me. Even though I wanted this and liked it, it was still very lonesome.
After the first week, and a few days after that, there was a lot of commotion on deck with loud and heavy footsteps everywhere, and running every which way. I looked up at the ceiling as if I could see what was going on, but the ceiling remained dark. The footsteps soon halted, and it felt as if the ship dunked a little in the water as if a ton more people got on deck.
I sat in my cell for maybe and hour later, just watching as Casey played with some water in the corner, when I heard the same scraping of keys in a lock, but it was forthe prison hold gate. I looked up attentively, thinking I would see Prince Zuko, but that wasn't who I saw through the bars of my cell looking in at me. Prince Zuko was there as well, but he was standing behind the man in front of me, that man being Admiral Zhao. He was smirking down at me as if the world was never going to end. I held his gaze, neither one of us blinking for some time, and when I looked into his eyes, I felt a prickling at the back of my neck as the hairs there stood on end. He finally broke away from my gaze, and I was free to blink. Casey scampered over to me where I lifted her up and placed her on my stomach and then began stroking her while I heard Zhao talk to Prince Zuko. I could tell Zuko wanted Zhao off his ship.
"And you say she has news about the Avatar?" Zhao asked, kindly. Okay, he wants something, I thought.
"I've tried to question her, but she keeps giving the same info over and over." Zuko responded through clenched teeth, although he was being tolerable. What is going on here! I thought dumbfounded.
"Well maybe I can talk the secrets out of the little wrench." Zhao said. I said in response to this, "Hello! I'm right here. I can hear every word you are saying!" he turned to me, nodded to the guard, and the guard unlocked the door to my cell.
While Admiral Zhao strutted in like he owned the place, which I'm sure he would eventually, given time, he spoke to me. I looked up into his bright, yellow, evil little eyes. "Do you know who I am?" I thought a little lie wouldn't hurt anything.
"No, sir." I said as politely as I could. I could insult him later.
"I am Admiral Zhao, a person farther up the scale than you'd ever wish to be, or could ever be." He smirked at me, like he was enjoying bragging on himself.
"One, why are you speakinglike you're proud of yourself? IfI was an admiral, I'd stop this war, and two, why in the world would I want to be a pig-headed little weasel like you who obviously likes to brag on himself?" I stared up at him. A vein pulsed in his temple, and I saw Zuko behind him slap his head like that was the wrong thing to do. I turned back to Zhao when he spoke next.
"What nation are you from girl?" he asked harshly, all the kindness from his voice gone.
"America." I answered, telling the truth. Obviously he thought I was being smart with him.
"Don'tbe smart with your superiors! I ask you, what nation are you from?"
"And I tell you, the United States of America. You know, in the real world!" I said once more, this time with more sarcasm. Apparently he didn't like this all that much. He bent down and grabbed my hair and pulled me up by that; Casey jumped off of me and began hissing with her back arched, but Zhao ignored her like Zuko did. Hepulled me up so far up my feet couldn't even touch the ground while memories of his childhood rushed through my head. Thankfully though they weren't very strong, and he put his face right up in mine.
"A little rebel, eh? Well, I'll just have to deal with you, and you SHALL LEARNRESPECT FOR YOUR SUPERIORS!" he yelled the last part, throwing me against the wall with a clang and a groan (from me). He walked up to me, my body a crumpled heap on the ground, bent down and grabbed me yet again from my hair. He barely touched my scalp this time, and so my vision kept flickering back and forth from blindness to being able to see.This time though, he just lifted my head up by it forcefully. "Have you learned any yet?" he whispered menacingly.
"I'll never learn anything from you." I whispered back, my body surging with pain. His jaw locked as he picked me up fully with my hair and hurtled me to the opposite wall (and by the way, the cell was pretty big). I groaned again.
"Pick yourself up." He said so all could hear. I could only groan. "PICK YOUR SELF UP!"
I finally mustered the energy I could and hurtled the words at him, "STICK IT WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE YOU #&!" He looked very shocked, but concluded to begin kicking me with all the force possible all over my body. I began to very slowly see stars, when I was able to see, and I could feel some internal bleeding beginning to happen.
I then saw a girl that looked about 5 or 6, and Zhao was yelling at her, "YOU MUST WORK HARDER TO FIRE BEND! WORK KEISHA, WORK! YOU MUST BE BETTER!" and there was a girl there, trying to do as he said, but only produced a small boulder. She was trying very hard to do whatZhao wanted her to, but ended up producing only tears as the Admiral came forward to comfort her.
Then I heard a loud "MEEEEOOOOWWWW!" and looked up to see Casey attacking Zhao's face. He finally got a hold of her and swiftly walked out of the cell, still holding onto my cat. Right before the guard closed the door, Zhao tossed Casey back into my cell, and stood looking from me clutching my stomach in the corner of the room, to Casey hissing and arching her back as if to say, "No one touches my master!" He looked between the two of us, his face laden with scratches and cuts with them bleeding, until I finally spoke, but it was very hard to do so.
"Why…were…y…you s…so m…m…mean to Kei…Keisha? She seemed like she loved you a lot." I met his eyes, his burning a fire into mine unlike any other, but sadness folded in as well. We held each other's gaze again, and he finally broke it away as he turned his back from me and my pet and walked down the hallway again. Prince Zuko gave me a death glare like no other once Zhao left, and I returned it,but then he leftthe prison hold himself.
I eventually heard another scraping of a lock as they locked the gate to the prison hold,and I let my head fall soon after.When they were finally out, Casey decided it was okay to settle down, and so she came over to me, still crumpled in the corner. She licked my hand softly, and I looked up at her, my eyes watering, but not crying and said, "Good kitty. Good Casey."
Also, if you noticed she never went blind the first time because he never touched her skin. She's kind of like Rogue from X:Men. Zhao only touched her hair, so her powers didn't take effect, but they kind of did the second time.
Thanks for helping me into a better mood with your reviews, but still, does anyone have any advice on what I should do about my situation with my crush?