Chapter two
rescue
I don't own any InuYasha characters OR any Avatar characters -.- Poor me... But I do own Claire and Damien, and my friend owns Keyla!
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Claire groaned as she woke up again. She felt the ground under her moving. She looked around and realized she was in a room, most likely on Zuko's ship. 'I wonder how Zuko could have his ship in the feudal era? Ah well...some questions may never be answered...' she thought. She stood up and realized that she no longer had Zuko's training vest "Darn!" she muttered "I didn't even get a chance to sleep in it!" Her stomach growls at her "...I'm hungry...I hope Zuko is going to feed me...which I really doubt it. Maybe he's planning on...poisoning me...KEYLA SAVE ME!"
---with Keyla---
Keyla gasped "My Claire needing help sense is tingling! TO THE KEYLA MOBILE!" she yelled, then looked around "Wait...I don't have a Keyla mobile...TO THE BOB STICK MOBILE! No...I don't have one of those either. Darn...I guess I'll have to walk. Wait, I'm a half demon! I can run really fast and not get tired! I can't believe I'm saying this...but...thank you Naraku!" she began running, only to run into a tree. "What is it with Claire, me, and running into things!" she asked, kicking the tree. "OWIE!" she yelped. Then she decided that she'd rather blow up the tree, and she took out a bomb from her backpack (She has a whole arsenal in there!) She took cover as the tree, and many trees around it, blew up. "SCORE! DIE TREES OF DOOM!" She blinked "OH NO, THOSE MIGHT HAVE BEEN BOB STICK'S ANCESTORS! FORGIVE ME BOB STICK!" Keyla bowed to the ashes of the trees, then she sees a butterfly and forgets all about it...and she forgets all back saving Claire.
---back with Claire---
Claire jumps up as the door opens and a guard come in with food. All it was was cold soup and water, but she ate it anyways. Afterwards she thought 'They're Firebenders...but they don't even know how to keep food warm!' In fact, the food had been made hours before, but the soldiers were arguing about who would go. No one wanted to face the insane girl who stole Prince Zuko's training vest for seemingly no reason. "I wonder why Zuko captured me and Naraku didn't...I guess it's because I stole stuff from Zuko. Naw that couldn't be it! I steal people's cloths all them time! The locker room is a gold mine!" she giggled insanely for a moment, then fell silent "I still want to learn Firebending..."
Zuko happened to be walking by Claire's room when he heard voices. He thought someone was trying to help her escape, so he burst in...to find that she was alone. She didn't even notice him and continued what she was doing.
"No, I'm telling you I didn't betray you General Cornpuff! It was Admiral Popcorn who gave away our location I swear!"
Claire changed voices "I don't want to hear another word for you. You understand that you've committed treason, correct? You understand that you will most likely be hung, correct?"
"But sir...I really didn't..."
"DO NOT SPEAK TO ME THAT WAY MAN!"
Claire began to pretend to be on the verge of tears "I...I thought that if anyone would listen to me it was you...but it would seem I was mistaken..."
Zuko cleared his throat, and Claire snapped out of her fantasy world. "General Cornpuff?" she asked, still halfway out of her mind. She blinked, then realized who it was "Or not..." She blinked again, then realized that Zuko must have been watching her. Her eyes widened, then her narrowed them, as if suspicious of something "How much did you see? YOU KNOW MY PLANS! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" She went into a fit of giggled. "Okay...I'm done..."
"What was that?"
"One of my stories! I always act them out!" Claire thought for a moment, "I wasn't getting too loud...was I? I acted out a whole fight scene without anyone thinking anything was going on."
"That must have been one quiet fight scene..."
"...No...actually I was yelling 'long live the pink monkeys' most of the time...I can't believe no one heard it."
"Pink...monkeys?" Zuko gave her a look, as if to say 'you're insane'
Claire shrugged, "Don't ask, it's a long story...and it goes along with the discovery of the magic bag of weapons and Bob Stick!" She smiled, "So do you want to see the rest of my play or would you rather leave before I decide to do something stupid?"
"I'll watch...but don't even think about trying to steal my cloths again..."
"Don't worry...you're not wearing the vest. I only wanted to steal the vest!" she smiled, then continued her story.
About a half an hour later Claire was at the end of her story. "Please...tell Prince Eggperson...that's I'm sorry. Please...forgive me for what I've done..." Claire closed her eyes and held her breath, pretending to die. She jumped up quickly, "AND THAT IS THE STORY OF THE EVIL ADMIRAL WHO TRIED TO STEAL FROM THE PRINCE AND THEN A SOLDIER DIED!"
Zuko raised his eyebrow "That was random...and why did everyone have such odd names?"
"My specialty is randomness, and I think those names are creative! You'll never meet someone named Eggperson or Cornpuff! Although that was halfway based off of true things and half way from the world in my head. The part where the Evil Admiral was burned by the dragon...that's what I wish would happen to Zhao..."
Zuko actually smiled a little, then he thought about something "How do you know his name?"
"Oh, where I come from there's a magical box that shows...stuff...and one of the things is a play...sort of...about where you come from! And you're on it, and the Avatar's on it, he's the main character, and Katara and Sokka are on it, and I want to kill Zhao, and I saw an episode where you and Zhao battled AND YOU SO WON AND HE TRIED TO CHEAT BUT GENERAL IROH STOPPED HIM FROM BURNING YOU!" she said, getting more hyper by the moment. "...Did that really happen?"
"Yeah..."
"COOL! I have seen the past without being there!"
"Although I don't believe the whole thing about magic boxes."
"You'll believe it if you ever see where I live. You also wouldn't believe there are big ships that fly through the sky and into space, or that there are little ships that speed through towns like really fast carriages, and you wouldn't believe that houses get up and dance at night!" Claire twitched after the last one "But they do...I know they do...but everyone calls me crazy for my discovery!"
Zuko gave her a look that showed he also thought she was crazy "Flying ships? That's impossible...I might believe the part about houses...maybe..."
"Actually that's the part no one believes. Everyone knows about the flying ships and the fast carriages."
"I still don't believe it."
"Why are you even talking to me? Shouldn't you be doing...whatever princes do?"
"Just because I'm a prince doesn't mean..."
"What do princes do anyways?"
"Never mind." Zuko decided it was impossible to talk to her. Then he realized how long he'd been in her room/prison. "Try to keep it down if you're going to keep telling yourself your stories."
"OKIE DOKIE PRINCIE ZUKO!" Claire yelled as loud as she could. Zuko flinched, then walked away and locked the door behind him. "Darn...I thought he might forget...ah well...ON TO THE SEQUEL!"
---with Keyla---
Keyla looked around "I feel like I'm forgetting something..." She frowns and tried to think. "Darn ADDness." she muttered. "If only I could remem...hey look there's a ship! Wait...a ship? ZUKO'S SHIP! I have to save Cl...I SEE MIROKU!" She ran to where she thought she saw Miroku, but she'd just been imagining it. "Darn...now what was I talking about? Hm...oh well..." Keyla walks away, heading opposite of the ship. She begins to run, and runs into someone. "Darn bumping into peopleness!" She looks up to see it's a boy with long brown hair and bark brown eyes. He wore a hori like InuYasha's, only it was black instead of red. The thing she noticed most was he was missing his left arm.
He doesn't even look at her, "You should watch where you're going, hanyou girl, I don't intend on harming you...but if I were someone like Lord Sesshoumaru or Naraku then you'd be dead right now."
"Y...You're Damien Monoki..."
The boy frowned, "I don't need anyone else to point that ou..."
"You're my friend's character!"
Damien blinked, "I'm what?"
Keyla's eyes widened, "NEVER MIND! I SAID NOTHING!"
Damien flinched, "Don't yell. Demons have sensitive hearing. You should know that, hanyou."
"I have a name you know."
Damein sees her windtunnel "Why do you have the same thing as Miroku?"he asked, then he tilted his head to the side, "And, for that matter, why do you have the same robes at Miroku?"
"Wouldn't you like to know?"
"Yes, I would like to know."
Keyla shook her head, "No...you don't."
"That's an odd ship," Damien said to change the subject.
"Ship? What ship?" Keyla turns around and sees Zuko's ship. "Ohhhh, that ship! Wait...CLAIRE'S ON THAT SHIP AND I HAVE TO SAVE HER!"
"Who's Claire?"
"My friend who's actually an escapee from the asana asylum! And I'm keyla, an escappe from the happy house who loves weapons and trying to kill Zhao and Kagome!"
"You're out to kill Kagome!"
Keyla pursed her lips, thinking 'Right ow would be a good time to lie...' "No, no! I said kill...ganome!"
"What?"
"It's a name...of a...erm...GNOME!"
"Oookay...so Claire is the one who was unconscious and taken into the ship while screaming something about pink monkeys?"
"Pink monkeys? Yup...that's Claire all right." Keyla smiled "So...can you help me save her?"
"Fine, but you have to promise you'll leave me alone. I get enough trouble from my human sister following me around. I don't need two more."
"I promise!" Damien didn't notice Keyla crossing her fingers.
--With Claire--
"Finally, the evil threat to Prince Eggperson is over and we can all live happily!"
"But what...what about all those who died to protect him?" Claire pretended to cry again.
"They were the greatest heroes of all," Claire saluted, and her story was finally over. She looked around, "I have no clue what to do now. I wish I could help the cook cook! I'd like to see what people in this world would think of things like spaghetti or stroganoff! I looooove those." She frowned "But I doubt they'll let me do that...AND I STILL WANT TO LEARN FIREBENDING!"
She started punching thin air for no reason and suddenly the room feels really hot. She opens her eyes, because she had them closed, yet again for a reason only she knows. "...FIRE! FIRE'S COOL!" She frowned "Now how do I put the fire out? AHHHHHHH! HELPHELPHELPEHLPEHLP!" she yelled.
Zuko once again happened to be passing the door and he heard her yelling. he thought she was playing another one of her stories out and went into tell her she was getting really loud. He found her trying to get away from a fire, which was somehow on the metal wall and floor. "FIRE! FIREFIREFIRE! I'M STILL TOO YOUNG TO DIE!" She sees Zuko "Erm...how do you put the fire out?"
"HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO SET METAL ON FIRE!"
"I have no clue." she shrugged "But still...PLEEEEASE HELP!"
A few minutes later one of the soldiers came in with a lot of water to put it out with, since one a big fire started it couldn't be put out, even by a Firebender. "What were you doing in there?" Zuko asked her.
Claire shrugged "I was bored, and I started punching thin air with my eyes closed!"
Zuko raised an eyebrow, once again giving her a look that clearly told her he thought, no he knew, she was insane. "Why were you doing that?"
"I dunno...it seemed like a good idea at the time!"
Zuko tried not to lose his temper, and by some miracle he succeeded. (O.o Is he taking secret anger management lessons?) "Why didn't you say you were a Firebender!"
"I'm a Firebender? Coooool."
"You didn't even know!"
"Nope...was I supposed to?"
Zuko once again got close to losing his temper.
Iroh, who'd happened to have been there the whole time, laughed "Well this is a pleasant surprise!"
"Now where am I supposed to be? That room was all burnt up."
"Who's fault is that?" Zuko snapped.
"Hey, I didn't know I could Firebend! If I did I wouldn't have said 'I want to learn Firebending' about a million times since I got here!" Claire shrugged "Although, maybe it was stupid of me to close my eyes and punch the air."
"Maybe?" Zuko asked
"Okay, it was a stupid idea, happy?"
"No."
"Well...you're never happy," she said, remembering Katara saying that once to Sokka on the TV show. Zuko practically pouted at that statement. Claire smiled "How about I try to clean up the room?"
"Why would you try to stay here if you're a prisoner?"
"Because...erm...I dunno. Maybe because I get more time to practice my story play things when I'm captured?"
"Fine, but two guards will be watching you to make sure you don't try to escape."
"Okie dokie!"
---with Zuko---
"I don't think she should be a prisoner anymore, prince Zuko. She is a Firebender after all..." Iroh said.
"I don't trust her, there's something odd about her."
"Is this about her stealing your training vest?"
"No, uncle. Although that is pretty strange, too. She's been talking about magic boxes and stuff like that, and she knows a lot about things that she shouldn't know about. I think she might just know where the Avatar is."
---back with Claire---
While Iroh and Zuko were talking Claire's captors had just been knocked unconscious by Damien and Keyla. "It's my Kewla!"
"Claire, come on before we get caught!"
"Why would we get caught I'm a..."
"JUST COME ON!" Keyla grabbed Claire's arm and dragged her towards a window, which they had gotten in through.
"Hey, you're Damien! I know you! I know alllllll about your past too! It's really sad, I feel sorry for you."
"Not the time Claire." Keyla said, jumping out the window herself. Now they were all in the water. "Lets get to shore and get out of here."
"But..."
"Claire, whatever you left behind we'll get back," Keyla said.
"But..." Keyla ignored her and began swimming towards shore. Claire frowned "Sometimes she really gets on my nerves. Ah well, probably revenge for me getting on her nerves. PINK MONKEYS AWAY!" With that Claire followed Keyla. Damien was already on shore.
"YOU HAVE ONLY ONE ARM AND YOU SWIM FASTER THAN US! HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?" Keyla yelled.
"He's just good at stuff." Claire said.
"Damien?"
"Yes?"
"Can I sing?"
"No."
"It's opposite day! I HAVE A LOVELY BUNCH OF COCONUTS THERE THEY ARE ALL STANDING IN A ROW! BIG ONES, SMALL ONES, ONES AS BIG AS YOUR HEAD!"
Damien growled "One more word and I'll kill you." They both listened, but instead of singing they both started humming. "Both of you be quiet!"
"You said no more words! Humming isn't words!"
'These two will be the death of me...' Damien thought.
"IS THAT MIROKU!" Keyla jumped up and ran towards where she thought she saw Miroku.
"Not again..." Damien and Claire grumbled.
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I'm sure KanakaStorm will love this ending. Hope everyone likes it, please review! -Reaches into Keyla's bag of weapons- Beware, if you don't review I shall attack you with a... -takes out a weapon- O.o...butter knife? -.- This was Claire's backpack. O.o Is that an action figure of General Cornpuff! Weird...very weird...
Thanks to those who reviewed!
HamtaroAngel: I'm glad you thought it was funny. I can't believe I made such a big mistake! In this chapter I made sure to space when people were talking. Thanks for pointing that out!
KanakaStorm: Thanks Kanaka! Because you're so nice Keyla gets a huge bag full of every weapon in the world! Aren't you special? Well I'm happy about the big long review...so I guess it's time for you to take me to the happy farm! Yay! (It's true! I really don't have a life.)