Chapter Three

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" Get up."

" Let...go of me..." Yumi murmmered as Celia grasped her hair, making Yumi hover over the ground slightly.

" Your a joke of a fire bender." Celia hissed in Yumi's ear. Yumi stay silent, the pain in her arm, now searing. Celia let her drop, she stare at her for a moment, unsatisfied with her opponent. Actually, she was just supposed to capture her quickly and bring her back to the Fire Lord as soon as possible, but Celia quite enjoyed playing games with her prey.

" I said, get up!" She screamed and kicked Yumi hard in the side. She winced, but held in her scream. Celia smirked. " Why would the Fire Lord go to so much trouble to capture a below average fire bending girl?" She asked more to herself, then to Yumi. Yumi held in an anger filled gasp. Celia sensed this and bent down.

" What is it, sweetie? Got something to say, huh, miss mediocore?" She taunted. Yumi lunged out and grabbed her ankle with her good hand. Celia's eyes widened and she wriggeled free from Yumi's grasp and fell back. She looked at her ankle, it had large finger shaped burn marks that caressed her pale skin. Bits of dead skin flittered off as she moved it.

" What did you do, you vermin!" She looked, shocked at her flesh. Yumi managed to stand up, she grinned.

" Something to get you distracted, that's all." She answered, smiling up at her.

" You little brat, how dare you!" Celia half-yelled and without warning shot a blast of fire right at Yumi. Yumi looked frightened for a moment, but brought her trembeling hand up and produced a small fire ball, it hovered in her hand.

" Good enough..." She muttered and threw it up into the air, she started to manipulate it then brought it down, until it was resting soundly in front of her.

Celias' attack was now heading at Yumi, it hit the fire wall and it melted into it. Yumi snapped her fingers and the wall disapeared. She looked down amazingly at her non-injured hand.

"...I did it?" She stared. " YEAH, I DID IT!" She jumped up happily, but the pain in her arm was remembered, and she grasped it.

" Don't celebrate just yet, girly." Celia ran forward and crashed into Yumi's side. A surge of pain slid through her body as the initial impact was hit apon her forearm. She fell.

Celia hovered over her. " Done yet?" She asked. Yumi turned on her side, she closed her eyes, hot tears were felt through her eyelids.

"..."

" SPEAK, YOU DUMB GIRL!" She commanded and attempted to kick her side again, but a figure appeared in front of Yumi's almost limp body then, Celia halted.

" That's enough, dear Celia." A stern voice said. Celia gaped when she recognized the voice. She bowed.

" I am sorry, Captian Lao, I got...carried away." Celia's voice now changing from it's previous creul tone, as she addressed the man. The man Celia had been talking to before in the ally, revealed himself to Yumi then, he grabbed her arm and pulled her up onto her feet.

" I apologize for my subordinate, Yumi." He smiled at her, she was trying to stay on her feet, becuase the pain in her arm made her shaky. " Let me escort you to the sleeping chambers." He said lightly, Celia was sulking in the background. Yumi tryed to pull free, but it was no use, she was too weak. He started to lead her away.

" Hey! I-I'm not going anywhere, leave me alone!" Yumi yelled up at the captian, Celia scowled.

" Quiet fool, your lucky the Captain stopped me..." She mummbeled.

" If you keep squirming like that your going to injure your arm even more than it already is, Yumi." Captian Lao said in a gentle, fatherly tone. Yumi suddenly stumbeled and fell onto the ground, the captian released her from his grip and stared down at her, confused.

" What's wrong with her, why did that little brat do that?" Celia said angrily, hunching over Yumi, slapping her head harshly with the back of her hand. Lao bent down as well, he stroked his mustache with the tips of his fingers.

" It seems she's fainted."

Celia laughed. " A pitiful little girl, isn't she, sir?"

" Let's bring her to your sleeping quarters, Celia." Lao said, ignoring her question and picking up Yumi.

" Yes, sir." Celia said, lowly.

Captian Lao and Celia brought Yumi to the officer's quarters, which was situated in the back of the ship, near the captian's chambers. Lao brought Yumi into Celia's room, where their were two beds. He placed Yumi on one of the beds, gingerly and motioned to Celia to follow him out of the room, she nodded and followed her captian out. Lao and Celia walked out so they were standing in front of the door, Celia shut it and turned to him.

" It's as you expected, sir. Not a very experienced fire bender, her moves are weak and predictable. Sure, she had her moment of glory, but nothing special." She reported. Lao smirked.

" Yes."

" Sir?" Celia questioned. Lao turned to Celia.

" It's interesting, is all. Why would Fire Lord Ozai want the children of Kiyotaka?" Lao asked, seeming genuinley interested.

" Isn't it obvious, sir?" Lao turned his gaze. " He led a revolt against our great Fire Lord, exterminating all of Kiyotaka's family members is the perfect way to get revenge!" Celia said, deviously. Lao glanced away.

" Perhaps..." He said absentmindly gazing out at the sea. He frowned.

" Excuse me, sir?" Celia asked.

" What is it?" Lao answered, pulling his gaze away from the pitch black of the night.

" How...what I mean is, how did you get on the ship? I didn't see you get on." Celia asked, curiously.

Lao laughed at her. " Their are many ways to board a ship, my friend."

" Right, sir." Celia narrowed her eyes, and muttered under her breath. " Do you have to be so mysterious..."

" What was that?"

" Nothing, sir!"

Lao turned away and started to walk back down the stretch that led to the rooms. " You should be getting to sleep soon, Celia. In the morning we will be in Fairing, we bring the girl to Lord Ozai after that." Lao said, his face suddenly turning dark.

" Of course, sir!"

Lao started to walk away but turned as Celia was about to walk into her room." Oh, and Celia?"

" Captain?"

" Do not lay a hand on the girl." He said with a small smile and walked off in the other direction.

" ...Shoot..." Celia grumbeled as she walked into her room and made her way to her bed. She sat down and stared across the way to a sleeping Yumi. She had curled up one of her sides and looked as if she were sleeping soundly, with the excepetion of the slight twitching of her probable broken arm, that she cradeled in the other hand. Celia stared at her in disgust, she longed to kick her, right in the head, but the captian would notice if she suddenly had a large indent in her head. She stretched out and closed her eyes.

" Dumb girl..."

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There ya go, I can't remeber what three is in spanish (trece or threce...i dont know) so I went with just the englsih three. Well, I'm glad someone likes this. That makes me very happy. Oh, I put in that Yumi's arm twitched randomly when it was (most likely) broken because, when I got my first broken arm this year, it twitched like crazy and at random times.Ha.