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Chapter 4

Meetings

As she entered the town her eyes widened. Then she saw what she came for, Fire Nation Ship sign-up booths. They were for those who wanted to work on a ship. Finally, she saw Zuko's sign-up booth. She dismounted her horse and let it run back to the palace, she was not going back there.

When she walked up to the booth she told them she wanted a job on the ship. They laughed! He told her "We only hire males." Her eyes dimmed down, but immediately lit up when she saw a fully armored man about her size. She said her good-byes to the men and went over to the man in armor. She fought him in an alley, afterwards taking off his clothes. After that she went to a store and bought a piece of cloth to bind her chest, her outfit was done once she placed the helmet onto her head. One her way back to the booth she stopped at a mirror, she looked like a real Fire Nation soldier and would get on the ship this time for sure.

She approached the booth and filled out the form needed, it was just to give the boss a idea of you. While she was doing so one man asked her "So, what's your name and age?" "Samuel and I'm twelve turning thirteen." she lied smoothly. "Are you a bender?" they asked coldly. "Yes…..fire ummmm, yeah fire bending." she said stuttering. The men laughed again and one said Man, your voice sounds a little …..girly." Savannah was now afraid, she was losing and she had not even gotten on the ship yet. "Yeah I know, it's my little downfall." she said laughing with them on the remark.

One man stood to say, "Follow me ,you will start off in a line- up where you will be inspected, then training will begin to see how good you are with fire. Don't let Prince Zuko scare you, he won't hurt you if you stay out of his way." "Yeah' he's never scared me before." she said walking up the ramp onto the ship and into the line-up.

Everyone in the line-up had waited about five minutes before a door opened, it revealed a young man, four inches taller than her with a high ponytail and a scar which covered his left eye. Her first thought was Who is that? then she thought hard Zuko? Could it really be him, will he remember me? Wait a minute, not in this get-up. She was at the end of the line which might be a good or bad thing. Zuko walked down the line slowly, looking over all and talking to some. When he got to her he stopped and got in her face. All she wanted to do was jump up and hug him, but she put down the urge. She stood completely still as Prince Zuko asked "Why are you here?" She was taking In deep breaths from nervousness as she slowly said "I always dreamed of being a royal body guard." He looked at her oddly and asked "So what's your name?" :S-Sam-Samuel." she stuttered while looking down at the floor.

Now all of the people on the ship were staring at them, she was so embarrassed that she just wanted to crawl under a rock and die. "Well, Samuel can you fight?" he asked in a normal tone. " Some,….I mean pretty well." she was so scared. "How about a little fight, just to see how good you are." he said tilting his head down, trying to get her to look him in the face. "Sure, I mean ,when?" she knew she could fight, but did she want to fight. "Maybe when your not sick." he said with a smirk. "I'm not sick!" she said in shock, quickly lifting her head , as their eyes met she continued, "You mean my voice don't you?" "Is it always like that?' he asked shyly.

She said, lying very nicely "Yeah, some people think someday I'll get a low voice." "Sorry if I offended you, but we can fight now if you want to." he said oddly sweeter than he would normally speak to a crew member. Then with confidence she said "Don't worry about it, and yes, I would love to fight you."

The next thing she knew she was in her fighting stance, ready for whatever blow he would send at her. He started the fight as usual , it was a simple blow and she showed it by the way it was blocked. The battle went on for about two hours, it only ended because both were too tired to make another flame.

Prince Zuko returned to his normal stance followed by her. "Well Samuel, you are very skilled." he said in a very complementary way. "Thanks, But you were probably going easy on me.' she said in the same tone of voice. They stood there in silence for a while before Zuko said "Let's go get you some armor and other clothes." "I have two questions, well ok, three questions." she said slyly. "Well please do ask." he said with a slight laugh. "Ok. One, what did you mean other clothes? Two, where will I be sleeping ? Three, I've only seen one other man from the line-up where are the others?" He laughed and said "You have as many questions as a girl, but I'll answer all of them. One, sleeping clothes, training clothes, and dress clothes. Two ,with the crew, I'll show you. Three, I only needed two men, he looked swift and you looked honest." Then she thought My god if I didn't have this helmet on I would be blushing like mad! "Well Prince Zuko, I kinda like to sleep alone, do you think the new man and I might have a room to our self , you know, just to get adjusted." she said softly, looking at Zuko as he replied "Yes". She could have hugged him, but she was supposed to be a man and that kept her from doing a lot of stuff she wanted to do, one which was washing her hair at the moment.

He showed her the room and left after giving them their schedule. She talked with the new man a while and learned his name, Kaya.

Ok, just in case you're wondering this is a OCxZuko and the Avatar WILL come into the story WAY later.

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