Sarah: I'M BAAAAAAAACK!...WITH TAQUITOS! (eats)

Chapter 9

Nori snuck into the shack after midnight, carrying her twin blades at her sides. She violently covered Matari's mouth with her hand while holding Matari's arm behind her. Matari tried to squirm away, but the odds of a 9-year old wresting herself from a 15-year old are dreadfully sqew. So She was dragged out her her home.

Nori forced her against the wall. "YOU WILL BEHAVE, OR ELSE I'LL HAVE A KOMODO-RHINO EAT YOUR FILTHY HEAD OFF!" Nori commanded.

Matari cowered in fear, before realizing that she did have the power to defend herself. She screamed, elbowed Nori in the stomach, and tried to crawl away, but

Nori gripped her ankle and pulled her back, covering her mouth to muffle Matari's cries.

"LEFTH E GOGOG!" Matari ordered through a scream. She bit Nori's hand, forcing her to draw back. Now Nori was pissed.

She released fire from her fists, nearly missing Matari's left temple. Matari screamed and tried to back away, but Nori had run her down.

Matari ended up being gagged and bound. She writhed in the ropes, trying to get free; get help. Nori ignored her attemps and carried her through the city. Matari noticed how hostile the Fire Nation seemed. She pictured it so differently. It seemed like there was some kind of rural feeling to the suburban enviroment, like something mixed and fused to make something comepletly imitable. People seemed to notice Nori as well...infact...they seemed to fear her...

When they reached the throne room, Zuko was wating patiently with his hands in his lap.

Nori pushed Matari to the ground, wearing her familiar smirk. "There you are, Lord Zuko."

Zuko got up off his thrown and looked down upon Matari, who was cowering in fear.

"So...you are the Avatar's daughter. Tell me, Matari. How does it feel to be the spawn of a coward?"

Matari glared. "The Avatar is not a coward!" She protested.

Zuko sighed softly. "Then what do you make of the 100 years of suffering the world endured? Where was the Avatar then? Hm?"

Matari said nothing.

"You know nothing of your father. I don't know why even you wasted your time coming out here to look for him, but it sure was...benificial."

"What do you mean?" Matari asked, still just as angry.

"Now that have you, the world will be ours again." Zuko said.

Matari thrashed in her bindings. "THE WORLD NEVER YOURS! LET ME GO!" She screamed.

"It once was, and if it wasn't for the Avatar killing my father, the Fire Nation would have been succsessful."

Matari was becoming more infuriated by the second. "Well, what are you planning to do to me?"

Zuko smiled. "Keep you hostage. Eventually, the Avatar will realize that the only way to protect his precious little girl is to surrender."

Matari had reached her boiling point. Her face was red with anger, and her body was trembling.

"NNNNOOOOOOO!" She screamed. She ran up to Zuko, trying to take a swipe at his leg to knock him down. Zuko simply laughed at this.

He knocked her down instead. "Listen, little girl. We can do this the easy way, or the hard way. If you want to live, I suggest you show some cooperation.

Got it?"

Matari stared at Zuko for a moment, hung her head, and sighed. "I'll do whatever you want." She whimpered.

Nori pulled Matari to her feet like she was a rag doll. "I'll dispose of this, Lord Zuko."

Zuko relaxed back into his thrown. "Exellent, Nori. Perhaps I have underestimated you."

Nori dragged Matari off to her dungeon cell.

On the way, Nori seemed to be the happiest she had ever been in her life.

"You have made Zuko proud, you little worm. Keep it up, and I just might be promoted to adviser."

Matari said nothing, only scoweled at the floor. "How can you serve someone like that? He wants to destroy us all, you know."

"Maybe so, but if I can get on his good side, then maybe I can get some respect around this rathole city. I'm going to go ahead and keep this up.

I don't want any trouble from you, by the way. Undertand me? You make one mistake and I'll slit your throat faster than you can blink."

Matari cringed for a moment at the thought. And after all she had been through, all she could think of was...

Nori's insane...