Just because I'm so cool... I might as well post this chapter up since I just finished it. Enjoy : )
Chapter Six -Risk taking
Yukino peeked out of her window as she watched the young prince board the land to engage ravage upon the innocent people. A slight grin came on her face when the last person left the ship.
"Are you ready?" She said placing the hood over her head.
"I'll always follow you... Even for the most stupidest things my princess…" Hitomi sighed and lifted her hood up.
Yukino creaked the door open and looked to see if anyone was coming. She sighed in relief and quickly jolted out. "Everyone must be having a party now that the all mighty prince has left the ship." She laughed as Hitomi trailed behind her. The two ran from their room to the door that led outside on deck. Yukino glanced outside to see no guards and she quickly sprinted out to the front of the boat and jumped over the side and held onto the railing as she watched to make sure that Hitomi could run.
"This is... too risky." Hitomi cried as she waited for the signal Yukino was going to give her.
"Whats too risky?" One of the men came up from behind her, waiting for an explanation.
"Yukino being a blonde at heartand taking life-" She stopped, finally realizing who she was talking to. She glimpsed to see who it was and quickly shrieked, unsure what to do.
Yukino squinted her eyes to see what the hold up was and noticed the guard behind Hitomi. "She can't do anything right…" She complained, wrapping the robe over her mouth. She hopped up on top of the deck and quickly ran toward the two, but was blocked off by other guards coming up from below deck. "Just want to get off this fricken ship… that's all… but nooo…." She murmured. She pulled some water from the ocean and began to play around with it.
"Alright, who wants some of this?" She asked loudly being surrounded. Some of the guards laughed, getting ready to either fire bend or use their weapons. Yukino laughed under her breathe and quickly pulled the water apart and used it to push the men far from her. 'Don't want to hurt them…' She thought to herself.
"Yukino!" Hitomi cried out when the guard grabbed her arm and tried to force her to come with him. Yukino twitched, and ran at the two with great speed.
"Flying kick of doom!" She screamed and sent her foot flying at the mans face. He dropped his grip and Yukino yanked Hitomi away. "Lets go already!" She said and sprinted off, dragging Hitomi from behind and exited the ship.
"Keep an eye out, the avatar could be anywhere." Prince Zuko yelled, scanning the small town of Kyoshi a head of them. He watched from afar as the citizens went about their daily work, not even noticing that fire nation troops have landed on their shore. "Lets move." Zuko ordered, leading the troops farther onto the island.
Yukino and Hitomi wondered through the town, blending it quite well due to their color of clothing.
"Yukino, shouldn't we warn these people..?" Hitomi nudged her arm in question.
"Not yet." Yukino smirked. "This place, Kyoshi Island, is known for their well trained warriors. For all we know, they already know that the fire nation is here." She shrugged and quickly ran over to a booth selling jewels. Yukino was about to pick up a piece of a blue jewel when suddenly the store keeper snatched the jewels and placed them in a cloth. Screaming of terror alarmed the town as the fire nation troops approached. "Looks like the fun has began..." Yukino smiled evilly. "Hitomi, I need you to hide… this time, I'm going to give the almighty prince a taste of my mind." She grinned. "But this time, it's the real me." Hitomi looked at her with concern and quickly ran off.
Prince Zuko's rhino stepped onto the entrance of the small village. His beast walked forward as he examined the buildings for any unusual signs. 'It's too quiet…' He thought when suddenly they were ambushed by the warrior girls of Kyoshi. His men scattered while they tried to fight off the fighting girls, leaving him to himself. A couple of the girls began to run at him, but he blew fire at them, and to their surprise, the rhino turned around and flungit's tail at them. The leader of the girls came up from behind Zuko and quickly pulled him off the Rhino, causing it to cower away. Prince Zuko looked up at his surroundings. He was bordered off by the group of girls and quickly flung his foot around, sending enormous power of fire away from him.
"Is this the best you got?" Zuko stood up and shouted. "These little girls can't hide you forever!"
"Over here!" Yelled a young boy from a distance. A little boy of the age of twelve stood in stance with his staff in front of him.
"Finally… the avatar…" Zuko mumbled and sent a huge ball of fire at the small boy, also known as Avatar Aang. Aang was about to dodge when out of no where, Yukino jumped in front of him and quickly extinguished the fire with her water whip. Her robe covered most of her body and her mouth.
"Hurry, run!" Yukino shouted.
"Who are you?" Aang's curiosity got to him.
"I'm a friend. Now go!" She yelled.
"But-" Aang was speechless, unsure what to do.
Yukino turned her head, her eyes sparkled at him. "We'll meet again. Leave this guy to me. I've got business to take care of." She said in a calm gentle voice. Aang nodded and quickly ran off.
"Come back here!" Prince Zuko shouted and quickly ran at Aang, but was blocked off by Yukino.
"Oh no you don't!" She growled. "Your mine…"
"Step aside. I have no reason to fight you!" He kept glancing at the way Aang ran off to.
"But I do." Yukino streamed water around her as she stepped forward. "You came into this village with no heart. You destroyed these people's houses and their spirits. And you have no guilt whatsoever?" She quickly whipped him. "Now I'm mad." Yukino encircled him with her water. Zuko tried to escape but everywhere he went, the water turned into solid ice and blocked his path. Yukino brought her hands together, and at the same time, the water that surrounded Zuko, closed in on him and engulfed him onto the water. She closed her eyes and aimed her fingers together at the water globe that Zuko was in. She leaped forward and the water that atehim turned into an ice burg.
"Try that fresh winter coat on." She snarled and turned around.
Prince Zuko stood there in the ice, angered by this girl who thought she had beaten him. The ice burg began to steam as his fists glowed brightly with fire, working its way at the ice to get himself free.
Yukino began to walk away when the ice burst opened, flinging chunks of ice all over the village. An ice block was about to hit Yukino, when she quickly turned around and turned it into water.
"Why you little water witch…" Zuko growled angrily. He stepped forward with his feet on fire as well as his hands. "I'll show you what its like to mess with the fire nation, especially the fire prince." He flashed a wave of fire, moving it around like a dragon would slither about.
"Last I heard, the fire prince got banished from his nation two years ago! Your no prince in shining armor, your just a sad little boy who chases after things that he is unable to get!" Yukino shouted at him. 'uh oh… I know that's going to get me on his death list.'
Prince Zuko's eyes flashed from the sun light, his temper was uncontrollable now. Helost it.His wave of fire multiplied high in the air, creating five fire waves. They spun fiercely out of control and aimed down at Yukino.
"Crap!" Yukino yelled and quickly ran off. She couldn't out run the fire, it was gaining on her too fast like a wild fire in a forest. Pulling the rest of the water out of her canteen, she turned around and faced the fire, quickly whipping it around in front of her forming a block of ice shield. The first fire flame hit it and quickly dissolved, but the other flame was right behind it. Yukino's eyes widened and she turned around, shielding herself off with her robe. The fire hit her back, pushing her to the ground. The other threewaves were sent at near by houses, engulfing them into flames.
Yukino laid on the ground. The back of her robe was on fire. She laid still until the fire ate away at the robe and began to attack her skin.
"OW! HOT!" She screamed, quickly jumping up and stripping herself off of the robe. Her brown hair unfolded down her back, revealing her feminine body.
"You know… for a real weak at the heart guy, you certainly can blow fire." She winced, rubbing her back.
"Shut up!" Zuko yelled. "I'm not done with you now… at first, I had no intentions to fight you, but now, you've really angered me." He stepped forward.
Yukino still had her back turned to him, deciding weather or not she should show her face. "Yeah well… you've angered me to. So we're even." She mumbled.
"I'll throw that same move at you and finish you off." The prince laughed. Yukino clenched her fist, that was it. She was through with this selfish prince.
"Look at what you have done here!" She burst out. "You did that move without even thinking! You couldn't even control yourself. Your hurting everyone around you, even your own men who are hiding behind these houses!" Some of the men peeked around the corner as they saw Yukino turn around and scream at their prince. "How dare you call yourself the prince of the fire nation when you can't even control your own fire!"
Zuko stood there, shocked that this girl was scolding him for his actions.
"Your not man enough to even be worth of the fire nation. No, my mistake. All fire nation men are ruthless people who take the lives of innocent people just to make them smile; just killing an entire family will make them laugh. You do belong there." She said and turned her back at him. "Looks like your key to victory is leaving." She pointed up.
Zuko looked up to see what she was talking about and gasped. "The Avatar!" he shouted. "Don't lose track of him!" Prince Zuko looked back to where Yukino had been standing and noticed she was gone. "Good riddance…" He ran to where his men had gathered the last of the rhino beast and hopped up. "Lets move!"
Aang sat on the flying bison's head. "Aang it's the best that you ran away. Zuko would have destroyed the whole village if you were to have stayed." Said a young girl of the age of fourteen.
"I met this girl though… I hope shes alright." He turned and stared at the village with the flames bursting from left to right. He stood up and quickly jumped off the beast.
"Aang! What are you doing!" The girl shouted as Aang dove into the water below. Suddenly, a giant eel emerged from the water, with Aang holding onto its whiskers, trying to get a hold of the beast. He moved himself on the eel and pulled the whiskers back, causing the beast to open its mouth and stray water onto the small village, extinguishing the flames.
Zuko and his men sat on their rhino all crouched together as it rained on top of them. He grumbled, quite mad now that he was getting soaked.
"You did it Yukino!" Hitomi awaited her in the forest behind the village.
"We better go before the prince gets back to his ship." Yukino walked past her and took a short cut to the ship.
"Ok…" Hitomi followed behind, worried about Yukino.
Aang was flung off of the eel and was caught byAppa, his flying bison. He climbed on top of the beast and sat down on his back. "I know I know, that was stupid and dangerous Kitara." He explained.
"Yes, it was." She smiled and gave him a hug.
Yukino walked to the shore before Zuko had arrived. She made a path of ice to the ship and quickly ran over to their window. She stomped her foot down on the ice, causing it to rise up into a staircase pattern. "Hurry." She motioned Hitomi to come as she pried the window open. Hitomi climbed through the small hole as well as Yukino and turned around to face the ice. She moved her hands out of the window and quickly pulled them back in, turning the ice into its original form.
"Why didn't we go this route before...?" Hitomi mumbled.
"Get dressed before our roommate comes back." Yukino told Hitomi.
"Ok..."
Prince Zuko came back to his ship in a bad mood.What a surprise.
"Welcome back nephew!" His uncle Iroh shouted from above when Zuko entered.
"He got away." Zuko mumbled as he approached his uncle, leaving his men to take care of the Rhino.
"Oh I see, don't worry Prince Zuko. You'll get him next time." His uncle reassured.
"There was a girl who got in my way." He faced the old man.
"Oh really? She catch your eye?" He giggled somewhat.
"Yeah… she blocked my path to the avatar, so I went after her." His face was emotionless.
"Oh my! You didn't-!" Iroh began blushing, getting the wrong impression of what Zuko really meant.
"Yeah I did. She was a hassle, but I got her." Iroh began to tear up.
"I'm so proud of you! You're a man now!" He cheered, still getting the complete wrong idea.
"Whatever." Prince Zuko looked around and noticed water was everywhere. He knew for one that it didn't rain so that meant something happened while he was gone. "What happened here?" He asked a man who walked by. The soldier looked at him and sighed.
"Right after you left, we had an intruder. A water bender to be exact. She came from inside and was trying to get off the ship with her friend. She got away by kicking me in the face and jumping off the ship. The only clue we have to who she is, her name." The man stated.
"What's this girls name?" Zuko asked.
"Yukino." Iroh gasped as he overheard the conversation.
"That's the name of the Princess of the water nation. There's no way that could be her though because she has to stay and watch over her country." The old general stated. "But boy, if that was her, she most certainly would have as great ofvalue as much asthe avatar to the Fire Lord." He laughed. "If only..."
"Why's that?" The young prince demanded.
"Well think about it, she is the only heir to the throne of the water nation. If the Fire Lord had her in his possession, he would rule over that nation, just like the air nomads." He smiled with this knowledge he had. "But Yukino can be a popular name in the water nation so that chances that that was her are slim."
"Then that girl that I met must be named Yukino." Zuko pondered for a moment. "Blah! Forget it! I'm going to bed!" He grumbled and stomped off to his room.
Yukino lay on her top bunk while Hitomi fell fast asleep. 'Stupid prince.' She moaned, rolling over and closed her eyes. 'I just hope he doesn't find out... I have my mission and that is to make sure Zuko doesn't succeed on this trip and that I destroy the fire lord.'
Prince Zuko walked into his room and sighed. He stripped off his armor and crawled into his soft bed. As he lay there, he began thinking to himself. 'How did I do that move anyways? I just lost it and I don't know what happened next.' He groaned. 'I'll have to ask Uncle about that... otherwise, this new move could hold the key to my victory.'
'You did that move without even thinking!' Yukino's voice ran through his head.
"Argh... who are you?" He mumbled and rolled over, closing his eyes.
End of Chapter 6
-gasp- What will happen next? Will Yukino blow her cover on accident? What does Prince Zuko have in mind of this new rival? Stay tuned for the next chapters ahead! R&R