Note: Okay so I have five more chapters of this story left! Yeah this is really short chapter alot more shorter than what I originally planned so Chapter Sixteen will be extremely long.

Disclaimer: I don't Avatar: Last Airbender

Chapter Fifteen

"Where are you taking me?" Katara demanded of Caine struggling in his grip, "Let go!"

"Calm down Kara," the false Caine mocked shoving the girl into the arms of two very large women, "Get her ready."

The women nodded their heads, but Katara, in a struggle to escape from their iron grip gasp, managed to free one arm. Jerking her free arm up behind her back one of the women, a brunett one, hissed dangerously in her ear, "Keep struggling and we'll make this as unpleasant as we can."

Turnin her head so that she could see the fire prince out of her left eye she mouthed to him, "Help me!"

The fire controller jumped to his feet, summoning up the destructive, yet in many ways passionate flames that destroyed alomst every thing in their path, tiny blue sparks flicked from his finger tips as he growled in a very beastly manner, "Let her go!"

"Or what?" Caine mocked, a wicked smile carved on his face.

"Or," the blue flames turned orange as they crawled up the scarred boy's arm, "I'll kill you."

"Really," Caine's smile still remained as he pulled out two things from his pocket.

The first item that he pulled was a large iron daggar, placing it against Katara's throat rather insensatively, he held out a jar of liquid in the direction that Zuko stood, "Drink this or I will kill her right here, right now."

Glancing at the now stilled water bender he demanded, "What does it do?"

"Take it," Caine commanded pressing the blade against her throat even more make a small stream of blood slide down her neck, "Don't test me fire scum; I'm not very patient."

Stealing one more glance at Katara, he snatched the contents of the bottle from the demanding spirit, downing its contents. The liquid slide down his throat cooling his body slowly from his finger and toe tips up to the stop of his head. The flames that had been swirling dangerously around his arms deminished without his will's help.

He gave me something to make me unable to bend, he reasoned his anger and fustration concealed, I may not be able to bend but she stiil can so there's still some hope there.

Just as the women were about to leave, Caine pulled out a second bottle and demanded of the frightened water bender, "Drink this now or once again I will kill you both."

Katara gave Zuko a questioning look as tears streaked her cheeks, mixing with the dirt and grim on them.

"Take it," Caine growled pratically shoving the whole bottle in her mouth.

She still gave Zuko a questioning look as if waiting for him to tell her what she should do; he gave her the slightest of nods as if to say that it was okay just to do as he commanded so that she wouldn't get hurt. Returning the fainest of nods, as if sensing that she had decided to take the liquid, the two women released her just long enough so that she could take the potion, once she had they resumed their former positions.

So much for relying on her bending skills.

Pulling back his blade, Caine commanded of the women that he had come with, "Take her now and get her ready dawn will be here within the hour and we have to have them both ready."

The women stalked out of the room pulling the struggling Katara with them, when they were gone it was only the banished prince and the spirits' that enhabited the island. Leaving the room without so much as an explanation, Caine left Zuko and two large men alone. One of the men had a gray beard and black beady eyes, while the other one, the one that appeared to be the leader of the two, was blad with blue eyes.

"C'mon," the bald one commanded grabbing the former fire controller by the nap of his neck and forcing him to move.

Zuko was unable to escape the spirit's grasp as he was shoved out of the building the two were being held in and into the earlier morning's dew; he was lead among a path down the dusty road of the island's city until they came to what seemed to be a bathhouse. Shoving him inside the man with the gray beard informed him in a rough voice, "You are to cleanse your body of all toxicans both spiritual and physical using this..."

The blue eyed spirit shoved a green bar of soap in his hands.

"To cleanse your earthly body and this..."

Next the blue eyed spirit shoved a gray bottle filled with liquid in his hands.

"To cleanse your spiritual self."

Placing a handful of crimson and golden robes on a chair, the blue eyed spirit spoke, "Then you are to change into these, and use this comb to brush through your hair."

"One more thing," the gray beard one added, "We don't take pleasure in watching prepare for the ritual but we can't leave you alone either, so we will turn our backs to you, if you try to escape we will send word to Caine who will kill your little wench, understand?"

They waited for him to nod, before they turned their backs to him.

Once they had turned around Zuko examined his surroundings before releasing a long, deep sigh that went from his diagram up. They were not defeated yet, but he didn't want to risk Katara's life with an escape attempt.

The best thing for me to do is to coraporate until I can get to her before Caine does; its going to be hard without my bending though, but I've got to try.