Summary – Sokka runs in with Xayla, a new bender who found him and Aang. Katara is taken captive by someone new. She finds a cell mate across from hers and is currently being dragged into a new room.

Chapter 11; Threats

"For the sake of Avatar, what is wrong with you? You are so annoying!" Xayla crossed her arms expectantly, "Can't you just answer a simple question normally like a regular person?! Drop the act! We are going to be seeing a lot of each other if we're going to save my sister anyway. We will find out eventually!! Just answer the freaking question normally woman!" Sokka panted from his sudden outburst. Aang's face was completely in shock. Xayla seemed to expect this reaction. She chuckled slightly and walked up to Sokka. This was truly a hilarious sight to see.

She walked over to the obviously bamboozled boy and looked him straight in the eye. She gave him a crooked smile and then laughed so hard she started crying.

"WHAT?! Why are you laughing at me?!" He was definitely confused. Little did he know that a group of chipmunkskunks had gathered all around him looking very… vicious. A few crawled up onto his head and made a very suggestive face, placing their butts high in the air and aiming them toward his face. Sokka finally looked around and noticed them long enough to completely lose it and gulp the biggest gulp of his life. He was hyperventilating and managed to mouth the words… help.

Xayla and Aang ducked behind a tree while a huge explosion of smells encased Sokka causing him to cough violently and scream at the top of his lungs.

"AHH!!! SMELLY! STUPID CHIPMUNKSKUNKS!!! GET OFF OF ME!!! AH! OOH! EH!! AHH!!! NOO!!! THE SMELL!!!" cough, cough "AHH!!!!" Definitely a hilarious sight to see.

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The figure stayed perfectly still. "If I was with my brother and my friend, I'd be eating all the seal jerky I could and be sitting around the fire with them. I miss them so much…" She suddenly felt very alone. If that wasn't bad enough, more guards dragged her out of her cell, strong ones. She was dragged on the floor until she reached the another room. Nothing could stop this terror…

"Hello Katara" She spat out her name like it was a disease. Katara looked straight into her eyes. She was not afraid. She would not allow herself to be. She just can't. She has to stay strong.

"Tell me. How is it you got on my brother's ship? Did he kidnap you like the worthless little spine that you are? Or did he just somehow get lucky and find you on his ship, the worthless thing he is?"

"Your brother is Zuko?"

"Hardly. Not a brother at all really. More like a thorn in my side. So tell me. Do you have hope? Do you have dreams?"

"Yes. More than your mind can comprehend or will EVER hope to know." The girl smirked.

"So you still have hope then huh? That's cute. Real cute." She made a hand signal and a nearby guard kicked her in the shin. Katara fell to the ground. "If you think that you are free to behave and think how you want. You are sadly mistaken. You have no free will here." The teen came dangerously close to Katara's ear and whispered.

"I own you…" She got back up and faced the guards. "Dismissed. And by the way Katara, you might as well give up hope now. There's nowhere to run. And no one is coming to get you. I've made sure of that. Don't you worry."

"What did you do to them?!" Katara screamed as the guards dragged her out of the room. "Where are they?! What did you do?!" She kept up her screaming until she was thrown back into her cell. She tried to sit up. The dirt from the bottom of the cell floor covered her in grim and filth. She clenched her hands. No one would use her. No one can bring her down. If anything, the women's little 'remark' about her family made her even more determined to hope, more determined to become stronger. She WILL prevail.

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"This is disgusting!" Sokka screamed and made disgusted sounds as he tried to scrub every bit of flesh he could.

"Well it's your own damn fault for calling all those chipmunkskunks. Sheesh. Calling your family relatives. Real smart. Thanks for putting us all in danger of the rancid smell." Xayla sarcastically commented.

After Sokka's little… incident, they waited about a half hour until all the animals left and the smell settled. Then Sokka was still in shock so Xayla and Aang, while covering their mouths and pinching their noses away from the pukish smell, dragged Sokka back to the village, making all the villagers to run away in panic from the smell. They got Sokka to a smell specialist and got him a treatment. He is now sitting in a tub of a special medicinal juice forced to scrub himself with a pine cone sponge. Oh joy.

Now, Xayla and Aang just sit there, laughing and eying Sokka. They find it very funny that he got chipmuckskunked. Hilarious stuff…

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It was a while before she decided to talk to him again. Yes, him, the one across the cell hall. It was really more like a dungeon. It was worse kept then Zuko's brig, filled with scum, dirt, filth, and blood stains that made Katara fear who was there last. The crusted bars of her cell only made it worse.

"Don't let them get to you." She broke the silence. Her voice echoing in the dark metal halls. He moved, shifted his weight signaling a questioning glance.

"They took me… into a room… just kept talking…trying to mess with my mind…to make me lose hope… but I won't. We have to make it out of here. I know I don't know you, but in order to survive, I think we need to rely on each other." She hung her head down. After a while she attempted to sit down on the cot and lie down, trying to stay away from the crud on the sides.

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Yes yes short chapter.. sorry about that.. I'll try to update a little sooner next time… review please!