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Zuko: So what now? No random anime killings?
Pilar: actually yes. Iroh!
Iroh: yo, what's up?
Pilar: We need to kill Karu
Iroh: Later
Pilar: later?
Iroh: your family wants you to go to bed.
Pilar: But-
Zuko: Go to bed
Pilar: I hope you guys like this chapter
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"Your not going anywhere matie." The Pirate Captain croaked. His long fen sword pointed at Zuko.
Crap, this is not good! I got to get Ping to safety… Then swiftly and quietly, the pirate captain attacked. Zuko countered attacked by swinging his dao in front of him, directing the energy of the attack. With Ping in his left arm near the back, Zuko twirled the dao in his right hand and gave two long diagonal swipes at pirate.
The pirate moved swiftly, but his pirate hat was masqueraded into pieces by Zuko's sword. The pirate saw his hat slowly fall to the ground and growled.
"No one does that to my hat!" and the captain attacked Zuko again, using jabs. Zuko wide eyed, turned his waist so that the attack would just miss him. The room was small, so it was hard for Zuko to move around and dodge. Zuko jumped on a chair and slashed downwards at the pirates head.
The pirate blocked Zuko's attack with his gen sword. For a moment, there was stillness, as Zuko tried to force the pirate down, while the pirate was trying to fight gravity with Zuko's attack. With a great force, the Captain Pirate threw Zuko's sword off, and then attacked Zuko's feet. Zuko quickly jumped up, just missing a cleavage to his feet, and landed heavily on the floor. The pirate kicked the chair over and started to attack again.
Zuko was tiredly being worn down, with the endless attacks of the pirate and the heavy weight of Ping in his left arm. Then, his worst fear confirmed happened when the pirate tried attacking Ping, throwing Zuko off. The pirate jabbed his sword at the little boy, when the last second Zuko turned his body, and his arm was punctured instead of Ping.
Pain seared his arm, and Zuko gave an outcry. I had enough of this! With a mighty swing, Zuko slashed at the pirate. The pirate, expecting metal, only got flames. The pirate captain fell down with a thump as he watched horrified as the flames danced along the metal of Zuko's dao. Zuko stood over the pirate, blood slowly dripping from his left arm. With two quick swipes Zuko quickly put away his dao sword on his belt.
The pirate captain touched his cheek as he felt two deep scratches in his left cheek. Blood tickling down his face.
"If you ever cross my path, and hurt this boy, I promise I won't hold back," Zuko hissed. Before the pirate captain could say anything Zuko vanished, along with the boy.
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Aang was apparently running for ten minutes just running for his life when he found himself at a dead end with three doors.
"Which one do you think we should try Zuko?" Aang asked trying to pick a door. When he heard no response or smart ass comments, Aang turned around. "Hey! Where did you go?"
Silence. Aang sighed, as he slapped his head. When did I lose him? How could I lose him? With not a second to lose, Aang went to the door on the left and opened it up.
"Hey!" a guy shouted in the darkness, who was apparently trying to go to the bathroom.
"Sorry!" Aang apologized. Nope, defiantly wrong door. Maybe I should go to the bathroom before I… nah I'm on the run remember? Aang tried the middle door and found himself staring at Iroh.
"Aang! It's good to see you!" Iroh exclaimed from the ground, with his hands tied behind his back. Aang went quickly in to start untying Iroh's hands.
"Do you know where Katara and Sokka are?" Aang asked quickly, the bonds started to loosen and give away.
"Unfortunately no. They had to leave me and follow the other pirates for dinner so their disguises wouldn't be blown." Iroh explained rubbing his wrists.
"Hey!" a pirate cried out.
Aang was caught holding Iroh's ropes, and quickly dropped them.
"Arg maties," Aang said putting on a pirate accent.
"Why are you in here trying to free our prisoner?" one of the pirates questioned that was wearing a blue outfit. The other pirate was wearing a green one.
"Ummm… trying to find out what a pirate's life could be?" Aang answered putting on a beaming smile. For a second, the pirates didn't move but then they suddenly smiled.
"Easy mate! A pirate's life could be fun!" the green pirate said slapping Aang's back.
"And exciting too!" the other pirate said smiling.
"You think I could be a pirate?" Aang asked excitedly forgetting that he was on the run and about to be captured.
"Yeah! But you know, not everyone can be a pirate. You need to be free like the wind, with no rules bond to you," one of the pirates advised, with Aang nodding his head eagerly.
"Wait a minute," the blue colored pirate said. "You're the Avatar!" he pointed at Aang's blue arrow on his head, but at that moment, Iroh came from behind the pirates and banged both of their heads together and they fell limply to the floor.
"Thank you for distracting them Avatar!" Iroh said.
"Need to be free, follow no rules…" Aang wrote out loud on a little piece of scrap paper. He looked up with Iroh giving him a funny look. Aang gave an awkward smile along with a nervous laugh and stashed the paper in his shirt.
"We should find Katara and Sokka," Iroh advised.
"Right!" agreed Aang, and they quickly left the room, hoping to find the others.
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"Sokka, we got to get out of here!" Katara urgently whispered to her brother who was stuffing his face with salty meat and potatoes.
"Com on Kat, we sho at leas act de part!" Sokka said unclearly as food spitted on Katara's face. She had a dead look on her face, and wiped her face with her hand, cleansing herself of potato.
"What?"
Sokka swallowed. "Lets just get some food in our stomachs, and besides, we need to give our little prince time to find Ping," Sokka whispered.
Katara gave Sokka the 'look', but then went back picking the potatoes. All around them, they were surrounded by pirates that were eating and drinking. She had goose bumps all over. She was so afraid of being noticed that she was a girl that she could barely eat.
"What's your problem mate?" a red dressed pirate asked Katara. He sat right in front of her, with gold eyes twinkling. Katara noted how cute he looked, especially how the guy was just leaving teenage years, with a long brown high pony tail. "How come you're not eating?"
Katara blushed a little. "Umm well," Katara said trying to lower her voice. "I'm not that hungry." Sokka stopped eating for a second.
"Really? Well, I know this stuff gets boring after three years." The young red pirate said flopping his salty meat around. "What's your name?"
"Me? Uh the name's Kat," Katara lied.
"Put her there," the pirate stuck out his hand. "The name's Fuji," Katara slowly put her hand out, and Fuji shook it hard and strong.
"I know that the food isn't that good, but after a couple of these drinks," Fuji gave Katara a metal jug. "The food almost takes like a gourmet meal."
Katara gingerly took the jug, not wanting to be rude, or be suspicious and slowly took a sip. The juice tasted funny, but after a couple of more sips, it tasted a little better each time. Fuji also took a similar jug and started to take long gulps. Sokka, suddenly thirsty from his salty meat meal looked at Fuji.
"Hey, do you have some more of that jug juice?" Sokka asked, but Fuji laughed.
"Juice? No mate. This is rum!" Fuji explained, but gave Sokka a jug of rum anyway.
"Rum?" Sokka squeaked. He looked at Katara, who was drinking her second jug of rum. "Oh boy…"
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Zuko kept running away from the dead end room where he left the pirate captain. They didn't have enough time now. An alarm would be sounded, and if they didn't get out in time, they would be surrounded. Ping started to make little whimpering noises.
"Shhhj were going to get out." Zuko comforted, and the little boy clutched a little harder onto Zuko, his blue eyes slowly drooping.
Zuko came back at the fork where he apparently lost the Avatar. He decided to head to the part of the ship where they boarded. Maybe everyone is out already. Who knows, maybe they left without me. I wouldn't be surprised. Damn that Captain Pirate! Zuko was now on the top deck meeting the fresh cool air.
Zuko switched arms with Ping. His left arm was starting to get too painful. Zuko placed Ping on the ground for a moment, and ripped a piece of his pants. He placed the cloth around his wound and tied it tight to stop it from bleeding. If Zuko had a specialty, it would be knowing how to treat wounds. Picking up Ping again, Zuko started to sprint again.
He started to round a corner when… Wham! Zuko had banged right into Aang and Iroh. Zuko was about to take out his dao when he noticed his Uncle and Aang. Zuko let a sigh of relief and went to help his Uncle up. His Uncle smiled, and said "I see you found Ping,"
"Yes. Now lets go," Zuko ordered, but was stopped by his Uncle.
"We need to find Katara and Sokka!" Iroh reminded Zuko.
"The water bender should be fine, and the peasant… well, maybe he does need help," Zuko said while Aang gave a disapproved look. "Well, where are they?"
"We're not sure," Aang replied.
"Great!" Zuko muttered, trying to shift Ping's weight on his arms. He was beginning to become too heavy.
"Zuko! Your hurt!" Iroh exclaimed noticing the blood.
"It's nothing. But we need to leave now! The captain knows that I'm here, so we need to get out," Zuko explained.
"Here let me take him," Iroh offered. Zuko gently gave Ping to his Uncle. Ping stirred a little but Iroh gently hushed him. "I will take Ping and take him to safety; meanwhile you two should find the siblings. We'll meet at the spot." Said Iroh. Zuko and Aang nodded in agreement, knowing where the spot was. It was all part of the plan.
"Be careful," Aang whispered, and Aang and Zuko took off sprinting towards where they thought the dinner hall was. Iroh meanwhile was casually walking towards the exit of the boat.
"Do you think your uncle will be all right?" Aang asked Zuko running.
"My Uncle is the Dragon of the West! He is the greatest fire bender in the world. Of course he'll be all right!" Zuko reassured Aang, and he sped up a little further.
They heard a loud jeering noise. "That must be them!" Aang said.
"How do you know?" Zuko asked.
"Don't worry; I got it here all on this paper." Aang assured waving around his little scrap of piece of paper. Zuko shrugged his shoulders and followed Aang and the noise.
They crept slowly to one of the rooms which happened to be on floor below top deck. Sounds of drunken men singing, and talking loudly filled the room. They secretly peeked inside the room and saw what they could not believe.
"Yo ho yo ho a pirate's life is to be," Katara sang loudly. She was standing on top of the table, food squashed beneath her feet. The pirates laughed and sang along. Katara words slurred, with little hiccups. Her little metal jug swished rum all over the place. "Everyone! Sing with me!"
"What happened?" Aang whispered to Zuko.
"I'm not sure, but this is pretty funny," Zuko whispered back. Sokka somehow spotted them and made his way towards the duo by crawling.
"What happened to Katara?" Aang asked.
"Katara accidentally got drunk," Sokka replied horrified.
"How could she accidentally get drunk?" Zuko demanded.
"She had some rum, when she thought it was juice," Sokka explained.
"Must have been some good juice…" Zuko muttered taking another look at Katara. She had just fallen off the table. A roar of laughter erupted from the pirates. "Well at least it's a good thing that they're all drunk. We might be able to get out of here."
"I'm going to try to get Katara," Sokka said, and he started to walk through the crowd of drunken pirates. Aang and Zuko went into the room still crouching, and closed a door. They could hear panicked and angry voices outside. The alarm was faint, and both Zuko and Aang both thanked their luck that they were in a room full of drunk pirates that couldn't hear the alarm.
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"Kat, where are you from in the Fire Nation?" Fuji asked pouring two more jugs of rum for the both of them.
"Me? Well (hiccup) I really don't know," Katara slurred. She pulled on Fuji's shirt and whispered. "Shhh I'm not supposed to tell you, but I'm actually from the South Pole,"
"Ooooookay," said Fuji.
"Oh and I'm (hiccup) actually (hiccup) a girl!" Katara let Fuji go, and she giggled drinking more rum.
"I think you had a little too much rum!" Fuji said, thankfully not believing 'Kat' because of Katara's drunkenness. He started to take the drink away when Katara pulled it away.
"What? This isn't juice?" Katara asked. She peered drunkenly into it, and drank a little more, while Fuji laughed.
"You thought it was juice? Well you must like juice a lot!" exclaimed Fuji.
"Damn straight!" Katara said all manners lost at the third drink.
"Kat?" Sokka said calmly, not sure how to handle a drunk sister.
"I'm not Kat! I'm Katara!" Katara exclaimed as more rum sloshed out of her jug, her movements more slow and sluggish.
"Yeah, and my name's Fujinia!" Fuji joked, and they both start to laugh, and drunkenly hang off each other.
"Yeah, I think it's time you go to bed Katara," Sokka said calmly trying to grab the rum.
"No no no no no," Katara said, but her grip on the rum slipped, and the rum fell. "Oh no! How am I going to finish the rum juice now? I should clean it up with something!" Katara grabbed her bandana on her head.
"No!" Sokka yelled, but it was too late. Katara's bun fell out as it showed her loopy hair things and her long beautiful braids. Fuji mouth dropped. "Not good," But at that moment, more pirates from the outside opened the door to the mess hall and there was a moment of silence.
Sokka grabbed Katara and pulled her down to the ground. He started to crawl toward where Aang and Zuko were hopefully while he heard shouts about intruders on board. Katara on the other hand kept poking guys while crawling with Sokka, and some areas where she poked were not that lady like.
Eventually they met under the table at the far end near the exit. Zuko nodded as a sign that he knew everyone was there and pulled out his sword. There were three pirates there, which were not drunk and were looking for them. Focusing, Zuko slashed his dao, and out came flames. Aang, Katara, Sokka and Zuko sprinted while the confusion took place as some of the pirates were trying to pat the fire off of them.
They sprinted up the stairs and out onto the top deck. Sokka scooped up Katara and placed her on his back. They ran down the plank and finally onto land, with the pirates still chasing after them. Aang took his staff as Zuko took out his dao. Together in unison, they slashed their instruments resulting fire and air blasting towards the pirates and the ship. The impact of fire and air resulted in a huge blast making a smoke screen. When the smoke finally cleared, the pirates could no long see the Avatar, and his companions.
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Aang had used his staff to fly him and Zuko quickly and quietly into the night air. The 'spot' that Iroh had mentioned was a waterfall they had found on their way to the pirate ship earlier that morning. Sokka painfully put his sister down. She was at that point of drunkenness where she had no idea what was going on anymore. She started giggling as she saw Zuko.
"You know, your kind of cute…and sexy… (Hiccup)" Katara slurred, she couldn't even stand up. Zuko gave a scarred look at his Uncle.
"Katara, you should go to bed," Sokka said, but was cut off my Katara.
"You're not the boss of me! You're nooot uhhh" and Katara collapsed on the ground. Aang picked her up, and placed her on Appa.
"We should get going. Will you be ok?" Aang asked Zuko, gesturing Zuko's wound.
"I'll be fine," Iroh patted Zuko lightly as they boarded on Appa. They quickly flew into the night, leaving the pirate ship far, far away. Before Zuko knew it, the loss of blood and exhaustion took over, and Zuko fell asleep along with Ping and Sokka.
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