Long Feng sat on one of the giant crystals, his hands chafing from the shackles that held him there. He was, to say the least, not happy. He'd gone from top advisor, the most powerful man in the earth kingdom, to a lowly prisoner who had been rotting away in the catacombs for a year and a half now.
At first, the Dai Li had been his company, but that bumbling idiot Kuei had noticed that they still served him. He'd given them orders to follow that blind brat. He knew they were sequestered far away on an island where their bending powers were limited to the sand around them.
Speaking of the blind girl, she had just entered the cavern, accompanied by the water bender girl and cages… cages being pushed along by his Dai Li! They had gone soft! Actually succumbing to helping those stupid children!
One by one, the two girls and his Dai Li took apart the cages which seemed to be made of solidified mud and stone. Their inhabitants were people dressed in fine stealth uniforms who wore expressions of hate and resentment. He liked the look of these people.
In all, there were probably more than fifty of them.
"Hey, you three! Go take them to the next cavern and chain 'em up." The earth bender girl ordered, tossing rocks at the agents whom she was speaking to. They quaked for a moment in the shock of being hit by these rocks before obeying. His blood thrummed with rage- he had taught these men to be ruthless, to cower before nobody, and yet, this small girl who could be no more than fifteen years old (probably less) had broken them, turned them into massive, powerful sheep. Alongside this rage, however, he felt admiration towards the girl's skills.
The Water Tribe wretch came towards him, holding a girl by the collar, bound by thick cuffs of ice. She put one of the shackles around the girl's wrist, then unfroze the water and locked the other around the free wrist. All the while, the girl smiled cruelly at the bender.
"Your friend is going to die." The shackled girl whispered. The bender didn't reply; she pulled the shackles tighter and pinned them to the wall with daggers made of ice. It began to melt the second it was up there, but still, the girl's smile disappeared. She was obviously very uncomfortable.
"Don't you wish?" Water Tribe girl asked. Long Feng had once known her name, but had forgotten it in the months since he had seen her. She left the prisoner and moved on to the next, shackling them all in due time. She met up with the blind earth bender when she finished, and they went to the next room.
"I hate her." The girl with the ice daggers told me. "I'm the daughter of the late, great Admiral Zhao! I deserve to have my palace and my servants. Instead, I'm trapped in this rat infested hole, and I didn't even kill the stupid fan girl." She sighed.
"I don't like her either. I was once the most powerful man in this city, and she lost me the trust of the king and my agents. Well, her and her imbecile friends." Long Feng had measured the girls words and decided that he could benefit from this evil little fire brat's hatred.
"Sucks to be you." She looked at Long Feng, sizing him up carefully. She also found that she might benefit from the evil in the man. "My name is Urzei." Her body ached and the melting spikes of ice dripped down the chains of the shackles and got caught between the cuff and her wrist. It was becoming increasingly uncomfortable.
"Long Feng. Pleasure to meet you." He nodded curtly towards her.
It was the beginning of a dastardly friendship.
Author's note! Yeah, now it's finally finished. The little girl with the Azula smile and the poison paired with Long Feng? Now that doesn't seem like it's gonna be good for the Gaang. But it makes my life easier, since now there's a point to tossing a Smellershot fic in here. I don't plan very well- I just put my faith into the writing, and usually it leads me well. Or it's all subconscious. I don't really know.
I really hope that the people who read this and liked it will give Smellershot it's chance- I don't know why I like them so much, but I do. And they deserve a little more credit for their awesomeness. Plus, it's going to be pretty short. Probably.
Signing off,
Pinktonks.
Ps… here's all my reference material. Or whatever I used while writing all this.
Pictures- Avatar Sokka and Suki by Rinoaneko on Devaiantart (home of the infamous waterfall scene)
Suki By Annalucha on Deviantart
Sokka and Suki by Fireysta on Deviantart
I also watched the last two seasons of the show sort of religiously. And all the avatar extras episodes. And all the commentaries. I got way too obsessed.
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