Fire & Rain: Book 1

Pirates

I interrupted them and asked:

"This monk, did he have an arrow on his head?"

The merchants, who turned out to be pirates and agreed to help me capture them, in exchange for their water bending scroll that was stolen.

Uncle, the crew, Y/N and I returned to the ship and I launched our smaller boat and sailed it along side the pirates. The captain seemed unsure of my plan:

"Shouldn't we stop to search the woods?"

"We don't need to stop. They stole a water bending scroll, right? Then they'll be on the water"

After nightfall, we found the water tribe girl, Katara, practicing water bending by the river. We pulled the boat over and the pirates tried to capture her, she fought back with a few feeble attempts at water bending, however, she did manage to break free, but ran straight into me, I grabbed hold of her wrists:

" I'll save you from the pirates"

The crew tied Katara to a tree and interrogated her:

"Tell me where he is, and I won't harm you or your brother."

"Go jump in the river!"

I turned to Y/N, but she gestured for me to continue,

"Try to understand, I need to capture him to restore something I've lost- my honour. Perhaps in exchange, I could restore something you've lost."

I pulled her necklace from my pocket and dangled it in front of her neck. She seemed shocked,

"My mother's necklace! How did you get that?"

I walked back over to Y/N,

"I didn't steal it if that's what you're wondering, tell me where he is."

Y/N's POV

But the water tribe girl refused, I stepped forward, ready to interrogate her myself, but the captain of the pirates spoke to Zuko,

"Enough of this necklace garbage, you promised the scroll!"

But Zuko is smart, he knew what he was doing, he pulled the scroll from his belt and held a flame underneath it,

"I wonder how much money this is worth"

He teased them and the pirates shouted "no!" in response. Zuko smirked,

"A lot, apparently. Now you help me find what I want, you'll get this back and everyone goes home happy. Search the woods for the boy and meet back here."

The pirates complied and left into the woods to search for the avatar.

I went to follow them but Zuko stopped me and told me to wait, they're desperate, they'll come back with him, and so I stayed, surely enough, they returned with the avatar and the boy from the water tribe.

Katara looked over to the avatar, looking guilty,

"Aang, this is all my fault..."

"No Katara, it isn't."

But Iroh interrupted them and said to her,

"Yeah, it kind of is."

Zuko stared at the captain of the pirates,

"Give me the boy!"

"You give us the scroll."

Then, the water tribe boy decided to get himself involved in the situation by challenging the pirates:

"You're really gonna hand over the avatar for a stupid piece of parchment?"

He was going to make this trade very difficult.

Zuko shouted,

"Don't listen to him! He trying to turn us against each other!"

But it was too late, the pirates were intrigued, and the water tribe boy was feeding them more and more about the monetary value of the avatar.

Zuko became increasingly frustrated and shouted:

"Shut your mouth you water tribe peasant!"

I chuckled at that. But the water tribe boy, who the avatar called Sokka, continued to talk about how the avatar was worth so much more than the scroll. The pirates then decided they wanted to break our deal and attempted to leave with Aang. But Zuko wasn't going to let them leave with the avatar,

"You'll regret breaking a deal with me."

He attacked them and the crew and I joined him, the pirates released smoke bombs so it was harder to see. But still, I fought with my spear, I didn't know where Zuko was, but whilst fighting off two pirates, I saw the captain running after his ship which the avatar had hijacked. The pirates left me and ran after the captain, and I saw Zuko laughing at them, I loved the sound of his laugh.

But his happy moment was soon cut short when we saw the pirates had taken his boat. We ran after it but stopped when we realised it was about to fall down the waterfall; as it crashed at the bottom, Zuko became very upset and angry,

"My boat!"

Iroh was panting from all of the running before chuckling and turning to Zuko:

"Prince Zuko, you're really going to get a kick out of this. The lotus tile was in my sleeve the whole time!"

I face palmed, not the best timing to tell Zuko that... I saw the rage fill his eyes and he growled before snatching the tile from his uncle and throwing it into the river.

I put my hands on his soldiers and said,

"Hey, lets go back to the ship, alright? We need to plan our next move"