"Wrong," Jun said as he grabbed the boy's wrist in a lightning-fast move and twisted with uncharacteristic gentleness, just enough to loosen his grip on the hammer. "Aim lower, you're reaching too far." A sly smirk spread across his face. "Knowing you, you might as well go for the kneecaps."

Plucking the hammer from the kid's hands, he continued. "Not bad though. Very fast -- probably enough so to take down a Fire Nation soldier, if they weren't expecting it. I'd teach you how to use a sword if you were interested in it -- and promised not to stab me." [i]And introduced me to your sister,[/i] he added silently.

Carefully Jun inspected the earth-made weapon. "Hey... this isn't half-bad. You could make a [i]mint[/i] selling these to the rebellion. Agni knows that arms are hard to come by--" The back of his neck began to prickle as he heard someone approaching, crunching rough gravel beneath their feet. Beardy (whose name Jun had forgot) was watching them.
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Suyin was unable to call out as she was dragged backwards through the darkness, the leering faces of pirates above both her and Sen, who she could see was standing perfectly still. "General Zhang's daughter," one of them said, devolving into quiet muttering so she couldn't hear the rest of it. Sweat trickled down her forehead from the stifling heat of the underground room and she eventually could take no more.

She never had been a damsel in distress. She'd die a warrior.

Biting down on her captor's hand and elbowing him in the ribs mere seconds later, she managed to free her hands enough to pick one of her throwing knives out of her pocket and hold it to the man's throat threateningly. "You let us go, [i]now[/i], or I take your buddy's life," she said, voice cracking and betraying her nervousness. Sen's arms were bound tightly behind her back -- presumably they knew she was a chi-blocker and couldn't do anything while pinned down -- and Suyin knew they were not in a good position, even with their new hostage.

One of the pirates stared her down for a heartbeat, brow arched in a gesture that read '[i]oh, really?[/i]' before a wicked grin curled across his face. "Sound the alert. Let them begin the ambush. As for you two... I suspect your friends out there would do anything to save you." Soon, Suyin was back to being a captive, forced through a black maze into what she suspected was the Captain's Quarters. But who was the captain?

Outside in the stone room where the others were still unknowing of Suyin and Sen's kidnapping, the door they had been about to pass through opened, streams of light revealing their missing companions; however, there were more pressing matters to deal with. A group of five pirates, all looking as strong as a Fire Nation lieutenant, that waited out of sight for them to cross the threshold.