Lucy sat on the couch, her delicate hands brushing over the smooth wood of her violin. She had been practicing for the past few hours, bored out of her mind. After a few minutes of sitting there, she finally decided on what to do, pulling out her phone.
"Siri, call Ana." After three rings she was answered.
"Hello?"
"Ana? Come over, and bring the usual."
"Roger that. I'll be over in 15 minutes." Sure enough, she arrived 15 minutes later, Avatar the Last Airbender in hand. They watched it for the next hour before running out of popcorn.
"I wish this was real." Lucy said, before the power went out.
"I'm just the guy with the boomerang I didn't ask for all this flying and magic!"
"Huh. The power went out but the TV's still on." Ana said, walking over to inspect it. Lucy gripped her violin, wondering why the power went out. Suddenly, an unknown force picked them up and threw both girls at the TV. Soon they were both falling, Ana flailing her arms out while Lucy curled herself into a ball. Ana landed on something huge and leather-like while Lucy fell onto something very cold, sliding down until she landed on cool metal. Ana looked around and saw where she was and let out "Oh crap" before passing out.
Lucy kept herself curled up, hugging her violin and bow like they were her life source. She heard a few murmurs of. "Who is she?" and "How did she fall from the sky?" before she passed out.
Lucy woke up chained to a wall. She didn't know how long she had been lying there, but after a while she heard footsteps approaching.
"Who are you? How did you get on my ship?" The voice was young and surprisingly familiar. She just couldn't give it a name.
"My name is Lucy and I don't even know where I am much less how I got here." She replied, her voice etched in fear.
"Look at me, peasant." She slowly looked up. "I said look at me!" He yelled, pulling her chin up and looking into her eyes. Two glassy blue orbs stared back.
"Who are you?" Lucy asked, raising a hand up to touch his face. He stepped back just before her hand touched him.
"Guards, take her to one of the spare rooms. And make sure that she doesn't escape." Lucy then knew who she was talking to, even though it seemed impossible.
Lucy had just met Zuko, and he had just learned that she was blind.
Lucy woke up on a bed this time. She sat there for a while, thinking over what has happened. She had met Zuko, her favorite character. She would get to meet Iroh, her other favorite character! She was so fangirl high right now.
She hadn't always been blind. She had spent the first thirteen years as a normal Avatar fan. Then she was hit by a drunk driver and lost her sight. She spent the next two years mastering the violin, using sound to fill in the emptiness where her sight used to be. She had been friend with Ana for a few years, and she helped Lucy get through her blindness and slight depression.
She heard a knock on her door as she sat up (Wearing all of her clothes, thankfully!) "Come in." She smelt chamomile tea and knew exactly who it was.
"Hello. I am Iroh, prince Zuko's uncle. I brought you some tea." He said, sitting on the edge of the bed and placing the cup in her outstretched hands. "I'm surprised that my nephew didn't put you in the brig."
"He did." She replied, taking a sip of the tea. "Mm. Chamomile. Need to cut down on the mint, though."
"My, my. You must know a lot about tea." She shrugged and continued drinking. "Why did he take you out of the brig?" She looked up at him and he wa surprised to see her glassy, unfocused eyes. "I'm sorry, miss. I didn't realize that you were blind."
She smirked. "Blind people aren't as weak and pitiful as you think." She got up and thought over where she was going. By the sounds his feet made, she was about 10 feet away from the door. She walked over with ease, easily opening the door. "I've had practice." She then shut the door and walked around the little room. The sounds her feet made when they touched the floor told her that she was in a small room with the bed and a large chest occupying it. She then sat back down on the bed and asked the question that had been plaguing her thoughts. "Do you by any chance know where my friend Ana is? She fell out of the sky with me."
"I saw a young girl fall out of the sky, yes. She landed on the Avatar's bison and is still with them I suppose.
Living the dream, she thought. "Do you know where my violin is? I had it with me when I fell."
"I can go see." He said, standing up. "Would you like to join me?" She nodded and they left the room. "What else can you do?" He asked.
"I'm a good musician and singer, I can also do average hand-to-hand combat, katanas, and short swords."
"That is good. Can you bend?"
"I don't know, I've never tried."
They reached the deck and Iroh asked one of the guards if they knew where her instrument was. While he went to fetch it, Iroh directed Lucy to where Zuko was training with a few men. One of Zuko's opponents missed him and threw a fireball straight towards Lucy.