The Big City (Baozhai)

[Chase Sato]

The sun was bright on the nice warm day, the station buzzing with people. Chase got off of the train, stretching, turning his face up to the sun. It was nice to be outside again, that train was stuffy as hell. Swinging his bag over his shoulder, the orange haired fire bender looked around the bustling station, wondering what he should do first. This was his first visit to the city, and having lived almost his entire life in his small village, seeing so much stuff was almost overwhelming. His dragon cat, Zala, followed at his heels, looking around curiously. He knew she was hungry, but that would have to wait. So was he. He thought that he had brought enough money to last them a while, but things were so expensive out here, his funds were dwindling rapidly. Hopefully he had enough for a meal for himself and Zala. If not, then he would buy food for her. He could go without, it wasn't fair for Zala to starve just because she's not around a place where she could hunt properly.

Pushing his way through the crowd, he looked around for some place to eat. Some place cheap, preferably. There was a few carts that looked like they sold food. Making his way over to one of them, he studied the steaming food sitting on the cart. It looked good enough. Pulling out some coins, he handed a few to the man running the cart, grabbing two bowl of fried meat and noodles. Taking the noodles out of one bowl and placing them into the other, he put the bowl of now just meat on the ground for Zala to eat, then started away at his own, a sigh of relief escaping his lips as the hunger pains went away. This place wasn't too bad. A little crowded, but other then that, he definitely could get used to this.

He had only a few bites of his delicious hot meal before someone collided with him. He had been too concentrated on his food that he didn't realize he was just standing there, in everyone's way. As his food crashed to the ground, Zala jumped and hissed, frightened. His features pulled into a snarl, Chase turned around to face the person who just made him dump his food everywhere. "Hey! Watch where yer goin'!" he said angrily.

[Baozhai Chen]

Baozhai took a deep breath, weeks of preparation had lead to this. The job was simple, a man had stolen an important jewel from someone with resources and those resources are paying for Baozhai to get it back...with interest.

The man...named Shiu of course fled republic city with the jewel. All it took was a loose lipped bartender to betray his destination and Baozhai was off to Ba singh se hot on his heels. Shiu turned out easy to track, bragging was a thing he did well, and often!

A little suveilance taught Baozhai that the man not only still had the stone, but kept it in his left shirt pocket. However the man was a skilled fighter and a little finesse was required. Boazhai would use force if necissary but prefered the challenge of doing it without.

Like clockwork, Shiu headed to the market every day for a meal at the same time, she would make her move the next time he went. Baozhai dressed in traditional Ba singh se colours for the season, warm but endearingly flirty with a lot of leg. Her hair she put into tight buns, tied with orange ribbon. She applied her makeup skillfully giving herself a doe eyed look and rosey cheeked effect. She had to look like the kind of girl that you would do anything for if she was in trouble.

Baozhai placed herself in the marketplace and waited. She searched the croud for what she needed and spoted it...a firebender! Perfect! She watched the man walk up to a food seller, playing out in her head the chain of events she is about to attept to make happen. Right on time Shiu arrived and started down the crowded aisle. Baozhai reached up ad silently ripped one of the straps on heer dress, holding it, so when released it would fall down and almost expose "too much skin"

After taking the breath and readying herself she walked out and stopped right in front of Shiu...he stopped and looked back at her puzzled. She then cried out, letting go of the straps, and flung herself backwards at the firebender, knocking the food from his hand.

Baozhai fell to the ground and looked up at the firebender while pointing at Shiu...

"Help me! This man is trying to assult me!"

[Chase Sato]

"Help me! This man is trying to assult me!"

As soon as the words reached his ears, the anger left his face as he realized what was happening. He put his body between hers and her assailants protectively, eyeing down the creep who was trying to feel her up. "So think preying on girls is fun?" he asked without waiting for an answer. If there was one thing he couldn't stand more then anything, it was the weak being preyed upon. He always took it upon himself to help people who otherwise wouldn't be able to. Like this poor girl. Grabbing the man's clothing in his fists, Chase pushed him into the food cart that was behind him, the glass dished rattling loudly, catching the attention of those standing close by. As the man fell back onto the cart, the small jewel fell out of his pocket, un noticed by Chase

"Get the hell outta here and leave her alone." he said in a firm voice, his crimson eyes piercing through the scared looking man. He agreed and ran off, frightened of the ginger's outburst towards him. Turning back around, his features softened a bit. "Did he hurt you?" Chase asked, taking the couple of steps back towards her, kicking the jewel across the rocky ground, towards her. Bending over, he picked it up, holding it out to her. "Drop this?" he asked, handing it to her. He had only been in the city for less then an hour, and was already helping pretty girls. Maybe this place wasn't too bad after all. He then noticed all the people staring at him. Apparently this type of behavior wasn't acceptable in the city. But what was he supposed to do, stand there and do nothing? Wait for the 'authority' to show up so nothing could happen? No, immediate action was needed, and he took action. Plus he was helping someone, how could he get in trouble for that?