Ok. Bookie is back!! I've decided to, for now, do another few fanfics, and then get back to WHLM TMBA-The Eighteen years Between.
This isn't my first fan fic, but will be my first not exactly following the story. I just had to do this, I don't know why. I'm usually a "You have to stay with the story, no changing things" Type of girl, but This idea came to me and I had to do it.
Ok, if you read WHLM TMBA then you will know I usually have my ecentric friends do my disclaimers. Today, I think I'm going to ask....Erwin to do it for me.
Disclaimer: Erwin: Bookie, one of my best friends, does not own Avatar.
Me: Stop being a suck up.
Life is seperated by social classes, as many things are. There is the Avatar, whose identity is right now unknown, there are Kings and Queens, there are Prince's and Princesses, and the people lower than that, well, Princess Katara wasn't really sure. Her life was surrounded by fancy things, and she was a dutiful princess. She could wave like she was supposed to, hide her true feelings, smile when she was mad, and, well, you get the point. She was the image of a prefect princess. Princess Katara didn't really know any other kind of life. She was ignorant to the everyday troubles of normal people. Katara wasn't stupid, she just didn't know any better. Pretty words and fancy things were all she knew, all she'd grown up with. Even though she was a water bender, she'd been taught to ignore her talant and maybe it would disappare. Maybe.
Princess Katara sat with her father, King Hokoda, and her brother, Prince Sokka, as the Lord Cheif Adviser said that the borderland's guard was bringing in a very important prisioner. She, of course, didn't really pay attention to him, as always, as she was taught. She'd been taught to sit there, like the princess she was, and look pretty. She'd been taught to act like she had no brain, though she was actually smarter than her brother, the next King. Then, she heard a word that interested her greatly. Airbender! She suddenly spoke up, though she wasn't supposed to.
"Airbenders don't exist anymore. They are extinct." She said, in a regal voice. "Tell that to the airbender they're going to bring here in about three hours." The Adviser said. She really needed to learn his name..."I'll believe it when I see it." Her father said. Katara and Sokka nodded.
Three hours later, the Royal family was on edge, not even half believing that an airbender truely existed. "HEY! That hurt, Buddie!" A girls voice sounded. "WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT HER UP?!?" An annoyed man's voice. "Will both of you be quiet?" An almost bored voice, girl. A loud sigh.
A large group of guards pushed forward a smaller, but more rowdy, bunch of kids. "I'm going to get Toph." said the boy with a large fire scar on his head. "She could've helped the rest of us escape, but NO!" he mumbled the last part. "Give her some creadit." The other boy with arrows on his head said. "She's blind!" "Aang, don't give that load of 'She's blind' crap to me. You know ten times better than the rest of us she can see and hear almost 20 times better than you!" "Will you two just be quiet and act normal for once." Said one of the girls in an almost bored voice. The girl in pink giggled and said "I just love our family!" The rest just shook their head.
They didn't have any more time after that to talk amongst themselves, for they'd been forced to kneel before the king and his family. "Why have you been brought here?" King Hokoda said, in the regal voice of a king. "Well," Said the girl in pink. "I think it's because we accidentally knocked over a ship." She giggled. "Appa's so funny!" The kid with brown hair and arrows head went up. "Appa! Oh, no. You better not hurt him! His the only thing I have left of-" Something hit him in the chin. The guards brought another girl in. This girl had tomboy writen all over her, from her messy hair in a lazy bun, to her dirty hands and to-urgh! her bare feet!
"Twinkletoes, shut up." She said and then removed the rock. She was also made to kneel. "Why, their nothing but kids!" Hokoda shouted indignately. "Why is my time being wasted by these children?" The guards made the boy with arrows stand. "Speak, tell them who you are, then show what you can do. No funny bussiness." The boy almost rolled his eyes, then turned to the king. He gracefully bowed. "Your highness, my name is Aang. I'm the Avatar." The King snorted. "That's not possible. The Avatar was a mere babe when the fire nation attacked the Air Nomads. He died along with the rest."
Aang, for that was now what they were to call him, eyes narrowed. "I was no babe, a child, yes, but not unable to escape. My bision, Appa, was able to fly us to safety." Hokoda snorted again. "But, that was a hundred years ago. How did you possibly surrvive for that long, and still look so young?"
"I was frozen in an iceburg after getting caught in a storm. Do you want my autobiography? I'm sure I have one somewhere around here..." He faked searching through his clothes. Katara almost laughed. "Prove it." Sokka said, looking interested, but still not totally believing it. "Fine." He swished around and was suddenly moving around the whole throne room on an airball, a smile creeping on his face, all other things forgotten. "STOP!" Hokoda bellowed. Aang fell from the ceiling and landed slowly on his feet. "So, you can do cool tricks with air. But the Avatar can do all 4 elements. Show me fire."
"Ok, Aang, just like we practiced." the boy with the scar said. "I know, Zuko. Concintrate. Like a tigerdillo." He moved and suddenly fire came out his fist. He did a simple set of firebending moves, but it got his point across. "Water!" Katara's father bellowed, not quiet believing yet. Katara herself was completely convinced, and couldn't wait to meet him. A bowl of water was brought and Aang did some waterbending moves, most of them pretty advanced. She reqonized some of them from Master Paku's demonstrations. Wow. He was good. She looked at her own hands in almost saddness. She would've been able to do that, but she was the princess, and had to tend to more princessey matters.
"EARTH!" Her father was scared. He was the Avatar. Aang looked around him and then smiled. He walked over to the girl who'd called him 'Twinkletoes' and whispered "I'm going to borrow your space bracelet, k?" "You better not damage it with your novice earthbending." She gruffly replied.
"I'm still learning this, so it won't be perfect." Aang said to the king with a bracelet now in his hands. He opened his hand an showed the bracelet suspended there, but then it was a star, then a small fish, then a heart, then a bracelet again.
Hokoda studied The Avatar for another moment. "GUARDS! Uncuff the rest of the Avatar's friends. Why did you cuff the Avatar and the others in the first place?" They were about to be uncuffed, when one of them, the 'Twinkletoes' Caller put out her hand. "We can get out ourselves, thank you." The girl somehow twisted her hands and then the cuffs were off. She felt them with her hands a moment, then turned on of the cuffs into a bracelet and put it on the opposite arm from the space bracelet. The bored girl used some kind of dagger to get them off. The boy Aang called Zuko melted them off. The girl in pink jumpped high into the air and cut them on one of the old swords up there.
"Now. Avatar. Introduce me to your friends." Hokoda said, politely now. Aang pointed to the 'Twinkletoes' Caller. "That's Toph. She's an earthbender and, as you just saw, is the only metal bender in the world." He pointed to the boy with the scar. "That's Zuko. He's a firebender." He supplied no other information about him. He pointed to the bored girl. "That's Mei. She's not a bender, but, well, let's just say that you should beware the tricks up her sleve." He pointed to the girl in pink. "That's Ty Lee. She's also not an bender, but she's an acrobat and knows the body's chi patterns. She can use that knowledge to either paralize you, take away your bending, or do both."
"This," her father said, pointing to Katara. "is Princess Katara." she stood and curtised. "My beautiful daughter. And, this," he said, smiling happily. Smiling happily until he saw that Sokka was making muscles at him self in the reflection on the water in the bowl. "SOKKA!" Sokka looked up and smiled sheepishly. "That is Prince Sokka. My idiot heir." He scowled at Sokka one more time then turned to Aang and smiled. "They will show you to your rooms. That, uh, bision will be released from our custody and shown to a feild just off my palace. There, he will be able to do what he wishes."
Katara stood. "If you'll follow me. I think my brother is a bit to preocupied to show anyone to anywhere. She shook her head at her brother, who'd gone back to his muscle game. She started walking towards another door and down the other hall with the GAang following behind her. She stopped in front of a spacous room just near her's and Sokka's. "This can be The Avatar's and Zuko's, was it, room." They left the two boys there. They walked to another room, just beond Katara's. "Ty Lee and Mei can sleep here. Toph, that was your name right?" "Yeah, Sugar Queen." Toph replied. "Well, if you don't mind, would you like to bunk with me?" she paused. "Wait, Sugar Queen? Why did you call me that?" "I dunno. Would you rather I call you something more insulting? Cuz I can manage insulting."
Katara didn't say anything to the outragous girl. As she led the way back to her room, she heard a shout from the doorway they'd just left. "Please. Don't leave me here!" Mei said, feeling finally entering her voice for the first time. "YAY!! SLUMBER PARTY!" They heard Ty Lee scream, while dragging a struggling Mei back into the room. "NOO!!!!!!"
Toph started laughing just before they entered Katara's room, then, just after, Katara started laughing too. They just laughed and laughed for a long time. When Katara finally managed to get some of her control back, she said "I haven't laughed like that in years!" Toph stopped laughing and smiled a real smile for once, then went back to her usual scowl. "Well, you need to. It's fun!"
Katara looked at her funny. Fun? She barely knew the meaning! Literally! "Um, yeah, fun. hehe. I'm going to go to the gardan. See you in a bit." Katara walked out of her room, leaving Toph to make herself comfortable, which she was having no trouble at. Katara sighed and knew that this was going to be a very long stay...
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