A/N: I dedicate this fanfic to my friend. I miss you bro, hope you're up there jamming with Hendrix like everyone says you are. Rest in peace.

The Amulets of Destiny

Toph ran through the forest, throwing boulders back at her all the way. She looked back at the Fire Nation soldiers chasing her. Then she glanced to her sides at her two airbending companions.

Both of them looked about her age, yet both were over 100 years old.

Avin dodged a boulder whizzing at his head as he yelled, "Agh! Jeez, Toph, you're aiming at them, not me!"

"Don't tempt me!" she yelled in response as she sent more rocks at their pursuers.

Aang sent a gale of wind back at the soldiers, knocking out a few. "Ha, I'm going to beat you this time, Avin!"

"YOU WISH!" Avin replied, as he turned around and ran at the remaining soldiers and started slashing away. The soldiers shot flames at him, but he deflected them with his over-sized sword.

Aang sighed, exasperated. He turned around and ran back. "Come on, we have to help him."

"I don't mind leaving him behind…" Toph trailed off, but she followed suit, sending large rocks at the firebenders behind Avin.

"Glad you decided to lend a hand, guys." Avin muttered as Aang and Toph fought their way to his side.

"Don't read anything into it!" Toph warned him as she shot up an earth shield around them, protecting the three of them from the flames.

"Oh, I will!" Avin laughed, as he jumped up over the shield and bended a miniature tornado, aimed into the middle of the firebenders. Aang jumped over the shield and looked around. A pond! He bended the water and doused the flames of an oncoming soldier, and sent the remaining water barreling into the man, sending him sprawling.

Toph started knocking pieces of the shield at her adversaries, and was about to take out the last one when Aang and Avin both got in her line of fire, and she stopped.

"I GOT HIM!" Avin and Aang said at the same time, as they shot blasts of air at the man.

The man crumpled under the pressure of both blasts. "YES!" Avin and Aang said in unison.

"NO WAY!" Avin and Aang said, "THAT WAS ME!"

"WILL YOU GUYS GIVE IT A REST?!" Toph yelled, and both of them fell silent. She put her hands behind her back and looked at them sternly. "Does it really matter which one of you airheads got the guy?"

Avin and Aang looked at her, horrified. "Yeah!" Aang said.

"We were tied, and that guy is the tie-breaker." Avin explained, as though it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"Well, neither of you could possibly know who got him first…" Toph began.

"We know," Avin said.

"That's why we're asking you to decide." Aang explained, as though it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"Me?! No way, you can count me out." Toph said, crossing her arms and turning her back to them.

Avin and Aang surrounded her, and asked, "Please?"

Toph slapped her forehead. This was really Sugar Queen's kind of thing…

"All right, fine…I guess…." she recalled the man crumpling under the ground, from air that was shot from…

"Aang, you win."

Aang jumped into the air happily. "WHOO-HOO!" he yelled as he jumped ten feet into the air.

"NOOO!!" Avin said as he fell to his knees in defeat. "Toph, why…?"

"Hey, I call 'em as I see 'em."

A/N: Chapter 2 coming soon, since this chapter was pretty short, but I like this story, so I think I'll keep going.