Disclaimer: I only own my imagination. If tried to own Elphaba, Katara, Toph or any Avatar the last Airbender or Wicked character, I would probably end up transformed into scarecrow by Elphaba, then melted in water by Katara and finally burred deep underground by Toph.
I would like to thank to Vladimir Zhivanevskaya for Beta chapter.
Wicked Toph & Katara
What if, instead of Dorothy's home falling into Oz, it was the house of Toph and Katara?
It was a beautiful morning. Katara and Toph slept in their house in Ba Sing Se. Aang and Sokka were away visiting Hakoda. Suddenly a terrible storm rose and picked up the house in which Katara and Toph were sleeping into the air. The girls woke from that terrible noise. Toph was the first to react, due to her superior hearing and other senses. The fact that the earthbender could not see anything made for an extremely disturbing situation when she felt the earth begin to slide out from under her feet. She concentrated, and felt that the house was still intact: the floors, ceilings, walls, everything was in place. Toph could "see" whom and what was inside the house or outside, but after a minute or two, everything was gone. She could not make anything out; it felt as if she was flying on Appa, but she was in her house. Toph had never liked to fly; she preferred a reliable and stable surface of earth where she was safe and in control.
Toph focused on her senses, and they once again confirmed the awful truth. She was in a house, but nothing was around it; it was as if nothing existed there except air. Then she felt that in other room stood Katara, her heart beating at a frantic pace. Toph decided to go to her and ask what the waterbender saw that was so awful, what she could neither see nor sense. However, it wasn't so easy when the whole house was shaking, and she couldn't feel the environment.
Toph opened Katara's room door and, not wanting betray her fear and anxiety, said in a commanding, calm tone: "What is it, Sugar queen? Your heart is beating hard and your breathing is so intense it's as if you've seen a ghost! "
If Katara had been able to feel what Toph felt, she would have realized that Toph felt the same way as she did, but fortunately she couldn't and Toph was glad of that. Toph saw Katara as strong and confident. She had always been the glue that helped keep the Gaang together during the Hundred Years war and did not allow them to fall to the ground. Now, when the war was over and peace had been restored, it was very strange to see Katara so frightened.
"What the Heck is so terrible that it could scare her like this?" thought Toph.
Last time when she saw Katara so frightened was when Azula had shot Aang with lightning and very nearly killed him. Only Katara's love and stubbornness, with help of some Spirit oasis water, managed to return Aang to the world of the living.
"I can't explain it Toph, but we got up in the air and are flying." Katara uttered in a worried voice.
"Since when did houses begin to fly?! Last time I checked, what goes up always falls down " said Toph.
"That's what frightens me the most Toph. From what I can see, the fall will be very long. I doubt there will be much left except for a pile of rubble." Katara said, her voice shivering with fear.
Toph could no longer suppress her fear upon hearing that, so she ran to Katara, hugged her strongly and said, "I'm scared, Sugar queen."
Katara had never seen, or thought, that Toph was afraid of anything. She had always been fearless, independent, straightforward, and as stubborn as the element which she bended. Seeing her now was a completely new experience.
"Everything will be fine Toph. All will be well, "said Katara, hugging Toph strongly. Katara did not believe in what she said, but she realized that she must be strong. She had to be strong to help Toph.
About half hour or more passed, but nothing changed. Katara glanced through the window and saw that the landscape has changed. The house flew over seemingly endless fields, but she decided that the earth was slowly approaching; they had finally started to descend. Off in the distance was another house and it seemed to be increasing in size.
"Toph! Brace for impact! We'll be landing soon!" said Katara and squeezed Toph in her arms, trying to shield her.
After a couple of minutes, there was a terrible noise and the house fell on the ground, or rather on the other house, which softened the fall. The girls were surprised; somehow, they had remained alive, though the house was now only pile of debris. Toph was happiest when she felt the strong and stable surface below her feet, but the joy ended abruptly when she felt that someone was under the house and it looked like they were ... dying.
"Katara, I think we've landed on someone else's house, and there's somebody inside." Said Toph as she started to earthbend. After a minute Toph had made a tunnel, and at the other end of it lay a young woman who looked a little older than Suki.
Katara looked around in the pile of debris that had been their house, by pure luck found her water pouch, and rushed to help Toph. Before her lay a woman wearing a black dress which had once been luxurious, but was now in tatters. Katara bent water from her water pouch and enveloped her hands with it. Examining her new patient, she found that the unknown woman's injuries were similar to those that she had seen on Jet. The memory upset her greatly - she had had to leave Jet to die if she wanted to escape the Dai Li hideout alive, and since then she promised herself that she would do everything she could to help those who needed her, and never leave anyone to die again.
Now before her lay this woman with almost the same fatal injuries as Jet, and Katara did not intend to give up until she had tried everything that she knew. Waterbender again checked the condition of the patient; another few minutes and the woman would be dead. Katara fed her powers into the water and tried to heal the unlucky woman that happened to be in the house on which theirs had crashed.
"Toph, I don't know if I'll be able to save her." Stated Katara with a melancholic voice.
"You can do it Sugar queen! You revived Aang when Azula struck him with a lightning! Concentrate on your work and you will succeed! I know that you will succeed. "Toph replied.
"Yes, but that time, I had water from the Spirit oases ..." Katara had said, but she was interrupted by Toph yelling.
"Stop whining and start treating her Sugar queen! This woman will die if you keep whining." Toph shouted at her in a tight tone, and then hit her in the side. Hard.
It had the desired effect, forcing Katara to wake up and concentrate. She treated the woman and was able to stabilize her, but as soon as she finished therapy session woman's health once again started to return to a life-threatening condition. However, Katara did not intend to stop, and eventually her hard work began to bear fruit. The woman's state completely stabilized, the threat to her life extinguished, but she still had some serious injury, that Katara needed to work on.
Suddenly, Toph felt something begin to approach the shattered ruins of the house.
"Um, Katara…it seems to me we will soon have a guests." Toph said uneasily. "And it looks like they are not in a friendly mood."
"Since when was the earth-rumble champion afraid of a little confrontation?" said Katara, laughing.
"Hey! I am not afraid! "Toph angrily exclaimed, stomping her foot on the ground so hard that it trembled."Just let them come and they will know Toph Beifong, the greatest earthbender in the world!" She paused, cocking her head to the right. "Looks like someone's at the door. I should go and greet them." Toph grinned widely.
Katara looked at Toph and knew what that smile meant. Toph was going kick someone's ass.