Hey Everyone! This is my second story that I got the idea for for looking at pictures on FaceBook. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own A:TLA or LOK. Just this story..

This is a story unlike any other...

There was this beautiful woman named Toph, friends and family long since gone, but she manages on her own. Striving tolook her best wihout showing how broken she was inside. She had a secret you know... A secret so horiffic, and it was the onlything that kept her going.

Now there was this amazing Kingdom! Young and prosperouse. The King and Queen were loved by all their subjects.

One day the kingdom was filled with wonderful news! The royal two were going to become three! the kingdom rejoyced! The niext nine months were spent preparign and celebrating..

One morning the Queen didn't come down for breakfast. When the King noticed various maids and nurses, one of the younger maids stopped and ran over to him with a huge smile on her face. The King put two and two together and ran up with them.

Bursting threw the door, the King looked at his wife with THE question in his eyes. In return she gave him her usual warm smile, but this time with excitement and discomfurt in her eyes.

He rushed to her side and sqeezed her hand. Then for the next hour they went over baby names and let the maids/nurses do there thing while they waited.

When suddenly the Queen went weak from pain and passed out. Her face was white and sweat immediately started dripping from her face.

A nurse came and gave her a little bit of medicine for the pain. But when she looked up at the King, there was worry in her eyes.

The King then left the room and ordered his men to find the mysterious "Midnight Flower". It was rumored to heal even those who where deathly ill.

Now this is the part of the story in which I spoil Toph's secret. The reason she has been able to look not a day over thirty five for hundreds of years was because of the midnight flower. Only she knew the secret to unlock this beautiful flower's power.

Long ago when she first discovered the flower, she knew it had to be special. After much coaxing, she had finally been able to make it glow and work its magic.

Now back to the story..

Hours later, Toph was walking throught the woods, looking for her "pick-me-up". When she heard some guards and townspeople rushing about the forest and shouting about a flower.

She knew she had to do this fast. She ran to the place she knew the flower grew, and set down her lantern. When she had removed the little bush-like-shelter she had made for the flower, she began to sing to it, and it began to glow.

"Flower, gleam and glow. Let your power shine. Make the clock reverse, bring back what once was mine. What once, was mine."

When she finished, her hair had returned to its natural raven-black color. Any brown spots and crows feet had dissapeared. She breathed a sigh of relief. But then she heard a twig snap. She quickly returned the bush-shelter, picked up her lantern, and turn to run with a sense of urgency.

But in her haste, she knocked over the bush-shelter, revealing the flower's ominous glow. Hiding in a tree, she watched as some guards came rushing to the mysterious light they saw throught the leaves. As they approached the flower, the head guard shouted.

"We found it!" As they dug up the flower with tender car, one of the guards thought to himself how amazing the Midnight Flower looked, with bright green squiggles flower down the petals.

Toph glared at them, brainstorming how she was going to get her precious flower back, as she watched them rush back to the castle.

Once back, they gave the flower to a young nurse who plucks the petals and turns the flower into tea. Within minutes the tea is ready and is rushed up to the King and Queens bedroom.

Once there, all the maids/nurses/guards watched as the King helped the drink the tea. Right away you could see a difference in her face, and within twenty minutes the baby, a beautiful princess was born!

Her name, was Asami. With eyes as green as the grass on a beautiful summer day! Hair as black as the midnight sky! With assorted green highlights..

A celebration was held! A portrait of the royal family was designed on one of the largest walls in the kingdom. One week after the princesses birth, just a few moments before sunset, the King and Queen launched a single lantern into the sky. So beautiful and elegant.

After a grand farwell, everyone left for bed. But that night, just before midnight, Toph snuck into the nursery ajoining the royal bedroom, from the balcony door which was accidentely left unlocked.

She walked up to the crib, and as she began to sing, she revealed a pair of scissers.

"Flower, gleam and glow," Asami's hair begins to light up as the flower had,

"Let your power shine," Toph's gray hairs begin to dissapear as she leans into cut off a chunk of hair for herself.

"Make the clock rever-" When she cut Asami's hair, it stoped glowing, any green ing that chunk of hair vanished. Toph begins to panic as she feels herself age again. In a moment of weakness, she grabbed the baby, dropping the scissers and knocking over a vase.

When she reached the edge of the balcony, she looked back, as if having second thoughts, but when she saw the King and Queen rush out of bed and into the nursery, she jumped and ran as fast as she could to the one place she knew she and the baby would be safe.

When the King and Queen saw a dark figure jump from the balcony, they ran to the princesses crib, only to find some dark hair and a pair of scissers.

They collapsed in eachothers arms, the Queen sobbing and the King barking orders to his guards while trying to hold back tears. But it was no use. They searched EVERYWHERE, but no one could find the long awaited princess.

In a tower Toph had been living in, she brushes the now five-year-old princesses glowing hair, listening the her sing their special song, and feeling younger with every stroke. When Asami finished, Toph breathed a sigh of relief. She had found her new flower, and she was determined to keep it hidden.

"Mommy, why can't I go outside?" Asami asks. "The outside world is a dangerous place. I don't want you to get hurt." Toph said. "Yes Mommy." Asami answered.

But that night, she snuck downstairs and opened a window to watch the magical floating lights that always took flight on her birthday. Knowing that they were meant for her. And they were. Every year the kingdom launch thousands of lanterns, in hope their lost princess, would come home.

So! What do you think of the first chapter! I think I'm going to update once a week if I can..

Please review! No Flames please... I just want to see how many I can get in a week.. 3