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Chapter One: The Will
Toph Beifong was once in a position that made other girls just wish that they could be her, even just for one day. Well they would if anyone besides her parents even knew that she existed. That was her first problem. The other was that that she was blind and that pretty much sucked. Her third and final problem was how her parents viewed her. They thought her a delicate flower, meant to be kept safe for fear she might be broken. He name even meant a type of flower though she didn't really mind cause it sounds like 'tough'.
Toph stifled a yawn. She was training with her 'master' who was trying to 'teach' her to lift, as he said rocks, or as she said five pebbles. Just because she was blind didn't mean that she was stupid, after all. As for Master Yu…. well she was pretty sure that her parents picked him off the streets. If that man was a master then she was the Avatar.
Thankfully a female servant came in with news that her father wanted to see her. After sitting for so long staring at the pebbles pretending that it was oh so hard to lift them when really all she wanted to do was show them what she could really do, but she couldn't. She had too much at stake to blow it now.
"I am sorry for interrupting but Master Lao Beifong wishes to see his daughter. He says it is most urgent." she said in her soft voice, while bowing, signs of respect.
"No worries Miss…?" he asked twisting his mustache with his finger.
"Xia" she said blushing, red spending over her cheeks.
Toph decided at that moment to stand up and leave before it got to awkward but before she could take a single step Xia rushed up to her and held out her arm.
"Please let me help you, Miss Beifong"
Toph sighed inwardly. Just once she would like to show them what she could do. Just once. She wanted to show them that the girl with the unseeing murky grey eyes isn't something to be protected but rather is a force to be reckoned with. Tonight she would show them, but until then she had to keep up the act. So she took her arm and let her herself be led to the study.
The servant had taken her to her father's study door and left soon afterwards, judging by the direction, back to Master Yu. She did the right thing and knocked on her father's door instead of barging in.
"Come in!" she heard and with that she opened the door and silently walked in.
"Tofu?" he almost asked looking shocked "Did you come here alone?"
"No father. A servant escorted me here." she said suddenly feeling sick to her stomach.
Could her father have discovered where she was going tonight? She was so sure no one knew, she didn't even tell anyone…
"Tofu, why are you looking so worried? You're not in any trouble." Lao Beifong said looking bemused.
Toph let out a sigh of relief.
"In fact quite the opposite really…" and Toph then heard the scratching of a pen.
He suddenly stood up and led her to a chair.
"Cannot have you standing around" he said and he went back to his own chair.
"Toph, you know I won't live forever?"
Toph slowly nodded as she sat down, not knowing where this was going.
"Well, in the event of my death, which hopefully will not be for quite some time, I want to make sure that my little Tofu will be alright. Now I could die at any moment, from sickness to a rampaging platypus-bear, and if I do all my money will be left to you."
Tophs mouth dropped open.
"But, but father, what about mother?"
"Well if I die your mother as much as I love her would probably get remarried and most likely have more children. The money, as it is then your mothers, would then be split between you. I rather my own child get everything that I worked hard for."
Toph nodded even more slowly, her face a picture of shock.
Her father noticed her expression and suddenly realised that talking of her own father dying to an eight year old was not such a good idea, no matter how important it was to inform her of her status as the Beifong fortune heir.
"Don't worry Tofu. I won't be dying anytime soon. Just precautions. Your mother will be taken care of, if I happen to die before you turn eighteen, which is highly unlikely as I am in prefect health, she will be free to spend the money as she pleases. You will be able to inherit the money the moment you get to the age of eighteen."
Toph just stared at him. He looked back at her for a while and then suddenly picked up a sliver bell and rang it, its chime ringing through the room.
"Someone will be coming to take you to your room."
Toph started walking towards the door, still shell shocked.
While everyone else was sleeping Toph was getting ready for the Earth Rumble Six. She had finally managed after visiting many times to watch the matches, and learning very quickly not to sit in front, to be in a match. Who knew that a bag of gold could go so far? Luckily Xin Fu had not questioned just where a blind girl got so much money. She put on here old training uniform, as she had no other that made her not look like a weak little girl. One of the nice things about no one knowing her was that no one could ever tell her parents that their 'fragile' little daughter was going to make grown men cry. She smirked as she put on the final touch to her uniform, a headband. Now all she had to do was avoid the guards and the meerkat-dogs. A piece of cake from what the badger-moles had taught her about earth-bending and feeling the vibrations for moving things.
Sometimes when Toph looks back at this moment, her choice, she's glad she left and sometimes she wished she had never even heard of the Earth Rumble Si and stayed at home like a good little girl. But if she stayed, there's no doubt in her mind that she would be dead.
Let me know what you think. - Trapped In Stories
First story ever published, I know its short but its more like a prologue than anything else.