Hey, guys. This is a little something we've been working on recently; it's still in the early stages yet, we're still working heavily on it, but eventually we mean this to be a multi-part story. I'm not sure how many chapters this first part will come to, but this is the prologue to our first Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Aang project. Keep your eyes peeled for Chapter 1, hopefully coming soon.

From myself and the rest of the team, we hope you guys enjoy this.

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Vibrations, Part One: Things Burnt, Lost & Learnt

Prologue

It had been months since the airship and the Battle of the Burnt Coast, and now she was bored. Nothing even remotely interesting had happened since Sparky's coronation – nothing.

The gang (or "Gaang", as their resident idiot had taken to calling them) had set up shop in Ba Sing Se. The big city – how thrilling. At least she had Iroh to hang out with everyday, when Sokka was busy arguing with highly-decorated morons at the Palace. She spent most of her time half-hoping her father's goons would arrive to kick the door in and try to bundle her off back home; they never did, but at least it'd give her something to do with her time.

They made regular visits to Sparky's place, whenever Sugar Queen and Twinkle-toes could spare the time. Fantastic. Sparring with Mai was fun, if nothing else, but if the Circus Freak tried to braid her hair one more time, she'd break her spindly little legs; as much as she sometimes appreciated Ty Lee's company, there was only so much of the girl's mushy-gushy bisonshit a Blind Bandit could sanely take. Or talk of how the Fruitcake was "recovering". She wasn't the greatest supporter of the acrobat's fondness for Zuko's batshit-crazy sister, and nor was Mai. Katara couldn't even say her name without spitting it, and she hadn't spoken to Aang for a week after he'd talked Zuko out of having the nut-job put out of her misery...something about 'being a compassionate leader'. Sokka called it 'sympathy for the devil', and stayed out of it altogether.

But hey, when she wasn't hitting on Sokka or being all chummy with Suki, the acrobat had some mean skills. Chi-blocking techniques were a handy thing to know, and the Kyoshi Wannabe had been only too happy to teach her; Zuko had frowned on it, but Iroh thought it was funny. Anyone she caught skipping the bill at the Jasmine Dragon these days found themselves half-paralysed by the time they got to the door, and stayed that way until they coughed up what they owed. In the four months since she'd talked the pink-clad Chi master into giving her a few pointers, she and Iroh had straightened out more than half of the tea shop's customer base, and the rest would have their moment sooner or later. Between the Blind Bandit and the Dragon of the West, crooked customers stood little chance; they took turns at playing the bad cop, and their teamwork was almost as flawless as when she had the recently-minted 'Black Wolf of the South' at her back... almost. ...Pointers... Sokka always snickered at that joke, until she poked him in the shoulder and his arm went limp; then he just sulked until she'd finished laughing and fixed it...which she always did. Eventually.

Trouble was, said Black Wolf spent most of his time politely telling people of much greater social standing – but not importance, she told everyone - how badly they were screwing up the arrangements for the big one-year-of-peace party everyone had planned for a few weeks' time. It pissed her off that he spent more time arguing about civil order and fireworks with the Earth King's gang of decorated idiots than he did raising all manner of hell with her; it wasn't nearly so much fun pulling pranks and ripping off the city's scammers when she had to do it by herself. Sokka came up with all the best ideas...

But maybe this time she had something up her sleeve that just might tear him away from all that for a few weeks. The party could plan its stupid self; she wasn't gonna be there, anyway.

She was bored, bored with how bland and unassuming life had become since the war had come to an end. She hated being bored. She'd been given a taste of the wandering life, of adventure, and then her plate had been taken away from the table – she wanted it back, even if there was only one more mouthful left on it. So maybe what she needed was to get back on the road for a while. Sugar Queen would pitch a fit if she tried to wander off on her own, so Sokka would have to tag along, too; with any luck Katara would insist on it, being all motherly and the like. And it wasn't like there was nothing in it for him... he'd replaced Boomerang easily enough; begrudgingly he'd made another, imported the metal ore and the moulds from the South Pole and everything, and had insisted on teaching her to throw it when it was finished. Now he took it everywhere with him, like a kid with a blanket.

But Space Sword... well, Space Sword was special. It was one-of-a-kind. And he'd lost it – that was her fault, she'd cough to that... But what if she knew where to find it? And not just where, 'cause hey, that was a no-brainer, but how to find it? She'd been practising with the Space Earth lately, moulding it into more and more complicated shapes, and now she had it down pat...

"Hey, Sokka! How 'bout a road trip?" she asked him that afternoon, as he got back to the house from the Palace. He seemed as tired and fed-up as she did, but perked up when she spoke.

"Sounds like a plan," he said with a thankful sigh as he half-fell down next to her on the couch, wearing a smile that she hoped was a sign of his enthusiasm; she could tell he was smiling – why wouldn't he be? She'd learned how to understand stuff like that now too, and was getting better at it all the time.

"Where're we headed?" he asked, his boundless curiosity shining through his tiredness.

Toph grinned. So much for big bad boredom, then...

Well, it's only a prologue, but we will hopefully have Chapter 1 up soon. In the meantime, let us know what you think.

Catch you guys later!

Hydroknight & Team Hydro