Chapter One
"Oh! She's adorable, Toph!"
"What does she look like?"
"Huh, a lot like you…. Except for her eyes…."
"What color are they Sokka?"
"A weird gold-y brown…"
"Toph, I have just one question…"
"Yes?"
"Who was the father?"
"Don't ask me that, twinkle-toes."
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Three years ago, the Avatar, an air bender named Aang, destroyed the princess of the fire nation, Azula. Therefore creating a peace treaty between the nations. Prince Zuko took the throne with his wife, Mai. So far, they remained childless. However, they did have an heir. Coda, son of Azula, was the re-formed fire nation's prince.
Katara, now Queen of the South Pole was happily married to a water bender warrior and had three children, two boys and a girl. She raised them in peace and taught them the ways of all nations. She regularly visits her brother and friends in the Earth Kingdom.
Still bachelors, Sokka and Aang are still rejected by the female gender, although, the girls were a little more gentle letting Aang down than Sokka. With Sokka, it was more of a slap on the face and a boot in the pants.
That leaves Toph. She took to a small cottage on the border of the Earth Kingdom and the Fire Nation. She lives mostly by herself, except when Sokka, Aang and sometimes Katara come visiting.
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Sixteen Years Later
Nineteen year old Coda paced his uncle's palace corridors waiting for something to entertain him.
"Young Coda, something bothers you?" Coda's great-uncle asked.
"Nothing, sir. I just have nothing to do."
"Nothing to do?! You could take a walk, smell the flowers or play with the dogs!"
"But those things are boring!"
"Nonsense. You could come up to my apartments and have tea…?"
"Uh, no thanks. Maybe I will go take a walk."
"Alright, but if you change your mind, you know where to find me."
"Right." Of course Prince Coda had no such intensions of visiting Iroh.
Out in the palace gardens, Coda climbed the trees for lack of anything better to do. In the highest branches, he had a wonderful view of the woods on the other side of the garden wall. The majestic trees clouded in smoke as the wi- Wait, he thought. Why is there smoke…? He vaulted over the wall to investigate.
What he found was a camp made completely of stone. Earth bender.
A small campfire burned in the middle. A platypus-rabbit baked on a spit just above the hungry flames. He couldn't take his eyes away from the dancing fire. Their blues tongues barely licked the animal. He continued to stare until he heard humming coming closer. Shocked out of his peaceful state, Coda jumped into the trees just before a girl, perhaps two years younger than him, came into the clearing humming a mournful tune. Instead of arresting her on the spot for trespassing, Coda decided to watch her and wait for her to notice him.
The sun dipped low in the sky and she had yet to notice him. He pinched himself to keep from falling asleep.
She went into her stone tent for the night and he started to unwillingly doze.
Dawn seeped under his eyelids and woke him up. Coda looked down at the stone tent, relived when it looked like the girl hadn't woken up yet. Sighing, he turned to look the other way, and found himself face to face with the girl.
"Ahhh!" he cried as he fell out of the tree. Smiling smugly, the girl came down from her earth-wave.
"What were you doing watching me?"
"What was I doing watching you?! I think the real question is, what do you think you're doing camping in the Fire Nation?"
"Holidaying."
"Holidaying."
"Yes, in this particular spot."
"I could arrest you for trespassing."
"But you won't."
"How are you so sure of that?"
"If you really were going to arrest me, you would've by now, princeling."
It was the truth. He was fascinated by this girl. Who, though knowing his status, was not intimidated by him. Nor did she show the proper respect, but he was willing to let her go for that one. No, he was most intrigued by her eyes. They were a strange color for one of the Earth Kingdom.