Hey!
I'm back for another story and what not! So bal bla bla, it's set in the present, Toph is blind, yadda yadda. And I know EVERYONE tries an Avatar fic set in the present and its an over used plot line and crap. But some are really good and I'm hoping this will be one of those good ones. I'm guessing everyone saw the finale?
NO TAANG! And my hatred for Katara the beast deepens more...
Oh right and I'm making Aang have his hair in this...
Chapter One -The Start of Summer
A young, teenage boy sat at his desk inside of school tapping his pen wildly. He was excited, for in a few moments he would be free from this prison called school. Mr. Pakku was up at the front of the room talking about how you should waste your summer being mindless and ignorant. The boy sat his head down on his desk with a low exhale.
"Psst"
The boy looked up to find where the noise came from, then he saw a blue eyed brunette outside the window with an excited look on her face. "Aang!" she whispered.
He looked at her to notify that he had heard her. Then looked around the room to make sure everyone was listening to Pakku drone. He looked back out the window where his friend was. The autum seanery was making it more unbearable to stay in the stuffy class room.
"Meet us at the-" she began. But was cut off by a sudden-
"Hey!"
The loud voice startled both teens. 'Crap, busted'Aang thought as Pakku came closer to Aangs desk to see who he was conversing with. Mr. Pakku slowly walked closer with his hands behind his back as though he was some big threat. To Aang, he was.
"Why, hello Katara" he said warmly when he reached the spot between the window and Aangs desk.
"Hi Mr. Pakku" Katara answered with a feeble wave. Aang was curious at what would happen next.
"Now class, if you all had grades as good as Miss Katara did when she was in my class last year then I may have allowed a free day for your last day but" he said as he slid the window closed "since you all are lazy and put in no effort that did not happen"
The whole class rolled their eyes or groaned, this speech had been given before but now they were being compared. Katara had left the window, with a sheepish look on her, face by this time, Aang already knew where to meet her and her brother though. Where they always do, the beach. Aang snapped back into reality.
"So in light of that, I'd like you to stay after class Aang" Mr. Pakku said. Few kids in class stared at him for his response.
"Alright" Aang answered, giving in. 'Great, the first ten minutes of my summer WASTED!'Aang thought. Aang could stand the thought of time wasted on NOT having fun. Kids in his grade made fum of him for being excited and extremely outgoing. People apparently found that annoying.
After a few more minutes of staring at the clock and almost falling out of his chair in anticipation for that finale bell, it went off. If the kids were in a different class they would have blasted out of that class room like rockets. But they were in Pakku's class and had to play by his rules.
The whole class had to line up and single file out of that room silently. Pakku said it showed if they were "mature" enough to go to the high school next year. If you went to fast, you got sent to the back of the line. Yeah Pakku was that sick.
Aang made no mad dash for the front of the line, he would have if he wouldn't have gotten caught. After all the kids had left for their summers Pakku walked back in, with arms folded, to confront Aang.
"So, Aang what are your plans for the summer?" Pakku asked.
"Mostly hang out with friends I guess..."Aang answered, shrugging.
"Well I hope you try better next year than you did this year..."Pakku added
"I did try!" Aang argued, standing up.
"You just get by in this class by enthusiasm and raw talent, I would love if you gave it your all next time" Pakku said. There was a long silence. Then he motioned toward the door which was Aang's signal for freedom. So Aang bolted for the door and was gone.
'Raw talent for history?'Aang thought 'Please'.
"Jeez Aang, take forever why don't you..." Sokka said. Aang glared at Sokka as the three of them walked away from the school in an ocean of swarming kids.
"Hey leave him alone!" Katara said defensively "It's my fault he had to stay behind"
"No, it's not your fault, Pakku just hates me" Aang said, slinging his back pack over his left shoulder.
"No he doesn't hate you, he's just high strung, and sorry, it's just we got a half day today and Sokka gets impatient" Katara explained.
"Well I'll be in the high school next year and it'll be alot better having you guys around" Aang said as they continued to walk.
"Eh, it ain't gonna be a walk in the park, your gonna be a freshman, nobody likes the freshmen, plus we probably won't have any classes with you" Sokka said smiling matter-of-factly.
"Thanks for crushing my hopes and dreams Sokka" Aang said "Great freindship we got here"
"Oh it won't be that bad!" Katara argued while moving her hand in a very 'pshaw' motion toward Aang. The beach was in veiw now.
"Seriously Aang don't worry about being an outcast" Sokka said "you can do that when we got back to school!"
Katara glared at her brother. Aang sighed. As much as Sokka killed his buzz about summer, it could be worse. He could have been heading home alone. With no friends. Thank god for his ability to show off one minute then be in danger the next. The first year Aang had moved there he had no friends and spent his days down by the boulders that lined the beach, alone. Trying to distribute his weight to balance and walk on each of the large rocks.
One day he fell in and luckily Katara had heard his screeching in time before he smashed up against the rocks too much. They been best friends since that. Sokka decided Aang was a cool kid...after a while. Sokka really got a bad vibe from Aang when they first met.
"Okay wait, if its Autumn, why the hell are we at the beach?" Sokka asked throwing his hands around for emphasis. The group of three stopped walking. None of them had thought of that. The water would have been way to cold for swimming, and the sand to rough. Nothing to do at the beach unless it was summer.
"Well, now what?" Aang asked, the beach was the on;y thing they could think of, they hit the beach almost everyday after school. It was instinct for them to just go there.
"How about we go see a movie?" Katara suggested. Aang smiled at that idea, fresh butter popcorn and a large Coke slurpy. Yum.
"The theatre is gonna be packed by now, its not just us three out of school you know" Sokka reminded in a sarcastic tone. The clan of three countined their walk past the beach. The gave sad looks as they passed. The only people there were a couple waling along the shore, and a photographer snaping pictures of the ocean. Nobody else thought of swimming.
Aang's eyes shot wide open and he jerked his head up in excitement. He'd thought of something awesome.
"How 'bout the indoor go-cart place down town?" He asked smiling his contagious smile. Katara's eyes lit up too. She looked at her brother for approval of Aang's decision.
Sokka made a thinking face for a second then nodded. "Hope you guys are ready to get owned" he said competitively with a smirk.
"This is crap!" Sokka said letting out a sigh of defeat while slouching over with the look of gloom in his face.
"Sokka, relax of course the line is this long its not just us three out of school you know" she said sarcastically. Aang laughed along with her.
The line was the biggest any of them had ever seen it. Any time it looked like it was shorter, people ahead of them would let their friends cut in line so they could Go-Kart togther. It was pretty fusterating. Two more people cut up at the front of the line.
"Wait like the rest of us!" Sokka yelled. Luckily they didn't hear. Sokka had the macho guy attitude but if the person he yelled at happened to be a body builder or something, Sokka would simply say "Aang WHY did you do that?"
"This is getting really old, reallyfast" Katara said crossing her arms. Aang was bummed at how crappy his first day of summer freedom was going.
"Well great choice Aang, I could be hanging out with Suki right now" Sokka said. Katara swatted his arm.
"Don't be mean to him!" She said. The two siblings got into another mini argument of how Katara does so much and Sokka is such a pig. Or how overly protective Katara is and how much Sokka has to put up with.
Aang just blocked them out and let his mind and eyes wander around. They could play arcade games and get tickets, 'I could win Katara a bear or somthing'Aang thought. They could do Mini-Golf...naw, Sokka had anger problems when it came to that miniature game. Then he saw a big new sign up by the entrance of Mini Golf. Laser Tag.
"Guys follow me" Aang said as he got out of line and headed toward the new neon sign. The bickering had stopped and they followed.
"Lazer Tag huh?" Sokka observed "Well I'm ready to dominate!" he said raising his arms. The line was surprisingly short for a new game like this. The trio gazed up at the score boards outside the Laser Tag entrance. Anytime a player got hit they lost points and once you got to zero your at a game over and had to leave the Laser Tag course/arena.
The scores on the scoreboard changed up and down, a couple went down to zero and they were erased. New people were sent in and the line moved forward. One player caught Aang's attention, Player 9. They had the highest score that never got below 1,460. Since each hit time you hit someone was worth five points and each time you got hit subtracted five points they were awesome. Kick-ass in fact. It said noone had hit (shot) them at all.
"Player 9 must be a ninja or something..."Aang marveled. Sokka looked up at the board and agreed with a nod. Katara's eyes bulged when she saw the score of Player 9.
Finally Sokka, Katara, and Aang reached the front of the line. The grabbed their Lazer Guns and some weird thing you strap around your chest then went into the dark room. Well it would have been dark if everything wasn't neon-glow-in-the-dark.
"So what do we split up-" Katara asked until she heared a zap. She noticed her starting 100 score was at 95 now. Sokka snickered.
"Yeah, you might wanna split up" He said aiming his ray-like-guy at Katara again. Aang and Katara took off in the same direction. The room seemed quiet, every now and again you heard someones 'Aw man' or 'Son of a...' when their score hit zero. Most likely thanks to Player 9.
Aang heard Sokka's voice say a frustrated "CRAP!" then a buzzing Zap. Aang smiled. Then he saw a dark shadow behind a neon wall aiming at him. Aang rolled away. The zap hit Katara.
"Dang it!" she said with her score down to 90. Sokka laughed at her. With a straight face she zapped him back. He glared. It was a battle of the siblings.
Aang was making his way around the course very stealthy-like. He saw the shadowed person he assumed was Player 9. He had a pretty good idea it was Player 9. They had taken out 3 people in the 2 minutes that Aang was in there.
Aang pointed his laser gun and shot a the person. They looked shocked at firsst as they heard a zap then saw their count go down five points. Then they looked up at Aang and began to shoot lazer beams at him. Out of the seven shots...six got him. ZAP. Make that eight.
So now Aang only had sixty points left. Judging by the way this guy was shooting it wasn't gonna stay that way for long. Aang ran around the room like some kind of squirrel on crack. Trying to find a place to hide was almost impossible. The guy kept following him and shooting. Down to fifty points.
Aang found Sokka behind a small neon wall hide-out. Aang jumped in to hide with him. Player 9 ran by.
"How you holdin up?" Aang asked. They both peaked out the hide out window. A few kids they didn't know stood right in front of them. Aang and Sokka got three of them a game over, for their own selfish need of points. The three other teens let out groans, signs, and Damn it's of defeat. They had no idea what had hit them.
"So how'd you lose all your points?" Sokka asked. Aang looked out the window and saw them. "From him, Player 9" Aang said while pointing to them. Sokka peeked out at him.
"Dude, I think thats a girl" Sokka said with a chuckle in his voice. Aang shoved him out of the window to look.
"What? I'm talking about this guy right there" Aang said pointing. Sokka looked again. "I know thats who I'm taling about, thats totally a chick" Sokka said rather amused.
"Well where'd all your points go?" Aang asked glaring. Sokka was quiet, then looked away "My sister" he sniffed.
Aang smiled. Then took a cheap shot at Ms. Player 9. She turned around to exactly where they were hiding and shot. They were found. "Great friggen job Aang! Lead her right here why don't ya?!" Sokka yelled as he tried to run. Player 9 took him out before he could do anything.
"I'm goin' to get food" Sokka said once his score hit zero. He headed out the doors in defeat. Meat was the only consolation for him in a humbling experience like this. He sulked away.
Aang was distracted long enough for Player 9 to take 20 points away. Once he noticed he heard her in-your-face laugh. The kind of laugh that made you feel inferior. He got in a shot at her as he ran and ducked behind a screen wall. He looked around too look for her.
"Hey!" Aang heared as someone popped outinfront of him. After his heart-attack passed he relized it was Katara. He took a big breath to regain balance. "What happened to Sokka?" she asked
"Player 9 happened" Aang reasponed while his eyes quickly searched the room. He saw nothing then heared four zaps. He spun around to see Katara hitting her gun. The red GAME OVER appeared on the reader.
"Well I'm out, I'll go find Sokka, meet you out-side when your done" She said exiting the target room.
Aang went back to his mini-battle with the mysterious Player 9. He ducked behind on of the neon foam wals for a few seconds of shelter. He scoped the room for the master sniper but couldn't find-
ZAP!
Aang got cut off by his lazer jacket buzzing srom a hit. He looked acrossed the floor to see the assasin run away. Then a lound buzzing sound came from the walls of the room. At first Aang was startled, thinking he had been zapped again but realized he hadn't lost any more points.
"What the-?" He asked in confusion. ZAP!
"It means each hit now takes away 50 points moron!" She yelled at him. Frick. He only had 150 points left. He had to put this chick in her place...before she put him in his. He scurried over behind another wall then zig-zagged to diffrent wals trying to lose her. He waited for the sound of her footsteps to get closer then she ran by his hiding place and while her back was turned ZAP ZAP!
"OH HELL NO!" she yelled after she relized what happened. She fired at him and he ducked under her shots and fired a few more at her as he ran. She fired at him many times, only hitting once. While he ran he wondered why she was so mad about the fact that he was begining to school her at lazer tag.
A couple other people fired shots at her as she stalked Aang with anger. Her points had gone down to 100 also. He decided to walk out. Even though he hadn't run out of points the neon colors and the buzzing was giving him a headache. As he walked for the door Ms. 9 called out:
"Thats what I thought, Nancy!"
He stopped. "Have fun playing in the ball pit with people you can actually relate to!" she must of thought he had run out of points. Oh she was wrong. He spun around firing two shots. Which gave off two zaps which made her pissed which made Aang want to crap his pants once he figured out she was running after him to beat him to death.
As he ran for his life out of the exit he thought 'Whose a Nancy now Loser?' he only thought it because if he said it out loud then he would for sure get his ass handed to him.
He got out of the neon room and threw off his gun and jacket not bothering to look at the new high scorer. He ran to the saftey of his friends. "SOKKA KATARA HELP!" he screamed as a P. girl chased him throught the lobby.