Hey everyone! I thought I would try my hand at Taang week 2011. I believe I'm late for it but what ever. Better late than never. (Also I just found the prompts a couple of hours ago)
The first prompt was Job. So here goes nothing! As always I do not own anything. Avatar the last Airbender belongs to Mike and Brian and Nickelodeon. I am merely a sixteen year old girl who loves Avatar and needs a better creative outlet.
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Job
"Toph. Toph! Are you listening to me?" Poppy Bei Fong snapped at her sixteen year old daughter. Toph looked up.
"Yeah?" she mumbled, turning her attention back to her mother.
"What was I saying then? Her mother asked, raising her eyebrows at her blind daughter.
"I don't know, something about how to walk, or something?" Toph guessed, leaning back into her chair. Poppy let out an exasperated sigh and pinched the bridge of her nose with her forefinger and thumb. They were outside once again in the garden for what Poppy called, "Etiquette lessons". Toph called them something more profane.
"Toph, this is really important that you learn this. No family is going to want you to marry their son if you do not have proper manners. They're not going to accept you if all you do is go gallivanting off in men's clothes, earth bending with a bunch of big sweaty savages!"
Toph rolled her eyes and spat on the ground next to her. Poppy winkled her face with disgust.
"Like that," her mother pointed out blankly. Toph smirked, knowing that she was successfully annoying her mother; her main goal lately.
"Dear, the Bei Fongs have a high reputation and status in the Earth kingdom. You, being our only daughter have to uphold that status." Toph picked at her bare dirt encrusted feet.
"Toph! It's your job to be a proper lady. Not some ragamuffin!"
"Who says ragamuffin anymore? Toph snickered. Poppy was losing her disposition and becoming more aggravated with her daughter.
"Your sixteen years old! Already you have had several suitors coming here. They were all fine and perfect gentlemen from respectable families. But you turned all of them down!"
"They were boring, stupid or old. Or a combination of the three," Toph defended, pushing a lock of ebony hair behind her ear.
Poppy leaned in toward the youth and placed her hand gently on her shoulder.
"I know you've spent all that time traveling the world and training the Avatar. That's all fine and good. But you are home now and need to act like a respectable lady I am raising you to be. It's your job to…"
"I don't want to be a "Respectable Lady" Toph interrupted her mother, her voice beginning to shake with anger. "I don't want to learn nor care about how to walk daintily, pour tea, wear stupid fancy dresses and act like a spineless panda-lily! I want to work at the Earth Bending academy. I want to sleep until noon, be covered in dirt, live my own life and have fun. I don't even know if I want to get married. Especially not to someone chosen for me. It would be someone I pick regardless of status or what freaking family he comes from! This is why I left in the first place, Mom! I'm tired of you and Dad controlling everything about me!" Toph stood up and headed toward the entrance gate of the estate. Poppy Bei Fong called out for her insolent daughter to come back but she was already gone. She sighed again and began walking back inside. She would try again tomorrow.
"Im so sick of her telling me what to do!" Toph angrily thought, clenching her fists and she stormed thought the busy streets of Gaoling. She unconsciously made her way toward the Blind Bandit Earth Academy at the end of town. An all too familiar route. Shortly after the war ended, Toph took over Master Yu's school and renamed it. She was tough but fair on her many students. They all respected her. Toph approached the back door and opened it using the key she had metal bended herself.
It was quiet for once at the academy; there were no classes being held that afternoon. She entered the main practice arena, her feet sensing that her assistants did not fix up the arena after the morning classes.
"I'm going to have to teach them a lesson tomorrow," Toph sadistically said to herself as she began leveling out the ground with Earth bending. From behind her, she could feel a pair of light and familiar footsteps walking toward her.
"There no classes this afternoon. Come back tomorrow," She said in an annoyed voice to the person, not turning around. "I thought I locked the door", she thought.
"I guess I'll come back later then," an all to familiar voice said.
"Twinkle Toes?" Toph spun around. "What are you doing here?" She smiled and walked toward him.
"I was on my way from Omashu and thought I'd stop by," Aang said, a smile in his voice, grabbing her in a strong hug. Toph could feel that Aang grew as they embraced. He was now a towering foot taller than her. His arms were no longer thin and wiry are they were four years ago. They were hard and muscular that came with many years of intense physical training.
Toph's heart being to pound, and her blood rushed to her face. She pulled out from the hug, confused of her body's reaction. One she hasn't felt since her crush on Sokka many years ago.
"Are we just going to stand here?" I haven't seen you in four years. Lets see what you got, Twinkles," Toph challenged, changing the subject. She got into her defensive sparing stance, flexing her strong arm muscles.
"Same old Toph," Aang laughed and complied with the young woman's request.
All while they Earth Bended the afternoon away, Toph's heart was fluttering the whole time.
Okay how was that? Please review! Expect the next prompt, Marker, sometime tomorrow!
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-SmileyBAM