Author's Note: Yay, here's my first multi-chap Avatar story, I think. Haha. Okay, so I think this just has all the pairs it ended with, but I swear this is not too gooey, or romantic. I do have some moments in there, and I just wrote it how I think they'd keep the romance level in real life...So please R&R, and believe me, some of these chapters are short. I just thought it'd be too long for a oneshot. Enjoy! Slight OC, my own character, but not too much. Just needed in the story. Enjoyy!! (:
Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar The Last Airbender.
Aang was pacing outside on their balcony when he heard some rapid footsteps behind him. He turned and saw Katara darting at him at full speed.
"Aang! Did you hear? Weird things are going on in Omashu! People are being kidnapped, and children are getting abducted near the new playground!" she stuttered. Tears suddenly came rolling down her cheeks. That was definitely Katara. She cared way too much.
"Really? I didn't know anything about it. We'd better go..or not. Isn't Ba Sing Se expecting a performance from Zuko and me tonight?" he asked.
"Really, Aang. This is more important than a performance. Let's go!" She pulled him along into the small living room where the rest of the gang were doing their normal things. Iroh was making some tea, while Sokka and Suki sat together in a chair, laughing. Toph was doing her daily toe-picking business on a special mat Katara had made especially for that purpose. Zuko was staring out a nearby window, a thoughtful expression on his face. Mai sat next to him glaring at Ty-Lee who was watching Sokka, sitting in her acrobatic position. Her elbows on the ground and her feet on her shoulders. Normal Ty-Lee...Everyone looked at Aang as he entered the room. Suki stopped laughing and they all replaced their expressions with grave ones. They looked so serious!
"Well, I heard everything. Maybe we should go down and investigate?" Aang was suggesting. He didn't like to be the only one making the plans here. Sokka stared at Suki's face, which was slowly turning into a grin.
"Maybe we can split into groups. Some go to the playground, others in the parts of town that are doing the worst. We can gather information and meet back here at a later time," she explained. Sokka nodded his head.
"Nice plan. But where will we go into town?" he asked everyone.
"Just wherever there is people talking about this, peanut brain," muttered Toph. She had no interest in going around town, but didn't mind standing around a playground waiting for some freak to come behind here and grab her. She knew some really awesome moves if that happened.
"Okay. I think Katara, Ty-Lee, and I will be somewhere in town. Then Mai, Zuko, and Iroh can go into another part of town. Then lastly, Toph, Sokka, and Suki will be in charge of the playground. One small problem, though. You guys need to look like younger kids, so if anything, you'll get kidnapped and see where they're taking them. So, Ty-Lee, can you make them look little?" Aang directed his attention to Ty-Lee. Her attention was pointed at Sokka who had his arm around Suki and was whispering some ideas to her. She reluctantly turned.
"Course! They'll all look as cute as buttons! C'mon, let's get started!" she gracefully got up and out of her position, and hurried the group along behind her. Toph stayed put.
"Um, I'm not letting some pink fluffy freak mess with me! I'll keep look out or something!" Toph pleaded. She hated the idea of having Ty-Lee, or in her secret thoughts, Miss Pink Freak, dress her in a stupid looking dress and stupid looking makeup! She never did any of that, and never planned on it.
"Just this once," Katara said, pulling her up and half-dragging her to the bathroom where Ty-Lee had already set up her area. Aang sat next to Katara and looked around.
"Zuko, Mai, and Iroh, do you wanna go get somewhere into town where there are a lot of people? Possibly talking?" he inquired. Iroh nodded and led them out the door with hot tea in his hands.
"Oww!" they heard him yell, then there was a splattering noise. Katara sighed and walked out to the balcony. She bent the tea up and back into his cup. He was dropping his hot tea more and more often now, so it had become a daily basis of her bending it back up for him.
"Tea is tea, whether on the ground or not. Just like a person is a person whether hurt or not!" he said, then carefully walked down the steps to the waiting Mai and Zuko. Mai had an impatient look on her face, while Zuko muffled a laugh as Iroh nearly tripped down the steep stairs. He put his arm around Mai and they were on their way. Katara came back in and looked at Aang.
"I guess we can be off whenever Ty-Lee is done, right?" she said, taking back her spot directly next to Aang. They waited in silence, listening to Toph's shouts of pain, and sometimes the occasional swearing she yelled at Ty-Lee. Sokka came out first, his hair in his normal pony tail, or warrior's tail as he called it. He had a little makeup on, but it made him look like a young boy, not a teenager.
"I'll be sitting in the sandbox so they won't be able to see my manly figure and my tallness," he said. He grinned when Aang laughed at his description of himself. Suki came out next, looking younger than Sokka. She had some child-like makeup on, but not so much she looked abnormal. She wore a short pink dress that fit her perfectly. She walked out toward them and did a full spin. The base of her dress flew around.
"I'll be sitting next to him, so they may only see my face. Ty-Lee did her best to make it look younger, ya know, like a child's," she said. Sokka went over to her and motioned for her to sit. They sat together, practicing their act as young children, fighting then playing, and so on. Finally, Toph came out with her hair down, a green dress on and no makeup on.
"That freak! She tried to put makeup on me!" she said the word like it was a disease. She went back over to her toe-picking post and pulled her hair up out of her face and looked down at her dress.
"I can't take this anymore!! I'm changing!" she yelled as she ran back into the bathroom, shoving Ty-Lee roughly out. Ty-Lee held overlapping makeup supplies in her arms.
"I tried to make her pretty, but she kept slapping my hands away. She even tried to kill me with a rock!" Ty-Lee pranced over to Suki, ruffling her hair and then to Sokka.
"You look perfect..," she whispered to him. He raised his eyebrows and replaced his arm around Suki.
"Thanks..," he muttered. Toph walked back out normally dressed and sat next to Aang on the couch.
"I'll keep watch or something. I'm not going to stoop so low to look like that!" she said, as she sat down in her stubborn position. Aang gave up and nodded. He motioned for them to leave, and that was it. They walked out together and went their separate ways for the first time.