I'll only say the disclaimer once for the whole story. Disclaimer: I do not own the right for Avatar: The Last Airbender, so I hope you've read this before sueing me!
FYI, this is set after Sozin's Comet, and Zuko ditches royal Firelordiness for the sake of oldish times, but younger than chasing a bald avatar around the globe!
Toph dragged herself streniously towards Appa, along with a clingy Avatar hugging her waist and others, pulling him off.
Don't get me wrong, but Toph loved Aang, but this need to be together forever yada yada was overbearing and tiring.
"Why Tophy? Why? I thought you loved meeee? I thought you were my forever girl? Whyy? Don't leaaave meee!" Aang lamented and buries his face into her thigh.
Aang was a barnacle who would never let go.
Toph was beginning to get weary, but Aang gripped on tightly, with energy to spare.
Who knew having the Avatar in love with you could bring on such headaches. Bring on the migraines!
Toph was never usually one asking for help, and she had no intention of changing that. At this incredibly slow rate, at which one would turn for a kid running on grass to an elderly yelling at young kids to get off their freshly mown lawns. Toph wasn't going anywhere.
"Gah! Help mee!" But desperate times calls for desperate measures.
And here comes Katara to the rescue!
"Get off her, Aang!" Katara pulled at Aang's foot.
"But I love youuu! Don't you love me?"
"It's only three days Aang!" Katara groaned. And pulled harder.
Toph's parents had sent a letter, asking no, wait... What's the word... Hmmm... Demanding! Yea... Demanding that Toph returned to them.
The gaang had mixed feelings about relinquishing Toph to her overprotective parentsto her overprotective parents. If Toph refused, her parents would've disowned her, which would mean she'd loss her biological family, her inheritance of a large sum of money and her honour. The other untold thing is that she'd lose was her parents' love. It didn't seem like it, but Toph really did love her parents. Under the earthen toughness and boyish attitude, was a small but sweet spot softer than the clouds. But if you asked her, expect to be shot 50 feet into the air and end up dead, or if lucky, barely clining on to sweet life. And she would then outright deny it.
Thus, a visit was agreed by the majority of the group.
With bodyguards Suki and Katara in case Toph's parents pull a trick to put her under maximum security for her wellbeing. That and for the sake of a girl's getaway from their meatloving, cynical, moody boyfriends...
That meant no boys, which meant no Aang, surprisingly.
Said parents would freak out to find their precious little 'helpless' daughter had grown up and landed herself a man... Scratch that. A prissy Twinkletoes. The mortal incarnation of a all powerful deity. The Avatar.
"Noooooo!" Aang sobs and whined. This was not what you'd expect from the Avatar.
"Must... Get... AWAY!" Toph pants, now on all fours, with Aang practically on her back and Katara unavailing attempting to remove him.
As much as Toph was reluctant to visit her parents, having clingy airbenders were by far much worse.
"HELP ME!"
But none prevailed. Suki, Sokka and Zuko had gave up already, currently lying on the ground, exhausted and breathing heavily. Sokka may have been unconcious.
"Get off me!" Toph cries out.
How much strength could love sick Avatars have!
But a determined waterbender might have surpassed.
Seeing as brute force is out of question, a cunning act was called upon. Katara fished a little box out of Aang's pocket, and hurls it over an exhausted Zuko, who looks briefly and decides it wasn't worth it.
"AANG! The riiiinng!"
"AAAAHHHH! MY PRECIOUS!" He hisses and scampers after it.
"YEEESSSS!" Toph runs off into the woods and hides for the sake of her sanity.
"NOOOOOOOO! TOPHY! DON'T LEAVE MEEE!" Aang ditches the ring and runs after his beloved.
"NOW!" Katara seized the opportunity, and hauls the rest of the luggage and a snoring Suki onto Appa, leaps on herself.
Zuko feebly tosses his hand as a gesture of "Good riddance" and begins to slumber.
"... Some boyfriend... LOCK UP THE FOOD AWAY FROM SOKKA!"
Snoooorrree...
Toph runs throught the forest as if her life depended on it, which it literally did.
Her only choice was to run as fast as she could or stay and be smushed by a clingy Aang, and nobody really wants that.
Weary from having an Avatar cling onto her waist, Toph begins to ease into a slower run and hopes Aang is nowhere near. She felt light prancing feet few miles away, which only belong to Aang, ss airbernders are light on their feet. And he was the last one in the whole wide world.
As silently as she could muster, Toph begins treading back to camp.
Aang had the energy of a hundred suns, runs around eyes alert and jumpy, His radar set to 'Toph mode'. His air scooter proven to be a fast vehicle.
Aang's abnormally large ears twitched at a crack few miles away, and he begins speeding towards the source of the sound.
'Oh crap...' Toph mentally cursed herself, realizing her fatal mistake of stepping on a slim branch. It was loud in her sensitive ears, and naturally would've reached a big eared Avatar. She could feel the dreaded vibrations getting inevitably closer.
Toph knew it was now or never. The make it or break it. Aang was coming at a alarmingly fast pace, and a second could not be wasted.
She leapt out of behind the tree and ran towards Katara and a snoring Suki, upon Appa, ready for take off.
It was life or death.
Slow motion! With an amazing feat of Earthbending, Toph propelled herself onto Appa's saddle dramatically, not a moment to spare as Aang raced out of the trees and leapt of his air scooter, landing on the ground.
The overwhelming emotion of 'Noooo! I was too late!' flooded Aang to the extent of forgetting his magical flying abilities.
Katara, on time roared 'Yip Yip' over the commotion and Appa was airborne, pausing at the sight of his distressed master.
Aang rummages through his pocket, searching for his trusty bison whistle, nowhere to be found as Katara dangled it upon her spot on Appa's saddle, flashing it in the bright sunlight.
Then it hit him. He could fly! Launching up his airscooter, Aang speedily took off the land, and after Appa, a grin on his face.
It was like he was an addict, after his much needed drugs.
Katara knew they wouldn't make it without help, whipped out her water flask swiftly and waterbended it, aiming whips at Aang futilessly as he dodged them swiftly, still grinning from ear to ear.
Time for Plan B. Katara, splashing Zuko's face with water and freezing, effectively waking him before unfreezing to allow him some air.
Zuko gasped for his much needed air, as Katara yelled uncomprehensible pleas of help, but then...
Zuko put up explicit hand signals at his girlfriend, who cursed back at him, threatning to do unspeakable things as he non chalantly walked off to his tent for sleep, ditching a snoring Sokka while Appa flew faster and further away from Aang as rapidly as a ten tonne bison could. Aang sped up.
"TOOPPHYY! I'm coming for ya!"
Toph, away from neccessary rocks and earth, was blind upon Appa's wood and cloth saddle, grabbed Suki's bag of Kyoshi outfits, for protection and to launch at annoying airbender.
"Fly at six o'clock!" Katara screamed, as this was their last resort.
Toph twisted 180 degrees at her waist and launched the bag at Aang, who was overjoyed to see Toph and wasn't concentrating.
The bag flew through the air with great force from a petite girl, hits Aang head on and knocked him off his airscooter, sending him falling and crashing.
"TOOOPPPPHHHYYY!" Aang's voice grew further and further the more he fell, his voice a distant moan of heartache and despair.
"He's going to hurt himself!" Katara refused to be resident doctor.
"Too bad, Sugarqueen! He'll live!"
Sure enough, a loud crash eminates through the air, followed by more wails of not only physical pain, but of lost love as well.
Katara imagined, Aang huddles in the fetus position and cries a river, whilst Sokka slept on, completely unaware of the scene.
And that jerk Zuko snoring in his tent contently hugging his beloved teddy bear, which will have a special little 'accident' planned out for him... Katara thought maliciously. She had talent in this thing, where Toph was the expert.
Appa drew away more and more from camp, to the point it was a speck on the now vast landscape and Aang's cries were history.
And with the help of her friends, Toph managed the impossible. She actually escaped Aang.
A/N: Yup! First chapter done! I'll admit, Aang maybe a bit off character but, if I may argue, that Aang was clingy towards Katara (As a Zuko/Katara and Aang/Toph fan STILL! I say unfortunately) when he was infatuated with her. So imagine being in love! This may not make sense to sane people but summarizing (I babble!) Love can change you to do foolish things! If you have any inquiries with how the story went, PM me or leave a comment, and I'll get back to you! Hope you all enjoy my very first none one shot story... (Let alone read it... Hoo boy...)