DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN AVATAR!
So here is the sequel to Reintroduction. I hope you guys like it.
Tenneyshoes
"OWW… I think I'm air sick." Typical Sokka.
"Well then lean over the side." Toph shouted back to him from her seat next to Aang on Appa's head.
Aang, Toph, Katara, Zuko, and Sokka were all on their way to the Western Air Temple. Why you may ask. A WEDDING!!
Over the last month, Aang, Katara, Zuko, and Sokka had come back into Toph's life after three years. Aang had lost to Ozai when he was twelve landing him in prison along with Katara, Zuko, and Sokka. Toph had been allowed to go home, but not without a price.
After Ozai had struck down Aang, Toph had run forward to confront him. Toph stood in a defensive position ready for an attack. From the front, not behind. A Soldier has hit Toph in the back with a fireball. However, the incompetent bender had lost control of the blaze. Ozai stopped his laughing tirade which he had been having since striking down Aang.
He took control of the fire and made it wrap up Toph's back over her right shoulder and then twist down her arm to stop on her palm. Now three years later all you could see of that day was an angry red burn .
However, you could only see the burn if you could get Toph to show it to you. Her cloths were almost the same. She had modified them however, so she could hide the scar. Over her hands she wore fingerless black gloves.
The only people who knew about the scar where her parents, and Aang. Ozai and the soldier who had given it to her were both dead. Now three years after the battle with Ozai when Toph was twelve, she was reintroduced to her friends. Katara and Zuko obviously had something going on between them but no one really knew what. Sokka had been with Suki kind of when they had stopped by Kyoshi but now they were just friends.
When Toph stayed up late she could usually find the Water Tribe Warrior talking to the moon. Calling it Yue. Toph had been told a little about her but she didn't know the whole story. All she knew was that she was a princess, Sokka had fallen for her, and she had died.
As they neared the Air Temple, Aang started to get excited. Finally, Gyotso was going to meet Toph. Finally, Aang could marry her and they could be happy, not having to worry about Ozai or anything else.
Appa landed in the main courtyard and the friends all got off. They were greeted by an old man and many younger benders.
"Hello Aang, Katara, Zuko, Sokka. Welcome back. And who is this." Asked the old man gesturing to Toph.
"Hello Gyotso, this is Toph Bei Fong, my fiancé." Said Aang wrapping his arm around Toph's waist.
"Are you kidding me?" asked an Airbender in his early twenties. "This girl cannot be the Earthbending master of the AVATAR. I mean look at her. She is tiny, she is blind, she is helpless, what could she possibly teach the Avatar besides maybe how to walk, which she probably can't even do on her own. And his fiancé? Please, why would Aang marry a blind girl?"
Sokka cringed. "Toph, please, please, please, please don't hurt me for what he said." Begged the boy as he covered his backside with his hands.
"Why would I hurt you when I can hurt him just as easily." The man just laughed.
Without a word Toph had him encased in stone. As they all looked at her they saw that all she had done was lift her hand. They watched in amazement as she flicked her wrist, making a metal block rise form her pack and begin to change shape. With a final flick, Toph had the poor man encased in not only stone but metal.
"Ya wanna run that by me again? Just maybe? For your information, I can see just as well as you if not better, I might be tiny but I could kick your sorry butt, which I just did, with only one hand, as you can see I am not helpless, and I taught Twinkle Toes over there every thing he knows about earthbending and then some." Said Toph walking over to the man encased in stone and metal.
Toph held up her right arm to release the earth and return the metal to the cube it had formerly been. As her arm went up her sleeve slipped down revealing her scar.
Everyone gasped. Toph froze. She didn't want anyone to know about that just yet.
"Toph, what on earth happened to you arm?" asked Katara, concern for her best fiend and adoptive little sister lacing her voice.
"Nothing" said Toph dropping her hand, letting the sleeve slip back into place and making the earth crumble into a pile of ruble around the pale Airbender.
Gyotso watched as the girl fidgeted with her glove pulling it father up her wrist to hide what everyone knew was there. "Well, why don't I show you where you will be staying." He said trying to distract everyone from the girl. She gave him a grateful smile as she and the rest of the merry band of friends followed the old Monk.
Gyotso showed Katara, Zuko, and Sokka all where they would be staying before leaving each in turn to unpack. The two remaining teenagers followed Gyotso as he led them down a hallway to a door. The old man turned to address the couple.
"Aang, you will be staying in the same room. Toph you can stay here."
Aang and Toph nodded before Aang turned to Toph wrapped her in a hug, and whispered in her ear, "Are you sure you're okay?" Gyotso smiled, it was good to see Aang so concerned about something besides a war.
Toph nodded, kissed Aang on the cheek and said she would "see" him in the morning. As Aang walked down the hall toward his room Gyotso and Toph entered her room.
As the young woman began to unpack, a glint of something caught Gyotso's eye, from Toph's hand. Upon further inspection, Gyotso say that Toph had a silver ring with a single square diamond on it. The traditional symbol that a woman was engaged, at least to the Airbenders. Gyotso's eyes traveled up to the woman's neck to find an emerald pendant hanging from a black cloth chocker, the symbol equivalent to a ring only for the Earth Kingdom the same going for the water tribes while a ring was used in the Fire Nation as well. Gyotso smiled, glad that Aang had used a symbol from both cultures.
"A copper piece for your thoughts?" asked the old man as he noticed the young woman was a little distracted.
"I wasn't ready for them to find out. I mean, yeah Aang knew but I didn't want to tell the others just yet. Now Katara is never gonna leave me alone until she heals it like she healed Zuko's scar. Zuko and Sokka are gonna be even more over protective then usual. You should have seen what they did to Aang after he proposed." Said Toph thinking back on the memory.
FLASHBACK
Toph helped Aang stand and supported him as he looked cautiously at the bowl.
"What are you going to do to me?"
"Oh nothing… too bad." Said Sokka, while Zuko's grin just kept growing.
"I swear if you hurt him, I will make that final battle three years ago look like a game of tag." Threatened Toph, moving her hand that was holding Aang's hand over her neck to rest protectively on his chest.
"Don't worry Toph, we won't hurt him. All he has to do is eat this stuff with the spoon, without hands or feet." Said Zuko, simply.
"While he sits in front of an angry Moose-bear-lion." Added Sokka quietly.
"Oh now… you are NOT putting Aang in danger like that. He is going to rest for a day or two then we are going to go to the Western Air Temple. There will be nothing to do with hand and leg cuffs, or angry anything!" shouted Toph. Even with a teenager looking scared out of his wits hanging comically from her, she still looked menacing, and Sokka dropped the spoon and hand cuffs to cover his backside.
END FLASHBACK
Toph smirked as she remembered that. She had noticed that Zuko and Sokka had become like obsessed body guards since Zuko joined the Gaang. Who knew what they would do to Aang if Toph ever got pregnant. That was a scary thought.
"Toph, you know it is not always a bad thing to accept help from those that love you." Said Gyotso wisely, bringing Toph back to reality.
"Ya know, an old friend of mine once told me the same thing. But I don't know if I want to get rid of the scar. I mean, I've had it for three years, it's almost a part of me now. A sad part, yes, but a part nonetheless. I really don't know if I want to get rid of it. For three years, I hated having it, but now that Katara knows, now that I finally have the chance to be rid of it, it's almost like I can't let it go." Said Toph confused.
"That is because you have made your scar a trademark, like your blindness. Most people with a scar like that would be disabled, they would no longer care to go out, or to really do anything because they would be maimed. The same with blindness, but you don't let it get in your way of having a good life, and it shows others that may be like that, that have defects like blindness or defected limbs that life can still go on just as normal as ever. If you ask me, I think you should keep the scar, just to show that you are still as strong if not stronger than you were."
Toph smiled at the old Airbender, "Thank you sir." She said respectfully.
"Oh let's not have any of this proper rubbish. I am like Aang's father, and I hope I can be like one to you as well."
"I hope so too," said Toph.
A loud grumbling interrupted their conversation and Toph laughed holding her stomach, "It looks like I'm hungry, why don't we go grab the others and eat some lunch?" asked Toph still laughing as her stomach made more noise.
"Of course" said the Airbender heartily, "We can discuss plans for the wedding." And with that the two walked out of the room to find the others to eat.
WOW! Four pages on Microsoft word. This is the longest chapter I have ever written. So do you guys like the sequel to Reintroduction? If you have any questions look back to that and if you are still confused review with your questions and I will try to answer them. And in Reintroduction on the like last chapter I said that Earth Rumble 6 had been abandon. But in like the second chapter I said that was where Toph was fighting, I am changing that to where she was fighting as Earth Rumble 7.
Thanks guys
Tenneyshoes
