Hi All, I needed to write something a little light-hearted in the aftermath of a chem midterm, so... here ya go! Enjoy the products of me trying to cope with stress!


Part 2: A Statement

Tenzin,

I finally wore these ridiculous things you got for me. Honestly, why did I ever give you access to my vault? So that you could squander away my family's fortune on useless pieces of clothing and jewelry that I will most likely never wear? Do you know how long it took your sister to get all of those chains into my unmanageable hair for the ceremony and then out again for the after party? I swear, when I get home, I am bending you to Omashu for you to never return!

Lin

In a different hand and a different ink, someone had written:

Don't believe a word she says, Tenzin. She loves the jewelry! Why else would she let us take her picture in it?

Then in Lin's hand again, had been written:

Fuck Kya.

The letter finally closed with :

P.S. we are on the run from the Earth Princess. Someone hit the cactus juice pretty hard yesterday and decided to have a little too much fun. (Don't worry, nobody got hurt). We'll likely arrive back in the city by noon tomorrow by either train or ostrich horse depending on if Kya can pay our way singing Air Nomad songs Aang taught her as a girl.


Tenzin smiled at the photograph of his fiancée wearing the new silken gown made by Daiki Suzuki. She looked beautiful in the green and cream colored gown embellished with silver and gold threading, with pink and green beads. Silver bracelets, necklaces, and chains in her hair complimented the gown perfectly with an unfathomable number of emeralds, diamonds, and morganite stones set into the thing.

Tenzin knew she had chosen to go with the Fire Nation designer of their two favorites just to spite the bride that no one in their friend group particularly liked. She was the Princess of the Earth Kingdom, a bitter and arrogant young woman with no sense of propriety. She treated herself the first born son of a god or something, and proceeded to boss around everyone that came into her presence. If said person didn't comply, she made up a thousand and one hundred reasons for why they were unworthy of her consideration to execute the task in the first place and made every effort to put them down. She was a bully and most unfortunately, next in line for the Earth Kingdom throne.

Tenzin placed the letter and the photograph to that morning's newspaper bearing a recap of the Earth Princess's wedding.

Blue Spirit teams up with the Kemurikage to wreak Havoc on the Earth Princess's Wedding!

Tenzin should have felt disappointed, but in fact, felt extremely proud. The picture the press got of the three "spirits" looked pretty terrifying to the common man, but only comical to Tenzin. They were in their pro-bending formation with Izumi at the head, not the captain but leading the charge as the blue spirit and carrying dao swords, to her left, Kya running with her arms back, a water whip of cactus juice already visible in her hand, and to the right of the blue spirit, Lin with a cable latched around the foot of a table, no doubt ready to hurl it across the room and make a mess.

Just as he was about to pick up the paper and read what else the reporters had to say, the door opened to reveal three slightly disheveled women with messy hair and three-day-old make-up smudged faces.

"I swear Kya- IF YOU EVER GO NEAR ONE MORE GLASS OF-" Lin yelled condescendingly at Tenzin's sister who couldn't stop laughing since presumably the beginning of this adventure.

Tenzin stood and greeted Izumi who came his way first. "How was the reception?" the Fire Princess asked in a half hug, bending down to steal his morning paper.

"I can't believe you guys got away!" Tenzin exclaimed rushing over to embrace his fiancée.

"I can't believe it either! Kya here almost lost her mask and gave us away!" Lin replied breathlessly leaning into Tenzin's robe, still trying to calm down from the rush of fleeing the Earth Kingdom.

"Oh don't blame me!" Kya called from the kitchen, getting something to eat.

"If its anyone's fault, its the both of you," Izumi replied taking a sip of Tenzin's tea, too lazy to fetch her own cup. She frowned and reheated it with her firebending.

"WHAT?!" Both of the other women shrieked.

"You've got to be joking!" Kya replied.

"I'm not! Your bending would have given us away if we stayed any longer anyways; it's too distinct," Izumi said, returning Tenzin's cup of tea to the coaster before leaning back on the couch and turning the page of the newspaper.

"She's right about that, I'm afraid. You're just too good at metalbending," Tenzin said, touching his nose to Lin's. "The whole can world can see it plain as the light of day."

"Hey Zumju, do you think the Father Lord, Zuzu will be mad at you for doing the thing?"Kya asked, flopping down on the couch snuggling up under the Princess's arm.

"Honestly? Probably not. I am pretty sure he hates her almost as much as me," Izumi replied, switching her prescription goggles out for her more comfortable glasses.

Just then, the door to the house opened again revealing Concilman Sokka, Avatar Aang, and Master Katara.

"I can't believe you DID IT!" Sokka yelled, picking up the young Police Chief rather unceremoniously and spinning her around.

She laughed. "It was..." Lin shook her head.

"Unbelievable..."

"Exhilarating..."

"Terrifying..."

"Exciting."

"Oh my gosh! I can't believe you encouraged them to do this!" Katara groaned swatting her big brother on the shoulder.

"What happened to being Chief of Police and enforcing the rules?" Aang asked Lin with a smirk.

"Hey, It was the City of Walls and Secrets!" Lin shrugged. "We HAD to break the rules!"

"So, tell us EVERYTHING!" Sokka said to them.

"And start with the dress!" Tenzin begged.

"Well," Lin began. "As you know, Kya and Zumi practically always wear the same thing to these events, and we wanted to make a statement so..."

"And what was that statement, dear?" Katara asked.

"Acceptance," Lin answered. "I knew Vera Wang wouldn't care if I wore Suzuki for a night because we still buy her designs and the world knows it. It was Hou Ting who felt slighted for me not wearing an Earth Kingdom Designer. Needless to say, Hou-Ting didn't get the hint that not everything had to be a competition and seemed to dis everyone that wasn't her father that evening, so before Kya could get too wasted, we sneaked away, changed and packed and shipped home our gowns and jewelry and in the dark capes and masks, decided to destroy the place."

"As a warning," Izumi added with a devious smirk.

The older generation laughed. "Oh, what I'd give to be young again!" Sokka sighed nostalgically.

"I don't know why we allowed you three to end up in a place without being chaperoned or supervised by someone with a little more sanity," Tenzin mused quietly as he ran a finger along Lin's smooth jawbone.

"Someone like you?" Lin asked with a soft smile. "It wouldn't have changed anything," She said dragging him in with her beautifully brilliant emerald green eyes shining out of the raccoon's rings that had encircled her eyes. "We would have dragged you in either way."

"And what makes you so confident of that?" Tenzin asked leaning on her head.

"You can't resist anything when I ask," Lin replied pressing a kiss on his lips before letting go of his body and walking away leaving him feeling slightly bereft.

"I need to go bathe," she said disappearing down the hall quickly.

"What a fucking tease," Izumi mocked from the couch.

"You'd never do that to me, would you?" Kya asked looking up at Izumi, pawing at her sharp chin and smooth cheeks. "Just kiss me and walk away?"

"Never," Izumi replied with a smirk and a wink.


Remember the blue spirit? And the kemurikage from the comics? No? Yeah? Oh well! Either way, I hope you enjoyed the young Linzin, Flaming Moon Badger antics, fun Uncle Sokka, and a little bit of Kyzumi towards the ending. Feel free to leave thoughts and feedback in the reviews and tell me if you want this series of one shots continued:)

-j