Here's part two! Yay!
March 27th, my 13th birthday, had now arrived. Although I had just switched to this Earthbending School in February, I was quickly known for my skill. Everyone knew, if not, had heard of, The Blind Bandit. The most Amazing Earthbender ever. I sure liked that. Rumors were spreading that I could bend metal as well, but I didn't show off the way I usually would. I'm still not sure why; I guess I thought they would make me teach the classes or something. School was boring already.
Everyone I passed by would say "Happy Birthday," or, "Happy 13th". Some people gave me small things like cup cakes, being that they didn't know what else to give a blind girl. One person gave me a card, forgetting I was blind. It sort of hurt me having to tell them I couldn't read it.
Later, one of my teachers told me to go to the office. Everyone went, "Oooo", but in a sarcastic way. I quietly walked down the outdoor hall, hoping that they didn't know it was me who destroyed the wall behind the dumpster. "Toph, you're parents are here." I gasped. My parents NEVER take me home early unless someone died or something… "What? Er- Hi mom… Dad…" They waved. "Hi, sweetie," my dad said kindly. We walked outside and onto a cart pulled by two ostrich-horses. "Mom… Dad… Why are we…?" I started. "The Fire Nation armies are coming," my dad said. "You're friend Sokka found them in the forest not far from here and has been captured. He just happen to send us a warning letter with the strange little flying monkey." I looked in the direction of his voice. "What? Sokka was-? And he- But that's…" I couldn't control my feelings. Tears started to spill, but I turned away so my parents wouldn't see. "By the way, it's a lemur, and his name's Momo.
[Now it's Sokka's point of view, going back to earlier that day
My club in its slot and my boomerang in hand, I was off to hunt. I couldn't wait to eat that precious meat and to come back successfully with dinner. I had a bet with Katara the night before that if I could come back in two hours with dinner, then Katara would have to make whatever dinner I wanted for a week. If I couldn't, I would have to go to the market and buy whatever was needed to cook her choice of dinner.
I saw a deer. An old, male deer, ready to die anyways. That was perfect. But, just before I could throw my sharpened boomerang, arrows came seemingly out of nowhere. Three arrows. They struck the deer, and the deer fell to the Fire Nation Archer. The Archer must have seen me run behind the tree because he made a few hand signals and pointed at the tree I was behind. Pain struck my right arm. An arrow had hit it. No- two arrows had hit my right arm. The archers and some other military units surrounded me, and before I could do anything, I was captured.
I sat in the back of a cart for a few hours, not knowing what to do. As I sat there, I heard the soldiers talking about their next target; the town that he, Katara, Aang, and Toph all lived in. I tried so hard to break free, and then, suddenly, I saw something black and white, flying in the sky; It was Momo, coming straight toward me, with a piece of paper and a pen. I had never been so happy to see him in my life! Momo bit my rope off, and I read the paper:
Sokka
Where are you?
Please come home. The bet doesn't matter anymore.
Please.
-Katara
I wrote back:
I've been captured
They are going to attack the city
I'm somewhere on the East side of the forest
It was a miracle. At least, I thought it was. Just when I tried to sneak away, they saw me. "Hey- he's getting away!!!" one military unit called. I grabbed my weapons and ran. Fire, arrows, and fire arrows flew past me. I threw my boomerang to hopefully distract them. It hit one of the men's arm, which threw him off course, causing him to shoot fire at the guy next to him. I grinned over my shoulder at the sight. But right when I looked back in front of me, I saw blue fire flying toward me. I ducked, just to find small knives slicing the side of the side of my leg. My pressure points were punched as soon as I looked the small but powerful cuts. I couldn't move.
A/N: 0o0o0o0o, I can't wait to finish this story! I hope you can't either. :)