Thank you to Arkxy-Chan and 'it makes sense it context' for being the first two reviewers. Just a warning- I may take a little longer to write my other chapters, since it wasn't already thought out properly. Stick with me! Now, story time! :P
"Well, guys, we've spent a week with this so-called iPad, we've learned all we can about how to operate it, you'd think we can finally start using Safari now. There's this place called , and I really want to visit it! Apparently it's a really nice place where you can read all kinds of stuff written by other people!" Sokka said excitedly. Unfortunately for him, his announcement was not met with the expected reaction.
"Sounds to me like you've already been there, Sokka!" Aang said, eliciting a weak chuckle from Sokka that only strengthened his case.
"Wow. Nice speech. 'Kay, we can go there. Anything to stop your 'manly prattling'." Toph yawned. Suki put a comforting hand on her boyfriend's shoulder.
"Yes, let's. Katara, Zuko, Aang, want to join us?" The three meandered over and stuck their heads over Suki's shoulder. Although Zuko was loath to admit it, he was hypnotised by the light emanating from the 'iPad' as Sokka tapped his finger randomly on the screen. The Water Tribe boy squinted his eyes to read the small print.
"Hm... Cartoons. What're those?"
"Whatever they are, it sounds interesting. Car, tooooooons." Zuko replied, drawing out the word.
"Sure. Let's check out this one, 'kay, guys?" Sokka said excitedly. His eyes had lit up like he'd drunk too much cactus juice, and he was rubbing his hands in anticipation like a little child.
"Fine, fine." Katara sighed.
"Uh, guys, um, can you read out loud? I, er, I want to hear the story too." Toph piped up.
"You know, in case you doofuses forget that I'm blind." She added quickly, before Sokka had the chance to seize the opening she had given him. Aang grinned.
"'Course, Toph. How could we forget?" Then his eyes widened as he processed what he had said.
"N-not that that's extremely- I mean, it's not- er, what I'm trying to say it-" Aang stuttered, afraid for the life of whichever arm Toph was going to punch. Suki laughed.
"Oh, can it, airbender. What you mean is, don't take it the wrong way.'" Zuko filled in, sounding uncannily like Sokka.
But all the talk was wasted as Toph yawned a huge yawn, and the blind earthbender wriggled closer and rested her head in Katara's lap.
"You know, I just might fall asleep like this."
And her words proved prophetic. After Sokka tapped some more on the screen, shouted, 'Aha!', and started reading aloud ("...Starving Hearts? Weird name, much? Hmm... who's the author- The.. The..The Nargana? No, thenarjana.. but... it's capital..." "Whatever, Sokka, shut up and keep reading!" "Hey, technically, Sparky, I can't 'shut up' and still read. So ha!"), Toph started snoring very loudly. Eventually, Aang had no choice but to lift up the platform of earth that Toph was lying on (after Katara carefully removed her head from her lap) and shakily send it a few meters away, closer to the beach, so her snores wouldn't penetrate Sokka's voice. Suki used her voice for the girl that was narrating, but Sokka told her not to, and ever since, Zuko, Katara and Aang had been suffering. After that, Suki had gone to sleep with Toph.
"'Jake, what is bothering you? Why are you evading me?'"
"Hey, Sokka, can you stop?"
"Uh, sure, Aang. Why?"
"Well," and here the Avatar looked around hesitantly at Suki, Zuko and Katara (the latter of which nodded her head encouragingly, shaking her Fire Nation hairdo), and Sokka narrowed his already-not-so-large eyes comically.
"Ugh, did you guys have a secret discussion while I was reading again? You know I hate it when that happens!"
Aang and Katara offered identical grins of apology- Zuko just crossed his arms and huffed.
"Well, you see, the thing is, we all agreed that-"
"Ha! You really were talking! Excluders, all of you!" Sokka snorted and crossed his arms. However, his stance was so hilarious that Aang and Katara began laughing uncontrollably, clutching at their sides. Even Zuko, King of Brooders, cracked a grin. This flustered Sokka.
"You know what? Just say what you were going to say."
"Well, uh, um, I just thought that... er... you know, since Toph's sleeping, we should probably keep quiet and read in our heads, so that... erm... she won't be woken up." The last part came out jumbled and garbled, and Sokka mistook the terrible lie for embarrassment.
"Aw, is our little Airbender in loooove?" He cooed. Aang's face turned red, and he almost blurted out the truth (just to protect the statistics of his manliness, in Sokka's opinion) when Katara's hand clamped over his mouth, and he blushed again; however, this blush came from an extremely different direction. Zuko sighed. Did he have to do everything himself?
"Don't get me wrong, I am totally in love with being the Av- ahem, I mean, Aang's translator, but I think it's time for Aang to start talking on his own. What he's trying to say, is, we should read in our heads, since Aang doesn't want to disturb Toph. Do you get me?"
Sokka smirked.
"So he is in love! He even cares about whether or not little Tophie sleeps well!" Zuko gagged at Sokka's terrible nickname for the blind earthbender. In the corner of his eye, Aang saw Toph toss and turn, muttering in her sleep.
"Shut up, Snoozles."
Sokka, unfortunately, did not see what Aang had.
The following events happened very quickly.
Sokka screamed like a little girl and attempted to run away, smacking himself on one of the columns holding up the roof and falling to the ground, out cold. Aang, Katara and even Zuko were laughing like mad- Aang had the hiccups, and Katara snorted two or three times. This woke up Toph for real, and pressing her fists against her ears, she mumbled,
"Can't a girl get any sleep?!"
Then she drowsily swept her hand upwards, propelling all four of the noise-makers (one of which had just recovered from a near-concussion from the fight with the column that hadn't gone well) into the sky. Zuko fire-jet-packed himself, landing neatly on the ground, as did Aang (but not as gracefully). Katara was caught gently by Zuko (much to Aang's dislike, even though it was more like Katara had fallen into Zuko). Sokka tumbled to the ground, screaming all the way- though he tried to make his voice deeper as to mask his terror in a manly fashion. His landing was just plain not graceful. Crashing through the ground, he slowly crawled out of the hole- only to be smacked on the head (for the second time that day) by the column, which had weakened over time and finally brought to its demise when Sokka's thick head smashed into it. Zuko rubbed the bridge of his nose, murmuring to himself.
"Ooh... That's bad." Katara appraised.
"Yeah, who knew that one guy could bring down the whole house?"
"Aang, be glad that my house hasn't fallen down yet. We'd have nowhere to live, plus probably the iPad would be crushed."
Suddenly, Toph sat straight up and bolted for the door, Suki and Katara in tow. Aang grabbed the iPad and Zuko, right on their heels. Only Sokka lolled his head, still in the house. Frazzled hair standing straight up as he finally took in the creaks and groans of the house, he heaved himself out with strength nobody knew he had, and made for the door.
"I'm coming, guys!" He yelled.
The house collapsed in on him.
There was silence outside of the house. Toph smirked and inspected her nails.
"Too late!"
Soo, what do you think? Did I do a pretty good job describing how Sokka always gets the worst off? Haha. This chapter was WAY longer than I had anticipated, tho. So? Reviewers, anybody?
