Chapter 2
Aang was flying over the earthen kingdom on his giant flying friend holding onto a scrap of paper with the address of the noble seeking him in a marriage prospect. He wasn't holding the invitation because he didn't want to be biased towards the noble he was seeing, he wanted to have an opened mind about the young girl and if it was a family he had heard of before he may not try to know the girl.
As he was flying, he kept thinking about the address, gaoling, gaoling, gaoling…. Why does that name sound so familiar? No matter how much he tried to remember he couldn't think of when he ever went there. " many I stopped by for a night when we where running from zuko? Ah oh well, doesn't really matter now does it?" He said, but he couldn't shake off the funny feeling he had. He was shaking out of his thoughts when he heard his friend groan, telling him that they have arrived.
" oh there it is buddy! I hope they have a stable for you to use." Aang said as he patted appas head. Appa huffed in agreement as he descended into the large town. As they neared the village, the feeling of déjà vu was getting stronger. " what is it!" He yelled in frustration. He looked around for the estate of the nobles he was meeting and saw it. It was a very large but still felt homey in its own way. It was surrounded by a beautiful garden that actually made him want to walk around it without shoes on.
At the mention of new shoes on he remembered one of his closest and dearest friends. "Spirits, I miss you toph. I hope your happy with your parents." He said to himself as he thought about the blind earth bending master. He laughed to himself when he thought what she would say about his current situation. " why are you dodging around the problem, stand your ground and face it head on like I taught you to you dunderhead!". Yep! That is what she would say, right after pelting him with a pebble or something. As he chucked to himself, he walked to the door. He saw that there was a flying boat on the front door. "Hmmmm. Flying boar..flying boar…spirits! This is just pissing me off now! He raged inside his head trying to remember which noble family had a flying board as a Sigil. " monkey feathers I knew I should've listened to zuko when he was trying to instruct him and all the noble houses. He scratched his head while he raised his knuckle and banged on the door twice hoping to get the attention of a servant.
He wrote a letter to the nobles telling them that he was coming and that he would be honored to share dinner with them, so he was hoping he would be expected. As he waited he took one last moment to look at himself to make sure that he was presentable for a nobles dinner. As the years have gone bye has most certainly grown being at a very respectable tall 6 foot two, his head bald as ever, he started to grow a goatee, giving him a very handsome adult look. He wore nomad robes that represented his stance as a master Airbender, having the traditional orange and yellow colors.
He heard the sound of footsteps behind the door straighten his back and made himself look more refined as possible. The massive doors opened any woman dressed in green and white held the door open and bowed to Him. " greetings master avatar. We are very honored to have you here in our estate tonight, if you would please I will escort you to the dining hall." The servant said with upmost respect to the mighty avatar. " that would be great, but I was wondering if you could call some servants to escort my sky basin to your stables. We have made a long journey and he deserves a nice meal and a warm place to sleep." Aang said with genuine courtesy.
" oh of course! I'm sure master bei fong would be delighted to have your sky basin stay in his Stables tonight." She said as she bowed once more, and it was at that moment where everything started to click for the young Airbender.
" wait wait wait, bei fong?" Aang said with a hint of fear. " of course" The servant said. " I cannot tell you how honored he and his wife were that you came all this way to dine with them and chat about a proposal to their daughter. And may I just say we were all beginning to worry we thought that the young mistress wouldn't ever be able to find anyone what with her attitude and her excuse me for saying this, handicap, it must be so hard being blind." She said knowingly.
And just like a broken damn made by beaver mice, everything started to flow. The sigil, the name, the town, he remembered everything, and last time he had checked the bei fongs only had one daughter. His old friend and Earth bending teacher, toph bei fong.
"Oh sweet monkey feathers!"
Authors notes. Ohhh man. He's in some deep Doo Doo this time LOL. Thank you all for reading my second chapter of my first story it's been a whole lot of fun. I want to apologize that this chapter is not as long as the first one but I really wanted to get eggs point of you in this moment out first before I continued. As always thank you for reading I would greatly appreciate it if you PM and Review the story so I can hear all your thoughts and how do you continue to grow and get better!
