SuperGALS! Avatar Style

by: Stripedpolkadots

Chapter Two

"Won't be late, won't be late, wont be late, huff...huff... whew, that's the last time I have fourths on chocolate pancakes...wont be late, wont be late, wont be-"

BRRRINNNGGG!! BRRRRRIIIINNNNNGGGG!!

Katara dashed the last hundred meters, but she still wasn't quick enough to beat the gate. She scrabbled uselessly against the iron bars before resigning herself to jumping the fence in her usual spot... again.

By the time she got to her class, room 2-B, one of her knee-highs was ripped, and attendance was almost over. That didn't really matter though. While "Imaq" was fairly early in the alphabet, Pakku-teach had become so accustomed to Katara's lateness that he had moved her to the bottom of the list.

"And Imaq, Katara. Good, all here. Okay, please pull out your signed chemistry tests and pass them up. And remember, if you got below a 70, I'm going to need your corrections too."

Katara slumped down in her seat, even though she knew it wouldn't do her any good. She was right. Pakku-teach came to her desk and tapped his foot. She didn't move. He tapped. she sat. He tapped. She sat. He tapped. She sat. And finally he spoke.

"Ms. Imaq, I take it you don't have your test?"

Katara shrugged. She did have her test, it was just stuffed in the front pocket of her blazer, where she'd crammed it, after wimping out when the time came for her to hand it to her father.

Pakku-teach began tapping his foot again. "And is there any reason why you failed to follow my instructions and bring it back signed?"

A voice in Katara's head answered truthfully, "Maybe because it was 49 points above a zero?"

However, the voice that came out of her mouth wasn't as honest. "Well, you see sir, I was going straight home to have it signed, when a GREAT BIG EAGLE-HAWK came and swooped me up! So I was trapped in its claws, and about to become Gerber for it's babies, when I plucked a feather from its leg, and tickled it so much, that it dropped me! And guess where it dropped me? Right in the middle of a volcano! Lucky for me it was dormant, but boy was it hot! But I managed to climb out, and I was hiking my way back to Ba Sing Se when a tornado came and sucked me in, and I was swirling and swirling and swirling and swirling and swirling and finally the tornado spit me out, and right in the middle of Ba Sing Se! And just in time for school! Which is why I don't have my test signed."

The room was silent. And then... "OW!"

Pakku-teach bended his water-whip back into his canteen. "Am I to assume then that you don't have your corrections either?"

Katara stopped rubbing her forehead long enough to answer, "It fell in the lava?"

Pakku-teach turned an interesting shade of gray, one that some of his students liked to call 'The Katara Gray'.

"KA-TAR-AAAA!!"

"Yes, Pakku-teach? Ow! Ow! Ow ow ow!! Owowowowowowowowwwww!!"

"WHY DIDN'T YOU DO YOUR HOMEWORK?! AND I TOLD YOU NOT TO CALL ME PAKKU-TEACH! SHOW ME SOME RESPECT AND CALL ME MR. PAKKU!!"

"Yes, Pakku-teach! Ow! Ow! I'm sorry! I forgot Pakku-teach! OW! OW! OWWWW!!"

Suki, along with the rest of the class watched in mild interest. It probably would have been more exciting if it hadn't happened yesterday. And the day before that. And the day before that. And every day since the second day of school.

After Katara was sufficiently dealt with, Pakku-teach withdrew his small water-whip back into his canteen and moved onto the next person on his no-test list.

"Ah, Ms. Bei Fong. It says here that you didn't turn in your test. Is that correct?"

Staring eerily at him with sightless eyes, Toph Bei Fong nodded.

Pakku-teach continued. "Is there any reason you didn't turn in your test?"

Toph shook her head no, her mass of black hair not moving from the elaborate updo it was styled in.

Pakku-teach cocked an eyebrow. "Did you not understand my directions? Do you perhaps need another day to-"

"No." Toph spoke her first word in a low, calm voice.

Pakku-teach straightened up and looked at her closely. "Can I assume you don't have your corrections either?"

Toph nodded.

"You realize your parents will be notified."

Nod.

"Does this bother you at all?"

There was a hesitation, very brief, but which Katara caught. "Yes."

Pakku-teach nodded, wrote something in his book, snapped it shut, and moved to the front of the room. "Well class, today we'll be learning-"

Katara took this as her cue to go back to sleep.

When Suki woke her up for lunch a couple hours later, she was well-rested and perky. Grinning, she stretched and said, "Lunch. My favorite part of every school day!"

Suki made a face at her. "Maybe because its the only part you're awake for?"

Katara shrugged. "You say tomato, I say ketchup. No harm done, right?"

Suki was interrupted from answering by Song and Jin. "Hey you two, have you heard the latest about Toph?"

Katara shook her as she bit into her stewed prunes. Jin looked over at Toph, who was sitting at the far corner, eating a sandwich, before continuing. "I heard from someone down in class 1-A that she was competing in Earth Rumble Tournaments!"

Katara gasped, and a piece of Unagi meat fell out of Suki's mouth.

"No way", said Katara, incredulous. "The Earth Rumbles illegal, and trust me, the Bei Fong's do not do illegal."

"Yeah," Suki added. "Anyway, you'd have to be super-good to survive the Earth Rumble."

Katara nodded. "Mmhmm, I've heard my dad talking about busting tournaments all the time. But anyway, the only way to get any of the money, not that a Bei Fong would need any money, is to kill your opponent. If you win and let your opponent live, you walk away empty-handed. And anyways, can you imagine Toph Bei Fong against some huge earthbender? I mean, she's not the strongest bender, and it doesn't help that she's blind. Tell your source in 1-A that they're an idiot." Katara, satisfied, took a big bite of sea prunes.

However, Song wasn't finished. "How do you explain her homework then? She hasn't been turning in her homework lately, in fact, she hasn't been turning in homework on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. And we all know Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays nights are notorious Earth rumble nights!"

Katara raised a brow. "It's Wednesday, and I didn't turn in my homework. Does that mean I'm in the earth rumble?"

Jin snorted. "You never turn in your homework Katara."

Song nodded. "Yeah, and besides, you're not even an earthbender."

Katara shook her head. "Nope. No way. Toph Bei Fong can barely bend a pebble, let alone a earth."

Suddenly, their was a little tremor in the floor. It went pretty much ignored by the class though. Mr. Bumi must have been running his earth-bending class a little early. Which was odd, because bending classes were never during lunch... Katara shook her head. Maybe some of the earthbenders had gotten into a fight... she tuned back into the conversation in time to hear Suki telling Jin and Song, "That rumor is complete B.S."

Jin flushed red, then turned to Song, who looked equally insulted. "Told you they wouldn't believe it. Lets go. Maybe Ty Lee hasn't heard yet."

It was as Jin was turning around that Katara saw it.

IT was the most beautiful bag Katara had ever seen. Shiny and bright, it was love at first sight. "JIN!" she practically shouted. Suki jumped in her seat and looked at Katara quizzically. Jin turned slowly, eyeing Katara warily. "Where did you get... that bag?"

Jin grinned. "Oh, this bag?"

Song answered for her. "She got it from Aang Gyatso himself."

There was a pause while Song and Jin waited for a reaction. When neither Katara or Suki said anything, Jin gave an exasperated sigh and reached into THE BAG and pulled out a magazine. She flipped through it while Song looked at Suki and Katara. "Don't you two ever read?"

Before they could reply, Jin had shoved the magazine in their faces. "Here. You see? Top Ten Guys in Ba Sing Se. Number one: Aang Gyatso. Fun-loving and kind, Aang beat out best friend Zuko Sozin by one point."

"Isn't he cute?"

"Yeah, but Zuko is just so hot... so mysterious..."

"Whatever Jin, cute beats mysterious any day."

"No way! Mysterious!"

"Cute!"

"Mysterious!"

"Cute!"

"MYSTERIOUS"

"CUTE!"

Katara interrupted the... argument. "Cute, mysterious, whatever, that's great, WHERE DO THEY SELL THESE BAGS?"

"They don't sell them anywhere," Song said smugly.

"Yeah", said Jin. "You'd have to get one from one of the winners themselves. And the chances of that happening are like... NONE! Hahahahaha!"

Katara didn't even hear their laughter. She was too busy plotting her search route for the afternoon. She would get one of those bags if she had to search all of Ba Sing Se for it.

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