Chapter 3: the runaway

A year passed by, and toph bei fong grew up perfectly normal….. Do there were some slight diffrences the 1 year old could point out…. For starters…. She couldn't go ANYWHERE without someone holding her hand…. Which was fun at first but started to bore her after a few days….. At second she wasn't allowed to leave the house and go into town to play with the other childeren…. She knew there were more childeren because she could hear them talk and launch from out of her bethroom window….. And the last and most important thing…. Toph was blind….. She couldn't see with her eyes…. But this didn't took awak that toph was very curious about the world around her… whenever she didn't had lessons on how to be a propper lady she was exploring the house….. Try were she could and couldn't go….. And look for something fun her parents didn't thought was TOO DANGEROUS…;….. Which was obviously not match…..

that was how she was starting to listen and feel closely as her maids moved down the railing... and when she was in the garden... she trying to find a way to get over ore threw that wall... so she would be able sneak off at night and get to feel and hear the outside world... the maids just launched when she tried to feel the railing ... not at all seeing that the blind 1 year old was far stronger of will and mind then her parents believed her to be... and that she was observing what they were doing with her hands...

"Your daughter has a good set of brains up there... with the right tutors she could make it threw collage books easily... appart from the reading part ofcourse.."

Her private teacher had said after a few weeks in which the 1 year old toph had aleady gotten private teachings in manners as well as the basics of math, history and community science...

"Thats good to hear... but i dont want you to learn her anything too dangerous... "

Lao bei fong had said... proud that his daughter had such a good set of brains.. but afraid that his fradgile little girl would hurt herself on accident... do toph was more able then you would the girl credit for... which was something toph tried to keep away from her father at all cost... knowing by now that he would take ANYTHING from her he considered to dangerous for his blind... helpless fradgile child...

"They dont wanne have the real me... just a perfect little doll...something im not... their better off ..."

Toph thought sadly as she carefully put the railing down...then carefully got out of her beth... feeling her way down the stairs and then towards the door... there was a servant sleeping next to the door to wait for either visitors ore when mommy and daddy had to go out the door... she knew that... so she knew she had to wait until he was fast asleep... then silently slip past him... out the door... she sighted when she fell the grass between her toes... relaxing a little as she slipped past some more sleeping guards before she managed to reach the wall of the estate... slipping threw a gap she had found during one of her explorations a few days ago... which was just big enough for her to fit threw... and that was how toph came out of the estate and into the real world... for the first time in her life...

"Hmmmm but now were am i gonna go?"

Toph thought as she started to crawl around aimlessly... she first followed the wall all threw the house... just feeling the sweet sensation of the other side of her houses walls under her young skin... before she found a path... leading somewhere... she didnt knew were... but she was happy to be free and listened to the sounds of the world around her as she went deeper and deeper in the catacombs beneath the estate... until eventually... she found herself lost... unable to feel her way back to were she came from...

"Just gweath... i wanne havva adventure... and now im trapped again... "

The 1 year old thought as she tried to feel around for a way out... but she couldnt find one... she was trapped once again... just like when she was home with mommy and daddy...

"Why cwan't twey see i wanne be fwee... im stwongew then they think i am... "

Toph thought as she started to sob loudly... feeling sad that she had to pretend she was someone else then she wanted to be... since she had dreamed to be the strongest bender in the world... ever since she had heard about the existance of bending during her history lessons...

"I wish i wassa bender... if i was the strongest eawthbender evew mommy and daddy would sure be pwoud of me..."

Toph thought as she started to sob again... but her sobbing was stopped when a wall cracked behind her... and something started to make a loud sniffing sound behind her... toph turned around now... feeling the creature behind her... which kept sniffing at her... toph giggled as she sniffed at it as well... then groaned as it gave toph a lick on her face... toph giggled and gave it a lick back giving a giggle before she started to follow it, feeling it was moving its feet sideways to feel its surroundings better... in the 3 weeks toph stayed with the bagermoles... she learned how to earthbend... not to only too fight... but also to extent her eyes... too bad for her... she had to return home at some point... she knew that... but it didn't meant she was to happy she didnt even had the chance to say goodbye too the badgermoles who taught her so match...

it happened when she was by the entrace of the cave she now lived in practicing her bending... she suddenly heard her parents call her name... she had already fell them coming... but she acted like she was startled by them... so they wouldnt know how good of a bender she already was...

"Toph! Oo thank the spirits your alive... you dont know how worried we were!"

Poppey bei fong exclaimed as she scooped up her 1 year old daughter and cuddled her close...

"Toph... your mother and i were worried sick when we didnt found you in beth... were going home now and your NEVER allowed outside the estate walls without our permission again... am i clear?"

Lao bei fong said with a stern look as he placed a hand on his daughters shoulder and looked at her firmly.

"But daddy... look... i can handwle myself... i'm a eawthbender"

The small girl said before she made a simple rock float into the air... hiding what she could already do with her earthbending... knowing her parents wouldn't understand... they would only try and take it from her... and indeed... when she made the rock float... her parents gasped... and after that fell a long silence...

"Thats very good of you... we will hire a private teacher for you tommorow to teach you more stuff in the morning okay... now were going home... "

Lao said before he took his daughter by hand... while she fell her mother smile at her warmly.

"daddy... can I pwease, pwease, PWEASE, PWEAEAEASEEE, go to the school to leawn it with da other kids I heaw launch fwom my window.."

Toph now begged putting up her most unresistable cute look... hoping her daddy would say "yes" and let her go and train at the bending school with the other kids... and make friends...

"No toph... that would be far to dangerous... your blind... you could get hurt... "

Her father told her with a stern look in his eyes...

"Bwut daddy... "

Toph wined... balting her fists in anger... unable to believe she wasnt even allowed to go and train with the other kids... to get allowed to make friends... like a normal child of her age...

" were doing this for your own good toph..."

Poppey bei fong said as she hugged her only daughter close... this toph started to "act" like the helpless little blind girl her parents WANTED to see... for deep down inside she was toph bei fong... the greatest earthebender one had ever seen...

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And with that i end the thirt chapter of my newest story! I hope you all liked it...

A/N

I tried to make tophs speech as childish as possible and still readable... I sure hope it worked... let me know how and were I could improve on this...

Ofcourse her parents immidiatly started a search party when they noticed toph was gone... but they would have a hard time finding her there... until she showed herself outside...

That was all for now... tell me what you think about this chapter and if you wanne know some more things... stay tuned for the next thanks for reading and dont forget go

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