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They put Toph on Appa and flew back to camp. Everyone was celebrating. Toph was okay to walk, but she lost a lot of blood and was still weak. She sat by the fire. Everyone around her was talking about going home. 'Home. I can't go home. Katara and Sokka are probably going home with their dad. Aang's probably gonna look for other air benders. And he is the Avatar. He's constantly on the move so that counts him out. I have no where to go. Maybe I can just travel alone. Yeah. But if I tell anyone, they'll try to stop me. No like they could.'

"Hey Toph. What's on your mind?" Sokka sat next to her.

"The future." It slipped out. He looked at her quizzically.

"What about it?"

"Just…nothing."

"Please tell me Toph?"

"No."

"Please."

"No."

"Please."

"No Sokka. Just leave me alone."

"Fine but when you want to tell me, I'll be around here somewhere."

"Just go." He left and she went back to her thoughts. 'Katara said that I'd be better in a few hours. I'll leave in the morning.'


The next morning everyone was still asleep when Toph left. She had no idea where she was going. All she knew was that she had to get back to the Earth Kingdom. Katara was up a few hours later. 'I should go check on Toph.' She walked over to the closed earth tent. 'She's probably still sleeping.' The rest of the gang woke to the smell of breakfast.

"Aang, can you please wake up Toph?" Katara asked after everyone else was up.

"I just defeated the Fire Lord and I'm still scared to do that. Have Sokka do it."

"Fine, Sokka, will you go wake up Toph?"

"Sure but if she kills me, it'll be your fault." He walked to the tent and kicked it. Nothing.

"Toph! Wake up!" No answer? No flying through the air? Something's not right.

"Aang, a little help please?" Aang smiled and took down the tent. The walls came down. A gasp from Katara. A shout of her name. A search.

"Where do you think she is?" Katara asked no one in particular.

"I don't know." Sokka was the first to answer.


"Excuse me…but are you going to the Earth Kingdom?" Toph was at the docks. Her worst nightmare. Being on a boat for hours all alone.

"Why yes. Are you stuck here?" Toph nodded at the woman. She smiled.

"Hop on. I'll be happy to take you there." Toph thanked the woman and they set off. A few hours later they were in the Earth Kingdom.

"Thank you so much for the lift."

"It was no big deal. It was nice having some company. I just have one question. Where are you going?" Toph sighed at the question. Where was she going? There was only one place she had left.

"I'm on my way to…my parents in Gaoling." The woman smiled and handed Toph a napkin with food in it.

"Gaoling isn't too far from here. Good luck." Toph started towards Gaoling. 'I'll need it.'


"Where is she?"

"I don't know, she's been gone all day. She wouldn't have just left without saying goodbye."

"Yes she would, Katara. If she told us we'd try to stop her. She wanted to go for a reason. I just hope it wasn't all my fault."

"Sokka, why would it be your fault?"

"I don't know. Most everything is." Katara sighed. The siblings thought the exact same thing. 'Where are you, Toph?'


"Well I'm back to prison." Toph spoke to herself at the front gate of the Bei Fong Estate. She took a step in and came to the door. A servant greeted her and asked her who she was. 'Was I really gone that long?'

"I am Toph Bei Fong. The only daughter of this Estate and the World's Greatest Earthbender." The servant ran inside.

"Pardon me sir, but there is a young girl claiming to be your daughter at the door."

"Let her in." The servant brought Toph to her father.

"Hi, Dad." Her mother ran up to her in a hug.

"Toph! Where have you been?" Toph smiled.

"The Fire Nation." Her parents gasped.

"…"

"Oh and we won the war!" Her parents were speechless.

"…"

"What?"

"We are never letting you out again." Toph fumed as her father spoke those words.

"What?! I thought that you'd be happy knowing that I'd be here! You can't make me stay here if I don't want to!" Her parents exchanged looks.

"Okay Toph, you will have the freedom you want. Dinner is almost ready. Why don't you go change?"

"Fine." She marched to her room and changed into that stupid dress. At dinner, Toph told her parents about her Metalbending and about all the adventures she had. Toph ate some dry bread and started to cough. Her father handed her a glass of water and she drank it. She passed out. When she woke up she was in bed. She stood up and realized something, she couldn't bend. She couldn't see! She followed the walls to the main room like she used to before she found her power.

"What did you do?!" She didn't even know if they were in there. Her father frowned.

"We only did it to protect you." Toph lost it.

"This is what you call protecting?! I can't see! You just made life even MORE dangerous for me!" She dropped to the floor. She couldn't bend or see. 'Why does this crap happen to me?!'


Toph didn't just lose her bending and her sight that day. That was the day that Toph Bei Fong lost her free will.