Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender. All of the rights belong to Nickelodean and the creators of the show.

Before I begin, may I say that the Superbowl Trailer for The Last Airbender was awesome?? The bending is incredible, the avatar state is cool, and you can see Appa in the upper-left hand corner in one shot. I'm so excited for the movie this summer!

Anyway, here's the third chapter :P


He knew that he would have no luck finding Toph with only his eyes. He needed to rely on his earthbending: the very thing that she has taught him. But he wasn't nearly as good with vibrations as she was. He knew that it was still going to be difficult.

Where would she hide - in the forest? There's really no other place to go.

He couldn't help but be worried. What if she went too far? What if Katara really hurt her?

He rapidly walked across the campsite, which was located in a meadow, to go back in the forest. In the night, it looked pretty frightening. All you could see was the tops of the trees. Everything else was a large, black shadow.

When he entered, he immediately heard the sounds of many different types of animals chirping. They varied in pitch; some were high, and some were low. Some of them were louder then others. Some were really annoying.

Well, he can't rely on hearing to find her.

"Toph?" he asked. He had to be extra loud over the noises of the critters.

Being in the forest reminded him of the swamp, when he first layed his eyes on her. This forest was sort of similar, only there wasn't as much water. And Toph was actually real this time.

Even though the Toph he saw in the swamp was only a spirit, she was still so beautiful in that dress. . .

"Toph?" he repeated.

He kept on forward. Leaves and a few twigs crunched under his feet. He couldn't tell where he was walking. The only thing illuminating the forest was the moon, but even that was very dim under all of the trees.

The more deeper he walked in the forest, the more quieter it sounded. It could be because of the time, but he had a weird feeling about it. Nothing really seemed different in this part of the forest, accept maybe there was more water in the air. He could smell the steam from each breath that he took.

"Toph?"

This time, he didn't have to yell to hear himself call her name. The silence was calming, and so was the air. It kept getting thicker and thicker. Eventually, the steam turned into fog that came up to his waist. Now, there was no way of knowing what was ahead of him. It really made him concentrate on the vibrations. But there were so many, he didn't know which one was which! How would he know which one is Toph's? Would the vibrations be weeker? Stronger?

Something caught his ear: He heard the sound of trickling water.

With his waterbending, he moved the fog out of his path, but very carefully. He didn't want to startle Toph if she was there.

But she wasn't. Instead, there was a small waterfall to his left. The water trickled down some jagged, yet pretty rocks, into a small pool of water. To his right, the water flowed out in the form of a creek. There was no telling where it ended, but he knew that this is where it began.

He decided that it was necessary to take a break for a moment. He felt like he has been walking for hours, when really it has only been a few minutes. He felt like he was so far from everybody, like he was being shut out from the world just to relax for a moment. The place was all so peaceful.

Smaller trees surrounded the little pool of water that looked like it could only hold a few people at the most. Beautiful exotic flowers entangled around all of the trees like a decoration. They varied in shapes, sizes and color. If it looked so pretty now, he wondered what the flowers looked like when they were bloomed.

"What are you doing here, Twinkle Toes?"

The sound of her voice was so. . . soothing. It made him melt in the very spot he stood. He closed his eyes in relief.

"I was looking for you," he explained, hiding the weird feeling that he was feeling again.

"You passed me a long time ago. You must've not heard me over all of those birds."

"Oh," he sighed, feeling unoccomplished to not of felt her vibrations. "I guess not."

Both of them stood there for a moment. The beauty of the forest he was in almost made him forgot why he was looking for Toph in the first place. He was so busy admiring it.

"Well, we should probably head back. . ."

"Wait a minute!" he yelled, louder then he intented. "I wanted to talk to you about something."

This is when he finally turned around. Toph looked. . . different, somehow. Did she do something with her hair?

"About what?"

She really hoped that he wasn't going to talk to her about him and Katara.

"It's about Katara."

Toph put on that same look on her face whenever Katara was brought up. It wasn't quite sad or mad, but it certainly wasn't good. He had no idea what that emotion was that she was having.

He waited for Toph to say something back, but she had no comment. Especially for someone like Toph, it was surprising.

"What about her?" she asked in a monotone.

"I talked to her after you left. I don't think she's gonna do that anymore," he said.

"Do what?"

He honestly didn't know what it was, exactly. It was just whenever she came in when they were alone. . .

"You know. . . butt in?"

Toph still didn't say anyting. She kept her head down, looking at her feet.

"We're alone, now," he remdined her.

She lifted her head a few inches.


I know these chapters are getting a whole lot different then my first one, but hopefully these are equally as good. I'm still trying to throw in some comic-relief, stuff like that..

Soo yeah, stay tuned :)