Author's Notes: I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! You have permission to throw things at me! I've been really busy & obsessed with a new story I'm working on. (BTW, it'll be up soon!) & unfortunately, I'm working again so I'm going to be busy for a while. But I'm on Spring Break now & I will try my absolute best to give you guys at least one more chapter before it's over.
Disclaimer: Don't own Avatar, don't deserve great readers like you guys!
Chp.4 The Fight, The Dance, & The Way to Camp
I took off my heels & stepped into the hallway, followed by Lynx, the Dalton, Falcon, Zuko, & Sokka. Casino, Piranha, Thebes, Macarena, & Scooter followed them, paint ball guns in hand. I could see Jet, Smellerbee, & the Dude below us, other Freedom Fighters were following them through the broken window. Our hallway is a balcony over our living room. When I was little I used to pile up pillows on the couch & jump off the balcony, landing on them. I always wanted grab the chandelier & swing on it when I did that, but I knew that would be harder to clean up before my parents got home. Time to break that tradition. I put my broadswords in one hand & turned to the boys.
"You guys take the stairs, I'll meet you down there."
"What are you going to do?" Falcon asked suspiciously. I smiled & took off running straight at the railing. I jumped on the low table that held magazines & used it to vault the railing. I caught the chandelier with one arm so I was hanging above the Freedom Fighters.
"Yo! Airplane!" I yelled. Jet's head shot up, followed by an arrow from Longshot. Okay, not my best plan. A bright blue paint ball hit the arrow, deflecting it. I knew Casino had shot it, each of the boys uses a different colored paint. I let go & dropped onto the couch. At that point Lynx & the Dalton had made it down the stairs. It took 3 seconds for Lynx's nunchucks to smash Jet in the back of the head.
"Why are you here?" "Katara belongs to me! & since she's here too, I'm gonna take the Earthbender while I'm at it!" Jet swung his swords at Lynx. Lynx dodged them & raced towards Longshot, who was shooting at the paint ball artillery.
"What do you want with Haru?" The Dalton asked as he hit Smellerbee in the stomach with his hockey stick.
"Not Haru, me!" I yelled with sudden realization, dashing in to fight the Dude.
"Exactly!" Jet yelled as he blocked a blow from Zuko. A split second later he was hit in the face by a purple paint ball, it splattered all over him. Zuko took advantage of the moment to send him flying backwards into Pipsqueak, who was fighting Falcon. Sokka's boomerang cut in, nailing the Dude in the head & knocking him out. I raced to help Falcon with Pipsqueak because he looked like he was having trouble. I leapt up & slit a cut down the giant's shoulder. Unfortunately some of the blood would up on the white rug, I was going to have a hard time explaining this one. Not to mention the broken window & paint balls. Oh well, I had more important things to worry about. Longshot was shooting at the boys on the balcony & they had no cover!
"CASINO!" I shrieked as I saw an arrow nick his shoulder.
"Crud!" I said, trying to figure out what to do.
"Frisbee!" I heard the Dalton yell.
"What?" I cried.
"FRISBEE!" He yelled again. I got what he meant, I took one sword & threw it Frisbee style at Longshot's bow. It hit & snapped the bow clean in half.
"Thank you, Biscuit!" Thebes yelled.
"Now get them out of here!" Scooter added.
"WITH PLEASURE!" Zuko bellowed. He was standing behind Jet with the swords crossed over his neck.
"Everyone out now or I'll slit his throat!" Smellerbee nearly knocked me down running for the door. After they were all out, Zuko shoved Jet through the window.
"Now how about that dance?"
Twenty minutes later we were walking into the Commons. Shockingly enough none of our clothes had been ruined by the battle. & when we got back upstairs, Katara & Nora patched up Casino's arm. We let my brother out & Casino wrote him a check for 400 dollars to keep quiet & get out so it would look like a break-in. We left all the weapons in my room & headed for the limo. There was a shout as we stepped through the decorative entrance thing.
"Hey! I told you the Strikers would be fashionably late! & you said they wouldn't show!" A flock of girls came rushing up. A flock of girls tends to show up where ever the Strikers are but pretty soon they'd forgotten all about the Strikers.
"Oh my god! Look at the hottie with the scar!" Zuko looked bewildered as a bunch of drooling girls surrounded him. More girls chased the other boys. Sokka soon had several girls smiling flirtatiously at him & Aang had caught the eye of a few freshmen. Meanwhile, I was glaring furiously at the girls that had formed a circle around Haru.
"What Seabiscuit? Can't handle sharing any of your boys? You won't let us get near any of the Strikers, now we can't get near this one either?" A blond girl named Elizabeth asked snootily.
"The Strikers ask me to keep you away from them, with good reason I might add. You creep them out! Now get away from my boyfriend!" I snapped.
"Boyfriend? How did you score a hottie when you spend all your time with other guys?" Her friend Kiki demanded.
"None of your business," I retorted, grabbing Haru's hand & pulling him away from them.
"Remember how to dance?" I asked him.
"How could I forget? It's just like bending," he said. I smiled & started to move. Normally my body gave to the music & flowed with it. I always danced alone or in a circle with my friends, I never really danced with someone. This time our bodies gave to the music & we moved as one. I wasn't in control & neither was he, the beat was guiding us. It really was like bending, you just had to feel it & move with it. I knew we were drawing a crowd, the stares were coming because of how well Haru & I moved together. I heard Falcon comment at some point in the night.
"Wow, Seabiscuit's always been a good dancer but I've never seen her dance like this." I lost all track of time. I had never danced like that & I had never enjoyed it like that. I'd never danced with a guy's arms around me & it felt amazing. At midnight when the dance was over, Casino & Thebes dragged us away from each other.
"Come on guys, they're gonna throw us out." I couldn't believe the dance was already over.
The limo took everyone home. Lynx told the Avatar world kids to crash at the houses they had already been to with the exception of Katara & me. I'd told my parents I'd be staying at Nora's but her parents are pretty strict & would have thrown a fit about a girl they had never met staying there. So we ended up at Casino's huge house. We bedded down in the den on air mattresses but we didn't sleep much. The second we were laying down we started talking.
"So what's all been going on in your world since we left?" I asked eagerly.
"Well, it's been just over six months since you left. The war's over now. Iroh is now the Fire Lord. He's been removing all the Fire Nation troops with help from Aang & Zuko. Sokka & I went to see our dad. Haru & Suki stayed with Amiboshi to help stabilize the Earth Kingdom. We decided he couldn't handle it on his own." She started laughing & I joined in.
"Amiboshi couldn't handle putting butter on bread on his own!" I snorted. "What else?"
"Stories have been spreading all over about us & you guys. The "Other Worldly Warriors" are now more legendary than the Avatar!" She laughed.
"That's what they call us?" I said between fits of laughter.
"One of the many things they call you. There's "the Celestial Strikers" & a few others," Katara said. At that point I rolled off my air mattress I was laughing so hard.
"You've been called Seabiscuit the sword-bender & Seabiscuit the Jedi master. The Dalton is known as the tattoo-less Airbender & the bender that defied death." She had to keep stopping because my laughter kept interrupting.
"Lynx is the great leader & the Tiger of the East." She continued.
"The Tiger of the East?" I asked.
"I have no idea how they came up with it. It's similar to Iroh's Dragon of the West. So what's happened to you guys since you left?"
"Oh man, for us it's been a lot less glamorous. It's been over a year here. Pretty much its been school & soccer, mostly soccer. We've been going to martial arts three times a week to keep in training. The rest of the team doesn't know about that though, we go early in the mornings before school. Now we're headed for camp in Gatlinburg, TN & you guys are coming with. I'm so excited!"
The next week ended up passing in a huge blur. Saturday Casino, Nora & I took the Avatar kids to the mall individually to buy clothes while Lynx & the rest of the Strikers taught the others about our world. They went through crash courses on everything from food to movies to music to soccer. When I got home Saturday night, it turned out my parents had believed the break-in story & deemed the house unsafe so I was going to have to keep staying with Nora. But that wasn't going to work because of her parents, by Wednesday I had a deep hate for the air mattresses in Casino's den. We spent Sunday studying like mad for our finals while the Avatar kids watched movies & TV. Thebes helped me with mythology, Lynx & Falcon had geometry, I helped the Dalton & Thebes with chemistry, & Macarena spent his day on English. Scooter & Casino were pouring over their history books. Then we had to worry about our second periods. We took the tests Monday morning & spent the rest of the day studying for our third & fourth classes. The rest of the week was dedicated to more training for the Avatar kids. Thursday night we left for Gatlinburg. The Dalton's uncle & Gramps were driving us up there in two vans. One for us, one for our luggage. Everybody had more than one suitcase, we were going to be there for eight weeks. Neither one of them commented on the new kids, they had known us long enough to trust us about our new friends. We arrived at the resort that was hosting the camp on Friday morning.
"You kids have fun!" Gramps called as he pulled away from where he had dropped up.
"Don't worry!" Lynx yelled.
"We will!"
Author's Notes: Once again, I'm sorry for the long wait. But if you didn't forget about this story & still like it, review!