Chapter 4: Probending?
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"So Korra," Aang started a conversation as he walked Korra to her room.
"Yeah?" Korra asked, curios of what her past life was going to say.
"We're having a training session later. Want to come? You know, after you get settled and do your stuff?" Aang offered, opening the door of one of the many rooms, reviling a bedroom with a regular sized bed beside a rather large window that gave a beautiful view of Ba Sing Se. The room also had a closet and another door inside it. Korra was guessing that that was the door to the bathroom.
To Korra, the room style and décor looked a little old but it still looked pretty nice.
"Sure! You know, I've been dreaming of having an avatar showdown with you," Korra steeped into her room. "Thanks, Aang."
Aang smiled then nodded to replace his 'you're welcome', closed the door and left Korra to herself.
Meanwhile…
Katara was showing Tenzin and Bumi to their room. "Mom, have you ever had a boyfriend besides dad?" A completely random and blunt question came out of Bumi's mouth causing Katara to look back with a surprised expression. "What?" She asked, blushing violently. "Did you have a boyfriend before you got together with dad," Bumi asked again before adding, "Or when you were with dad?" Tenzin hit the back of his brother's head, punishing him for his rudeness. Although she didn't want to remember it, Katara did have a boyfriend before Aang… Jet.
"Why do you ask, Bumi?" Katara replied with a question with the dark red blush still spread on her face. Katara was glad that she was walking ahead of them, that way they wouldn't see her tomato colored face.
"You didn't want to tell Kya and I back when we we're still kids and when you we're older." Bumi answered. Tenzin roughly nudged his brother, signaling for him to keep his mouth shut but Bumi ignored him and continued. "Can you tell me now?"
When they reached the room, Katara, who really didn't want to answer the question, quickly pushed the two siblings in and hastily informed them, "ByTheWayWe'!" Then Katara shut the door and awkwardly walked through the hallway. "Phew! Man, that was close." Katara thought aloud as she rubbed drops of sweat caused by nervousness and stress forming on her forehead.
"Hey, Katara." Katara heard Aang greet from behind her. She stopped walking so her boyfriend could catch up to her. Katara turned to face him. "Oh, hi Aang." She greeted back with a nervous expression and a fake smile on her red face. Aang lifted one eyebrow and asked, "Katara, why is your face all red?"
"Oh, it's nothing," Katara lied but when she saw that Aang wasn't buying it, she quickly changed the topic. "Come on, you have a training session with your sifus."
"Wait, did you show Bolin and Mako to their rooms already?" Aang questioned and smiled when he saw Katara nod. "Yeah, I did. Now come on, Avatar." Katara teased him by calling him by his world known title. "Yes, Master Katara." Aang teased back causing them both to laugh.
During their laughing fit, Katara took his hand in hers and led him through the hallway.
When the Aang and Katara got to the training grounds they found Toph, Lin, Sokka, Suki, Uncle Iroh, Zuko, and Iroh II sitting down, waiting for them to arrive.
"Geez, guys. What took you so long?" Toph asked as if they were gone for hours. The blind earthbender crossed her arms and gazed at the couple with her sightless eyes, waiting for an answer.
"Toph, we were only gone for probably five minutes and we had to show Korra, Bolin, Mako, Tenzin, and Bumi to their rooms." Aang explained to his blind friend calmly.
"Twinkletoes, I'm sure that you two have been gone for more than five minutes." Toph argued, still fazed at her friends' tardiness. "Well if you waited so long then why didn't you guys go ahead?" Katara asked, placing her hands on her hips.
"Because, this is suppose to be Aang's avatar training. Technically, we can't start without the avatar." Zuko stated before hearing Toph add, "Speaking of avatars, here comes another one." Toph could tell with her earth-sight. "The avatar is in the house! So what kind of training are we gonna do?" Korra asked with a smug grin on her face as she walked on the courtyard with Mako and Bolin by her side and Tenzin and Bumi behind her.
"Umm, No offense Ms. Toughie-" Toph's statement was cut off.
"My name is Korra." Korra bitterly informed the blind earthbender, trying to hold back most of her temper.
"Whatever," Toph brushed her off just as she did with her past life, Aang about an hour ago. Toph stood up and crossed her arms. "As I was saying, I don't think you're a good enough bender to do Aang's training."
"What's that suppose to mean? !" Korra yelled at the twelve-year-old standing in front of her. Mako and Bolin backed away, expecting a fight between the two powerful female benders. Instead, they saw the water tribe boy cut between the two. "Whoa, Whoa! Look, I'm sure Toph just meant that it wouldn't be fair to you if you did Aang's training. You know, cause Aang's a fully realized avatar and you're kinda not." Sokka explained in a more positive manner before he heard Katara but in. "But you can, of course, Korra. Toph's just being a jerk." Katara said, eliciting a, "Hey" from Toph and a thankful smile from Korra. Wow, even when she's a kid, Katara's got my back. Korra thought.
"You know, even if I'm not a fully realized avatar, I'm pretty sure I can go through Aang's training or even beat him on a one on one battle-" Korra's smug speech was cut off by the blind earthbender she was arguing with earlier.
"Hey, that reminds me," Toph walked up to Bolin and pointed her finger on his chest, "I challenge you to an earth rumble."
"I'm not much of a rumbler but sure, I'll fight you." Bolin accepted the challenge that Toph threw at him. As the two earthbenders walked to the middle of the battle field and took their stances Lin whispered to Bumi and Tenzin, "That Bolin boy has no idea of what he got himself into, does he?" Tenzin nodded, still keeping his eyes glued to the two earthbenders while his brother turned his head to look at Lin with a raised eyebrow. "But aunt Toph's only twelve. How are you sure she's going to win?" He asked causing Lin to glare at him. "Didn't you pay any attention to the stories your mother would tell us? ! My mother was a master earthbender surpassing all the earthbenders that challenged her at the age of NINE!" Lin stated. "Oh yeah…"
"GO BOLIN! WHOOO!" Korra and Mako cheered for their probending team mate while Sokka, Katara, and Aang were cheering for their beloved earthbender, "YEAH TOPH!" Katara shouted. "GO TOPH! YOU CAN DO IT!" Aang cheered. "YEAH TOPH! SHOW THAT LILLY-LIVER WHO'S BOSS!" Sokka used his motivation bending on her.
"Okay Bolin, give me your best shot!" Toph shouted so he could hear her through the loud cheers coming from their friends. As Bolin took another stance, Toph put on a smile of eagerness and excitement. She hasn't gotten a good fight since Sozin's Comet. Sure she's fought Aang but that was just training, what was happening now was a real one on one earth rumble.
Bolin bended a small plate of earth and made it fly over to hit Toph.
Toph put her hand in front of it, making it stop then she closed her hand to make it turn to sand and fall to the ground grain by grain. "What the heck was that? !" She demanded, expecting more from her opponent.
Bolin stared at her with wide eyes. No one's ever dodged, redirected or stopped his earth plate shots. "It was a Probending move! How in the name of the spirits did you stop it? !" He asked.
"Probending? What's Probending?" Toph questioned him. Bolin's mouth dropped then he shook his head. "You're kidding right? How can you not know Probending?"
"Oh, I don't know, maybe I've just not been updated with the news lately and I didn't catch it." Toph stated sarcastically before continuing in her regular tone of voice, "It's 100 ASC, idiot. I have no idea what Probending is."
Bolin let out an awkward laugh and as he scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. "Right." He said.
"So what is this Probending you speak of?" Sokka asked with a curious look on his face. "Probending is a sport that waterbenders, earthbenders, and firebenders would participate in. There would be two teams each consisting of one of each bender and they would battle until all the players of one team get knocked of the ring that they were playing on." Mako explained the concept and rules of the game.
"What about airbenders?" Aang asked.
When Mako was about to answer, Korra spoke up instead. "Well, airbenders couldn't really participate because there are only four airbenders existing. One of them is Tenzin and he hates Probending and the other three are his kids. That is why airbenders don't participate in Probending matches." Korra joked eliciting a chuckle from Bumi, a snort from Lin. Lin tried to hold it back but she just couldn't. Her statement also made Tenzin glare at her with an annoyed expression. "It is also due to the fact that there aren't enough airbenders to participate." Tenzin explained the real reason for airbenders not being able to participate in probending matches.
"Sounds interesting... Hey! I have an idea! Why don't we have a little probending match here? Katara, Zuko, and Toph versus Korra, Mako, and Bolin!" Sokka suggested enthusiastically. "Great idea, Sokka! I'm in." Katara praised her brother and agreed. "Yeah! Let's do this, Fire ferrets!" Bolin shouted before seeing huge smiles appear on his brother and best friend's faces. "Yeah!" Mako and Korra shouted in unison before bringing their hands together for a high five. "What are the Fire Ferrets? Isn't a fire ferret an animal?" Aang asked.
"It's our probending team name." Korra answered Aang.
Sokka looked at Toph then asked, "What about you, Toph? You in?"
Toph looked back at her water tribe friend and gave him her usual toothy smirk. "You know I'm in, Snoozles!"
"What about you, Zuko?" Sokka asked, hoping that he would agree.
"I don't know, Sokka…"
"PLEEEEASE!" Sokka begged with his best polar bear-puppy doge eyes.
"Err… fine." Zuko gave in eliciting a few cheers and 'whoohoo's from his friends.
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I got the Katara, Zuko, and Toph VS Korra, Mako, and Bolin probending match from my brother. We had this really weird avatar conversation about guru Pathik over dinner and somehow, it led to that. XD
There's going to be a probending match and an avatar showdown in the next chapter so stay tuned! XD
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