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Chapter 4: Back to the North! Finally!
It's been three weeks since we escaped our near death bout with Azula and her crew. I don't know why Aang hasn't recovered from Ty Lee's attack. I've been hit by Ty Lees Chakra Nullification strikes and recovered within hours, but it's been weeks now since our encounter. I'm just not sure what to do. Why can't Aang bend? Hopefully Master Pakku will have some answers for us. The North Pole will be a great place for us to regroup, resupply, recover, and reevaluate the situation.
Aang was getting very irritated by the fact that he couldn't bend. He had never experienced this odd feeling before in his life. Nothing that Katara could do would help his bending to come back. They had tried everything. His only hope was to see the healing experts of the Northern Water Tribe.
"Oh my gosh!" Sokka yelled at the top of his lungs. "LAND HO! ICE HO! NORTH POLE HO!" They had finally reached their destination. Sokka scurried around Appa's back waking everybody up from their mid afternoon naps.
Katara's face lit up as she saw the familiar ice structures off in the distance, while Toph was just as uninterested as usual because she couldn't see or feel anything as of yet. All the commotion got Toph upset.
"You know," she said bitterly. "I don't much like the idea of a city made entirely of water and ice. A blind person who feels their way around through the earth beneath them won't exactly be a happy camper in a place where they one -- can't see anything, two -- slip and slide around everywhere, and three -- be cold all the time because this particular blind person doesn't wear shoes!"
Aang slithered over next to Toph. "How about this!" he said sarcastically. "Last time we were here I completely blew off my training with the resident water bending MASTER, Master Pakku. So that's a huge strike against me. Now THIS time, I can't bend at ALL. That's just going to go over really smoothly I'm sure."
"Hmm..." Katara mumbled something under her breathe. "I think I'll do it!" she exclaimed.
"Uhh...Katara?" Sokka looked over at her like she had three heads. "Are you feeling alri-"
Before he could finished, Katara had jumped off of the flying bison, and plummetted 200 feet down below them. All anybody could do was watch. Was she insane!?
"WOOO!!!" Katara's cheerful yells could be heard all the way from high in the sky aboard Appa. She has landed on top of the water and gracefully bent the water around her. She was sliding on top of the water matching the exact speed of Appa. "I'm just so excited to be here!" she yelled up to the rest of the gang. "It's all water! All the time! Yahoo!"
As Katara skated along the water, the rest of the gang slowly began to descend to around water level. Sokka squinted off in the distance close to shore. "Hey look! Waterships! I guess their navy is still intact!"
Several hours passed them by rather quickly. In that short amount of time the gang got reaquainted with their old friends from the North. Master Pakku reffered Aang to the new master healer of the village, Lady Syris, to get his Chakra wounds looked at. Katara was told to stop by his training ground as soon as she had the chance to, as he had some very important news that would be useful to her on her journies. Sokka immediately went to the pool where Princess Yue gave her lifeforce to save her people from destruction. Toph was the only one of the group that wasn't either amused, or had meaningful connection to the Northern Water Tribe. Because of her increased handicap in the North Pole, the tribe's leader thought it necessary that she be assigned a "special helper" for her stay "for her own protection".
Toph's special helper walked in to introduce herself. "HEL-LO THERE LIT-TLE GIRL, MYYYY NAME IS MI-MI THAT'S MIIIIIIIII MIIIIII." she screamed.
Toph got very angry. "I'm not deaf you know. And I'm not that little. And I DEF-I-NAT-LY think you need to be punched in the face. And you are very close to experiencing that. So I recommend you leave me alone. NOW."
Mimi looked shocked. "Somebody seems to be a little crankywanky! Let me just put on your special protective head gear so that you don't hurt yourself, and then we can go have some funnywun-"
Toph promptly jumped up, and cracked her one upside the face. "I told you that you were very close to being punched in the face. It was your "choicywoicy" to continue to be a BIT-"
Katara ran in and interruppted her. "You don't really mean that. Now let's just get you out of here, huh? Heh heh..."
End of Chapter
Author's Notes: Ok, so next chapter will deal with Katara's experience in the N. Water Tribe, Sokka's, and Aangs. Toph's went quickly, and I just kinda needed something for her to do to keep busy for a little while ; Mimi WILL show up again! You haven't seen the last of the special helper! I'm finally back to updating, so I hope you all come back to me ;; I swear i'll do better now. Anyway, i'll update soon!