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Chapter 6: The Blind Bandit

"Just pick it already Sokka!" Zian exclaims to Sokka who has been staring at a satchel, which is on display in a shop in an earth village, for the last ten minutes. "But it's pricey, but I really do like it." Sokka says as Zian rubs his face in annoyance. "Then you should get it. You deserve something nice." Katara says as Zian looks at her confused. "We have people who hunt us down and try to kill us. I don't think we deserve to have nice things." He says.

Sokka looks at his sister. "Well I do deserve something nice, don't I?" He says as he looks back at the satchel. "But no it's too expensive I shouldn't." He says as Zian groans. "Ugh get it or don't. Either way we have to go." He says as they start to walk. Suddenly Sokka walks back to the satchel smiling. "You know what? I'm gonna get it." He says as Zian rolls his eyes.

"Psst hey, you kids like earth bending?" A shady man says appearing from behind Aang. "You like throwing rocks? Then check out Master Yu's Earthbending Academy." He says as he gives a broad smile and hands a flyer to them. "Creepy" Zian says as the man walks away. They all look at the flyer as it has a man earth bending on it. "Look." Aang says as he turns the flyer over to the back. "There's a coupon on the back. The first lessons free." He says as Zian looks at the face of the person on the back.

"Who knows this master Yu could be the earth bending teacher you've been looking for?" Katara as Zian gives her a doubtful look. "Or he could just be another person looking to rob people of their money. I doubt he would be the master we're looking for. This is a stupid idea." He says as Sokka walks next to them carrying the expensive bag.

Later

As they arrive at the academy Aang gets into a training gear as he stands sluggish next to some younger and shorter kids who are standing focused and ready. Aang sees this and does the same. On the opposite side on them there are kids that are standing in front of them with rocks at their feet. A man (whose face was on the flyer) comes out as he looks at the students. "Take your stances." He says as everyone, besides Aang who is confused, gets into a fighting stance.

"Now strike as if you're punching through your opponents head." Master Yu says. "Uh oh" Zian says as Aang looks at the students worried and confused at the same time. The students with the boulders lifts the rocks up as Aang's eyes widen as the kid in front of him strikes his rock as it flies towards Aang and slams right into him as it sends him flying back. Aang slams into a wall as the sand and gravel fall on him. Master Yu walks up to Aang with a smile. "So are you ready to commit to more lessons? If you pay for the whole year in advance, I'll bump you up to the next belt." Master Yu says bribing Aang who just sinks into the rubble.

Sokka, Katara and Zian wait outside as Aang walks out of the dojo. "Eh, he's not the one." He says as he beats sand out of his ears. "Told you, I didn't think he was the one from the start." Zian says chuckling a bit.

"I think the Boulder's going to win back the belt in Earth Rumble six." A student says to his friend as they both exit the academy. "He's gonna have to fight his way through the best earth benders in the world to even get a shot at the champ." His friend says as this raises Aang curiosity and excitement as he runs to them. "Excuse me, but where is this earth bending tournament exactly?" He asks them.

They turn around and face him. "It's on the island on Nonya…none of ya bussines." One of them says as they both start to laugh and walk away. Sokka also laughs as he Zian and Katara walk to Aang. "Hahaha, oh I gotta remember that one." Sokka says as Zian walks forward angry. "Why I outta…" He says as Katara stops him. "I'll take care of this." She says as she smiles. "Hey strong guys wait up!" She says as she runs after the boys. They walk around a corner as they disappear with Katara behind them.

"What was I thinking?" Sokka says talking about the bag he bought earlier. "I don't need a new bag. Why'd you let me buy it?" Sokka says Zian as he throws it on the ground. Zian rolls his eyes. "Oh sure cause it's our fault you bought the dumb thing." He says as he looks and sees Momo jump off of Sokka's shoulder and lies comfortably in the bag. "Well at least Momo seems to like it." He says.

Suddenly Katara comes running back to them looking a bit happy. "You ready to find an earth bending teacher? Because we're going to Earth Rumble six." She exclaims as Aang looks at her confused. "How'd you get them to tell you?" He asks as Katara gives a sly grin. "Oh a girl has her ways." She says as Zian looks at her. "And one I'm not looking forward to see. Let's go." Zian says as they head on to the tournament.

Later that night

The group head on over to the location of the tournament as they enter through a tunnel. As they enter they see a giant stadium with stone chairs circled all around the ring that looks rectangular and is extended high up with stairs on the left and right side. "Hey front row seats." Aang says as the group walk to find themselves some seats. Zian's eyes widen. "I wouldn't recommend sitting there." He says as Aang looks at him confused. "Why?" He asks.

Suddenly a giant boulder comes flying out of nowhere as it barely misses them as it crashes into the front seats. "That's why." Zian says as they take a different more secured seat. AS the cword cheers a man appears from under the ground on the ring as rocks fly everywhere as he enters. "Welcome to Earth Rumble Six! I am your host! Shin Fu!" Shin Fu yells as everyone cheers. "This is just gonna be a bunch of guys chucking rocks at each other, isn't it?" Katara says as she sighs. "Yeah and yet another sport mocking the great earthbending culture." Zian says distastefully."That's what I paid for." Sokka says as he grins.

"The rules are simple." Shin Fu says to the audience. "Just knock the other guy out of the ring and you win." He says as he jumps up in the air and lands on a podium. The bell rings to signal the first round "Round one! The boulder." Shin Fu announces as a muscle man with tattoos on his back stands on one side of the ring as he praises himself to the audience. "Versus. The big. Bad. Hippo!" Shin Fu cries as a giant chubby man walks up to the ring as it shakes with every step that he takes. He roars as his teeth show as they are in the exact same places as an actual hippo would be. The Boulder turns around as he sees the overgrown man.

"Listen up Hippo, you may be big but you ain't bad. The Boulder is gonna win this in a landslide." He says as the Hippo looks at him annoyed. "Hippo. Mad!" He says. The Boulder grins as he stomps his foot on the ground and rocks fly up in front of him. he punches them as they head towards The Hippo at high speed and they hit him hard as dust forms around him.

As the dust fades The Hippo stands there with a chunk of the rocks in his mouth as he bites on them and spits them out. After that he looks like he really is angry as he jumps in the air and lands on his right foot and then jumps again and lands on his left as this causes the arena to shake as it starts to move sideways. The Boulder starts to lose his balance as he shakes backwards. He then starts to fall back on the edge as he would've fallen over if he had not let a stone slab appear from under him which he then grabs and pushes himself up and throws the slab at The Hippo, who has his back to The Boulder, as it hits him hard on the back as he turns around and sees The Boulder still in the ring.

Before The Hippo could do anything The Boulder then causes the earth underneath his opponent to levitate. As The Boulder struggles a bit as he then succeeds in lifting his opponent in the air, who is lying on the levitated earth due to him losing his balance, and then throws him off the ring as he lands at the bottom with a cloud of dust around him.

"The Boulder wins!" Shin Fu exclaims as the whole stadium cheers for The Boulder's victory as he is lifting his arms in triumph. The group look at the fighter and Katara wonders. "How about The Boulder? He's got some good moves." Katara says as Aang looks a bit unsure. "He's not." Zian says. "What are you talking about Zian?" Sokka says shocked. "No, Zian's right. Bumi said I needed a teacher who listens to the earth. He's just listening to his big muscles." Aang says as Zian smirks. "Ain't that the truth buddy?" He says as they continue to watch.

Aang looks at Sokka. "What do you think Sokka?" He asks his friends opinion. As they look at Sokka they see him acting all bizarre and crazy. "Wooooo!" Sokka cheers. "Looks like that answers you question." Zian says.

"Next match! The boulder versus…"Shin Fu shouts as an earth bending man with sideburns enters the ring wearing fire nation attire and waving a with the fire nation insignia on it. "Fire! Nation! Man!" Shin Fu yells as the guy walks into the ring happily. Everyone then starts to boo him, even Sokka (no surprise there), as the man keeps waving his flag.

He stops as he looks at all the people. "Please do rise for fire nation national anthem." As says as he gets down on one knee and starts to sing very terribly. "Fiiiiire looord, my flame burns for you thee." He sings as everyone starts to fruit, vegetables and all other kinds of different things at him. "Go back to the fire nation!" Sokka yells as he throws a rock at the man.

As the guy turns to the people to get angry at them he is suddenly spins and is sucked into the ground as he faces The Boulder who is in a stance indicating that it is his doing. He then creates a pillar under himself as he very above his opponent who looks up at him with fear. The Boulder smirks deviously at this as he jumps up in the air and takes the heel of his feet so that his knees are facing downwards. As his altitude decreases he lands in the arena floor as a pillar shoot up from under his opponent and sends him flying up as he crashes down in the boulder that landed next to the group.

After that the crowd (and Sokka) cheer. "Yeah! The Boulder knows how to put the hurt in the dirt!" Sokka shouts as he starts to cheer like crazy. Zian sighs as he shakes his head. "Unbelievable" He says. A badger mole appears on the ring as it clean out the arena of all the rubble.

The bell dings and dings and dings as one by one The Boulder annihilates his opponents as he succeeds in his endless winning streak. His opponents fall before him as every new enters to prove the last one wrong in beating the man. The crowd cheers for the mighty Boulder as he embraces the applause of the audience. After what seemed like an hour or so the stadium and the people grow silent after The Boulder beats his last rival.

"Now, the moment you've all been waiting for." Shin Fu says as the spotlight shines on him. "The Boulder versus your champion…" He says as a little girl wearing a green cape and has her hair in a big bun walks to the arena as she holds a golden belt above her head. "The Blind Bandit!" Shin Fu cries as the crowd goes berserk with their cheering. Two women stand next to The Blind Bandit smiling as they take her belt and her cape as she stands ready facing The Boulder.

"She can't really be blind? It's just part of her character, right?" Katara says not truly convinced. "I think she is." Aang says looking at the girl's eyes that are all grey and dull as if no colour has ever been known to them. "I think she is GOING DOWN!" Sokka suddenly says surprising Aang and Katara. Zian however looks at The Blind Bandit with interest. "Mmmm I wonder if this could be a real opponent." He says mumbling to himself.

The Boulder walks over to the other end of the ring. "The Boulder feels conflicted about fighting a young blind girl." He says as The Blind Bandit smirks. "Sounds to me like you're scared Boulder." She mocks him as he looks at her expressionless for a few moments. "The Boulder is over his conflicted feelings and now he's ready to bury you in a rockalanche." He says. The Blind Bandit points to him. "Whenever you're ready…The Pebble." She says as she starts to laugh.

Aang's eyes widen as he looks at her. He's mind reverts back to when they were at the swamp and he saw the vision of the girl with a flying as she giggled. He thinks harder as the girls face becomes clearer to him and he sees that the girl in the swamp is the same one that is now fighting in the arena.

"It's on!" The Boulder says with a determined attitude. He slowly breaths deeply as sweat of the suspense and his nerves acting up fall down from his forehead. The Blind Bandit waits as he stands there and looks at her opponent. "Aaagh!" The Boulder cries as he lifts his right leg up high and he moves forward. Then as he lifts his left foot up and is half way through of putting it down a earth mound suddenly appears as it catches his foot just as it lands it.

The mound then swiftly shifts The Boulders foot as it yanks him to the side away as it turns him around and forces him into a painful and agonizing spilt. "Oooooh!" The Boulder cries out in pain. The Blind Bandit then swings her hand as an earth rubble head towards her opponent. As it reaches him from behind three pillars emerges out of the ground as they strike The Boulder on the back as it send him flying off of the arena and smack him against the wall as he then falls to the ground. The Blind Bandit smiles as she raises her fist in triumph.

"Your winner and still the champion…The Blind Bandit!" Shin Fu shouts as the people cheer for her, well all except Sokka who just groans at the defeat of The Boulder. "How did she do that?" Katara asks with a surprised look. "She waited and listened." Aang says smiling as Zian looks at The Blind Bandit in awe. "Amazing." He says.

Shin Fu jumps off of the podium as he clutches a bag in his left hand as he looks happy. "To make things a little more interesting, I'm offering this sack of gold pieces to anyone who can defeat The Blind Bandit!" He says. After he says that the whole stadium grows silent. Shin Fu looks at them all confused. "What?! No one dares to face her?" He asks. "I will" Aang's voice is suddenly heard as he is seen walking up the steps to the arena with a smile on his face.

Zian looks down at the arena with a surprised look. "Aang, why?" He says as Aang walks until he is some distance away from The Blind Bandit. The people cheer for him as Shin Fu jumps back on the podium. "Avenge The Boulder!" Sokka yells as Zian shakes his head in disbelief. "Why Sokka?" He says.

The Blind Bandit and Aang look at each other as she then grins. "Do people really want to see two little girls fighting out here?" She asks mockingly as the crowd goes ooh at hearing that. Aang raises his hands in defence. "I don't really want to fight you, I want to talk you." He says trying to be peaceful. "Boooo, no talking!" Sokka shouts using his hands so that he can shout louder. "Katara then smacks him on the back of the head. "Don't boo at him." She says as Zian does the same thing. "Be more mature Sokka." Zian says trying to calm Sokka.

Aang then slowly moves forward as The Blind Bandit gives off a small smirk as she then twists her foot and then moves it forward at the same time as a an earth rubble heads towards Aang. He avoids it by moving upwards with the earth as it heads towards him and he floats around her and lands right behind her. She turns around and looks at him a little annoyed. "Someones a little light on their feet. What's you fighting name? The fancy dancer?" She asks as Aang just shrugs while smiling.

An earth mound emerges under Aang as he summersaults forward with it. "Where'd you go?" The Blind Bandit Says wondering as Aang lands again behind her. "Please wait." He says as she grins. "There you are." She says as she quickly turns around and summons a big boulder out of the ground and pushes it forward to him. Aang spin around as he thrusts his hands forward as air comes out of it.

The air collides with the girl as she is send flying backwards enough that she falls of the ring. Everyone looks at the scene shocked at what they just witnessed. Katara, Sokka and Zian look at the scene before smiling to each other. Everyone cheer at Aang who runs to where The Blind Bandit is who is now walking away from the stadium very frustrated at her defeat. "Please listen, I need an earth bending teacher and I think it's supposed to be you!" Aang yells to her as she just keeps on walking.

"Whoever you are just leave me alone." She says not turning her head. As she comes to a wall she stomps her foot as it creates an archway entrance and she moves through it. "Wait" Aang says trying to stop her. Before he could reach her she closes the archway and it reverts back to being a wall again. Aang walks back up the arena with a sad look. The people cheer for him as Sokka, Katara and Zian walk to Shin Fu who is holding the belt and the money in each hand.

Sokka hugs Shin Fu and takes the items in each hand and places an arm over Aang. "Way to go champ." Sokka says happily. Zian quickly takes the money from Sokka. "I'll take this if you don't mind." He says as Sokka gives him a scowl look. "Finally we have some money now." Zian says as he ties the sack around his waist. "There we go." He says as he continues to hear the cheers of the people.

The next day

The group walk down the town streets as they try to search for the girl that they saw last night. "I got to admit now I'm really glad I bought this bag. It matches the belt perfectly." Sokka says who is admiring the belt that is around his waist. Zian looks at him with a bland expression. "Oh my goodness." He says as he shakes his head.

"If we wanna find The Blind Bandit the earth academy is a good place to start." Aang says as they enter the academy courtyard where they see the two boys from yesterday who are busy hitting sand that are in vases. They stop as they look at the group. "Oh great, you again." The one boy says as Katara looks at him with a scowl as this makes them flinch back in fear. "Yeah I didn't think so." She says as Zian grins.

They see Aang. "Hey you're the kid who beat The Blind Bandit." One of them says. "We need to talk to her. Do you know where she lives?" Aang asks them. "The Blind Bandit's a mystery. She shows up at the fight then disappears." He says acting all mysterious.

Aang looks sad as Katara smiles. "Let me handle this." She says as she walks over to the boy only to be stopped by Zian. "No Katara let me." He says as he walks over to the two boys and gives them a stern look. "Listen you two; I've been known to have a very short fuse when it comes to my temper." He says as he then looks at them with a now serious and almost deadly look that starts to really scare the boys now. "So unless you want to see me in my worst mood then you better tell us the truth." He says as the boys look at him terrified.

"No no I swear it's true. No knows where she goes or who she is." The boy says as Aang thinks. "That's because we're asking about the wrong person. In my vision I saw a girl in a white dress with a pet flying boar. Know anybody like that?" He says to them. "Well a flying boar is the Symbol of the Beifong family. They're the riches people in town. Probably the whole world." He says while his friend is hiding behind his back. "Yeah but they don't have a daughter." He says.

Aang looks at his friends excited. "A flying boar is good enough for me. Let's check it out." He says as they start to walk. The boys look at them seriously. "Yeah you better leave." They mumble so that the group don't hear them. Zian then walk over to the two vases with sand as he stands between them. He raises both his hands in the air one over each vase. He then brings them down hard that as soon as his hands connect with the sand the vases break into thousands of pieces. Upon seeing this, the two boys immediately run away from him in fear. "I heard that." Zian says as he follows his friends.

Moments later

The Gaang arrive at the home of the Beifong family. The home was large and just by the house but also the yard which was roughly about 40 feet long in length and 25 feet long in width as the whole place was surrounded by walls.

Zian whistles in impressed upon seeing the estate. "Wow, big home." He says as they see two guards standing in front of the gate as the group are looking at them from a distance while hiding behind some bushes. They look above them and see the flying boar symbol. "That's the symbol from my vision." Aang says as they move away from the cover. As they move away they silently sneak to the wall as they climb over it and land on the other side.

They quietly sneak through as they take cover behind a bush as they peak their heads out to see if there is anyone around. Just as they think the coast is clear they are then suddenly shot up in the air as they scream. Katara and Aang have a soft landing in some bushes while Sokka lands hard on the ground and Zian lands into a rose bush. "Why me?" Zian says groaning.

Aang looks up as he sees the girl from last night, The Blind Bandit herself. She looks at him more annoyed than confused. "What are you doing here twinkle toes?" She asks to him. Aang looks at her confused. "How'd you know it was me?" He asks. "Don't answer to twinkle toes it's not manly." Sokka says to him. "You're the one whose bag matches his belt." Katara says while Zian laughs. "Hahaha twinkle toes good one." He says as The Blind Bandit looks at him. "Can you please not stand close to me? You smell like a wet dog." She says as Zian looks at her blandly.

"I hate you." He says as she looks back at Aang. "How'd you find me?" She asks as Aang stands up. "Well a crazy king told me I had to find an Earthbender who listens to the earth and then I had a vision in a magic swamp where…" Aang explains as Zian cuts him off. "What my hasty friend is trying to say is that he's the Avatar and that he needs to really be able to master earth bending in a short time or we are all going to turn into flaming kababs." Zian says.

"Not my problem. Besides why don't you just teach him?" she asks him as he looks away. "It's a bit complicated." He says as she rolls her eyes. "Whatever. Now gets out of here or I'll call the guards" She says as she starts to walk away. "Look we all have to do our part to win this war and yours is to teach Aang earthbending." Sokka says. She stands there for few seconds with her back to him. She then turns around.

"Guards! Guards help!" She screams as the group panics. "Run away." Zian says as they run away and hide. The earth guards run to the girl as quickly as they can. "Toph, Toph what happened?" One guard asks. Toph looks at him a little frightened. "I…I thought I heard someone. I got scared." She says acting it all out. The guards then lead her away from the courtyard. "You know your father doesn't want you wandering the grounds without supervision Toph." He says as they continue to walk.

Aang is hiding behind the wall as he is looking at the scene. He disappears while a sly smile is on his face as if indicating he has a plan that he has.

Later

The man of the Beifong estate is busy drinking his tea with his wife, daughter and master Yu from the academy. He takes a sip and looks at the teacher. "I'm pleased to hear that Toph's private lessons are going well, but I want to be sure she's not trying anything to dangerous." He says as the teacher smiles. "Absolutely not I am keeping her at beginner's level, Basic forms and breathing excises only." He says as the father smiles. "Very good." He says as he drinks again. As he sits there happily enjoying his evening, one of the servants' walks into the room. The servant bows respectably. "Excuse me sir but you have a visitor." He says. The father stands up annoyed. "Who thinks they are so important that they can just come to my house unannounced?" He asks.

The servant looks at him. "Uuuh…the Avatar sir." He says as Toph's eyes widen and the mother and father look at each other confused and surprised. The servant walks out as Toph blows her hair as a sign of irritation.

After that the father lets the group into his house as they all sit around a fancy rectangular table and nothing but the finest food is being carried from the kitchen and placed on the table as it sits there ready to be devoured.

One of the servants places a bowl of soup in front of Toph as steam comes out of it. The father looks at the soup. "Blow on it. It's too hot for her." He says as Zian rolls his eyes at that. Aang looks and smiles. "Allow me." He says as swings his hand lightly as a mini tornado, the size of a mouse, spins its way to Toph as it goes onto her bowl as it causes the steam to disappear from it before disappearing itself. After that the father, the mother and Master Yu clap the hands at seeing such a sight.

"Avatar Aang, it's an honour to having you visit us." The mother says while Sokka is busy stuffing his face and Zian is eating his food without even using the utensils. The father is disgusted at the sight but ignores it and places his attention on Aang. "In ou opinion, how much longer do you think the war will last?" He asks. "Like it's actually affected you." Zian mumbles as he continues to eat.

"I'd like to defeat the fire lord by the end of summer, but I can't do that without finding an earth bending teacher first." Aang answers as he looks at Toph who just stares at him annoyed. The father smiles. "Well Master Yu is the finest teacher in the land. He's been teaching Toph since she was little." He says while Master Yu gently wipes his mouth.

"Then she must be a great earthbender." He says as Toph looks at him. "Probably good enough to teach someone el…" He tries to say before he suddenly jumps up. "Ow!" He yells as he looks at Toph angry. The father looks confused as he looks from Aang to Toph who just smiles and eats her food. "Toph is still learning the basics." Master Yu says as the sighs. "Yes and sadly because of her blindness I don't think she will ever become a true master." He says as they group look at him completely confused.

"Oh I'm sure she's better than you think she…" Aang once again tries to say when he's chair for some reason jerks him forward and causes his face to splat right into his bowl. They look at him while Zian snickers a bit at the situation. The father again looks confused as he looks at his daughter who once again just sits there smiling while eating her food.

Aang looks at her angry for a moment before he grins. "AAAAACHOOO!" He sneezes as his sneeze causes all of the food to fly everywhere as some land in the families' faces. Toph stands up angry. "What's your problem?!" He yells as Aang stands up also angry. "What's your problem?!" Aang yells as the whole room becomes quiet. The mother gives off a fake smile. "Shall we move to the living room for desert?" She asks. Zian wipes the soup of his face. "Yeaaaah, I think that would be the best thing to do." Zian says as he then smells the soup and smiles as he starts to lick it off of himself.

Later

The group are in the living room as they get relaxed as they prepare to settle it in for the night. Aang pats Appa's head who is standing outside the window. "Goodnight buddy." He says as they then hear footsteps. Aang turns around as he sees that it is Toph who is standing by the door. He yells as he flinches back into a stance. "Relax." Toph says. "Look I'm sorry about dinner. Let's call it truce, ok?" She says as Aang calms down.

After a while Aang and Toph left to go for a walk leaving Katara alone with her brother and Zian. "Soooo, what now?" Zian asks them. Katara looks at him wondering. "I don't know, I mean what can we do?" She says as Sokka grins. "Well I have an Idea…" Sokka says before a servant comes running into the room looking all panic. "Toph and the Avatar are gone!" He yells as Sokka stands up. "Well looks like our boredom has been filled." Zian says as they all run to the courtyard.

When they arrive to Aang and Tophs last known location they see two parts of the ground a bit missing like they've been scooped up by something. Next to them they see a dagger with a note attached to it as Sokka picks it up. "Whoever took Aang and Toph left this." He says pointing the dagger to Zian. "Don't point that thing at me." He says as he takes the note off and starts to read what's on it. "If you wanna see your daughter again bring 500 hundred gold pieces to the arena, and of course it's none other than Shin Fu and The Boulder." He finishes reading. "Typical I had a felling this would go up like this." He says as Sokka takes the note from him.

"I can't believe it. I have The Boulders autograph!" He says as Katara and Zian look at him blandly. "Seriously?" Zian says. The father looks at Master Yu. "Master Yu, I need you to help me get my daughter back." He says as Katara looks at him. "We're going to." She says. The mother kneels saddened over the spot where the two were kidnapped. "Poor Toph, she must be so scared." She says. Zian looks at her grinning. "Somehow I doubt that." He says.

Moments later

Master Yu, Toph's father, Katara, Sokka and Zian arrive at the arena where they Aang and Toph suspended high in the air with Shin Fu and The Boulder standing underneath them. "Toph!" The father yells as Shin Fu turns to them. Sokka is holding a bag full of gold pieces as he drops it in front of Yu's feet. "Here's your money, now let them go." He says as Master Yu then kicks the bag as it slides to Shin Fu. He picks it up as open it to see if the money is in there as he signals to the others. Toph's container descends as they open it and Toph falls out.

She runs to her father as they both start to walk away with Master Yu. Katara looks at Shin Fu confused. "What about Aang?" She asks him as he just grins. "I think the fire nation will pay a hefty price for the Avatar. Now get out of my ring." He demands as they get into a stance as they get ready to fight. Suddenly they look around and see the fighters from yesterday's arena tournament enter the ring and stand next to Shin Fu with serious looks on their faces.

The group then hesitate to attack. "Go, I'll be okay." Aang says as they agree and walk over to Toph. "Toph, there's too many of them. We need your help." Katara says. They turn around as the father looks at them annoyed. "My daughter is blind. She is blind, tiny, helpless and fragile. She cannot help you." He says as Toph then yanks her hand away. "Yes, I can." She says as she walks to the three of them.

The arena fighters are busy walking away from the place while carrying Aang as their path is suddenly blocked by an earth wall and turn around to see that it is Toph's doing. "Let him go! I beat you all before and I'll do it again!" She yells. The boulder looks at her offended. "The Boulder takes an issue with that comment." He says as The Hippo throws Aang's container one side as it bounces away and then stops.

Zian, Katara and Sokka run towards the fighters only to be stopped by Toph. "No! There mine." She says as Toph moves forward and creates a dust cloud around them as she moves in to fight the fighters.

A while later

After the fight was over and Toph had won, they all then returned to the Beifong estate where Toph is standing in front of her parents ready to confess. "Dad, I know it's probably hard for you to see me this way but the obedient helpless blind girl that you think I am just isn't me." Toph says as she then smiles. "I love fighting, I love being an Earthbender and I'm really really good at it. I know I've kept my life secret from you but you were keeping me secret from the whole world. You were doing it to protect me but I'm twelve years old and I've never had a real friend." She says as she looks up at them. "So now that you see who I really am I hope it doesn't change the way you feel about me." She says.

"Of course it doesn't change the way I feel about you Toph." Her father says as Zian smiles. "It's made me realize something." He says as Toph looks at him surprised. "It has?" She says. The father looks down. "Yes…I've let you have far too much freedom; from now on you will be cared for and guarded 24 hours a day." He says a the while his wife just nods.

Zian's smiles now changes into a serious and angered mood. "WHAT?!" He yells drawing the parent's attentions. "ARE YOU SERIOUS?! NO, THIS FAR FROM BEING AN OVER PROTECTIVE PARENT. THIS IS BEING A WARDEN TO ONE PRISNOR!" He yells. "Excuse me? She is my child." The father says. "AND YOU THINK YOU CAN JUST TREAT HER ANYWAY YOU WANT? SHE HAS AN AMAZING GIFT AND YOU JUST WANT TO SHUND IT FROM THE WORLD?" He asks. "Irony." Someone says as Zian can only hear it.

"Zian please calm down." Katara tries to say to her friend. The father stands up and looks at the group frustrated. "Please escort the Avatar and his friends out. They are no longer welcome here." He says as the servants lead the group to the exit. Aang looks back. "I'm sorry Toph." He says. "I'm sorry to, good bye Aang." Toph says as Zian can see a tear run down her cheek.

Outside

The group are outside as they get ready top leave. Aang is standing on the edge of the hill as he overlooks the scene. "Don't worry we'll find you a teacher, there are plenty of amazing Earthbenders out there." Katara says as Aang just looks down. "Not like her." He says.

"Ok let's go no time like the present." Zian says as the rest climb onto Appa. As they start to… "Wait. I smell something." Zian says as he looks behind them and sees a person running to them. They see that that person is none other than Toph as she stops next to them panting heavily. "My dad changed his mind. He says I'm free to travel the world." She says. Zian looks at her unconvinced but he just shrugs. "Ok, let's go." He says cheerfully as Toph nods.

"You're gonna be a great teacher Toph." Aang compliments her. Toph climbs up and they take off ready to see another day.

And the next chapter is done I really enjoyed writing this and as always thank you for reading it I really appreciate it. And I'll see you in the next chapter. Bye.