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Here's chapter 9 :)
Tophs POV.
Twinkles had been bugging me about the Konji bandits, and the whole white lotus thing, the boy had a strong will but i couldn't give in, I wasn't allowed to... but that all changed the day i took him to the lotus martial arts club, he kinda picked up on the name and well let's just say he nearly ended up in a garbage bin. Zander told me to bring him along and there wasn't much more for him to do but to tag along, but then he just had to butt in and get noticed. I remember it as if it was a few hours ago, oh wait it was...
Flash back
"Thanks for bringing me toph" he smiled his always present smile.
"Don't mention it"
"there's gotta be som--"
"Ev-er."
"Sorry..."
I just rolled my eyes, took off my jacket and ran over to join the class, today master Yu yen was going to start us on our advance moves, not like i wasn't already pro enough. The warm up, like usual went for 10 minutes and then Yu man split us up into sparing partners , I was with Zandy, everyone else was too easy or just to afraid, I laughed at that. "what's so funny?" i totally forgot about zan, "hmm?" I stopped on one of the many mats and dropped into my horse stance, "what were you laughing about?" he asked as he dropped into his stance, "ha nothing really just how everyone is too easy to spar with or to afraid of me to even be on the same mat." His smile grew even wider in an idiotic way "what chu' smilin' at boy'?" i frowned not liking the way he was looking at me.
"so I'm challenge and brave?" he laughed
"no." I said simply
"what?" he stopped smiling and i just grinned at him. "Now students remember what i have shown you and try it! BEGIN!" master Yu Yen shouted for somewhere in the background, 'time to show twinkles how to really fight!' Zan-man looked at me with a worried look but stepped forwards ready to attack, before he could move any closer, I wrapped my foot around his left ankle and punched him in the chest, zan went flying to the ground, I stood up straight and raised my arm in victory. I looked down at Zandy and smiled, "your fun to beat up and your just too stupid to realise that I'm gonna beat you." He let his head flop back in defeat and started laughing "of course toph." I began to laugh with him and offered him a hand up.
I pulled Zan-man up to his feet and he brushed himself off, "Wooo!! Go toph! That was amazing!" i spun around and looked at Twinkles, he was standing up clapping as loud as he could, I looked at him in disbelief, I knew master Yu Yen didn't like interruption and twinkles certainly was one.
I just stared at twinkles with a 'shut up or die' look but I think he took it as a 'yeah come on over and be a pain in the ass' look, somehow? Because he walked over with his goofy look on his face, "that was pretty cool T, well done Zander, but to beat toph you gotta be on your toes" he smiled sweetly as if he'd just got n A+ in being A PAIN IN THE BEHIND! "what was that twinkle toes? You think you know how to beat me?" I said in disbelief, "well I don't think i could beat you but I might be able to give you a run for your money" he smiled, "oh really?" A deep voice from behind aang made him jump, Twinkles quickly spun around to face a tall old man, with white hair that went down to his shoulders and a goatee, "And who might you be? Young man" he said in a deep but melodic voice, Twinkles smile never left his face "Im Aang" he said, "Master Yu Yen" The man bowed his head.
"please to meet you master Yu Yen" Twinkles said and at the same time bowed in respect, "do you really think you could beat my best student?" Master Yu Yen raised an eyebrow, "well sir I don't think I could beat her, but if you'd give me a chance could a spar with her?" I looked at Master Yu Yen 'this actually might be fun.' "Well if you willing, I don't see why I should stop you" he looked at me "toph?" I just smiled.
I waited on the mat in my horse stance, I usually never made the first move, and by the looks of it twinkles had figured this out, a couple seconds past with complete silence, "Well done Aang you've made it past the 5 second mark, doing better than anyone else" I just rolled my eye at Zander, he may be mature but can be stupid at times, "thanks Zander" Aang smiled, I took this as my chance, so I step forwards and locked my ankle, about to do the same trick I did on Zan but Twinkles shifted his stance and blocked my punch with his arm, this surprised everyone, even me. "nice try T. Not quite though" Twinkles pulled his leg out of the lock I had it in and spun around landing back in his stance, 'impressive I must say' I stepped back and changed my stance, I crossed my left arm downward, guarding my center and steadied my open right hand just in front of me. Aang smile widened even more if that was even possible and stepped forwards, within a few seconds he was in front of me and we were in an eternal dance of punches and blocks. He was just trying to find an opening but he wasn't gonna get one outta me today. Finally he stopped, and we started to circle each other, this time I made the first move and threw a punch at twinkles chest trying to create an opening, but he easily pushed it away, I threw punch after punch at him but couldn't find any flaws. "still standing strong twinkles, impressive" I laughed, "you betcha' T."
We continued for another couple minutes, each punch and kick even more powerful than the last, but finally I threw twinkle toes off, I aimed a fist at the right side of his head, he blocked it but it threw him off a little bit, before he could find his feet again I kicked his left foot out from under him. Fancy feet hit the ground with a soft thud, everyone cheered and helped him up. "That was Great T. We should do it again sometime soon!" he laughed, I couldn't help but smile, "whatever you say twinkle toes."
Everything went silent before Master Yu Yen spoke, "Boy? You fight Ba Gua? Not many can use that style, infact no one your age would be able to master it, unless..." he paused and just stared at Twinkles, "are you air master—i mean Gyasto's boy?" he asked all of a sudden, Twinkles slowly nodded, he had no idea what was going on, I did as soon as master Yu Yen said air master I knew, I looked at Zander and he looked back at me, he knew too. "how do you know my fathers name?" now Yu Yens eyes widened, "he hasn't told you yet?" The old man went into deep thought, "Told me what!" Twinkles was starting to freak out now, "how old are you?" the look Yu Yen gave aang was enough to kill anyone but twinkles stood his ground and yelled "14! WHAT the Hell Is Going ON!" Yu looked away, deep in thought again then quickly aimed his gaze at me. "Take him home this mustn't be mentioned again." I nodded and went to grab my stuff.
"STOP!" it was twinkles this time "STOP RIGHT THERE!" he was yelling at master Yu Yen. "I Demand answers!" I never knew he was so aggressive, master Yu Yen turned around and glared at him, "You don't demand anything Boy! You are not old enough come back in a couple years then, then maybe you can talk to me like that! Didn't your farther ever teach you respect?!" I didn't want to get involved now, so i just sat down, most of the other students had fled when Master Yu Yen had first raised his voice, it was just me and Zander.
"He did in-fact, didn't anyone teach you to respect others!?"
"How dare YOU!" "who do you think you are just- - wait, do you have the marks?"
"what marks?" 'oh shit he is isn't he!'
"the mark of the ------" he trailed off in the last part of his question,
"i guess they didn't teach you how to speak either?!" 'oo snap! He's still angry'
"don't play with me boy! Show me the tattoos, you do have them don't you?"
"what these ones?" Twinkles lifted his shirt, and there in black ink were his tats the three arrows that ran along his ribs around to his back, Twinkles slowly turned around to show the rest of the design. "do you have the spiral?" Twinkles nodded and just took off his shirt to show Master Yu Yen, His eyes widened,
"You really are him?!"
"I really am WHO!" he looked at me but i just looked away i could tell him. He then looked at Zandy, who was following the tattoos with his eyes, T.T then looked back at master Yu Yen, but he just shook his head "I'm sorry aang i cant, you must talk to Gyasto." With that master Yu Yen turned to me, "toph I think its best if you two left now." Yu Yen turn and walked in to his office.
Twinkles put his shirt back on and walked over to me, I stood up and packed my gear, "Toph." I couldn't look him in the eye, not now, "mmm." I quickly zipped up my bag, Zander Had finished as well, "see ya toph, bye Aang." And he pretty much ran out the door. "I think we should get going now Aang" He stood up still staring at the floor and walked off, I let out a sigh and followed.
We got half way home without a word, thankfully. But i knew twinkles was gonna ask me sooner or later, and then it came. "Toph, Who am I?" 'How was i supposed to get out of this one, say 'umm yer i cant tell you coz its a secret, so if you find out before your allowed I'm gonna like die.—yer real smooth toph?—what do you think i should then? –tell him the truth – oh yer cause you so don't know what will happen if i do?'
"Umm toph?" Twinkles waved his hand in front of my face,
"sorry"
"so can you tell me?" I regretted looking into his eyes, big gray puppy dog eyes who can say no? Only a cruel person could do that, and guess that makes me cruel. "Aang" his face stiffened probably because i used his name instead of twinkles but right now that didn't matter, "Look, I'm sorry but I've taken vow's and I'm not allowed to say, if i do... well I can't say either..." I looked down at my feet as if they were the most interesting thing in the world but Twinkles just kept looking at me. "well can you answer me this?" I looked back up at him. "Are we, you know, boyfriend and girlfriend?" this caught me off guard, the shame I felt eased off but I started to get a little worried,
"I guess, why?"
"I thought relationships were mostly about trust and not to keep secrets for each other?" 'oh shit.' "well I guess you don't trust me and I cant trust you to be loyal and tell me your secrets"
"Aang there are some things that have to be left unsaid, and this is one of them! I cant just go around tell everyone about --...." I trailed off at the end of my sentence,
"whatever toph. We're through! Good bye toph!"
Aang turned around and stormed off, he was angry but I was just as angry! Who does he think I am? Superwoman? – you shouldn't take this, you should be the one dumping him not the other way around, show him who boss! – Ahhh I should, he cant just do this to me! – yeah thats right... you know what to do' I knew it was against the rules but right now I was to pissed off to care!
Aangs pov:
Ahh I was so over this, to many secrets! My hole bloody life is a secret and its hidden from me! Then she comes along and adds even more secrets! Secrets, secrets, secrets Im just so over it!
I stormed off trying to get away from her, I have no idea why I was this angry but for some reason it kind of felt good in its own absurd way, but deep down it was saying turn around, TURN AROUND, why? I hadn't made it far before I felt a rumbling in the ground, I thought it was nothing but when toph popped out of the ground, spun around and kicked a head size boulder at me, I stopped walking in sheer surprise, the rock came flying at me at great speed and before I knew it I felt pain in my stomach, I hit the ground with a thud. "WHAT THE HELL TOPH!!" I screamed, "No one talks to me that way, not you even if you are the ....." toph trailed off, 'even if I am what! Why does she kept doing that!' I pushed the boulder off my stomach and slowly sat up, "go on you've already said so much finish you stupid sentence for once! Please!" I looked into her emerald green eyes, but instead of anger I saw hurt and regretfulness, why did she feel regret? Then it hit me, toph had just jumped out of a massive hole in the ground, covered it back up with a flick of her wrist and then kicked a boulder at me, surely it would have broken anyone's foot, but not hers?
Toph looked at the ground when I yelled at her, "im sorry" she said in the most faintest voice then turned and ran off.
I just stood there wondering what just happened, toph could move the earth, I remember Gyatso telling me about great benders of 4 elements, water, fire, air and... earth. It hit me just as hard as the boulder, I spend off as fast as I could back to the Bei Fong estate.
Man I found toph and aangs sparing fight hard to write... sorry if it seems lame.
Anyways im really sorry this has taken a while to get up I kinda lost my thumb drive, thankfully I found it again :)
I hope you guyz liked this chapter :) again sorry that its so short ill keep writing and the next chapter should be up later today :)
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