I got an idea from a wonderful reviewer who shall receive a shout-out and a thank-you at the end of this chapter :) A really big thank you as I literally had NO ideas for this.
The group started off through the tunnels of the subway, Jake hiding in the shadows and holding Toph back to make it look like they were trailing Rose, and if they weren't so that they wouldn't be noticed and questions raised.
Rose walked home as if nothing was amiss and if her companions were spotted the most likely punishment would be a reprimand for letting her guard down so carelessly.
"Where are we?" Toph asked.
"Deep in the subway tunnels. Now SHH! We don't want them to hear us," Jake said.
"Pffft. Let 'em hear us. It's not like they could take the both of us together anyway," she muttered.
"Toph it's nothing but metal down here and we are WAY outnumbered," Jake hissed, not knowing of her metal bending abilities. Toph gave a scowl but followed silently anyway. Suddenly there was a sense in her feet. What was it?
She tilted her head. Two sets of footsteps. Toph "watched" as Jake and Rose made their way on to the Hunsclan Base of Operations. Now her curiosity was piqued. She had her secret weapon and was stronger than anything they knew in this world.
So she silently slipped through the tunnels to where she heard to rather whiny sounding boys arguing about something. Toph felt her ears shift towards the conversation.
"Dude we have GOT to prove we are worthy of the Huntsclan somehow," the heavier body said.
"I know, right, but, what can we do?"
"Hey, the Huntsmaster, wants that girl that came through that portal right?"
"Yeah."
"Well let's go get HER! What harm can a twelve year old girl do to two guys like us?" Toph smirked, this was gonna be TOO easy.
"You sissies wanna find out?" she called from her hiding place before hiding somewhere else. The two looked around them in surprise.
"Where are you? Sh-show yourself, girl!" the lanky one called.
"Hey! I have a name ya know!"
"Yeah well…who cares?"
"Original," she spat back.
"Show yourself!" the shorter one demanded.
"Ok. But just cause you asked SOOOO nicely!" the cocky earthbender laughed, stepping out from behind the grate. They glanced at each other and laughed at her size.
"TOPH!" Jake called, now in dragon form.
"Hey Dragon Breath, thought you had a dire mission," she mocked him, friendly like.
"You don't know the Huntsclan. They could have killed you," he said trying to make her understand the severity of the situation but acknowledging the two's incompetence himself.
"These two? You're kidding right. They couldn't slay a fly, let alone a Grand Master Earthbender," she said cockily.
"Hey!" the tall one shouted indignantly.
"Oh shut up," Toph said, twisting her foot a certain way and sending waves through the metal to push the boys aside. They yelped, suddenly afraid and started to run away.
"Hey who gave you leave!" Toph demanded curling the metal up around them. Jake gawked.
"What? Metal is just a more refined Earth."
The two cowards shook in their metal cage, she could feel through her feet.
"Okay but now they know your face so now the Huntsman knows your face. You are in huge trouble now!"
"Unless they can Airbend I am not worried," she retorted walking toward the two she had captured.
"Alright you two, where is your hideout?" Toph demanded, slamming a palm against the metal of the two's cage.
"Huntslair," Jake corrected.
"Whatever," came Toph's quick reply.
"Yeah like we'd tell you?" She gave a quick twist of her foot and a spire of metal shot through the boys shirts, pinning them to the ceiling all the while the two screaming like babies.
Toph tossed her head back with a groaning yell as nothing seemed to work with these two wusses, "If you two don't shut up I will pulverize you into mulch!" She shouted. The boys silenced their cries into pathetic whimpers.
Toph turned back to Jake, "Now you were saying."
The dragon could just stare gape-mouthed at the hunts-boys dangling from the ceiling from spires of metal. He glanced at the blind earthbender and then back to the boys.
"How did you do that?" Jake asked awestruck.
"Metal is refined form of earth," she replied.
"But-" he started.
"Aw shut up I am trying to get some information from these two blathering yahoos," she growled, tossing her head toward the two boys hanging by the backs of their uniforms.
"Now, you gonna tell me what I want to know or am I gonna have to get mean?" she asked.
"They will tell you nothing, but by all means, get mean," came a sinister voice behind them. Toph twisted her foot lightly.
"And you would be?"
"It's the Huntsman," breathed Jake, amazed he was even there.
"Just the guy I was looking for," Toph smirked wickedly, turning and taking a fighting stance. "I hear you wanted to see me. Here I am, let's see what you got."
OH MY LORD! I never thought I would finish this chapter. The muses hate me when I work on this story but I wrestle ideas out of them I know these chapters are short but I hope you guys like them.
Luiz4200: I am superglad you are such a loyal reader and as always thanks for your awesome comments. And thanks for the ideas 2 :D