Don't worry, I promise no big waterfalls. This flips between Sokka and Katara's POVs and starts with Sokka.
What I did on my Summer Vacation
Chapter 12
Hot Chocolate
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How Toph controlled the beast was a mystery to me. She wasn't listening to me and was charging through the woods of her own accord. Finally after five minutes of the most uncomfortable riding ever she slows and I get a good grip on the reins. She's stopped beside a river and is prancing around. I squint through the rain and see the remains of a bridge. Toph's fallen in. I just know it. Bandit seems to know as well and she starts cantering along the edge of the river.
"Azula? What are you doing out here?" she's completely soaked and shivering, Lightning is snorting and screaming every time thunder rolls.
"Katara…" she stumbles forward, Celia and Aang are behind me on Onion and Appa.
I jump off River and grab Azula by the shoulders, "Where. Is. Toph."
She points towards the forest, Celia immediately canters off in the direction, Azula mutters something and I barely hear it over the pounding rain. "She fell…"
"Fell where?"
"In the river." She sags against me, obviously exhausted.
"Aang what do we do?"
"We take Azula back to camp." He almost spits it out, "I know she's not exactly our favourite person but she is our fellow camper."
"You sound like Kevin…" I joke lamely, I put Azula on my saddle and Aang takes the frightened Lightning and we ride back to camp.
"Toph!" I yell her name into the rain. Only the rushing river answers. Wet hair is falling into my eyes, Bandit has slowed down, still going forward but her sides are heaving and steam is billowing making it almost impossible to see. I dismount, giving Bandit a chance to rest while I wipe my face with my already soaking sleeve. We walk together, lightning streaks across the sky, illuminating a dark figure on the shore.
"Toph?"
"Azula! What happened to you?" Jet runs over looking at the rain soaked Azula in my arms Aang closes the door behind me.
"She fell in a puddle. What the hell you think happened?" I ask him angrily, he looks taken aback and quiets immediately.
Mai, Zuko and Ty Lee walk in from another room all looking happy (in Mai's case not bored) before their eyes fell on Azula. They ran over, "what happened?"
"She was outside in the rain, Mai, go get me some clothes not her clothes, like those would keep her warm, Aang blankets, Ty Lee I need towels Zuko make a fire and Jet…I don't know make some hot chocolate or something." They all ran off in different direction while I took Azula up to my room. Mai came rushing in with a sweater and sweatpants, "Perfect, can you get Ty Lee? I need those towels." Mai nodded and I started taking off her soaking clothes. She was still shivering and unconscious by the time Ty Lee and Mai returned.
"Here you go." Ty Lee handed me the towels, "anything else we can do?"
"Uh…" I towelled off Azula, lucky for me her undergarments were relatively dry and didn't need to be removed, "make sure Katie, Joo Dee and Kevin don't know what's going on. The last thing we need is their perky help."
"Toph!" I run over to the figure, and kneel down beside her, "Can you hear me?"
"Hard to miss your voice Sokka, it's kinda loud." Her voice is raspy but at least it's working. I swoop her up in a hug, "Ow…" she moans into my shoulder when I hug her.
"What's wrong?"
"Let's see, I rode for thirty minutes in the rain, fell in a river, practically was half-drowned while being used a punching bag by pointy river rocks and trees."
"Is that all?"
"Yep, I think something's broken I can't feel my left arm." She looks at it, "how does it look?"
Broken, bloody and not good, "Fine…a little rest would do it some good."
Bandit walks up behind us and puts her great head beside Toph, nuzzling her, "Bandit!"
"Yeah she brought me here," Bandit snorted, "a modern day Lassie. Let's get you back."
"Okay…I'm just going to…" when I lifted her up, her head tilted back in a dead faint.
"Right, so I'll just, find me way back…" I look around in the pouring rain, "to the camp. Any ideas?" he directs the question Bandit who snorts and wanders away from the direction we came.
"Zuko you've got that fire going?"
"Duh."
"Don't need that attitude right now. Go get me some pillows." I put Azula down on a couch, wrapping her up in warm blankets. "Jet I need that hot chocolate!"
"How are you going to give her that!? She'll choke or something!" he hands me the cup anyway and I sip the drink.
"Not for her." I calm down a bit, "Okay, we just need to wait for her to wake up and then…"
"Then?"
I sip the chocolate, "I don't know."
"Okay, this seems like a nice cosy cave to rest in." Toph mumbles in her sleep as a response, shivering slightly and snuggles closer to me; I can't help but smile, "Don't worry Toph I'll get you out of this."
A/N
Poor Toph, has no luck whatsoever with water XD
Anyway I'll be updating irregularly for a while so bare with me if I'm all over the map.
