The Bison
Ali soared through the air high over the wall that connected the Earth Kingdom section to the Air Nomad section and landed gracefully beside us using the air to soften her landing. We looked at her confused. Iggy, Gyo, Soara and I were heading to Mrs. Chang's funeral. She was in her bright Air Nomads clothes as we wore black depressing clothing. She started to smile, even her blue tattooed arrows seemed happy than the clothes I was wearing.
"What are you guys doing?" she asked curiously. Soara folded her arms; she was still looking in front of us.
"What do you think we're doing? We're going to a funeral," Soara replied with a cold tone. Ali turned her head a bit. Mankey was resting on her shoulder. The lemur had become fond of our new friend.
"Oh, I thought you guys were all just being angst ridden," she said with a very happy tone. We all looked at her with the same confused expression painted onto our faces. Even Soara titled her head up to vaguely look in Ali's direction.
"Where did you hear that word Twinkle Toes?" Soara asked using Ali's now trade mark nickname. I looked up saw Gyo's face go into shock. I knew he had something to do with this.
"Gyo told me. It's much easier to use than saying a person looks depressed and filled with rage. He also the picture beside the definition should be of Ignite," she explained with all the while smiling. Iggy looked up at Gyo with slightly crushed eyes.
"You think I have angst?" Iggy asked with sadness caught in his throat. Gyo backed up slightly. I sidled beside my cousin staring down the insensitive boy with enraged eyes. Gyo started to sweat and fidget as we stared on. Soara was laughing but I paid no attention to her. She was more likely to do something like that tan Gyo. I was disappointed with him. Ali looked on confused.
"Well, Ignite you know I joke around…I didn't know you to it to offence," Gyo tried to explain to slip out of his uncomfortable position. Iggy suddenly started to laugh. Gyo slowly loosened his stance and laughed uncomfortable.
"Ha, I can't believe it worked! You should have seen your face. Fucking hilarious! I even got Kara buying it!" Iggy laughed harder quickly changing the mood. Even Ali started to laugh. I got frustrated with Iggy. I slapped him in the back of the head. He stopped laughing and started to rub the spot were I had hit him. Slowly everyone's laughter faded away.
"Oh! I almost forgot why I came over. You guys want to go to Ba Sing Se after your little funeral for the weekend. I got tickets to this dance and my guru let me us his house in the inner ring. You guys in?" She asked invitingly. I got excited. Ba Sing Se! A Dance! A House in the inner ring. This will be fun. I thought to myself. I nodded saying I would go. Everyone else did the same. Even Soara nodded. I didn't know she liked dances. "Great I'll see you in…um… is four hours good?" she asked. We nodded yet again. That would give a good amount of time to pack and get ready to leave. She smiled and jumped back into her section of the Academy.
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"You guys read?" she asked on top of I giant creature. Her bison had lowered itself so we could climb up and down it easily. It was as white as snow and had a golden brown arrow placed on its head. I threw on one more thing into the back of the saddle and placed myself on the right side of the saddle. Iggy climbed up and placed himself on the other side. I looked down and saw Soara and Gyo talking. Soara shook her head repetitively as Gyo's stance became more and more aggressive. Finally it seemed like Gyo won the argument and Soara frustratedly hopped onto the bison. She placed herself beside Iggy. For some reason those two wanted to avoid me today. Gyo sat at the back of the saddle while Ali placed herself on the bison's head and whipped the rope attached to the creature's horns. "Heeya," she said as a command to make the bison fly.
It was a sudden movement but we all sensed it coming. Soara took a firm grip to the edge of the saddle as soon as the bison grew further away from the ground. Mankey jumped onto her shoulder and started to lick her face. She did nothing to stop him. She sat there tensing her grip on the saddle.
"What's this bison's name?" I asked trying to make small talk with Ali. She looked at my. I suddenly became terrified as she didn't watch were she was flying.
"His name's Cloud. When we chose our bison he was so shy. He hid himself as one of the clouds. I was the only one left with an apple and he slowly floated down to me. We've been friends ever since," she explained to me and started to pet her friends head. I looked over at Soara concerned about her being. Iggy was watching over with a smile and kept giggling. Gyo gave a smile over to their direct. I could help but smiling too, but I knew that Soara was probably terrified.
"Can I fly?" Iggy asked. He probably had a few lessons on flying but the thought of he recklessly flying through the air scared me. I rather had an experienced airbender flying the bison than a twelve year old goofball.
"Nooo!" Soara and I said at the same time with terrified voices.