Sokka:
Sokka walked through the streets, hands in his pockets. The first few minutes out of the house, he had went into a shop and found a boomerang, simliar to the one he had when they went through different dimensions. It even had a pouch that he could strap to his back.
How was he not going to buy that?
He walked past a window, which a horse was near.
This is the whole haiku battle on Avatar: The Last Airbender. I love this whole thing.
Sokka looked through the window, hearing a high level haiku class.
"Through all the long night,
Winter moon glows with bright love,
Sleet, her silver tears."
"Woah. Poetry." He said, a goofy smile on his face as he rested his elbows on the sill.
The horse behind him snorted, kicking his feet against Sokka.
Sokka got knocked in the window, falling on the small wooden stage, the frame around his waist.
"I am so sorry,
Something struck me in the rear,
I just wond up here." He said, trying to get the frame off him.
The teacher of the class stood, as the student sat down in her seat.
"Five, seven, then five,
Syllables mark a haiku,
Remarkable oaf."
The girls of the class laughed.
Sokka's eye twitched. He thought for a moment.
"They call me Sokka,
That is in the water tribe,
I am not an oaf."
He smiled of acomplishment.
The teacher scoffed.
"Chittering monkey,
In the spring he climbs tree tops,
And thinks him self tall."
The girls giggled.
Sokka straighted, refusing to be upstaged.
"You think your so smart,
With your fancy little words,
This is not so hard."
He crossed his arms.
"Whole seasons are spent,
Mastering the form, the style,
None calls it easy." The teacher challenged.
Sokka pointed to himself with a smile.
"I calls it easy,
Like I paddle my canoo,
I'll paddle yours too!"
The teacher pulled a plum out of her sleeve.
"There's nuts and theres fruits,
In the fall the clinging plum drops,
Always to be squashed!"
She dropped it, crashing her foot on it.
Sokka didn't seem fazed.
"Squish, squash, sling that slang,
I'm always right back at'cha,
Like my boomerang!"
He pulled him his boomerang out of it's pocket.
The teacher stepped down, the students cheered.
Sokka smirked.
"Thats right I'm Sokka,
Its pronouced with an okka,
Young ladies, I rocked'cha!"
Everyone was quiet. It was now the teacher's turn to smirk.
"Uh, Wait." He counted on his fingers, holding up one of his fingers for every syllable. 1...2...3...4...5...6
A bouncer, wearing a pink shirt, came up to him. "Thats one too many syllables, bub."
Sokka whimpered as he was grabbed and thrown back out the window.
"Geez. Why'd I have to say "young ladies,"? I coulda just said ladies." He muttered, getting up and rubbing his back. He looked up, noticing a booth, selling large bottles of drinks. Maybe he would buy some.
Azula/Mai/Tylee
Tylee picked up a book, inspecting it. It didn't have enough pictures. She and her friends were in a nearby library in town. They noticed there were several, but this one was closet.
"Can we leave now?" Mai asked. "This is boring. I hate this."
"Come on, Mai. You always say that learning is important or something like that. That's what books are for." Azula shrugged.
"No. I say that you need to pay attention in class instead of making those stupid plans and scripts."
"Hey, I stopped after we became friends with those incompitent fools."
"Should you really be calling them fools since we're friends with them now?" Tylee asked, a bit confused with Azula.
"Well, since we're friends I can get away with saying that and claim that I'm joking. And, if I were to come up with my schemes, I could always pass them off as pranks."
"My mother wanted to homeschool me when I was younger. She would have just let me do whatever I wanted as long as I didn't bother her or father. But, I wanted to make friends. Then, I realized that the world outside was terrible. Just as dark as the clothes I wear."
Tylee and Azula looked at her.
"You should write poetry, Mai!" Tylee said, smiling widely.
"Mai, you know you can't live without us." Azula said.
"That's only because you two would come to my house and demand me to come out of my room."
"That's because you're our friend and we love you like family."
"I don't want to be loved like Zuko."
"Well, how do you want to be loved?"
Mai looked at Azula. "How is one to be loved? By family, friends, or other? Is there really a way to love, or is it just an emotion made by our subconciousness to make ourselves feel better?"
Azula was quiet for a moment.
"Wow, you should be a poet."
"I don't like your career option for me." Mai said, walking out of the shop.
"Can't someone give you a compliment?"
"I hate them, so no."
Zuko/Katara
"Did we really have to go on a date? I mean, can't us coming to England be the date?" Zuko asked. "Besides, I thought you were hanging out with Toph and Charlie today."
"Well, I was going to, but they came down with some a sickness of some kind."
"You know they're faking, right?"
"I think I know when Toph is faking something."
Meanwhile...
Charlie beckoned Toph out of the window from the ground.
"What do you mean jump?!" Toph cried. "This window is on the second fucking floor! Just because you do it, doesn't mean I have to! I don't care if Katara comes back, I'm going out the front door."
Back with Katara and Zuko...
"Yea. Sure. But, did Toph actually say they were sick?"
"Um, no. Charlie wrote it on a piece of paper. But, they were pretty convinc-I mean, sick."
"Whatever. Where do you wanna go?"
"I don't really know. I kind of want to explore, you know?"
Zuko sighed, shrugging. "Yea. Ok."
Katara looked at him, raising a brow. "I don't think you're really interested with me."
He stuffed his hands in his pockets, kicking a piece of ice into the streets. "I am definitely interested in you. I'm just not so interested in what you want to do."
"Well, what do you want to do?"
"Katara, I'm a guy. When a guy gets a girlfriend, he at first takes her out to do whatever she wants and after a while he expects a little for his services."
"You know, Zuko, you're not counting all the other groups. You aren't counting my point of view, people who are gay, transgender-"
"I just wanna make out with you for an underterminded amount of time." Zuko said.
"Gosh, you are so blunt! Can't you just be romantic about it?"
Zuko stepped forward, putting a hand on her cheek. The background changed to black, making them the only two in vision. There was music in the background as well, soft and beautiful.
His voice started out soft, and he focused all of his energy on her. "Katara, from the first time I saw yo-"
Katara pushed him away, the mood ruined. "It's too late for that!"`
Zuko groaned. "Ok, ok. How about we go to the London Eye and I pay for like 5 rides. Then, we can make out in there while sight seeing at the same time."
"You are such guy!" She cried.
"I'll take that as a yes." He smiled.
Grant/Teo
Teo rolled himself into Grant's legs. He had to get his attention, since he was reading a book in the armchair.
"So, are you going to give me a tour?"
"Um, what?"
"A tour of England. Come on."
"I never promised you that."
"Yea, you did."
"I don't remember that."
"Remember, on the plane when I said I had to go to the bathroom because my chair was too big for the isle and you told me to crawl there, then I reminded you that there was no handicap bar. Then, you agreed. Then I said that you would probably have to aim for me. Then you said that the likelihood of you aiming for me while I was using the bathroom was as insufficient as you giving me a tour of England. But, then you changed you mind 'cuz you're a nice guy, but then you complained the rest of the plane ride, asking the stewirdess for lots of handsanitizer even though I told you I washed myself that morning."
Teo sucked in a breath.
"I didn't need a whole recap." Grant said. "And, I wasn't being serious."
"Well, you said it, so we're going to do it."
"Why?"
"Because, I don't like being cooped up in here."
"Well, I happened to like it. I just got comfortable."
"Come on. You promised."
"I didn't promise. I just said that as an example."
"Please? For a poor boy in a wheelchair?"
"Yes. You are very poor. Even though you have the strength roll yourself all around the world."
"Please?" He repeated.
"We have to watch Toph and Charlie. They're sick."
"They're faking. Toph walked out like ten minutes ago."
Grant sighed. "Fine. But, you owe me. Big time."
"Yea, yea. I know." He said.
Grant rised from his chair with a groan. He left the book on the coffee table.
Soon, at a coffee place across town...
"How'd a guy like you, who knows so much London, end up in the states?" Teo asked curiously.
It was like Grant had a personal manual in his brain.
He shrugged. "It's somewhat ironic. This is the last place I came to before I left. And now, it's the first place we stop."
"We...you don't have to tell me."
"No. I haven't really told anyone. It'd be nice to vent." Grant nodded. "My mother and I kind of never had a place. I mean, she had these boyfriends that let us stay with them. She did whatever she could just to get us a bed, some money, some food, or some clothes. And, it's not what you think. She didn't sell her body or drugs. She did little odd jobs, like cleaning houses and yards. She would leave in at a 24 hour library so she could work. I guess that's how I got so smart."
He paused, thinking of what to say next.
"Her boyfriends weren't always the best. For most of them, they seemed genuine. Like, they really wanted to help us. But, after a while, some would beat her and demand that she slept with them. She never went that far until she knew it was right in a relationship. We would leave immediatly. Some of them...some of them wanted me. Of course, a hand was never laid on me, because my mother was good."
Teo didn't interupt, though he really wanted to know the answer to his question.
"This man came a bit before my fifth birthday. My mother seemed to know him, but she didn't like him. But eventually, she allowed him in. He allowed us to live in his house with his three year old son, Kyle. I liked being an older brother to him. After a couple months, they announced that they were getting married. It was a good time in my life. Then, on my birthday, my mother took me to an airport and walked me onto one of the planes.
"She left me in my seat saying she had to go out for a moment and gave me a fifty dollar bill. She never came back and the plane took off. I waited at the Bradley airport for days. I thought that maybe she didn't mean to miss the flight and she would come on the next one, but she accidently missed that one. I had remembered the wedding date and when that came around I thought, "You can't fly on your wedding day," and waited some more. Then, one of the guards who had noticed me there for a while.
To end this long story, he called child services, they asked me a lot of questions, then they sent me to The Hell House." Grant shrugged.
"Is that when you met Charlie?"
"Yes. The first time I she her, she bumped into my shoulder, which I thought was by accident. Then, I noticed that the money I hadn't used for food at the airport was gone."
"She robbed you?!"
Grant laughed. "She did. Kind of funny now that I think back on it."
"So, um, do you wanna know how I got in a wheel chair?"
"I bet you tell every guy how when they tell you a sob story." Grant smiled.
"There aren't many guys." Teo cleared his throat nervously. "Telling me sob stories, I mean."
"Whatever you say."
Toph/Charlie
"Think we can get any here?" Toph asked.
Charlie raised a brow at her. "What did you say about London jail?" She messaged.
"Ok then, fine. What do ya wanna do?"
Charlie shrugged, but was partially interupted when a girl knocked into her.
She looked at the back, mouth gaping a bit. She hurried to the body, grabbing the arm.
It was a girl, wearing clothes that looked a bit tattered. Her hair was dark brown, close to Toph's, but choppy looking.
Charlie reached in her jacket pocket pulling out her wallet.
"Hey! I don't go in you jacket and steal your wallet!"
Charlie nodded. She flipped it open, revealing her ID in the side of it.
The girl froze for a moment. "Would you believe I had plastic surgery a few months after I took that picture? Maybe we're twins. With awesome hair I might add."
Toph, who had just noticed that Charlie wasn't there, appeared by her side.
"Woah! Triplets!"
Charlie sighed, taking a twenty out of her wallet and handing it to her. She continued on the walk through the crowd, Toph quickly following, confused.
"Uh, what was that?"
Charlie shook her head.
"What? Were you paying her for her services?"
Charlie flicked Toph's head for the inappropriate comment.
"Geez, I had more fun pretending to be sick. Can we go back?"
Charlie shrugged, not really caring.
Later, at about 2 a.m.,
Kayla rummaged through the fridge of a random house she had decided to break into. It's not like she was going to kill somebody. She just wanted food.
She stuffed a roll in her mouth, allowing more room for her hands to grab things and put in her bag.
She heard footsteps coming down the stairs.
She closed the fridge quietly, stuffing the food she had managed to get in her backpack.
The footsteps came around the corner. She froze. She relaxed a bit, seeing who it was. It was the girl with the white hair from before.
Relaxed? Why, you ask? She remembered two things about her. She had glasses and she had white hair. She wasn't wearing her glasses.
About, two minutes ago...
"Do you hear that?" Sokka whispered.
"It might be a murderer." Mai shrugged.
"Why would you say that?" Zuko said in a harsh whisper.
"One of us just go down there." Toph said.
"I'm too pretty to die!" Tylee stated.
"You can't send the handicapped, so we're out." Teo said, motioning to him and Grant. He was on his back, Grant too lazy and tired to get him his chair.
"당신은 모든 아기 아르." Charlie muttered, rubbing her eyes and walking down the steps.
"Well, that was rude." Grant said, crossing his arms.
"How can she call herself mute if she speaks random korean?" Azula asked.
"I think it's only with english." Zuko shrugged.
"Someone should go down with her." Katara said.
"Bye, Katara." Sokka said, pushing his sister's back.
"I-I didn't mean me!"
There was suddenly a large crash.
"Hey! Get off me!"
They all suddenly clammered down. But, really? They didn't need to.
"Will someone get her off of me?!" Kayla cried.
Her face was being pushing into the tiled floor by the Charlie's hand and with her other, she held her arm behind her back.
"No! You tried to steal our food!" Sokka cried, looking through her bag. He pulled out the bottle he had bought earlier that day. "And my drink! The horror!" He got on his knees, his arms outstretched and screaming, "Noooooo!"
"Uh, overdramatic, much?" Zuko asked.
"Is she sleeping?" Mai asked, looking at Charlie's closed eyes and head tilted a bit more forward than usually.
"Shouldn't be the only one." Teo murmured, resting his chin on Grant's hair.
"Hey, I dunno why she's doing this. She, uh, she invited me over here." Kayla lied.
"You what?" Azula asked, grabbing her by the back of her collar. "I will hurt you! You will not need glasses anymore because I will gouge your eyes out! What the-? Are you even listening to me?!"
Charlie yawned, shaking her head.
"Oh. I forgot you guys were dating since that paper thing." Toph remembered.
"Wait, what?" Zuko asked. "You're dating my sister?!"
"Oh, but when you do it, it's ok!" Sokka cried.
"Uh, you guys are weird." Kayla said, rubbing her sore wrist.
"Dude! Get your sister to stop dating mine!" Zuko demanded Toph.
"Don't worry. We might just do that." Azula threatened, shaking Charlie.
"Just to let you know, she doesn't even know her. Well, she did try to steal her wallet."
"Ok, so maybe I accidently slipped my hand into her jacket and grasped my fingers on a pouch of leather." Kayla laughed nervously, rubbing her neck.
Charlie's fingers and hands started moving.
"What happened to the twenty dollars I gave you?" Grant translated.
"Oh, I used that for lunch. I'm kinda a heavy eater." She shrugged.
"You lied to me?" Azula glared.
"If you keep your girlfriend under control, maybe I'll tell you."
"Hey! You don't get to make deals. We make 'em. Maybe we can shave down some jail time." Sokka pointed out.
"Law and Order: SVU." Toph nodded, bumping fist with him.
"You guys need to stop with the tv." Katara said, very worried.
"Does anyone notice that our little cat burgler has just left the building?" Mai asked.
"Hey, she was probably just hungry. Let her go." Grant shrugged.
"Where's Aang?" Toph suddenly asked.
"That's not the problem! The problem is that Charlie is dating my sister!"
Charlie's hands moved again.
"By asking me to break up with your sister, would be like asking you to break up with Katara, Sokka's sister." Grant said.
"Are you going to do that after making our for over an hour today?" Katara asked, crossing her arms.
"That was pretty awesome." Zuko admitted, not willing to give it up. Of course, he loved Katara too.
"Ew! Oogies!" Sokka covered his ears.
Out of nowhere, Aang came rushing in the house, slamming the front door and running into the kitchen. He stopped, resting his hands on his knees. he was completely out of breath.
"Wow, Aang. How was your night been?" Teo asked, laughing.
Aang's pants and orange hoodie were ripped. He had scratches, lipstick marks, and bites on his face and neck.
He sucked in a breath. "Fangirl...crazy...stalker!" He managed.
"We have fangirls?" Sokka asked, finding this interesting.
"No. Just one. For me. She-she's crazy!"
"She seems like a freak by the way you look." Mai said.
"Can we talk about this in the morning? I'm not for holding her up while she sleeps." Azula said, refering to Charlie.
"It's your girlfriend." Zuko muttered.
Author's not3.
I kinda wanted to go into depth of Grant's past. I mean, when you're in Britain, you've gotta talk about the British guy.