Katara and Toph went to the forest area near the temple for their spar. They had agreed that it would be safer for Katara if Toph fought with mud instead of rocks so she wouldn't risk hurting the baby. On their way to a good sparring spot Katara begged Toph to tell her how and when she and Aang got together but the earthbender kept refusing. When they found the perfect spot Toph cracked her knuckles.
"You are going down Sugar Queen." she declared, getting into her bending stance.
"Wait. How about we make this interesting?" asked Katara, looking devious
Toph smirked. She enjoyed making bets, especially winning them.
"If I win, you tell me how you and Aang got together."
"But if I win, Sparky comes back you have to do a little dance in front of everybody-"
"Sounds fair."
"Let me finish. You also have to wear your slave outfit while you're doing it."
Katara looked as if Toph had just given her a death sentence, though she pretty much did.
"Why would you want me to do that?"
"It'll annoy Snoozles which will amuse me." Still smirking, Toph folded her arms acrossed her chest and raised an eyebrow. "Not gonna chicken out now are you?"
Katara bit her lip nervously. She couldn't back out now or Toph would never let her live it down. But what if she agreed to the deal and lost? Sokka was finally getting used to the idea of her and Zuko being together and this sort of thing would make him hate it again. Then again, Katara had been doing well with her spars with Zuko and she had learned a lot of new moves that Toph didn't know about...
"Deal."
The girls got into their bending stances and after a moments pause, began their spar. Toph kicked a large amount of mud at Katara's face but the waterbender caught the mud and threw it back at the earthbender. Toph sidestepped the mud ball but Katara brought the mud ball back and had it hit Toph on the back of her head, knocking her over.
"Not bad Sweetness." she said, spitting out the mud that got in her mouth as she got up. She bended the earth under Katara's feet up and the waterbender was tossed slightly into the air and landed softly a small distance away in the mud. Toph bended up a wall of mud and shoved it to Katara but the waterbender collected some mud and threw it downward at the mud wall and her mud blade cut through the wall, making it pass the waterbender without actually touching her.
The spar went on for several minutes, both girls were equally matched though Toph was taking it easy on Katara (but she didn't tell her this). The spar ended with Katara getting the water out of the mud and freezing Toph's feet to the ground. The earthbender didn't bother to try and free herself. Instead she raised her hands in surrender.
"You win Sugar Queen." she said.
Katara unfroze Toph and the girls walked back to the temple.
"It started when Twinkletoes threw that dance party..."
"A dance party?" asked Zuko, looking confused. He and Aang were still on Appa on their way to the Sun Warrior Ruins. To pass the time and out of boredom, the firebender asked the Avatar how he and Toph got together ("I thought you liked Katara." he had said).
"Yep."
"And you hosted a dance party because..."
"I wanted to show those kids a taste of freedom." Aang answered as if it was obvious
"Uh uh...so what happened at the party?"
"Well after I showed them some moves..."
"Everybody freestyle!" Aang shouted to the kids.
Just as the airbender had hoped the tentive kids slowly started loosening up and started to dance. Even the bearded Sokka got his groove on. Meanwhile Toph was sitting at one of the stone tables and chugging down beverages. Though she didn't look it she was obviously bored. Getting an idea, Aang hurried over to Toph, took her hand, and lead her to the dance floor.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"Just trust me." was all he said. However Toph knew what he was planning
"I can't dance Twinkletoes." she said, "I'm blind remember?"
"Don't think of it as a dance. Think of it as bending training only without the actually bending. Just follow my lead and do what I do."
Toph hesitated before nodding. She and Aang stood opposite each other, got into their bending stances, and started doing the earthbending forms in a that looked like they were dancing. It was difficult for Toph to do the forms without actually bending but she was able to move with Aang by feeling the vibrations coming from him. All around them the students stopped dancing and stayed still, as if watching the two benders dance.
"Everybody's staring at us." Toph quietly said to Aang
"Don't worry about them." he answered softly back. "It's just you and me right now."
The blind girl tried covering the light blush she felt appear on her face but she couldn't hide the small smile.
Aang was suprised to see the blush on Toph's face. He had never seen her blush before; he had to admit that she looked cute when she blushed.
While the two danced they didn't notice the headmaster from Aang's school entering the cave with three truant officers.
"He's the one we want!" they heard the headmaster say to the officers, "The boy with the headband!"
Aang was alarmed when he saw the intruders. How could they have known about the party? None of the kids in the cave could have told the headmaster. He noticed Hide standing with the headmaster with a smug look on his face. Anger boiled inside the airbender. This guy had turned them all in, even his own girlfriend On Ji, and now he, Aang, needed to escape to avoid getting arrested.
Aang grabbed Toph's hand and led her to the crowd of students.
"We have to get out of here!" he said as they made their way to the back of the cave.
Aang could hear the headmaster yell out "Don't let him leave the cave!"
The two benders met the still bearded Sokka waiting for them at the back of the cave by the back entrance. Sokka and Toph hurried through first. Aang looked back to make sure the officers weren't behind him and saw that all of the kids had taken off their belts and had wrapped them around their heads like headbands to confuse the officers and the headmaster. One of the kids, his friend Shoji, turned to look at him and winked. Aang bowed Fire Nation style to his new friend in thanks and ran into the tunnel out of the cave, bending the entrance to the tunnel closed to avoid being followed.
When Aang, Sokka, and Toph made it out of the cave they got on Appa who was waiting outside for them and the bison took off into the sky.
"You can take off the beard now Sokka." said Aang.
"Oh, no, I can't." said the warrior. He began stroking it as if he was pleased with himself. "It's permanently glued to my skin."
Toph, instead of holding tightly onto the saddle like she usually did when Appa was flying, was holding onto Aang's arm.
"Way to go, Dancypants." she said, "I think you really did help those kids. You taught them to be free."
"I don't know." Aang said modestly, "It was just a dance party, that's all."
"Well that was one kicking dance party." She suddenly kissed Aang on the cheek. "Thanks for the dance Twinkles." she whispered.
"Flameo, good sir," Sokka said clapping his hands slowly, "Flame-ee-o."
"And that's how you and Aang got together?" asked Katara
"Geez hold your ostritch horses Sugar Queen." said Toph, though she looked like she was enjoying herself with storytime, "I haven't gotten there yet."
I'd put more in but I'm a little tired from typing so much right now so I'm just gonna wait until later to start on the next one
btw I put up a new poll on my profile on what story I should work on next. here are the options:
Avatar: The Last Airbender MODERN DAY STYLE 1 - Katara and Sokka start a new school and deal with the cliques. the Aquas (Water Tribe), the Stoners (Earth Kingdom), the Hotties (Fire Nation), and the Nomads (Airbenders). The Aquas, Stoners, and Nomads socialize which each other but the Hotties keep to themselves. But when Katara starts falling for Zuko from the Hotties Group (XD) will the status quo be changed? (NOT a High School Music fic. Sorry HMS fans, I'm just not a fan of the movies. I like the music though) Will be the first in the trilogy. (I'm actually trying to think up of a title and names for the cliques that don't suck. if anybody wants to help me out with that that would be just awesome)
Honor to My Family - An ATLA version of Mulan
The Little Waterbender - An ATLA version of The Little Mermaid
The Fire Lord - An ATLA version of The Lion King
Avatar: Second Generation Book 3: Fire - The kids hide out in the Fire Nation and Sanosuke learns firebending
Love Story - Rose Weasley and Scorpius Malfoy meet at a Christmas party at the Ministry and they fall in love almost instantly. But will their love survive when their parents find out? Based on song Love Story by Taylor Swift
Star-Crossed Lovers - A story of star-crossed lovers named Zuko and Katara. He's Fire Nation, she's Water Tribe. Can they truly be together? (Modern, similar to West Side Story only without the singing and dancing)
Harry Potter MODERN DAY STYLE - Similar to the series only modern day, no magic and very different (once again, trying to think of a title for the story that doesn't suck. again, any help would be nice)
Easy O - A Harry Potter fic that will be similar to Easy A starring Rose as Olive
After Today - Albus Severus Potter is tired of just being known as "James Potter's little brother" or "Harry Potter's son" so he and his friends plan a little surprise for the end of the year feast that will make him "stand out" Based on a scene from A Goofy Movie
I've had this poll up for a couple days and so far I haven't had any votes yet and I really would very much appreciate it if someone would vote on it
