Chains were put around the boxes and we were put onto a coach. "I believe we need to go right." Yu said to Xing Fu.
"What are you talking about? The Beifong estate's this way." Xin Fu argued.
"I'm quite certain you're mistaken." Yu said.
"HEY! Can you two old ladies quit your bickering for a second; I gotta go to the bathroom!" Toph said angrily.
"Oh-uh-okay, but make it quick!" Yu said. Yes, so gullible!
"What's wrong with you?!" Xin Fu said, dammit.
"Oh, very sneaky Toph, nice try but you can't trick me!" Yu said.
"But she just did." I said. "LET US OUTTA HERE SO WE CAN KICK YOUR BUTTS!" I yelled.
"Quit your banging!" Xin Fu said "You might think you're the greatest earth benders in the world but even you can't bend metal!" Soon I heard some screeching in Toph's box, I stood up and tried to listen further, but I didn't need to, the metal of my doors were bent open revealing a grinning Toph. I jumped out quietly and we ran to a bush to hide. It was dark out. Yu and Xin Fu walked out and looked at the boxes.
"It's another one of her tricks." Yu said.
"There's giant holes in the boxes, how is that a trick?!" Xin Fu asked.
"It's not!" Toph said. We both stepped out of the bush and grinned darkly at them.
"It's the real deal." I said. Toph squished them together between two slabs of rock and I used a pillar of earth to kick them into Toph's box. Toph jumped forward and grabbed the metal, she metal bended the box closed?!
"I am the greatest earth bender in the world, don't you two dunderhead ever forget it!" Toph yelled.
"I am so lucky to have you as a friend." I said.
"You know it." She nodded.
"KAIDA!" I yelled, I saw Kaida become visible, I hopped on her back "Want a ride?" I asked.
"I'm good." Toph answered. She made a hill of earth that propelled her forward; we headed back to Ba Sing Se.
It was daytime again and we were almost at Ba Sing Se. I saw that Aang and Sokka also had the same idea because I saw them flying on Oppa in the same direction as we were going. I flew up next to them and waved. "What is that?" Sokka asked, he pointed down at the floor where Toph was running on an earth hill. We flew down next to her. "Want a ride?" Sokka asked. Of course she didn't see them because they're in the air so she fell off of her mountain. We winced, that has got to hurt.
"So how did it go with the guru?" Toph asked Aang.
"Oh yeah, did you master the avatar state?" I asked.
"Uhhhh." Aang said, he looked away, he was keeping a secret.
"Are you okay Aang?" Sokka asked.
"I'm great, it-it went great with the guru, I completely mastered the avatar state." Aang said "Hehe." He laughed nervously. We flew down to the palace while Aang explained why he and Sokka were here in the first place, Aang had used cosmic energy or something like that and had a vision of Katara in trouble. We went to where the earth king was in his palace.
"Katara is fine; you have nothing to worry about." The earth king said.
"But, in my vision I felt so sure that she was in trouble." Aang said.
"Well she met with the council of generals to plan the invasion and since then she's been off with your friends, the Kyoshi warriors." The king said.
"See Aang, she's with Suki." Sokka said "They're probably back at our apartment right now talking about make up or something."
"Okay, maybe you're right." Aang said.
"Believe me; if there was any danger at all Basco's animal instincts would sense it." The king said. Basco looked up and grunted. We flew back to our house, just to check that Katara was okay. There were beams holding up the wall where Toph had destroyed it. Momo was sitting in the house.
"Momo!" Aang exclaimed, Momo climbed up Aang and sat on his head. We looked around the room, it didn't look different from the last time we'd seen it.
"There's no one else here." Toph said.
"Katara is in trouble." Aang said "I knew it!"
"Oh no." Sokka said.
"Wait, someone's at the door." Toph said, there was a knock on the door "Actually I know who it is." She said "It's an old friend of mine." She slid open the door to reveal Uncle Iroh?! "Glad to see you're okay." Toph smiled. Toph and I smiled at Uncle while Aang and Sokka jumped back and gasped.
"I need your help." He said.
"You guys know each other?!" Aang asked.
"I met him in the woods once and knocked him down then he gave me tea and very good advice." Toph said.
"May I come in?" Uncle asked.
"How do you know him?" Toph asked me.
"He's my Uncle." I smiled. I threw my arms around Uncle's neck; even though I hardly ever see him he is my only family who hasn't tried to kill me on his own will. He bowed and walked in.
"Princess Azula is here in Ba Sing Se." Uncle said.
"She must have Katara!" Aang said.
"She has captured my nephew as well." Uncle said.
"Then we'll work together to fight Azula." Aang said.
"She is going down." I said, I punched my fist into my palm.
"We'll save Katara and Zuko." Aang said.
"Whoa there, you lost me at Zuko." Sokka said.
"I know how you must feel about my nephew but believe me, when I tell you there is good inside him." Uncle said.
"Good inside him isn't enough, why don't you come back when it's outside him too!" Sokka said.
"Katara is in trouble, all of Ba Sing Se is in trouble, and working together is our best chance." Aang said. Sokka nodded, even though he did hesitate to start with.
"I brought someone along who might be able to help us." Uncle said. We walked outside and saw a Dai Li agent that had been tied up. Toph used earth bending to hold him up. Uncle removed his gag.
"Azula and Long Fang are plotting a coup. They're going to overthrow the earth king." The Dai Li agent said.
"My sister, where are they keeping Katara?" Sokka asked, he held his water tribe sword to the neck of the Dai Li agent.
"In the crystal catacombs below Ba Sing Se, deep beneath the palace." The Dai Li agent said. We flew to the palace, all on Oppa, when we got there Toph put her hand on the floor.
"Well what do ya know, there is an ancient city down there but it's deep." Toph said. She opened up a tunnel going down into the city.
"We should split up, Aang, you go with Iroh to look for Katara and the angry jerk, no offence." Sokka said.
"None taken." Iroh shrugged.
"And I'll go with Toph and Hotaru to warn the earth king about Azula's coup." Sokka said. I hugged uncle.
"Bye." I said. He looked me up and down.
"You have grown into a wonderful bender." He said, his eyes went to Oma's necklace "What's this?" he asked.
"A spirit gave it to me." I said.
"Right." He said, him and Aang left down the tunnel. Momo came with Sokka, Toph and I up the stairs and to the palace.
"There's general How." Sokka said. We stopped and Sokka dragged us to the side. We his behind a pillar, I looked around and saw Dai Li agents. Suddenly they jumped down and captured How.
"What's going on here?!" How asked.
"You're under house arrest." The Dai Li agent said.
"The coup is happening right now, we've gotta warn the earth king." Sokka said. We ran through the hallways and got to the earth king's room. "Thank goodness we're in time!" Sokka said.
"In time for what?" the king asked.
"Yeah, what are you in time for?" I saw a Kyoshi warrior ask, except, it wasn't a Kyoshi warrior, it was Ty Lee! Ty Lee flipped over to Sokka and added "Cutie."
"Uh, I', kind of involved with Suki." Sokka said.
"Who?" Toph asked. Toph made an earth pillar and wacked Ty Lee away from Sokka; she flipped up to a pillar and stood on it.
"They're not the real Kyoshi warriors." Toph said. The king gasped, I looked at the other 'Kyoshi warrior', it was Mai.
"Sorry to disappoint you." Mai said. She threw three knives at Toph; I quickly pulled up a wall of stone in front of her.
"Thanks." Toph said. Toph kicked the rock shield at Mai but Mai jumped over it. Toph made a pillar which wacked Mai out of the way. I saw Ty Lee and Sokka fighting, Ty Lee was jabbing and Sokka was dodging.
"Ooooh, it's like we're dancing together." Ty Lee said to Sokka.
"This fight is over." I heard a blood-curdling voice say. I turned around and looked at the king; Azula was behind him and had a small blade like piece of fire ready to kill the king. We held our arms up in defeat, Ty Lee chi blocked us, we fell to the floor, god I hated being chi blocked. Momo was still flying around, a Dai Li agent shot a rock glove at him and encased his body in the rock, and Momo fell to the floor. "Get them all out of my sight." Azula said, she pushed the king forward. We were dragged away by the Dai Li and Mai and Ty Lee. We were dragged down to a metal cell and all chucked in the same one.
"See any Dai Li agents nearby?" Toph asked.
"Nope." Sokka said.
"All clear." I added. Toph stretched and cracked her knuckles; she walked over to the door, scrunched it up and pulled it off of the wall. "Let's go!" I said.
"I'm not leaving without Basco!" the king said. I grabbed his wrist and dragged him. We went to the king's room where we saw Mai, Ty Lee and Basco.
"It's easy; you just walk on your front paws instead of your rear ones." Ty Lee said, she did a hand stand. "Like this." She said. Toph earth bended her hands to the floor. She came into a crab and Toph earth bended her feet to the floor. Basco clapped.
"That is a nice trick." Toph said. I lifted a boulder up off of the floor and aimed at Mai.
"Just take the bear." She waved us off.
"Basco!" the king said. He ran over and hugged Basco.
We were now flying away in the dark, Aang was almost dead, and Katara and Aang had fought the Dai Li and Azula and Zuko. When Aang went into the avatar state Azula shot him with lightning from behind. Katara led Aang down and took out her spirit water that Paku had given her when we left the North Pole. She took out the small piece of water, it glowed magnificently. She turned him around and put it onto the wound on his back. We all looked hopefully down at Aang. The spirit water faded but the wound was still there. Katara cried into Aang's shoulder. His tattoo suddenly flashed and he groaned. Katara smiled and gasped and led him down again. Aang smiled up at her, she pulled him close and hugged him, he passed out again.
"The earth kingdom has fallen." The king said. On that sad note we flew out into the night.