Zaya made breakfast for Azuma and after they were finished with breakfast. They walked through the dragon flats and then Zaya stepped on ostrich horse dropping. Azuma held his mouth his head at his mothers mistake and goes to the carriage repair shop, where a shoe shining station was. "Hello you're Ado's son right, trying to make extra cash huh?" He nodded and Zaya sat down on a chair to get her shoe cleaned. "I'm really getting sick of ostrich horses." she said watching one leave it's droppings with out a care.
The young man in his early twenties spoke up. "Wouldn't it be great if you could just use a carriage and not deal with droppings?" Zaya raised her eye brow at him. "Oh I'm sorry I—" She interrupted him.
"No no, You're trying to sell me something and I want to know what your product is." Zaya said her interest high, she stood up after he was done shining her shoes he brought her to the garage.
Azuma tailed his mother, as Hiroshi was about showed them the invention. Hiroshi cleared his voice. "Ok now imagine, a train for you on streets. No more ostrich horses leaving their droppings and no more need to buy a new one every time it gets injured or extra money for housing the beast." He lifted the bed sheet covering the Machine.
It was a the carriage with a engine on it on the front. "Oh this looks good, but we would need a second investors." She spoke thinking how much money she had left from her inheritances and her savings.
"R-really?" Hiroshi said shocked.
She opened her check book and wrote down an the amount, gave it to him. "Here buy the parts to get this finished by the end month, I need to get in talk with a few people. Azuma we're going to the badger queen." He followed Zaya and left Hiroshi staring at the check of one hundred thousand yuan.
"Mean or pretty one?"
"The scary one."
"Aww." He pouted at the respone.
"But the pretty one will be watching you, I just need schedule a meeting." She said walking to closed phone box.
A week later
She met with Toph beifong. "So miss beifong." That moment Toph raised a brow, a bit perplexed at her formal tone. "Ok badger queen, I wanted to know if you could invest in an invention that will replace carriages." Toph massaged the bridge of her nose.
She took one breath. "I don't manage the Beifong estate. If you need money you would have to talk with my dad and i wouldn't recommend that unless you're really sure this idea pays off. Because his been hoarding his wealth in his old age and he will throw you out of the door in two seconds." Zaya stayed silent.
Azuma was making fire birds and made them fly. Suyin was the only one there and rather enjoyed the show of fire bending little birds. "Can you make dragons?" She asked and he created two dragons from two fire balls, having them fly through the air like kites. "Now make them breath fire!" He did so but it wasn't impressive, it just burned the drapes.
Zaya took a deep. "Where does he live?" She said with a optimistic tone.
"In Gaoling." Zaya just gave a blank stare and Toph's eyes widened hearing the woman's heart rate rise extreme. "You really need to get your heart looked at, speedy." Zaya blinked a few and pressed her face into her hands. "I could get him to visit, but it will take a few weeks." Zaya calmed down smiling and went to grab her son just to find the living room had multiple burn marks.
Azuma just froze like a deer seeing the head lights of a car. "I will pay for it." She said taking her son and toph "looked" at suying.
She gulped. "I-"
Toph interrupted. "This is why i don't allow you to take babysitting jobs." She pouted and crossed her arms at that remark.
Zaya came to the garage and saw the finished model sato. "Looks good."
Sato wiped the sweat off his forehead. "I hope it goes well. I mean this is my way out of here! Maybe change the world." Zaya smiled. "But why are you doing this? Don't you already have enough money? This is more than ostrich left overs, right?" Zaya looked at the machine.
She placed her hand on the hood. "Either through war or through business, you have to compete. When you don't have competition you have to make your own." Hiroshi looked surprised at that. "Plus i want to improve this neighborhood maybe build a few high rises, I want a challenge and you gave me one." The hit the hood. "this will work." She said her competitive
Sato paused for a momont. "you mean this "could" work right?" she hit hood of the car.
"No I mean it "will" work, so what is the fuel anyway?" She asked Azuma got into Sota's Sodas.
Sato clenched his teeth. "Gasoline." He was suprised there wasn't reaction from the fire bender as she took a seat.
Zaya smiled. "So it's something you can get at any hardware store. How does this work? Do i steer with the wheel?" She then looked for any buttons.
Hiroshi sat next to her. "Yes you steer with the wheel and there are two pedals, one to go faster and the other to flow down and there's emergency leve-." She pressed the pedal to the metal and rose out of the garage and drove like a mad woman. "What are you doing?!" Sota yelled as she pressed it was full causing ostrich horses that saw the machine to jump out of way or jumped over breaking the roof.
Then the machine slowed down. "Advertising." She said knowing how Advertising was important to sell anything, for a circus at least it was. "How are you going to sell something if no one knows it exists.?" She asked before the Sota mobile stopped.
"Good thing I didn't fill the tank full." Hiroshi stepped out a little dizzy from the car ride while a mob formed.
Zaya grinned. "See it was a great advertisement." She said as crowd formed around them, Hiroshi was rather worried about ending up in prison. "Who wants to try their hands with the newest of-." Zaya looked at Hiroshi.
He spoke up. "Future industries." Multiple people their raised their hands. "We j-just need to refuel and you get a t-test drive, the new sota mobile" He said panicking and Zaya shacked her head at the stupid names before getting to a hardware store.
Meanwhile Genghis had taken Azuma back home and the little kid was jumping on the bed having a sugar rush. Genghis was letting the kid jump it off, while he placed the checks and money for the rent.
3 year later
Zaya was at meeting at the projections for something or other and she had to be there because, she owned majority of the shares and had used the money to a electricity into every home in the dragon flats. She was already imagining blowing up the entire room and going home to her 10 year old.
"The lastest projections show that Sato mobiles are being only being used in republic city and we aren't able to get into over markets. Any ideas?" Zaya raised her hand. "Yes?"
She stood. "Try to build more roads, means less traffic, means more sota mobiles, meaning more jobs and more profit at the end of the year?" She said with frustration and using buzz words would usually shut these fools up. "I say we get our council muggers to get it approved and circle back next week?" They agreed and left.
Zaya on the way out got blocked by Hiroshi. "Zaya wait here take this." he gave her a letter.
She just opened. "A party invite? Still living the playboy bachelor life or whatever garbage Corp does." They both laughed at that joke. "I hope i can get there." She looking at the dates.
"How is the police station in every neighborhood going?" He asked seeing the back full of papers.
She sighed. "Tiring the funding is the main issue. I keep telling them to stop hiring only metal bender but when it's time to vote, Guess who loses?" She didn't give him the chance to answer. "Me of course, the only one who keeps voting for is my father in law, I really need to visit them more often, maybe make them a fruit pie. I will see you tomorrow I need get back and home before tutor leaves." They continued to talk on her way out.
She left the building and went home to her son and his tutor looking over the sheets we filled. "You have a bright son there, Miss and so very well behaved." Zaya was mentally laughing as she was the beifongs tutor. "We will be seeing you next week?" Zaya nodded and Azuma ran at his mother.
After tutor left the two spent the rest of the day practicing fire bending and later on got out for ice cream.
In down town, the heads of four big triads were meeting. In the center a news papers was thrown, the title saying: entrepreneur wants to strangle triads
They murmured asking what they could. Then the door was broken open a group of young men wearing fancy suits came in. "We heard there was a meeting." The agni kai triad leader stood up but the terra threats pushed him back to his seat. "We will kill the snake and in payment the lighting ells get the dragon flats, no turf war for it in the future." The four leader looked at eachother murmuring.
The agni kai triad leader stood up. "Fine, you will get the territory and none of us will try to take it, but we won't be held responsible for the insects, got it?" The leader of the lighting ells shacked on it.
They left the meeting room, this was a day ago.
Currently Zaya and Azuma were eating ice cream. "Best part of the day." Azuma nodded smiling his eyes looking around. "You're still having a bath mister." Azuma pouted at that Comment and then everything changed with a flash.
authors note: Review please.