Chapter Five: World's Biggest Superslide

Ceres wandered the streets, looking at all the amazing buildings and towers. What interested her most was the enormous castle at the top of the mountain. It looked like it was made entirely of ivory, but she knew that was impossible. There wasn't enough ivory to build that, plus it was against the law in the Earth Nation.

Ceres was about to walk across what she thought was a road when she saw something slide down it. It was a basket. It then went down a giant slide. Her eyes widened in surprise and delight. She had an idea that would give her something to do for the day. She stood there, waiting for another basket.

A basket slid up. All it had in it were blankets. Just as it was about to keep going down the hill Ceres jumped in and held on tight. Leslie made a squeak of fear and held onto Ceres as tightly as she could. The basket slowed to the edge and Ceres looked at her fate. She was having second thoughts but now it was too late.

The basket quickly went down the slope, gaining speed every second. The slope was almost so steep that it fell into the air but Ceres leaned back so it wouldn't. The slide went straight and curved in circles and all other kinds of paths. Ceres glanced to the side and smirked at what she saw.

Three other kids were traveling beside her in another basket. She saw one of them look over at her and he smirked as well. With a swift hand movement his basket sped up. Ceres leaned forward, trying to make hers go faster. It hadn't been announced, but it was a race now, and Ceres was determined to win.

Leslie made a high pitched squeak, trying to negotiate with Ceres to stop. Ceres ignored her. She was determined to beat those three kids to the end of the slide. Suddenly they jumped the slide and went off the side onto one of the buildings. Not going to let herself be beaten she jumped the slide and followed them. They were head-to-head on somebody's roof.

They came off the roof and bounced through somebody's house, breaking a pot. "Sorry!" called the boy in the other basket. Ceres bounced through behind them. Then they slid down another roof top and went through somebody's house. A cat with a mustache fought with the lemur on the boy's shoulder until the lemur threw it onto Ceres' arms. There it fought with Leslie until it fell off.

"Remember men, you need to be ready for anything!" said a soldier to the other men in front of him. Then the two baskets bounced in front of them. They fell in astonishment. Then the two baskets bounced onto a slide again and were heading to where they moved them. The contents of the two racing baskets all screamed as another basket was brought to the top. Then it was moved out of the way. They sighed in relief. Then another one was brought up and they screamed again. They smashed into it and were knocked out of the baskets. They fell quickly, their target being Horu's cabbage cart. They smashed into it, breaking it into pieces, along with all the cabbages.

"My cabbages!" cried Horu. "You're going to pay for this!" He didn't realize that Ceres was there, but now he didn't care. Guards rushed to the scene.

"Two cabbages please." said the boy, trying to cover up for this unfortunate occurrence. The guards grabbed their hands and led them to the castle to receive judgment. Ceres looked at who she'd been racing and saw that two of them were from the water tribe. The other one; she couldn't tell where he was from. He had strange arrow tattoos all over his body which interested her. She wanted to learn more about him.

I decided to bring in Aang and the gang. They'll probably have an important part in the story. Who knows, it'll probably end up as an edited version of "The City of Omashu". Who knows? Not me!