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MERRY CHRISTMAS ONE AND ALL!
HAPPY HANNUKAH AS WELL!
And if you don't celebrate a holiday during this joyous season…then…um…you must not be fun at parties.
JUST KIDDING! Then I hope you had a wonderful day.
I got bored, so there is now a picture of me on my profile page. It also includes my front door. So if you want to see my cool front door, then go there and click on the link.
You don't have to of coarse, but, I dunno. Maybe you were wondering what I looked like and if I was a real person, or a balding-hairy-backed-fifty year old man.
SOOO. It's winter break! YESSSSS. I am very happy as you can tell.
So, what has been up with me you ask? Aw, you're so kind.
Well, today at church (Roman Catholic. WEEE.) I sang my solo very well actually. I was a bit flat in the beginning, but towards the end it turned out very nice indeed. Verse two of Silent Night. An octave higher than normal, but its ok because I'm a soprano, so I can do that. Oh yes indeedy. Thank you, I accept your praise and complements. (Only joking about the praise and complements thing.)
Wow I'm in a hyper mood apparently. I'm listening to my new Pride & Prejudice soundtrack. Honestly, I don't think there's anyone hotter than Matthew Macfayden, who plays Mr. Darcy. ….except for Colin Firth I suppose. He's pretty dashing as well.
In conclusion, I think men should start wearing knickerbockers again, because I love the mens calves and the way they look. It is my weakness. A man can not have whimpy calves. And i really like the dresses from that time as well. In fact, that's the style of my soon-to-be-prom dress, which my mother is making for me. Anyway, I love the attire of the 1800's. Who else likes it? I think we should start a revolution.Out with slutty, back to modesty.
21
General Iroh was in quite a panic. His nephew had been missing for at least a week now, and Miss Kila had disappeared as well. All thesmall andescape boats were still tied in the hold, and no life preserves had been used. So the two hadn't run away together as far as he could tell.
Lady Melia was distraught. She had talked to the Prince the night before he had disappeared, and she was also looking for Kila as well. Where had she gone too? She had looked all over the ship where she thought Iroh may have missed. She checked in every closet, bathroom, cupboard, any place that Kila could have locked herself up in during her usual antics of acting retarded. But Zuko never usually did that sort of thing, so where was the irate prince?
Iroh was running out of time to find him. He had gotten a message from Admiral Zhao saying he would be inspecting Zuko's ship again in a month's time at a certain harbor. If he did not show up, Zuko and everyone aboard that ship would be arrested for treason and inability to follow directions.
Kila walked across the campus in a fast pace, trying to process this new devastating information. She quickly left the school area and walked across the street to the Subway for the rest of lunch, where she knew she could find Ashlee, who was babysittingZuko.
When she walked into the restaurant, she was relieved to find Ashlee and Zuko sitting at a table. Zuko was just eating and sulking in silence, because Ashley's boyfriend Calvin was also sitting with them and Ashlee seemed a little…preoccupied.
Kila slumped down next to Zuko and started banging her head on the table. Ashlee looked up from her…conversation with Calvin and asked "What's wrong?"
Kila looked up, and quickly replied with "Homework…I have no idea what's going on. I don't know what to do." She then continued with banging her head on the table.
"Oh, stop complaining. You have other things to occupy yourself with." Zuko said coldly, hinting that he wanted to go home.
"You know, you could help me a little with this predicament." Kila complained, massaging her forehead.
"I feel no need." Zuko said, picking up a piece of lettuce from his sandwich and eating it.
Kila's stomach growled as it reminded her that she hadn't eaten since breakfast. Then she remembered that she had left her money in her car. Cursing under her breath, she reached over to Zuko's sandwich, grabbed it, and took a monstrous bite out of it.
Zuko's eyes went wide for a second, amazed that such a small person could engulf such a large piece of sandwich. Then he remembered his current place and smacked Kila upside the head with his palm. "What did you do that for?"
"I'fm hunga" Kila replied with a full mouth, trying not to smile.
"Aw, that's cute." Ashlee said.
"Here Kila, you can have my potato chips." Calvin said, tossing over the bag of fried delectables. Kila pounced onto the bag like a lion pounces on a fat zebra with a limp.
"'fanks" Kila replied, and then swallowed the large lump of food. Zuko growled and huddled his food away from her prying eyes.
After lunch was over, Kila didn't feel much better. However, she had eaten, so that made her a bit happier. But she was in quite a dilemma: Now she had to figure out how to get Zuko and herself back to the past so she could fix it. She needed to know when Sozen's Comet would be scheduled to circle the earth, and she needed to know what in the world she was going to do.
When she and Zuko got back to her house, she immediately laid down on the couch. Jeff, her golden lab, came over and stuck his nose right in her face. Her father was on a business trip and her mom was at work, so she was home alone with the crabby prince.
"So when are you sending me back? I can't stand this time period. And I really can't stand you." Zuko complained, flopping down onto the couch as well. He picked up the remote and turned on the TV.
"You do realize that I'm going to have to go back with you?" Kila murmured to herself. However, Zuko didn't hear this remark, because the TV was too loud.
"The only thing I like about this time is this tee-vee thing. It's quite entertaining."
"Oh, so glad you approve." Kila rolled over, her back towards the TV and kicked Zuko in the process. "HEY!" he complained.
"Sorry" Kila replied back half heartedly. Thinking for a few seconds, she then turned back over onto her back and asked "Zuko, what exactly is Sozen's Comet?"
Zuko blinked for a few seconds, and then turned his head a fraction. "Where did you hear about that?"
"I read it in a book today, and I was curios."
"What do you mean you read it in a book today?"
"I told you before; your time is a bunch of myths to us really."
"No, not that. You read about Sozen's Comet?"
"Did I not just say that?"
"What did it say?" Zuko's attention was no longer focused on the TV, and Kila began to feel a bit uneasy.
"Oh, nothing really. It just said that the comet came, and the fire nation takes its power from it…It was quite vague." Kila said, being extremely vague herself.
"That's not all it said. You're lying, I can tell."
"What do you mean you can tell?"
"I can tell when you're lying; you're really not that good at it. Now tell me. What did this book say?" Zuko's anger was growing, and Kila grew even more uneasy.
"It just talked about the comet, I swear. But I want to know when it comes and stuff."
"It circles around every one hundred years."
"Yea yea, it said that. But during what season?"
Zuko raised an eyebrow. "It's due to circle around this summer."
Kila's eyes grew wide, and then she rolled over again. "This summer…" she thought.
Zuko was extremely perplexed. He knew something was up with that stupid girl. She was a horrible liar, as he had pointed out. But he also knew that she had read something else about the comet, and she didn't want to tell him. It was either news that she didn't agree with, or it was just plain news in general. Either way, it conflicted with him, and he needed to know about it. "What about the comet?" he asked.
"I told you everything I know. Leave me alone."
Zuko took in a deep breath, trying to calm himself down; he didn't want to burn the TV. He tried to relax and watch the show which that moment happened to be Family Guy (you know, because Fox is so random anyway.) Zuko really didn't understand half of what they were saying, mainly because it was information of the times that he didn't understand, ("Hey, who's Kirk Cameron? What's Les Miserables?") But it still entertained him, and that was really all that mattered.
Then that annoying ring began that really pissed Zuko off. It was called a 'fone' or something, but it annoyed him. Stupid thing, ringing all the time. Kila got up from the couch and moseyed on over to the receiver. "Hello?"
"THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA IS THERE INSIDE YOUR MIND!" screamed the receiver into poor Kila's sensitive ear. She quickly pulled the phone away from her head, squinting her eyes from the noise and damage to her ear drums.
"Wha…?" she began, but she heard a click on the other end as the line went dead. Kila blinked a couple of times at the phone and then laid it back down into the carriage. She turned around to sit back on the couch, but the phone rang again. She rolled her eyes and swiveled on her toe back around to the phone and picked it up. Holding it a tad farther away from her ear, she repeated "Hello?"
"ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS JUMP OVER THE MOON!" screamed the same voices from the contraption. Then the line went dead again. Kila began to giggle, and went back to the couch. Zuko had watched the spectacle, and was in quite a bit of shock.
"What the hell was that?" he asked.
"I'm guessing Jake, Ian, Samara and Stephanie. They're probably at Denny's or something and got bored." Kila replied, rubbing her ringing ears.
"So they called that thing just to scream something?"
"Pretty much." Kila's mood had improved greatly by that one little act. She began to hum the lyrics to herself.
All you need to do is jump over the moon
Leap of faith; take a, leap of faith.
Over the moon
Over the moon.
Over the-
"MOON!" Kila screamed, suddenly jumping up. "THE MOON!" She began to try and remember what happened that night with the full moon. "ZUKO! What did you wish for that one night?"
"…what one night?"
Kila rolled her eyes. "Oh come one. That last night we were on your ship. What did youwish for?"
Zuko raised an eyebrow. "Can you not guess?"
"Besides to capture the avatar I mean."
Zuko turned back towards the TV, and lied "Nothing."
"Come on! There must have been something!"
"No."
Kila's spirits took a great plunge. She sank back onto the couch, about to cry. "Damn. I thought I had it."
"I'm going to regret this, but had what?"
"Had the answer to how we got here!"
Zuko became confused. "The moon…?"
"Yes. We wished to get here on the moon, and we did."
"The moon granted our wish." Zuko replied back, dumbfounded.
"Yes."
He rolled his eyes. "When pigs fly."
"You fly?"
His anger flared, but he tried to keep it down. "We did not wish to come here, and then suddenly appear. It's a ridiculous idea."
"No it's not! Because the night before I appeared in your world, I wished to know why I was able to bend! Then it took me to your world, and I learned why! Then that last night we were in your world, I wished to go back home! And I did! It all fits!" Kila's fit of about to cry changed rapidly to wanting to jump up and down. "Come on, you have to admit it works!"
"You have an overactive imagination." Zuko replied dully. Kila grunted.
"What did you wish for?" She pressed.
"It is none of your business."
"AH HAH! So there was something else! OH MAN! I figured it out!" Kila finally gave in to her urge and jumped up and down. Her dog Jeff watched her, wagging his tail eagerly.
"You drank too much of that disgusting 'so-dah' stuff during lunch." Zuko said, turning his gaze away from the jumping person and back onto the TV.
"You know I had water with lunch." Kila replied panting from her A.D.D. dance. "Besides, I just figured out how to get you home; you should be grateful."
"Wishing on the moon is not a reasonable excuse to substitute for a real reason on how we got here. It is too bizarre of an idea, and it proves that you have lost your mind."
"Well, the fact that we changed time periods is bizarre in itself, so why shouldn't the reason be bizarre as well?"
Zuko didn't have a good comeback for that, so he just rolled his eyes and turned up the volume to the TV.
However, Kila would not leave him alone. "You did wish to come here, didn't you?"
"I did no such thing."
"You did. Admit it." She crawled back on the couch and hugged her knees to her chest, a large grin on her face.
"I will not."
"So you did do it then!"
"I did not."
"Oh, poo. You ruin everything. Would a smile kill you?"
"Probably."
Another week passed, and Kila eagerly waited for the full moon, so she could test her theory. Zuko kept telling her that she needed to keep looking for other ideas, just incase this one didn't work ("It probably won't anyway."). But Kila's mind was set, and she wasn't changing it.
The only problem came when she realized she had to tell her mother that she may be disappearing again, for who knows how long of a time.
This chance came the day when the full moon would be appearing that night. (Yes, time passes very quickly.) Kila was helping her mother unload groceries from the car, and she quickly said "Hey mom, I may be…um…gone for awhile."
"What do you mean honey? Class trip?" her mom asked, as she pulled a milk cartoon out of the bag and set it on the kitchen counter.
"Um…not exactly." Kila said. "Although it does kinda influence…err…mostly everything."
Her mom stopped moving and just looked at her suspiciously. "What did you do?"
"I didn't do anything! It's what I have to do." Kila said, pulling a bag of chips out. "Wow…that sounded corny." She opened the bag and pulled out a few chips and bit into them. "Anyway…it's hard to explain."
Her mom leaned against the counter and folded her arms. "Start talking."
After many "Stop joking"s, "That's impossible"s, and "are you sure you're not sick?"s later, Kila had finally told her mother where she had been for the last seven months, where Zuko came from, and that she was an avatar. Her mother, of course, didn't believe one part of her story.
"Honey, it's not possible for a person to 'bend' things. You can't create fire, or anything." She felt Kila's forehead for the seventh time to make sure she wasn't feverish, and then chuckled. "I know you had a bad experience when you were kidnapped, but it's not right to make up stories so you won't think of it anymore. If you want, we can take you to a psychiatrist."
Kila sighed and leaned against the counter as well, quite put out. Just then Zuko came in from throwing the rubber toy around for Jeff, and he walked over to the cabinet and pulled out a glass for water. Kila looked at him and smiled, a plan forming in her head.
"Hey Zuko, I bet I could beat you at an Agni Kai." She said threateningly.
"What in the world is an agnee kay?" her mom asked, pulling the chips from Kila's hands and rolling up the bag. "And stop eating; you'll ruin your appetite."
Zuko's eyes widened from being asked that question in front of other people, and the quietly muttered "I thought we weren't supposed to talk about that hypocrite."
Kila's mother groaned. "Oh, don't tell me that he thinks he's from the past too! Honestly Kila, now it's just gotten ridiculous."
"So Zuko, you think I would win?" Kila asked again, ignoring her mother.
Zuko laughed. "In your dreams. I would wipe the floor with you."
"Then let's go. Right now, outside."
Zuko stopped filling his glass and starred at Kila, his eyebrows furrowed from thought. He placed his glass down and said "Fine. I need to practice anyway." He downed his water, pulled off his shirt and walked back outside.
"If you still don't believe me mom, come out and watch us. You'll be in for a surprise." Kila said, turning on her heal and marching outside. Her mother, of course, followed her, wondering if she should call an ambulance for the children's damaged brains.
Ok, so in the next chapter, we finally get some action again! And you all know me: Yay action, boo fluff. (Because I really suck at writing fluff.)
Hoped you like it. If you're really nice, I may pop out another one before break is over.
Only if you're nice though.
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