Disclaimer: Don't own Avatar. There you go.
You know that you've read them. You know that you've noticed them. Clichés! They're all around us! Peeking around every corner! Ready to jump on us and torture us to death from the pure non-creative madness!
So, this is just me making fun of them all. (AKA it is meant to be funny.) I don't really know where I'm going with this, but we'll see. I have a few cliché's in mind that I'm gonna write small stories about. If you think of any other ones that you would like to see butchered apart and on the computer screen, review and tell me!
Because I'm just gonna be mean with these. MUWA HAHAHAHA.
PS. Count how many clichés there are! It's fun!
Cliché #1: Zuko x Katara
Part one
Aang jumped up onto Appa's saddle and secured a bag to the side of it. "Sokka, have you gone and found enough food for the trip yet?" he called over his shoulder towards the young teenager beneath him.
"Why can't Katara find food for once?" Sokka complained, because he was really good at it. "I'm always the one that has to find it. Or Momo? He has his animal instincts and everything, he can find food!"
"Oh stop complaining Sokka." Katara said as she tied up a sleeping bag. "We all have to pull our weight around here. Don't forget that I'm the one that fixes all of your rips and tears in your clothes after you finish playing warrior."
"I do not play warrior! It's called practice! Something that you should be doing with your waterbending! Who knows when it will come in handy?" Sokka accused.
"I do practice!" Katara said indignantly, standing up and placing her hands on her hips.
"No, you play around with the water." Sokka corrected.
"Hey guys, it's not that big of a deal. Sokka, just go find the food, ok?" Aang said, gliding down from Appa's big fuzzy back towards the rivaling siblings.
"PLAY WITH WATER? At least I don't fiddle around with a hunk of metal!" Katara screeched.
"This is not a hunk of metal! It's a boomerang!" Sokka screamed.
"A boomerang when used properly, a hunk of metal when you use it." Katara said, waggling her eyebrows.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"What do you think?"
"That you're jealous that Dad gave me something and not you?"
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"Uh, guys?" Aang said quietly, but neither was listening.
"That dad didn't love you as much as me." Sokka said, folding his arms.
"That's not true! He loved us equally!" Katara said, taken aback by Sokka's harsh words.
"Sure, that's what he wanted you to think." Sokka responded.
Katara couldn't take it anymore. She was so angry with her brother for even suggesting such a thing; she pushed past him and ran off into the nearby woods.
"KATARA!" Aang called after her, but he was held back by Sokka.
"Let her go Aang, girls need to cry sometimes." He replied, and then started tying what Katara had left unfinished.
Katara ran blindly through the conveniently placed woods. How could Sokka say such a thing? It was completely uncalled for. She knew that it was just from the heat of the argument, but still. Katara sniffed and whipped her eyes. Looking around, she realized that she was completely and utterly lost.
"Oh bother." Katara mumbled to herself, and then noticed that she had found herself next to a small bubbling stream, gurgling happily. Trotting over towards it, she filled up her canteen and washed her face to rub the puffiness away from crying.
Prince Zuko was miraculously walking in the same exact forest, looking for the avatar. Iroh was traveling with him, sipping tea.
"I know the avatar is here uncle. I can smell him." Zuko informed.
"Yes Prince Zuko." Iroh replied, not really listening.
"Can't you just feel his presence?" Zuko said, looking up towards the trees.
"Yes Prince Zuko." Iroh repeated.
"Are you even listening to me?" Zuko asked.
"Yes Prince Zuko" Iroh said, sipping his tea.
"Would you like to go skinny dipping after this?"
"Yes Prince…hey." Iroh said, finally catching on. He heard the faint sound of a few rabid fangirls screaming in the background from the sheer idea of skinny dipping with Prince Zuko, but thought nothing of it, because they would scream about anything.
Just then Zuko held out his hand, motioning for his uncle to be quiet. Peeking through a couple trees, he noticed that one water tribe girl that always traveled with the avatar. She was crouching near a puny little stream, rubbing her face.
"UNCLE! I had a brilliant idea." Zuko said, a wicked smile spreading across his face. "We will capture that girl, and the avatar will come to us willingly! What a totally original idea!"
"Yes Prince Zuko."
"Quick, get the men from back there." Zuko said pointing to where his men suddenly appeared to.
"Yes Prince Zuko." Iroh repeated as he trotted off to inform the men about the not-so-creative plan.
Katara heard a twig snap, but thought nothing of it; it was probably a woodland creature playing around. She then heard some whisperings coming from a few trees, but again thought nothing of it, because animals made strange sounds also. She then heard a few curse words, and again thought nothing of it, because Katara is incredibly naive in clichés.
Just then, a bunch of fire nation soldiers jumped out from their hiding places, and Katara screamed. They ran towards her, but she used the water whip to strike them away. Unfortunately for poor Katara, there were too many soldiers and she was quickly outnumbered and outmatched. One of the soldiers smacked her head with a two by four plank of wood and she was knocked out cold.
Zuko stood over the unconscious Katara and smiled wickedly again. His plan was unfaultable. Nothing could stop him now!
After a few hours passed, Aang grew weary about what happened to Katara, and he began to pace around their campsite. Sokka, like the caring brother that he is, was sharpening his boomerang without another care in the world.
"Sokka, where do you think she is?" Aang questioned.
"Probably off prancing with woodland creatures, you know. Doing girl stuff. Shopping." Sokka replied, holding his boomerang up to the light. "Few scrapes here…better buff those out…"
"Shopping in the woods?" Aang questioned.
"Yea. They'll spring up strip malls anywhere these days." Sokka said, shrugging. "She should be back soon."
"I hope so." Aang said, sitting down on Appa's large furry tail.
"So, put her in the prison hold." Zuko ordered as his men climbed back onto the ship.
"Now Prince Zuko, a prison hold is no place for a lady." Iroh said, wagging his index finger.
"Oh, ok then." Zuko said shrugging. "Put her in a room then."
"There are no rooms available. We're just gonna have to bunk her with you." Iroh said shrugging.
"Oh. Ok. I don't have any problems with that." Zuko said, also shrugging.
"Perfect. Tea in my room in half an hour."
"Wait, why doesn't she stay in your room? With my raging teenage hormones, wouldn't it be safer for her to stay in your room?"
"Eh. I dunno. Plot device." Iroh said, striding off to his room.
Alrighty…so I'm just trying to see if I wanna keep this up. I guess it depends on what you all say! Was it funny? Was it just annoying? Lend me your ears…erm…opinions…whatever.
SeethingxShadows
