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Within a room located in a hotel, the blinds were open and the sun was just shining in the room lighting it up completely. However the person in the room was completely unaffected by this as while sunlight was bathing them from head to toe. They were still soundly sleeping as if it were still the middle of the night.
A person entered the room sighing as they looked upon them sleeping still despite everything that would normally wake a person up. At least that what most people would assume at least. Attempting to waking them was easier said then done as they were clutching to the sheet with both their hands and interesting enough their feet making rather hard get it off them. Although it was not impossible as they got to the side of the bed and blew the sheets upwards with gust of wind causing the sleeping person to jerk upwards suddenly thanks to their grip on it.
"What the hell was that for?" Toph yelled tossing the sheet off herself.
"We are going to be late as you can not sleep any longer" Ranma told her.
"What are you doing in here anyway?" she asked stretching her limbs while then going to scratch underneath her arms.
"Neither Akane or Shampoo could get you up so they came to get me" he told her.
Shuffling over to her bag she felt through it for where the clothing was packed within. Kicking off the rest of the stuff on top of her bed, Toph laid down her clothes on the flat surface and checked over making sure that she had everything there. A practice she started after coming to live with Nodoka and the Tendos, since just throwing on her clothes and fixing them when needed. It did not really fly with either of them and neither were one that you wanted to cross or get angry.
"What time is it?" she asked looking over in Ranma's direction.
"Past the time you should have gotten up in the first place" he told her before grabbing the extra large T-shirt she used for sleeping.
"Ha…Ha very funny really what time is it" the blind bender asked reaching for her towel which she left on chair near the bathroom door.
Her face then became visible angry as she realized that she had not overslept but would miss breakfast as result of that.
"I managed to save you a little something so at least you have something to tide you over until lunch" Ranma told her.
"You better have" the earthbender exclaimed still pissed she missed her chance to sit down and enjoy her breakfast even though she had huge dinner the previous night.
Sometime later….
Toph and Ranma along with the rest of their homeroom class were standing before the ice skating ring that this time around was open. The previous time the group tried it was closed for maintenance and they could not get in. So the field trip itinerary was altered so that their free day was changed from it original scheduled time to the other day.
"Are you sure we should even be here as the place seem pretty empty" Toph said as she did not notice that many people here in the ring.
"Maybe they are all just on the ice" Akane suggested.
"Everyone…All at once. This place does not have a ring that big" she replied.
"She is right this place does seem a little empty for somewhere that suppose to be a business" Ryoga spoke out as his seismic sense was not anywhere near Toph's but it was enough that he could back up what she was saying.
"It's an indoor ice skating ring and we are here out of season so that should be expected" the teacher said.
Just having to shrug one shoulders over the question of why the place seem so empty. The class then slip up between the girls and the guys in order put on their skates. Why the area were separated by gender was because it might have something to do not so much with people coming in but those going out. The areas had showers and other things that allow those that worked up a sweat from skating or wanted to change into a outfit meant for fitting for skating.
While the guys were mostly just getting their skates on and that was pretty much it. Many of them did not want to really come here and those that did merely wanted to skate. Some of them having liked it and others wanted to try it. Interested in seeing just how different ice skating was from roller skating.
As the girls, things were mostly the same however there were those that took this chance to wear ice skating outfits of various kind. While all this was going on Toph just stood near the door waiting as she just wanted to get this over with already.
It was not like she was enjoy this that might. Rarely did not she being in place where she could not 'see' at all. Going swimming at a pool did not really bother her that much as long as she was able to touch the bottom and it was not made of some kind of plastic. Sure her curse would activate once she got in the water but playing around on the shallow end was really that bad. This was not a pool but body of frozen water where she be truly blind.
"Where are you skates" someone asked her.
"You mean these" Toph said hitting her foot against the floor then showing offer her left shoe which now had a ice skate along the sole.
"How…" they began to ask before she stopped them.
"Metalbending…these are metal shoes after all" she said doing the same with her right shoe.
Getting out of the ring itself split the class into three groups of people. There were those that were just falling all over themselves. Unable to stand up properly or constantly falling over and onto the ice. Many of them had left on the sidelines out cold or those just struggling to get themselves upright refusing to give up. Despite the many failures they were experiencing.
The next group that was able to stand up and slowly skate around and up to the their ability to just move around without falling. However they had to focus on what they were doing as one laps in their concentration and they could find themselves on the ice rubbing what part of their body that they had landed on and in some case who they crashed into or landed upon.
The third and final group were the people that knew how to skate at least an amateur level allow them to just go about skating without worrying about falling down. They had enough skill that they could get by without that yet they could not do anything more advanced. Then there were those that made look so easy it was like they had been doing this for years or were just naturals at skating.
Circling around the ring, racing back and forth along with managing to dodge others or keep them from falling as they went by was Shampoo. Who really seem to be enjoying herself out here on the ice.
Are you sure that the both of you are from village deep within China Akane asked as Mousse was helping her learn the basic.
"Of course yet her family is well known for having a number of both master waterbender and earthbender. Regardless if you are a waterbender or not within their family skating is something that is taught normally. From what I been told it consider as a form of training for them to fine tune their bending skills. However Shampoo was never….." Mousse said yet stopped near the end of for reason Akane could kind of guess it was after she went missing.
Both teenagers jumped as Shampoo appeared behind them suddenly .
"Don't do that both" them yelled as almost having fallen on their feet thanks to the shock she gave them.
Letting out a snicker she point over to area of the ring near the center that did not have that many people around which cause Shampoo two friends both new and old to do the same.
"Ranma! You better hope I do not find you. Just cause I trapped out here does not mean you are going to pay for this" Toph yelled as she was sliding along in very wobbling way yet managing to maintain herself.
Ranma of course was not that far away from his best friend ensure that she does not fall over yet at the same time managed to stay out of her grasp.
While Ryoga was just hanging onto the side not really wanting to venture outward. After all what if he got distracted or dizzy. There no telling where he could end up before he even realized he was there in the first place.
As the class was skating around there was two figures that over looking them. One being a petite brown hair teenage girl whose puffy hair when down to almost her butt in pink skating outfit. The other was tall teenage guy with short brown hair in white suit. Both did not seem that pleased to see Ranma's and Toph's class in the ring.
