Okay, I'll be trying to make this chapter a bit longer! Yay!
(Okay, this is the last time I'll type this: to see the disclaimer, please refer to chapters 1, 2, 3, and/or 4.)
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Slowly, attentively, the three tread into the kitchen. It was dark- and there weren't any windows.
"Zuko, could you perhaps light it up a bit in here?" Katara asked.
"Oh…uh, sure."
With a small sort of waving gesture, he created a small flame.
"That's better."
The kitchen looked…unearthly to Zuko and Katara, but to Toph it was a few objects that her footsteps' vibrations "echoed" off of. Katara glanced around a bit. An empty water basin, wooden countertops and cabinets, a knife block…
Wait…A knife block? Katara pondered nervously.
There weren't any knives in it, and she supposed that was a good thing. But if there aren't any knives in there…She tried to usher the idea out of her mind, but in this place it seemed a completely plausible explanation.
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Aang opened his eyes. He was looking at…himself. Enclosed in something. The wall can't be that thick! He thought. And then he heard them again. Aang walked out of the…whatever it was. No one was in the room. The laughter became louder as he mad his way down the hall. He turned a corner, and there they were. Laughing at the little blind girl. Laughing at the nervous waterbender. Laughing at the uneasy-looking firebender.
One of them stepped forward.
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Zuko and Katara quickly turned, hearing metal clatter on the floor.
"What was that?" Toph asked tensely.
Katara bent over for a closer look.
It was a knife.
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Aang tried to shove his way past a few of them. He wanted to see just what was going on. Another stepped forward. Then a third.
They were grasping knives. One bent down to pick up a dropped knife.
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Katara stared at the knife, her eyes wide. It began to hover. She felt like a mouse- a mouse locked in the eyes of a hungry snake.
Before she could react, she was yanked down onto her knees with Toph, as the knives flew threw the air where their shoulders and necks had just been.
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A/N: Ooh! Another cliffy! I'm so evil… But don't worry. I'll be typing yet MORE today!
--Serenitae
