AN This fic was written for episode 5 of the Fanfiction Power Hour podcast - available now wherever you get your podcasts.
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The Strange Case of Bumi Button
On his deathbed, he coughed "come closer Rafael (not the painter or the turtle) let me tell you about my life before i shuffle off this mortal coil"
Rafael stepped closer to the sickly looking king. Bumi earth bended a chair and Rafael sat down in it.
"I can stay for a minute" he said "but I don't have time for all your made up stories. I have work in the city to do"
Bumi then bended some restraints to ensure that the boy would stay and listen the whole time.
"Comfortable?" Bumi asked he made the chair tilt back and forth. "I call it a ROCKing chair" he then let out his boisterous chortle.
Rafael unphased just smiled at the old man and said "I am comfortable, thanks Bum"
"Good. Now as I was saying this is the time I and the avatar won 2,000 gold pieces in the annual omoshu mail race"
"You delivered 2,000 gold pieces worth of mail?"
"No. Now stop interrupting"
He coughed and carried on "aang and I were feeling bored…..
"Oh this sure looks steep…are you sure this is safe?" Aang asked looking down the longest mail track in Omoshu
"Nope!" Relied a young Bumi
"Perfect" smiled aang
They hopped in the cart.
"One two-" before aang could get to three Bumi used his bending to send them down the slide.
"Faster! Make us go faster aang!"
"How?!"
"Use your bending airhead!"
Aang pushed them forward with a gust of wind
Bumi laughed maniacally
Aang pulled out his staff to get even more air behind them till they were careening down the track.
Both of them were laughing and whooping
"Uhhhh Bumi… what are we gonna do about that?"
"About what?" The cheerful boy replied
"That!"
He pointed ahead to where the track sloped upward. Bumi snorted
"Give a big gust of wind!"
Aang complied and as they came up to the tilt Bumi bended the ramp to be steeper and the boys flew into the air
People below screamed at the sight.
"Wow" said Bumi "I've never seen the city from this angle. Neat!"
Aang laughed "i see every city from this angle"
"I know you never shut up about it"
The cart showed no sign of slowing down…gravity pulled it back down, but not toward a track, Aang desperately bended to try to get them in the right direction
"We're gonna crash!" The little nomad yelled
In Bumi's bedroom Flopsy licked Rafael, covering him in goat gorilla drool
He struggled against his restraints "uh Bum?"
Bumi waved his hands and Rafael lifted his arms to wipe off all the slobber.
"What happened next?" He asked
"What?" Bumi replied, munching on some rock candy
"What happened with you and Aang?"
"Oh i thought you weren't interested in made up stories?"
"Well this one isn't made up…right?" Rafael asked hopeful
"What happened next was that Aang and I won the competition and got 2,000 gold coins. The end. Now get out!"
Bumi de-bended the chair from existence and Rafael fell to the ground.
He shuffled out but stopped at the door "see you next week?"
Bumi replied "if I live that long" then put on a very theatrical coughing fit, but winked at the boy too.
Thanks for reading - and listening. We love you guys. Also I'm literally so sorry for this formatting I did type it on my phone cause my computer was not available at the time of recording and I do love you but apparently not enough to go back and edit this fic. 3 -ruth