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Once Appa had good rest, it was time for them to move out as they could not stay on this mountain top for too long after all. The badgermole girl just sat there watching as she did not understand what Aang and the others were doing. Picking up what they had taken off Appa during their time here and putting back on him.
A concept of belonging really did not register in her mind as she merely wore clothes cause Aang dressed her. Before that it was just what she had on she never questioned them and nor did her parents.
Allowing Aang to place her in the saddle after being convince to be helped in there in the first place. She noticed he him moving away from her. Not through earthbending cause she was not on the ground but through her enhanced hearing she barely managed to notice him moving to Appa's head. Not wanting to stay where she was dropped off she then managed to find her way to the Sky Bison's head.
"Toph what are you doing. Stay here and stop as what do you think that you are doing" Katara called out the younger girl.
Kicking off the water tribe girl she continued to look around on Appa's head. Of course it was not easy as she was truly blind at the moment as Appa's head was full of fur thus she could not see on it. She was an earthbender after all not a furbender. As result she was aimless searching and slipped off the Sky Bison's head as result.
Katara had look like pretty said 'I told you so' as she knew this would happen after all she could only see on the ground. Yet immediately felt bad for thinking something like this about her as she was suppose to be a member of their team after all. However that feeling quickly faded over what happened next as Aang grabbed and she began cling to him again like before.
"Are you just going to let her do that…again" his waterbending master said in somewhat annoyed tone.
"She scared as flying is not something that she get used too that fast you know" he told.
( I am not ) Toph told him though she did not let go of Aang however.
"Sure you are" Aang replied as the bagermole girl just glared in the direction she heard his voice.
Few days later…
Aang stood in the middle of cave that Toph had made as this was to be his very first earth bending lesson under her. Her method was different then what he would have expected since after all she did still see herself more as a badgermole girl then just a plain girl.
One thing he noticed about Toph was while she was able to stand up on both feet instead of walking like that, she walked around on all four instead. Along with his plan to teach her potty training he planned to teach her how to walk like a normal person too. While he already gave her the first of her own lessons already it was now time for his.
"So what do I do first" the Avatar asked very eager to get started.
Jumping up Toph forced him down on to all four himself. She then jump back and where her entrance to makeshift cave was and closed it up.
( Come over here ) Toph told him
Aang stood up but quick loud bark got him to get back down on all fours.
( Now come over here ) she repeated.
"How can I?" his reply.
( Like this ) she said as she walked over there to him and then back to where she was.
Of course their first lesson ended in horrible mess as not only was Aang an airbending avatar trying to learn the style of bending that was the opposite of his own. He was not even being taught the typical way for human to learn earthbending or bending in general, he was being taught the original way from someone that also learned this way as well. Something that probably only a few avatar through the long existence of the avatar have learned. After all the very first benders that learn bending in the first place were not Avatars themselves. They were just normal people that watching the original benders(three animals along with the moon and the tides) and learn for themselves.
As time went on things did not really get easier either for him
( Try harder. You are like me so this should not be this hard! ) Toph demand out Aang who still could not find her.
How was she suppose to teach him if he could even get the most basic thing down. She unable to realize that the seismic sense (seeing through earthbending) was actually very advance thing. To her it was basic as this was how she and badgermoles made up for their lack of eyesight.
"I am trying" he yelled at her.
( No you are not. Try harder! ) she told him
( Fine give up then ) she tell him after 'seeing' that he no longer even trying to find her like she been telling him to. As in her mind she had told him everything he need to know in order to use badgermole method of sight.
Pushing him up out her makeshift cave pissed he gave up like that.
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"Aang maybe she just not the right teacher for you after all. Sure you were told to find someone that waits and listen, however that does not mean the first one you find happen to be the one" Katara told him.
"Maybe you are right, Katara" Aang said even though he did not fully agree with her on this issue.
"Her methods are not really work out as you still have firebending to learn after all. We all know how hard that going to be but on top all this you have to beat the Firelord before Sozin's Comet at the end of the summer" Sokka told him.
"Yeah how she even come along in her own lesson as this another reasons I do not think she the perfect choice for you, Aang. You have to take out time to teach her when she could been still teaching you earthbending" Katara told him
"Hey did you guy hear something just now" Aang said as he was sure that he had felt something just know.
"No maybe you are just hearing things, Aang" his waterbending master told him.
He seem to agree with them both at first as even if it was earthbending learning it was his opposite element. Maybe it was him that was really was not trying hard enough after all. Going to where he hear that something turns out be a pile of fruits and vegetables on the ground.
'Could she have overheard us talking' immediately came to his mind as it seem he was learning something as something after all.
Trying to focus on this feeling he felt before he eventually managed to find Toph who was busy struggling to talk using just her two legs rather then on all fours. Things were not going that well for her though as her 'sight' was mostly base around her walking around on all fours. Thus just using her legs for walking it really cut down on her field of 'view' as she was having trouble getting use to it.
When she fell she just got up again and again to not stopping as she felt if she show her advancement in her training then he might try harder in his own. It seem that Toph was so focus on what she was doing that she did not even notice Aang was close to her until he caught once when she fell.
Push him off she stumble as she continued try and walk upright on her own. Of course Aang did not let this stop him as he kept at his attempt to help her own with her own sort of training. Eventually she did allow him to help her out and did not even know that he had been using seismic sense to help Toph out with her own walking lessons.
When she was no longer focus on her own lesson and she relaxed she noticed that Aang was doing this and was quick to tell him this. Though this was pretty much a shock to Aang who at first did not believe until Toph managed to show off that he did.