A/N: I want to thank genissis123 (aka mea) and my friend Mia for commenting and supporting this story!
I am back for a while anyway, I am going to college here soon but I will try to find time to write to you guys. My schedule will be packed but I will try my hardest, it seems like I write better when I have school work to do verses when I have nothing to do in the summer time. Don't be mad if nothing comes out till December cause that will be my next big break time. Love you all!
Toph was in an unusually cheery mood when she arrived at the Academy, this scared her students more than her normal mood did. They thought that with the turn of events that she would have given them a free day, sadly they were wrong, Toph had other plans and assisted them in quickly advancing in their Metalbending.
After a long day, painful as most of her students would have referred to it, Toph was back to taking small calls with some of her advanced students. They needed the experience and she was more than welcome to make them do all the work, Zuko had set a date for the next meeting to be on Ember Island. Toph wasn't sure that was going to be such a good idea since Sokka didn't know about Zuko knocking up Sokka's ex-girlfriend.
She was looking forward to spending time at Ember Island, it always seemed to bring the Gaang closer together and make awkward situations not as bad. She sat in her apartment and played with her space rock bracelet, making it shift into different shapes and figures. This was the best gift Sokka ever gave to her, too bad he had to go and loose his Space Sword. Idiot. She laughed to herself and went to bed, she would meet up with Sokka at Ember Island in a few days and all would be well again. Hopefully.
The days drug on and on, there wasn't much to do except boss the kids around at the Academy but even then there was a limit on how much fun that could be. Aang and Katara would be picking her up soon so they could embark on a new trip to Ember Island, Toph hopped that Aang's children were well behaved and that they weren't going to be a big pain in the ass. Her students knew that she was going to be gone and she was going to put someone in charge while she was gone, who that was scared them more than anything. It took her a long time to find someone who would be willing to watch the Lilly livers for about a week, thankfully Haru volunteered to take on the task. She was glad that it was another Earthbender and not some weird non bender that would let them do as they wished, at least she hoped that's how things would go.
Aang showed up shortly after Haru arrived and Toph was able to give him a quick run down on what the students needed to do while she was gone. He was glad to help her, he always wanted to learn how to Metalbend but didn't have the courage to ask Toph to teach him and after seeing how she handled her students he wasn't sure he wanted to any more.
"Thanks Haru." Toph smiled as she climbed aboard Appa.
"No problem Toph, everything is under control." Haru waved goodbye to them as they departed and flew away. Toph only hoped that what he said was going to be true, some of those kids could be tough to handle sometimes.