The Promise Chapter Two
I don't own Digimon or Avatar: Last Airbender
Chapter Two
I don't own Digimon or Avatar: Last Airbender
Daisuke, Flame, and Suki were making their way up the mountain hoping to find the creature the villagers in Yu Dao were talking about. Daisuke sighed as they reached the top only to find an empty cave and nothing else. "Looks like that rumor was all it was, a rumor." She said sadly as Suki patted her shoulder with a smile.
"Well the important thing is you confirmed it," Daisuke looked at her friend and smiled.
"I know but I was actually hoping that it was a dragon so I could bring it back to the safety of the Fire Nation capital," she said and Suki smiled and nodded.
"Don't worry I'm sure you, me and Flame will find dragons hiding out there in the world, just have-," she was then cut off when a loud roar emitted from deep inside the cave. The two women gasp as Flame growled and stood in front of them like a shield. Just in time too as a large blast of fire came from the cave which Flame blocked with his wings and a second later a large creature emerged from the cave making Daisuke gasp.
"It's a dragon!" Daisuke said happily and sure enough it was a dragon that looked to be the same age as Flame and was the same size only with a slimmer body type, its scales were ruby red in color. "And it's a female," she added. The female dragon growled charging towards Daisuke, Suki and Flame who got in front of the girls and rammed his head against the female dragon's head, the two dragons began fighting each other as Daisuke and Suki backed away watching the fight.
"I can't believe there's a fourth dragon in the world," Suki said amazed.
"Yeah but if I don't stop this, Ran and Shae might be the only ones left," Daisuke replied running towards the two dragons. "Flame stop it!" she shouted causing the female dragon to notice Daisuke and it breathed a jet of fire at her but Suki stepped in front of Daisuke using her shield to protect herself and Daisuke from the dragon's attack. Flame who saw his mother attacked roared and was about to attack when Daisuke shouted at him. "Flame sit!" he looked at his mother confused but he nevertheless obeyed stopping his attack and Daisuke walked towards the female dragon slowly. "Hey there," she said but the dragon growled spotting Daisuke's meteor-hook swords, Daisuke saw this and she slowly removed them from her back setting them down on the ground and she held her hand out in front of her. "It's okay. I'm not going to hurt you. I want to help." She told the dragon who stopped growling but backed away slightly making Daisuke stop walking but she kept her hand out.
"Careful Daisuke," Suki said and Daisuke smiled and nodded before turning back to the dragon.
"You look to be about two years old just like my son, Flame. You must've hatched in this world all alone with no one else but know this; you're not alone. Other than Flame there are two other dragons living with me and if you'll allow me I can give you a new home where you can be with your own kind. What do you say?" she asked the female dragon who stared at Daisuke for a second then at Flame and she could see the love he's experienced from this woman in front of her, she looked back to Daisuke and walked forwards placing her snout against Daisuke's outstretched hand making her smile. "Thank you for your trust. How about I give you a name now?" she asked making the female dragon look into Daisuke's eyes. "Hmm…I got it. How do you like the name Ruby?" she asked making the dragon now named Ruby's tail wag like a happy puppy as she licked Daisuke causing her to giggle before she wiped the slobber off her face. "Okay let's head back to Yu Dao," she said.
"Yeah knowing Zuko he's probably worried about you," Suki said walking down the mountain with Flame and Daisuke following, Daisuke then turned back to Ruby and waved.
"Come on Ruby. Let's go, the rest of your life is ahead of you." Ruby smiled and followed after her queen. Meanwhile Aang, Sokka, Katara and Toph were flying back to Ba Sing Se on Appa.
"Ugh," Sokka said watching as his sister and Aang held hands.
"What everyone does it," Toph said as she picked her nose.
"I was talking about them not yo—," Sokka said turning his head and seeing Toph picking her nose. "Oh yeah that too," he added before Toph stood up.
"Well, it's been fun guys, but I gotta get back to my school," she said.
"Leaving already Toph?" Katara asked her.
"Yeah. Someone's gotta keep the lily livers – I mean, my students in line." She answered.
"Wait! You can't leave me alone with them! The oogie-osity's only gonna get worse after you're gone! How am I supposed to keep my food down?!" Sokka whispered to her.
"Well, you could come with me." Toph replied with a grin and Sokka hugged her tightly.
"Thank you! You're a lifesaver," he said gratefully before turning to Aang and Katara. "Katara? Aang? I'm going with Toph. To check out her school, not because you two are giving me the oogies or anything."
"Hm? Oh! That sounds good! We'll pick you up on the way back from Ba Sing Se." Katara told him.
"Just give Appa a second to land you guys," Aang said jumping onto the bison's head as Toph sniffed the air.
"Don't bother, Twinkle Toes. We're close enough to the ground. I can smell the trees near my school. Come on!" she shouted grabbing Sokka's hand and jumping off Appa pulling Sokka along with her who screamed. "I gotta let go of you, but don't worry!" she shouted to him.
"I'm worried I'm worried!" he shouted as Toph Earthbent a slide of Earth for her and Sokka and both slide down it with Sokka screaming until he made it to the end of the slide with a thud and he groaned.
"I told you not to worry," Toph said as Sokka stood up holding his back.
"I tasted my own stomach when we were halfway down, but by the end - not a bad way to travel. So how'd you come up with the idea of starting your own school?" he asked walking with Toph towards her school.
"After teaching Aang, I realized how fulfilling teaching can be! I mean, I've helped him reach his potential as an Earthbender, as the Avatar, and as a human being! I felt like I've made a difference! So when I discovered Metalbending, I knew in my heart that I had to share it with the world! It was almost like…a calling," Toph answered.
"Aw, who're you kidding you just like telling people what to do," Sokka said making Toph grin as they arrived at the school to see Penga, Ho Tun and The Dark One leaving the school.
"Yeah. And yelling. I love yelling. Just where do you think you lily livers are going?! Don't tell me you were trying to escape – I mean, give up on your training! I'm gonna put you in so much hurt you won't remember what day of the week it is!" she shouted to her students stomping her foot.
"Sifu Toph!" Penga shouted scared.
"Oh, this is bad! We're so doomed!" Ho Tun said as Penga saw Sokka and smiled.
"Sifu Toph who is that?" she asked with a smile.
"Oh, yeah. Sokka, these are my students: Ho Tun, Penga and The Dark One," Toph introduced her students.
"Your biceps are enormous!" Penga shouted to Sokka with hearts in her eyes while Sokka smiled.
"Oh, I don't know about enormous biceps. Impressively large, maybe-," he said flexing his arm before he shivered slightly. "I just had a feeling someone's going to kill me," he said.
"That would be Suki," Toph said. "You know you're girlfriend?" she asked and Sokka gulped.
"So what were we talking about before all this nice-to-meet-you garbage? That's right. We were talking about hurt," Toph said cracking her knuckles while grinning mercilessly at her students.
"Please, Sifu Toph! We weren't trying to run away, we got kicked out," Ho Tun explained.
"They wouldn't even let me pack all my shoes first!" Penga complained.
"I hate practicing forms, but getting kicked out is the worst!" The Dark One said.
"Kicked out? By who?" Toph asked her students before marching to the school door and pushing it opening. "Get out! Get out of my school! Now!" she demanded the three students and old man who was teaching them Firebending.
"Who dares disturb Master Kunyo's Firebending dojo?!" the old man now known as Kunyo demanded.
"Firebending dojo?" Toph asked angrily. "This is the Beifong Metalbending Academy!" she then Earthbent under Kunyo and his students knocking them to the floor before Kunyo got to his feet launching a blast of fire at the Beifong Family symbol on the wall revealing a Fire Nation symbol.
"My students and I left this building in deference to the Harmony Restoration Movement! But now that the Fire Lord has recovered his senses, and withdrawn his support for the movement - we've come to reclaim back what is rightfully ours!" he shouted before Toph punched the wall making the symbol of the Earth Kingdom appear over the Fire Nation symbol.
"Fire Lord Zuko's off his gourd! You people don't belong here! This is the Earth Kingdom's – And the world's – first school of Metalbending!" she shouted making Kunyo chuckle.
"Psh. Shame on you for selling such a fantasy to these poor dupes, young lady! Everyone knows that "Metalbending" doesn't exist," he said before Toph Metalbent a spear behind Kunyo around his head making him shout in shock.
"Master Kunyo!" one of his students shouted.
"Watch carefully, disciples! Your master's about to teach this dirt girl a lesson!" Kunyo said creating a fireball above his hand.
"Bring it on," Toph said preparing to Earthbend at Kunyo until Sokka ran in between them both.
"Okay, everybody calm down! If you two start fighting, there won't be a building left to fight over! This place is meant to be a school, right? It seems to me that it ought to go to whichever school is most effective," he told them both.
"Good point! Rather than settle this with a match between the teachers, we'll settle it with a match between our students! A match to the death!" Kunyo said making his students cheer while Toph's students were nervous.
"We're doomed," Ho Tun said.
"Does this mean I won't get my shoes back?" Penga asked.
"Figures it would end this way," The Dark One said glumly.
"Well instead of that how about a match that only ends one team forces a member of the other team off their feet?" Sokka suggested.
"Well I guess as long as we get to beat people up," one of Kunyo's students said.
"So we're only partially doomed," Ho Tun said relieved.
"Whatever I still hate it," The Dark One said
"Come back in three days, Master Kunyo. We'll have the match then." Sokka told Kunyo.
"Three days why should we wait?" he asked.
"If you want to go right now pointy-head then it would just be between you and me," Toph told him cracking her knuckles.
"Three days it is," Kunyo said with a frown walking out of the building with his students following him. "Before we leave, disciples of Kunyo, let's give our opponents the Kunyo Salute!" he said and his three students jumped onto each other's shoulders bending flames to their sides.
"Beware, enemies of Kunyo for we shall roast you in the flames of your own defeat!" the students said making Sokka's jaw drop.
"We're doomed," To Hun said.
"Pretty much," Toph replied. "Man I wish Daisuke was here, she'd be able to get you three lily livers to Metalbend even though she's a Firebender," she mumbled to herself.
Meanwhile Appa was flying over Ba Sing Se as the sun began setting. "Find yourself a nice, quiet hill to spend the night, okay, buddy? I'll whistle for you tomorrow after our meeting with the Earth King." Aang told the bison who growled and flew off as Aang flew down on his gliding while Katara hung onto him and Momo flew after them.
"Now we just need a place to stay tonight," Katara said.
"I think Iroh has a few spare rooms we can use," Aang replied.
"And do you remember where his teashop is?" Katara asked her boyfriend.
"I think we go…" Aang said pointing in a direction before a voice was heard cutting him off.
"Oh, my gosh! Is it, like, really you?" both Aang and Katara turned to see two girls walking towards him. "I can't, like, believe it? It's really you, with your flying lemur and everything? I had, like, this recurring dream where I'd wake up and you'd just be there, all magically and stuff? I'd be like, "Wow, you're really here?" But then I'd be like, "Oh no, it's just a dream?" But now, it's real and everything? So, like, wow?" the girl who had spoken before said.
"I'm sorry have we met?" Aang asked the girls.
"Oh my gosh! It's, like, me who should be sorry? I'm Hei-Won, co-president and co-founder of the Official Avatar Aang Fan Club, Ba Sing Se chapter? And this is Won-Yee, my fellow co-president and co-founder? Can I just say, your lemur is, like, sooo cute?" Hei-Won said as Won-Yee squealed happily.
"Hey did you hear that Katara they started a fan club for me," Aang said to Katara who frowned.
"Wonderful," she said sarcastically as Aang bowed to the two girls.
"Nice to meet you both! I'm Aang! My lemur's name is Momo." He said humbly.
"Momo is the cutest name ever," Hei-Won said.
"Ahem," Katara said.
"Oh this is Katara my girlfriend," Aang introduced and Won-Yee bowed to Katara.
"What an honour it is to meet Avatar Aang's first girlfriend," she said.
"Thank you...wait what do you mean by first?" Katara asked noticing Won-Yee's smirk which made her nervous. "Uh we should get going Aang. It's getting late, and we still need to find a place to sleep for the night," she said pushing Aang away.
"Oh my gosh! You guys are, like, looking for a place to stay? It'd be sooo amazing if you, like, stayed at our clubhouse," Hei-Wong said.
"Sure where is it?" Aang asked her with a smile.
"It's just down that street, we like made it to look like the Western Air Temple, because most of our club members are girls and everything," Hei-Wong answered pointing down the street.
"Wow! I'd love to see it!" Aang said happily following the two girls to their clubhouse and saw most of the furniture was upside and the symbol of the Air Nomads was on a banner outside. "You said this is modeled after the Eastern Air Temple?" Aang asked the two girls.
"Yeah. Won-Yee did, like all the decorating. To make it look upside down and everything, like how the real temple is," Hei-Wong answered with a smile as Aang walked back and she blushed. "Do...do you like it?" she asked him and Aang smiled and bowed to the two girls.
"I love it. Thank you, official Avatar Aang fan club! I'm flattered." he said before grabbing Katara's hand. "Come on Katara, let's check it out," he said.
"I can't wait," Katara mumbled sarcastically. Meanwhile back in the Fire Nation in the prison where Ozai was held, Zuko sat in front of the cell while his father drank some tea his son had brought to him.
"Do you remember those family vacations we used to take on Ember Island? Once, at the beach-you couldn't have been older than three at the time-we saw a hawk attacking a turtle-crab by the water." Ozai said pausing to sip his tea. "You ran as fast as your little legs could carry you to rescue that turtle-crab. Even then, you possessed an affinity for the weak. But then, when you had the turtle-crab safely in your arms, you hesitated. The hawk looked at you with hungry eyes, and you realised you were condemning it to starve. You didn't know whether to side with the hawk or the turtle-crab. Before you could reach a decision, a giant wave washed over you and carried you out into the ocean. I dove in myself to save you. You spent the rest of the day in your mother's arms, vomiting sea-water." once Ozai had finished his tale he took another sip of his tea as Zuko got to his feet frustration on his face.
"I came here looking for advice. I want to know how you were able to sleep peacefully in spite of the pressures of the throne."
"And I told you," Ozai replied.
"I don't see how a family story…"
"I'm tired, Zuko. We're done talking for now. Perhaps we will continue tomorrow." Ozai said annoying Zuko who growled and walked out of the cell. "Bring more tea," Ozai told his son before Zuko slammed the cell door in anger while Ozai smirked.
The end of the chapter
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