I warn you now; this chapter is slightly inconsistent and really ridiculous. I shouldn't write while I've got obscene amounts of caffeine in my bloodstream. There's too much blood in my caffeine system! XD
Chapter 6: Fun in Omashu
This will be fun. Sokka thought to himself.
"So we'll go after we eat?" Suki asked.
"Definitely. You do know how terrifying it is, right?" Sokka said, leaning back slightly.
"I guarantee you I won't be scared. I fell off a Fire Nation war balloon, what could be scarier than that?" Suki said.
Sokka furrowed his eyebrows. That was a memory he didn't like to relive. He felt terrible for not being able to save his girlfriend.
"I know. I'm just saying that I was scared out of my mind." Sokka said in a warning tone.
"I'll be fine. I promise." Suki laughed lightly.
"I've heard that one before." Sokka said sarcastically.
The servant walked in with a tray full of food.
Suki's eyes widened, "Is that egg custard in that tart?" The servant nodded.
"Sweeeet!" Suki squealed. Sokka chuckled at his girlfriend's delight, and the servant did too as she set the tray down on the edge of the bed.
"I didn't know you liked egg custard tarts!" Sokka said playfully.
"Of course I do. You know how much I like sweet things. How the hell could you be my boyfriend for this long and not know that?" Suki asked as she scrunched up her face from confusion.
"I don't know, I guess I- I have no idea really." Sokka laughed as he popped a piece of blubbered seal jerky in his mouth.
"Way to go." Suki teased as she bit into the tart. "This is the best custard tart I have ever eaten. EVER."
She made a series of coos and other happy noises as she ate the custard tart.
"You sound ridiculous." Sokka teased.
"I don't care!" Suki whipped her head around. She was still sitting in Sokka's lap, so her hair flicked him in the face.
She grabbed a handful of lychee nuts and forced one in Sokka's mouth.
"By the way Sokka, I'm not kissing you if your mouth tastes like blubbered seal jerky. I think that stuff tastes really gross." Suki said, half-heartedly serious.
"That stuff?" He replied.
"Yeah. It's gross. Like seriously gross. Remember that time when you made me try some and I nearly threw up all over you?"
"I tried really hard to blot that out of my memory. Thank you so very much for repainting that image."
"I managed to miss! I threw up next to you. Not on you!" She laughed as she popped another lychee nut in her mouth.
"This is true." Sokka stated blankly. He finished off the seal jerky and took a lychee nut out of Suki's hand. He started to put it close to her mouth and then quickly put it in his own.
"Psych!" He cackled.
Suki smooshed a blackberry on the side of his face. "HA!" She laughed.
A few minutes later, they finished eating.
"I say we go and have some fun!" Suki said, starting to get up.
"Sounds good, now do you want to try walking, or do you want me to carry you the entire way." Sokka asked, trying to not be overprotective.
"I think I'll try to walk for most of it, but I promise that I won't walk farther than is easy for me." Suki replied.
"That sounds fair. Shall we?" Sokka got up and helped Suki up.
Suki walked a few steps and paused. "I think I'm not going to collapse every five seconds! Awesome!"
Sokka laughed as he took her hand. "Good, I don't want you to be falling like foaming mouth guy all day!"
Suki laughed as she walked slowly towards the door. "I feel like an old person!"
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They got to the top of the mail chute. Sokka helped Suki get into the empty cart made of stone. He stepped in behind her.
"Are you ready?" He leaned forward as he asked Suki.
"Hell yeah!" Suki said excitedly.
They had gotten permission from Bumi to have this little adventure. Sokka nodded towards the mail worker, and they were flying down the hill.
Sokka was sitting in the back of the cart, and Suki was at the front. Sokka had a terrified expression on his face, and Suki looked more excited than Aang when he rode the giant koi. Her hands gripped the edge of the cart so hard her knuckles turned white. Her eyes were open as far as they could go, and she leaned so far forward she would fall out if they stopped suddenly.
On the other hand, Sokka had a terrified look engraved in his face. His mouth was open and he screamed the entire way down. His eyebrows were raised so high they were almost part of his wolf tail. His eyes were open wide, only to make sure he wasn't dead. Suki raised her arms in the air and screamed. Instinctively, Sokka grabbed a hold of her, making sure she wasn't going to fall out.
About 2 minutes had passed and they were half way down the hill. They had passed 2 carts full of cabbages and one cart full of various meats. Sokka still had his arms around Suki, now for his own comfort.
"You can let go of me Sokka. I'm having so much fun!" Suki yelled. Sokka released as they got near the bottom of the hill.
Sokka shut his eyes as they were approaching the last few yards of mail track. They stopped suddenly and Suki went flying. She hit the wall and a few seconds later, laughed maniacally. Sokka opened his eyes ad shrieked, "Suki?"
"Hahaha ouch! Let's go again, let's go again!" Suki said excitedly as she laid on the floor, looking like a pretzel.
Sokka scrambled out of the cart to rescue his girlfriend.
"Oh my spirits Suki! Are you alright?" Sokka said frantically.
"Calm down Sokka, I'm fine. In fact, I'm better than fine!" Suki said sitting up, she cracked her back and neck and winced. "Ok maybe I'm not fine. My rib hurts, but that's fine because I just smacked into the wall!"
"Suki? I think we need to go back to the palace. Crazy adventures aren't for you right now. I think you're a little psycho from the adrenaline rush." Sokka said with a concerned tone.
Suki laughed again. "Weeeeee!" She said as she stood up, spinning around.
"Ok come on crazy, let's go home." Sokka guided Suki with his hands on her shoulders as they started walking back to the palace.
"I'm not crazy! I'm just really happy." Suki sounded drunk, and Sokka decided that adrenaline-rush inducing events were not for Suki anymore.
"Sokka, I'm tired. I'm going to take a nap right here." Suki said, still sounding very drunk. She closed her eyes and fell into Sokka. Luckily, he caught her.
"Ok, this was a phenomenally BAD idea." Sokka said aloud. He picked Suki up and started heading towards the palace. They were almost ¾ of the way to the front gate from the center of the city.
Sokka carried Suki's sleeping body half way up to the palace, and he was exhausted.
"I need a break for a minute." Sokka said to Suki, knowing full well she couldn't hear him.
He sat down with Suki in his lap, and she continued to sleep. He was sitting against a wall in the street that led up to the palace. Carrying Suki uphill wasn't an easy task. Suki woke up from her sleep.
She groaned and said, "Can we go again?" She was much mellower now, except she was still a little loopy.
"No Suki, we're going to go back to the palace and get you checked out. You sure have been through a lot in these past few days." Sokka said, looking down at Suki who was still curled up in his lap.
"Ok, let's go." Suki rolled off Sokka onto the ground.
Sokka grunted as he stood up, his arms and legs sore from carrying Suki. "All right, come on crazy."
Suki staggered up the hill, occasionally bumping into Sokka as she walked. She looked down at her stomach and saw a lovely bruise forming where her ribs hurt.
"Lookee here Sokka!" Suki said loudly as she pointed to her stomach.
Sokka's eyes widened. "Doesn't that hurt?" He said, shocked.
Suki poked it, "Hehehe ow. Do I sound crazy to you Sokka?"
"Not at all." Sokka said sarcastically.
10 minutes later, they approached the edge of the palace grounds. The gates were opened for them and they walked to the massive green front doors. The doors were opened and they walked toward their room.
"Weee! It's really echo-y in here!" Suki laughed.
"Ssh! We need to get back to the room, and you need to relax for a few hours." Sokka said, guiding Suki to the room.
One of the servants approached them and asked, "Do you need anything?"
Sokka replied, "We'll need the doctor again and could we get some bread for a snack?"
The servant nodded obligingly, "Right away, Sir."
Sokka and Suki walked to their room and sat down on the bed. Suki picked up a pillow and whacked Sokka with it. She was sitting next to him, and he replied by putting his hand against her forehead and pushing her down onto a pile of pillows.
Suki laid there for a minute, finally calming down from the adrenaline rush.
"Sokka?" She said wearily. "How crazy have I been acting for the past, say, hour and a half?"
"Honestly? You don't want to know, but it was really crazy. It's also weird that all of a sudden you've just snapped out of it." Sokka said confusedly.
"Yeah, man I have a killer headache, and my side really hurts." She looked down to her side to see a large puffy bruise at the bottom of her ribcage.
"How the hell did I get this?" Suki asked, her face squished from confusion.
"That was from when you flew out of the cart when we hit the bottom and smacked into a wall. I think a combination of the adrenaline rush and you're head hitting the wall at mach 5 made you a little bit loopy." Sokka replied laughing lightly.
A few seconds later, the doctor walked in the room.
"You have a dangerous girlfriend Sokka!" He said. "What seems to be the problem?"
"Well Suki and I were riding the mail carts down to the bottom of the hill, and we stopped suddenly and she flew out and hit the wall and she says her ribs hurt and she's been crazy and yeah…" Sokka practically threw up words at the doctor.
"Let me take a look." The doctor said in a very doctor-ish manner as he slipped on his glasses.
Suki laid back and winced as the doctor prodded her bruise. He looked at her eyes and poked her a couple other places, as doctors do.
"Well all that seems to have happened is a mild concussion and a bumps and bruises. It's amazing that you've managed to escape with only that much damage. It's been known to happen." The doctor nodded and left the room.
"Well that's weird, I don't even remember blacking out!" Suki remarked.
"That's the- did you really just say that?" Sokka said, smacking his forehead.
"What am I going to do with all my bumps and bruises? Will it ruin my surprise?" Suki asked, suddenly very worried.
"No it won't. It'll be just fine. I just have to be much more careful with you. You've been sick, passed out, had a concussion, and you almost died in the span of 48 hours. You are seriously beat up." Sokka smiled and kissed Suki on the cheek.
So I guess that concludes Chapter 6. I know it was a weird chapter, maybe not staying totally true to the characters. I thought, well I don't know what I was thinking. I just couldn't come up with a better idea for another day in Omashu. I mean how boring is sitting in their room right? Yeah, so I hope you enjoyed this chapter, although I totally understand if you don't. They will be in Ba Sing Se soon enough, probably by chapter 8. Maybe 7. I have no idea yet. I'll see how it goes. I get that this is rather unrealistic, but I don't really care at the moment. It's still for the most part grammatically correct. I've survived many a fantastic fiasco with only a few bumps and bruises, one of which happens to be me hitting the ground after being bucked off a horse, and escaping with a sore arm. This makes the doctor's statement true. I'm going to stop rambling now, and troll the internet.