XVII

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Re-building Balance Valley wasn't as easy as it sounded. They had to keep all of the plateaus level by putting the same number of things on each one. As they were able to re-build more buildings and trees, the ground would become uneven, and the owl would nag at them to hurry and save Lin. They didn't see Toph again after their meeting, but as they re-built Balance Valley and got people to move into the houses, they began to wonder where Azula went.

"She just up and vanished." Sokka observed. "Where do you suppose she went?"

"I hope she went strait to hell." Zuko spoke harshly. "Little bitch deserves it."

"I'm worried about Lin." Monica changed the subject. "We aren't any closer to saving her."

As they went through the canyon again, they were intercepted by the boy with silver hair that was eavesdropping on the Fire Lord as he made the deal with the fat man that became Genie food. The boy had bright red eyes just as Azula did, he had a large sword in his hand, and he told them to turn back.

"This is not your fight!" The boy boomed. "The world cannot depend on mere children to protect it!"

"No!"Monica boomed back. "We've come too far to turn back!"

"Fine then, fight me. If you live you shall continue, but if you die, then you turn back."

"Fine!" Monica and everyone stepped forward to fight, but the boy only wanted to fight Monica. Being fine with that, everyone stepped back, leaving just Monica and the boy. Monica drew her sword and attacked the boy.

The metals of their swords clashed, causing sparks to fly. Monica and the boy were forced back due to the extreme force, and then went back at it. But the boy seemed to be moving in a series of planned moves, which Monica had trouble moving along with. When Monica would lunge at him, he would move out of the way so she would fall onto the ground. She had to be quick with getting up and defending herself.

Everyone watched as the two swordsman (Swords woman in Monica's case I guess) fought with all their ability. Monica seemed to have gotten hurt a lot, probably because of her inability to read his moves. He would cut her arm, causing her to bleed, but she wouldn't back down. She was determined to get passed him and keep on fighting to stop the fire lord.

Toph was watching her as they fought (Of course with the vibrations). She had some real skills with the sword, even if her footwork wasn't as great. What she had said about the Dark Genie really interested Toph, it sounded like a fun adventure, and about Lin..

Monica was once again pushed the the ground by the man with silver hair, Toph watched amazedly as Monica quickly put her sword infrount of her and repelled his attack.

Monica moved swiftly against him, mostly just defending herself until she could get him knocked to the ground.

They fought for hours, each one giving the other one a surprise move that caused them to let their guard down. Monica's skin was almost completely cut, blood dripped down her pail skin as she knocked the sword out of the man's hand, watched as it slid over the edge of the canyon and into the water below, and knocked the man to the ground and held her sword to his throat.

"I win." She declared. As she started walking with everyone else passed him, she stumbled, and the world around her spinned. She fell to her knees and tried to make the world stop spinning. Everyone was at her side in a minute, realizing that she was in the starting stage of blood loss. Toph wanted to go see what was wrong, but didn't in fear of being attacked. So she just watched.

They rested Monica against the wall of the canyon, and Katara bended the water out of the bottom of the Canyon and healed her. It took a while considering how many cuts there were. Just as Katara finished up, Toph made herself visible.

"You have some real skills." she complemented. "Although your foot work needs some work." Monica looked from her wounds up at Toph.

"Thanks."

"Tell me, have you found a way to cure that Lin girl?" Monica shook her head.

"No."

"I think I can help."

"How?" Monica asked, Toph tried to think of how she could help.

"My grandmother taught me a recipe..I can hardly remember what she said though..It was some type of healing dumpling, but I can't remember the key ingrediant that she told me."

"Keep trying." Monica told her. "Do you want to come with us on our quest? We could use an earthbender."

"Alright." Toph grinned, and like that, Toph became a member of their group.

After Monica was healed, they went on deeper into the canyon as Toph had them name off random things and hope it would jog her memory.

Toph's grandmother had taught her a recipe because she knew Toph wasn't "Blind" but could see with her feet. She knew Toph would be able to since the ingridences with the vibrations that they sent through her hands as well, and she would be able to make it.

Toph missed her grandmother, she was so understanding about Toph not being as blind as everyone thought. In fact, Toph's grandmother was one of the few people who treated her the same as everyone else.

She taught Toph to cook, and she even taught Toph more advanced earth bending when her parents weren't around.

Nothing jogged her memory. Nothing they said made her remember the one ingredient that gave it it's healing powers. They went deep into the canyon until they reached Yorga's valley, which was a large plateau with bridges connecting to smaller plateaus, and a Giant tree was planted on the large plateau.

"Wow." Aang grinned. "Look how big that tree is!"

"It's the Yorga tree, It's the largest tree in the world. This is the first time I've actually seen it." Monica told them, they all starred up at It's branches, it really was a large tree. It was bigger than them if they all stood on each other's shoulders, plus all of the Ferbits. "You guys, I'm really worried about Lin, I don't think we should go any further until she's alright." They all nodded in agreement and left Yorga's Valley.

I had a dream about avatar two days ago. It was weird. Zuko had his armor and his ship back, and he had one long bang that he kept SWOOSHing. Katara,Toph, and I were running from him in the super market and I had a really heavy backpack for one reason or another. I don't remember where Aang and Sokka were, I think they died. Don't ask why Toph would know something like that, I needed to make someone know about the Miracle dumplings. Besides, It opends a lot more up!