Me: I'm very pleased to see reviews only a day after I posted the first chapter. I can't wait to start on the second one, so without further ado let's get on with chapter 2.
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A Tiara Covered in Dirt
Our real story began in the middle of the night on a hillside outside of the capital city where an eighteen-year-old teen with black hair and pale skin in Fire Nation armor was waiting for some while her black-haired younger friend (or partner) were both waiting on a horse size lizard.
The person they were waiting for finally arrived in an old beat-up red sports car and opened the door to reveal a sixteen-year-old girl with brown hair pulled up in a tight pony-tail with pink colored eyes, wearing a green t-shirt and tight black jeans.
"You're late Vicky." the older teen said in a disapproving voice.
"Well sorry," the girl named Vicky sarcastically, replied, "But it took me some time to find this place with this stupid map you gave me. It looks like something drawn by a kindergartner." She proved her point by showing a crudely drawn picture of a grassy field and what appeared to be the kingdom of Andalasia a good inch-and-a-half next to it.
"Note to self, do not put Buttercup in charge of making future maps." The ex-Fire Nation princess thought to her self.
"Do you have what I asked for?" She asked Vicky.
"I did have to swipe it while babysitting a couple of twerps, but I got it." She smirked at her apparent success while holding a golden head of and old lady. Just when the older teen was about to grab it out of Vicky's hand she swiped it at the last minute.
"Not so fast Azula, where's the payment? -OUCH!"
That 'OUCH!' came from Vicky when she had her shin kicked by the youngest of the three present who then gave the golden head to Azula.
"Do not fret, Vicky, you shall get what's coming to you," she explained while bringing out the golden body of a bird and bringing it closer to the golden head.
"Yeah, like, 'what's coming to you'," the girl named Buttercup echoed in a Valley Forge accent. Azula then placed the head and bird's body together and shown to be an old witch head with a bird's body (1). The golden idol began to glow brightly and float on its own and flew past them and toward a few miles further from the group.
Azula beamed, "Hurry, follow that light!" With the car and lizard for their traveling needs, the trio was able to make to where the witch/bird landed in a pile of dirt that began to shimmer and thunder the earth that was so loud that the lizard ran off and Vicky's, already decomposing car shattered into pieces. The earth slowly stretched towards the sky as it began to mold into a large, elegantly designed ten-story building with red walls, gold trimmings, and two large gold doors.
"At last, after years of searching I've finally found it! The Bath House of Wonders,"(2) Azula spoke with much awe in her voice.
Buttercup gave a girlish laugh, "Totally, the Bath House of Wonders." Vicky looked at it with amazement as well until Azula, remembering the mission, barked at the brunette, "Now bring me the Thermos and the treasure inside is all yours."
The evil babysitter was then pushed towards the gold doors and while Vicky was taking her sweet time Buttercup was quickly getting bored and groaned at annoyance and speaking with her real voice for once, "Geez, Azula where did you find this nut job huh?"
"Quiet Buttercup." The former Fire Nation princess hissed. Just as Vicky was about to palace her hand on the door another, much older, voice spoke, "Aren't you at least going to knock? You're the most pathetic and impolite human I have ever seen" (3) the booming voice surprised Vicky and caused her to fall to the ground looking shocked at what appeared to have been the doors knocker speaking to her.
"What the-?" Vicky looked up and saw the Knocker triple in size and was much bigger than Vicky herself. "Tell me who you are!" It boomed towards the girl.
"It's me, Vicky, the babysitter." The frightened replied.
The knocker examined the evil babysitter for a moment then said, "Listen well human. Only one being worthy may enter this bath house and come out alive; the Tiara Covered in Dirt." Both Azula and Buttercup looked at each other with shrug not really sure what it meant by Tiara Covered in Dirt. Vicky turned her head around to Azula and made some hand gestures as if asking for some guidance.
Azula only rolled her eyes, "Get on with it and get in there." she impatiently ordered. Vicky still felt unsure gulped in hesitation but opened one the doors once more. Once she got inside, the babysitter reach the first step and put one foot down before waiting. Nothing happen. Vicky sighed in relief as she prepared to move on.
But then the Knocker roared angrily once more causing Vicky to gasp in horror. She tried to make a run for it but the building itself close with her still inside! Azula and Buttercup shield themselves, as piles of dirt were knock onto the two, knocking them down to the ground.
As the ground reverted back to normal, the Bath House boomed out in an echo, "Seek out the Tiara Covered in Dirt."
With that, the Bath House of Wonders was back to being hard earth once more, the halves of the golden bird/woman fell out and land near the two who just recover from what happen.
"Oh great! I can't believe it! I just DON'T believe it! We're so never gonna get a hold of that stupid Thermos!" Buttercup yelled furiously as she ran over to pick up the discarded bird/woman halves. The former super girl then came back and gave the two halves back to Azula as she ranted on, "Just forget it! Look at this! Look at this! I'm so ticked off that I'm losing all my hair! And I actually care about my hair for once. What's wrong with me!" Buttercup pulled at her hair.
"Patience, Buttercup, patience." Azula said calmly. "That overconfident brunette was obviously less than worthy."
Buttercup laughed sarcastically, "Oh there's a big surprise! That's just incredible! I think I'm gonna have a heart attack and die from NOT surprise! What are we gonna do, Azula? We've got us a big problem here! A very big-!"
Azula interrupted her as the fire bender said thoughtfully, "Yes, yes, I know Buttercup. Now,"Only one being worthy may enter this bath house and come out alive; the Tiara Covered in Dirt." She hummed, "We must work on finding this person and have him or her, ah, assist us shall they?" Azula smirked anticipating the meeting of the worthy person how can help the duo make their desire come to reality.
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Me: Well that was climatic in some way I guess but at least the second chapter of this story is over. Sorry there's no singing in this one but you'll see enough of it in the next chapter but like last time it's late here and I need my rest.
Azula: At I got screen time unlike that redheaded peasant.
Me: Don't be so cocky Azula you know what happens at the end of film. : 3
Azula: I despise you very muc- (gets shot down with tranquilizer gun)
Me: Nighty, night crazy girl as for those numbers you might've noticed are to bring you down here to read the references. (1) – (3) is all references to the Spirited Away movie if anyone of you have seen it (I'm shocked on how so many animés are in this archive but none mentioned of that masterpiece or other Studio Ghibli films for that matter, what's up with that, expect you Glowworm666 your cool) Anyway R & R please.
