Author; Holy HELL I am SOOOOOO sorry that I left you all for THREE WEEKS! *Face gets hit by multiple fire balls* Okay I deserved that.
In my defence School is well on the way to becoming my personal hell (except friends of course. YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME) anyway my assignments are keeping me busy so I have barely spent time on my Fav website.
But I have also become obsessed with The Artemis Fowl series. THEY ARE EPIC! Check em' out! So I will be writing some fan-fics for that series if anybody is interested.
Also I *runs behind metal wall* I'm not as into this story as I use to be so... I'll keep posting until I deem this story over... But the updates will be few and far between; once every two weeks.
DISCLAIMER; I DONT OWN AVATAR THE LAST AIR_BENDER.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~*`~~: Chapter Twelve: ~~`*~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ally looked at herself in horror, "You've got to be kidding me." she breathed in disbelief.
This was going to be a nightmare.
She looked at the icy green dress fitting her nimble slender frame; it was clearly made for earth kingdom royals and had fancy golden thread patterns of vines, the dress came all the way down to the floor. Her hair was held in a high platted bun, effortlessly covering her arrow tattoo with a side fringe. Her face was elegantly decorated with make-up, bringing out her stormy blue eyes and her lips a delicate shade of red; she was also wearing a sparkling tiara. She was wearing white gloves to hide the tattoos on her hands. She looked like an innocent, non-fighter... girly, girl type princess - ugh.
"What's wrong with that dress?" said Bumi smirking from the doorway.
Ally's eye twitched, "You know I never wear something like..." She waved at her reflection with a glare at the dress. "Is this really necessary?" She asked, almost whined.
"You have to make Aang choose you in the last test, though it would be interesting if I fought him." Bumi replied with a trade mark snort of laughter. Then he turned serious, "It's essential for him to learn to never underestimate an opponent. So don't go easy on him, but don't hurt him either."
"What makes you sure that he'll choose me?" Ally asked, frowning at her reflection. It wasn't like Aang to chose to fight with a girl, oh he knew they could fight, he just found it immoral.
"I'm not a mad genius for nothing." Bumi replied with another round of cackling laughter followed by snorting. "Trust me; all you have to do is act like a princess."
"The spoilt kind? Or the humble kind?" Ally asked, still looking at the mirror with contempt.
"Humble, perhaps a bit flirty." Bumi shrugged. He looked out the window, "It's almost morning, come my dear granddaughter, the Avatar is going to be doing some tests... Let's see what he has learned from school."
Ally half smiled at the attempt at the joke, flipping her earth kingdom fan open and holding it like she'd seen most girls and giggled; urgh, she'd be lucky if Aang fell for her acting.
It was rather amusing to see Aang hesitate before complementing on Bumi's dress sense. But it was extremely difficult to not run up to him and engulf him in a huge hug. Ally didn't know much about the challenges, or how he would poswayed Aang into doing them, and she was rather shocked when the two water tribe had been used to make Aang cooperate. All Ally knew was her part in the last challenge, which was rather straight forward.
Ally watched worriedly as Aang was able to use his creative talents to get Bumi's lunch box key from a furious waterfall, it was rather hilarious when Aang broke off the top of a stalagmite and threw it at the chain holding the key. Then using his airbending, he broke the chain. The tip of the stalagmite embedded itself like a spearhead into the top of the doorway. The key dangling just over Bumi's head.
Ally laughed at the expression on Bumi's face, the water tribe girl shot her a withering glare; Ally just smiled innocently at her; making the water tribe girl look even more murderous.
"There, enjoy your lunch! I want my friends back, now!" Aang shouted.
Ally chuckled as Bumi said he had two more challenges to complete.
Ally shook her head as Aang continued to chase the fluffy little long eared rabbit, calling out Flopsy, who was chasing after Aang. "Come on Aang." Ally muttered inaudibly, "Think about your supposed opponent, why is he chasing you?"
When the task was over Ally saw the water tribe girl whisper something to Aang, who turned to look at Ally with a glare. Ally looked away quickly and tickled Flopsy's tummy. "What did you do to make Aang glare at me like that?" Ally whispered to Bumi, who looked incredibly smug.
"A little manipulation here and there. Now he will most definitely pick you." Bumi said, "Don't worry; I'll clear it up with him when it's over. They think your fire nation."
Ally hummed while frowning, it was sure to get Aang to fight her... Great, now she'd have to suffer through Aang's kitten-like glares. They weren't very intermediating; he was just too innocent for that.
"Your final test is a duel and as a special treat you may choose your opponent." Said Bumi, smirking widely. "There are three choices," Bumi waves his hand and is flanked by two different looking gladiators. Ally had to admit, she'd be terrified if she had to face one of them.
Aang did indeed look terrified. "Who is the third choice?" he asked.
"Granddaughter." Bumi said. Ally walked forwards and between the two gladiators. She looked like a little baby fur-seal compared to the horrific other occupants.
Aang looked astonished and studied her carefully, "What's wrong Avatar?" Ally smirked, "Can't handle a fight with a girl from the fire-nation?" That was below the belt, but Aang was hesitating.
Aang narrowed his eyes and pointed straight at Ally. "I choose you."
Bumi cackled evilly. "Wrong choice, Avatar."
Ally flipped over Aang with grace and landed in the arena, which held a lake of water, hard rocks and a pit of fire. She took off the dress and threw it away in distain; she wasn't going to wear a dress again anytime soon, now she was just wearing battle clothing of dark green, her arrows not showing. Her hands grasped her fighting fans and flipped them open.
Aang came into the arena soon after with a determined expression.
"Avatar, you might need this." Bumi called, and then a guard threw Aang's staff to him. "Let's see how well you fight another Air-bender."
"What!" the two water tribe members asked.
Aang stared at Ally in shock. Suddenly boulders started to fall from the ceiling and Ally made one hover with air before lunching it at Aang, who dodged swiftly; he was still in shock...
Ally ran in a circle before creating the air wake, which formed a solid barrier of air and blasted it into Aang, who was unsuccessful in stopping it. Ally leaped into the air and struck down at Aang; he twirled his staff to stop Ally's air blast and blew out hard with his air breath. Ally flipped away in the wind and easily landed on the top of a boulder with lemur grace.
Ally kicked up three tornados and pushed them towards Aang in multiple directions then plunged into the water; she used the air bubbles to propel her through the water and toward Aang, who had dealed with the tornados easily enough. Ally burst out of the water and did multiple air punches aiming for the roof over Aang.
The ceiling exploded and Aang pushed the debris toward Ally, in defence she conjured an Air sphere around her and the rocks and dirt spun away from her; jumping out of the protective sphere she then lunched her shield at Aang, who easily side stepped it. Then he created his infamous air-scooter, zipping around the arena quickly.
Ally air whipped the ball and it collapsed, sending Aang into the water before he could finish whatever attack he was about to use. He resurfaced then ran toward her at amazing speed, Ally dodged around it quickly, but Aang was anticipating it and swooped low, kicking her feet out from under her, Ally noticed a boulder falling over the top of them and moved to make it hover with air bending while Aang pointed his staff at her.
Ally kicked out with both feet, catching him lightly in the stomach and sending him skidding across the other end of the arena, she jumped up and used air bending to propel the boulder at him, but latched onto the boulder while it travelled, dropping her fans along the way.
She saw Aang jump over it and lunched herself into him, knocking his staff away and pushed him into the water again with a splash. Ally rolled her eyes; Aang hadn't learned water bending yet, that was for sure. Ally landed on the water's edge. He hasn't learned earth and definitely not fire. Good thing she brought those scrolls.
Aang burst out of the water and Ally ducked as he spun a high kick at her, she moved around him as he did the same. Suddenly they locked gazes and Ally knew that her disguise was gone.
"Ally!" Aang said in disbelief.
Ally dropped her fighting stance laughing hard at his surprised face, "Hi Aang. It's good to see you." she replied grinning widely.
Aang stared at her for a long few seconds before tackling her in a hug, Ally fell backwards by the force and toppled into the water laughing, bring Aang down with her.