Chapter Three: Toph
The following morning….
Suki woke up that morning and walked out of her room. In the courtyard she saw Zuko practicing with his Dao swords and Sokka telling poor jokes to Aang. But who she saw that disgusted her was Toph. There was Toph sitting on the floor with her legs crossed with a concentrated look on her face. Her face was concentrated because she was picking at her toes. Suki cringed when she saw Toph pick something black from under her toe nail and brought it to her nose to smell it.
"uh… Toph..," Suki said uncertainly.
Sokka turned around and saw Toph smell her toe fuzz and jam too. "EW! EW, EW, EW! Topphh! That's just nasty!"
"Oh, puh-lease! It's not like I haven't ever caught you picking your toes or nose!"
"But you're gonna be cooking for us!" Sokka yelled.
"Toph, I refuse to eat your food until you wash your hands." Zuko mumbled.
"Yes! Please go wash your hands before you start cooking. Please." Suki begged.
"Yeah, yeah. Sheesh."
Toph went into the old kitchen inside the abandoned summer palace and all the others could hear were the clonks and clangs of pots and bowls.
In the kitchen was Toph, totally out of her element. She added a little of this, and a little of that, with some of these and some of those. She was just making sure something was going into the pot.
In the end, Toph eventually had cooked a stew of some kind. She tried to make Salted Sea Prunes, but ended up with salted random things. The 'stew' was very colorful. It was green and gray with some yellow and purples floating around.
Zuko, Suki, and Aang were patiently sitting in the courtyard around the fire waiting for their food. But Sokka was starting to roast a Foofoocuddlypoof he caught earlier that morning. Just to make sure he had some backup food incase Toph's food was a meatless and tasteless disaster.
And finally she came out of the kitchen with a pot full of cold, chunky, greenish gray slime.
She separated the slimy substance into six smaller bowls and passed them around to everyone, "Here, enjoy." She mumbled grumpily.
Aang poked at the chunky stuff experimentally with his finger, "Are you s-"
"Just stuff it in your freakn face Twinkles." And she stuffed it in his mouth messily with her hand.
"Gah. thistasteshorrible…" Aang said with his mouth full and almost choking.
"You. Will. Eat. It." Toph said deadly.
Aang's face was turning the same color as the slime. He felt as if he just put a live slug in his throat.
Sokka saw poor Aang and said, "Zuko, you can try it before me!" and shoved his bowl to Zuko.
"Uh, no thanks!" Zuko said quickly and shoved the bowl back to Sokka.
"No, you need it." Sokka pushed the bowl back.
"No, it's all right. You eat it."
"No, you"
"You."
"You!"
"Ladies' first!" Zuko yelled.
"Princes' first! Hey! Lady? Really?"
"You eat it first Sokka!" Zuko insisted.
Sokka and Zuko were just pushing the bowl to each other forcefully. Back and forth went the bowl. It was as if the two were playing hot potato. But instead of using a potato, they were using Toph's food.
Now both Zuko and Sokka had their hands on the bowl. Zuko pushing one side of the bowl to Sokka and Sokka pushing the other side to Zuko. They were pushing the bowl and…
SPLAT.
"Oh thanks guys. Like I really wanted this gooey stuff all over me." Suki shivered.
"Sorry." The two said in unsion.
Toph saw this and boomed, "STOP MESSING AROUND AND EAT THE FOOD! DON'T MAKE ME FORCE FEED YOU!"
"NO!" the others yelled. They were all afraid of how Toph might feed them. Toph might tie them all to a tree. Or sit on them and shove food down their throats. The possibilities were endless.
Toph held out her hand and demanded, "And Sokka, give me the meat."
Toph snatched the meat from Sokka and bit into his food.
"NOooooOOOoooo! NO FAIR!" Sokka whined, "I cooked that!"
"Just deal with my food today Sokka. You're chef tomorrow." She said with a bite Foofoocuddlypoof in her mouth.
Suki, Aang, Zuko, and Sokka just had to force themselves to eat slime for the rest of the day.
Sokka's food had to be better than this…
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