In keeping with what I asked about before, if you would like links to outfits of items that I am using in the fic. No one said anything about it, so I will keep going with it. That in mind here is the link to the outfit that Toph will be wearing to the banquet.

Http:/ browse. Deviantly /?q=top%20zuko% 20older&order=9 & offset=48#/ d1jjnkt

for it to work, copy and paste it, then take away the spaces that I put in so the link will come up in full.

Aang pushed the sixth scroll he had read away from him as he gave up on it. This particular one was a record of all the suspected sightings of the jade bandit. One thing was made very clear to him, the jade bandit defiantly got around a lot. There were a few times when it seemed like they had been in nearly the same place at nearly the same time as each other. The first report he had read was a detailed account about what the jade bandit was meant to wear. Images of the blue sprite cam to his mind. He had expected the jade bandit to look almost a cross between Toph, because of the bandit part and a mask like Zuko wore as the blur spirit. Turned out he was worn.

As he straightened his arms out in-front of him he saw the chain and was reminded of his current situation. Toph hadn't said a word since they sat down at the large table in the centre of the library. He had forgotten she was even there. He followed the chain to look at her. She looked like she was about to fall asleep. Her breathe was slower and as his eyes lifted to look at her face, he saw that her eyes were closed. He had always wondered if she slept with her eyes open or closed. There were times when they had been travelling and he hadn't been able to sleep and he had wanted to look at her to find out, but he never did. Now he knew, she slept with closed eyes. While he looked at her, her head fell a little to the right closer to him. He worried she was about to wake up and see him looking at her. Then he remember she wouldn't see him looking at her.

He mentally kicked himself for forgetting she was blind again, he would never understand how he always seemed to forget this fact. Her head now fell move to her right. It was about to rest on Aang's Shoulder. His heart raced not knowing what to do. To wake her up or let her sleep on his shoulder. A large crashing sound filled the library, waking Toph. She shout up to a straight sitting position, as one of the guards that had chained them together walked towards the table. Aang was surprisingly happy to see him.

"Avatar Aang, Lady Toph. The king had sent me to unchain you, and tell the lady that the maids are ready to help her dress for the banquet." While he spoke he kept walking towards them. Once he reached them he had finished talking, so he simply unlocked the handcuffs on Toph then Aang. He rapped up the chain around his arm and moved to walk away, then turned back to them. "Your to met with the king tomorrow morning...to have the chain..."

"Yes we get it." This was the first time Aang had heard Toph's voice since their fight. It sounded just as angry. The guard stood rooted to the spot,not knowing really what to do. "You can go now"

She wasn't even trying to face him no, her face faced her lifted right arm, as she rubbed her wrist. Which Aang noticed was a little red. He guesses that was from when he helped her up by pulling the chain. Her voice had come out in a fake sweet tone this time. A tone he would hear a lot that night he bet.

After the guard had bowed and left, Toph too got up and left. Without saying a word. Aang let out a frustrated sigh and leaned back in his chair. He place his now free hands on the back of his head and closed his eyes. Enjoying being on his own in silence for a little while, before he too left to dress for the banquet.

The main hall of the palace was decorated with lard green drapes hung over the walls. A long table was placed against the far wall, opposite from the door to the dinning room, where the banquet would be held. The table was covered in small appetisers, and countless glasses of expensive wine. Aang had waited as long as he could before he went down. He hoped that by waiting till the room was almost fall no one would really notice him entering. He turned out to be right, no one gave him more than a casual glance when he entered. If that wasn't what he wanted, he may have been a little hurt. He found himself forced to pick up a glass of wine, by peer pressure. He was not going to drink it though, he would hold it a take a tiny sip every now and then so he looked like he was drinking it.

He naturally found himself almost hiding behind one of the large columns that surrounded the room on both sides. It was at this point that he started to look around the room at all the people. With only a handful of exceptions, he didn't know who any of these people where. It finally dawned on him now that he hadn't seem Toph yet. He looked closer at the crowd to find her. She was bound to know who at least some of these people were. When he was sure he couldn't see her, that she was probably not here yet, his eyes landed on the main door. Waiting for her to enter. A few minutes later he was spotted by a lord from the south, who trapped him in a boring conversation about his inheritance.

While in the middle of explaining to Aang about his plans for the money he would soon gain, the lord suddenly stopped talking. His eyes fixed on a particular object. Aang turned his head a little to see what he was staring at. It was Toph. At first he wasn't sure it was her, but the closer she got the more obvious it was. She was walking with a slight smirk that she shot to the men on either side of her as she walked past them. It was the same smirk, almost smile he remembered from the first time he saw her in the swamp. Also like in the vision in the swamp, her hair was pulled off her face into a bun. Her hair was also decorated with thin ribbons and a flower. Her dress was of a deep green with intricate detail woven into it. She wore a tight corset over the dress in a lighter green. The sleeves of the dress were white shear and hung off the shoulder, exposing them.

As she crossed the room in his direction she held her hands in-front of her. She looked to Aang and everyone else there to be every inch the noble lady. A smile almost crossed his lips and he realised how much she must be hating this. She was now a few steps away from him. He was planing out all the teasing he thought he could get away with before she reacted. The closer she got the less he wanted to teas her. When she was close enough to hear him fully, he opened his mouth to tell her that she looked pretty maybe even beautiful. Because it struck him that she really did look beautiful. Before he got any words out, she had walked right past him.

His first reaction was that she was doing this because she was still mad at him. Then he saw her walking right up to a man standing a little apart from the crowd with a drink in his hand. The man looked a little older than Toph and himself, maybe twenty-two or three. "Lucky guy." The lord Aang had been speaking to said behind him before he too left Aang to talk to someone else.

"Lord Toro. Its a plesure to see you here." Her voice came out sounding a little overly sweet. She choose not to care about what this response would be. If he noticed she said see and didn't say anything then she would normally be a little irritated, but she would let it go.

"Ambassador...General Toph. I'm sorry I'm not sure what to..."

"I think in this case Lady Toph would be the correct honorific...at least when I'm wearing a dress like th..."

"It looks, you look beautiful." Toph had opened her arms to show the dress off more as she spoke., but had quickly dropped them when he interrupted her.

"Thank you." She did her best to be facing him probably as she gave him a smile.

"She looks lovely doesn't she."

Aang turned to face the voice that was coming from behind him. A women about the same age as the man Toph was talking to was standing a few inches behind him. She was dressed in a dress a little like the one Toph was wearing, only in lighter colours. "Yeah." His face grimaced a little at the tone of his voice. It was a little too soft.

The girls face fell into a frown "She really has got you and him wrapped around her little finger." Aang looked over to were the girl was looking. Lord Toro had offered Toph a drink, which she politely declined. Then a waiter gave her one. "And every other man in here."

He looked around the room and saw a few women with a few men around then. They where all acting the same way that Toph was. Head lowered a little, with a straight back and moving there hands a little more than normal. This was so different from the Toph that he knew. He knew she would act polite and lady like tonight, but he never expected this. "She's not really like this."

"No she's worse. She acts like she is different, but when it comes down to it all she cares about is marry a man with money."

It was starting to feel like he was watching and talking about a different person. Toph had just placed her hand on Lord Toro's arm and left it there a little longer than she should have. While she gave a fake laugh, to what Aang could only guess was a joke made by Lord Toro. He looked at her waist, he hopes to see the dagger she nearly always had with her attached to her belt. She wasn't wearing a belt and there was no sign of the dagger. She was wearing her mothers necklace, that was the only thing he could see as marking her out as herself from this distance. If he was closer he knew her eyes would also mark her out.

"She's really isn't like that." He was now finding the words to defend her a little hard to find.

The girl let out a muffled hump as not to be heard by anyone else. "She really is worse. All the other men giving attention to the women, know that the women isn't interested. They also don't really like the women, so they don't care. He on the other really likes her. She knows this and is using him."

"She wouldn't do that."

"She would and is."

"How do you know he likes her..."

"He told me." The fact that is first question had been about Lord Toro liking Toph and not about her using him, worried him a little. "That was reason he gave for breaking off out engagement. He did it for her." With this parting shot she walked away.

The earth king then called fro everyone to take their seats in the next room fro the banquet. Aang saw Toph take Lord Toro's arm and be lead into the dinning room. She now looked like a totally different person. Beautiful. But cold and heartless.

Thank you for reading. Sorry it has taken so long for me to up-date. I feel I should point out that Lord Toro was in an earlier chapter. Chapter one of the third part of the story, sore. . If any one is interested.

In the past I have asked question that I didn't get answers to. I have another question now, but this is one that I need to have an answer too. The banquet is going to be for Toph's 18th birthday. I heard this song and I thought about were I maybe able to fit it in, if it worked and I found a place. My idea is for the members of the earth kingdom army that Toph as general has helped to train sing a song for her. I just want to know what you think of that idea. Dose it seem out of place, to Mary sue to have people singing a song for her as a birthday present. The song is one of us by heather dale.

I while wait till Friday before I start to write the next chapter. If I get any answers to this question then I will go with the post popular answer, yes or no. I would also like to know it you think I should use the slow or fast version of the song. This will determine the reactions to the song. So please let me know yes or no to the song and fast or slow.

if I only get one response then I will go with that. If I don't have an idea of what you think then I will take me longer to get the next chapter up. So its in your hand know, thanks.