Attention all you Taangers!! This is the chapter that you've been waiting for!! (Waiting for drum roll…) Here's the fluffy Aang and Toph chapter. Go on read it!! On with your swampy self. (Pouting because there wasn't a drum roll…).
After Toph and Aang had dropped the rest of the gang off at the edge of the Earth Kingdom, they traveled only stopping for resting at night as they traveled to the swamp, using the map that Sokka let them use.
He had circled the swamp and several other places that they had been to before they met Toph and after what Aang couldn't remember.
So, they were traveling to a magic swamp.
Great.
Toph lay on the saddle twirling her fingers in the air. Her long hair blew in the wind and, she would never admit it to anyone, she liked it. She liked her hair blowing on her shoulders while the wind rushed past.
She liked feeling a little (just a little) girly. It was nice, and it was a change. Toph was ready for a change.
Aang messed with his hair more than anything. It had never been this long before. It was starting to come in front of forehead just a little and it wasn't far to hitting the tips of his ears. His hair grew to fast.
He lay down on his stomach and looked at the scenery below him. He glanced toward the front of Appa and noticed something.
In front of him, was a…a tornado.
And as he realized this the wind picked up. Toph quickly crawled over to one of the loop holes and held on for dear life. "What's going on?!" she yelled.
"There's a huge tornado," Aang replied rather calmly.
"WHAT!" she yelled over the storm.
"A—huge—tornado!!" Aang yelled but his voice was drowned out from the wind. He tried to airbend some of the air out of their way but it was too strong for his, still rather weak body.
The two masters screamed as Appa couldn't fight the wind any longer and was thrown toward the ground. Toph lost her grip.
"AANG!!" she screamed, falling toward the ground.
Aang looked back and saw that she was falling. He airbended enough wind to get her to the ground and then he too fell along with Appa.
……
When Toph hit the ground she didn't immediately hit the ground. She fell in the water. But, thank the spirits that Suki was alive; because Toph just stood up instead of panicked. The water was knee deep and surprisingly the ground was rock and not sand. Toph felt a whole vast forest beneath her.
Huge trees, big animals, and no Twinkle Toes surrounded her. "Aang!!" she yelled when she couldn't feel his vibration. "Aang!!"
Aang had been here before. He couldn't quite remember it, but he did remember Appa being separated from him. He remembered a girl in a white dress with a pet flying boar. And he remembered Sokka saying something like, "I'm eating a giant bug!" He also could remember faintly three swamp men that could waterbend.
It was very strange here.
Trees over thirty feet tall towered over Aang as he walked, Appa close behind him. They could see that it was a swamp. It was the swamp that they were supposed to find. It was a good thing that tornado…
The tornado! Who caused that! It had been sunny and cloudless not two minutes before that tornado had separate him from—
Toph!!
"Toph!" Aang yelled, looking from his left to his right. He ran a while continuing to yell his companion's name. "Toph! Toph!"
He stopped.
He heard someone giggle.
Aang turned around and saw a woman in front of him. He immediately blushed at her appearance. His stomach clinched.
She wasn't much taller than him, maybe five two or five three but not very tall. She was beautiful to say the least. She was gorgeous. She had long black hair that cascaded down her shoulders.
She was wearing a cream colored dress that had thin straps that went over she pale shoulders. At the top and design of a wrapping green line went around the neck line of her neck. She wore soft-green shoes that slipped over her small feet.
Her face was soft but strong. She was pale; her skin looked malleable but not like a princess. Her eyes were green but seemed to be glassed over somehow.
And when he looked down her, he noticed that her stomach was perfectly round and perched out just a bit.
She was pregnant.
The woman giggled again and wrapped her arms around a tree that was nearby. "What's wrong, Twinkle Toes?" she asked, her voice very, very familiar.
"Toph?" Aang asked.
The woman smiled sweetly and nodded slightly. "You don't recognize me?" she asked swinging around the trunk of the tree.
"No—No," Aang said. Toph!! That was Toph!!? She was—was…amazing, stunning, beautiful. She was…his friend.
He instantly looked away, trying to wipe the blush off of his face.
Why would he see Toph?
We see visions of people we've lost, people we love, and people we have yet to meet.
Love.
That struck Aang hard. He didn't lose Toph. She was standing right here in front of him. She wasn't dead and he already had met her.
But why would he see Toph?
He didn't love her.
Did he?
And when he looked back toward the woman that was standing in front of him, she was gone. He saw her, running away from him.
"Come on, Twinkle Toes," he heard her call. "I wanna show you something."
He compiled without question.
……
"Aang!" Toph called again. She had been yelling for at least a half hour. "Aang!! Twinkle Toes!"
She walked awhile without talking. And she stopped suddenly when she heard a voice behind her.
"You're still calling me that?" the voice said.
She turned around held her hands up, ready to fight.
"Whoa," the voice said, presumably a man's, and she felt his vibration touch the ground. He was light and…he was Twinkle Toes.
At once she didn't trust her feet. This person couldn't be Twinkle Toes! He was bigger than Twinkle Toes. Much bigger. He was about six feet and he was muscular but not buff.
Toph couldn't tell what he looked like.
But he looked just like young Aang only older, more mature. He had a strong jaw and a bald head with a blue tattoo of an arrow on it.
He was wearing an orange robe that was tucked into dark cream colored pants.
"Calling you what?" she asked, answering his question.
"Twinkle Toes," he said. "Even now, you're still calling me that."
"I haven't known you that long," she mumbled.
"No," he chuckled, "fifteen years later, you still call me that. But it's usually when you're mad at me. Mmm, that's often."
"Get to the point, Twinkle Toes," Toph said irritated.
He smiled.
"I want you to follow me," he said taking a step toward her. She took a step back and asked why. "Because," he replied, "I want to show you something."
And, like he knew her answer, the Aang took off away from her.
And Toph reluctantly followed.
……
She led him to what seemed to be the center of the swamp. There was a huge tree there and he watched as she walked over to it.
"Here is what you're looking for," she said resting a hand on the tree. "Now," she said changing the subject. "Where is he?"
"Who?"
"You."
"I'm right here."
"Not—you-you—He-you," she pointed to the trees and when Aang turned around he saw an older form of himself running into the clearing with Toph right behind him.
"There you are," the older Toph nagged. "Where were you?"
"Sorry, Toph, honey"—
"Honey my butt," the older Toph interrupted. "Where are the kids?"
"Kids?" Toph and Aang said in unison, both equally shocked. They exchanged glances and looked away. It was just an older form of themselves who were arguing over their children after all.
Suddenly they heard a loud roar.
And the two Toph's and the two Aang's looked to their right toward the sound that they had heard. And three small kids ran out from behind the huge tree that the older forms of the Avatar and the earthbender were standing.
There were two boys and one girl.
The oldest was a boy about five who had gray eyes and brown hair like Aang's. He was wearing a thin long sleeved, gray shirt that was open at the neck and soft-orange pants.
The two littler ones looked like twins. They both looked about two and a half. The girl had black hair and gray eyes. She had on a green dress. The other boy had black hair also and green eyes. He was wearing a green robe that was tucked into his brown pants.
The younger Aang smiled at the three children.
"Where were you?" Toph asked crouching down, tugging at her younger son's clothes. She wiped the dirt off of her older son's face.
"We were playing, Mommy," the older boy said, smiling.
"Yeah," the girl said as the older Toph picked her up.
"Right," Toph muttered as she pulled at her daughter's dress. Then she turned back to the younger Aang and Toph.
"Toph and Aang," she said. "What you're looking for is here." The older Aang nodded agreeing.
"Oh, and before we go," the Toph said, "Aang"—she turned toward the younger Aang, "remember that I'm always right. Always."
Both Aangs smiled.
"Yeah," said the younger Toph, agreeing with herself. "Always."
The older Toph winked at them both and then, in a flash, the family was gone from the young monk's and the Blind Bandit's sight.
They traded each other glances for a couple of minutes, both blushing somewhat and both very, very embarrassed.
Aang broke the silence.
"So," he said, "that Toph said that what we're looking for is here. I'll go see if I can find it."
Aang rushed off and when Toph knew he was far enough away she let out a long, flabbergasted breath. She reached up and petted Appa's soft fur mumbling something about "Twinkle Toes," and "going to pay."
When Aang came back he held another scroll in his hands. "It says," he said, walking over to the earthbender:
Aang,
You've made it to the next step in our little game. Now you're getting good. I hope you and your friend, Toph is it? I hope you learned something from the people that you saw.
The next riddle is:
Boiling oil was the punishment of the Avatar drenched in Green
Return there to find the person that she was convicted of killing.
"Didn't Sokka say something about a town you guys went to," Toph said, "you were accused of killing someone in a past life? They were going to boil you in oil!"
"That's right!" Aang said. "Come on, let's go."
After they had climbed onto Appa, Aang yelled, "Yip yip!!" and they flew high up into the air.
Toph resumed her position on Appa's saddle trying to forget everything she had just seen and heard in that forest. Twinkle Toes and her, it wasn't true. It couldn't be.
Aang sat on Appa's head thinking.
The sunset was sinking in the distance and they would have to stop soon. Aang lay down and put his hands under his head.
And as they flew off, Aang thought only one thing about the incident that they had experienced that day: I'm going to have a very big family.
And that made him smile.
So, what did you Taang fans think? I hope it was fluffy enough or whatever it is you call it.
The next chapter is about Iroh, Katara, and a man in the Blue Mask….I wonder who that could be?
So, tell me what you guys think. Until we meet again, goodbye my fellow fan fiction authors!
