Chapter One
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Gaoling was a good sized city with a bustling market area but what truly made it so popular was the fact that the second richest family in the Earth Nation lived there. The current master and mistress of the Bei Fong family were middle-aged and had a secret, blind daughter that they thought too fragile to be exposed to the world and so had tried, and succeeded, to keep their daughter secret from the world but had not managed to keep the world secret from her.
Toph just happened to be that secret daughter and no one seeing her stalk down the street arrogantly would have ever guessed who her parents were.
She approached the gate to her parent's manor and the younger of the two guards on duty made a motion to stop her but the older one stopped him and opened the gate wide, bowing deeply as she passed. She recognized him as one of the guards that used to watch over her and he was one of the few that knew she wasn't as frail as everyone seemed to think.
The other guard just blinked in surprise and hurriedly copied the gesture a little too late.
She might have been blind but she could still see, in a sense. She saw through earth bending, feeling the vibrations of the earth she could know the exact actions of everyone around her, as long as they were touching the ground anyways, but no one except an air bender or someone on one of those airships the Fire Nation had built could avoid that for long, so overall her sight was far better than normal vision.
She stopped at a corner that hid her from the main entrance. She could feel her old personal servant, Zen, standing just inside the door. He unfortunately was not one who knew who she really was and he wouldn't hesitate to try and capture her and hustle her back to her apartments to be wrapped up in protective swaddling again, not that he could, but she would rather avoid the hassle.
She stomped on the ground and twisted her foot, and was rewarded with a quickly cut off startled yelp. Toph rounded the corner and crossed through the doorway, smiling at Zen, or rather his eyes and nose, which was the only part of him that was above the ground. The earth floor around him looked as if it had become a whirlpool and sucked him down, which actually it had.
Toph walked straight through the main hallway, which branched off into many different hallways, avoiding confrontation with guards or servants by sucking them down into the earth in the same way she did with Zen, until it ended in a short, skinny hallway which led to the double doors of her parents private audience chamber.
A satisfied smile appeared on her face. Her parents were inside. She had been waiting for this moment.
She jerked her head upward, raising two slabs of earth to cover the back entrances to the chamber and then slammed the doors open. She strode in, jerking her head upward again to raise a slab to cover the main entrance, cutting off the startled shouting of the guards, and then sat down in the chair opposite her two shocked parents who were now on their feet.
Her smile broadened. "Please sit," she said, sliding her foot backwards, literally pulling the ground out from underneath her parents feet, causing them to lose their balance and fall back into their chairs, "We need to talk."
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Well, first chapter, what do you think. Sorry it took me so long to update, my parents have been doing a lot of remodeling and I've been helping them, so I haven't had much time to write.
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