Time for the next chapter, guys! Now's the one you've been waitin' for: Earth Rumble! Also, I think I forgot to mention the characters' ages. Hehe... sorry.

Aang-14

Katara-16

Sokka-17

Loki-15

Toph-14

This is the epic chapter that I've been promising, so leeeeeet's get ready to ruuuuuumble!... Okay, that was just plain bullshit right there.

Chapter 5:Earth Rumble

"Hold still!" Katara scolded as she tried to wrap bandages around the wounds on my legs. At my insistence, they were dyed black with my power, making it look cooler. "I know it's hurting you, but I have to cover them up!"

"My wounds aren't hurtin' me, woman!" I jumped again involuntarily. "You are!"

"Well sorry, Mr. I-wanna-start-a-fight-with-Azula! I'm not the one who nearly got burnt to a crisp!"

"I was not nearly-agh!" I clutched my head in pain as a glazed look came over my eyes. Suddenly, I heard a yell, amplified in my ears by the migraine, and Aang was holding his head as well. His tatoo's started glowing, as if he were going into the Avatar State, and after a while, mine did too, an ethereal glow coming fom under my shirt.

"We have to land!" Katara said worreidly. She looked over the side of the saddle. "There! Land outside of that town!"

Appa obeyed without question, seeing his best friend in pain, and landed right out side of the town's gates. Sokka immediately grabbed me and pulled me off of Appa, and as soon as my head touched the ground, I started to have a vision.

I was in an arena of some sorts. One giant rock pedastal was separated from the stands by an empty ring, almost like a moat. The stadium could easily seat a couple hundred people, and I got a feeling they would be here to watch something. But what?

"What are you doing here?" a feminine voice asked impatiently. She sounded like she was ready to throw a boulder at my head if the fast foot-tapping was any indication.

"I seriously don't know. Would you mind filling me in as to where this is?" I asked, cautious so she wouldn't just suddenly rage out on me. I finally turned around to face her, and I was stunned to see a beautiful (damn, I can't believe I said that. I'm gettin' old.) teenage girl standing in front of me. My eyes analyzed quickly, taking in minute details that I thought would be useful. She seemed about 5'1, and barefoot, like me. Her hair was tied up, with bangs covering the entirety of her forehead. The girl had a dull look in her eyes, instantly telling me that she was blind, but she seemed to be staring right at me. I decided to test something out, and I shifted my foot ever so slightly. The girl copied my movement discreetly, and it was then I knew: she didn't need to see because she felt instead, which was just as good, if not better. The last thing I noticed was the bracelet on her ankle, and I jumped slightly, my feet never leaving the ground. No wonder I had been so jumpy about a boulder crashing down on my head- this girl's an Earthbender!

"What's your name?" she asked bluntly. Damn, this girl doesn't mince her words.

"Loki. You?"

"Toph," she said, visibly relaxing a tiny bit. "And you still haven't answered my question: what are you doing here?"

"Girl, I just answered your damn question! Now answer mine!" I had a tick mark by that time.

And it seemed that she did, too. "This an arena, dammit! Can you fucking see?"

"I know it's an arena, you twit! And don't you dare say that again, you fuckin' hypocrite! You're blind yourself!" Then my anger dissipated suddenly. "Alright, let's stop arguin' like were freakin' 6 year olds and just-."

"What, givin' up already?" Toph taunted, smiling. "You can do better than that, ya sissy!"

I smirked. The girl was good, but he was better. "Look, you ovbviously are not getting enough male attention. Now I know that you're in need, but I just can't help ya."

Toph blushed madly, and for a second, I thought she was gonna throw a boulder at me. But she didn't. Instead, she said "Fight me,".

I blinked. "What, now?"

"No, you idiot. At Earth Rumble 6. An Earthbending tournament." She turned away and started to walk. "I expect to see you there."

"Alrighty, then. See ya there."

Toph turned her head slightly, and gave me a genuine smile. "See you."

As she walked away, I tilted my head to get a look at her ass, and smiled.

"Damn."

I was grinning maniacally when I woke up, and Katara looked at me warily. Seeing that Aang was getting up, I decided to do the same, dusting off my clothes.

"Loki?" Katara said, still looking at me with caution. "What was glowing under your shirt? I saw it when we were about to land. It seemed almost... ghostly." She finished tentatively.

I sighed. I didn't want to explain it until later... much later. But this damned situation has forced my hand. "The Shadowbenders have different tribes, each with different tatoos that glow different colors depending on your tribe. I was part of the Zyet Clan, and when my hair was white and my skin was black, the true color of a Shadowbender's skin, the markings glowed red. But now, due to my change, they glow teal, something that has caused me pain my whole life. But that doesn't matter, they're long gone, and I couldn't be more proud of 'em." I smirked a bit. "Besides, didn't I tell you that I was special?"

The rest of the gang smiled. But Aang still had a weird look on his face, almost like he had a revelation. "Loki," he asked. "Did you have a vision just now?"

"Yeah, why?" I said, wondering where he was going with this.

"And did it happen to have a blind girl with tied up hair?"

I was getting more creeped out by the second. "Yeah..."

"I think she's supposed to be our teacher, Loki," Aang said, as blunt as Toph. "Bumi said that our Earthbending teacher would be one who waits and listens before striking. Something about her felt... right."

It did sound like Toph, who needed to wait and listen before striking her opponent. Those traits were vital for her because she used them to 'see'. Because of that, I had to agree. "I think you're right, Aang. Therefore, there's a promise I need to keep." I started to walk towards town. "Come on, let's stock up on supplies."

Katara knew something was up, but she didn't say anything. Sokka and Aang shrugged, and we headed into town.

Once we got inside the town's gates, a man holding dozens of small leaflets stopped us in our tracks.

"You kids like Earthbending? Like throwin' rocks? Come check out Master Wu's Earthbending Academy!" He handed Aang a leaflet and walked off.

"Okay, then," I said, creeped out. "That was one creepy pedophile. Did you see the way he looked at Aang?" I shivered. "Yuck."

Aang ignored me, but Sokka patted my shoulder. "I know what you mean, man. Freakin' pedo, lookin' at little kids like that. Nastiness."

"Hey, look," Katara said. "There's a coupon on the back. It says that the first lesson is free! Maybe this Master Wu is the teacher you've been looking for!"

Thirty minutes later, Aang came out of the academy looking like shit. He was covered head to toe in broken rock and sand to the point where he was trying to knock it out of his ears. Sokka and I laughed hysterically as Katara tried to get it all off.

"Dude," Sokka said, wiping a tear from his eye. "You look like a sand moth just took a dump on you!"

"Clean up man, you're makin' my eyes bleed!" I said, rolling on the floor in laughter.

Just then, we heard a couple of voices behind us. "I'm telling ya, The Boulder is gonna win Earth Rumble 6, no doubt about it!" My ears perked up at this.

"Well he's gonna have to get through some of the toughest Earthbenders in the world just to get a shot at the champ." Now everyone was interested.

"Hey, where is this Earth Rumble 6?" Aang asked the two teenagers. I wanted to know as well. I needed to sign up.

"It's on the island of Nunya. Nunya damn business!" They laughed at that, walking around a corner.

Katara and I looked at each other and nodded, knowing each other's thoughts.

Payback time.

We raced after the two boys, Katara yelling "Wait up!". Catching up to them in an alley, they turned around to face us. But suddenly they found themselves on opposite sides of the alley, iced to the wall up to their chins.

"Now," Katara and I said in eerie unison accompanied with an even more eerie smile. "Tell us where Earth Rumble 6 is. Now, if you value your extremities."

The two guys were scared shitless. "It's underground! Th-there's a tunnel next to the well in the middle of the town, go down and you'll find the arena! Now, can you please let us go?"

Katara and I looked at each other, then back at them. "Nah," she said, walking away.

But I stayed for a little while longer. "One more question. How do you sign up for Earth Rumble 6?"

"You're that confident? Jeez," one of them said. "Go ahead, it's the first left door you come to when you get down there. Just ask the guy there to sign up. But I wish you luck man, 'cause you're gonna get your ass kicked."

"Thanks, you two. And for that comment... y'all can stay up there until you thaw out." I smiled a creepy smile.

I returned to Aang and Sokka to find a twisted scene. The guy who had given Aang the leaflet before was back, and he was touching Aang's head. Aang seemed not to notice, as his attention was focused, along with Sokka, on a bag they wanted to buy for themselves.

Katara started to walk towards the man, ready to give him a beatdown, when I simply put my hand on her shoulder, pulling her back. "Sokka!" I yelled, getting his attention. He looked up, and in the span of one minute, had his 'nigga moment'.

In one fluid movement, he took out his boomerang and clocked the guy on the head, stunning him. Then he kicked the guy in his chest and onto the floor, towering over him.

"YEAH, NOT SO GREAT NOW, ARE YA?" Sokka yelled in an almost ghetto tone. "YOU WERE FINE DOIN' ALL THAT NASTY SHIT JUST THEN, BUT NOW YOU GOT KICKED IN YO CHEST! HOW YOU FEELIN' NOW, YA PIECE OF SHIT? TOUCH HIM AGAIN AND I'LL RIP YOU A NEW ASSHOLE, YA FUCKIN' NASTY SON OF A BITCH! GO FIND SOME OTHER BOY TO MOLEST!"

The man looked like he was about to piss himself, and he ran off. I walked up to Sokka with a big smile on my face, while everybody else's mouth was open in shock.

"Now that's how ya do it!" I praised him, doing a fist bump. "Now, come on guys, we're goin' to Earth Rumble 6!"

Underground the town, we started to walk towards the sound of cheering, assuming that that would be where we would watch the fights. Then I saw a door on my left, and I turned towards Sokka.

"I have business to attend to, so I'm not gonna be able to watch the fights with you guys, alright?"

"Yeah, yeah," Sokka said halfheartedly, his mind on the fights already.

"Good." He walked to catch up with Aang and Katara, and I entered the door on my left.

It was a simple room, no decorations whatsoever. Just a stone desk with a man sitting behind it. The man himself looked simple, dressed in a simple tunic, with horn-rimmed glasses resting on the bridge of his nose. Nothing special, I concluded.

"You here to sign up?" he asked boredly.

"Yeah," I said with a similar tone.

"You an Earthbender?" I nodded, lying. "Alright, just sign here, and go through the door on my right. The stairs are right behind it, so be careful. They'll take you down to the room where the fighters wait and the tunnel you have to go through to get to the arena. Good luck."

"Thanks," I said. I'll need it.

"Hey, wait, what's your name gonna be?"

"White Shadow," I said without hesitation.

It was my nickname from my time in the combat force.

I opened the door and nearly fell down the stairs. Regaining my balance, I made my way down the steps until I was in a large stone room, occupied by several Earthbenders, here to compete for the title. They looked like they had experience doing this, but it didn't matter to me. Looking around, I couldn't find Toph, so I decided to sit somewhere.

That's when I realized that all of the fighters were staring at me.

I began to feel uncomfortable, so I decided to move to the tunnel. I felt their stares even as I walked, like they were trying to burn holes in my skin. I shook it off. I didn't have time for this shit. I came to fight.

The tunnel was quite wide, enough for ten men walking side by side, with still a little room to spare. I raised up a shadowy wall around me, blocking me from their stares, and reached inside my near-empty bag. Pulling out a spare outfit, I started to change.

The outfit was black with white trim. It consisted of baggy black pants and an open tunic that I closed at the bottom, leaving the collar and the top of it open. It had a long slit down the side that started at my waist and went down all the way to the bottom, allowing for easier movement. It was short sleeved, coming up to my elbow, with black cuffs. I tied my waist with a white sash to make sure my pants didn't fall. I was dressed in the attire of the Combat Force of my former tribe, although it was a lttle altered due to my rank. It felt good to be back in it.

I lowered the wall, seeing that the tournament was about to begin. I heard the host in the arena, faintly. "The tournament is now underway. First up, The Boulder vs. The Big Bad Hippo! Let's see some Earthbending!"

I nearly laughed at the second guy's name, but the smile on my face died quickly when I saw the guy. He was big, and I mean big. What looked like flab from a distance was actually solid muscle. I stood stock still, flattened against the wall, trying to avoid the giant man's girth. Finally, he passed, and I could breathe again. The stink rolling off of him was astonishing, to say the least.

The Boulder was much smaller, but still very muscular. He turned towards me with a permanent scowl etched onto his face. "The Boulder thinks you are weak, and not cut out for this. The Boulder will crush you like an ant!"

A vein bulged in my head. "Well I think I can skip you across water, Pebble. And if you say another word, I will rip that scowl off your face. Understand?"

He had the sense to keep his mouth shut, and he walked away towards his match. It went on like that: the fighters walikin' past, insulting me one way or another, and me threatening to hurt them... severely. By the time it was time for the championship match, I was ready to kill somebody.

Then she walked by. Toph walked with her head held high, flanked by two women, her champion belt in their hands. The fact that she was the champion didn't really surprise me, and 'seeing' me didn't surprise her, either, by the looks of it. She stopped right by me, and the women stopped as well.

"That vision I had of you gave me an hour-long headache," she said. Then she smirked. "I'm gonna hurt you for that."

I smiled back. "You can try it, shorty, but I don't think you're gonna succeed."

"We'll see, Loki." And she walked by, women in tow. "See ya out side the ring... literally."

Then she was gone. I sighed. This was gonna be a short fight for The Boulder. I decided to go outside the tunnel to watch.

The match had just started. But The Boulder wanted to finish it then, so he took one step, and Toph moved her foot in preparation. Then when his foot was about to land again, and she moved her foot swiftly, sending a wave of earth to where his foot was about to land.

Seismic Sense, wow. Haven't seen that in a while. But it makes sense. I turned my attention towards the match, and burst out laughing. The wave had hit The Boulder's foot precisely when it landed, making him do the split. I couldn't imagine how much that hurt. Then I winced, knowing I could.

Now Toph decided to end it, and while The Boulder was on the ground, she shot three earth pillars at him, knocking him my way. I sidestepped quickly with practiced ease, as The Boulder slid past me back down the tunnel.

"The winner is... The Blind Bandit!" The crowd cheered, expecting this. Toph looked towards me and smirked, boasting and showing off how strong she was.

"Now, there is a new contender, one that doesn't seem to be afraid of champion! Please welcome... the White Shadow!"

The crowd hushed, seeing me leap up onto the arena. My hair was out, hanging long, and I slitted my eyes.

"Nice job skipping The Pebble over water," I said to her.

She laughed, knowing who I was talking about. "Of course! I can beat anyone!"

"We'll see," I mumbled, the bell ringing to begin. "We'll see."

Then I realized that I had no game plan. I couldn't Earthbend yet, and I couldn't use anything else. But then I calmed down, and thought for a second. I would have to use pure strength to move the rocks, I have enough of that. But then I got a better idea. I could use Airbending to help move the earth as well as sound waves! It was genius! But I had no time to think, as a wave of earth shot toward me at a startling speed. I leaped to the side, staying in the air a tad bit longer thanks to my Airbending.

"Where are you?" Toph wondered aloud, searching the earth with her feet.

"Here," I said, putting all of my power into punching the ground, adding some sound waves as well. It knocked her off of her feet, her sense of sight and balance scrambled. Taking advantage of this, I stomped my foot, hard. My heel impacted the ground, and it created a wall of earth right where Toph landed, making it lift her into the air. I used my Gravitybending skills for the first in a long time, and I pushed the wall towards the edge, intent on winning.

But Toph had other plans. She went over, but she created a step for herself, allowing her to step back onto the arena pedestal. Her face flushed at her sudden embarrasment, she then shot two bullets of stone towards my face, intent on taking my head off. I sighed and jumped in the air, slicing my foot through the rocks, demolishing them, but some of the shrapnel cut my body, earning me about a dozen slices. 'Rock slice!,' I thought, forgetting about it, laughing to myself. That was a mistake.

I decided it was time to end this nonsense, and I shot towards the ground, arm poised to punch it. It was then Toph shot another two bullets towards me without me noticing, and as the shock rippled through the stadium, knocking Toph out of the arena, the bullets impacted my face, slicing it open, the earthen shrapnel cutting three deep scars vertically down my face. The blood came instantly, but I was satisfied when I heard people clapping, clapping for me. But I then saw Toph stalking off, not even bothering to look back, into the tunnel.

I sighed a deep, long sigh. I had successfully pissed someone important off... again.

What did y'all think. This took hella long to write 'cause some days I just couldn't write... it didn't sit well with me. That's why I haven't updated in a while. Send me reviews, they tell me where I went wrong and what I need to fix. Nice reviews are welcome, too. Stay tuned for my next chapter, Death Chase! Also, if you wanna know what a 'nigga moment' is, watch The Boondocks. And if you wanna know what Loki's combat outfit looks like, it's Ggio Vega's (from Bleach) outfit, just black. It's been real y'all. Peace.