A/N- First off I would like to thank my beta reader Twilight Rose2 with her help there shouldn't be any more mistakes, and darktank for giving me a good idea. Also this chapter contains some really cool action scenes (hopefully). And with out farther delay I give you…………………………….the disclaimer gasp
Disclaimer- if I had created Avatar it would have been for an English paper that I would have only gotten a B- on so it's a good thing I didn't
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And before she even knew what she was doing, she had walked closer and stood on her tippy toes. She gave him a light peck on the cheek, and then blushed realizing what she had done.
"Well goodnight" she said quickly and walked back to camp
Sokka just stood there with a dumb look on his face. He touched his cheek, "goodnight" he said dreamily.
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Sokka started to walk back to camp, his mind on what had just happened
'Toph kissed me' he thought. Right now just thinking about it gave him that same feeling he had when she had been straddling him to remove that stupid, no that 'wonderful' beard, the beard that started it all. He really liked that feeling and wanted to experience it again. He made a mental note to do more nice things for Toph.
All of a sudden there was a huge explosion that came from the direction of the camp. He drew his sword and sprinted the rest of the way back. When he got there the camp was in shambles. Aang was fighting with this huge guy with a strange tattoo on his forehead, and Katara was getting up from the ground, it looked like she had been thrown backward by the explosion. Sokka scanned the area again looking for Toph but she was nowhere to be seen. There was another explosion and Aang was knocked backward and into a large rock, he looked unconscious. Katara took his place battling with the man, and Toph appeared from out of the forest.
"Where were you" Sokka asked worriedly
"Does it matter" Toph than began to throw rocks in the mans direction but he quickly made them explode with a blast from that strange tattoo of his.
Katara had a limited source of water so all she could do was throw small water spikes from the water in her canteen, but they were no match for the man who merely hit them away with his arm, which was covered in a metal glove clear up to his elbow.
Toph made the ground shake under the mans feet and he fell over backwards, when he landed Toph quickly covered his hands and feet in a layer of earth. The man broke free and fired a shot at Toph and she flew back, the ground exploding right under her feet.
Sokka watched in horror as she landed with a dull thud, she didn't get up or even move. He ran to her side as Katara continued to fight, even though it was apparent that she was exhausted. Toph was breathing but there was a huge gash on her forehead right below the hair line and it was bleeding heavily. He picked her up, she was surprisingly light and she felt fragile in his arms, and ran towards Appa. When he got there he carried her on and placed her down, he then rushed to help Aang who was groaning softly from the ground near Appa's head. He lifted him up and put him atop Appa next to Toph.
"Katara! Lets get out of hear now"
Katara ran towards Appa and barely made it on before the ground next to him exploded and sent chunks of earth fly in every direction. Appa took flight and as he gained air Sokka, who was still standing, was shook and sent flying over the side of Appa.
The fall wasn't a long one but it knocked the breath out of him. Appa started to turn back and descend.
"NO KEEP GOING IT'S TOO DANGEROUS"
He ran off into the woods and Katara steered Appa back up and away from Sokka with tears in her eyes. The man took one final shot at Appa and missed, he then began to chase after Sokka.
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The sun was rising she could feel its warmth on her cheeks. She sat up her head was pounding and she felt as if she had been hit with a sledge hammer, the birds were making way too much noise each chirp sent a jolt of pain threw her body. Then the memories of the night before ran threw her mind, the kiss, the explosion, the strange man, Aang laying motionless on the ground, a jolt of pain, and then nothing.
She observed her surroundings, she was on the ground somewhere in a small forest, Aang was on laying on the ground a few feet away, his heartbeat soft and fluttery just like always and he seemed to be asleep. She sensed someone approaching them, the footsteps were familiar and she knew who it was but something was wrong. They were slightly different, more heavy and less graceful than normal, something was wrong she knew it, where was Sokka.
"Toph, your up" Katara said coming into the camp sight. Her voice was sweet but laced with sadness, this worried Toph greatly.
"Where's Sokka?"
"He…." she began to cry the tears coming softly "He…"
"Katara what is it, what happened" Toph was really starting to get scared, what if something happened to Sokka she didn't know what she would do, she didn't know if she could take it. "Take a deep breath and tell me ok"
"Ok" she took a deep breath and continued but her voice was shaky "We were fighting and you and Aang got knocked out, so he carried you onto Appa and I ran on at the last minute, but when we were flying away he…" she stopped to sniffle and take another breath "He fell over the side of Appa" the tears were now running freely down her cheeks once more "I wanted to go back and get him but he yelled that it was to dangerous and to keep going then he ran into the woods and that guy followed him" she was sobbing uncontrollably now.
Toph felt numb on the inside she didn't know how to react to this news, part of her wanted to scream and yell at Katara telling her that she should have gone back no matter the danger, she wanted to throw rocks and cause the earth to shake until she passed out from exhaustion. But another part of her wanted to sit down and cry, to wallow in her own losses, and do nothing. But she knew none of those things would get anything accomplished, so she tried comforting Katara instead.
"It's ok Katara I'm sure he's alright, he's very smart he'll think of something" if only she could believe her own words
"You really think so"
"Of course I do, because if he doesn't I'll find him and then bury him alive for being so stupid" she joked, but inside all she felt was an icy dread.
Katara gave a small chuckle and stopped crying. She looked at Toph whose eyes betrayed the confident smile on her face, they showed all of the worry and sadness that the rest of her wasn't, and then a flash of pain graced her features and she grimaced and held her head.
"Man how hard did I hit my head"
"I healed you as best as I could but there's still a bump, your skull was cracked open and you were bleeding pretty bad, Toph, you could have died. If it wasn't for Sokka's quick action you probably would have."
"Sokka….saved me" she was stunned
"If he hadn't carried you and Aang onto Appa I wouldn't have been able to get away from that guy. And like I said I healed you as best as I could but head injuries are very complicated I was afraid that you wouldn't wake up ever again, that sometimes happens to people after getting hit in the head they go into a forever sleep until they waste away to nothing. And I was also worried because even if they do wake up sometimes they aren't right in the head, but you seem to be fine can you remember everything from the two days ago?"
"Two days ago?"
"Ooh yeah I forgot you've been knocked out for a whole day, you got knocked out not last night but the night before last and its now morning."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN A WHOLE DAY, WE HAVE TO FIND SOKKA!!" she shouted this woke up Aang.
"Toph, your up"
"Yeah yeah get Appa ready we need to go back for Sokka"
"Toph me and Sokka had a plan if any of us got separated we would go to this forest and wait for three days and if we aren't back together than we continue on with the invasion as planed whether we have everyone or not"
"But we can't just sit hear and do nothing what if he doesn't come back"
Aang put a hand on her shoulder "We can't leave what if he comes and we aren't here plus this was his idea and his ideas normally turn out to be good ones"
"Fine" she laid down and closed her eyes in defeat her head also hurt and she was really tired.
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BOOM
'Just keep going' he thought
His legs were burning he didn't know how long he could keep this up, he had been running nonstop for the past 15 minutes and was about to collapse. But he kept on, occasionally dodging an explosion and cutting down small trees and bushes to create obstacles for the crazy man chasing him down.
BOOM
He fell on his face his nose making a sickeningly popping sound and bleeding profusely, but he scrambled to his feet once more and continued to run. Finally after another minute of running he could last no longer.
'I'm not going down without a fight'
He knew that he was about to die he could feel it in his bones. In his mind he thought of all of the people he had ever loved and cared the most about, he saw an image of Katara, her smiling face helping him threw the hard times after their mother died and caring for him when it seemed like no one else would. He saw Aang the overly hyper young boy destined to save the world, He saw Yue as beautiful as the moon shining in front of him.
'I'll be with you soon'
He saw Suki, her soft blue eyes piercing his own, she was training him to be a better fighter, she kissed him. Ohh how he missed her but somehow he knew that he wasn't in love with her as he had once thought.
Love, an image of Toph, tough and beautiful appeared before his eyes, her soft hair shining in the moonlight.
"No, no, I like it a lot and thanks for getting it for me I never got a chance to properly thank you"
That soft peck on the cheek he could feel it again, so nice like it had just happened.
'I should have told her how I felt now I'll never get the chance'
He turned sword held in front of him his body prepared to fight, but no one was there. His muscles tensed he sensed a trap and didn't lower his weapon. Suddenly a pair of strong arms grabbed him from behind and pulled him to the ground and a hand was shoved over his mouth. And he was dragged into a hole in the ground that was covered by a camouflaged trapdoor.
A/N- My first cliffhanger wow it feels good, I should do it more often MWAHAHAHA!! Anyway hope you enjoyed this new chappy please review, it makes me feel warm and fuzzy on the inside
-Megi
P.S- I'm going to start adding like the last paragraph of the last chapter at the begging of the next one so that way you can more easily remember what happened last, I know sometimes I have to go back and read because I'm forgetful like that well enjoy!