Hey guys! Next week, I'm going to try to write or start writing an Avatar one-shot. (I've got 45 one-shots I want to write and should really start up…) So I may/may not actually write a chapter for this story. It depends on my plans for the day. As for how long before we get to training, the next chapter is the last one before we get there.
A "fwoosh" and a "bang" caused Luke and Buttercup to turn around as quickly as possible, only to see Bubbles sitting on the floor, rocking back and forth with both hands grasping tightly to her now injured knee, and Blossom sitting on her knees next to Bubbles, looking at her wound.
"Ow, ow, ow!" Bubbles cried in pain.
"Why on earth is there loose wiring of all things on the floor?!" Blossom asked groggily as she glanced over at the cause of Bubbles' injury.
"Come on, Bubbles!" Buttercup yelled. "You're constantly getting beat up by monsters and weirdoes and a TRIP of all things hurts you like that?"
"I wasn't expecting it!" Bubbles cried again. "We were using our super-running to catch up with you and I didn't see the wires!" Her voice went from in pain to mopey and sad rather quickly. Tears streamed down her face slowly. "It electrocuted me you know…"
At this point, Luke was still dazed that the two girls had caught up with him and Buttercup so fast; being even more so after he heard the words "super" and "running" right next to each other. But Bubbles' tears and the mention of electrocution brought him quickly out of his trance and back to real life. He threw himself in front of the girl's knee, ripping a piece of his sweater off to wrap it around the wound. Afterwards, he picked her up carefully and said:
"I'll carry you until we get there-wherever it is we're going that is-and I'll ask Katara to heal you when she gets there too. Ok?" Bubbles nodded and smiled brightly like only she could.
"Thank you Luke!" She cooed. Luke gently brushed the tears away from her face with a caring look in his eyes.
"There, now. You don't have to cry anymore." Bubbles nodded again, and Buttercup rolled her eyes at her sister.
"Baby." She muttered.
"Shut up!" Blossom replied sharply. She then turned back to Luke. "You're such a gentleman, Luke!" Luke smiled at her with a light nod.
"Thank you, ma'am!" He said with joyous gleam in his eyes.
'Professor Layton would be so proud if he could see me now!' He thought happily.
"Yeah, yeah yeah. We all know he's such a gentleman! Can we get over it and continue walking before those slow-poke benders or whatever catch up with us?" This question caught Luke, Blossom, and Bubbles' immediate attentions. They all nodded lightly. Blossom with a cold glare to her sister, Luke with a serious look in his eyes, and Bubbles with the same bright smile she had before. And at that, they continued on the way to whatever Professor Xandrmon's "training" was.