This chapter was mainly for fun, nothing really happens but i thought it was funny. BTW any ships that seemed like are being shipped in this chapter are just as a small joke, i dont write relationships too well so nothing will happen from them. I usually only write small cute areas so those who do have OTPs are satisfied with both comedy and cuteness. Please review or message me! i enjoy getting them! ALSO i now have a poll open to see where you all think Zuko will be placed! please check it out!
Over the past three day's Avatar Aang had been taking potions and spell therapy with Poppy. With each day he got more and more sick of the mint tasting liquids she had forced down his throat. His back had finally healed, leaving a big scar that blocked his arrow tattoo. The only pain he felt was a sort of soreness on his lower spine when he stretched out in the morning.
Finally able to leave the hospital wing the gang lead him down twists and turns of the castle to where his temporary chambers were.
"Dumbledore said we would be given our house dorms on the first day of school," Sokka stated , "Untill then we will all stay here."
They stopped infront of a picture of a purple haired witch. She was very pretty and mysterious for she held a skull in her right hand but some olive branches in the other. Aang couldn't figure out if she was good or bad but either was he didn't see how he was going to live in painting.
"Wait, where is the chambers? do we jump in the picture? or..." Aang questioned sokka but the warrior just tapped the bottom corners of the picture frame then gave a bow to the lady. The purple haired witch nodded and the frame opened up from the wall revealing a secret room.
"You have to do those motions everytime to enter, just a secret lock so no one goes poking around," Sokka said entering the room.
The area was a figure eight shaped room, devided inbetween by some curtains. a set of bunk beds sat at the far side of the room, a bathroom door with sink and shower. it looked like their own personal castle with antique furniture every where.
"Cozy, Whats beind the curtain?" Aang walked over to the red drapery but when he touched it he was launched back by an invisible force. he landed on the stone floor in a daze, "What in the world was that?"
"That my friend," Sokka laughed, "Is the girls room"
"What on earth happened?" Katara came running out, she helped the air bender up. "Aang you just can't walk into a girls room like that, especially when the curtain is enchanted."
"Yeah, why did you want to come in here anyway?" Toph emerged from the curtain, "Some kind of creep?"
"No!" his face reddened, he hoped his embarassment didn't show too much, "It's not like that!"
"Sure it is big boy," Sokka slapped him on the back, "Sure it is."
Aang started to unpack his duffle, it wasn't much due to their light traveling, but he had a couple pairs of clothes and his staff.
"So what are we going to do now?" he asked the group after he put away his last shoe.
Katara looked up at him from the peice of parchment she was looking at, "Well we have to buy all of our school supplies down at hogsmeade. Dumbledore gave us enough money get everything. I got all of our lists here,each one is a bit different, so we might have to split up." She handed out the the peiced of paper according to the name on the letter. "I will have to take toph because we are in the same year and she cant see what she is buying."
"Hey i can shop by myself!" the earthbender sniped up.
"Oh yeah?" sokka laughed, "Then what does your list say?"
Toph felt the paper intensly. she stared at it as if she could see past the blindness in her eyes. after a few more seconds of waving the paper around as if she could somehow feel the wind against the ink. "you got me there," she grumbled.
when everyone got ready they headed out of the castle. The path leading to Hogsmead was a long one, during the school year they must have taken carrages to get there in a timley matter, but without them it took almost an hour and a half. When they finally reached the town aang couldn't beleive his eyes. The small village looked like it popped right out of a post card, each cottage was perfectly built and the cobbledtone streets pathed their way ahead.
"okay how about we meet back here in an hour after we baught everything?" Sokka said, he was eyeing a sweet shop across the street, a big sign with Honeydukes painted on it hug on the door.
The group split up with Katara yelling over her shoulder reminding her brother that the money was for school supplies only. Aang was pretty sure her order was going to be ignored. He walked around the magical streets, geting some stares from the oddly dressed people. He looked at himself in a nearby shop window and figured out why every one was giving him weird looks. His reflection showed a boy with a short cropped hair, tattoos over his body including his head, and he wore airbender tunic that covered his one shoulder.
"I must be sticking out like a sore thumb," he murmured to himself. He looked around the street and headed towards the shop called Gladrags Wizardwear. He hoped he could find some hogwarts robes there. He walked into the purple shoppe to see clothing upon clothing hung on the wall. Every colour under the sun could have been there. "Hello?" he called out, nobody seemed to be in the store. He walked farther in and noticed a display of socks. Each sock was just as colourful as the store itself. a box lay on the side of the table, a sign sat infront of it Screaming Socks: You will Be Able To Hear Your Feet Stink!
"Hello deary!" he turned toward the voice, a small plump lady claud in orange walked towards him. Her lipstick seemed to be a mango colour and her eyeshadow wasn't far off. Aang thought she looked like a giant gold fish eel. "You interested in our screaming socks? they scream when they get too smelly,"
Aang stared at the bright woman for a second thn regained his poise, "No mam, i am here for some Hogwarts robes."
"Oh! okay! here i got some already made up, lets see if you can find your size. what house are you in dear?" she asked, leading him to the back of the store.
"Hufflepuff," He said, searching through a rack of black robes with yellow trim.
"Oh thats a lovely house, i was a hufflepuff myself, top in te class too!" she continued the conversation completely one sided, not even giving the airbender a chance to speak. They continued to search through the rack for the right pair of robes. After trying on almost every robe Aang finally founf one that fit decently. "You look great! I will go get the rest of the set. seven robes and three hats," she dissappeared into the back room and returned with a large package that she started to wring up on the cash register. Aang paid the amount then stopped, he noticed that the lady wa staring at him for the longest time. "Do you mind if i sketch you real quick?"
"What?" He was completey confused.
The lady picked up a peice of paper and a quill and started skratching down a sketch of the airbender, "I just love your clothes, i think you are my new muse,"
Aang stood as still as possible as the lady scratched away. after ten embarassing minutes of being drawn he made his way out of the shop, a few coins lighter and a few packages heavier. "Now what do i need?" he whipped out the list and read the contents.
Hogwarts
School of Witch Craft and Wizardry
The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 3) by Miranda Goshawk
Unfogging the Future by Cassandra Vablatsky (if attending Divination)
Intermediate Transfiguration by Emeric Switch
The Monster Book of Monsters (if attending Care of Magical Creatures)
Numerology and Grammatica (if attending Arithmancy)
Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles by Wilhelm Wigworthy (if attending Muggle Studies)
"Wow thats alot of books," Aang traveled around the shops searching for a book store. After five minutes he found a store with piles and piles of books and scrolls stacked in the windows. Aang wondered how any light got in. Entering the store Tomes and Scrolls he noticed he was right, the store barley had any light in it, the only thing that let him see was the glow from some random candles floating in the air. He walked in and found the shop keeper, a young man about the age twenty.
"How may i help you today? gosh those are interesting tatoos," the man greeted aang and just stared at the arrows along his arms and forhead, "Do you have one on your-"
"No." Aang said, cutting him off before anything else came out of his mouth. "I need some books for school," he handed the man the list.
"Yes we have some bundles already prepared for last minute students," The man dissapeared behind the counter and came back with another brown package to add to Aangs growing pile. "Here you go,"
Aang paid the shop keeper, "Thank you sir," after giving a repectful bow he turned to leave.
"Are your sure you dont have a tattoo on your-"
"YES! I AM SURE!" Aang slammed the door behind him, leaving him on the street.
He walked around for another hour gathering schooling supplies and doodads consiting of pots and pans and scales, Aang didnt even know what half od he stuff he got did, but he got it anyway. With five galleons left he headed to Zonko's Joke Shop in hope of finding his false wand. The inside was full of fun toys and gadjets. he passed Dungbombs, Hiccough Sweets, Frog Spawn Soap, Sugar Quills and Nose-Biting Teacups before finally finding a barrel full of false wands. He searched through each wand trying to find one that looked the best. He flipped through blue ones, pink ones, wood, platic, carved, hand painted, all wands someone could think of before finding the one he liked. It was a light ember wand with swirls and arrows carved into it, approximatley twelve inches. he gave it a swish nothing happened, "Perfect" he baught the wand and left to go find his friends.
Sokka was walking around carrying more packages than Aang thought was nessisary. "What?" the warrior asked, "I needed everything i baught"
Aang grinned at him, "Did you really need that tiny ravenclaw dog sweater?"
"Hey, its for MoMo he needs some school spirit too,"
It took the girls about another half hour to get done with their shopping. Aang walked around a bit with Sokka who was grumbling about girls and their shoes. When they finally met back up with Katara and Toph theyhad their new robes on, Katara in black with yellow trim and Toph sporting her Slytherin green. they both looked a bit cleaner and had their hair all done up.
"Sorry about the wait i had some extra money and treated Toph and myself to a make over at Galadriels Hair Salon." Katara said her beautiful mouth was pulled up in a smile.
Toph huffed, "I was against it the entire time,"
Aang saw Tophs eyes and remembered that nobody would expecting a blind wizard to be attending school, "Toph, i think we should buy you a pair of sunglasses,"
"What? Why? the sun doesn't bother me. remember im blind! i dont even know what the sun looks like,"
"Well nobody would think about a blind witch being at school, what if they send you to a special blind school or something?" Aang said.
Toph gave an angry growl, "I am just as good as anybody else, i will not cover up my blindness, i am not ashamed of it. You can cover up YOUR blindness,"
"But im not-"
"Shut up! i know!" she hissed and grumbled at her stupid come back.
Sokka saw the issue and intervened to calm everyone down,"Hey why don't we all go to Madame Pudifoot's?" he pointed across the street, "I heard they had wonderful tea!"
Though he practicall screamed his distraction, it did calm everyone down with the change of topic. they walked into the small tea shop and sat down. The decoration was very tacky and frilly. The windows steamed up and the gaudy tables and chairs were almost all claimed by people holding hands or kissing over cups of tea and coffee. A bell over the door announced customers in a tuneful tinkle.
"Okay if anyone tries to kiss me i will kill you," Toph said threateningly.
A short thin lady who wore everything pink weaven in and out of the cramped tables making her way over the the groups table. When she arrived Aang could smell the sweet scent of herbs emitting off of her, almost as if she were made of tea leaves herself. "What may i get you dears? the special today is Black Pommegranite Tea. and remember, couples get half off all orders!"
Sokka took a the satchel of money out of his coat and quickly counted the coins, "Yes we are couples!"
"What?" the other three said in unison.
"Yeah," he continued, "Me and toph, then Katara and Aang, its a double date," he said to the lady. everyone started to blush from embarassment.
Madame Pudifoot stared at them suspiciously but soon enough bought into their little lie. they each ordered their teas and the women left.
"Why did you say we were couples?" Toph growled, giving Sokka a kick to the shin.
Rubbing his sore sokka glared back at the bender, "Well its fifty percent off for couples, we could save alot of money by playing the part for a couple of minutes. and did you see the prices of the tea here? out rageouse!"
"Fine lets act the part," Katara said, blushing a bit she took Aangs hand who blushed in return.
Sokka reached out to hold Toph's hand, "you make me barf," she grumbled, taking the boy's hand.
The lady returned with the teas and laid them out onto the lacey table cloth. "So how long have you been together?"
"Two months" Ang and Katara said together.
Sokka who was a bit more romantic began telling the whole story on how toph and him were together for almost a month. His 'love at first sight' story made the shop keeper look all happy and fluttery, she must have been such the romantic to buy into his dramatic story. the more Sokka talked the grumpier Toph looked. "Oh please tell me the story of your first kiss!" the lady begged the boy.
"Uh.. our what now?" her questioin caught the boy off guard.
"You two never kissed? oh my! you have to!" She looked as if she just heard the most tragic thing in the world. "Please let me witness your first kiss! my shop is the perfect place for anything ramantic and beautiful! if you kiss i will let you two have your teas for free!"
"How about i-" Toph started to threaten Mrs. Pudifoot but was interupted by Sokka.
"It's okay dearest, we can do it you wouldn't want to dissapoint this lovely lady now wouldn't you?" Sokka grinned then murmured under his breath, "Or my wallet,"
Pudifoot was almost in tears when Sokka leaned in and gave the blind girl a small kiss on the lips. Aang and Katara just sat there and stared. The boy pulled back and sat down with a goofy smile on his face. Aang was partly jealous of Sokka, if only he could have invented a sob story he might have had the chance to kiss Katara. He looked over at the waterbender who just stared back at him smileing, she was doing all she could to keep herself from laughing. pudifoot was so happy, tears rolling down her face it smudged her makeup. "I will get you two a free peice of coffee cake, this is so precious," she went away sobbing with happiness. When she was out of earshot Katara let out her belt of laughter.
Toph growled something under her breath and gave sokka a kick to each leg. "Never do that again!" she hissed.
Sokka smiled "Hey i didn'tmean anything by it, now we got free tea AND cake!"
Katara laughed, "Boy the things you would do for a bargain,"
"Yeah sometimes i even disgust myself," Sokka sighed, remembering the time he ate a dried lizard so he could buy swords for half price.
They left the shop fifteen minutes later after eating their cake and tea."Well that was an adventure," Aang said, skipping down the cobble streets.
"Sure was," Katara chuckled looking at Toph repeatedly punching her brother. "I think we should return to the castle before my brother tries to pull more smooth moves on his new girlfriend" she joked.
Toph yelled back "Hey I heard that!"