Toph's Snow Chap 9
Chapter 9: Guests Galore Part 2
Disclaimer: Do I own Avatar: Last Airbender? No, I do not.
AN: Fair warning, I have taken much creative license with this chapter especially.
Sorry this is late, I've decided that I need to slow down on updates, for a little while so I can collect a larger store of chapters so that I stay ahead.
Enjoy!
Week 12 (of Toph's pregnancy, month 3, July 28-August 3)
Third Person
Dinner went by quickly as everyone talked about what they had been doing since the last time they all got together. Zuko, of course, had to rule the Fire Nation, fixing all the corrupt practices his father put into place. His sister, Azula, had been committed to an asylum for the last eight years, and his father had been executed for his crimes against the nations, by the vote of all the leaders of the nations, dispite the fact that he couldn't bend anymore. Ty Lee and Kazuo started a traveling act that performed all over the nations, Ty Lee did acrobatics while Kazuo firebended rings and other shapes around her.
"Hey, Toph? Are we going to tell them our news?" asked Sokka in Toph's ear.
"Umm, sure." When there was a lull in the conversation Sokka spoke up.
"Toph and I have some news for everyone." He tapped Toph to tell her to continue.
"Um, Sokka and I are having a baby." Toph fidgeted while she waited for a response.
"Heh, heh, never thought you had it in you had it in you, Sokka." said Zuko. Sokka glared at him.
"What my husband means to say is, congratulations." said Mai.
"When is it due?" asked Ty Lee.
"Late winter." said Toph.
"Just like Tao. What did you guys do for the solstice? We had a giant party at the palace." said Ty Lee.
"We celebrated at home." said Katara.
"No party?"
"No. Just dinner."
"That's no fun."
Third Person Satomi
While the grownups were chatting, Satomi, Haruka and Haruki, or Ruka and Ruki, had moved into another room to play. Tao hadn't followed because he was content sitting in his mother's lap.
"Can you bend yet Sato?" asked Ruki.
"Yeah! You wanna see?"
"Why would I ask if I didn't want to see?" Ruki rolled his eyes.
"Come on, let's go outside!"
The three children walked to the doorway of the dining room to see what their parents were doing. All of the adults were sitting around, talking. So Satomi led the twins down the hallway and out the backdoor.
"Okay, now watch." Satomi started with the trick she had learned when she'd first started bending.
"Wow." said Ruki.
Satomi then transformed the waterspout-cyclone into something she had been working on. She moved her hands apart, making the water half turn into droplets, and the air half disappeared. The she moved her handsin a motion that looked like she was drawing a string taut and then a small circular motion, this made the air and water droplets to merge into a small cloud. Satomi then made a motion with her hands and the cloud floated around the twins, her hands directing the cloud. While it was floating, a light shower of snow stated to fall so that the twins were standing in the center of a ring of snow.
Ruki looked amazed and Ruka just looked amused. Satomi melted the snow into a bubble of water.
They haven't seen anything yet!
Satomi stated a push, pull motion and the wind picked up. She added some flowing movements to the pushing and pulling and a stream of water flowed into the air, once again swirling into a cloud. This cloud was different than the first one. It was much bigger and the winds swirled counter-clockwise. Ruka was finally impressed and Ruki was in complete awe at the miniature typhoon swirling around the backyard. Satomi, panting a little from the effort, straightened her arms on each side of her body and dropped them quickly. The typhoon started to rain down on the ground in between Satomi and the twins. Buckets of water rained down for a few minutes. Satomi stretched her hands apart again and brought them together with a loud clap and the mini typhoon disintegrated. Several people started clapping and Satomi turned toward them. All the adults were standing there, they had been watching. Ruki raced up next the Satomi.
"You should bow." He whispered into her ear. Satomi bowed, blushing in embarrassment.
"That's the best you've done, Sato." said Aang.
"Was it just me, or was she bending both water and air?" asked Zuko.
"Satomi is the first person, that wasn't an avatar, who can bend more than one element." said Katara, glowing with pride. Satomi was blushing even more from all the attention.
"Well Satomi isn't the only bending genius here. Ruka, Ruki! Show them what you can do!"
The twins complied. Haruka and Haruki stood side by side while everyone watched excitedly. The two had their hands in front of them, clasped together with only their index fingers standing up. They had their eyes closed and seemed to be concentrating on something. Simultaneously, they grabbed the hand of the other that was closest to them, and moved their other hands in a large circle. A trail of fire followed their hands and condensed into a small ball of flame. But these were no ordinary flame colors; Haruka's fire was a bright reddish-pink, while Haruki's was a dark bluish-green. Many of the spectators gasped while Zuko just looked smug.
Haruki tossed his flame to Haruka, who merged them together. When they merged, they created a ball of purple flame. Ruka, tossed it back to Ruki, and he split them apart again into the two separate flames. Ruki then flicked his hands and each flame turned into two flames. Ruka began to skip around Ruki as he tossed the flames to her. They traded them back and forth, moving faster and faster until the flames were just a colorful blur. Then, the flames started to change colors, from blue to purple, to red, to green, to pink, to yellow, and orange. The twins gradually came to a stop, extinguished the flames with a flick of the wrist and bowed as the spectators applauded.
"That was great." said Aang clapping. "How do they make the flames change colors like that?"
"We have absolutely no idea." said Mai.
"Yeah. The first time they firebended, both their flames came out a green, nearly gave me a heartattack, but Uncle says that some fire benders have been known to be able to change the color of fire." said Zuko.
"Well, you have very talented children." said Katara.
"Thank you. Satomi is quite the little bender too. i look forward to seeing what she will be able to do in the future." said Zuko.
I hope you like it. If you didn't you suck, JK. The changing colors thing kinda came out of nowhere, I was just writing it and poof! There you have it. Next chapter is set a few weeks after this one.
Jaa nee!