Toph's Snow Chap 11

Chapter 11: High Fives Part 1

AN: Whoops! It's a day late, but in my defense, I was really busy this weekend with the FRC kickoff. If you don't know what FRC is then I feel really sorry for you 'cause you are missing out on some great stuff and the ability to call yourself a 'supernerd'!
Remedy: google it and find a team near you to join, unless of course, science isn't your thing, then you'll have to find something else to do with your time.

Enough with the dilly-dallying, on with the story!

Disclaimer: Who owns Avatar: Last Airbender? Nose goes! Ha Ha, not me! (ok, enough with the silliness. I don't own it)

Week 21 (September 29-October 5, month 5)

Third Person Katara

Sokka had only left five days ago and Toph was already driving Katara crazy. Toph had been moping around since Sokka left and she had even started staying at Katara's house overnight, which she hadn't done in a while. Aang was on another trip to some undisclosed location to find hiding airbenders. Katara was busy trying to teach her students healing and Satomi how to read and so far both were going well. Satomi had learned enough characters to read her name and a few other words and some of Katara's students were almost ready to graduate from her school. Katara had also worked on Satomi's bending skillsand she was becoming quite a powerful bender for someone of such a young age.

Satomi had also been enrolled into a local preschool at the beginning of September. She seemed to enjoy her time there a lot and had made a few friends, but that didn't stop her from asking about her favorite set of twins.

"Mommy? When are Ruka and Ruki coming back?"

"I'm not sure sweetie. Their parents are very busy and can't come over very often."

"Can we go see them?"

"Maybe. But not until your school gets out for the Solstice and New Years."

"When is that?"

"Probably not until it snows, sweetie." Just then, Toph walked in, looking sad. Lately she had taken to sleeping late or just sitting around in what had now become her room, moping.

"Morning Toph."

"Hey." said Toph halfheartedly.

I hope Sokka is having a better time than I am.

Third Person Sokka

Sokka and his students had been on the boat for five days before they really started to complain. The first two days they were all excited to be on a boat and to be going to the Fire Nation and now they were all constantly asking when they were going to get there.

This is the whiniest group of teenagers I've ever met! I never whined this much when I was their age! And I didn't think that twelve people could annoy me this much!

Sokka had hired his usual crew, men from the shores outside of Ba Sing Se to sail the large boat. The crew members were as annoyed with the teens as Sokka and many had asked if they could just toss the kids overboard and scare them into stopping complaining so much.

"Really Sokka, it won't do much to them. We all did it as a initiation to the life of a sailor and we all survived .We'll pull them out right after, they'll onlyget their toes wet." suggested the captain of the ship, Kaito. Several members of the crew nodded as he said this.

"I know you are as feed up with them as I am, but we can't throw them overboard. It's wrong. And they'll tell their parents and I'll be run out of town and out of a job with a pregnant fiance. Just sail as fast as you can and hopefully everyone will make it to the Fire Nation alive." Kaito saluted him and went back to barking orders to the crew. Sokka went below decks and called his students together for their afternoon practice in the large room Sokka had custom designed for the boat.

Sokka had his students run through drills with a partner, correcting as he walked around observing them. Most of the students didn't need any correcting, but a few of the slower learners were still having small amounts of difficulty with the more complex moves. Once they finished going through all their drills, Sokka had his students practice several different moving attacks on the dummies before he gave them a break. One of his best students, a tall girl named Kazuka from the Fire Nation, didn't take the break. Instead, she continued to fight with a dummy, slashing viciously at it. Sokka walked over to her and taped her on the shoulder;she turned around and bowed when she saw who it was.

"Kazuka, I called break three minutes ago."

"I know, Sifu, but how am I going to be the best if I don't take this chance to get ahead?"

"Kazuka, you're already much further along than everyone else, well except maybe Xiao-"

"That's exactly why I need to practice. I don't like the fact that Xiao is better than me." Sokka started to say something else, but though better of it. He patted Kazuka on the shoulder and walked away. Xiao, a Northern Watertribesmen, was a strong, tall, slender boy of eighteen, half a year older then Kazuka.

After ten minutes were up, Sokka reorganized his students and this time he had them practice without swords.

There were several balance beams and mats that covered the floor of the room and one of the students, Sara, an Earth Kingdom girl, took charge, leading the others through tumbling exercises. They started with standing and running forward and backward flips and things were going well, until they started back handsprings. In the middle of her turn, somehow Xiao managed to trip Kazuka as she was landing. Her armbuckled when his foot hit her elbow and she nearly fell on her face, but Kazuka recovered some as she fell and got her legs under her before she landed, so she was sitting on her knees. She sat there for a minute, in shock, and then she sprang to her feet, reminding Sokka of an angry cat, and ran toward Xiao, who took off running away from her, laughing, which just made her even madder. Sokka rolled his eyes at their childish antics.

Kazuka chased Xiao around the room, using every piece of equipment to her advantage. She seemed to be showing off a little as she chased him, proven when she cartwheeled onto a balance beam and ran alongside Xiao, doing a mid-air tuck for seemimgly no reason. When she got to the end, she fliped and launched herself at him, rather gracefully, and successfully tackled Xiao to the ground.

She twisted one of his arms behind his back and yelled at him to apologize, but Xiao just laughed and forced his arm out of her grip. He did a quick push-up, throwing Kazuka to the floor. She sat there stunned. Xiao offered her a hand, but she just slapped it away and stood up on her own. Throughout all of this, the other students had been cheering the two on, so they looked disappointed when the fighting ended. As Kazuka walked past Xiao on her way back in line, she punched him in the stomach. Xiao doubled over, but Sokka could tell that he was just faking it. Kazuka got a few high-fives as she walked past the other students. Xiao followed, taking his spot in the middle of the line.

"Alright, fun's over! Back to work!" They all groaned and picked back up where they left off. After handsprings, they moved on to aerials (no handed cartwheels) and balance beam work.

The best on the beam was, of course, Kazuka. Anything she could do on the ground, she could replicate on the beam flawlessly. Most of the time, Sokka let Kazuka help the other students with their beam work. He let her instruct again this time, but kept an eye on her and Xiao to make sure nothing funny happened.

Yay! Chapter 11. More OCs Yay!

Jaa nee!