Hi everyone s2

Here is chepter 4! I was super happy with it, and as always I would like to thank my beta, thesocketpuppet for the help! I would also like to say thank you for those who favorite and follow my work. I always check your profiles and read things you publish. Have you checked out NazChick fics? She is great! If you like my work you will sure enjoy hers too!

As some of might have noticed, I work as a teacher. Sadly, summer vacation is almost gone, and school will be back soon. I am exited to see my students again, but this might inplay that the chapters will take longer to be pushied. I hope my readers can understand.

Thanks for the support! Enjoy the reading! Feel free to live reviews!

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At the Lion-Turtle Elementry School the bells tolled, announcing the lunch break.

Lin was so anxious that the palms of her hands were sweeting. When she presented herself in front of the class, there was some sort of commotion about her; the students would whisper thing one to another, but the teacher (an old man with a bun on his back and golden eyes) interrupted the kids, asking them to hold their questions for lunch break. So there she was, and she had no idea what to do. She decided to just mimic what the other kids were doing. As they went out of the classroom, she followed them. As they found a seat outside, she also followed. As they got their lunch boxes to eat…. She noticed that she did not have a lunch box herself. Luckily, she had got some dumplings on her backpack. So she got a couple to eat. Before the young earth bender could have the first bite a boy from her class approached her. He looked rather anxious, and he was obviously pulled to the conversation, since a bunch of other boys were right behind him, whispering between each other.

"Er—hi!" said the boy, with his hands on his back.

"Hi…." Lin said, waiting for him to say whatever he needed to say before she started eating. There was an awkward moment of silence before the other student decided to go on.

"I am Hyun, we are in the same class!" He said, still in a strange tone.

"Ahm…. Yeah, nice to meet you Hyun." She was sitting down, staring at him in front of her.

"Well… my friends and I… we were wondering. You said your name is Lin Bei Fong. Are you somehow related to Chief Toph Bei Fong?"

She knew that her mother was kind of famous, but she had no idea it was this much.

"Yeah, she is my mother." Lin answered in a very natural tone.

"Really?! I knew it!" the classmate was now all zippy, and called his friends over. "Hey, guys! I was right! She is the chief's daughter!"

In no time, Lin found herself surrounded. People gathered around her asking all sorts of questions.

"What is SHE like in person?"

"Can you metal bend, too?"

"Do you know Avatar Aang?"

Even before she could properly answer each question, another one was pulled out. The few boys around her turned into a concourse of people. She never noticed, but carrying the Bei Fong name was really a thing. She became popular immediately.

The commotion just calmed down when three older kids approached. They looked around eleven or twelve years old. One of them was tall, had short black hair, styled in a type of mohawk. His eyes were golden brown. The other one was a girl, but she had very short hair, about the chin line. Her skin was darker, like aunt Katara's, and she had light blue eyes. The last one was a boy, he had straight brown hair, in a really strange way pulled to the side; he was the only one who carried an upset face. Their uniforms were pretty much the same as the other kids, but next to the collar, there was a golden pin of a pro-bending playing field.

"So, the rumors are true, there is a Bei Fong among us." the boy said crossing his arms in front of his chest. "I'm Long Wei, those are Fayim and Shan. We are from the Junior Pro-Bending team."

"Wow, the school has a pro-bending team?" Lin's eyes were shining as she asked. The three kids giggled looking at each other.

"Yeah, and a pretty good one. We have several trophies at the hall, most of them Republic City Championship." Long Wei voice was stubborn, he really made an impression on Lin. "I suppose you must be a great bender, since you are the chief's daughter and all."

"Well… mom always say I have a lot to learn…" she said in a low tone, but soon got herself up, rising her chin as to impose her position, "but she always says I'm a natural, too. I am a Bei Fong, after all. I will even start my metal bending training soon."

Everyone started talking. A metal bender was really something the school never had, but since she was Toph's daughter, they might finally get one. Shan rolled his green eyes; he did not believe a little girl like her could ever be a metal bender, he should know, his father was a metal bender and even with proper instruction, Shan was not able to bend a single paper clip. However, the fire bender and the water bender were smiling.

"You should stop by the field one of these days, we are always training after classes." Long Wei said with a malicious smile "You are still too young to join the team, but you might find it interesting. See you around, Bei Fong."

So they left. Lin spent the next hour talking to her classmates, but the subject was not herself or her mother anymore. It was all about pro-bending. She soon learned that there were 3 subcategories on the Junior championship, 10 to 12 (or Xiǎo category), 13 to 15 (Jiān category) and 16 to 18 (the Lǎo category). The school reached the second overall place on the competition last year, but the youngest team (which she has just talked to) got the third place on the Xiǎo category, if they had a better position, the school would have been the first place that year. Shan, the earth bender, was pointed out by several kids as the responsible for this, while a few kids insisted he was a great bender.

Lin did not speak much that day, but she could not get the pro-bending team out of her mind. She would really like to try it.

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Meanwhile, at the Duckly-turtle kindergarten building, Suyin was presented by the teacher to her classmates during circle time. Her classmates introduced themselves one by one during a little song, but the truth is that the little Bei Fong could only remember Miss Hui's name, and that the meadow vole was called Mr. Longteeth. Nevertheless, she would soon learn all the other 10 kid's names.

There were two teachers in the room, Miss Hui Fang and an assistant. However, the class was big, there were many kids, and toys as far as Suyin could see. Everything was just so different from what she was used to. At the Air Temple Island, she was the youngest, she was less than 6 years younger than Lin, it was not that much, but at that specific point of her life it made her feel as she was the only child there. Katara was usually worried about her own kids and Lin. It's not that she didn't care for Suyin, she was actually really found of her, and would keep her by her side all the time. However, the water bender was always so busy that she could not give her "niece" a more learning-friendly environment.

Although the classroom looked magical, as the whole world had shrank so the little Suyin would fit in, everything was, also, very scary. When we grow up we often forget how frightening it is to feel things for the first time, we eventually learn how to deal with it, but we also forget how strangely amazing the world is. Suyin decided that the first thing she should do for this challenge was to take off her shoes. She would work thing through there. She walked around, she touched all toys, started playing with one or another, but as soon as she saw a different one she would change toys, and desperate to try that other, leaving the first one behind. She could hardly speak that day, and spirits knew that she could speak well… and so much, but she did not find the energy to do it. She had much more to discover. No time to waste talking.

Republic City had become a safe place for people from all nations, and that little kindergarten room was proof of it. Most of the kids were City-born, many of those had parents from different nations and there were some foreigners.

It took her sometime to notice that what was most impressive about that place was not the toys, but the people. She had never seen so many kids of her own age in her life. Most of them were pale, more like Lin's skin than her own. Black or brown hair; their eyes were brown, golden or green. Kids do not notice skin colors and races as the adults do, they are free from societal prejudices, so it was not strange when a couple of kids, whose skin was darker and the eyes were a deep blue, called her attention. They immediately reminded Suyin about Kya, one of the Avatar kids, and Aunt Katara whom she was really found of, and she decided to go play where they were playing. They were siting by a round table with colorful chairs around it, and they were holding crayons and giggling about their drawings.

"I will draw a biiiiiiig sea snake!" said the boy as making big round movements with a blue crayon.

"But my snake is going to be a girl, and she will have a pink hair tie over her head!" said the girl getting the pink crayon from the crayon box in the middle of the table.

"What is this?" asked Suyin sitting by the kid's side, and that was one of the first things she said that day.

"We are having a drawing competition!" Said the boy, and soon he shared his own drawing in front of the chief's daughter. "Witch one looks the best? My or Shu's?"

"Mine is most cuter! 'Cause it has got a pink hair tie! Look!" said the girl jumping in front of Suyin basically rubbing her drawing on the new student's face.

"Your snake looks like ant's poop!" said the boy angrily.

"Miss Hui! Wahid is being mean to me again!" cried the girl aloud, and the teacher soon came in response, kneeling next to the table where the kids were playing.

"Wahid, what did I tell you about being mean to your sister?" the teacher said in a calm tone.

"She said her drawing is more good than mine!" claimed the boy tossing his own drawing on the floor in frustration.

"Oh. Is that so?" Said the teacher, calmly, getting the drawing from the floor and looking at both pieces. "I don't think Shu's drawing is better than yours. I think both of them are great! What about you, Su? Did you draw anything?"

She did not dare to talk to the teacher, she was still shy, so she just shook her head "no". She got herself a paper and a crayon from the middle of the table and tried to draw something. She had no idea how to hold the crayon, she used the palm of her hand instead of her fingers, and instead of trying to make lines, she started punching the crayon up and down, making little dots on the paper. She had seen Lin, Tenzin and Kya writing on the Island, she had a brush on her hands just once or twice and just for a few minutes (before aunt Katara get it from her hands because she was too young to use it), and she had definitely never got a crayon. She looked at her drawing and them back to the teacher, almost believing that she would say it was wrong. However, Miss Hui just smiled.

"That's nice, Su" she got the drawing on the table, a bunch of dots and a few small lines on it. "What is it?"

Su looked at her drawing and at the teacher. She did not understand the question. That was simply a sheet of paper with crayon on it. Nothing more. Nevertheless, the teacher insisted at the question.

"I don't know," said Su, biting the top of the crayon.

"It looks like the sky full of stars!" said Shu pointing to the selling.

"No! It's more like many flies going around rotten penguin meat!" shouted Wahid.

The teacher laughed and got a new sheet of paper to Suyin and the water tribe twins. Su observed how the other kids did their drawings, scrambling around the paper, changing colors and describing them as "the beach" or "a raboroo" and "me and my mom and daddy cooking" even though those drawings didn't look much like what the kids were describing.

She did not yet have the fine motor skills to create a drawing, or the abstraction to give it a meaning. After a few attempts, she was finally able to draw some lines, she was rather clumsy doing it, and her paper got folded and the table full of crayon marks (as sometimes she was not able to stop before she reached the wood). At the end of the day, she was working very hard on something using brown and a little blue and green.

"And this one? What is it?" asked Miss Hui, curiously, observing the strong lines crossing the paper.

"A badgermole for mom."