AN: No you aren't going crazy, this is now in past tense rather than present. And I haven't suddenly switched for this chapter - I have changed the whole story, if you check out the other chapters they are the same. Sorry if it causes any confusion or annoyance - after reading reviews and figuring out it works better for the story I changed it. Please enjoy :)


Georgia: Hello again! So...um...I don't really have much to say this time, except thank you to Mpowers045 for following my story!

*shrugs* I suppose the only other thing to report is that Altaïr still isn't back... Which is kinda concerning, but he is an assassin so can handle himself. If he doesn't turn up soon I might have to go looking for him. Hopefully it won't come to that. Anyway, read on! :D


Rock, dirt and boulders


I woke up with a start, Toph screaming in my ear demanding that I wake up. I did so reluctantly with a groan, I've never been a morning person, and swatted at her face mumbling for her to go away. "No. Get up. We have training to do," she curtly told me as she ripped the covers off me. I moaned again and curled into a ball to try and retain some warmth to fall back asleep. "Nuh uh," she said dragging me off the bed.

"Alright. Alright. I'm coming," I moodily stated. She dropped my legs, informing me I have 5 minutes. "Stupid bossy blind girl," I muttered.

"I heard that!" I heard her yelling from somewhere inside the house, "I'm blind, not deaf!"

"What a shame," I shouted back at her. To be honest it was easy to forget that the mouthy earthbender was blind, she used her earthbending to see seemingly as flawlessly as any sighted person, in my opinion. I finish getting dressed before walking to the kitchen, nabbing some bread and butter to eat as I passed through.

I went outside to see her in the same place at the base of the mountain as yesterday, waiting impatiently for me, so I walked over munching my simple breakfast. As I reached her I was told, "training today will be move that boulder as much as you can," that boulder being the one I made fall over the day before. "Take your shoes off and get to work."

"Okay," I sighed and walked over to it, I untied and kicked my boots off, took up my stance and began work. Over the next few hours I trained hard, until I was able to move the boulder in every way I could think of by mid-afternoon. Toph had walked off once I managed to gain some ground in moving the boulder further after about an hour, apparently I had bored her, so I was by myself and bored by this point. I decided to start experimenting. Half an hour passed, I could break the boulder into multiple smaller boulders. Another hour goes by, I was moving all the mini boulders at the same time. Forty-five minutes of practice later and I could hurl these mini boulders at the mountainside. 'I'm really getting the hang of this,' I thought to myself proudly as I stood admiring my work.

"Did I tell you to do that?" a voice said loudly from just behind me, causing me to jump out of my skin and make an embarrassing eep like sound of surprise. "No, I didn't. And while you might have figured out some little tricks, you failed to feel me walking up to you."

'Guess I'm not doing that well,' I thought dejectedly to myself as my shoulders slumped. Out loud all I said was, "sorry Toph. I got bored and you left, I-"

"So you keep practicing what I told you!"

I turned and faced her determinedly, "you left for hours Toph! I wanted to test my abilities so I decided to try some things out. I'm sorry that it diverted from what you told me to do, but I got fed up of doing the same thing over and over. Once I got the hang of what you told me it started to come more easily to me, so I tried some new things."

"Show me." So I did. I took a large chunk of rock out of the mountain, floated it away from the mountain before breaking it into smaller pieces and moving them around in a circle, then making them fly over towards us and go in circles around us a few times, before flinging them one by one from the circle against the side of the mountain. "Impressive but I asked you to move it in as many ways as you could and you have not."

I grunted in acknowledgment and carved out another piece of rock moved it left, right, up, down, spun it around vertically, moved it in circles, spun it around horizontally, rolled it along the ground and spun it around on the ground. "There," I said with a hint of sass, "happy now?"

"You missed one," she flatly told me.

"Wait, I did?" I asked with a perplexed look on my face.

"Yes," she told me solemnly, "but it was to be expected." With the boulder still on the ground she raised a mound of earth under it and moved the earth that was under the rock.

"Oh . . . I didn't think about moving the earth," I said slumping my shoulders.

"It's fine."

Feeling the desire to get back in her good books I asked, "how was I supposed to know that you were walking up behind me?"

"You need to see with your feet-"

"I need to what now?" I suddenly found myself on my ass when Toph sent a raised mound of earth at me to topple me over. "HEY!" I complained.

"Don't interrupt me then. I was about to explain." She walked over and lent me a hand to pull me to my feet again whilst explaining, "you need to use earth bending to feel the vibrations of the earth. I'm not really sure how to explain it because it just comes naturally to me, seeing as I've been doing it all my life".

I brushed myself off, "feel the vibrations in my feet. Got it." I said nodding once to confirm my understanding, a pretty pointless exercise given the fact she couldn't see me.

"Just give a try," Toph then started walking in circles around me and told me to try and feel the movement through the earth. I took up my stance and tried and feel her footsteps. After a few minutes I thought I could start to feel her and voiced as much. "Right, now close your eyes," I hesitantly comply, hoping she wouldn't decide to spring a surprise attack as training. As if knowing exactly what I was thinking, I heard her scoff, "and don't worry, I'm not going to attack you."

"Yeah, well, I don't know that do I?" I muttered under my breath.

"Again. Blind. Not deaf." She stated flatly, "just keep your eyes closed and try and feel where I am".

There were a few moments of silence as I attempted just that, until I was fairly sure I could pinpoint her. "You are there," I said assuredly, pointing to where I believed she was.

"Not quite," came her voice from . . . wait, to my right? I thought she was directly in front of me! I opened my eyes, that confirmed exactly how wrong I was. 'How did I get that so off?' I mentally face palmed. 'Some earthbender I am,' I sarcastically told myself.

"Damn," I said dejectedly.

"I think we will stop there," I turned to see her smiling at me, "you have done well today. Don't expect to learn it all in one day. Be pleased with your progress, you are learning at a far faster rate than I expected."

"Thanks Toph" I grinned, finding my spirits lifted, as I put my boots on and quickly tied them up.

We walked back to the house where Katara had cooked us a delicious dinner that we demolished quickly, afterwards I helped clear up and then sat outside stargazing whilst rooting around in my head to try and figure out more about this chip and what it does. I reached inside my mind and started to 'click a few buttons' until I stumbled across a folder that contained all the music that was on my iPhone when I was kidnapped, 'what the hell is that doing in there' I wondered silently. I "search" a song and "select" it, which caused me to jump out of my skin for the second time that day because the song started playing . . . if you can call it that. With no speakers or headphones of any sort existing in the universe and the strange way it sounded to me, I concluded that - in the same way that man spoke to me - I was hearing the music without hearing the music. I I could listen to music inside my head.

'That. Is. SO. COOL!'. I found the button that was "skip" and 'Shatter Me' by Lindsey Stirling started playing, a personal favourite of mine, as soon as the lyrics started I was singing along quietly, so I didn't disturb the others, but the chorus started and I couldn't help it, I sang it at the top of my lungs.

"…Somebody shine a light,

I'm frozen by the fear in me,

Somebody make me feel alive,

And shatter me,

So cut me from the line,

Dizzy, spinning endlessly,

Somebody make me feel alive,

And shatter me."

The instrumental began and I started dancing, blissfully unaware I was gaining an audience.

"…SHATTER ME,

Somebody make me feel alive,

And SHATTER ME!"

By the end of the song I was out of breath and then I heard clapping from behind me, I turned to see the household minus Zuko (probably brooding in his room) on the balcony. 'Shit,' I thought. My singing wasn't exactly great so I imagined they weren't too pleased to hear what probably sounded like me strangling a cat. "Eeeerr . . . hi there. Sorry if I disturbed you," I said sheepishly.

"It's not a problem," grinned Sokka, "I found it very entertaining. Did you write that yourself?"

"...kind of," I replied, realising that it was the only answer that was acceptable, "I had some help."

"It sounded good," said Toph, "you sing?"

"Not really," I replied, "just in my spare time. I really enjoy singing, that's all. I'm not good at all," I told them. "I'm going to go to bed now if that's okay with everyone." I don't stop to hear their answer as I hightailed it to my room. 'Well that was insanely embarrassing' I thought to myself as I got myself into my PJs. 'Oh and great job at blending in Georgia,' I berated myself as I climb into bed, 'well done. Way to go,' mentally shaking my head. I sighed deeply and went over earthbending movements in my head as I fell asleep.


Georgia: Hope you enjoyed, see you all next week!