Georgia: Hello again! *smiles* So what's new, lemme see... Well Altaïr got back the day after my last entry, *glares off to the right* after scaring me half to death. Bad Altaïr.

Altaïr: *growls from off screen* I'm not a dog, do not scold me like one.

Georgia: *scoffs and turns back to face the camera* Anyway, no new followers since last time sadly, hopefully I'll get some new ones soon. Enjoy the next chapter!


How to be a better earthbender - train


Thankfully Toph chose not to wake me up as rudely as yesterday, although I must admit I was easier to get out of bed that day. I was ready to train and learn what other cool stuff I could do! As soon as I was dressed in my usual attire, I raced to the kitchen and grabbed some food. I wasn't 100% sure exactly what it was, but munched it whilst walking to the base of the mountain. As I wasn't not sure what I was eating I was grateful it didn't taste of much, it meant I could eat it without really thinking about the ingredients. For all I knew it could be brains or something!

So rather than think about it, I decided to admire the view instead. It was so beautiful and picturesque . . . green grass fields stretched for miles around the gang's little home, a small forest of darker evergreen trees stretched for at least 2 miles on the distance to the right side of the house. Directly behind the house stood the grey mountain that was easily 15000 feet high and snow-capped as a result, backed by a cloudless bright blue sky and a perfect orange sun beaming down on us all. It brought a large smile to my face as I walked along taking in the scenery. Time travel wasn't so bad if I get to see places like this...

I arrived at the mountain before Toph, apparently she still needed food, so I de-shoed and warmed myself up a bit, taking some rock, splitting it into at least 5 smaller pieces and throwing the chunks back at the mountain a few times. I sent out a locating earth wave every few minutes, until I felt Toph come up behind me, so I was prepared for her to yell in my ear this time.

"GOOD MORNING!" was bellowed right into my left ear, and I didn't even flinch.

'HA!' I thought smugly, 'didn't get me this time!'. What I actually said was, "good morning to you too, Toph," calmly and quietly, as I brought the last few rocks I hadn't managed to throw gently to the ground.

She walked round in front of me, "good, you knew I was coming this time, I assume?"

"Correct," I said with a smirk on my face. After a second I realised my smirk is wasted on the little blind girl, so wiped it form my face.

"Well done. Learn from your mistakes," she nodded in approval.

"Okay. In which case could you please teach me how to move the earth today, I think I'm okay with rock," I politely inquired.

"Okay. Moving earth is, at its base level, the same as moving rock. You have to keep a strong stance, be a rock yourself, the difference when you are doing what I did yesterday is that you aren't taking the rock out of the earth, the earth is lots of small pieces of rock and you are trying to move it all together. You have to hold it in the form that you want, otherwise it will crumble to dirt."

I scrunched my face up and made a small "huh" of confusion so she told me to just try. "Trial and error . . . I can work with that," I mused taking up my stance and getting a feel for the earth and how different it was. I can see what Toph meant when she said these things are difficult to describe, if I had to describe what I was feeling I would be at a complete loss of what to say, so I'm not even going to attempt to. Just know it's different from rocks, more malleable. I managed to raise some earth under my feet and grinned proudly at Toph at my achievement. She praised me and then decided to spend the day with me - this time instructing me on various ways to manipulate the ground around me.

After a while my mind became restless and so I put some mental music on to train to, I selected Imagine Dragons' two albums and found I could work a little better with it playing. One thing you should know about me is I LOVE music, if I can listen to music whilst doing something I will. I anticipated that my future would involve this lovely feature being used a lot. I practiced and practiced and before I knew it we had practiced the whole day away, only noticing how late it was getting or how tired I was when the sun began to set.

"You are slacking Georgia!" Toph scolded me.

"Err . . . Toph . . . it's kinda late now, the sun is setting, I'm tired." I tentatively pointed out to her.

"Wait, it is?" she gave me a confused look, "huh. That will do for today then." She began walking back to the house in an annoyingly energetic fashion, "lets head back." I pulled my boots back on and trudged behind her, wishing wholeheartedly that it wasn't as far to walk as my limbs felt like lead after all that training. "Hurry up!" she jovially yelled from ahead, "I'm hungry!"

I muttered a string of curses under my breath before telling her, "keep your hair on! I'm coming. I'm coming," as I attempted to walk a bit faster.

She gave me a confused look before questioning, "why would my hair be off?"

"Don't worry about it," I deflected quickly, hoping she didn't think about my odd sayings too much. I don't know much about the rules I was supposed to be following, as the freaky man that started all this crap didn't exactly tell me much. But it was safe to assume from the many books and TV shows I knew, that I needed to keep the whole thing under wraps - nobody could know the truth about me or what I was doing. "Come on, I thought you said you were hungry," I said quickly to divert her attention, "I'll race you back," and sprinted off towards the house.

"Oh you are ON," is fired back at me and she sped up. After a moment Toph used the earth as a kind of conveyer belt to speed herself up and rode a wave of earth to soon breeze past me and beat me back to the house. My competitive nature screamed at me to fight back but my logic told it to shut up and deal with it because I needed to distract Toph. Not easy when upon my return my loss was rubbed in my face by a smug little blind girl; who used that fact to rub it in even more. I grumbled, but accepted my defeat and trudged into the house, turning off my mental music as I go.

'Hmm, "mental music", guess that's what it's going to be called now, good a name as any I suppose.'

Toph followed behind, crowing about her victory as I slumped dejectedly into a chair at the table. That is she did so until Zuko got fed up and exasperatingly said to her, "Toph, stop gloating. You are probably the best earth bender in the world, of course you beat her, she only started learning two days ago."

Toph opened her mouth to respond but I butted in before she could utter a sound. "Besides, I didn't even use earth bending. Speaking of, how did you do that . . . earth moving . . . thing?" I asked scrunching my face in confusion. I had no idea how she managed to get the earth to move her faster - obviously I had seen it, but seeing it and knowing how to do it are two very different things.

"I'll teach you tomorrow" she waved dismissingly as she sat down next to me. I mentally sighed, 'there seems to always be more to learn . . . I haven't even started to learn about metal bending yet and I don't know how much longer I get to stay here.'

Toph, Katara and Zuko were talking about something or other, but I wasn't paying any attention. I was a teeny tiny bit preoccupied with the terrifying thoughts I was having about when the next portal was going to turn up . . . if it was going to at all. I didn't want to be stuck here! As lovely as these guys were, I didn't want to stay there for the rest of my life… These people better move me on to the next place I'm supposed to be training in and not forget about me. Now I have begun this stupid task, I've got to see it through (I'm a tad stubborn like that). There are people depending on me now. Frankly that's the only thing that was keeping me going . . . that and not thinking about it too much . . . which is exactly what I was doing . . . shit. I shook my head and tried to go back to living in the moment.

"…it would be so tasty," I heard Zuko say from across the table.

"NO! There is no way I am going to let you cook again Zuko! You are more likely to poison us than cook a nice meal," Katara insisted from her spot over at the stove.

I looked at Toph and leant over slightly to whisper, "I'm sure it can't be that bad, can it?"

She turned and I see a haunted look on her face before she murmured back, "oh it was that bad. Just be glad you missed the last meal Zuko cooked. I swear my stomach is still complaining, and it was over a month ago now!"

Zuko turned to glare at Toph "Hey! I heard that!" he shouted at her. Toph ignored him, continuing like he wasn't there, "just trust me when I say it's best to let Katara do all the cooking," she told me, no longer whispering.

"Erm . . . okay," I responded, slightly unsure as Zuko was not the kind of guy you want to piss off - he's a bit of a hot head. (Haha hot head, get it? Cause he's a fire bender. Sorry, that was a terrible pun.)

Suddenly a bowl of food was placed in front of me and another for Toph, "foods ready," Katara announced, "can you get Aang and Sok-"

"Do I smell food?!" Sokka asked racing through the door.

Katara sighed, "yes, you do. Just get Aang then please, Toph."

"Okay," Toph says, as she opened her mouth again I noticed the smirk on her face, guessing what was coming next I hurriedly put my hands over my ears as she yelled at the top of her lungs "TWINKLE TOES! DINNER IS READY!" I winced at the pained expression on the faces of those who didn't cover their ears.

Before anyone could comment on Toph's method of informing Aang that dinner was ready, the grinning boy came rushing in to sit down at the table. "Looks great Katara" he said staring hungrily at the bowl in front of him. As soon as everyone was sitting down with food Katara told us to eat up.

Dinner was a quiet affair as everyone was too hungry to talk, and once I'd finished I asked to be excused, bidding everyone goodnight as I got down. "You are going to bed already?!" Sokka asked bewildered, "but it's not even that late". I tiredly told him that I'd had an exhausting day training and I was too tired to stay up any longer, an explanation he begrudgingly accepted (secretly I think he just wants to hear me sing again, which is NOT going to happen), so I headed to my room and collapsed onto my bed.

As I drifted off to sleep I thought about my family. I wondered what they were up to these days, probably just going on with normal life - my brother would be starting sophomore year soon. I wondered how he was liking high school in America - it was very different after all. Did he miss me? After all we didn't get along too well before I left.

That's when I was hit by a wave of sadness, what had they been told about me? Was I missing to them? Had they been told I was kidnapped by a gang or something? Or maybe I was missing presumed dead? My eyes flew open, 'oh my god!' I suddenly had a terrible thought, 'what if they buried an empty coffin for me?!' I tossed and turned on my hay stuffed mattress thinking it over, which was even the worse situation for them? I couldn't get such thoughts out of my mind for a long time. In short . . . I did not sleep well that night.


Georgia: *looks sadly into the camera* Sorry to end on a sad note. I'm trying to stay true to everything that happened to me and life just isn't sunshines and rainbows. Anyway, the next day is happier - I promise! So, until next time my friends. *halfheartedly waves as screen goes black*