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What Was The World Coming To?
Chapter 2
Anger
Nadras hate that had been festered the whole day through finally came out of that slender body of a seeming 'angel'.
"Who the HELL are you people? Why did it have to be MY house? Couldn't you have crashed into my neighbours? It really isn't that hard, just a house down and the window on the right!" Nadra got up from her bed, ignoring the sting on the soles of her feet once the soles touched the ground. Her nostrils flared and her hands balled into a fist, she faced down, her raven black hair covered her face.
The twelve year old boy stopped fighting, as well as the older one.
Baldy's eyebrows furrowed as he looked around Nadras' room, "Uhm, I'm sorry about crashing your window, but where are we?"
Nadra took deep breathes and reluctantly calmed herself down, "You're in California. If you want to get specific, you're, sadly, in my room."
"Aang!"
The door fell off of its hinges and two more people came out of God knows where.
One was a girl and the other was a boy. Enough said. Enough explained.
Nadra glared at the bald boy that went by the name of Aang. He laughed nervously as he slowly went to go pick up the broken down door.
The boy that had so politely broke down Nadra's door, unsheathed a weapon of his own.
The one with the scar on his face got into a battle stance.
"Alright, everyone, out of my room, we're going to discuss what the hell just happened in the living room. You can break things there." Nadra squeezed through Aang and the other girl and motioned for all of them to follow her.
"Tch, what makes you think I'm going to listen to you?" Scar sneered with his hands crossed over his chest.
Nadra's left eye twitched, "Well," she clenched her teeth, "If you don't want to be thrown out of that window and then be mobbed by rabid fangirls, then I suggest you come." Nadra put on a sickeningly sweet smile and swiftly turned and left the room, with the three others following willingly.
The people kept distance from the one with the scar, in one way or another, Nadra couldn't blame them. He looked scary.
Nadra stood in front of her mom's black coffee table while everyone took a seat on the couches.
Nadra knew all along whom these people were. She could name them off; Aang, Katara, Sokka and Zuko. Her younger cousin had come over to her place a couple years ago to watch the show with her. Sadly, the show had ended around last year, Nadra recalled to herself.
Nadra wondered to herself, was she going insane? What was the world coming to? Cartoon characters weren't supposed to crash through your window while doing your homework. Was it going to rain cats and dogs? Were pigs going to fly? Was Ozai going to randomly emerge from her couch pillows, and start booty dancing on her mom's coffee table in short-shorts? Nadra prayed that she would be lucky enough NEVER to see Ozai do such a thing.
"Alright, everyone introduce yourselves, I'm listening." Nadra sat Indian style and propped her elbow on top of the coffee table and then rested her chin on the flat surface of her palm, finally clearing the bizarre thoughts in her head.
They stayed silent and exchanged glances.
Nadra growled, "You," she pointed to Scar, "Introduce. Gimmi your name and where you come from."
It was unnecessary pieces of information Nadra was about to suck in, but what choice did she have? She wasn't just going to tell them they were from a cartoon, she thought that it was better if she made friends with them, and when the time was right, she'd tell them- When she earned their trust.
"Zuko, Prince of the Fire Nation."
Nadra nodded to him then looked at baldy.
"Aang, monk, from the Southern Air Temple."
"Katara- younger sister of Sokka, waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe."
"Sokka- older brother of Katara, warrior of the Southern Water Tribe."
Nadra cleared her throat, "And I," she pointed to herself, "am your worst nightmare."
She chuckled at everyone's somewhat disturbed faces, "Joking, but If you get on my bad side, I will become your worst nightmare." She glared, "But seriously, the names Nadra DeCaprio, I'm the daughter of two crazy parents who travel the world to find Ancient cities and treasures."
"So, what are we doing here?" Katara asked.
I shrugged, "Don't know, and frankly at the moment I don't care….but I'll help you out for now."
Sokka looked at Nadra suspiciously, and then blushed dark. Nadra, realizing what she was wearing, scurried as fast as she could with burnt feet and changed into more decent clothes. She came back down the stairs, "Do you guys know how you got here?"
All of them shook their head.
The suspicious stares from Sokka came again.
Nadra sighed, "Look buddy, I'm in a bad mood today. You got something to say to me, say it to my face. Don't stare at me like I'm green and purple polka dotted Saber tooth tiger dancing on a beach ball."
Sokka inched slowly backwards but continued to look at her. Katara nudged her brother, "I'm sorry, he's just being paranoid."
Nadra let her lips twitch upwards in the smallest fraction, "It's fine Katara. All I needed was an apology."
"You're from the Fire Nation!" Sokka pointed an accusing finger at the pale girl standing in front of the black coffee table.
Nadra face-palmed, "Sokka, I am not from the Fire Nation."
Sokka narrowed his eyes, "Sure, you're not. I'll be watching you…" he used his two fingers to point at his eyes then point at me. The second time he pointed to himself, he double poked his eyes.
"What were you guys doing before you just had to crash through my window?"
Aanh looked up, "We were being followed by some weird metal worm, it had tracked us everywhere."
"Oh no, Toph!" Katara said alarmed.
Nadra tapped her chin. Oh yes….it was that episode where Appa was shedding, and Katara and Toph had gotten into a fight and she left, and Zuko went his own way and was following the 'metal worm' which in reality was a train.
"I see, then what?"
Katara shrugged, "Our friend Toph….I got in a fight with her and she left. In the metal thing were three girls, they we're after us. Aang's giant bison, Appa was shedding and left a trail for them to follow us. We eventually figured this out and, Aang left a fake trail for them to follow after we had bathed Appa so no more shedding would happen for a while."
"Appa and Momo!" Aang exclaimed.
Nadra shook her head, "Haven't seen a 'flying bison' anywhere, or your 'Momo'." Nadra made quote signs with her fingers and motioned Katara to finish the story.
"Azula, the leader had followed Aangs trail along with Zuko. When Sokka and I arrived, Toph was there too, then after that there was this large flash of light….we ended up in your room."
Nadra nodded, if Toph wasn't there, where was she? She would have to be with Iroh or Azula, though. They were the only ones missing. Appa and Momo were a mystery.
"Well, I'm pretty sure a flying bison would be pretty big and would be easy to find, but what if he's not here?" Nadra questioned. What if Appa really wasn't here? Then what? If the Gaang were to return back to their own…world, I guess, how were they supposed to travel the world? Zuko would probably travel on his own, so he wasn't a problem.
Sokka raised a brow, "What do you mean, 'what if he's not here'? He's obviously somewhere, we'd just blow his whistle and he'd come running…flying."
"You still havn't figured it out?" Granted, Nadra hadn't exacted figured everything out. Yet.
When she had received strange looks from all of them, Nadra had decided it was time to place matters in her own hands.
"Sokka said something about a whistle," Nadra extended her hand in front of Aang, "May I?"
Aang pulled the whistle out of his shirt and placed it into Nadra's palm. Nadra nodded her thanks and exited through the front door, leaving it wide open. "Hold on, don't move."
Nadra held the whistle to her mouth and blew. Honestly, she really didn't want Appa. She would have to hide him (if that was even possible) in her backyard. And since it was in fact Spring, the giant bison would be shedding.
Nedra blew once more and waited. Looks like Appa isn't here, Nadra thought and was about to turn back into the house when she heard a growl. Nadra chuckled, as Appa stood on the driveway with Momo resting on the top of his head.
The whole neighbourhood came out to stare at the giant bison. Nadra panicked what if someone recognized the bison? What if someone called animal control?
Aang, Katara rushed out of the house with Sokka trailing behind them and pushing Nadra out of his way and into a rose bush.
Nadra yelped and wriggled around trying to get out of the bush, but alas, it still wasn't her day.
"Appa!" Aang laughed and spread his arms out around Appa's nose.
The children from the neighbourhood broke off from their parents and began petting the bison. Nadra sighed, in around 5 minutes, this'll be all over the news.
Katara and Sokka hugged Appa as well with smiles while the children began climbing the beast.
"Yeah, um it's great that you've got Appa and Momo back, but could someone like you know, help me up?" Nadra waved her hand trying to get anyone's attention.
Nadra stopped wriggling, since the thorns were piercing her skin. "Well," Nadra blew a strand of loose hair out of her face, "this is uncomfortable."
Abruptly, a pale hand was stuck in her view. Nadra looked up; Zuko. Nadra almost cracked a smile. Almost. "Judging from your hand, you want to help me up, right?"
Zuko said nothing but extended his hand a little farther to her. Nadra gladly accepted the help and let Zuko pull her out of the bush.
"Phew," Nadra let of his hand, "Thanks."
Zuko walked back into the house.
Nadra rolled her eyes, flaming bag of douche….
Nadra gingerly rubbed her back, and walked over to Aang, "Aang, fly Appa over to the other side of the house. Tell Sokka and Katara to get rid of the audience that you guys have attracted."
Aang nodded and jumped up on Appa and told Katara and Sokka to get rid of the people.
Nadra walked slowly back inside her house and closed the door behind her.
"Stupid Sokka…why did I even plant a rose bush there? Horrible place for a rose bush…." Nadra grumbled to herself and took a seat on the sofa across from Zuko.
Nadra flinched when her back touched the sofa, "My life sucks…" she groaned and screamed into a nearby pillow.
Zuko 'heh'd me. Nadra removed the pillow, "Oh, you think your life is so hard?" she sneered, then immediately felt bad. She sighed, you can't take words back, "I mean- I," she frowned, "I'm sorry. I'm just having a really bad day."
Zuko leaned back into the sofa ignoring her apology, "What Nation are you from? I've never heard of this 'California' you speak of."
Nadra chuckled, "I'll explain our where a bouts over dinner."
Aang, Sokka and Katara came into the living room and sat on both sides of Nadra.
"Nadra, what Nation are we in? It's so different than every other place Aang, Sokka and I have ever seen." Katara explained.
Aang nodded, "Yeah, I've never seen anything like it, and I'm a hundred and twelve!''
Sokka choked on his saliva and stared at Aang, ''You`re so old!"
"You don`t say!" Nadra snorted sarcastically as she gazed on the clock. "Can you guys behave while I pick up my siblings?"
"You have siblings?" Zuko asked from 'his' sofa.
Nadra nodded, "Their annoying little buggers, but deep down I still love 'em." Nadra let out a chortle.
"It'll take only 5 minutes, so I won't be gone for long, is that okay if I leave all of you guys in the same room with no supervision?" Nadra looked over at Zuko who was glaring at Aang.
Katara nodded and smiled, "Yup. We'll be fine."
Nedra was relieved; form the cartoon, Katara was ALWAYS reliable.
Nadra gingerly stood up from the couch and felt her back, "Oh my gosh! What happened to your back, you're bleeding!" Katara stood up and opened her pouch that holds her bending water.
Nadra shrugged, "Oh nothing happened Katara, it`s just your brother just had to push me into a rose bush while running to Appa though. It's not big though, it's not like it's going to get infected." she spat each word and glared at Sokka.
"What? You were in the way." Sokka shrugged it off.
Aang looked at him, "He doesn't mean that, he's sorry."
"No, I mean it." he scoffed.
Nadra rolled her eyes, "Joyous." she limped to the stairs, "No, wait! Let me heal your back before you pick up your siblings. You don't want them being worried, do you?" Katara bended the water to stay in air.
Nadra shrugged, "I'll live."
"Sokka's my brother, I insist since it's his fault." Katara glared and flicked his forehead.
Sokka shrugged, but Aang could see in his eyes there was a tinge of guilt.
Nadra looked at Katara, "Come with me to my room, you can heal me there."
Katara smiled, "Alright." she bended the water back in the pouch and followed Nadra.
Zuko jumped off the couch and got into battle stance. Aang and Sokka stood up too, boomerang sheathed and glider ready.
"Once I capture you, I'll get my honour back!"
He threw a fire ball at the pair, scorching the top half of the sofa.
"Zuko, stop you're wrecking Nadra's house!" Aang dodged attack after attack.
Zuko threw another one and completely disintegrated a wooden chair that had been lying around in the living room.
"Zuko, stop! Nadra's going to get really mad!" Sokka threw his boomerang trying to throw Zuko off his game.
"I couldn't care less! She should obey me; I am the Prince of the Fire Nation!" Zuko grunted and kicked in the air and lit the ceiling on fire as Aang dodged the blow.
Aang bended water out of a cup that had been lying on the kitchen table and put out the fire.
Quick footsteps were heard on the stairs. Aang gulped as Nadra and Katara saw the mess.
Aww, crap...
TBC