Me: I don't know if anyone noticed but the episode where they were explaining was in SEASON TWO, but the hair of Zuko's hair is actually grown out and shaggy one, not the one where his head is practically bald and there's one weird ponytail sticking out of his head. Sorry, my bad!
What Was The World Coming To?
Chapter 3
Possible
Nadra and Katara stood at the foot of the stairs. Katara looking quite shocked while Nadra…..oh hell, she was frickin furious. Her left eye twitched, her nostrils flared and she clenched her fists' so hard, her knuckles turned white.
Sokka cowered behind Aang, which wasn't working out that well. He was taller than the blue arrowed boy. Zuko came out of his stance and sat back on the couch, emotionless face almost taunting Nadra to do something she would regret.
Nadra believed in that whole 'count to ten when you're mad' thing, so she closed her eyes and slowly calmed herself down in the silence she had granted from the group of cowering people-minus Zuko, in her living room.
One.
Two.
Crickets chirped.
Three.
Appa roared from the backyard.
Four.
Five.
Nadra really hoped that Appa wasn't eating her mom's naturally grown cabbages. Her mom cared for cabbages. Strange, right?
Six.
Seven.
The chandelier that hung from the ceiling looked unharmed from Nadra's blind fury against the cartoon characters gone real. She was relieved that the chandelier hadn't got harmed. It was a gift from her grandmother who had passed. It was the only thing the DeCaprio family had of her left.
Eight.
Nadra exhaled quietly, almost done.
Nine.
The chandelier fell.
Nadra snapped again.
"Oh my gosh! Katara and I can't leave for literally two minutes, and almost all of my living room is destroyed, not to mention the chandelier from my grandmother!"
"Nadra, just calm do-" Aang tried to interrupt the girls fury rant.
"Calm down? Calm down! Aang, I AM PERFECTLY CALM! How am I supposed to fix this? My parents are coming home from Ancient Rome three days from now!" Nadra huffed with a crazy look in her eyes, while hyperventilated.
Sokka slightly came out behind Aang, "We'll fix it." Sokka raised a finger.
Nadra shot a glare at each and every one of them in the room, minus Katara, "You better."
Zuko glared at the girl, daring to boss him around, "I refuse to be ordered around by a mere peasant." He spat.
"Peasant? Peasant?" Nadra sputtered, "Excuse me, you would have nowhere to go if it weren't for me!"
Zuko stood, "I can manage on my own, then!"
"Fine then! Leave! Get mobbed, I don't care about what happens to you!" Nadra shouted at him, unleashing her anger she held in for the whole day.
The California girl watched as the Prince simply walked out the door and out onto the foreign streets of her world. No way would he survive here! This isn't even his WORLD! Nadra's inner self squeaked in the back of her head. Nadra honestly wanted to run out of the house and grab that stubborn Princes arm and drag him back to the house where it was safe. She rolled her eyes at her own kindness towards the oh-so-stubborn-one, that's his problem now.
Nadra looked back at Katara, "I'm putting my house in your trust, and I'm going to pick up my siblings. You can sit on the couch and relax, while the boys do ALL the work. Please, don't let them do anything else." Nadra kept a straight face and an emotionless voice, but her eyes pleaded that nothing else went wrong that day.
Not bothering to go upstairs to change her bloodied shirt, she stalked to the front door and left, slamming the door behind her hard enough the windows shook.
Once she was out of the house Katara took over the yelling job, "Why did you do that! You could've brought the whole house down! And Nadra's absolutely furious! Again!"
"Katara, I'm sorry. You know we wouldn't have done this on purpose." Aang apologized.
Sokka nodded, "Yeah, it was all Zuko's fault." He grumbled and stuck his tongue out at the front door of which Zuko had exited.
Katara sighed exasperated and rubbed her forehead, "You shouldn't be apologizing to me. Apologize to Nadra when she comes home, right now, we need to fix this place up."
OoO
Zuko wasn't a stupid person. He achieved awards for his academics and his writing. He was an exceptional fighter, but was never known to be better than Azula, unfortunately.
This being said, all Zuko did was find a way to Nadras backyard.
He leaned against Appa's side that faced the fence; he was to be caught still in her property, Nadra would flip. Or so Zuko thought.
The scarred ex-prince realized he was somewhere a long way from home, and decided against wandering around alone.
Zuko ran a hand through his coarse hair and exhaled deeply, earning a grunt from Appa. Zuko shifted his position and put a finger to his lips, "Shh." Zuko and Appa had sort of a 'relationship'. He had set him free instead of capturing him, and Appa repaid the favour by letting Zuko hide behind me. Appa licked him.
Zuko wiped the slobber off with his other hand and rolled his own eyes, not willing to let out a hallow laugh to the bison, but instead pat his furry side with the corners of his mouths twitched upwards.
Zuko had made a new friend.
More or less, that is.
Zuko's mind flowed over to thoughts of Nadra. No one had ever treated him like that. Okay, that was a lie; Azula treated him like that. But that wasn't the point, usually if people knew who he was; they didn't dare speak out of turn, let alone order him around. He sighed, she was different he thought to himself.
He looked at Appa form the side, "Yeah, she's different alright." He muttered.
"The nerve of that stupid, stubborn, airheaded, repulsive, obnoxious-" Nadra ranted, squeezing her siblings hands tighter the angrier she got.
The seven year old twin 'buggers' as Nadra liked to say, paid no heed to their hands being squished.
"Don't obnoxious and repulsive mean the same thing?" the girl of the two looked up with her big forest green hues.
Nadra shrugged, slightly lifting their arms with her, "Addi, sweetie, I'm ranting, I don't care."
Addi was tall for a seven year old, but obviously still not quite reaching the height of Nadra. Her black hair that shone midnight blue had been tied in a high ponytail with two straight pieces that were purposely let out of the ponytail to frame her face. She, unlike Nadra, had tan skin from staying in the sun for too long, but she was also born with it. That day, she had worn a green, strapless sun dress that stopped a little before her knees. She walked bare-foot to her home, her free hand carrying her flip-slops.
The boy on Nadra's left looked confused, "Who're you ranting about? You look so upset and stressed today."
Nadra sighed, and remembered Zuko, "It's a surprise Aiden, even though he left, I guess you'll be glad with the other additions." She chuckled.
Aiden was three inches taller than his sister, but Addi didn't mind. His hair, same shade as his sisters; the middle top of his hair was spiked and down the sides were faded in. Despite the whole 'he was still only seven', he wore clothes gangsters, or more presumable, 'wangsters' would wear; army green pants with a white baggy t-shirt with white and black cardigan. Nadra didn't really care what they wore, as long as it didn't make her look like a bad role-model.
The twins leaned a little in front of Nadra to look at each other; their eyes speaking for them and they shrugged, leaning back into place.
Katara did as Nadra told and sat back on the couch while Sokka and Aang got to work. She was lovin' being in charge. Katara wasn't a slave driver though. She wouldn't go carrying a whip around wearing stripper clothes.
Another no-no.
Aang kept himself a float with his airbending and scrubbed the black burn mark from Zuko's fire; it wasn't working out for him.
Sokka spent his time on the floor picking piece by piece of the glass chandelier that had so dramatically fallen and crashed onto the ground. The water tribe warrior yawned, "I'm hungry, and bored and hungry." His stomach growled as he lazily picked up another piece of glass.
Katara rolled her eyes, "You're always hungry, and you brought this upon yourselves. You could have repelled the attack or extinguished the fire before it did any damage."
Aang looked down at Katara, "But Zuko started it. He should be here with us." The young airbender whined, vigorously scrubbed at the burn mark on the ceiling.
Katara sighed and rested her chin on her palm, "I know Aang, but he's not here anymore. And it's better off that way, too."
"She has a point." Sokka stated flatly.
"I feel kind of bad though. Zuko's out there and by the looks of this place, it's much different from where were from."
"Puh- uh, Aang! How could you feel bad for someone like Zuko!" Sokka sputtered, immediately dropping his work.
Aang shrugged, "I dunno."
Before Sokka could retaliate or Katara could tell them to get back to work, the door opened.
There stood at the foot of the door, Nadra and her siblings, the light shined at the backs making their shadows pop out in front and their faces and bodies darkened to make one of those affects you see in movies or video games when Mario or some other crack head comes to save Princess Peach or some other blonde bimbo.
"We're home." Nadra nudged the twins forward to look at the familiar strange people. Their jaws dropped as well as their knees.
Aiden was the first to speak, "You're- you're the Avatar!" he pointed at him in awe scrubbing the black residue on the ceiling, "And you're scrubbing our ceiling!" he flashed a smile to his twin.
She seemed to agree that this was probably the most fascinating thing known to man. It probably was. She nodded vigorously, "This is the coolest day ever! The Avatar is cleaning our ceiling!"
Being seven years old, everything seemed to fascinate them.
Aang laughed nervously and scratched the back of his head then floated down from the ceiling. "Uh, hi! I'm Aang."
Addi squealed and jumped up and hugged him around the waist, "Can I have your autograph?"
Aang shrugged and cracked a small smile at the girl, "Uh, sure."
Her eyes brightened and her smile widened as she let go and sprinted up the stairs to her a pen and paper.
Aiden got up, "May I have your autograph too?"
Aang nodded and smiled, more confident around the pair of children, "Sure."
Aiden grinned as wide as his sister and hurried to get a piece of paper and pen as well.
Sokka coughed into his fist, gaining the attention of the two twins that had come down form the upper story.
Aiden, avoiding all the glass shards went over to Sokka and bowed, left hand balled into a fist, and right straight, "I'm Aiden, and it is an honour to be in your presence."
Addi went for Katara, "You're the greatest water bender ever! I want your autograph too." Her smile was true; her forest green hues sparkled in admiration.
Nadra had long ago entered the house and closed the door behind her, then taking a seat and watched the twins unfold as their favourite cartoon characters were cleaning their living room. Though, they hadn't cared the room was in a complete mess, they were just happy to see that anything is possible.
Even cartoon characters that just happened to crash through your window and destroy your house.
Katara smiled back, "What's your name?"
"Addison," she looked left and right and whispered in Kataras ear, "but it's Addi for short." Addi put a finger to her lips and said in a hushed tone, 'shh'.
Katara giggled and copied her then grabbed the piece of paper and the writing utensil. She wrote her name in cursive then handed it back to her.
Sokka had a proud look on his face, "Well, Aiden," he grabbed the piece of paper and writing accessory, "I could teach you how to fight with a sword." He tried showing off, but Aiden was well aware, Sokka wasn't the best warrior out there. Yet.
Aiden nodded though, eager to start lessons as soon as possible, "Sure thing, SiFu Sokka." He bowed and once again, avoiding the glass shards, he stood in front of Aang and smiled big.
Aang chuckled and wrote his name on the paper and handed it back and ruffled his hair. Normally, Aiden doesn't stand for such things as 'hair ruffles' but this time, Aaang ruffled his hair. The Avatar.
Oh yah, I bet that made you go weak in the knees too.
Addi came straight after and had gotten an autograph from Aang, then Sokka; lastly, Aiden had gotten an autograph from Katara.
"Is everyone nicely acquainted now?" Nadra sat with her legs crossed with a bored look on her face.
The twins grinned and nodded, while the Gaang exchanged looks and shrugged decided, yes they were 'nicely acquainted'.
Nadra suddenly clapped her hands together, Katara jumped, "Rwins, Aang and Sokka, you guys can continue cleaning the living room. Katara and I will prepare dinner." She stood from the couch and grabbed Katara by the arm dragging her towards the kitchen.
Aang and Sokka groaned while Addi and Aiden shrugged and placed their autographs on free couch and began working.
"So, Katara, I'm assuming you can cook, right?" Nadra asked, occupied by looking through the cupboards.
Katara didn't want to brag, "Well, I picked a few things here and there.
Nadra smiled, "You're much more appealing than Sokka. No offence."
Katara let out an airy laugh, "None taken. He just thinks you're form the Fire Nation. Once he figures out you aren't he'll lighten up."
Nadra nodded, "I'm sure." She looked out the kitchen window and saw Appa. And then her mom's eaten cabbage plants. She shrugged inwardly, oh well.
"What would you like for dinner?"
Katara tapped her chin and shrugged, "It's up to you."
Nadra smirked then pulled out a rectangular object from her pocket. Katara stared at it strangely, "What's that?"
"It's a cell phone. Almost everyone has one these days. They help you communicate with people. Watch." She came up besides the clueless girl and dialled the 'Panago' number.
A voice erupted from the cell phone which made Katara jump, "Hello, this is Panago Pizza, how may I help you?"
Katara stared in awe at the little rectangular object while Nadra put the phone her ear and ordered.
TBC