Me: hey guys ;D a new chappy and a new day! This chappy will have some of a surprise or twist… hur hur hur….. :PP ESPECIALLY for MILO! YOU READING THIS? WAHAHAH! You are SOOOO going to suffer this chapter. ENJOY THE CHAPPY! AND TO YOU MILO, ENJOY THE SUFFERING! WAHAHA, but then again you wouldn't really classify what I'm going to put you through as 'suffering'. =-=
What Was the World Coming To?
Chapter 7
No Use
It had been around three or four days since they had just disappeared in a bright light. It sounds cliché when people tell you, but when it -if- it actually happens to you, it's like a hard punch in the gut with an extremely large boulder.
Toph and Iroh had searched every library for any scroll that would tell them what had happened to their friends. Azula couldn't care less.
"Ugh! This is no use! We're never going to find them, and the fact that I can't even read slows us down!" Toph threw her hands up in the air and sat herself down.
Irohs' gaze didn't leave the scroll, determined to find his nephew and Toph's friends, "We cannot give up Toph. Who knows where they are? They could be in trouble and need our help." He closed the scroll he had been reading and picked up another.
Toph sighed and blew her bangs out of her face, "I know but….I can't feel them anymore. Their presence is completely gone."
Iroh froze, "Perhaps they are out of range." He covered up his nervousness. Toph looked at Iroh, "You know something that I don't." Iroh couldn't fool Toph.
Iroh turned to look at Toph, "Perhaps Toph, but it's just a hunch." Toph shrugged, "Lay it on me Tea Man, we've got no other leads."
Nadra's eyes flew open, "Fuck balls! School!"
Zuko snorted and instantly woke up by the girl that was sleeping on his laps, outburst.
"I gotta-"she then noticed her hands were on some ones chest and she looked to meet nose to nose with Zuko, "Why the hell was I sleeping on you!"
Zuko opened his mouth to respond but Nadra was already crawling away, "Nevermind! I have to drop Addi and Aiden to school and I have no idea what time it is!" she frantically scurried away on her knees.
Zuko got to his feet and followed her, "Let me help you.' He grabbed her upper arm causing her to stop crawling.
"Gee, I would accept but my feet are so badly burned I can't even walk on the outsides of them and I really don't appreciate being carried." Nadra responded snatching her arm back and continuing to crawl.
"Too bad." Zuko carefully snaked his hand underneath around where her tummy was and flipped her over. Before her back could hit the ground he effortlessly picked her up.
"Hey, hey, hey! Watch where you put your hands!" Nadra slapped Zukos shoulder and tried wriggling from his grasp, "Didn't I tell you that I didn't appreciate being carried?"
Zuko shrugged, "This is the fastest way to get to your siblings." Now that silenced her. Zuko smirked inwardly at his success. He used his back to push the screen door open.
"Zuko! What're you doing with Nadra?" Sokka got out his marshedes while Katara and Aang got into defensive stance.
"Zuko!" the twins from the table exclaimed.
"Hey, what're you two doing here? You guys are supposed to be at school!" she pointed her finger at them. Aiden shrugged, "Well, you're supposed to be at school too, but you were too busy sleeping on Zuko's lap to care!" he pointed his accusing finger back at her.
Addi snapped her fingers and rolled her head in Z-Formation, "Mmmmhmmmm!"
"Pfft, uh- pshhhh." Nadra made random noises to cover up not having an excuse, "Whatever!" she hid her blush well but Zuko could still see it.
"Okay, what's going on?" Sokka let his hand drop, "The twins know Zuko, Zuko's carrying Nadra, and Nadra slept on his lap! What is the world coming to?"
Nadra coughed into her fist, "Trust me Sokka, I ask myself that everytime I wake and see you guys are still here."
"What? It's not like we could leave him hiding behind Appa to starve!" Addi threw her hands in the air just like she didn't care! Ahem, sorry. Nadra explained her story of the night before leaving out the details of him burning her feet. The gaang would certainly feel at unease once again.
"Yes, you could have!" Sokka replied to Addi doing his own movements. Zuko didn't look insulted.
Katara and Aang sucked in the information nicely and pleasantly, though still uncomfortable around the banished prince. Zuko, as well, sucked in the information about him and the rest of them being cartoon characters very nicely.
"Calm down Sokka, everyone's on Aangs side temporarily," Nadra shot a look at Zuko, "Until we can figure out a way to bring you guys back home."
Sokka glared childishly at Zuko, "Fine." He spat and took a seat next to the just awoken girl.
"Nadra," Katara began, taking a quick look at her feet since they were resting on the top of the coffee table in the living room, "Why're your feet so red?"
Nadra looked at Zuko then shrugged; she didn't want them hating him more than they did already because of an accident, "Walking to much bare foot. Bad for my feet." She lied.
"I burned her feet." Zuko said from his seat.
Sokka pointed an accusing finger at the prince, "He's not to be trusted!" Aang put a hand on his shoulder, "I'm sure it was an accident." He said trying to sooth the warrior.
Nadra nodded, "He was half asleep and I was stupid enough to step on a twig and snap it. He was just startled or something."
Sokka crossed his arms and inched closer to the girl, "That's what he wants you to think."
"Ohh, getting' close to my sister, eh SiFu Sokka?" Aiden winked and wiggled his eyebrows suggestively as Aria nudged him, "You know, I always expected to her to be with an actual man, you know? Like Zuko."
Sokka sputtered, "Excuse me? I am soooo much manlier than him!"
"Says the one who had a difficult time deciding whether or not he should buy his man-purse." Katara scoffed form her place beside Aang, remembering the shopping trip in Gaoling. Aang laughed as he remembered too that Sokka, after he purchased the purse, that he had specifically yelled stubbornly 'why did you let me buy this?'.
Addi and Aiden applauded at Kataras comeback.
"It's not a man-purse Katara, It's a bag! A satchel even!" he disagreed hotly crossing his arms over his chest and stuck him nose up in the air.
Nadra laughed, "Ahh Katara, you are my frickin' role model. Damn! I love you." She raised her hand for a high five which Katara returned happily, smirking at her brother in victory.
Zuko let a small grin show at Sokkas embarrassment.
Katara cleared her throat earning everyone's attention, "Now that making fun of Sokka has been crossed off my list, we need to discuss other matters." She said in all seriousness. Laughing gone and no more smiles- everyone paid attention to what she was going to say; but nothing could prepared Zuko and Nadra for what Aang was about to say.
"Nadra, Zuko we need you to join us on our journey to restore peace when we get back to our world."
"You sure this is the only way, Tea Man?" Toph looked at Iroh sceptically as he continued to draw a large circle in the dirt with a stick. Iroh had gained the nickname shortly after joining Toph on her search for her friends and his nephew.
'Tea Man' nodded and drew the symbol of the Water Tribe on one 'corner' of the circle, then drawing the Fire Nation symbol on the other 'corner' and so forth. Inside the bigger circle was a smaller one with a triangle inside.
"I'm not sure what will happen if we try this, though." He sat inside the smaller circle and patted the ground across from his, motioning Toph towards him. "Where'd you get this information from?" Toph sat like Aang did when he meditated.
"The Fire Nation library. One day I was researching about the Spirits that kept the world in check, and I came across this." He spread his arms out to Toph to look at the circle.
"Oh, well I can't really see Tea Man, but okay I know what you're pointing at." He joked trying to remove the tension from doing the ritual.
Iroh chuckled, "Oh yes, I seem to forget sometimes."
Toph cracked a smile; Zuko was such a lucky guy to have an uncle like him. "So, how do we do this? I'm beginning to miss Sugar Queen, Twinkletoes and Snoozles."
"All you have to do is meditate and release your chi." Iroh explained clapping his hands together and closing his eyes in concentration. Toph did the same and let her chi flow form her arms to her feet to her hands. Soon, Irohs and her chi began to flow out of them, creating a bubble of chi around them. She could feel Iroh getting nervous, like something bad was going to happen. Toph relaxed and cleared her mind putting aside Iroh's nervousness.
The bubble of chi grew and grew engulfing the whole circle and the nations symbols. It caused the earth to rumble beneath them, Toph 'saw' the chi and began to feel nervous herself, what if this was a wasted effort? What if it didn't work? What if she would never get to 'see' her friends again?
"Relax, Toph." Iroh said calmly to her as if he read he mind. Toph breathed in and out and relaxed letting her shoulders drop again.
And the chi bubble popped leaving Iroh blinded by the light and Toph shocked by the outcome. The pair felt a tugging sensation on their soul- they held on to their life, but they blacked out as the life had been 'sucked' out of them.
The circle was gone and so were Toph and Iroh.
Zita let her feet dangle off her computer chair as she literally laughed out loud as she listened to the oh so famous quotes of 'Invader ZIM'.
Zita wiped an invisible tear from her eye from laughing so much, there seventy five quotes in the video. Seventy five! She opened up her email and paused the video, she clicked 'New' and inserted Nadra's email and copy and pasted the url to the video. She cracked her fingers and began typing to her buddy, 'Bet you didn't know this! At YouTube, there's a video that has 75 Gir quotes. 75!'. She laughed to herself and then pressed 'Send'.
She exhaled happily and decided to take a break from her computer and the endless random things she had found on Youtube. She jumped on the couch and put her feet underneath her as she grabbed the remote and began surfing through channels. After probably fifteen minutes of surfing, Zita found herself unbearably tired. From what? Zita suspected laughing at all the random shit she found on the internet. Ahh, internet. She switched the television off and yawned as she curled up on the couch. A nap couldn't hurt right? Zita thought and decided that after her nap, she would visit Nadra again. She bet on her life that they would need help containing the stubborn banished prince.
As she fell in a deep sleep she hadn't bothered that her T.V had a blue ominous glow around it or that it practically sucked her off of her couch when the ominous light engulfed the whole living room while the blue light shone through the windows.
Then again, as Aiden did say, she was a heavy sleeper.
"They are all exterminated. They will bother us no more." Azula knelt on one knee in front of her father- Ozai.
Ozai stared at his daughter, pride shining in his hues, "Very good Azula. I am very proud of you." He refused to smile but the twinkle in his eyes showed he was in fact astounded by his daughter's ability to knock out the Avatar and his friends as well as his stupid son.
Azula smiled at her fathers praise, "Thank you, father."
No matter how many times Ozai had said 'I'm very proud of you' it had never gotten old to her. She was praised all her life by her father- all she ever wanted in life was to be acknowledged by him and she did as she pushed Zuko farther and farther out of the picture. It was only fair in her eyes though- she got father and he got mother. Even though, mother had been gone for years, it hadn't mattered. As long as Azula got what she wanted, when she wanted it was all a pretty picture to her.
He nodded at her, "You were certainly born lucky."
Azulas eyes sparkled as she smiled upwards to Ozai in his throne- he had praised her again, "Thank you, father."
Zita woke up confused, dirty and coincidentally on dirt. That was never a good sign. She sat up stiffly then heard a pop in her back, "Well, that's never a good sign." She muttered incredulously.
She stood up and bent backwards and heard another pop, "That's better." She said to herself and took in her surroundings, "Well, this is going to sound cliché," she said to herself while walking in a circle, "But this place looks awfully familiar."
She shrugged it off, "Eh, whatever." Zita took off on the dirt bath leading to her to somewhere she really hadn't anticipated.
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TBC
Me: since ALL of you guys probably know where Zita is, who wants to join her? And I'm dead serious about it too. I need some other people involved in this too, you're not necessarily going to be a friend of Nadra's but you'll certainly be somewhere in the story. I only need about 6 or seven people. So if you're interested, just review in the review thingy. I need your name, height, appearance, attire, hobbies and personality. You might want to get into detail when it gets to 'appearance, attire and personality' I really don't want to get your character portrayed incorrectly in the story. Thanks guys :)) hoped you enjoyed this chapter! See yah next time!