Me: hey guys ;DDD this story will be ending soon. It'll prolly end in five or more chapters maybe, ehh, I still needa tie some things up, so yah. I might have a sequel….i mean if you guys WANT me to. I'll put up a poll when this story is done. SPEAKING OF POLLSS I put a poll up for one of my other ATLA story- 'His Badness Level', the poll question asks what element Ember should bend.
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What Was The World Coming To?
Chapter 15
Preparations
"So, you're basically saying that I have a bending ability no one knows of yet?" Zita paced back and forth her heels clicking against the iron floor.
Ozai nodded, "If you put it in so many words." He propped his face with the back of his knuckles.
"I see….so….okay, I guess this is cool and stuff, but how is this like relevant to anything?" Zita clicked her tongue, perplexed.
Ozai inhaled sharply, "As you may or may not know, the Avatar has disappeared."
Avatar? Zita held back a smirk; Aang was probably chillin' out at her best friend's house kissin' up to Katara!
"If the Avatar ends up coming back, I'll have you. You'll have enough time to discover your abilities so you can bring down the Avatar. Of course you won't do it alone- you'll have my daughter, her small elite team you will be joining and some others. " He explained and cracked his knuckles.
"Some others?" Zita quirked a brow and crossed her arms over her chest. Personally, she would gladly help out Azula and her friends even though that wasn't exactly the right thing to do. She was just being really difficult.
Ozai nodded, "You'll see in a day or two." He replied not giving any hints. Zita shrugged then nodded, "Fair enough." She bowed, "Am I going to escort myself out?"
Ozai shrugged, "If you like."
Zita turned on her heel and exited the throne room, shutting the doors quietly she made her way down the hall and to the outside world.
Cindy basically lounged around Yew-Ta's room and abused his room service. Well, he didn't really have room service but he had something similar. Since he was quite a strong warrior with or without bending, he had privileges- such as ordering dumbasses around to get him food or a wet towel, whatever he was in the mood of.
Cindy yawned and shook her head back and forth to let her hair loose. Of course, it was always loose, but it just felt all stiff. Probably because she was shower deprived. She shivered, it had been a couple days since her last shower but since Yew-Ta wasn't around she had no right to use his washroom to take a shower.
Or was it?
She slid her feet across the iron floor and to the washroom. Quickly she opened the door and entered, locking the door behind her. The washroom was small- toilet, shower, sink, towels; the essentials, the works. Better than nothing, right?
She turned on the tap for the shower and let it warm. She unlocked the door and excited. She needed clothes and maybe some rose petals. Cindy shook her head, screw the rose petals, need clothes. She tip-toed to the dresser and opened it, she scanned for something she could wear, but sadly nothing. Yew-Ta was atleast a couple sizes bigger than her. She shrugged, the water was running anyway. Cindy grabbed the smallest shirt in there, probably from his younger years and the smallest sized shorts. Rushing to the washroom, she locked the door behind her and threw his clothes beside the sink and quickly stripped down of her clothes.
Cindy ran her hand underneath the water coming from the tap and decided it was a pretty good temperature. Jumping in, she let the water run down her back, undoing all the knots.
She sighed and hunched over, "Hellz to the yah." She mumbled and wiped the water from her face.
Then she heard the outside door open, signifying Yew-Ta or some other creep was in the room.
Cindy froze, awwwww, shit.
Nadra's Crew drug along Zuko on their shopping trip to get him an outfit- and along with them came the twins, Katara and Aang. Just to make sure everything was under control- which left Nadra and Sokka home. Christopher and Jennine left the two teens at home to go for a nice walk and a mini picnic for their sakes.
"Alright, what do you want for lunch?" Nadra blew a stray strand of hair out of her way only for it to slowly drift back where it was.
Sokka shrugged, "I dunno, what do you want?"
Nadra shrugged and put that strand of hair behind her ear, "I was asking you, you're the 'Idea Guy'." She put invisible quote marks in the air with her fingers.
Sokka rolled his eyes, "Can't I be the 'I-don't-know-what-I-want-for-lunch-Guy'?" he whined. Nadra laughed, "Fine then, why don't we just make pizza?"
Sokka nodded, his mouth watering as he remembered the first time he head pizza, "Sweet! What do we do first?"
Nadra walked over to a bowl covered with a wet towel, "My mom made this in the early morning in case I needed to use it," she whipped off the towel, "it's dough."
Sokka rolled up his imaginary sleeves then rubbed his hands together, "Alright, so all we needa do is kneed it right?"
Nadra nodded, "Mhhm, the flour is in the cup-board."
Sokka looked over at the cup-board she was referring to, "Um, why do we need the flour?"
Nadra sighed, "You've never done this, have you?" she quirked a brow at the tribe boy. He shook his head and nervously scratched his neck, "No…."
Nadra rolled her eyes playfully, "Don't worry. I'll teach you, just get the flour in the cup-board."
Sokka obeyed and grabbed the flour and set it down on the table as Nadra pulled out a rolling pin. She washed her hands and wiped her still wet palms on her pants, "Wash your hands, we're handling food." She scolded with a smirk.
Sokka obeyed with a 'manly' pout as he says and walked back to the table. "Alright, what now?"
Wordlessly Nadra opened the flour bag and then sprinkled some over the table top. Once again, she wiped the white powder from her hands onto her jeans then rolled the bag close. "Alright," she put the sticky dough from the bowl and slapped it into the table, spraying some flour here and there.
"All you gotta do is fold it and kneed it, then after form it into a circle. Simple." She showed him first then let him take over.
"Like this?" Sokka used his upper body strength to press the dough down then fold it over again. Nadra nodded, "Mmmhmm, just like that."
Sokka stopped and reached for the bag of flour as the flour that was on the table had completely melded with the dough. He looked down upon the bag and unrolled it.
Puff
Nadra covered her mouth and held back a giggle. When Sokka had opened the bag, a cloud of flour erupted-literally, erupted- from the bag and spewed itself on Sokka's face.
Sokka looked up at Nadra his facial expression reading 'are you frickin' serious?'. Nadra extended a hand and brush some flour off of his face, "It's really not that bad." She bit down on her lip hard, he looked like frickin Ronald McDonald with brown hair!
"Yah, riiighhhtttt." Sokka rolled his eyes and with the back of his hand he brushed away some of the flour. He looked at the back of his hand, "How can that bag of flour do that to me?"
Nadra shrugged, "I, pftt, dunno." She wasn't one to really laugh at someone's unfortunate events, but this was too funny.
Sokka sighed, "Ha ha, really funny." He said sarcastically while reaching for a wet cloth to wipe his face with. Nadra broke down and laughed, "I'm sorry! It's so funny!"
Sokka didn't think so, "Oh really?" his hand reached inside the flour bag and threw flour right in her face and not only did the flour reach her face, but Sokka was throwing downwards. The white powder also got her designer jeans and expenside 'Urban Planet' top. Her airy laugh disappeared as her eyes were shut and her face white, "Oh, no you di'nt." She snapped her fingers in 'Z' formation and opened her eyes.
Sokka laughed at her misfortune, "Hahahaha! Who's laughin' now? I am!" he slapped his knee unaware that he just unleashed the fury within Nadra.
Nadra slowly walked to the other side of the table and reached both of her hands into the flour bag, "Tien!" she flung the flour on the sarcastic teen. (A/N 'Tiens' means 'Take that!' in french)
Sokka immediately stop her laughter and stiffly turned towards Nadra. Nadra laughed and pointed a finger at the almost all covered in flour teen, "Loser!"
And the war had begun.
"Perfect."
"Hot."
"I would tap that."
Opinions came from all corners form his 'friends' on each and every outfit they had chosen for him. Nadra had let them off the hook and let them take a break and go shopping she had thought Zuko was prepared enough to take a break. He didn't think so. The colors for their crew were white, black and red. Heck, everyone that day had gotten something- even Sokka; Katara cares for her older brother. And finally after hours of shopping, they had finally found something for Zuko.
Zuko was currently wearing a black bandana tied at the back of his head with white specks on it with a white shirt with a large collar and short sleeves that was lined with black. Around his collar that stood up at ends, was a black tie loosely done around his neck. His jeans denim and you guessed it, black. His belt was black leather with silver cubes on it and multiple chains that loosely hung from his waist. On one arm he had black and red bands and the other was a fingerless black and brown leather glove.
Addi, who had mysteriously gained a lot of facial hair stroked her 'beard', "I like it. Take it off and we'll get it."
After she didn't take the facial hair off she noticed the strange looks from her peers, "What? Sokka can wear awesome facial hair but I can't?"
"I don't even know how you got that in the first place." Aang scratched his beanie covered head.
Aiden giggled along with his sister, "Magic."
Zuko stepped back into the change room and put his original clothes on. He was quite nervous for the competition; Nadra would be counting on him to win. Or at least try. Her feet had gotten a little better but her feet were still in no shape to dance. Too much friction. Zuko exited and handed the twins his clothes, "After, are we going home?"
Katara nodded, "Yeah, all we had to do was get you some clothes." The group made their way to the cashier then paid.
Walking out of the store, Addi's facial hair discarded, something or someone had caught his eye. "Oh crap." Aiden stopped dead in his track.
Addi looked where he was looking, "Envy, Ivy and the Wendy's." she sneered. Anna glared, "Aww, shit. Let's go before they notice us."
The 'Wendy's were like the posy that followed Envy around. They were sisters that were completely obsessed with Envy- if she got a nose job they would to. The Wendy's looked identical, no one knew if they got like plastic surgery or if they were twins. Orange hair cascading down in curls down to mid-back and bangs that framed their faces, they had fair skin and blue hues. They both wore baby blue tube tops and white mini skirts. One was named Chanel and the other Coco.
Simone agreed and they began to walk. Zuko squinted to see them. Personally, to him they didn't look all that menacing. As he scanned them over, whom he suspected to be Envy, looked over.
"They saw us." Zuko pointed out as the four girls came storming up to them. Aiden glared at Ivy as Addi latched her arm around his and stuck her tongue out. The dance crew girls stood firmly and waited for their arrival. Aang, Katara and Zuko stood slightly behind the wall of angry teens plus the twins.
Envy abruptly stopped in front of them her hands crossed over her chest, "Look what Nadra dragged in." she pulled out a stick of lip gloss then applied. The Wendy's laughed snobbishly.
Pop rolled her eyes, "Piss off Envy." Esther stood forward, "We don't need your bullshit. Why don't you just get a nose job already? Or wait, you can't afford it 'cause you already got an ass lift." She hung her finger off her lip innocently.
Coco gasped, "Excuse you! Don't you dare talk to Envy like that!" she snapped her fingers in front of her face.
"Awww, why not? Is it because it's totally the truth?" Anna smirked and leaned on her left hip.
"Oh shut up, you stupid lesbian." Nadra sneered. Anna glared, but restrained from punching her into next week. She was lesbian, but there was no need to bring it up in such a way.
"Hey! Why such a douche Envy?" Addi jabbed her leg grabbing her attention. The part of the gaang that was there was shocked by her language. "Yah Envy, what happened? Did your knickers get in a twist?"
Simone laughed, "Burned!"
Envy flipped her hair, ignoring the comment, "Whatever." She snorted. Chanel stood beside her 'sister', "So, did you guys drop out? We all heard about Nadra's feet. Too bad, but then again she really didn't have a chance." She said with a smirk.
Zuko frowned slightly; no matter how many times Nadra said it was fine, he still felt guilty about burning her feet. Now there was Envy after her and her weird clones after her. He stood forward with a glare pushing past Dwight and Anna, "We didn't drop out. I'm subbing in for Nadra."
Ivy clicked her tongue, "Where'd they pick you up? You look horrible and not so light on your feet." She giggled. Zuko ignored her and looked at Envy, "Get out of our faces, we'll see you tonight. When we pound your face into the dirt."
The whole crowd behind him 'oh'd while the four girls with nothing better to say stalked off in a huff.
Zuko smirked, that's how you handle 'em.
Spade got dressed and told Iroh and Toph to dress casually as they were going out. Messily, she wrapped new bandages around the skin that showed and exited her room. She wore navy blue khaki's with a loose fitting cyan blue shirt that was lined with baby blue. Around her fore arm her emblem of a blue spade etched on that piece of blue fabric that was tied around her arm.
"Iroh, Toph! We're going now! It's like," she checked a nearby clock, "1:30!" Iroh and Toph emerged form there rooms.
With a grin, Spade galloped down the stairs and slipped on her shoes, "Let's go!" she was exicted, she would see her friend-Nadra and her childhood rolemodels! And Sokka and Zuko. Sooooo frickin' cuteeeeee. She grinned ecstatically and jumped up and down for a while.
Toph rolled her eyes, "Why so excited?" Spade shrugged, "I dunno." She replied excitedly. The earthbender rolled her eyes once again but this time with a grin, she still walked the streets with no shoes even though she could see.
Iroh stepped down form the final step of the stairs and slipped on some flip-flops, "I never thought I'd see the day my nephew dance. He was never good on his feet." He chuckled to himself.
Spade nodded, "I can understand that." She walked to the door and unlocked it and stepped outside then aside to let them out then locked the door. Spade squealed, "Alright, let's bounce!"
Zita grumbled to herself as she snuck out the back door of Will's house. His backyard was only half the size of Nadra's but it was still decent. She sat with her bcck against the wall of the house.
How dare they? How could they even think of using her as just…just an item! If the Avatar would come back, they would need her to kick his ass. At first, Zita considered it, it sounded pretty cool- but after, not so much. It was like she was his toy or something! She would be used when needed then thrown away after! She gripped some grass and pulled it out of the ground. She inhaled and words flowed out of her mouth.
You could have been all I wanted
But you weren't honest
Now get in the ground
You choked off the surest of favours
But if you really loved me
You would have endured my world
She looked up at the sky as she sang, a crescent moon floated above her- above the world. She inhaled then exhaled slowly, she was calming down.
Well if you're just as I presumed
A whore in sheep's clothing
Fucking up all I do
And if SO here we stop
Then never again
Will you see this in your life?
Zita's eyebrows quirked when she noticed something peculiar- the big dipper. She tiled her head, she had those back home.
Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest, is a love ever longed
With truth on the shores of compassion
You seem to take premise to all of these songs
She almost smiled as she thought back to her home. Had Nadra or any of her friends noticed her disappearance? Her parents probably had.
You stormed off to scar the armada
Like Jesus played martyr
I'll drill through your hands
The stone for the curse you have blamed me
With love and devotion, I'll die as you sleep.
She then thought back to Azula and Ozai. Peh, to think they had actually liked her as a friend- as an acquaintance! They were just going to use her. She stood and inhaled sharply for her next verse.
But if you could just write me out
To never less wonder... happy will I become
Be true that this is no option,
So with sin I condemn you
Demon pray, Demon out.
They were just going to use her. But what the hell was she going to do about? What could she do about it? Probably nothing. She could possibly run away and out of the village, but they'd track her down before her got far.
Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest is our love ever longed
With truth on the shores of compassion
You seem to take premise to all of these songs
Zita picked up a nearby stick and flicked her wrist making the twig move in her hand twirl. There really was nothing she could do. Maybe she could tell Will? Naw, it's not like he cares anyway.
One last kiss for you
One more wish to you
Please make up your mind girl,
I'd do anything for you
Zita paced back and forth with the stick in her hand that she twirled trying to think of more possibilities. Perhaps there was none.
One last kiss for you
One more wish to you
Please make up your mind girl
Before I hope you die.
On her final note she swung her arm around and extended it roughly in front of her, the tip of the stick acting as an extension on her hand and something amazing or maybe, peculiar happened.
A mixture of lightning and fire shot out of the tip of the stick.
It was actually quite an awkward thing to see. Sokka with hands at the side of Nadra's pinned down body with his legs on both sides of her hips while both of them were covered in raw baked goods.
The crew, the twins and the gaang had run into Sapde, Iroh and Toph, They chatted and went over to Nadra's house.
Sokka's face darkened as she quickly got off of Nadra, "I swear it's not what it looked like!"
Dwight smirked, "That's what they all say."
Petula high fived Dwight for his utter awesomeness as the crew giggled amongst them and retreated to the living room.
"Maybe I should ship Nakka…..that sounds surprisingly nice…" Spade mused. Toph laughed, "Sokka! Finally getting to second base, ehh?" she nudged him.
Katara tapped her foot impatiently waiting for an explanation as the ones that were still there inched away slowly from the scene upon seeing Katara's expression. Nadra coughed and got up and cringed, another healing session was needed.
"Katara- look, Nadra and I were trying to make pizza-"
"It didn't look like it Sokka! You were ontop of her and, and! What were you even doing on top of her!" Katara scolded.
Nadra stepped forward, "Katara it was nothing, we were attempting to make pizza and then we got into a playful fight with flour and raw baked goods. It was nothing." She shrugged and waved her hands.
Katara looked at them and sighed, "Fine. Just don't let me catch you two like that again."
Nadra grabbed Kataras wrist, "Not to bother you at such a time but my feet…." She muttered. Katara's expression softened, "Let's go upstairs."
Nadra nodded, relieved then looked to Sokka with a small tint of pink on her cheeks, "Go tell Zuko and them to practice. I want to see perfection when were done."
Sokka nodded, "Alright." As the two girls disappeared up the stairs Sokka grabbed a wet cloth and wiped himself down as much as he could then wiped the tables in the kitchen down poorly and headed to the kitchen to break the news.
Who knew flour could cause such a riot?
TBC
Me: heyyy ;D so how you guys like it so far? Milo, did you like your scene that you requested? I hope it's good - ANYWAY, I'm going to hold a contest once Willy comes home, but I wont spoil it now. Hehehe
I'm sorry Spade! You didn't get much screen time this chappy D; It's just so late at night where I live at the moment and my fingers hurt and everything D; I'm sooo sorry. Forgive me and everyone gets cookies :3
EDITTT: if anyone noticed that I had uploaded this chappy three frickin times is because this one part wouldn't show up so imma put it here. That one part was the name of Nadra's crew. It was 'the crew that didn't really have a name' except with no spaces. LOL ;D
Till next time folks!