"Wake up love birds," I heard Toph yell waking me out of my slumber. I opened my eyes when I noticed I was practically hugging him, my arms around him like a hug, while our legs entangled with each others. Our heads were an inch apart, our eyes met, my eyes were widened and so were his. We both screamed jumping away from each other. I fell off the bed landing on my back, my head hitting the floor.
"Ow," I muttered while sitting up and rubbing my head. That's why Toph called us love birds, hopefully she never says that again. I stood up and saw Aang getting up, he was rubbing his head too. After my the pain in my head went down a little I walked to the bathroom to get changed. Grabbing my clothes I quickly put them on before looking myself in the mirror. My hair had a nice wave to it that laid on my shoulders, as my blue eyes stood out with the rest of my outfit.
I was wearing a black dress that laid loose on my body with long sleeves, it ending at my ankles but had triangular cuts on the side showing off the light green pants that were puffy until my shin were the pants hugged my shins to my ankles. On top of the dress was a dark green vest that fitted me tightly as well as ended at my waist.
After fixing my hair a little before I walked out of the bathroom to see Aang dressed and exiting the room. I sighed grabbing my bag and exiting the room to see Toph sitting on a mat on the floor eating berries while Sokka laid against the wall his back on the floor with his legs up on the wall playing with his fingers with Aang looking at him strangely.
"I know how we can see the earth king!" Katara exclaimed holding pieces of paper.
"How, you know we can't just pop in on the earth king." Toph said in her usual sarcastic tone.
"What why can't we see the earth king?" I questioned slightly confused.
"Oh, well Miss creepy lady said the request won't go in for a month." Aang informed me.
"Anyway, There is a party tonight for the king's bear." Katara continued.
"You mean platapus bear?" Aang asked laying on a wooden bannister.
"No, it just says bear..."
"Certainly you mean his pet skunk bear." Sokka said putting his hands behind his head.
"Or his armadillo bear." Toph added on.
"Gofer bear?" I suggested.
"It just says bear..." Katara repeated.
"This place is weird." Toph said before eating another berry.
"The palace will be packed, we can sneak in with the crowd." Katara explained.
"Won't work," Toph said before popping another berry into her mouth and swallowing it.
"Why not?" I asked sitting on the wooden bannister on the other side of the stairs.
"Well no offense to you simple country folk, but a real society crowd would spot you a mile away, you've got no manners." Toph said before eating another berry.
"Excuse me, I got no manners? Your not exactly lady fancy fingers." Katara said seeming some what mad, crossing her arms.
Toph burped before talking again, "I learned proper society behavior, and chose to leave it. You never learned anything, and frankly it's a little to late." She picked at her nose and flanged the thing she picked at the ceiling.
"Well you learned it, you can teach us." Sokka implied.
"No way, I don't want to wear those stupid fancy wear. I'd rather we just sneak in the background." I added but they seemed to ignore my comment.
"Yeah, I'm mastering every element how hard could manners be?" Suddenly Aang grabbed the curtain and draped it over himself. "Good evening Mr. Sokka of water tribe, Miss Katara of water tribe, Lord Momo of the momo dynasty, your momoness." Momo came out of the blanket on the floor and nodded at Aang.
Sokka quickly grabbed another curtain on the other side of the room and put it on while Aang was talking. "Oh, Avatar Aang how you do? Go on," Sokka said in a funky voice.
Suddenly Aang bowed to Sokka, then Sokka did the same thing to Aang. It went on back and forth for a few seconds before they collided heads making me chuckle at them.
Toph stood up before saying, "Katara and Meia might be able to pull it off, but you too would be lucky to pass as bus boys."
"But I feel so fancy," Sokka said slightly sitting up and rubbing his head.
I got up saying "Woah, there is no way you are going to get me into that fancy get up."
Before I knew it I was wearing a fancy dress and my face was plastered with makeup. There was some kind of head piece in my hair that was annoying me. The three of us had fans as we opened the door to see Sokka's and Aang's jaws slightly drop making us giggle. I noticed Aang was staring at me, "Wow you look beautiful," Aang complimented before getting flicked in the head by Sokka.
I was about to respond when Toph shoved a fan in my face. "First lesson to you two, don't talk to the commoners."
I pushed the fan away from my face, "It's bad enough I'm wearing this get up, so I don't need a fan in my face."
We walked towards the door, "We'll get into the party and find a way to let you too in by the side gate." Katara said to them as we walked out the door.
We entered a carriage we ordered to take us there. The whole enter time there Toph was giving us more rules on manners but I mostly zoned her out.
Suddenly the carriage stopped so I presumed we were there. I got out of the carriage first with the other two behind me but on the way to the line the some how migrated to in front of me.
We didn't have to wait long until we reached the guard at the front. "Invitation please," The guard said in a blank tone.
"I think this will do." Toph said flashing her passport of the Bei Fong family.
"No entry without an invitation, step out of line please." He said more strictly but none of us moved.
"Look the Pangs and the Yung Sun Hans are waiting in there for us. I'm going to have to tell them who didn't let me in." Toph said with agitation.
"Step out of line please," He said again, but this time we moved to the side. Katara made a face as she saw some guy getting bows. Toph and Katara suddenly started walking towards the man, I quickly followed.
"Sir, I'm sorry to bother you." Katara started talking to the man with the weird facial hair. "But my cousin here lost our invitations, she's blind." She hinted to the man. "Are family is waiting in there for us, do you think you can help us?"
"I would be honored," He said bowing to us before leading us over to the entrance. We passed the guard and Katara and Toph stuck their tongues at him behind his back making me giggle.
There was a large hallway before we reached the party. "It's beautiful isn't it?" The guy that brought us in commented. "By the way, I'm Long Feng, I'm a cultural minister to the king."
"I'm Que Me, and this Dung." Katara said gesturing to Toph.
"And I'm Min," I said while Toph yanked on Katara's head piece making Katara flinch in pain.
"Where is your family? I would love to meet them." Long Feng looked around the room.
"Um, I think I see them, so thank you for helping us in, but I think we can get over to them or selves." I said pushing Katara and Toph a little forward.
"Well ladies enjoy the party," He said before bowing again and walking away. Something was off about him, I thought to myself as Katara and Toph lead the way towards the crowd.
I looked for the door but only bus boys were aloud through. "How are we gonna let them in?" I whispered to them.
Katara shrugged at me as we walked around the room. Suddenly Toph walked over to two bus boys, then suddenly I recognized them, it was Sokka and Aang. "Another crab puff please," Toph said in a formal voice.
"You guys found us," Aang whispered.
"I know you foot steps anywhere twinkle toes." Toph took a bite out of a crab puff.
"Thanks for letting us in," Sokka said sourly.
"Sorry, but the only way was through the bus boys and I'm not in the mood for flirting." I said before taking a crab puff of the platter. Both the boys and Katara raised their eyebrows at me. "What? I flirt, I could had flirted with one to open the door!" I explained to them as I took a bite out of the crab puff. Man it tasted good,
"What are you doing here you have to leave immediately." Joo Dee or as I call her Miss Creepy Lady said with a worried tone. "Or we'll all be in terrible trouble."
"Not until we see the king," Sokka said.
"You don't understand, you must go," She said before shoving Sokka right into Aang and spilling the tea in the pourer thing Aang had all over a woman from hearing the scream.
"No, sorry don't shout," Aang said before blasting her with air. He smiled nicely at her even though now she looked terrible.
"The Avatar! I didn't know the avatar would be here."
The music slowly came to a stop as everyone looked at Aang. Sokka walked over to him and whispered something to him I didn't hear. "WATCH THIS EVERYBODY!" Aang yelled before jumping up and out of the bus boy uniform and on the table.
"Look for the king," Sokka told us, we all nodded at him before walking off.
After a while of searching someone was coming in, I guessed it was the king. I was started to walk towards him when out of nowhere I was pulled back by something made of rock. My adrenaline was pumping, the rocks came off of my mouth and two pairs of hands grabbed me and started leading me somewhere. "LET GO OF ME!" I yelled at them.
They lead me to some room and shoved me in, to see Katara, Toph and Sokka already there. I walked over to them, "Do you know what's going on?" I whispered to them, they all shook their heads.
Aang suddenly entered with Long Feng behind him, he stood next to me. "Why won't you let us see the king?" Sokka exclaimed. "We have information to beat the fire nation!"
"The earth King has no time to get involved in political matters." Long Feng said sitting on a bench.
"This could be the most important thing he's ever heard." Aang said.
"What's most important to his royal majesty is maintaining the cultural heritage of Ba Sing Se. All his duties relate to issuing decrees in such matters it's my job to oversee the rest of city's resources, including the military." Long Feng said.
"So the king is just a figure head," Katara realized like the rest of us.
"He's your puppet!" Toph exclaimed at him.
"Oh no, no, he's majesty is an icon, a god to his people. He can't summon his hands at the alimony changes of an endless war." He formally said.
Sokka stood forward and exclaimed, "But we have information about a solar eclipse that will lead the fire nation defenseless. You could lead an invasion-"
"Enough!" Long Feng stood up stopping Sokka from saying anymore. "I don't want to hear your ridiculous plan. It is the strict policy of Ba Sing Se. That the war not be mentioned within the walls. Constant news of an escalating war will put the citizens into a state of panic. Are economy would be ruined, are peaceful way of life, are traditions would disappear. In silence are talk of conflict in Ba Sing Se remains a peaceful utopia. The last one on earth,"
"You can't keep the truth from all these people. They have to know," Katara said to him.
"I'LL TELL THEM! I'LL MAKE SURE EVERYONE KNOWS!" Aang yelled.
"Until now you've been treated as out honored guests, but for now on you will be watched every moment by Dai Le Agents. If you mention the war to anyone, you will be expelled from the city. I understand you have been looking for your bison, it would be a shame if you weren't able to complete that quest." My hands were in fists now, I was full of rage, "Now Joo Dee will show you home."
We all were shocked when we saw a different women enter but I really didn't care. All I wanted to do is punch this Feng dude square in the face. "What happened to Joo Dee?" Katara asked.
"I'm Joo Dee, I will be your host as long as your in this wonderful city." She said with another big fake smile on her face. She lead us out of the room, me being the last one. Fuck being nice to this asshole, I thought to myself before giving the middle finger before exiting the room. Sure it wasn't lady like or mature but I'm too mad to care.
Hey guys I'm so happy I got this up today, this week had just been hectic... anyway please review, favorite, and follow please. Oh and btw this coming wed I can't upload anything cause I'm going to a water park. I should update Who I Am by then. With Friends With A Freedom Fighter I should have the next chapter up today.