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Author's note: Well here's chapter 13, how did you like the last chapter?
ComicCartoonFreak13: Yea, this is going to be totally different from the series, more family centric you could say, the same adventures and stuff though. Yea and Azula will eventually see what Ozai has done and leave. Yes Toph is FINALLY entering the picture, and Azula catches up with them. At that moment she hasn't left the FN yet but she will near season three. Also yes I will have Zutara fluff coming soon Curious though, would you wan't filler chapters? I don't mind writing them they just take up my energy when I have this like thingymabobber planned out Lol. I try not to add many O.C's unless they are NEEDED in the story. Also I just realized something, if Mako and Korra are related to Zuko and Katara Makorra wouldn't exist.. :|
TsundareGamer : Curious, does it make it because Aang is oblivious to things, if not can you tell me why? :D
QuietShadowz: Thanks for the review and I pictured that IF sokka and katas mom and all them were reunited sokka would have fainted, he's such a pansy Lol. Now I shall present TOPH to the chapter in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 GO READ Lol
Also THANK YOU SOOO MUCH for all of the reviews, story alerts and, favorite authors for me :) Also a heads up, I will try to update on Fridays after I get home from class. :)
"NEXT UP IS THE BOULDER AND THE SIX TIME WINNER OF THE EARTH RUMBLE…. THE BLIND BANDIT!"
"BOOO," Sokka yelled out. Suddenly a little girl, barely even the age of a teenager walked out into the stadium.
"PRESENTING…THE BLIND BANDIT!"
"This must be some sick joke," Katara muttered as she stared at the little girl, barely the age of even a teenager.
"If they put her in the arena she must be good," Zuko pointed out. Katara huffed and narrowed her eyes in annoyance. The little girl smirked as she saw who her opponent was.
"THE BOULDER WILL DEFEAT THIS PUNY GIRL!" The Boulder yelled, as he charged at the girl. The girl shifted the stance in her feet and knocked him over.
"BOOOOOOOOOOOO," Sokka yelled, booing at the young girl. Katara and Zuko sent him glares. The large muscular earth bender stood up from his fall and brought up a boulder, sending off flying discs to the girl. Before the discs could reach the girl, she switched stances, causing him to lose balance once again.
"So you thought you could be a little girl? You just got proven wrong." The Boulder stood up one last time to defeat the little girl, but to no avail got beaten once again.
"We now have a winnnnnnnnnnnnnner! THE BLIND BANDIT! Is there anyone who is willing to fight the now seven time earth rumble champion for their chance to win?" Everyone in the room was silent. The announcer was about to head down to the arena to give the prize money to the blind champion, but Aang raised his hand and started to head down the stands and into the arena. The blind fighter grinned, and cracked her knuckles as if she were enjoying the possibility of another fight.
"Well it seems that there is someone who is willing to fight the blind bandit. This is a mystery man." The announcer stated. Aang finally reached the end of the stands and jumped down into the arena.
"Well you ready to lose Twinkle Toes?" Aang stared at the young girl before trying to reason with her.
"No, I really don't want to fight with you, I only want to talk to you." Aang pleaded.
"If you aren't going to fight then leave. I have no time for talk." The blind pre-teen scowled. She got into her stance once again and slid her left foot forward causing a small earthquake towards Aang. He hopped up high into the air.
"Where are you Twinkle Toes?" The blind earth rumble champ muttered, concentrating on the vibrations of the earth. Aang was behind her floating in the air, leaving the audience in the stands to look at him in bewildered. He could hear murmurs from the crowd, but ignored them as he had been taught to.
"I said I only wanted to talk!" Aang defended himself as the Blind Bandit sent another boulder at his head.
"Fine. You wanna talk? Then talk." The earth bender huffed, mouth turning to a scowl, eyes glaring at where the boy seemed to be.
"I want you to be my earth bending teacher. I know how good of an earth bender you are and I would like you to teach me." The girl arched an eyebrow before smirking.
"Thanks. But no thanks. No can do Twinkle Toes." Aang look defeated, which gave the earth bender the opportunity to throw a lot of rocks and other forms of earth at him. Aang is self-defense air bended a small tornado knocking the girl off her feet into the bottom of the arena.
"We have a winner folks! Mr…..?" The announcer looked over to Aang to see him long gone chasing after the infamous Blind Bandit.
"Hey wait up! All I want to do is talk!" Aang exclaimed. The young girl turned and sent the most ferocious glare she could towards the young Avatar.
"One, I will NEVER teach you now LEAVE ME ALONE!" The young girl yelled as she stomped off, earth bending a door through the earthen wall and walking right through closing it right before Aang could catch up to her again.
"Toph dearie?" Poppy Beifong called into Toph's room. Toph was dressed in a silken white dress, with a pink sash on. Toph had a gleam in her eyes as she looked blindly at her mother.
"Yes Mother?" Toph called out to her mother.
"Toph dear, we are having guests. It's the Avatar dear! I wonder what he wants with us.." Poppy thought aloud. Toph raised an eyebrow at her mother, and contained her shock because she already knew the infamous Avatar.
"Yes mother. When should I come into the dining room?" Poppy Beifong thought for a moment before responding to her only daughter.
"You can come now. I will walk with you." Toph nodded her head and walked over to her mother. Arm in Arm, the mother and daughter walked to the dining room in silence. Toph could hear her father's voice talking, but to whom? She heard two different female voices that she has never heard, and two male voices she has never heard.
"Mother, who are the two females and males talking with father?" Poppy looked at her daughter before sighing.
"Those four teenagers…They are the Avatar's companions. Your father and I, we have no clue why the Avatar of all people has stopped at our home."
They reached the dining room and Toph ignored the looks sent her way as she sat down.
"Hello Toph. How was your day?" Lao Beifong asked, looking towards his daughter.
"It was great, but I am curious to know. Why are the Avatar and his companions visiting out humble home?" The questioned was asked while talking to her father, but the look she has was sent their way and Aang gulped, fear creeping into his body.
"I am uhm, looking for an earth bending teacher." Aang spoke quietly. Lao Beifong looked at him and arched an eyebrow before clearing his throat.
"Well, Toph's Master, well he's a really great teacher. So far he has been beginning to teach Toph the basics, but with Toph's condition and heart condition I do not think that she will learn much."
"His name is Master Yu. He's one of the best in the-" Lao was cut off by Aang.
"I want your daughter to train me."
"She can't even move a pebble. Let Master Yu teach you." Aang pouted before trying to let his daughter teach him.
"But Toph's a gr-" All of a sudden Aangs face was in his bowl of soup, Lao and Poppy looking around with confused eyes.
"Excuse me mother, father I am in need of fresh air." Toph spoke; she stood up and silently walked out of the room. Katara watched the girl walk away and bowed, excusing herself to follow the girl.
"Why did you follow me?" Katara was taken by surprise, wondering how she that she followed her.
"I came to talk to you, what else?" Katara sneered slightly. Toph raised an eyebrow at the girl in question.
"So what do you want to talk about?"
"Why don't you tell your parents that you're a Master Earth Bender?"
Toph sighed dejectedly. "I don't know about you but all I wanted was to be loved by my parents, have them truly love me as who I truly am, not some blind pathetic girl who needs help with every little thing, having guards following you every minute, that sorta thing." Katara chuckled in irony.
"Oh trust me; I DO know what it's like. I hated having the guards follow me twenty-four seven. I got so irritated at them in the Palace that I just punched one of them square in the face. Zuko's mother got to mad that she almost had a meltdown." Toph turned to look at her with a weary look on her face.
Katara continued to tell her the explanation of her childhood at her confused look. "My dad and his best friend, who is the Fire Lady, or was the Fire Lady I mean, they were best friends. She was half water-tribe and they grew up together. My father and Ursa, that's her name, they decided when me and Zuko, that's Ursa's son, that we would visit each other for about half a year."
"So you know the Fire Prince?" Katara nodded her head.
"Yea, and since she was actually the Northern Water Tribe long lost princess, she taught both me and Zuko to act as a Water Tribe Prince and Princess. Along with that she also taught and raised us as Fire Prince and Princess We've learned both royal dialects and we've been trained in self-defense and as swordsman. So basically I've been pretty sheltered too."
"You're still not telling me everything. Your heartbeat is stopping and is a bit jumpy telling me that you're not telling me everything."
"Uhm how did you know that?"
"Since I'm blind my other senses are enhanced, and so with my earth bending I can tell is someone is lying or not telling me everything by the sound of their heartbeat." Katara nodded again before continuing.
"I'm the Princess of the Southern Water Tribe my father is the chief. I am a Master Double Bender." Toph looked at Katara in awe.
"You're a double bender?" Katara nodded her head proudly.
"What elements?"
"Water and Fire. I was declared a Master Fire Bender when I was eight by Prince Lu Ten, and I was just recently declared a Master Water Bender about a month ago. I just traveled to the Northern Tribe after finding Aang, and we Mastered Water Bending together since there are no masters in the south."
"That's really cool Sugar Queen. Can't believe I met another Master Bender who mastered an element when they were eight."
"Sugar Queen?" Katara stared at the young girl with an annoyed look on her face.
"Yea I give people nicknames, especially in the tournaments." Katara nodded her head silently and stared out to the moon, remembering her friend who gave her life for her people to survive.
"Let's go back in; I want to introduce you to my brother Sokka, Aang, Zuko, and Ty Lee. I've known all of them except Aang my whole life. Even though Zuko and Ty Lee are Fire Nation, they are some of the kindest people you will probably meet."
"Alright. Let's go and get it over with." The two teenage girls started to head back into the room where the Bei Fong's were eating their dinner with the Avatar and his guests. Katara stopped before they entered the room and turned to Toph.
"You really are a great bender Toph. It would be nice to have you on our team. It sucks that your parents won't allow it though. It's nice to meet another female master bender, who isn't a sadistic sociopath."
"Sadistic sociopath?" Toph looked amused at the thought of another female bender like that.
"Zuko's younger sister." Katara spat.
"Oh," Toph said knowing Katara didn't want to talk about this. After the small conversation was over, they walked back into the dining room to see Aang looked like he was about to faint from trying not to say anything to rash that would piss off the Bei Fong Lord and Lady.
"If I may Lord Beifong, Lady Beifong ask to speak with you privately; along with your daughter Toph too, if I may." Her group of friends looked at her.
"I'm going to talk to them about Toph joining our group," Katara spoke in tribe tongue, directed to Zuko who was leading the other out of the room.
"Alright, you want me to tell them or what?" Zuko asked her as he looked at her one last time before leaving. She shook her head no and he left the room. The Beifongs looked at her with a curious look on their faces.
"What would you like to speak about Lady Katara?" Lao Beifong asked, daughter and wife looking at her with questioning looks on their faces.
"I wish to have Toph join our group."
Was that I cliffhanger I see? Well That's it folks. Hope ya liked this chapter :3 Once again I Say i will TRY to update on fridays from now on