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Feeling that Appa had come to a stop and started to descend. Something that was not that hard even for Toph to know. After all if the sky bison stopped moving there was only a number of reasons why he would do that. One of them being that they had arrived where her mother wanted to meet her at rather then the main house in Gaoling. Toph had planned the moment she heard the sky bison feet hit the ground she threw herself over the side the saddle. Landing firmly on the ground with a speed that shocked even Aang who still busy help Katara.

"This is good enough. You two should just go on head with that plan of yours" She said.

"Are you sure as we can stay a little while at least until you get to this house as I can not see now nor could we see it from the sky either. Just this area where your mom wanted to meet us" Katara asked.

"That is true as we should at least see you all the way there" Aang offered.

"So you guys do not trust me" Toph spoke out.

"Of course we trust you" both Aang and Katara said rather shocked that their friend would even say something like this. This how Toph had acted when she had first joined them and were both relatively shocked this was surfacing again.

"Then everything will be fine as Avatar and Master Katara. You can go long along as we Bei Fong can handle ourselves. Also me and my daughter have a lot of catching up to do which I rather do with just the two of us" Poppy said as she stood nearby a Ostrich horse carriage.

"Are you sure, Toph?" Aang asked her

"Do not you have something else to do as all I wanted at moment was a ride home. I am basically home now so you can go" she told him

"This seem kind of fast though as can not we at least give off Appa to give a formal goodbye" Katara said.

A chill went down her spine on that she hoped no one had seen as she did not want to 'see' the happy couple right now. Hearing them was almost too much for her to bear and she did not want to risk how actually being able pick up everything else she would if the two of them were on the ground. The full spectrum of things she would have to if the couple set foot on the ground thanks to her seismic sense.

"You guys must have thought I gotten soft because that one group hug I started back at Kyoshi Island. Come on the both of you know that I am not for all this touchy feeling stuff nor emotional tearful goodbyes. Really you are going to be seeing me again soon anyway as Twinkletoes is going to need my help. I am right" his Earthbending teacher said.

"Yeah that is true but…." Katara started but Aang placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Let just go as Toph is right after all. We are going to be seeing her again after not too long. This is not like with Sokka as you know the plans we have" her boyfriend told her.

However what the couple did not notice was that the entire time Toph had her back to them as she was talking to them like that. Normally even if she could not normally see them she would have at least been facing the direction of Appa.

"Just go already" she said waving them off as she started walking towards her mother.

The next thing she heard was Appa talking off and while she was so busy trying to re-level herself as the dread felt over possibly having 'seeing' Aang and Katara rather then hear them would have been too much for her. She did not notice the smile that was on her mother's face as she lead her daughter in the carriage.

"So mom where is dad" Toph asked curiously

Focusing she did not notice her father anywhere nearby. She would have guess that he would have been out here to greet her along with her mother yet he was not here.

"Your father is away at the moment" Poppy replied.

"I'll take you heard about all I managed to accomplish" the Bei Fong girl said rather proud of herself.

Why would not she seeing as she done so much since leaving home to travel with Aang and the others. Sure the start might not have been the best as she did run away from home but it turned out to be for the best. Their home,Gaoling, had managed to avoid getting caught in the war however how long would that have lasted. Especially after Azula, who was still in her right mind at the time, and her at the time two friends managed to do what no other Fire Nation person not even Uncle had. She took down Ba Sing Se.

"Of course I have as who has not heard of your accomplishments" Poppy told her.

"Master Earthbender, teacher of the Avatar, fought your way towards the Earth King to uncover the plots of Long Feng, creator of metalbending, almost single handily took down a fleet of Fire Nation ship Battle at Wulong Forest. These are just some of them want to me to continue" she asked.

Toph merely shook her head as her mother seem to be very supportive of her now. At least she sounded like it. Her mother did not seem to be lying as she would have picked up on it. Mostly because for some reason the floor of this carriage was made of rock. Why Toph did not question as she was just so pleased that her mother seem to accepting her for who she really was rather then that false image she gave them for years. This cause Toph to start telling her mother about the number of things that she had been through that was not widely known as there was far more that happened to them then what the publicly known stories told.

Eventually the mother/daughter pair got to the house that Poppy had told Toph they would be stay yet still would not tell her why here instead of their home in Gaoling. That change the moment she set foot on the ground and immediately noticed the difference.

"I can not see" Toph exclaimed shocked and while she would want to admit it a bit scared.

The sound of something locking could be heard behind her however it was not something she had ever really heard before.

"Welcome back my wayward daughter" Poppy said as turned towards her child.

"Mom what's going on here .Why can not I see anything. This is stuff its not wood so why is not my bending working" she asked.

"It's a substance known as plastic. Very versatile one at that which can be used in number of ways and should not be something that bendable cause its not completely natural. I consider using wood as that would have worked just as well. However you have already shown that you could bend metal when pushed into a corner so what to say that wood would not be the same thing now" she said to her.

Backing away yet because she could not see she bumped into stand and her something crashing to the ground. Hearing the sound of the crash the thought that this could possibly be something that she use came to mind.

"Do not even think about as that vase you just broke is not something any bender can use as the liquid you probably feeling on your feet is not even water. This whole house is completely devoid of anything that anyone other then an airbender would be able to bend" Poppy informed her.
Toph went to open her mouth yet no words came out as she could not fully process what was happening here right now. This was beyond what even her worse expection of what could have happened after meeting her parents, in this case just her mom again.

"Truly did you think that only Azula was capable of telling lies to you. You told me about the Day of the Black Sun invasion but just seem to leave out that little bit of information about what happened" Poppy told her walking towards her "My dear daughter you are still nothing more then a child after all. You may have fought in a war and won but that was because you did not have to deal with too many people like Azula, when she was still in her right mind at least. Getting you to lower your guard and taking advantage of you was all too easy. Then again I never really expected much from you anyway"

Trying to keep herself together as her own mother had just told that not only was not she proud of her but in fact ashamed and did not really expect much from her in the first place.

That why we are here now in this house. This were I will personally oversee you being turned into a proper Bei Fong lady whether you like or now Poppy told her.

There was number of things run through Toph's mind at the moment. She wander what happened to her dad, why her mom why acting like this, how did she know about something that should not be public knowledge, just what did this 'proper Bei Fong lady' her mother wanted to turn her into was exactly. Some many question she had but did not seem to be getting any answer from any of them. The only thing Toph knew as that she was in some serious trouble that she somehow need to escape from here but did not know how at the moment.

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Author's Notes:

This chapter was my attempt to set up something I have in mind for Toph. However these things will not appear for some time storywise as I thought why should Aang be the only one that has issues later on in this story. Toph should have some of her own that while she is trying to help him, he is in turn trying to help her recover from her own. So as a result, Toph is not going to show up in the next couple of chapters and the aftermath of this chapter will not be fully immediate or explain when she does.

In regards to how Poppy was in this chapter. The idea behind this was that Lao is usually one that shown as the parent that just does not want to see Toph for who she really is or just flat out rejects it and want her to force her to fit his image of her. So I thought why not have it be Poppy instead of him.