Toph
Toph didn't really want to admit it but this place rocked! There were lots of different types of earth, good food and most importantly everything could and would be remedied in a fight if it came down to it!
price disparity? Agni Kai! wife cheated and you want to punish her? Agni Kai! Did someone steal from you? Agni Kai! Did someone say something vaguely insulting? Agni fucking Kai!
Violence had never been so beautiful and controlled, After Mai was done with her explanation Toph thought that it would be like a war zone around every corner but apparently most people had someone designated as their champ or some such and most people were in groups so there weren't that many fights (which was a shame since you could really fix everything with them) but since she was a foreigner Toph could get away with fighting till she was tired.
Elite Firebenders were nothing to her and even the princess came closer and closer to tasting dirt only ever stopped because Toph didn't really want to kill her or anyone that wasn't a jerk for that matter, her parents were the talk of the town and very popular among the court, Toph met them thrice since they had so many dinners, parties and what not but they were very happy (her father's chest couldn't have been more puffed up if he tired).
Maybe this was what she was missing, some freedom, some fighting, some friends and meeting with her parents only every once in a while. Toph reclined into the mound of earth she had molded in the very same arena she had fought Azula in and grabbed a grape from the plate just next to her.
Two weeks of bliss and nothing could ever make this moment disappear!
As she swallowed Toph felt a very particular set of feet coming her way, however instead of the usually graceful steps Mai was now stomping her way to her.
"What's got your panties in a twist?" another grape successfully landed in her mouth and was about to join her brethren as Mai spoke.
"I don't wear underwear" Toph almost choked and then grabbed at her friend just to confirm something, yep, she was wearing a dress. Spirits why was she surrounded by perverts "And what's got me upset is that my boyfriend is in the North Pole with the Avatar!"
"Right, he must be having the fight of his life" Toph was living so peacefully that she almost forgot there was a war going on and that she was technically on the side of the villains.
"He's been helping him firebend but that's not what is upsetting me, the problem is that he is negotiating how the war will end but it all goes as Azula planned which is insane!"
"Because the Fire Nation should rule everything?" Toph asked carefully as she never pictured Mai as a nationalist, was it bad that Toph didn't care? she pondered the question as another grape entered her mouth.
"No! because he is going to marry Azula!" Mai screamed as she stomped again and Toph nodded, it sucks when you're boyfriend leaves you for a friend, Toph had felt the hearts of many women at such news and from what she had 'observed' it wasn't pretty.
"I can kick her ass if you want…wait! Isn't your boyfriend her brother?!" holy spirits were these people messed up!
"He is..n't. To be honest I don't really know, they may really be cousins and that's not weird" Toph didn't need to see to know that Mai had a really confused look on her face.
"Ok!" Toph started before muttering to herself "This is so fucked up"
The Master Earthbender rose with a pillar that turned into a chair and she made one for Mai "Why don't you start from the beginning and tell me what the fuck is going on?"
Toph would come to regret her decision after an hour long explanation.
"Wait a minute, so Azula created a fake conspiracy so believable that it was actually true? Doesn't that mean that it was true and she just discovered it" Toph didn't know what was going anymore.
"No, look she made up the thing about being cousins because she wanted to be Fire Lord, er, Lady but as it turns out her lie was actually the truth or at least close enough to it that apparently her uncle has more or less said that it's actually true but hasn't really confirmed anything"
"Then why did Zuko say yes?" and wasn't that the real question.
"I think he did it because even if he beat Ozai, Azula could have a good chance at taking the throne after or make it so difficult to rule that it would be worse than having her on the throne" Mai answered swiftly enough.
"but they're not planning on sleeping together…right?" Toph had some hope that these people that she had found so cool weren't as sexually deviant as she feared, she had enough of that when she was questioning her own sexuality thanks to Ty Lee and he tendency to push her tits on Toph's face and on the way here and... Toph almost sighed, they were going to fuck for sure.
"Well…Azula says she doesn't but I'm sure she will and Zuko never really learned to say no to her, actually, I don't think anyone has ever said no to Azula and I doubt she will take it well"
"Ok that makes sense" it really didn't but she wanted this conversation over "So you're mad because Azula will sleep with her possible brother, who is your boyfriend and will probably monopolize his time and dick?"
"Yes!"
"Why didn't you say that in the first place!" Toph screamed as she threw the empty bowl of fruit over her shoulder.
"Taking about it makes me feel better and I couldn't talk with Ty Lee because she would just say to have an orgy and I obviously couldn't tell Azula about it"
"So I had to become your therapist? For free?!" Mai could have at least brought food, maybe something to drink"
"Well, at least you're all caught up now," Mai said with a shrug before she opened her mouth again "Oh yeah, I almost forgot but we're overthrowing Ozai tonight want to help?"
Mai said the words so casually that Toph doubted for a second if she had heard right, but then she remembered who she was dealing with and who were her friends. Besides this will help end the war, so Toph was now with the good guys, sort of! But it counted and when people wrote her story they would remember that she helped.
"You could have also said that instead of the whole boyfriend drama, sure I'm down to kick ass and take names but only if I can punch the Fire Lord aaand you get my parents out of the city" Toph almost forgot about them.
"Way ahead of you, they're on a nice party cruise on the other side of the island along with many of Azula's supporters just drinking dancing, and wasting time away while we get the hard work done with luck they won't even notice that there was a hostile take over and that the Fire Lord is now a lot younger" Mai smirked and Toph gave her a smug grin back with the way her father drank she was sure that by the time he came off his hangover, he wouldn't even remember he wasn't on his home turf.
"And the Fire Lord?" Toph asked pointedly
"I'm sure Azula won't mind the help, I warn you though as strong as Azula was Ozai is a lot stronger and more ruthless, he will throw allies at you, fire lighting at people behind you and even try to threaten you but you can't believe anything he says"
"I'm not dumb" Besides any man who hurts his own child clearly wouldn't be a great boss. "Though I have to question how you're gonna take over a city with only us"
Toph was strong but she wasn't taking control of a city strong…at least she didn't think so…maybe she was that strong and she just didn't know it. Taking a whole city would be cool too.
"Please Azula was sure that she could take Ba Sing Se with just three people with you added to the mix and Zuko's own rebels it will be a piece of cake"
And it was at that moment that the spirits heard Mai challenging fate and decided to blow something up as the sound of something exploding was clearly heard.
"What was that?" Toph asked calmly as she prepared herself to dive into the earth for defense.
"I think that was the Fire Lord's personal airship that was supposed to explode later today" Mai answered with no emotion before another explosion was heard.
"And that?"
"That still was the airship which is now falling and if I'm not mistaken it's falling towards the palace" Mai nodded "Yes, it's definitely coming right at us"
"Like at the building or literally at us"
"At us, run" Mai took off running before remembering who she was talking to and with a smirk Toph grabbed her hand and pushed her into the depths of the earth.
"This is very uncomfortable, could you make some space and maybe a hole for some light," Mai said as she pressed her ass to Toph's chest, they were in a very awkward position since Toph had to make the whole and Mai had to fall in after her.
"Just give me a second" Toph displaced some more dirt and was now free to breathe without trouble "I just saved your life, you know"
"I'm sure but I really would like some light"
"What afraid of the dark?" Toph asked
"Aren't you?"
"You can't see my face but I have a very unimpressed look right now" Toph didn't know what was going on but as soon as that airship fully crashed she was going up to kick the driver's ass.
an: sorry for being late again but i had a great oportunity to stand out at work and it came with enought work to drown me but i managed to resurface and post this.
