Hi everybody, I know, Iknow. I should be finishing my other stories like Imperfectionist and Breaking Away. But writing humor helps me write better. So let the trouble begin!
Pranking the Gaang
Zuko was meditating when someone tripped over him.
'Watch-,' he opened his eyes and saw Toph smirking at him. 'Never mind.'
'So Sparky, what are you doing?' Toph asked, knowing full well that Zuko knew she'd tripped on purpose.
'Sparky!? That's even worse than what Aang calls me. And I was meditating before you interrupted me.'
'To be part of the group you need a nickname from me, Aang is Twinkletoes, Katara is Sugar Queen and Sokka is Snoozles. And if you ask me, meditating sounds boring, so do want to have some fun?'
'Fun?'
'Yes, fun. Doesn't that exist in the Fire Nation?'
'Well, actually I've never really had time for-,'
'Just answer the question, do you want to have fun or not?' Toph interrupted. 'It's simple; just say "yes" or "no".'
'Okay then, I guess,' Zuko replied reluctantly, he didn't want to get into trouble, but he also wanted to make friends. 'What do you want to do?'
Toph smiled evilly.
'Oh nothing much, just pulling a few pranks on the rest of the gang.'
'I'm not sure if that sure a good idea.'
'Come on Sparky, I'll take the blame, promise. Besides you owe me for burning my feet.'
Zuko thought about her deal for a few moments.
'Fine,' he agreed. 'So what's the plan?'
'Actually I have a few plans, it depends on what you want to do first,' Toph grinned in anticipatation. 'We can; steal Snoozles boomerang and blame it on Momo, spike Twinkletoe's drink with cactus juice or put mud in Sugar Queen's hair while she's sleeping.'
'I'll go with the cactus juice idea,' Zuko said, choosing the plan that was least risky; stealing Sokka's boomerang could be dangerous if they were attacked, and Katara already hated him.
'Alright then, your uncle taught you the make tea right?'
Zuko nodded in confusion.
'Well then, everything's sorted. You make tea tonight, I'll give you the cactus juice and you spike Aang's cup.'
'What if Katara thinks I've poisoned him.'
Toph's grin widened.
'I have an even better idea. Why stop at spiking Aang, we'll spike everyone! We'll work to together; you casually mention something about making tea in front of everybody, I volunteer to get extra water and add cactus juice to it, then you make and serve the tea and make sure you serve me last.'
A few hours later
Zuko was shoved out of a bush by Toph, apparently that was her signal for him to begin the prank.
'Er, hi Aang,' Zuko said awkwardly, startling the monk who had been playing with his lemur. Aang turned around as Momo climbed on top of his head.
'Hi Zuko, what's up?' he asked cheerfully.
I'm about to prank all of you, Zuko thought before brushing it aside. He was really bad at this sort of thing.
'I'm er wondering if you um wanted me to make some tea tonight.' He blurted out. Toph stepped out of the bushes right on cue.
'Tea? Cool! I'll help; your uncle never got around to teaching me how to make it, but you can. I'll go get the water.'
With take she dragged Zuko back behind a bush.
'That was terrible,' she hissed. 'You call that acting? Even Momo could do better, luckily you're normally that awkward around Aang and I was around to pick it all up.
Zuko grumbled something to do with not having signed up for this.
'Whatever Sunshine,' Toph said pulling him out of earshot. 'Go get your tea stuff while I prepare the water.'
'Sunshine? I thought you were calling me Sparky?'
'I am. But Sunshine suits you better in this mood.' With that, Toph traipsed off to spike the water.
Half an hour later
'Come on! Teach me how to make tea.' Toph demanded.
'What? I thought you were just making that up. Besides Uncle is a much better tea maker than I am.' Zuko said blushing.
'Whatever Sparky. Teach me anyway, and then I'll get your uncle to show me how he makes it and see you really are that bad. Besides you burnt my feet, so unless you want to have to piggyback me around for the next month, teach me.'
'Fine, I'll teach you.' Zuko said, chuckling to himself.
Another half hour later
'Hmm, doesn't smell bad,' said Zuko, looking at the pot of tea Toph had made. 'But I can't actually taste it because someone used the cactus juice too early.' He gave Toph a glance that was wasted on her.
'Come on,' she said, ignoring his comment. 'Take the pot out there and reheat it before serving everyone. Make it really hot so everyone will had to wait for it to cool down before drinking it at pretty much the same time. Zuko did as she said, he served Aang first. The airbender had been telling a story about something he'd done with the monks before the war started.
'Thanks, Zuko. Ouch that's hot.' He said taking the cup. Katara glared at Zuko but silently took her own cup. He then gave everyone else a cup, making sure Toph was last before sitting down next to her. No one was paying attention to him anymore. Toph turned to Zuko and motioned to him to hide behind a large rock that was conveniently there.
'Aang just took a sip,' she said, joining him. 'It'll all start in a moment now.' Just as she finished Aang airbended himself on a ball.
'Wheeeee!' he cried. 'Look at me Katara I'm flying.'
Katara wasn't faring much better, she poured water onto the ground then smeared the mud all over herself before flinging some at her brother who had been staring wide-eyed at the stars.
'Mud fight!' she called before bursting into giggles. Sokka snapped out of his trance and yelled:
'No fair, Katara you're throwing poison,' his eyes narrowed. 'But you won't get me and Momo!' Sokka turned away from his sister and ran into the temple screaming something about poison and enemy mushrooms.
Meanwhile Aang was still airballing around and saying:
'I'm in the Avatar State, YAY! The Fire Lord doesn't stand a chance. With the power of cheese I'm invincible!'
Haru and The Duke were doing some sort of dance and Teo was spinning his wheelchair around in circles.
Zuko and Toph looked at each other and began laughing.
'See, you do know how to have fun,' Toph said between laughs. 'We should do this again sometime!'
She retrieved her cup of cactus tea and drank it, still laughing.
Zuko spent the rest of the night chasing after Toph and trying to stop her from destroying the Western Air Temple with earthbending.
Did you like it. Tell me in a review if you want me to continue this story, or I'll just keep it as a oneshot. It you have any ideas on what Toph and Zuko should do next, Revie or PM me.
~HunterofArtemis