Hello my lovely readers! Yes, this chapter, MICHAEL AND BRYAN, THE CREATORS OF ONE OF THE BEST DAMN SHOWS ARE APPEARING IN MY FIC!
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Yes. You heard right. Well what are you doing? Read damn it!
PS. Sorry for the long wait, I didn't think I would get so much homework from school when I went back. I won't promise anymore fast updates!
Z Star.
Disclaimer: I do not own ATLA. Michael and Bryan are the sole creators to that wondeful program… They're SO lucky. Oh and one more thing! Bryan DiMartino and Michael Dante are real people (As if you didn't already know that) The events in this chapter did not actually occur in real life. This is purley fictional. I have never talked to Michael or Bryan before in my entire life… WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!
WARNINGS: There's nothing to offend anyone at all. This is a safe read!
Chapter Five: Michael Dante and Bryan DiMartino? OMFG!
(Reasons for a Holiday Part One)
"DUN! DUN! DUN! TO BE CONTINUED!"
Everyone stared at me, like I was a crazy person. Again.
"Um, Z? Who are you talking to?" Toph asked.
"… No one…"
"I told you she was insane." Mai whispered to Ty Lee.
"I heard that!"
"Just knock on the bloody door!" The Blue Spirit snapped with his arms crossed, impatiently waiting.
I took a deep breath, readying myself. I positioned myself infront of the door, reaching my hand out. I balled my fist, to make a beater for the metal grey door. Every second clicked, slowing time. My heartbeat quickened, like the beating drums of an orchestra. Here I was. About to meet two of my idols! With much courage, I tapped on the door, with a slow rhythem.
The door creaked open. It was them! No, wait… I was met with a big, burley figure. My eyes met a large, well toned chest. I averted my eyes upward,widening at the sight. I looked up at a huge man whose eyes were masked with a huge pair of black sunglasses. He glared down at me, with a frown smacked onto his face.
"State your business please." His dark, deep voice spoke.
"I-I am here to represent the Avatar The Last Airbender characters." I said, masking my fears with confidence. "I am here to help them get what they deserve! A good holiday! Away from this place."
"Mr. Dante and Mr. DiMartino are busy right now. Come back when you have an appointment." The body guard instrcuted. He was about to shut the door-
"But I have to see them!" I protested.
"I said, they were busy!" The guard hissed. "Now go away!"
I sighed, and my forehead was dragged to face the ground. I could hear the crack of disappointed, shocked and devastated expressions. I looked and turned to them. Seeing those discontented faces was worse.
Seeing Aang and Toph's chibi eyes broken with dismay…
The soul and spunk taken out of Ty Lee's face…
Mai's emotionless mask being torn by wasted hope…
Zuko's unhappy and yet again heart broken look behind his blue and white disguise…
And Azula's… Well Azula's… Well, she just pouted. Probably upset she wouldn't get a vacation or her prize at the end.
Heavy sighs heaved from their chest's.
I raised my head high, glaring at my invisible opponent. I turned around looking at a visible rival.
"Listen up man in black! I didn't come all this way just so you could say 'Go away' to me! These guys wrk damn hard to make the show what it is! Without them, Avatar would be nothing! Nothing! It wouldn't have the spark, the action, the humour, the heart, or the emotion it reeks of! The ATLA cast make you wanna cry and cringe at them, they make you wanna awe at them, they wanna make you squeal and scream! Dagnabit, they make you wanna shout to the heavens and thank whatever God is up there for their birth!" I hollered, speaking with much pride. "They have brought me much happiness too! And I couldn't be more thankful for them!"
"… OH Z STAR!" Aang and Toph, even The Blue Spirit and Ozai's angels sobbed, wiping tears from their eyes and blowing their noses.
"THAT IS SO SWEET!" Yin Yang the tough, aloof ninja leader cried, handing out tissues to his clansmen and women. He turned to them. "I never told you guys this… but… I LOVE YOU ALL!"
"OH BOSS!" And they all joined in a group hug.
"So haul your ass out of my way and let me in!" I demanded, glaring up in the body guard's face.
"… No."
"WHAT!" Everyone gasped.
"Not even after the heartfelt speech?" Yin Yang asked. "You monster!"
"Oh don't get soft on me Yin Yang." The guard scoffed. "No means no."
"Oh yeah!" I said. "W-well… I'll challenge you! To an Agni Kai!"
"GASP!"
"Z Star no!" The Blue Spirit called out, fear floating through him from his own experiances.
"Fine with me." The guard, backed me into a wall, encasing his fingers around my neck and hanging me on the edge of my toes, choking me.
"GARGH! GARGH! ARGH!" I choked, struggling against the beast of a man.
"Let go of her!" Aang ordered angirly, readying his staff for battle. "Let me at him! Let me at him!" Aang chanted, being pulled back by his earthbending teacher.
"Aang stop it! Even you can't take on that guy! Not even I could take on that guy!" Toph reasoned, clinging onto his collar.
"This is not honorable!" The Blue Spirit spat. "Attacking a defenseless girl is unjust!" He sheathed his swords, readying them for another assualt. Well, I guess the fight against the obstacles weren't over. And I was at the receiving end of it all. Again.
"Doug, stop that." A voice ordered. My saviours… my knights in shining armour… MY IDOLS? "Put her down."
"But-"
"Doug." Michael chided.
"But-" 'Doug' stuttered. "She gave me a lot of attitude!"
"I would too if you were holding me in that death grip." Bryan argued. "Put her down now." Doug unwillingly obliged, and loosened his grip. I dropped onto the floor, gasping for air.
"Thanks a lot jerk! You didn't have to nearly kill me!" I snapped.
"Oh believe me, if it weren't for the creators you wouldn't be here right now…"
"… Oi…" I gulped as Doug walked off somewhere, probably to sulk. I turned and looked up at my rescuers, eyes beaming and all. "Thank you for saving my life!"
"Ah it's no problem. We don't like that bodyguard anyway. He's too aggressive…" Michael grinned, giving me his hand to help me off the floor.
"Not to mention obnoxious." Bryan added. "We saw the whole thing. We are impressed that a fan like you would go through so much just for our characters. That's really sweet."
"Aw shucks!" I blushed, looking away. "It was nothing really!"
"Um Z Star…" The Blue Spirit coughed. It was a little reminder of why we were here.
"Oh right! Sorry guys! Ahem! Mr. Dante and Mr. DiMartino I came here to convince you to let your ATLA cast go on a vacation! Lord knows, they deserve a break. And look at them! They're exhausted!" I gestured to the group who collapsed on one another to take a nap.
"Hmm…" The creators pondered. "They do look tired… We don't know, if we let them go they might never want to come back to the show. That happens A LOT to creators of animes and cartoons. It's how good shows end." (1)
"I swear," I began. "That I will make sure they come back. Every last character. Even the ones that aren't likely to come back to the show again! Won't you come back guys?"
"Of course!" Aang agreed.
"I need to capture my worthless brother and the Avatar!" Azula commented.
"I have to find out if Sokka likes me back or not!" Ty Lee blushed.
"I need some excitement, I need to fight! I'm so bored!" Mai whined.
"And I have to teach Twinkle Toes earth bending." Toph added, causing the said person to turn a shade of red at her comment.
"I need to kick a certain wench's evil butt!" The Blue Spirit cackled.
"Who?" The rest of the ATLA cast present asked, each of them cocking an eyebrow. Except for Aang of course… he knew…
"But you only appeared in one episode!" Azula corrected him, pointing an accusing finger. "How could you have any enemies!"
"… You'd be surprised…" The Blue Spirit grinned evilly under his breath, adding much venom for the princess.
"He's creepy…" Ty Lee whimpered, tugging onto Mai.
"I know, I know." Mai said, patting the acrobat's shoulder.
"Can you believe some of the creeps that tried to pair me with that guy? BLURGH!" Azula choked. (2)
"The creators didn't do me any justice either." The Blue Spirit hissed, crossing his arms. It was better to keep the horror of being paired with his revulting sister to himself…
"Tell you what Z." Michael began. "May I call you Z?"
"Of course!" I grinned.
"If you can convince me and my partner in crime here to let our characters go on vacation, in 2 minutes, they can go!" Bryan declared.
"ALL RIGHT!" Aang cheered.
"Thank you!" I cheered. "Thank you so much!"
"All right everyone, step right this way." Bryan greeted, gesturing towards the open office door. Everyone scurried in, to hide from anymore dangers. Yin Yang and his crew were about to step in too, but were met with the door slamming in their masked faces!
"OI! WE HELPED THEM TOO!" Yin Yang snarled, banging on the door.
"Um, actually boss, we tried to stop them from reaching Michael and Bryan. Remember?" One follower corrected his leader. He snarled in the boy's face, a grizzily glare backing the poor lad into a corner.
"Well they don't know that!" Yin Yang argued. "Sometimes I wish my mask could come to life and bite everyones' nose off!" At this, his whole motely crew huddled away from him along with the frigtened correcter of things.
Michael and Bryan's office looked just liked it did in the Comic Con videos I've seen on YouTube. The place was littered with soft toys and actions figures, from Avatar, obviously and some other fandoms that were unknown to me. I squealed in delight at the many sketches and drawings hung up on the walls with much pride. Which inspired me to draw more fanart and more original work too, I was buzzing with excitement. And the posters and pictures were cool too…
OMG I CANNOT BELIEVE I AM HERE! The Avatar creators have the best office…
"All right Z Star, you're up." Michael said, taking a seat and observing me.
"Oh um, just keep in mind that I am not very good at speeches!" I warned them, turning pale while receiving many school flashbacks. "I stutter at some points and I can't take my eyes off of one space."
"That's all right, just do your best." Bryan encouraged.
"Really? I thought you would be a real chatter box, with the way you go on and on and on!" The Blue Spirit muttered.
"Hey! Be nice to her, she's a fan. Don't make us tell everyone in this room who you really are…" Michael warned, pointing his pen at the spirit.
"… I'll be good." He backed into a corner, mixing with the shadows like the ninja he was. WOW! The creators controlled the most stubborn firebender in history! I take my hat off to them!
"GO Z STAR!" Aang and Toph applauded, clapping their hands together.
"GET US THAT VACATION OR I WILL BLAST YOU INTO OBLIVIAN!"
"Don't worry, Azula's just bluffing." Mai assured me. With that dead pan stare it was hard to tell… I was definitely scared at that moment. "Go get them." Ok! Mai being pep talking? The world has ended…
"GIVE ME A G! GIVE ME AN O! GIVE ME A Z! GIVE ME AN S! GIVE ME A T! GIVE ME AN A! GIVE ME AN R! GO Z STAR!" Ty Lee hurrahed, dancing around with her pink and peppy pom poms. "GET US THAT HOLIDAY!"
"… I'm not sure we can be friends anymore Ty Lee…" Mai said, dead panning at her friend's constant good cheer… Of course she didn't mean it, but all the pep was too much to take sometimes.
"… Do your best Z Star…" The advice escaped from the Blue Spirit's mouth. Aw, he does care!
I grinned at the uplifting motivation, took out my speech from my jeans pocket and turned to creators, picking my spot to look at. The picture of Michael and Bryan messing around with what looked liked wooden katanas was nice to look at…
"OK! REASONS WHY THE GAANG AND THE ATLA CAST GET A BREAK! NO.1!"
Ever get sick of the couple who like each other but just don't know it yet? And how they always take out their unknown attraction out on each other, by bantering and throwing insults!
"You're a no good fire snob!"
"Well you're an uncouth Water Tribe peasent!"
"At least my people aren't destroying the entire world, because of their greed!"
"There you go again! Always blaming one nation for the rest of the world's problems!"
"That's because it's their FAULT! If the Fire Nation just kept to themselves then there wouldn't have been a hundreds years of suffering!"
"It's my father's fault! Not the Fire Nation's! There are inoccent people there too, who want no part of the war! You're just being unfair and biast!"
"And you would know all about being those things too, wouldn't you? It wasn't very fair of you to chase down the only chance the world had of surviving your ravenous nation!"
"I had no choice!"
"Everyone's got a choice!"
"Well I didn't get one! Life wasn't very fair to me back at the Fire Nation…"
"Oh yeah, boo hoo, the pampered little Prince had a few hiccups to becoming the next Fire Lord while everyone waited on him hand and foot…"
"It wasn't all like that!"
"Then what was it like?"
"You wouldn't understand…"
"What wouldn't I understand!"
"… Oh my God… They're at it again?" Teo cringed, smacking his forehead. Aang signed along with Teo's complaint, scratching his neck.
"Yep… Seems like it… How long can they argue for?" Aang asked.
"Don't ask that!" Sokka chided, lifting his tired head. "No one wants to know."
"Well they've been argueing all night and keeping us up all night! And we are on set tomorrow!" Toph growled, clenching her fists. "I cannot work when I am tired!"
"This is ridiculous! Why don't we try and reason with Katara and Zuko? Maybe they would calm down if one of us steps in?" Teo reasoned.
"… You are asking for a death wish." Aang stated, looking over at the warring couple.
"Well I'm gonna try it!" Poor, poor Teo. If only he knew… He rolled over between the elements of water and fire. "Come on guys, lighten up! You know everything's going to turn out fine for the world and the Fire Nation in the end, so there's no need to argue. It's not like your bickering will change the course of the story, so just chill."
Zuko and Katara tore their eyes from one another and glared down at Teo, flames burning in their eyes.
"YOU STAY OUT OF THIS!" They hissed, forcing Teo back sending the poor fellow backwards and knocking him off his wheel chair.
"Teo!" Song suddenly came out of nowhere to rescue the poor boy from Zuko and Katara. It's funny how she's always there for people in their hour of need, isn't it? "What have we told you about trying to be peacekeeper? I- I mean we, could have lost you!"
And yes, I am a Tong shipper (TeoxSong)! (3)
"Don't try to break up fighting lovers at home kids!" Aang warned, looking into the TV screen giving the audience a thumbs up. "It could only end in tears." He concluded, with the couple STILL bantering in the background, keeping everyone up ALL night.
The cast need their rest and don't need to risk their lives just because two people can't sort out their feelings. If the cast have time off, they can get away from the couple until they sort out their relationship. Then everyone will be happy!
"HOORAY!" The cast cheered.
The whole cast awed at the amount of information in logic. Michael and Bryan seemed to be impressed so far, hopefully with more points like this, they would cave in.
But the Avatar was confused."Wait a minute, how did you-"
"Silence!" I hollered, not wanting plot holes entering my story.
I can't believe she had the gall to say that me and Katara were lovers! The very idea! Underneath the mask, a blush crept onto the Blue Spirit. It's completely mad! And I will not spend who knows how much time with that water wench!
"Wow, I thought never in a hundred years, that my brother would EVER catch a lover!" Azula cackled. The Blue Spirit did not glow under his mask with embarressment, but with utter animosity! "With that ugly scar on his even uglier face, he would scare off all the women!"
A couple of Zuko fangirls, me, Mai and The Blue Spirit crept behind the evil firebending witch, shadowing over her. Glares filling our faces, down at the cowering monster.
"SHUT YOUR MOUTH AZULA!" That amount of voices sent her back into the rubbish shoot, screaming and sliding down all the way into the trash.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! OH! OW! AH!"
And clang! She was gone. Aang, Toph, Ty lee and the creators burst out laughing. Me, all the other Zuko lovers and The Blue Spirit went back to our positions.
"Now, where was I before we were rudely interrupted. Oh yes! Onto the next arguement…
End of Chapter Five
(1)There's a good reason for why good anime or cartoon shows are cancelled. :) If you really think about it, it all adds up! No characters, no show…
(2)At the Avatar Comic Con 2006, there was a slideshow of shipping couples and the staff there thought it would be funny to put a slide of Azula and The Blue Spirit, TOGETHER! It's sick but completely hilarious! There's no way in heck it would work, not just because they're siblings, but Zuko would reject her in a second, because he hates her guts and would cease the chance at denying something she wants. And keep in mind, I don't think Azula would know that it is Zuko behind that mask XD
(3) How old is Song? I know Teo's twelve, but a friend of mine told me Song was too old for Teo :S PLEASE TELL ME! I must know!
Sorry folks, that's all for now. But you can look forward to the next chapter! Btw, I hope you enjoyed The Secret of The Fire Nation, I know I did. I can't wait to see the next episode. It's about time Nickelodeon aired new episodes! Toodles…