So finally I have the fourth chapter to this story; Sorry it took so long but I had it written down ut had to type it down before I could upload it. I hop eyou enjoy this chapter.
The contest for Sam's nickname à la Toph is still valid and I would like it if anyone posted a suggestion. Remember, you get a spoiler if you come up with a good one. ^^
"Tell me. I'm up to a story." They glanced at each other and finally Sokka began.
"Well, we found Aang in that iceberg when we were out fishing. Katara was practicing her bending and got me wet."
"That's real important for the story, Sokka." "For me, it is. Anyhow, we then got caught in the stream and got stuck on the ice without a boat. Katara freaked out on me, caused an iceberg to break when suddenly this big glowing ball of ice emerged from the water."
"I didn't freak out!" "Yes you did." "Only because you were being a total sexist, again." "Oh, so you admit it." "That's not the point!" "Whatever, let me finish." Katara rolled with her eyes.
"I got cautious, because well hey there was a gigantic ball of ice! And it was glowing! Who wouldn't think that was suspicious? When Katara saw there was someone inside of it, grabbed my boomerang and started jumping on the ice blocks to come closer to it. She wouldn't even listen to me when I said it could be dangerous."
"Good thing I didn't because otherwise Aang would've still been in that iceberg." "Well I was going on helping you sooner or later but we first had to see if it safe." "Well I saw it sooner than you did." She further on ignored Sokka and continued the story herself.
"After hitting it a few times, the ball kind of exploded and a pillar of blue light appeared. And then Aang was standing over the edge of the remains of the ball with his tattoos glowing, " "Glowing?" "Avatar state, tell you later. They then faded to his normal blue, his body slumped and I just barely caught him."
"Oh, so that's how you met each other. You sure know how to make an entrance, Twinkle Toes."
Aang smiled. "The first thing I remember was seeing you. And then Sokka got all paranoid and I got you both surprised with my airbending." His smile suddenly dropped. "Little did I know..."
I looked questionedly at Katara and she didn't smile anymore too. The mood had abruptly dropped in the room.
I finally mustered the courage to ask. "What happened?"
Katara hesitated before answering. "We were surprised to see Aang airbending because we never even saw an airbender." A chill ran up my spine.
"What do you mean?" I whispered.
"We were told the airbenders were wiped out a hundred years ago."
"Just after I ran away apparently." Aang added. Silence fell again.
"H-how were they wiped out?" I asked timidly. "Did some disaster occur?"
"Some disaster happened alright." Zuko cut in. "My great-grandfather used the power of a comet to wipe them out."
"W-why?" I was utterly shocked. "He had a fight with the previous Avatar. Something about world domination. After the Avatar died, he started gathering his army."
"Wait, wow, hold on. Previous Avatar? Aren't you the Avatar?" I turned to Aang.
"When an Avatar dies, he is reborn in the next nation following the cycle. The previous Avatar was from the Fire Nation, so the next was born with the Air Nomads." Zuko answered.
"Me. Heh, because of Sozin's gathering of army, the monks told me I was the Avatar when I became twelve instead of sixteen. Then I ran away. If I had stayed there, I could've helped my people." "No you would've died." Katara bluntly said. "Aang we already went through this. You don't have to blame yourself."
Aang wanted to say something again, but decided against it.
I decided to distract everybody. "So that means you're 113 years old?"
"Technically, yes." "Interesting, so what happened after you got him out of the ice?"
And they proceeded their story. Apparently Zuko was a prince of his nation - that explained his clothes - banished from his land and to retain his honor, he had to search for the long-lost Avatar, Aang who unbeknowst to everyone was frozen in his ball of ice. I asked for the scar and Zuko said it was from an accident, but from the looks from the others I saw that there was something else.
You wouldn't believe what these people went through!
They travelled all around the world to search masters who could teach Aang, while being chased by a honor-crazy prince, Zuko, and some general.
The whole time they were laughing, especially Toph with one story about some guy named Jet (what kind of name is that?)
.Zuko was looking uncomfortable the whole time, 'caus hey most of the stories involved him being the bad guy AND losing. I wondered about how they became friends in the end, considering what he had done.
When they ended aout the Siege of the North - man I wish I was there to see it - I noticed the time, but there was no time to prepare dinner. Instead I ordered a lot of pizzas. I wonder if they know such a thing in their world.
When I returned to the room, the monkey, Momo was it, stopped with flying and was now lying on Aang's lap.
Then I looked at my guests and noticed their clothes again. If they're going to stay here for a while, might as well give them some normal clothes. Well normal for this world.
Their clothes seemed to be normal in their world, except for Zuko's, I'm pretty sure that isn't normal, but hey he's a prince. Not that I care about those formalities.
Oh well I'll worry about that tomorrow, it's not like they'll be going out today.
Suddenly the bell rang. Everybody jumped and took defensive stances. "What's that ding-dong?" Sokka finally dared to ask, when he saw I didn't move an inch.. "The doorbell. People ring it so that somebody in the house can open the door for them. Relax it's probably the pizza."
"Is that the thing we're going to eat? I don't want to eat something that can ring some 'bell!"
"Just relax, I'm going to open the door. And don't follow me, I don't want anyone to ask me questions who you are."
I left for the pizzas and when I came back with them, everyone's eyes seemed to pop.
"We're going to eat boxes?" Zuko asked. Sigh. "No, mister Smarty-pants." Toph snorted. "We're going to eat what's inside the boxes." I continued a, revealing the pizzas.
Once a box was open, the smell spread instantly. "It sure smells good." Katara said. "It doesn't have any meat on it, does it?" Aang asked, not trusting it completely.
"You a vegetarian? Don't worry, I'm one myself. Two of them don't have any meat at all, the rest are regular. You do eat meat, do you?" I asked the others. They nodded.
"Okay, dig in." Nobody moved, staring at the pizzas, when Toph couldn't handle the smell anymore. Her stomach growled. "Give me one of those." she demanded.
I gave her a slice and she practically grabbed it from my hand and put it in her mouth. Three seconds passed by and her face lit up. "This is good!" she exclaimed, mouth full. Everybody dug in and in a few minutes they began fighting over the last pieces.
I wonder how they will react to ice-cream.