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Post by storybookgirl on May 12, 2006 0:44:25 GMT -5
Lol! Aw, thanks!
Yes, go write! Haha, you're really really really good! No pressure, though! Just hugs!
....so. Yeah, if anyone has any requests or anything... Not that I'm complaining, I've just been (as said before) in a really good writing mood...
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Post by Alleluia on May 12, 2006 1:35:22 GMT -5
How about one where the gang runs in to the Blue Spirit and then later meets Zuko for the "first time" that season. And Toph can tell that he is the same person? Oh! And a drabble, maybe during one of their training sessions or something, where Toph uses her other nickname for Aang, "The Fancy Dancer". (Maybe you could even work in a little Tophaang-ness in that one with some word play on the nickname. ) And the ultimate in humorous situations, Zuko meets the cave hippies! With or without the gang or Iroh. Your choice. And I suggest Damunch's puff picture for inspiration. ;D
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Post by storybookgirl on May 12, 2006 22:50:05 GMT -5
Oh, I'll get right on them! Hehe, these sound fun!!! Wow... I'm in a very hyper mood because of Zuko Alone...
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Post by storybookgirl on May 15, 2006 4:10:31 GMT -5
Sorry, I've been really busy! I've also had very bad writer's block! I'm also writing this really late because I don't know if I'll be able to get back to it tomorrow. I have the first two done, but I should be able to write the third tomorrow, hopefully. Hopefully they're ok...
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The Blue Spirit was returning to his clearing, a small sack of gold in his hand, when he stopped. Kneeling next to his ostrichorse was a little Earth Kingdom girl.
“Do you own this ostrichorse? Is it your pet?” she asked him without turning around.
He didn’t answer.
“You don’t talk much, do you? Afraid of a little girl? I’m surprised. Normally people aren’t afraid of me until I kick their butt with earthbending,” she grinned.
Again the Blue Spirit didn’t say anything.
“Well, I have to get back to camp. Aang and the others might start worrying.” She rose to her feet and started walking to his left.
*Aang? Did she say... Nah, it couldn’t be. I probably misheard,” he thought.
“Toph! TOPH!” someone yelled.
“What’s wrong, Sokka?!” answered the little girl.
“Aang’s been taken prisoner by some Fire Nation soldiers! Katara’s unconscious! We have to do something!”
The Blue Spirit walked over to Toph, his determined footsteps muffled on the moss and dead leaves of the forest floor. He leaned over Toph and muttered in her ear: I’ll help you.
With the help of the Blue Spirit, the gang managed to find where Aang was and save him. However, before Aang could even see him or anyone could thank him, the Blue Spirit disappeared.
The next day, Zuko of the Fire Nation was riding his ostrichorse through a crowded market after buying some feed and stocking up on bread. Suddenly, he heard someone gasp.
“You!” cried Aang. “What are you doing here?!”
There was much uncivil converstation carried back and forth, but one person refrained from saying anything for a few moments.
“I don’t want anything to do with any of you!” said Zuko. “I’m not interested in you’re stupid Avatar friend.”
“How do we know that’s the truth?!” retorted Katara, as she snapped her waterwhip threateningly.
“I think we should believe him,” muttered Toph.
There was a pause in which everyone was taken aback at the girl’s words.
“Why?” asked Sokka.
“Because I know who he is.”
“But you’ve never met him before!” exclaimed Katara. “Toph, really, I-”
Toph put her hand up to signal the waterbender to silence. She glanced in the general direction of Aang. After a moment, Aang nodded.
“Toph’s right. I think we should believe him, too.”
Much later, Toph was sitting on a lonely, gray rock and Aang came up behind and sat next to her.
“How did you know he was the Blue Spirit?” asked Aang. “I knew, but I never told anyone and I was unconcious when you guys rescued me last night. I couldn’t have said anything even if I’d wanted to.”
There was a pause in which Toph considered her answer.
“Well,” Toph responded slowly, “there were lots of things. It’s silly; you’d think the Blue Spirit would have been more careful,” she grinned, shaking her head. “First there was the ostrichorse, then he spoke to me, but I suppose I really recognized his footsteps, like I do everyone else’s. Everyone has a certain pattern. Funny, huh? Many people have ostrichorses, and he only said one sentence to me, but I guess the footsteps really got me.”
“Toph, you’re weird,” grinned Aang.
“Yep. But so are you, Twinkle Toes.”
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“No airbending!”
“What?!” exclaimed Aang.
“No fancy dancing from you, Twinkle Toes; focus on earthbending!”
Aang sighed, feigning dissapointment. He grinned mischieviously and ground his bare feet into the dirt, readying for a surprise attack of her.
“I can feel that, you know,” responded Toph. “Not so graceful and careful without your fancy little airbending are you?”
“Fancy? Hey, you’re the one with ribbons in your hair!” taunted Aang. He tried to make the ground rise suddenly from beneath her, but the earthbending noble jumped and cleared the rising earth from under her.
“I’m a girl; I can feel pretty if I want to. Besides, you can never be pretty like me. You don’t have any hair to put ribbons in!”
“But my toes are twinkly!” Aang smiled, wiggling five toes in the air for effect.
“Watch out Aang!” called Katara as the ground slipped from under Aang’s other foot. Sokka was laughing to hard to be of any help to the Avatar.
“Am I pretty, Aang?” taunted Toph, smiling.
“Very, but you should be careful; your oufit might get dirty.” Aang threw to large, round mounds of dirt at his sparring opponent.
Toph dodged them easily, earth flying inches away from her face.
“Get her Aang!” chanted Sokka. “Get her!”
However, Aang suddenly sank into he earth knee deep.
“Hah! Not fast enough on your feet anymore are you?” called Toph. “So much for the Fancy Dancer!”
The Avatar sent a gust of air toward the girl and she fell back with an: Oof!!
Aang giggled and helped her up after freeing himself from the earth.
“I guess I deserved that,” smiled Toph.
“Yeah, you did. Personally, I think I dance just fancy enough!” and twirled her around.
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I want to redo the first one at some point. There were just so many ways I could have written it that I'll probably write a few different ones later.
I'm really looking forward to writing the hippie one, but I have to get to bed like two hours ago, lol. But I'll get it here!
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Post by Alleluia on May 15, 2006 12:05:55 GMT -5
Those are both awesome story! I loved them! And the first one seemed just fine. It is exactly what I was thinking. And the Tophaang... so cute!
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Post by storybookgirl on May 15, 2006 12:41:40 GMT -5
Aw, thanks! Here's Zuko meets the Hippies! I hope you like it!
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The trail was rugged and hard under the ostrichorse’s feet; it’s rider was bouncing up and down on his saddle, which was good because it kept him awake. Zuko, ex-Prince of the Fire Nation, was thinking of his uncle and wondering where he was as this moment, when some kind of awfully cheerful music reached the firebender’s ears.
“And we’ll keep walking down this trail, Down this trail we go. And we’ll keep singing down this trail, Lifting spirits high as we go! To and fro goes the trail! To and fro! And we lift spirits high as we-”
“EXCUSE ME!” yelled an aggravated teenager over the strumming and repetitive lyrics.
“Hey, Stranger,” answered the man at the lead of his small group. “What can I help you with?”
“Could you stop singing for just a few moments? Some of us are trying to think,” answered Zuko.
“Ah, well we were just going to set up camp, anyway. If you’d like ta join us and share your thoughts, ya can. My name’s Chong, this is my wife Lily, and the rest of us are friendly people nomads!” Chong bowed his head and Lily made a small curtsy, the rest just stared. Zuko simply stared back.
“We have plenty of food if you’d like to have some,” offered Lily. “Of course, some bugs might have gotten in it, but they’re just part of nature!”
Somehow, half an hour later, Zuko found himself sulking in front of a campfire as Chong and his wife and friends sang about traveling girls, a strange cave in the mountains, and... a boy with an arrow on his head?
Zuko looked up as he finished his bowl of mush. “An arrow on his head?!”
“Arrow, an arrow, pointing to the ground! Arrow, an arrow, his friend won’t cease to frown! Arrow, an arrow-”
“Yes, but what about the arrow?! What about the boy?!”
“Well...” answered Chong, scratching his head. It’s a little bit of a long story.... I could tell it all in song!”
“NO! That’s okay. Thanks for the...mush.” Zuko turned to leave, grabbing the reins of his ostrichorse without realizing that it’s feathers had been beaded and there was a bow around its neck.
“Wait! You can’t leave yet! You have to hear our song about Emo!”
Zuko paused and turned to face Chong slowly. “...Emo?”
“Your emuhorse!” answered Lily.
“Ostrichorse,” he corrected.
“No! Emo for emuhorse! We named him!”
“My wife is a genius, isn’t she?” grinned Chong.
“...well, I have to get going. ...”Emo” and I still have a long way to go.”
“So you don’t want to hear the song? Hey, I tell you what! We can follow you and sing it to you while you travel!” He started to strum:
“Emo, Emo, Emotional bird! He carries his emotional friend on his back! Emo, Emo, Emotional bird! He has no teeth and no plack! Emo, Emo, Emotional-”
“AAAARGH!”
The group turned to see clouds of dust as Zuko and Emo ran off into the night.
“Take care, Emo and Stranger!” called Chong. “And don’t forget to:
“Keep walking down that trail, Down that trail you go. And we’ll keep singing down this trail, Lifting spirits high as we go! To and fro goes the trail! To and fro! Sing and feel your spirits lift, Stranger and Emo!!”
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Post by Alleluia on May 15, 2006 12:54:36 GMT -5
oh... my.... GOSH!!! *gasps* The songs! They burn! And you NAMED the bird thing!!! Ah! AWESOME! ^^ I am so giving you karma for this one! SO funny! XD
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Post by storybookgirl on May 15, 2006 19:07:04 GMT -5
Lol! Thanks Alleluia! Yeah, Emo is...well, was an inside joke between my friend and me. I'm glad you liked it!
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Post by storybookgirl on May 20, 2006 4:06:41 GMT -5
Sorry, but... Hello...?
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Post by Kali Gargoyle on May 20, 2006 12:49:54 GMT -5
Okay, I've got a prompt for you. From my 1 sentence set: #32 Confusion: Zuko tried to tune out his Uncle and wished to be anywhere else, trying hard but failing to understand how flowers and birds and stars were supposed to prepare him for being married. I always figured Iroh was a true romantic, and would probably wax poetic on the subject. Combined with the idea of giving Zuko "The Talk", amuses me greatly. Nothing graphic, though, please (not that I think you would. )
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Post by storybookgirl on May 20, 2006 21:37:41 GMT -5
Haha, sure thing, Kali! I'll write it up as soon as I can! Right now, my sister's kicking me off of the computer...
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Post by storybookgirl on May 20, 2006 23:17:10 GMT -5
“#32 Confusion: Zuko tried to tune out his Uncle and wished to be anywhere else, trying hard but failing to understand how flowers and birds and stars were supposed to prepare him for being married.” –Kali Gargoyle
“Flowers are beauty, Beauty like our lovers are made of. When you’re bewitched by beauty, You see nothing but your love.”
“Uncle, what do you mean by-“
“Birds soar and fly, We get carried away by their tunes. Our lovers make our hearts fly To them. Like sirens songs under the moon.”
“Carried away? But- …Uncle! Can’t you just stop singing and say what you’re trying to s-“
“Stars burn in the sky, Like passion burns. So why Does passion take over, while Stars share the sky with the moon?”
“Now even your rhyming is off and doesn’t make sense!”
“When stars are shining bright, And all is dark with night, Beauty bewitches, Hearts fly away, Passion burns, And together with our loves, We…
Oh my, I seem to have forgotten the words.”
“Argh!!!”
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Post by Kali Gargoyle on May 20, 2006 23:38:43 GMT -5
LOL! Yep, that's Uncle Iroh! Poor Zuko... *snickers*
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Post by storybookgirl on May 20, 2006 23:42:26 GMT -5
Haha, yes, I'm glad you liked it! I was going to mention something about who he was marrying, but I think it's better this way: it leaves it up to the reader. Every once in a while, I like to have a things like that that make the readers ask questions and interpret things in their own way.
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Post by storybookgirl on May 24, 2006 11:58:16 GMT -5
Sorry for the double post, but I felt like writing and just decided to put this here.
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"Hello?" called a little earthbending girl. She heard the rustling of leaves again. "Sokka? Who's there?"
Yet again, there was no answer. She put down the small basket of berries she was carrying and took a few steps forward.
"I know you're there, whoever you are!" cried Toph. "I'm warning you, I'm an earthbending master!" To prove her point, she bended a lump of earth from the ground to her hand. Then, she felt the vibrations of the earth as the figure moved swiftly. "Just because you climbed into a tree, doesn't mean I don't know you're still there," she said.
Toph heard the faint rusting of leaves. They could have been because of the solf breeze blowing over the woods, but the wind was blowing a different way than the leaves were moving, so Toph could tell.
The Blind Bandit stood silently, unmoving, waiting for the right moment. She heard him almost soundlessly move from tree branch to tree branch over head. Suddenly, he dropped down behind her and the basket, which was still on the ground. Just as he was reaching for the basket, the earth moved in front of him and slammed him againt the trunk of a tree.
"You're not very smart, are you?" sneered the girl. Toph didn't do anything as she felt the figure run away.
She didn't know it, but the infamous Blue Spirit of the Earth Kingdom was feeling pretty stupid at that moment.
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