Post by notreal on Jun 9, 2008 18:03:37 GMT -5
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Story One
Ty Lee focused on the cold metal floor, and thought. She couldn't believe what she had just done. She acted against one of her oldest friends, the Fire Princess Azula. One wrong move against the Princess ended up severing the bond of friendship they had shared for years.
Suddenly, the door clanked open, startling Ty Lee and breaking her thoughts. "Ready to get out of here, Ty Lee?"
"Mai!" Ty Lee exclaimed as she sprung up and bolted to the cell door. "MAI! You really did come back to save me!" She screamed as she ferociously hugged her slightly-gloomy friend.
Mai smiled a bit as she embraced her friend. The two girls stood in silence for several moments.
"So," Mai began as she smirked at Ty Lee, "are you ready to get out of here?"
Ty Lee just nodded. It was time to get serious.
Mai stepped back from her, salvaging through the bag she carried with her. She closed her hand around something small in her bag and handed it to Ty Lee. Ty Lee accepted the offering from her friend. "Oh," Ty Lee gasped, "Where did you find this?"
"It was with my things at the guard post." Mai replied as she handed the object to Ty Lee.
Ty Lee slid the glowing, amber ring onto her finger and said, "How could someone find our friendship rings after all these years?"
"I don't know, I just found it with laying next to my stuff," Mai replied.
Just then, there was an eerie sound in the hallway. "What was that?" Ty Lee's eye's widened.
Ty Lee saw a flash of blue lightning and was stunned that her best friend, now ex-best friend, had returned, and was about to scream, but Mai covered her mouth and whispered,"Play along," as she kneeled on the ground, bowing, and Ty Lee followed right as Princess Azula entered the room ready to strike the traitors, "Princess," Mai continued, "we deeply regret our actions, but it had to be done because I spoke to Zuko in his cell in the Boiling Rock and he has not betrayed the Fire Nation - he is merely spying on the Avatar and his friends, so that once he gains their trust, he will kidnap the Water Tribe peasant and bring her back to the Capitol as bait because the Avatar will surely come to rescue her, and once the Avatar returns we can capture him and -" Mai fell to the ground as Azula shot lightning straight through her heart, turned to Ty Lee and did the same before the acrobat could even utter a sound, and walked out of the cell just after sliding the glowing ring off of Ty Lee's finger, never to think about the two girls again.
Story Two
It was a lazy day in the wilderness of the Earth Kingdom, but if a passing creature were to open its ears a little wider, it may hear the musical stylings of a colorful group of nomadic hippies passing through the rarely traveled area. They skipped along the baron landscape enchanting all with their giddie yet annoying tunes. One played and sung a tune that told the story of the earth kingdom of Ba Sing Se with a matching rythmic tune.They were singing a joyful and annoying tune when they came across a large lake.
"How we gonna get across Chong?" one asked. Chong gazed across the lake and looked around. He turned back to the group.
"I don't know. Make a boat?" He suggested.
The flowery group stared at one another for a long moment. Suddenly, the quirky group broke out in a lighthearted ballad that sound through the wilderness all around them.
'Let's make a boat!
That'll float!
Beyond the the lake,
it'll take.......Uuuuuuusssssss!'
After Chong, with his extraordinary rhyming ability, finished his last line, he turned to his posse and asked, "Ummm.... what exactly are we going to make a boat with?"
"I see some trees with woooood.
And some viiiiiines! With this we shooooould be able to make a floating boat!!!!!" Chongs wife sung with her husband.
"Yes this should work really well," Chong said, taking some vines off from a nearby tree.
Chong brought back the vines and put them down. He looked at the group.
"Okay how do we do this?"
moku shrugged and floped on the ground. "You tell me." He replied genty patting his drums, to lazy to actually help out.
"LET'S FORGET THIS!" a dancer shouted. "lets go through the cave of two lovers instead!"
Chong looked at the dancer and starred for a minute.
"yeah! that sounds wayyyyy better than a boat!"
"Two lovers, forrbiddden from anotherrrrrrrrr"...He began to sing
"Eh, whats the next words?" he asked
The other dancer stopped and spoke out for uncharacteristically, "Isn't the cave on the other side of the Earth Kingdom?", causing an "oh yeah..." to ripple through out the group.
Lily was gathering branches to make a small raft, grinning wildly as ever as she did so.
Chong brought over the vines and such over to Lily.
"here you go" He said to her.
As Lily began weaving a boat that she had a feeling would never float, things took a turn for the worse when the it began to pour.
Glub, Glub, Glub... Down it went with all its passengers upon it.
"No worries, we gotta just go with the flow." Chong said looking at the boat that fell apart with the rain and a few snaps of vines holdng it together.
"Thats right," Lily said optimistically. "i think the river wants us not to make a boat but to swim it," she said. Moku began to fear for his life. He'd never learned how to swim as a child and now wasn't an ideal time to try as they began to float through the rapids. Chong plucked his guitar and hummed as they tumbled through the rapids, occasionally a wave would crash over him while he was winging, and amazingly he'd still sing under the water. "Just go with the flow." He said to Moku before another wave crashed over.
"Right, go with the flow." Moku said a wave crashing over him.
"Come on Moku, you got the idea." Lily said with a tone in her voice hinting that she was liking to be floating through the cold water. After a few minutes of being in the water, having waves crash over there heads, Moku relaxed a bit.
"He he this is kind of fun," he said.
Suddenly, the water seemed to get louder and faster. Everyone began to scream as they plummeted down a waterfall! Lily's heart dropped when they were falling down the waterfall. She felt her hand grab someone else's. It was Chong. Lily quickly reached for Moku and soon everyone was connected. It seemed as if the ground would never come but when it did, they were in a totally different environment. They were in an oasis surrounded by a dry desert. "Well that was odd," Lily said. "is everyone ok?" she asked.
Chong stood along with everyone else. Everyone gazed around the oasis place they were in.
"Yeah. Wait, do you mean mentally or physically?" Chong joked, trying to lighten the mood.
"Well I guess that's the definition of going with the flow!" Moku joked. "It sure is pretty, like the waterfall that makes an endles rainbow!"
"It is, but what do we do now?" Lily asked. The isolated paradise was small compared to the vast land of endless sand. Chong's irrationality begins to kick in as he realized what the task that laid ahead of them.
"How are we going get out of here?! There's no life for miles. MILES! We're gonna DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE." He began to sob uncontrollably, grabbing Lily for comfort.
Story Three
“This isn’t exactly the social hub I expected.” Sokka crossed his arms and stared skeptically around at the others, wondering what exactly had possesed them to come to the palace - and more importantly, why there was absolutely no one else there.
"Doesn't it strike you as strange that there is no one here?" questioned Toph.
"It is pretty strange... and creepy." Katara agreed, giving a nervous glance to the darkened hallways and cobwebbed corners. The dark wooden floor of the palace hallways seemed to glisten and creak with every step yet no one came to greet the gang as they crept through the elegant building.
Azula's eyes peered through the eyes of a painting; she wasn't sure why the Avatar and his friends had decided to enter the palace, but she wasn't exactly going to miss this brilliant opportunity. A cruel smile lit Azua's features.
"...What are you thinking?" Ty Lee asked, glancing towards Azula and narrowing her eyes playfully.
"I'm thinking we should have a little fun with the Avatar and his friends."
"Why do we always have to have fun?" moaned Mai.
"I wonder..." Azula mused, ignoring Mai, "...if the Avatar is afraid of the spirits." Azula took a step back from the portrait, and retreated down the hallway leaving a bewildered Ty Lee and Mai behind.
"I wonder what she is planning" said Ty Lee to Mai.
"I have no idea what she's talking about, as always," Mai said, rolling her eyes.
"I guess we should go and find out, then!" Ty Lee said, grabbing Mai's arm and leading her down the hallway towards Azula.
As the girls behind the painting left, the gang continued their way down the hall, appresensive at the emptiness around them.
"The palace hasn't seemed this creepy since I was a little kid," Zuko mused as he stared at the paintings of past fire lords.
“It’s almost as if the paintings are watching us”, muttered Toph looking at the oily canvases.
"Now Toph, that's just silly, you can't even see the paintings" joked Sokka with a smile.
"I'm surprised you remembered this time, Sokka," Katara said, "But even if she was just kidding around, something isn't right h- Did anyone else hear that?"
"I don't feel anything," Toph said, placing her hand on the ground.
"Guys, I think we should get out of here," Sokka said, glancing around the empty palace suspiciously.
"Wait! I do feel something! It's really faint," Toph placed her ear on the ground, but the Gaang ignored her; they were too busy watching the shadow moving towards them.
"M-maybe it's a spirit, like back in that little Earth Kingdom town...I-I could talk to it?" Aang suggested, sounding rather unsure of himself.
"Or. . . I think we should just . . . RUN!" screamed Sokka at the sight of Azula, who had emerged from the shadows of the hallway.
The group dashed down the halls of the empty palace. Azula ran swiftly yet quietly after the Avatar and his friends, slipping behind pillars to keep unnoticed and motioning for Mai and Ty Lee to follow along. The Gaang rounded a corner and ducked out of sight of Azula and her followers. Azula stopped chasing them; now she'd just have to wait for her little friend to finish her work for her.
"Whose idea was it to come here in the first place?!" Sokka demanded, eyes scanning the hall for an exit.
"I'm pretty sure that it was your idea, Sokka," Katara muttered.
"It doesn't matter whose idea it was, we just need to get out of here before we're caught by ghosts or Azula or whatever else may be chasing us!" Zuko hissed.
"I think I sense an exit!", shouted Toph.
She ran towards the other side of the spacious room, reached an unornamented and suspicious door, and twisted the doorknob - nothing happened. Just as she was about to break the door, she heard a suspicious scuttling noise.
"Uhh...what's that? Where's it coming from?!" Aang asked, inching closer to Toph and over to the door.
"It feels like a bug, or like a spider . . . with a lot of legs, but the strange thing is, it feels like it is huge!" explained Toph.
"Yeah, great, huge spiders; let's just break down the door and get out of here," Sokka said, jabbing a finger in the direction of the locked exit.
"But Sokka, how are we going to get out, if we can't even open the door?" questioned Katara.
"We'll find a way. I don't want to be spider food!" Sokka told them.
"Guys . . . I don't think that we need to worry about a spider," cried out Aang, "it's more like we need to worry about Koh!"
The others stared at him with their mouths open while Aang whispered, "Stay calm, just don't make any facial expressions."
"My dear friend the Avatar, we meet once again, and this time I am the one to find you . . . destiny is a strange thing, but you know all about that don't you?" suggested Koh, the face-stealing spirit.
The group couldn't quite see him, but his lithe form danced almost playfully in the shadows around the corner, looming and threatening.
They all stood in their places like statues, not letting their fear show in their faces.
"Hmm," Koh mused, still hidden in the shadows, "I think I'll begin with--" he stopped, a shrill giggle cutting off the impending speech.
"Did Koh just . . . giggle?!" inquired Toph with confusion.
Around the corner, Azula aimed a venomous glare at Ty Lee, who now had her hand clasped over her mouth.
"Guys, I don't think that that is really Koh back there; I think someone should go see if it is" Katara said.
Azula cursed under her breath, gesturing for her companions to follow her and darting into the shadows and towards the labyrinth of palace corridors, where she knew the Avatar and his friends would never find her.
