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Ten years after Sozin's Comet The Fire Nation palace Sundown Toph sat alone on the red silk-lined luxury of her palace bedroom, staring without seeing out the grand window. Fading sunshine warmed her pale, lovely features and danced on her jade colored kimono. She twined her cold fingers together, biting her lower lip to keep it from trembling. Helpless. There was nothing they could do anymore but watch. Even Katara, a master in the art of water healing, could not prevent the inevitable. Toph rose, walking barefoot to the window and pressing a slender hand on the cool glass.  The others were there. At his side each moment, letting him kn

I ran through the forest, pure rage pulsing through my veins. My fists clenched, manicured fingernails digging into moisturized palms. I hated this life. This life of nobility. Those stuffy people forcing me to forget. To forget Longshot, and the others. They could call me "sweetie" and "honey" and...."Aki" all they wanted but I refused to let go of my name. My real name. Smellerbee. And that was why I was running. I had had enough. I was done with them and their rules. I wanted out. And if they wouldn't let me go, I would fight for it. And that was exactly what I had done. I was fine up until the point when "Dad" started talking marriage.

Toph's POV (two years after war's end) I clung to the tree, my nails digging into it's stiff bark, listening to Aang and Katara as they practiced their Waterbending somewhere offshore. I swallowed, for the first time in my life I actually knew how to swim. But being blind, that was obviously impossible. "Come on, Toph! Aren't ya gonna get in?" Sokka shouted from where he was treading water somewhere out in the middle of the lake. I only hugged the tree tighter, ashamed of my fear. Here I was, the world's only blind Earthbender, cowering from water! I bit my lip and was grateful my previous opponents could not see me now. "N-no! I

This story takes place deep underneath Lake Laogai, moments after the Avatar and his friends escaped from the Dai Li. Jet, the leader of a group of children who call themselves the Freedom Fighters, is slowly dying. He was brainwashed by Long Feng, head of the Dai Li, who was determined to make sure all news of the war stayed outside the "impenetrable" walls of the Earth Kingdom capital, the city of Ba Sing Se. The cost of this secret was high, but Long Feng is not the one paying. Now, trapped in a cellar beneath the lake, Jet and his two comrades, Smellerbee and Longshot, await the arrival of the Dai Li. Each of them quietly knowing when the

One year. One whole year. I couldn't believe it. I stood on the balcony of the Fire Nation palace, watching the rain fall from the darkened night. I tilted my head to the sky and let the droplets fall onto my face, mixing with the tears on my cheeks. I wasn't sure how to feel. Happy? Sad? Angry? Relieved? One year ago, would've thought that I would be happy on this day, but for some reason I wasn't. I was confused. Was the war really over? Or did Azula's rise to power in the Earth Kingdom mean we still hadn't accomplished our victory? Tomorrow there would be feasting and parties to celebrate, but somehow, I just didn't feel like this wa