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Sugar Queen and Thick Skull	By : kage1125 Category: Avatar - The Last Airbender > FemmeSlash - Female/Female > Katara/Toph Views: 10838 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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A/N: Alright so when I wrote and posted this back over at FF.net it was near Halloween. So I did this one in honor of that Just to let you know, there is no sex in this chapter and a lot of this chapter is really derived from the episode The Puppetmaster.

Chapter 5: The Fearful Stoneheart and the Disturbed Bloodbender
It had been a few days since their stop at the hot springs and the Gaang were camping out. For reasons unknown the group decided to tell horror stories, suggested by Aang, maybe as way to fix their little group. Nothing brought the Gaang together like a little scare. It was Sokka's turn and for once he was sounding a bit like his old self, letting himself fall into the telling of the tale, "Suddenly, they heard something down the hall in the dark. Oooh... It came into the torchlight... and they knew the blade of Wing-Fun was haunted!" He stood up and pointed his sword at the fire, "Ooh-aaah!"
Aang shrugged, "I think liked the Man with a Sword for a Hand better."
Toph looked at Katara and teasingly said, "Water Tribe slumber parties must stink."
Katara looked at her lover and then the rest of the group, "No, wait! I've got one! And this is a true Southern Water Tribe story."
Sokka looked disbelievingly at his sister, "Is this one of those "a friend of my cousin knew some guy that this happened to" stories?"
Katara's eyes darkened for a moment, "No, it happened to Mom." Upon hearing this, Sokka stiffened. "One winter when Mom was a girl, a snowstorm buried the whole village for weeks. A month later, Mom noticed she hadn't seen her friend Nini since the storm. So Mom and some others went to check on Nini's family. When they got there, no one was home. Just a fire flickering in the fireplace. While the men went out to search, Mom stayed in the house. When she was alone, she heard a voice." Katara said the next bit in a voice that was soft and high, but also raspy and more than a little creepy, "It's so cold and I can't get warm!" A chill was felt through the Gaang as Katara continued, "Mom turned and saw Nini standing by the fire. She was blue like she was frozen. Mom ran outside for help, but when everyone came back, Nini was gone."
Peeking from behind a tree that he had hidden behind Sokka asked, "Where'd she go?"
Katara answered in a curious monotone, "No one knows. Nini's house stands empty to this day, but sometimes, people see smoke coming up from the chimney, like little Nini is still trying to get warm." The four settled themselves by the fire, trying to ward off something that wasn't just the cold of night.
Suddenly, Toph straightened up and placed her hands on the ground, "Wait! Guys, did you hear that? I hear people under the mountain. And they're screaming. " Extricating himself from the limbs of Aang and Katara, whom he had just been clutching as well, Sokka looked at Toph with skepticism, assuming Toph was joking, "Pft! Nice try, Toph."
Toph shot him quick glare before saying, "No, I'm serious. I hear something".
Katara looked at her lover and smiled almost relieved, "You're probably just jumpy from the ghost stories..."
"It just, stopped." Toph said still focused on listening to what she knew she had heard
Aang looked at the others, still a bit freaked, "Alright, now I'm getting scared".
From somewhere in the trees they heard a voice, an older woman's voice, "Hello, children." Cue screams from the Gaang. From the trees appeared an older woman, gray hair and hunched back. There was a smile upon her lined face, and she said kindly, "Sorry to frighten you. My name is Hama. You children shouldn't be out in the forest by yourselves at night. I have an inn nearby. Why don't you come back there for some spiced tea and warm beds?"
Sokka gave a shaky nod, "Yes please."
A bit later the five of them had made their way to Hama's inn. They sat around a large but simple dining table. Katara looked around and shot Hama's smile, "Thank you for letting us stay here, it's a lovely inn."
Hama, who had just finished pouring tea for them all looked at Katara and smiled, "Well aren't you sweet." a sudden furrow lined Hama's face even more as she said, "You know you should be careful. People have been disappearing in those woods you were camping in"
They discuss the missing persons and it seemed as though all who have disappeared had just walked into the forest on a full moon and never came back out. Later that night as everyone slept a creaking awoke Sokka. He quickly stood and drew his black blade and looked around suspiciously as Momo hid under Sokka's covers, "I know, Momo. This place is creepy! I don't know if I'm gonna be able to fall asleep!" Hours later Sokka was proving wrong as he laid splayed in his bed, deep asleep and snoring loudly.
The next day Hama takes the Gaang shopping. They hear more rumors of the missing villagers. The elderly woman has the Gaang home after a shopping but stays out with a cheery, "Why don't you take all those things back to the inn? I just have to run a couple more errands. I'll be back in a little while."
Before she could leave Sokka closed the distance between them, "This is a mysterious little town you have here." he said looking at her with squinting eyes.
She looks back at him and says ominously, "Mysterious town for mysterious children."
Later, Sokka and the others were unpacking the items that Hama had purchased, "That Hama seems a little strange. Like she knows something, or she's hiding something."
Katara just shook her head at her brother, "That's ridiculous. She's a nice woman who took us in and gave us a place to stay. She kinda reminds me of Gran-Gran."
"But what did she mean by that comment, "mysterious children"?"
With a roll of her eyes, Katara said, "Gee, I don't know. Maybe because she found four strange kids camping in the woods at night? Isn't that a little mysterious?"
Disregarding the question Sokka looked around suspiciously, "I'm gonna take a look around." He made his way up the stairs.
Katara stood at the bottom of the stairs with Aang and Toph in tow, "Sokka! Sokka, what are you doing? You can't just snoop around someone's house."
Sokka called down, "It'll be fine."
Aang looked around, "She could be home any minute."
The three of them followed Sokka's path as Katara called, "Sokka, you're gonna get us all in trouble and this is just plain rude!
They found Sokka pulling at a cupboard, "I'm not finished yet. Come on..." The cupboard suddenly opened, revealing several wooden puppets stowed inside. The dolls fell forward, held together only by their strings. Sokka drew his sword, backed up and pointed it straight at the puppets.
Aang looked from Sokka to Katara and said with a slight nod, "Okay, that's pretty creepy.
"So she's got a hobby. There's nothing weird about that." Katara said a little shakily, but then glared at Sokka, "Sokka, you've looked enough. Hama will be back soon."
Sokka had snuck away and up to a locked door with the others on his tail, "Just an ordinary puppet-loving innkeeper, huh? Well then why does she have a locked door up here?"
With a sigh and a sneer, "Probably to keep people like you from snooping through her stuff!"
Sokka looked at her and said almost cockily, "We'll see." he peered through the keyhole in, a small room can be seen, with a chest lying on the ground in the middle. "It's empty, except for a little chest."
Toph's expression brightened as she heard that, "Maybe it's treasure!"
This obviously excited Sokka his eyes growing wide greedily. He drew his sword to pick the lock.
"Sokka, what are you doing? You're breaking into a private room!" Katara admonished him.
"I have to see what's in there." There was a grinding noise as he either picked or broke the lock. The door gave an eerie creek as it opened upon the small unadorned room. The four stepped cautiously inside; Sokka put away his sword and approached the small chest.
Suddenly Aang looked around guiltily, "We shouldn't be doing this."
Sokka picked up the chest and tried to pry it open, only to discover it is locked. "Maybe there's a key..."
A sudden mischievously excited look lit up Toph's face, "Ooh! Hand it over!" She took the chest, removed her meteor bracelet from her arm and Earthbended it into the shape of a small key, which she stuck into the keyhole of the chest.
For the first time in while Sokka was happy for Toph's being there, "Come on, come on!"
Toph sighed, obviously frustrated growled, "This isn't as easy as it looks!"
Ever the moral compass Aang stated nervously, "Guys, I don't know about this...
Katara obviously agreed with Aang's statement, "This is crazy! I'm leaving!" A part of her was almost happy though that Sokka and Toph were working together on something.
"Suit yourself! Do it, Toph!" Sokka said just as Katara was turning to leave.
In that small moment Toph signals that she has successfully opened the chest, holding her thumb up. All four eagerly surround the box in a comical fashion, even Katara and Aang, anticipating what they will find inside.
"I'll tell you what's in the box." Once again Hama has snuck up on all of them, except Toph. The other three scream and turn sharply to find Hama standing in the doorway. Sokka guiltily hands her the box. Hama slowly opens the box, Sokka especially watched with rapt attention. Soon she was just holding a blue Whale-Tooth comb in her hand smiling.
Sokka cocked a brow, perplexed, "An old comb?"
The old lady looked down at the come proudly, "It's my greatest treasure. It's the last thing I own from growing up in the Southern Water Tribe."
The water tribe siblings look at Hama with truly shocked expressions, before Katara asked, "You're from the Southern Water Tribe?"
"Just like you."
"How did you know?" Katara asked, not only surprised by the fact that she had found a Southern Water Tribesman here in the heart of the fire nation, but that Hama had been able to ascertain her own origin.
"I heard you talking around your campfire." Hama explained.
"But why didn't you just tell us?" Sokka looked her asking for once in an unsuspicious manner.
Hama smiled "I wanted to surprise you! I bought all this food today so I could fix you a big Water Tribe dinner. Of course, I can't get all the ingredients I need here, but ocean kumquats are a lot like sea prunes if you stew them long enough."
Aang did not look excited that ocean kumquats tasted like sea prunes. He stuck out his tongue in disgust and said under his breath, "Great... "
Katara smiled wide at the the old woman, "I knew I felt a bond with you right away."
"And I knew you were keeping a secret, so I guess we're both right." Sokka stated proving his point. Katara punched his arm to keep her egotistical big brother in line. "But I'm sorry we were sneaking around."
"Apology accepted. Now, let's get cooking!"
The five of them ate a great Southern water tribe meal, despite the Ocean Kumquats which Aang warned Toph away from. Just as they were ready for their five-flavors soup, Hama bent the food to each of their bowls. Katara was shocked by this and said delightedly, " You're a waterbender! I've never met another waterbender from our tribe!"
Hama looked at the young girl with a sadly ancient expression, "That's because the Fire Nation wiped them all out. I was the last one..." From there Hama wove a tale of how she and other Waterbenders had faced off against the Fire Nation soldiers, but before long only Hama stood. Then, even she was taken away. She denied further questions though, showing sadness and stating that it was to difficult to continue. After that Katara told Hama of how she too was a waterbender and that she and Sokka had lost their mother to the Fire Nation's army. Hama offered to take Katara on as her apprentice and teach her the ways of the Southern Water Tribe style. Katara emphatically accepted.

Chapter End

A/N: Whoo leavin' on a cliffhanger. Most of you know what's gonna happen, but I’ll tell you this will not end the same as the episode did. There is more danger in this little village than the witch Kanna. -laughs evilly- Any who...Hope you enjoyed it.
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