Freedom [ATLA Katara x Male Reader]

Chapter 41: [The Runaway]

Did I skip the Avatar and The Fire Lord episode bc I genuinely could not bring myself to write it and I just wanted to move onto other chapters? Yes. Yes, I did. Hope that doesn't bother anyone but it wouldn't really change anything since you're literally not even there for most of it. 

So anyway, pls take this chapter that I'm still not 100% happy with but yeah. 

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You, Toph and Katara stand in a triangle around Aang, all taking fighting stances with you and Katara wielding your respective elements. In the middle of you, Aang ties his headband over his eyes like a blindfold. 

"Okay," he says. "I'm ready for some training."

He takes two steps forward in a stance similar to Toph's. Upon impact with the second step, he picks up vibrations from the ground with seismic sense. He quickly dodges three earth pillars that appear out of the ground near him. He hears a water attack coming from Katara and redirects it at her. He weaves out of the way of three quick fire blasts before dispersing a more powerful stream with airbending. He quickly launches a boulder at Toph, who catches it and stops it. 

You grin, lowering your arms. "Nice."

"Good job, Twinkle Toes," Toph agrees. "Visualise, then attack."

She launches the boulder back at Aang, who burrows into a hole with earthbending. The boulder instead hits Katara square in the chest, knocking her down. Your eyes widen in panic and you rush over to help her. 

"You okay?" you ask, concerned. Katara accepts your offered hand and allows you to pull her to her feet, but doesn't look at you, her glare directed at Toph. 

"Maybe you should take your own advice, Toph!" she shouts angrily. You wince; you think it might be a little difficult for Toph to 'visualise' anything. 

"Katara, I don't think Toph meant to─"

"What's the matter?" Toph asks tauntingly, cutting you off. "Can't handle a little dirt, Madame Fussy-Britches?"

Katara's eyebrow twitches and she glares at Toph ─ you swear you can see a vein bulging in her head ─ before she angrily creates a wave and sends it at Toph, who gets splashed by it and becomes annoyed.

"Oh, sorry," she apologises mockingly. "Did I splash you, Mud-Slug?"

Katara creates an ice ramp, and Toph creates an earth ramp, both proceeding to head straight for each other. They crash and both of the girls go flying. You watch in panic from below, looking between the two girls, unsure of how to diffuse the situation.

"Are we taking a break?" Aang, who is still blindfolded, asks in confusion. 

Meanwhile, you see Sokka hiding behind the Avatar with an evil smile. He quickly gets up and charges at Aang with his boomerang raised high. 

"Sneak attack!" he screams. 

Aang, casually and still looking away from Sokka, creates an earth wall, which stops Sokka dead in his tracks. He lowers the wall, which causes Sokka to fall down.

He turns to face the boy, raising the blindfold from his eyes. "Sokka, sneak attacks don't work if you yell it out loud."

"But nice try, bud," you say with a small smile, momentarily distracted from the girls' fight. But you're soon reminded of it again when you hear shouting from off to the side, and you look over to see Toph and Katara wrestling in a puddle of mud. 

"Hungry for a mud pie?" Toph demands, kicking mud in Katara's face. 

Katara wipes the mud away. "I'll give you a mud pie!"