Enter Toph

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Character: Toph Bei Fong
Content: The Blind Bandit Arrives
Setting: Around Muspelheim Gate
Time: Late morning/Early Afternoon



Toph Bei Fong was not one to get lost. Thanks to her earthsight through her earthbending, she could always 'see' where she was. This situation though, was a little different.

The twelve-year-old remembered very well that she had fallen asleep in a cave with her friends, Aang, Sokka, and Katara. When she awakened however, they were nowhere to be...felt, and the area around her was much different from where she had slept the previous night.

Toph immediately got herself up, noticing hat she was outside of a large city that seemed to be encased in a large dome. If her friends were anywhere, it would be inside. Toph approached the gate, which she felt as an opening in the dome. She also felt heat and heard the crackling of fire, but she had a very strong feeling that this wasn't the Fire Nation. There was a line waiting outside, and she joined it, not trusting anyone to ask where she was or how she had gotten there.

It didn't take long for Toph to get to the front of the line. A person cheerfully asked her name while handing her a flyer, which she immediately threw on the ground. It was hard to read when your eyes didn't work. "Why does it matter to you?" She didn't receive an answer, but was pushed along, and a rectangular object shoved in her hands. The person who handed it to her said something about an 'electronic journal' and being able to use it to communicate. Toph was then shoved out of line, just inside the dome of the city.

"Great." Toph tumbled the object in her hands. If she really could communicate with it, maybe she could get a hold of Aang or the others. Not knowing how to work it, she yelled at the journal. "Hey, Twinkletoes! Where are you?!" She waited to get an answer, and tried yelling again after a while, but nothing happened. Frustrated, Toph picked a road and to walk down and started to search for her friends.

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Now that he mentioned it, she could feel that he had two hearts, which was weird. Maybe that was were the drum sounds came from? Either way, Toph still thought he was pretty loopy.

"You know, being human isn't all bad." Toph was still sitting on her make-shift bench, and she went back to picking her toes. "Are you sure you're not just hearing your heart beat?" It was obvious to her now that he certainly wasn't human, but that wasn't an excuse for his behavior.

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The Master turned to Toph, sneering again. "The human race is nothing but a pile of greedy monkeys looking to eat and start wars. They know nothing of war. They think of themselves as warriors. Armored, ruthless warriors. They could never be true warriors. Not like me," he said, adding the last note as he turned away from her.

"They don't hear the drums, calling them back to the battlefield. Calling them back to service. I hear it every day of my life. The drums of the greatest war in the whole of time. That is my heartbeat. The noise in my head is something different. It's who I am, it's all that I'll ever be." He rose in front of her, enforcing an intimidating presence as much as he could. "It's more like a ticking bomb. A time bomb. And you know what?"

He smiled and chuckled through the next sentence. "I CAN'T WAIT FOR IT TO GO OFF! HAHAHA!" The last laugh created a tear. With the sound of fabric tearing, The Master's flesh became translucent and exposed a skeletal face with deadly eyes staring down the young earthbender.

ooc: here (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NvhnTb-4j3k/Sz6WBoISEjI/AAAAAAAAFFo/BGeUg4dYiaw/s400/2.jpg) is what he looks like during his "flashes."

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Toph continued to pick her feet through his little sermon, at least, until he started laughing manically. She couldn't feel anything through her feet about his sudden change in appearance, but something told her that something was up.

The earthbender hopped up from her little bench and commanded the rock that made it to go back to how it was previously. "Yeah. Have fun with that. You know what? I'd like to go find my friends so I can tell them about this little revelation of yours. I'll see ya around."

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The Master started his leap the moment Toph began dismissing him and came down after some time right beside where she had walked, sending a small shockwave through the ground as he cracked the floor. He stepped toward her and continued to smile. "The revelations are only beginning. My ascendance is coming, and you will know my name," he said calmly but cheerfully. "And my name...is The Master."

Another leap into the air, and any trace of him was gone.

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Toph wanted to yell at him, so she did. "That's a crappy name!"

Since The Master was kind enough to leap into the air before he disappeared, Toph couldn't tell that he had disappeared. For all she knew, he would come back down. She waited to feel and hear a thump from his hard landings, but it never came. She had no idea where that crazed asshole went, or how he managed to disappear, but in the end, she really didn't care. At least he had left her alone so she could look for Aang, Katara, and Sokka.