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Character(s): Sokka, Suki and Toph
Content: Exploring! Sokka and Suki go to explore and bump into Toph. \o/
Setting: Destiny Island to start
Time: Uh... mid-day?
Warnings: Nada :D

To say Sokka was glad to be on his feet again was an understatement, and it felt even better to be out of that city. Of course, the whole building leading to a hallway to a totally different place? That was weird. Sokka couldn't even begin to wrap his mind around what the heck that was, but this place was definitely an improvement.

In fact, he wouldn't have minded just staying here. A soft, sandy beach, tropical trees, a warm breeze... It was like being back on Ember Island, except not being in the Fire Nation. This was awesome.

"Man, why have we been staying in that place when this was here?" he said, gesturing around him.

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Suki wasn't even trying to wrap her mind around the hallways and city inside a castle thing. She smiled at the sight of the beach and the trees. It was like a nice vacation spot and she was pretty sure she'd want to stay there longer sometime.

"Probably because the city's back there," Suki answered, glancing around. "Most of what we need is there. I wonder if there are monsters or something here. Maybe platypus-bears or something."

She walked up to one of the trees and touched it. At least it looked pretty real and felt real.

"Makes me miss home even more."

Monsters? Here? Sokka really hoped not. That would be a huge damper on this place.

"Yeah, I'm missing home too," Sokka agreed a little more soberly. He'd been missing the south pole ever since he and Katara had left to help Aang and he did, of course, still miss it now more than ever, but his homesickness had become a much broader feeling. He missed, well, the whole thing. Their whole world. Weird bizzaro world here, just didn't make sense. It was just... too weird. He was glad he wasn't alone, however, but thoughts still went to Katara and Aang. Hopefully Zuko had somehow been sent back and he might tell them where they were.

Hopefully.

"But, hey, I still think this wouldn't be a bad place to stay. We'd just need to bring some supplies," he said, trying to quickly change the mood. "And don't mention monsters again, I don't want to risk jinxing it."

Edited 2010-09-11 10:55 (UTC)

Speaking of monsters, Toph had suddenly decided to pop in at the island place that she couldn't feel in the city. She personally hated that, having such a big place disappear to a small island. Still, she had told that moody guy on the journal that she would explore. She also had to find Sokka, so since she couldn't feel him or Suki in the city, she decided to go world hopping.

She grinned as she set foot on the sand. Thanks to her training with sand-bending, she could feel both Sokka and Suki on the island, both of whom weren't too far away. She strode over to where they sat on the beach. "Well, well, if it isn't the two love birds of the gang." Toph then ran over to them and plopped down in between them and grabbed them with her arms, pulling them together for a big hug.

"Right," Suki chuckled, agreeing with the monsters thing. It was fine enough as it was without anything creepy showing up. "We'll have to remember supplies next time we come."

She would have added more, but she sensed someone walking up to them. Suki turned just in time to notice Toph before the girl pulled them into a hug. It was unexpected, but nice, to see Toph. Even with the backbreaking hug.

"Hi, Toph."

"Yeah and--" Sokka got cut off as he heard a voice behind them and had a strong arm dragging him down into a hug before he had quite grasped what was going on. It was a very familiar voice, at least, and it didn't take long with his brain to catch up with his ears.

"Toph!" he exclaimed, both surprised and happy to see her. This was the first he'd actually seen of her since she'd gone off on him.

"What are you doing here?" he asked, settling an arm over her shoulder for a moment to return a brief hug.

"Hi Suki!" Toph gave her a warm smile before turning to Sokka.

"I was lookin' for you guys. What else? I heard Suki on the journal, and I had to come back and find you anyway after...uhm...looking for the badgermoles. How's your leg?"

Toph let go of the couple and flopped back on the sand. "Man, it's been boring around here without you guys."

"How did the badgermoles go?" Suki asked, sitting down next to Toph. She let Sokka tell Toph about his leg, since she was the one who had been around him the most when he'd been injured. Suki hadn't even seen it happen.

"Right... badgermoles," Sokka muttered, still in slight disbelief that Toph had wandered off for THAT.

"Oh, my leg? It's good as new!" he then replied, sounding as happy about it as he looked, as he stuck out his leg, bending it and such a few times to prove his point. "This healer girl came over and used some weird not-bending power on it. I donno what it was, but hey, it worked."

Sokka had been incredibly happy to have use of his leg again. While, admittedly, he HAD kind of enjoyed being doted on by his girlfriend, the frustration of not being able to do anything had slowly been driving him insane.

Toph frowned. "There weren't any!" I checked all over the place too. Not a single one." The idea of the badgermoles having a city had excited Toph beyond belief. And now, all hopes of such a miracle were crushed.

She found her smile again as she felt Sokka flex his leg. "Good. That means I won't feel bad for doing this." Toph gave Sokka a hard punch in the arm. She had missed doing that.

Suki couldn't help laughing at the two of them. While she was sad for Toph that there weren't any badgermoles - nevermind the fact that she didn't see how the place could house any in the first place - she was still happy to have them all together again. It was nice, even though Katara, Aang, and Zuko weren't around. Their group was half-together at least. That was something, right?

"Don't break his arm, Toph," Suki teased. "I know he's got another one, but I think he enjoys the use of all of his limbs right now."

"Ow!" Sokka, predictably cried, quickly jerking back from Toph and rubbing the freshly received sore spot on his arm. "Heeey!"

Sokka couldn't agree more with Suki's words. Of course, while Suki was teasing, Sokka's reaction was quite serious. "You got that right! I don't want to break anything again, if I can help it."

After being laid up so long, the LAST thing Sokka wanted to risk was getting injured again any time soon. He'd go crazy if he was ended up with a broken arm or something.

"Calm down brainiac. It's not like I broke your arm. Do you want be to be your body guard?" Sarcasm and teasing tones were dripping from Toph's words. She realized that having anything in the body broken must suck, but c'mon. Wasn't Sokka supposed to be a man.

Wait. This is Sokka.

"How about this? I won't punch you for a few weeks while you get used to your working limbs again?" It was the most she could do about that. The teasing wouldn't be able to contain itself.

Suki couldn't help laughing again. Oh, Sokka.

"That sounds fair enough," Suki agreed, grinning. "Then you can make up for lost time?"

Sokka appeared to think on this a moment, before giving a nod. "I guess I can settle for that," he replied. Two weeks of Toph not punching him? If she managed that, it would be some kind of record. Could she even do that?

"But, hey, can you even last that long?"

He had his doubts.

Toph gave Sokka a mischievous grin. "I guess we'll have to see to find out, won't we?"

The earthbender got up and flopped in the sand, making a nice sand-angel. Her sandbending wasn't quite up to par yet, so she might as well start practicing. "So, what plans did you two have for the day?"

Suki hid a laugh behind a hand. She'd really missed Toph being around. Sokka had a point, but she supposed they really would have to find out.

Suki shrugged in response to Toph's question. "We were just looking around these floors. I think we wanted to look at the newest one. Feel like coming with us?"

Sokka didn't much like the look of that smile Toph gave him. He'd give her a day. Tops.

"Having a earthbender along could be pretty handy," Sokka added, after Suki's invitation. They had no idea what to expect and while, of course, two non-benders like himself and Suki could probably handle things just fine, still having Toph along wouldn't be a bad idea. Better safe than sorry, right?

Toph's smile dropped a little. Exploring this castle was certainly an adventure, but there was still one thing she hated about it.

She stopped making her sand angel, but remained in her spot lying down in the beach. "I don't know if you guys have noticed, but it's like these other worlds aren't even connected to each other. When I'm in that Paixao place, I can't feel this beach. And now that I'm here, I can't feel Paixao." She was sure that would confuse Sokka and Suki as much as it confused her. Toph had only come here because she knew that this was a small island before she set foot here the first time, and she was with a large group of people. What if a door led to a pool of lava? Toph wouldn't know until it was too late...

Suki shifted nervously at Toph's question and glanced at Sokka. The situation was strange as far as she understood it, but she didn't know as much about it as he might.

"Sokka, you might know more about this than I do," she began apologetically, "but I think that's because it's some kind of world within a world. That's probably why you can't feel anything. It's all jumbled up."

Sokka hadn't exactly noticed, but then, that wasn't so surprising given Toph had a rather different picture of things. As much as he'd love to make sense of it all, it still defied all good reason. They'd seen some pretty amazing things back home, but this place was something else.

"I know about the same amount as you guys," Sokka replied. He might have been here longer than Suki, but he really didn't know more than she did. "But that sounds like as good an explanation as any."

Toph had sat up and had made a few sand sculptures while Sokka and Suki were talking. So far, she had made one of Aang and another of Zuko getting squished by a rock.

"Who cares about explanations? I'm just tellin' you how I see things, so it'd be best if you two went in front of me." Toph really didn't want to become part of some sort of lava soup. "I'm totally up for exploring."

Well, at least she hadn't been too far off the mark with that one.

"We'll keep you from walking into anything," Suki answered, half-teasing. A strange place this was. Having to keep Toph from running into things instead of the other way around was definitely a new one. "So, do you guys want to get going now, then?"

"Well, I'm ready if you guys are," Sokka replied, rising up to his feet, dusting away some of the sand. They weren't going to get much more ready, since they had no idea what was awaiting them through the next door.

"One second." Toph made one last sculpture of Sokka trying to kiss Suki, but her about to smack him in the face. There. Her works of art were complete, and she got some sandbending practice in. Life was good.

"Ok, we can go now." Toph dusted the access sand off her hands and brushed her clothes off a bit before standing next to Sokka, waiting for him to lead the way.

The sculpture gets a hidden laugh out of Suki before she gets up and dusts herself off, too.

"Lead on, fearless leader," she teased, grinning at Sokka even as she headed for the doorway. It would be a bit of a shame to leave a place as quiet and nice as this one, but at the same time, she was looking forward to getting out and back home.

It was probably a good thing Sokka had already walked a few paces ahead, his back turned to the sculpture. He probably would have had more than a thing or two to say about it. However, his attention was drawn to the inner land of the island, unaware of the sculpture Toph had made. Of course, he'd likely see it on the way back.

"Right! Let's go... this way, uh, I think," he said, heading off in a direction that he thought they needed to go.

((ooc: ...damn, I don't remember how/if Suki and Sokka knew how to get to the next floor, lol. |Da ))

Toph smirked. "You have no idea what you're doing, do you?" She crossed his arms and walked in the back, as for once, people with eyes were an advantage.

As for the way to the next floor, Suki reasoned that if they'd entered Destiny Islands through a door, they'd probably need another door to make it to the next floor. Just which door was the question, but she moved on after Sokka, waiting for one of the others to tell her she was going in the wrong direction.

Judging by Sokka's response as he started walking, neither of them knew which way exactly.

"Well, it should be the opposite way of the door we came through and it should be another door we're looking for. Toph, you can't sense where it drops off, can you, or does everything just hit an edge and drop off?"

"We got this far, so it can't be all THAT hard to find the next door," Sokka said, having already paused in his steps to look around thoughtfully. It did seem like it would be, most likely as Suki said, in a fairly opposite direction from the door they arrived from. And, well, hopefully it would be as obvious a door as the other one.

"Nah, I just feel the door frame and then nothing. I can't tell which one goes where." Like the others, she'd have to learn which doors led where and memorize it.

Toph waited in the hallway for either Sokka or Suki to pick a door to go through.

After a couple of wrong turns got them absolutely nowhere aside from turned around completely, Suki finally decided to just look everywhere. So, it was with the skills given to her from years of Kyoshi Warrior training that she found the small cave to begin with. The door inside it just happened to be a nice perk.

"Let's try this one."

Pushing it open, she blinked at the suddenly white hallway they were facing. "I guess this is right?" Suki glanced at her friends and shrugged. "Well, it's better than wandering around the beach all day."

Partially.

Shrugging to herself again, she struck out in the direction of the door on the far side, hoping it would lead forward and not back the way they'd come.

Searching everywhere had taken awhile, but it had paid off in the end.

"Yeah, this looks like the same kinda hallway as we passed through before, alright," Sokka commented as he followed Suki into the hallway, feeling pretty confident that they were going the right way. This looked exactly like the what they'd passed through to end up on the island.

Of course, it was anyone's guess what they were going to be greeted at the other end.

Toph hesitated at the door, hating the feeling of jumping into emptiness every time she wanted to go to a different place. She forced herself through though, and felt another long, boring hallway with a couple of doors lining the walls.

She trailed behind Suki and took a hold of her belt, not wanting to be left behind again. When Suki was going to go through, Toph would too.

"I wish they had a better system for this world jumping."

"So do I," Suki commented, agreeing with Toph. She felt the hand on her belt and steadied herself. If something was waiting for them on the other side, she would have enough balance to get both herself and Toph out of harm's way quickly. She pushed the door open and-

Suddenly found herself staring at a... well, she wasn't really sure what to call Halloween Town. "Oo...kay, I guess there's an intermediary first. I don't think this place looks too dangerous, but it can't hurt to be careful. Ready, Toph?"

She took a few steps forward into the new area, making sure Toph could get a good visual grip with her feet.

Peeking out the door, Sokka wasn't sure about Suki's assessment. It appeared to be a forest, but it wasn't like any forest Sokka had ever seen.

"I don't know about that, Suki. This place pretty spooky, if you ask me," Sokka said, slowly stepping out the door behind Suki and Toph. Suddenly the stark white hallway seemed a whole lot more friendly than this place.

Slowly closing the door behind him, Sokka glanced around. "Hey, there's more doors on these other trees."

Toph stepped out with Suki, glad that there really wasn't a pool of molten lava waiting for them. She let go of Suki now that she could see where she was, her face going from slightly nervous to absolutely confused.

"I think all the trees are dead or something." They certainly felt that way. There weren't any leaves on them, and there weren't any on the ground either. They had to have died a while ago. Maybe it was a good thing Aang wasn't here.

Toph walked into the circle of trees with doors. "You think we should open one? I don't feel anything inside the trees, so maybe they take you to other places too?"

Well, it could have been worse. The forest could have been attacking them or something. Suki shrugged, turning to Toph as the girl gave her assessment of the situation. Wondering if the trees really were hollow, Suki approached one with a big green tree decorated with different colors.

"Wonder what this one is? I guess we could. It would be better than just standing around."

Placing her hand on the tree, she tried to fiddle with it enough to get it to open.

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Toph can comes in?

totes okay with me!

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We can pretend they don't XDa?

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