Exodus

Exodus

BIG Note about the Couple: I'm afraid that I planned this before and the same goes for the couple. The couple IS NOT GOING TO BE SOKKA/TOPH. I don't want to mislead anybody. You'll find out soon enough what the couple is.

Warning: There might be vulgar language, bisexual behavior, OOC-ness... a little bit, and more bad things in this fanfic.


Toph woke up again to the unbearable sunlight. Her eyes were still vulnerable to the light and she was afraid of losing this new gift, her ability to see, now that she had it. Sure, seeing was distracting and it was harder to focus on the vibrations in the earth, though it was safe to say she was easily more capable of detecting the motions of others. She gladly paid these costs for what she could register now.

As of late, no one was around.

Slowly, she permitted herself to accommodate the sunlight, or rather, it accommodated her. She got used to the rich features of the environment around her. She was still naked, as she crawled closer to the watering hole.

Her reflection's piercing eyes were worth watching.

"... How does my hair stay up like that." Toph wondered orally. If she were still blind, such trivial questions wouldn't appear in her mind.

She blushed completely, she felt guilty and embarassed for what happened the other night. And what that other girl said... No! Toph wouldn't have it, she gritted her teeth as she shook her head furiously in denial.

"I'm not a pervert!" The nigressant-haired earth bender pouted sourly after yelling at herself and the battles inside of her mind.

In the broad daylight, she was able to see the details of her body more vividly. Her chest was small yet not completely flat. She was only 12 years old, what more could anyone expect? Her skin felt like the stroke of a silk sheet, one of the feelings she most fondfully remembers. The wet lips between her thighs, however, were especially soft and wet...

She felt her hand linger towards this tender spot but she ripped it away and pretended as if she didn't just do that. She prudently closed the gap of her thighs and plopped up.

"Now this time, I AM going to get dressed." Toph declared as if breaking out of a trance.

Hours after the hot-headed Toph dressed, she had prepared to wander the desert, barefoot.

She kneeled down over the same waterhole. She noticed her face gleamed with spirit and was cleansed of all the dirt from the previous day. The sight of this cracked a tiny, modest smile on her face. She was getting used to filling in blanks that were once empty. Her body was clothed moderately well; the draft of being nude was giving her chills.

"Hmm..." She murmured to herself, "I'm gonna need some of this water."

Toph stood erect and stomped her left foot, which caused a tremor coincidentally popping a Cocoanut off one of the few trees in the small area. The size of human cranium, the nut bobbed up and down along the surface of the water.

"What's that?" She curiously snatched it. As soon as it's irritating hide writhed in her hand, she recognized it's shape and identified it, "A cocoanut."

The nut resembled a coconut yet unsweetened chocolate lined the inner walls of this nut. Using the rocky ground around the watering hole to her advantage, she took its giant shell in the palm of her hand and hurled straight down. She stomped a narrow peak of earth into a collision with the nut, not straight through however. It remained on the peak she created until she plucked it off to reveal a small hole with a diameter as wide as her thumb.

"There we go, a Canteen already filled with water. Or in this case, milk. Or maybe it's juice." She took a pebble from a random assortment lying on the ground and plugged it inside the hole.

Her feet were pretty rough and, as she said herself, had a "healthy coating of earth" on both of them that only vigorous scrubbing and soaps could remove. This "coating" on her feet protected them, however, and made walking around without shoes a comfortable mode of transportation. "Nasty" or not, it was a way of her life and anyone who met her would have to deal with it.

Desert... Desert... More desert... It hadn't taken long for this travel to become taxing. She knew which direction Ba Sing Se was and she also knew she woke up along the outer ring of the desert, opposite of where the city was. That didn't stop the journey from driving the heat to her mind.

It had been easier to travel with her party of friends but no with them gone, it was almost unbearable.

If she was still blind, she would've professed her trouble with the difficulty of reading the sand's vibrations. But she could vividly see the forest they had trekked within while avoiding Azula and the fire nation. It probably was a bad idea to go back... but she could also see a town that was even closer by.

At first she hadn't recognized that it WAS a town. It took a second for her to close her eyes and focus onto the unmoving foundation of the land here. She recognized from a mile away that those structures formed together to create the towns they've passed through.

Toph could bear it no longer, she dashed towards the town in hopes of refuge for the night. The sun was already setting and the whole day felt like a never-ending and relapsing nickelodeon, not that Toph would know about pictures that changed shape and animated.

As she approached the town, Toph took a moment to cast vision aside and close her eyes, tapping into her once stronger senses. Three people, she could detect three people about this town. It was pretty lifeless, however, and empty to the naked eye.

As it so happened, there were indeed three people located here.

Uncle Iroh had been injured by his niece a couple days ago. That Azula had always possessed violent desires since she was a young child but he had never witnessed it before since he assumed the most time-consuming duty back then. He laid on the floor engrossed in slumber in a sleeping bag with sterile bandages hugging his wounds. He occupied a house that was one of the buildings in better condition than others.

Outside, sat a dozing off Zuko who bitterly tried to stay awake to watch out for his Uncle. He stood up three days straight, trying to make sure his uncle healed properly. He had cleverly deceived the fire nation away from this place and returned to it, all while carrying his Uncle in one arm or both.

His hair was shorter now and the color of Obsidian. His scar surrounding the right eye, he knows it as his left, was healed to as far an extent as it could yet still sensitive. His face carried a stoic expression of an exhausted veteran yet his face was still young and prime.

That made two. And the third cautiously watched this hard-working young man with devilish intentions.

It was obviously a female presence in hiding. Her eyes were entralled with the man before her and though she could've acted at any time, she enjoyed watching him. Of course she was slacking off the job and Azula would be pissed at her, but it would all be worth it.

"I think I'll do it." This deep voice announced silently as she witnessed the outcast fall asleep. It is said that even while hanging over a cliff by a nail, a person who hasn't slept within three days will wake up for nothing. Of course she had no idea what good timing she had.

Mai walked out of the shadows. Her slender form was covered in black robes and her hair fell into tresses of the same shade. Even her eyes differed by little contrast. Her lips perhaps were different due to the shade of red she gave them on this special occasion.

"He must be out of it." She advanced towards him, appreciating his sleeping form, "He's so cute when he's asleep."

Mai lifted him using her index finger by the curve of his lower lip with a desire burning passionately inside her heart. Because the outcast had formerly been a prince, it would have proved impossible to chance upon him in a condition such as this.

"Ever since we were little, I always thought you were so cute. I've always had a crush on your cute hot temper and your subpar fighting abilities. I was too shy to do or so anything about how I felt about you though, I mean, what would Azula have thought... But I've gotten a little stronger and a little more wiser since then, Prince..."

She could barely contain herself or the grin spreading on her maleficent face.

"Heh, but she's fine with it now. It will be degrading to become my love slave, even Azula wouldn't mind playing with you, and she loves the idea of humiliating you in front of the entire fire nation... Oh, why am I talking to you? You can't even hear me right now..."

Zuko hadn't stirred at all. He remained silently against the form of a wall. Mai almost purred at the picture he was presenting her.

"When did you get so hot? ..." Mai pinned him his body even closer to the wall and nibbled on his right earlobe between her succulent lips, softly.

Zuko began to fidget a bit but hadn't awaken from his dormancy at all. Mai siezed this opportunity to ravage his lean chest, linger over the outlines of his subtle muscles. His navel was smoother than she ever imagined and Mai suckled on a shoulder of his, lapping her tongue across the salty taste of dried sweat amounting from the desert heat nearby. She would've produced a hicky had she used her teeth but she was compelled not to leave as much as a scratch on his lust-inducing body.

She extended her trademark weapons, the short blades that ran between the gaps of her fingers, and carefully tore the threads of his scarlet tunic across his chest. Withdrawing her weapons, her hand climbed down to groin of his pants, which she massaged in circles.

"Oh Come on, you're too tired to even show me some appreciation? ... It's a good thing Ty Lee sneaked me this gift." Mai addressed the jar of aphrodesiacs. Even with the large cork blocking any scents from driving her senses wild, the mere thought of what would happen after she unleashed the aroma made her feel quite warm and wet in her seat.

She carefully clenched onto cork of the jar and firmly twisted it open with a pop. Zuko grunted and arched his back, bending forward yet stretching his head far back. The crotch of his pants grew very tight and stiff, uncontrollably. His burgundy eyes narrowly fluttered open yet he seemed dazed and unable to fight the wench off. But he had enough energy to speak.

"W-what the hell are you doing? ... Mai?" Zuko barely recognized the once meek girl from his childhood that had befriended his bewitched sister.

"You didn't listen to what I said at all earlier, did you?" She asked, knowing very well that he couldn't have.

"What ar-are you doing to me?" Zuko tried as his much as possible to avoid uttering shrill cries.

She deviously snaked her hand down his pants and nearly ripped the waistband, yanking it below his newfound erection.

"Get your hands off... there..." The fire bender protested, having no underwear to delay her from stroking his manhood against his will. This earned her an angry cry.

The outcast gasped in guilty pleasure as Mai massaged his now revealed length, trickling slowly with precome. She curiously thumbed the tip of his member and his whole body quivered into submission. In the past, there had been these strange sensations in his body from contact to this very place yet he had never acted upon it. He had too much on his mind and was far too busy searching in every nook and cranny of the world for the Avatar to waste his time on feelings such as this.

"See? You seem to like it, don't you?" Mai devilishly taunted him.

"No, hell no!" Zuko managed to contradict her using a tone of voice huskier than usual, due to his exhaustion.

Meanwhile, it just so happened Toph wasn't too far from the scene of the action. Her ears could detect the voices of two people arguing, one she recognized.

Mai separated her mouth from anywhere near his shoulder and lowered it, sealing her mouth the head of his erection. She could feed on the salty taste of his precome for hours; she could sure get used to this in the future. Mai tossed her small tongue about the rim of tip and pushed it in and out incessantly. It was then, Zuko emitted a very hoarse groan.

"A-arrrr-stop it!" Zuko grunted feebly, expending more energy than he could afford to at this point. He couldn't deny how extremely good it felt, having company approach and treat him in this manner. No! He would have none of this... yet he couldn't raise an arm to fight, helplessly.

"Somebody's in trouble! ... But it's not like it's any of my business, I'm not like that kid." Toph gruffly stated, yet she was alarmed to hear screams escalating, "Who cares. Maybe if I save whoever it is, they can give me free food or something."

She knew very well it was an excuse; there was plenty of food provided by the forest just behind the town's limits. Toph rushed ahead, around the bend of a building.

Toph nearly felt herself melt in her tracks once she saw the positions the owners of the two voices were in. Her face died of blush or nearly did.

"Wh-what the?! But I thought!" The earth bender stood flabbergasted.

Mai's face twisted with abrupt anger and she quickly dumped her attention from Zuko to this interference.

"You're one of the Avatar's friends, aren't you?" She questioned Toph and without an answer, she added, "Beat it, you flat-chested... boy. If you leave now, you only have to worry about death until we find you AND the Avatar."

"Grrr... So you were one of the people chasing us around. You're a part of the Fire nation, aren't you?" Toph glowered at the other female, "What are you doing here alone then? Where's the rest of your kind?"

"That's none of your business." The noble snubbed her.

Zuko took this chance to lift his waistband above his erection and hide it, for the time being. With a trembling hand, he also plugged the cork in the jar Mai had brought and rolled it far away from his seat.

"I'm makin' it my business!" Toph lodged her foot into the earth and a spike similiar to the one made to attack Ty lee with had occurred under the wench's feet. Yet, Mai leaped in the air to evade such measures and unleashed many of her blades as a projectile assault from her place in mid-air.

Toph had no time to dodge and no need, as she commanded rocks with fluctuating symbols by hand to protect her in time.

"You're pretty goo--" A boulder struck her in the gut, launching her even higher into the air.

With great skill, the earth bender clapped her hands together to cause the boulder to self-destruct. The impact sent her miles away amidst the forest and knocked her out cold. Luckily for them, fire benders were no experts at geography and knowing where to travel, unless they had learned it.

"That'll teach her to stop talkin' so much." Toph laughed in a conceited fashion. She won this round and victory was indeed hers.

"H-help..." Zuko murmured, putting his stubbornness aside, a blade of Mai's inserted in his chest. Thin lines of blood profusely fell from the wound. Luckily it hadnt' found the heart.

Toph gaped at the boy... man? He only seemed a couple years older than her. What the hell was she going to do with a casualtied person? She had no idea how to treat an injury, no idea where to start.

She detected the presence of another person who had been around this location all along. In the building Zuko sat outside of was the resting Uncle Iroh, a person who she had bonded with before. But without his voice or knowledge of how certain parts of his body or hair felt, she was clueless as to who he was.

"He has alot of that thin stuff around that part of the body." She caressed the old man's chest, gently. She gently nudged some bandages down to see what was within and winced at the searing of his skin.

The building inside had a very blank interior. The walls adopted a dusty white complexion. The only light source originated from the doorway, which had a wooden door probably knocked down by intruders of the village. Around him laid a simple wooden nightstand and another sleeping bag that collected dust most of the time while Zuko played guard outside. Atop the nightstand, a roll of bandages similiar to the ones around Uncle Iroh's wounds revealed itself.

"Hmm..." Muttered Toph.

Cliffhanger!! :D

Pink Spider: Yes, if you haven't figured out, this is going to be Toph/Zuko. Don't like it? Don't read from now on. Sorry for everyone who wanted something else.