AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER
Capítulo 2: The wrestler with the big eyebrows
Rock Lee was so worried. He and Toph were supposed to escape from the Beifong mansion to follow the trail of the shyamalan sleight of hand, but his blind friend had suddenly rejuvenated to the age (and mentality) of a two-year-old girl.
“Hey, listen to me!” The little Toph girl was scolding him while with her little hand she was throwing the poor Rock Lee a good amount of water that left his face (and eyebrows) soaked.
“All right, all right. Stop throwing water, I have to wash your neck, keep playing with the patipinguino.”
“La, la, la, la, cuak, cuack, cuak. My patipinguino is the most melodious.” Toph sang funny in the big bath tub.
"I have to go after the sorcerer to get Toph back to her original age and form. I'm sorry, Toph, but I can't take you like this. I'll have to go alone."
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Rock Lee's intentions were frustrated after a few hours due to an unforeseen event: Now Toph had become a kitten!
As usual, Toph's parents were first shocked, then fainted and decided that the main thing would be to protect the honor of the Beifong family over their only daughter: Toph was denied by her parents.
“Toph, take it easy” Rock Lee was trying to calm her down, since Toph the cat was crying her eyes out.
“They're the worst parents in the world! Now what am I gonna do!”
“Take it easy, we'll find a way to get you back to the way you were.”
Although the heroine now had a cat-like form, at least her mind had returned to its original state, and what's more, she could communicate as if she were human.
“You're right, but before I was at least able to do something with my earth control. Now I'm nothing but a cat... a blind cat.”
“You mustn't think like that. At least nothing ties you to this house anymore. I got my backpack ready. Let's get out of this place.”
“All right... I may not be able to do much with this form, but I'm the brains of this team. Come on, Toph kitty!” The heroin kitty cheered herself up.
Rock Lee put Toph in his backpack and, holding a frying pan, left the Beifong mansion to find the wizard.
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In the afternoon, both friends took shelter under the shade of a leafy tree and began to eat something.
“Are you okay, Toph? Are you sure you can eat human food?”
“Sure, no problem. At least we'll save on food with this form of mine.”
“Tell me, can't you still use earth control?”
“No. So I'm as helpless as a kitten... blind if the above wasn't bad enough.”
“Everything will be fine, I don't know how, but everything will end well. Here's some milk, don't worry, I watered it down so it won't hurt. “
“Thanks Rock Lee, you're a great friend... Then where are we going?”
“There's a village to the southwest, where we'll take a ferry that will take us upriver. From what I hear, that shyamalan is heading for one of the riparian villages.”
“Do you have a plan?”
“None, but don't worry, we'll improvise something.”
In a calmer mood, the friends continued with their snacks and then resumed their journey.
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The town was more crowded than she had imagined it would be, but Toph kept quiet in her young friend's backpack. Apparently she was already getting used to her new cat body as her cat ears and nose perceived a lot of things around her.
"I no longer have my earth control, but these new cat senses are a good substitute for my former perception of what surrounds me. "Still, I'd like to have my earth control."
Rock Lee paid the ferry fare and together with her kitten friend, they embarked upriver.
“I hope it didn't cost you too much," Toph whispered worriedly, as her parents didn't give her friend any extra money, except for the payment for her kitchen help.
“Don't worry, it didn't cost me much.”
“I wish I could help you. Before, when I traveled with my friends, I made some money with my earth control.”
“And what did you do?”
“I cheated the scammers of the towns we met, you know... thief who steals from thief, has a hundred years of forgiveness.”
“That's bad, Toph, but don't worry, I've always been a good cook. I can get a job as a kitchen helper if things get bad... Hey, are you sure you don't want to come back for help from the avatar and your other friends?”
“Sure, if I go back I might lose track of that conjurer who did this to me.”
As the ferry sailed up the river, Rock Lee slyly described the surrounding landscape to her kitten friend.
Toph didn't quite understand the change in color of the river's surface from one section to another, but she could perfectly imagine the rocks, trees and small villages that appeared here and there on the shore.
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Just as the first stars of the night began to shine, the ferry arrived in a village of respectable size and the two friends went to look for traces of the human cockroach.
The sky was already crashed, however, the first night they could not find any information and decided to take a lodging.
“We weren't lucky tonight, but don't worry, Toph, I'm sure we'll find out something tomorrow.”
“Let's hope so," replied her friend and then gave him a funny meow to cheer up Rock Lee.
“Well, you better sleep in the bed, Toph.”
“But where will you sleep?”
“I'll sleep here on the floor, don't worry.”
“None of that, you'll sleep in the bed. I, like a cat, can settle in anywhere.”
“I can't allow that! As the only daughter of the family...”
Rock stopped at half a prayer to watch the kitten lower her head.
“Now that title doesn't count for anything, does it? Tell me, how about if we share the bed, it's not that we're master and servant. We're friends... Besides, I'm just a cat.”
“Sure..." Rock Lee nodded as he stroked Toph's little head, taking away all concern from her.
The weather was warm and the window of the room was open, in a futile attempt to invite a nonexistent refreshing breeze into the room. Room in which a young man with thick eyebrows hold a kitten, as if he were cradling her, the two of them dreaming together that everything would be resolved for good.
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The next morning Rock Lee was trying to wake up, but he couldn't do it at all, so the kitten jumped on his face.
“I'm awake now!” The young man was jumping out of oxygen, while Toph laughed as she turned on the bed.
Now wide awake, Rock Lee and Toph, went to the village to look for clues, well, in fact the only one who investigated things was the young cook as everyone in the village would find a talking kitten very suspicious. The funny thing is, it was Toph, not his friend, who found the whereabouts of the miserable con man.
“Wow, this skill of yours is amazing," said the young man.
Toph had heard the conversation of a couple of cats and asked Rock Lee to approach the cats. Once she found that she could communicate with other cats, Toph asked them about a suspicious person and the two cats informed her of a place where illegal fights were taking place late at night, when all the other honest people were sleeping. Surely there they would find the hideous wizard.
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Rock Lee had located the illegal business and then used his skills as a good cook to get himself hired.
“Let's see how they like what I'm going to prepare for them," he said to his friend with a smile on his side, from a window sill.
“Take good care of yourself.”
“Don't worry, while you ask the other cats to help you.”
Toph meowed to imply her approval and now that she felt more secure with her new body, she went looking for the stray cats of the village.
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When it was time for the show, everyone ate without realizing that a new fighter had arrived in the arena: Rock Lee.
“And we have an update, gentlemen! This young chef says he doesn't know any control techniques, but he still thinks he's going to take on our expert control fighters! Place your bets, young Lee is 60 to one against him!”
The crowd of unpleasant entertainers booed Rock Lee, but he didn't seem to flinch.
Fights were repeated one after the other and to everyone's surprise, Rock Lee won every fight.
Once all the defeated fighters were gone, the young man pointed his finger at shyamalan and ordered him to remove the curse from Toph.
Seeing the young man threaten one of the gambling clients, the slum's security tried to catch the cook, but the thugs took their hands to their stomachs, the pain was unbearable, and they were not the only ones as all the parishioners were folded in two.
The filthy little fellow from shyamalan made a great effort, but he managed to flee from the premises. He was surprised that the fighter did not pursue him at full speed, but he soon learned the reason.
A crowd of cats cut him off and suddenly began to arch their backs, ruffle their tails and hiss him with fury.
Defeated, the counterreached eyesore sank to the ground in fear. As he turned around, he saw the young fighter's fist quickly approaching his ugly face.
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The next morning the authorities and the local police did not explain what had happened. Very early in the morning, they had received a note (tied to a stone) telling them about the illegal business and how the bad guys had been caught.
Several guys were tied up and with faces from beyond the grave, however, the one who was most pitiful (or laughing in this case) was a naked man with a strange mask beside him. The poor devil was tied up in a fetal position, apparently he had been tarred and feathered, and at the end, a rose had been put on his ass.
“At least the thorns would have been removed from the stem," said the mayor of the place as he looked at the guy with disgust.
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It was about noon and two travelers rested on a huge rock by the side of the road.
“Well, what are you waiting for?” Toph said impatiently.
“It's just that this is so weird.”
“Hurry up, we're already far from the village. We should've done it sooner, but you were always stalling.”
“Are you sure there's no other way?”
Toph was starting to lose her temper, and she started to get a tailspot.
Rock Lee panicked and after breathing to calm down, gave the kitten a tender kiss.
A strong light blinded the two friends and then it was possible to glimpse Toph who had regained his human form.
“Well, I'm back to my original form!”
“Yes, of course you have some extra attachments now... you better think of them as a plus.”
Toph didn't understand what his friend meant when she suddenly felt her tail and cat ears wagging.
“It can't be, I'm back where I started!”
“Calm down, Toph, according to that jerk from Shyamalan, you will no longer be rejuvenated. Besides, you can become a cat at will, I think you'll win.”
“What do you mean I win!”
“Don't shout. Besides, you better wear something you're naked.”
Toph turned red as a tomato, but then frowned in a true expression of anger.
“I told you if you looked, I'd kill you!” she yelled at him and started chasing after her friend.
“Come on, get dressed at once!”
“First I'm going to kill you.”
“You'll have to catch up with me first... Come on, Toph-kitten!”
“Hey, only I can say that!”
The two young pair kept running, Rock Lee knew that Toph was so angry that she had forgotten to use her land control, it didn't matter, at least he could say that a pretty girl was chasing him for a change.
FIN
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