Bowling

[Sven]

"SCORE!!!"

Another massive boulder crashed through the trees, making a clearing of rocks and dirt in the middle of the thick forest. The unlevelled ground proved that a certain young Earthbender has been playing with the earth for quite a while...this time; bowling. Toph style.

With a strong stomp of her foot, a piece of the ground shoots up, but before that boulder could even zoom up to the sky, the little girl then strongly punch it towards the trees, making the rock zoomed to the forest and ultimately knocking down a few trees. Birds flew off to the sky, escaping the wrath of one blind girl.

"OH YEAH!! STRIKE~!!"

Toph then closed her pale green eyes in content, her wide grin is the only thing white enough as her whole complexion is covered in dirt...so is her hair and clothing. The young girl then casually lets gravity pulls her towards the earth as she slams her back to the ground, smiling up to the sky. She can't see it, of course, but she can feel the warmth.

"...I love the ground." Toph stated while spreading her arms and legs then continuously sweep her limbs on the ground, creating a sort of earth-angel depression...

[[X]ue Fang]

Arche Kraine could not have picked a better day and place to have himself buried alive and without a fight than as of this moment and time. One minute he was blissfully enjoying a walk in the Secluded Forest and then the next thing, a huge rock out of bloody nowhere came to life and started attacking innocent trees. Twice! The boy's face suddenly turns white, his canary eyes refusing to believe what it is seeing.

The scene unfolding and Arche's facial feature is brought to you by the letters W, T and F.

With almost not enough time to question what on earth is happening with the rocks in this place, the demon shapeshifter quickly sends a signal command to his feet to run for its dear life. Where to, he has not the faintest clue yet. But what he is certain of is that he has to stay out of the flying killer slab's a.k.a FKS' way. Suddenly a voice, magnified to about ten thousand times the normal evil pitch, echoes around.

"OH YEAH!! STRIKE~!!"

That set him off. "AAAHH!! Don't kill me! I'm sorry and I promise I won't recklessly throw rocks whenever I'm bored anymore!" Arche starts running, screaming at what he believes to be FKS exacting its revenge and declaring war on mankind. He has his eyes shut too, as if the sight of an angry boulder could be any worse than the idea of it chasing him. Little does he know he is actually headed towards the voice's direction.

(Translation: What Arche heard first was just an echo, hence, when he attempted to bail out away from it, then he is really heading to the real thing.)

He kept running and shouting and panting for air, all the while flailing his arms around as to swat tree branches and falling dead owls and what not on his way. Nothing and no one can stop him now; not even a human speed bump? In the middle of the freakin' forest?!

"Ooofph!" Thud. He came, he saw, and he fell down, face splat on the earth.

[Sven]

"GAHCK!!" Toph wheezed out, having her hip suddenly got caught atop of somebody's foot, resulting that idiot to loose his balance and fall dramatically...as in, his knees landed BOTH on her stomach and chest, weighting her down in the most painful of ways, before that dude finally whacked his damn face on her beloved loyal ground.

"Nggghhkkk...!!" The black-haired child recoiled instantly, forming a sort of ball as she rolled in pain, her arms wrapped around her stomach and chest and her legs bent upwards near her chest, sandwiching her arms in between. Though, with each moan of pain she lets out is equivalent to each ounce of anger she's about to slam to this dude's ass.

Recovering quickly, the blind child then staggered up on her feet, her shadow looming dangerously around Arche. The ground where she stood shakes, ready to unleash the awesome power of rocks and dirt...but before that, it's her tongue's turn first.

"What are you?! BLIND?!! Even BLIND PEOPLE don't trip so pathetically LIKE THAT!! What are you trying to do?! Shrink back the growth I've spent YEARS on WAITING?! Well, I'll make you pay the same amount of my growth you just disrupted by disrupting YOUR growth!!" Massaging her flat chest, the girl roared loudly...contradicting her fragile stature and looks thoroughly. While lifting her knee on top of the most dangerous of areas exist on a man, Toph's face darkens with one very terrifying grin spreading across her face.

[[X]ue Fang]

Arche has never been this close (too close for comfort even) to Mother Nature, so to speak. His face was covered in dirt, clothes were tattered revealing cuts he acquired from tree branches from when he was fleeing from his impetuous death and every time he would gasp for breath, dust would fill in his lungs.

"Bleughrkk!" The bi-haired boy pushed himself off of the ground at once, choking. However, using his knees to prop himself up brought a new surge of pain (due to his prior fall) causing him to stumble again, this time on his butt. "Owwww is gravity not working right now?" Arche grimaced as he held up his knees to check for any injuries. There was nothing.

"Hmmn?" Confused, he instinctively checked his surroundings for some of his own blood for surely, he could not have possibly tripped over something and still survive without a gash. No sight of crimson liquid either. And that's when he felt the soil beneath him tremble and a presence so vile Arche almost wished he did not know what was going to happen.

Someone roughly about his age and admittedly, his height too, stood before him, gave him a lecture about his stupidity and how he will absolutely, without a doubt pay for it. From the looks of this person's face and where that dangerous knee is pointed towards, the rain wielder knew s/he was not kidding.

"Hey wait! I didn't mean to shrink your growth back or whatever it is that you're saying and I do sincerely, from the bottom of my heart apologise for the incident earlier," Arche held his arms out straight in protest and closed his legs for protection. If there was any part of him he would never chance with that malicious grin, it would be his personal growth.

"But in my defence, I was being chased by some psycho out there so excuse me if being careless was the last thing on my mind!" He explained, realisation of what he just said hitting him smack down on the face. "OH! I almost forgot about it!" Arche made an effort to stand up again but not without a safe distance from this stranger. Afterall, s/he is still after his life.

"Come! If you still value your life and not let your years of waiting to grow taller go to waste, we gotta run now! FAST~!"
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[Sven]

Toph's eyebrows hidden underneath her long bangs wrinkled at this boy's apology. His reason for disrupting her playtime with nature is also taken into consideration. "What psycho?" The blind girl asks, now lowering down her knee and settled both her feet down. Though, when she heard her victim standing up again, the girl swiftly tapped her foot on the ground, causing the ground this boy is stepping on raised on one side and slanted on the other, to make the guy fall back on his butt again.

"I don't care about any psychos. You hurt me BAD and I need to get you back for that!" Though saying that, Toph won't deny she's just stating it just to start a fight. ...She's bored of training, she needs to vent her emotions up somewhere. And this guy just happens to be in the area.

[[X]ue Fang]

No sooner than Arche lifted his left foot, the ground started quivering again, causing him to fall over...yet again. WHAT THE DEUCE, his subconscious screamed, an overwhelming confusion dominating his mind at the moment. Still not realising it was Toph who set off that unbelievable earthquake, he then turned his attention to Satan's minion.

"Listen MIDGET," The shrill emphasis on that last word was impossible (even to the untrained ear) to miss. "I'll let you get back on me whichever method pleases you the most LATER but for NOW let me prolong my short-lived life a little longer!" Arche pleaded, his eyes searching for the tiniest hint of compassion from the stranger's void-looking pair.

It did not look like it gives a damn for the world either.

This is beginning to get on Arche's nerves. 'Is this person for real? I just mentioned about a psycho running after me like it wasn't much of a big deal! For normal people, that alone should send them freaking their hairs out!' He mulled over, before inching closer to Toph.

Not only did it not cross his mind that he could actually be facing the psycho, he also dared to flick the psycho's forehead.

"Oi are you even listening to a word I'm saying? Look at me in the eye when I'm talking to you geesh!" Arche sighed.
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[Sven]

There's something about this boy's air that ticks Toph...either it's because he seems too be so bluntly stupid...or its the fact that the dude called her a midget, when considering through the Earth's vibration, he's only about an inch or so taller than her, but that's only because he's wearing shoes and she's not...

The blind one only squinted her eyes, containing her raging foot to just stomp the ground and trap this sorry piece of rubbish inside one very undestructible cube made of pure solid earth. Then squish him inside alive. She almost smirked at the image...if only she could see it. Her pale green eyes snapped out of its daydream and woke up with a start to give this boy a piece of her mind.

"Oi--" After some time retaining her anger by that name-call, Toph finally spoke up, but was cut short when she just felt her forehead being flicked. Not only did that one mere flick caught her by surprise, she totally wasn't expecing it that she literally jerked herself bacwards in a way that may make her lost her balance. Good thing the earth holds her in place.

Slapping this idiot's arm off was Toph's automatic response. Normally, she would've yell at anyone for touching her, but since this dude just brung up a rather sensitive topic along with his act, the girl was stunned silent before (TRYING) to glare hard at this boy in the eyes...which actually turns out to be towards his neck...then roughly leaving him without a word, by violently ramming the guy's shoulder with her own as she passed him.

Toph's embarrassed of her inablity to see. And also angry that this idiot is able to assault her in a sensitive spot, and she just met the dude for 5 minutes! She grunted at herself for being this weak, and stomped off in annoyance...leaving off angry cracking footprints on the hard solid earth behind her.

[[X]ue Fang]

Arche is starting to become increasingly worried by the minute. Obviously he wanted to get out of there as soon as possible but then he also wants to make a point—however moronic and unrelated to their current situation it may be. First point of the day; when someone is talking to you, be a man and look at them in the eye. At least that was how he was brought up to believe and he would be damned if he let this kid carry on with life not knowing proper etiquette.

Discreetly, he watched Toph's reaction as he flicked her forehead and with eyes as sharp as a hawk's, noticed how she responded with anything (taken aback, tongue-tied then ticked off) but meet his gaze. 'Are you deaf or what?!' Close, but not quite, Arche caught her staring rather intently on his neck as well. 'My, my…don't tell me it's a blood-sucker too!' He gulped and then covered his capillary-enriched neck...just in case.

"Er question—" All of a sudden the earth-loving girl stood up but not without getting her point slammed hard across Arche's shoulder. Second point of the day; when someone is pissed, use your common sense and get out of harm's way. Unfortunately for the demon boy, some things he did not understand until just after he experienced it first hand.

"Oooow! Shit! Wait!" He yelped, cursed and hollered. Who would have thought that small body could hit like a wall? Standing up, Arche wasted no time and followed the marching midget whilst spotting the sudden abnormalities on the ground. Judging by the depth of the cracks, he reckoned that the person was seriously mad and he was just thankful he was not the receiving end of it. Well at least not anymore.

With one arm holding his potentially—no certainly fractured shoulder, "I said wait! Please! Plus you’re heading on the wrong way!" Arche is beginning to catch up with Toph and this time, he remembered to be polite as Fang guaranteed it to work with strangers. He just hoped it can also get through an angry vampire with a body made up of stone.[/color]

[Sven]

Toph paused. She just acted out one cool walk-out phase, and slamming on the guy's shoulder is a bonus, she has to admit, it's one perfect rage escape. Until it's absolutely ruined by the fact that she's walking on the wrong way... Great. Maybe she can still cover the emabarrassment with her now draining rage(thanks to the shame)...

"I'll go wherever I want, it's none of your business!" She snapped as she crossed her arms, not bothering to turn around and face him. Like she can see him anyway. "And leave me alone, before I really stomp on your--" Toph paused. Her toes dug itself onto the ground, leaving her face blank and the rest of her bodies froze in alert.

The vibrations on the ground is getting pretty weird now. She picked up the presence of someone from afar, according to the vibrations the ground let out. "...Who exactly IS that psycho again?" The blind girl asked carefully, to make sure if she knows that person. If she doesn't and it's threatening her, then free target practice!

Toph grinned in excitement, her embarrassment totally faded out of her system. "What's your name?" She asked out of a sudden, now suddenly spirited by the upcoming fight she's anticipating. "Would you rather run off from your problem, or would you face it?" Toph turns her head to Arche, just to let him see her grin, and she doesn't even know her pale green eyes meets directly towards Arche's.

"If you plan on running, then I'll settle your debt by hunting you and severely hurting you three times more pain than what you did to me. On the other hand, if you plan on joining me to fight off this so-called psycho...and if and ONLY IF the battle turns out to be fun...then I might consider the debt to be paid."

[[X]ue Fang]

For one insane moment he thought his hearing failed him when this midget, whose way of thinking seems to come from an entirely different universe altogether, started to show great interest in this psycho. Just to be sure, Arche blinked. Twice. But she did not take back her words. Not even a single letter.

"You know, rather than asking who it is I think—" Arche calmly pointed out while scanning the place for any hint of their expected pursuer, yet found none. Strange, he thought. Given the amount of time they have wasted arguing and beating each other up, surely that looney would have already caught up with them.

"—we should solely concentrate on getting out of here quickly. Err...my name's Arche Kraine and as I was saying—" Eyes still roaming around his surroundings, the rain wielder continued, unconsciously (more like in reflex) throwing out his name too as he would in normal occasions.

"—this way is the last I've seen that psycho go mad firing rocks everywhere. Well if you have to ask, I would rather my problem to leave me alone so I say—" Suddenly Arche blinked again, this time his full attention and her undivided gaze finally meeting on the same page. Hang on, was that an ultimatum he was this close to taking lightly?

And by lightly he means the first option, no questions asked! However, seeing Toph's face and knowing utterly well what that means, he knew he could do nothing to stop the grin that stretched across her face from getting what it wants and that is, without the shadow of a doubt, the latter of the two devils.

"—I'm sorry what was the third more sensible, less violent option again?" Arche has all the reason in the world to believe that under any circumstances, any child of his age nor any decent human being should not be threatened with the ultimatum of kill or be killed, particularly if there is a choice to walk away and be the bigger person anyway. In Toph's case, this matter does not appear to be negotiable at all.[/color]

[Sven]

"Stop being so damn safe-cautious, sissy!" Toph snapped, almost punching him too if it wasn't for the fact that she actually felt sorry for the dude. Not because of his rambles and seemingly danger-avoiding demeanor...but because of his footsteps. That's all. Toph can tell anyone's personality through how they step on her ground...and Arche isn't one of those people who likes smashing things like she does.

"You're a kid! Kids need to have fun, not to think way too much on what would've happen or could happen. What's with the blabberings?!" Everything Arche said doesn't seemed to register through her mind at all, except the part about the psycho. "The psycho could fire rocks??"

The blind one paused. NOW she wears a rather calm-seeming facial expression, mainly because she's currently working her mind, activating her mental capability for the first time today. After a few moments, Toph burst out into a deafening laughter, and the fact that she cracked up out of a sudden only makes it more heart-stopping.

"That was ME, blockhead!" Still sniggering without restraint, the black-haired girl bellowed another wave of laughter. Pulling up one of her feet, Toph then smashed her heel towards the soild, creating a sort of a straight earth-styled domino, like a badger right under the soil digging its way in a fast speed.

"See?" She proved with a grin. The fact that she scared this guy out of his life only further made her happy. "So this psycho you're so terrified about, is me?? Bwahahahaha! AH-HAHAHAHHA!!!" Again with that crazy laugh of hers. She even had to hold her stomach all the while to keep herself standing.

When her laugh finally ceased though, the blind one was left with a question. "So this person I feel walking around here isn't the psycho at all?? Well, that's a bummer." She could still feel that person through the earth though, walking towards them. "Hey, WHO'S THERE?!"