Our trip lasts about a week, including the extra day from when we avoided passing over the great swamp. *I don't have time to deal with all that. I need to find and brain wash a beautiful blind girl.*
During our travel we hopped between earth kingdom villages until we caught wind of a tournament with the 'Blind Bandit'. Me and the girls joined the audience and watched things unfold in the arena until they offered to let people in the stands challenge her.
"I'll take her on!" I hop onto the stage. "Hope you're ready to lose that belt!"
"Dream on bozo!" She quips back.
*Same rules as the other masters but I'll use air bending to avoid being knocked out of the ring.*
I open up with a normal rock toss only to have a stone pillar launch me into the air. Of course I recover effortlessly with air bending, landing behind her catching her off guard. "You'll need to use more direct methods to deal with me."
From that moment on she kept using the exact moment I initiate an attack to try and deliver a blow, when she can't sense me she manages to always react in time to erect a wall to block the projectiles I launch at her.
The crowd begins booing because of how long the match is going on, but I disregard them as I continue growing more skilled. After a few more exchanges I decide to try my hands, or feet rather, at seismic sense. I pick it up relatively quickly but things aren't exactly clear. However, with it I don't get caught off guard and launched into the air any more, forcing the battles intensity to kick up a few notches, finally giving the audience a proper show.
Eventually I knock her from the ring, claiming the victory. Before she leaves I intercept her.
"Wait! I need to ask you something Toph!"
"How do you know my name?!" She screeches while standing on guard.
"I learned of it a long time ago. That's besides the point. I'm the Avatar, I want you to join my team."
"Nah, I'm more of a solo act."
"I can respect that, but the team just won't be complete without an earth bending master as good as you!" I take a step closer to her.
"But you beat me, you don't need me!"
"I didn't win, I used air bending to make the fight last longer so I could practice earth bending more. I want to practice with you outside the ring, where we can go all out without other elements as a handicap."
"You cheated!"
"It's the only way I stood a chance. Please! Join my team! If you want I can convince your parents even. They won't be able to say no."
"You think that. I'm leaving." She exits through a wall, sealing it behind her.
"Tch, stubborn girl. I should've just used blood bending to immobilize her and dominate her mind."
I say farewells to my girls before going out and finding the Beifong estate. While there I use blood bending on her parents and dominate their minds and wait for Toph to come inside.
"Hey Toph, I already convinced your parents. Ain't that right misses and mister Beifong?"
"Yeah, who better to look after our little earth bending champion than the Avatar himself." Her father replies.
Her mother hugs her, "You have fun with your new friends and enjoy the world baby."
"What? How'd you convince them? Something's not right here." She pulls me down by my collar.
Growing impatient I use blood bending to lock her in place and bend her spirit, making her mine as well. "There, that wasn't so hard, was it babe?"
"I can't wait to travel with you Avatar."
"My name is Sokka."
With that we depart, with a shedding Appa. *I could have cleaned him up but I want Azula, Ty Lee, and Mai. There's no time like today to finish off my harem. Of course they won't be the last, but they will complete my collection.*
As soon as the next day comes Toph wakes us up warning us of a moving rock slide. "Don't worry guys. It's just three more friends showing up. Once they get settled we can all celebrate together."
"Couldn't they come with a less noisy method." Toph complains.
"Yeah, no kidding, I had barely just fallen asleep." Katara Grumbles.
Once the vehicle arrives Azula and company come out riding giant lizards. Not interested in dragging things on I blood bend the three of them into submission and brain wash them. "That should do it. Let's take out anyone still alive in that vehicle and celebrate the coming together of all my precious girls."
Making quick work of the stragglers we make our way back to our camp ground. I head into my tent with the girls, consummating our union. Once all the girls were thoroughly exhausted we huddled up in a pile of bodies with the stench of lust flooding the room as we all fall asleep for the night.
Come morning we all get ready for the day and convene outside.
"So, Azula, I want you to continue your plans to use the drill to pierce the walls of Ba Sing Se. I'll ensure your success. You'll separate from your troops once you make it inside the city and I'll massacre them. Afterward we'll penetrate and directly infiltrate the castle, where I'll force the king to pass the position of ruler down to you, 'his secret daughter' and we'll dismantle the Dai Li."
"As you wish. I can't wait to crush those earth kingdom fools." She returns to her vehicle with Mai and Ty Lee.
*Jeez, now I've got so much free time. Maybe I'll take control of that library in the desert. Dig it up even, so it's easier to find. Maybe even try my hand at seeing how much I can try terraforming the desert. If I can't do a large enough area within a reasonable time I'll just settle for making a path to the library.*
Hopping on Appa my loyal mind slaves join me without a second thought as we head to the desert. Arriving at the landmark, the barely present ice pillar, we hit the nearby drink parlor.
"Yo!" I shout, earning the glares of the unwashed masses. "I'm the Avatar, I'm here in search of the library. If you have any information then feel free to step forward."
No one gets up. As I turn to leave I bump into a man carrying a bunch of scrolls. "My apologies good sir." I use air bending to gather the fallen scrolls and earth bending to help him back up. "Since you've just arrived, and you look the well read sort, you wouldn't happen to have any information on the library in the desert would you?"
"Oh, you're in luck my friend, I happen to have just returned from a failed expedition in search of just that library. If you wouldn't mind, let's take a seat and I can show you my notes." After ignoring and nodding at the man's incessant dribble he finally offers to be my guide, to which I immediately agree.
We leave on foot, instead of with Appa, so that I could put my path making to the test. Starting from the exit of the derelict little town I create a massive chunk of a walkway by solidifying the sand. From my single use of bending I managed to solidify roughly 200 by 200 feet square of sand into a flat plain. This was accomplished without the use of my Avatar state.
With the Avatar state I manage roughly octuple the range, at 1800 by 1800 feet. When I focused on making a narrow walkway it only reached about 2500 feet with a pathway width of 8 feet. With result like this I decided it best to continue making the 1800 square feet sections as they're more useful in the long run and only takes an inconsequential amount of extra time.
*This desert will be a great place to live if I remember to come back with my wives later and finish the job.*
After a few hours, and a couple course corrections, we finally come upon the library. Instead of climbing the single exposed tower I clear the sand from around the structure and solidify it to form walls around it. I create stairs down to the entrance and solidify the earth beneath it as well.
Entering the library through the front door the giant owl blocks our path. "I was wondering who it was making such a ruckus in the desert. I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave."
"I just uncovered your library and gave it a nice wall and stairs. I think I deserve to at least wander around."
"Both of those services were not requested nor wanted. Your kind is unwelcome here ever since your kind burned an entire section of our library."
"Oh yeah. That guys name was Zhao right? I killed him and half his fleet when he tried to kill Tui and La."
"It's that kind of behavior I detest. I will not ask you to leave again, of you still remain I will be forced to expel you myself!"
"Before I go, can I ask you a question?"
"I will humor a last request if it will make you leave without confrontation."
"Does your current form have flesh and blood, or is it still ethereal like a spirit?"
"A peculiar question. I suppose I currently have flesh and blood, however I don't know w..."
I blood bend him down and begin breaking his will, making him a subservient puppet. "The library is now open to all non-benders. Benders can enter but require a fox escort or a member of my personal guard to accompany them. The library shall continue collecting information from around the world and shall become the heart of the future 'Avatar University'. Farewell." I turn to leave while ignoring the anthropologist, whatever he's saying it matters little to me.
"Jeez, there's so much extra time until the drill hits Ba Sing Se. Maybe I can dominate the small town I started at and refresh the ice pillar with water from elsewhere. Maybe find an underground source." Talking to myself I follow the path I created back to the town. I arrive by nightfall.
I create a hole in the ground heading straight down about a thousand feet, revealing the ground water beneath. "Tch, why do I gotta be so lucky today of all days." I begrudgingly bend some water out and freeze it onto the landmark ice pillar, returning it to it's former glory.
While thinking about what to do next I hear murmurs of the people around me. "That's the Avatar, can you believe he just fixed up our ice spring like that?"
"That's so kind of him. He even made a well deep enough to reach the ground water."
"I can't wait to see what he does next. Maybe he'd even harden the sand in the town to make sturdy foundations for our homes."
"I wouldn't doubt it, didn't you see him making that solid path when he traveled out into the desert. He probably found some kind of natural resource for us to use and made the path so we could get there easier."
*I guess I'll get the town set-up with a solid foundation.* I shrug before getting to work, finishing my job before night fall. For the night I regroup with my ladies and spend the night with them.
Come the next day me and my ladies stakeout the perimeter of the village. We intercept the sand benders and either kill them or force them into subservience. The locals express mostly gratitude for my dealing with the lawless thieves that are responsible for 90% of the crime in the area, including but not limited to collecting 'protection' money from the locals.
The brainwashed sand benders were tasked with bringing more of their friends by to be further brainwashed or killed. By dinner time we finish the job, thoroughly cleansing the desert of it's most prominent criminal element. Hopping on Appa with my entourage I leave the brainwashed sand benders to uphold a basic standard of living for the people before heading to Ba Sing Se.
I arrive just in time to see Ty Lee destroy the earth benders sent to halt the drill. I hop off Appa and remain relatively out of sight until the drill finishes penetrating the wall. Once I see my girls disappear into the crowd on the other side of the wall I come in with my Avatar glow and murder all the fire nation troops. Taking full credit for the saving of the city.
Now inside the city I begin walking directly towards the castle, jumping into the air and flying over all obstacles. Reaching the palace I land with enough force to launch the guards around the door into the air with shattered legs. Slamming the doors open I use blood bending to force all the guards to their knees and freeze their insides, creating beautiful sculptures depicting subservience to their true God. Upon making it into the throne room I spot both the king and Long Fang. I force them both to me and destroy their minds, turning them into mere marionettes. "Tell them to stand down." I demand.
Long Fang command all the troops to lower their weapons and step aside. Allowing Azula and co easy access to the throne room with me, whereupon I enact the plan of having Azula be Queen of Ba Sing Se under the new name, Sapphire.
Sapphire, as far as the people know, is the earth kings daughter he had with a fire nation prisoner and as such kept her secret to the world. However, her talent and intelligence made him regret is neglect and he got to know her. Confident in her ability to rule her passed the throne on to her so that he could travel the world as a 'normal' person.
During the time the Dai Li were working on the higher ups around the kingdom pre public announcement, I was going through all the tea shops within the walls to see if I can locate the two most likely trouble makers.
"Uncle! Two jasmine and one oolong for table three." The banished prince announces. I walk in catching his eye as I take a seat. His fists clench on the tray he's carrying causing it to crack while he glares at me, a playful smirk on my face.
Since he doesn't want to take the initiative I will. "Waiter! I'd also like some tea, jasmine if you would."
He goes to the back and comes back out with a new tray. Following behind him is his uncle, who comes to my table. "To what do we owe the honor Avatar?"
"I was just wandering around the city and decided to stop for some tea, and would you look at what I've stumbled upon."
"If you'd like I can offer you a tea house in the upper ring, you could even serve tea in the palace if you do wish."
"It would be a great honor to serve tea in the palace however, I think it would be for the best to earn my way there. Things never feel as worthwhile when you don't earn them yourself after all. Wouldn't you agree?"
I shrug, "whatever floats your canoe. Before I go I want you to hear it from me first. There will be a coronation ceremony soon. Following which my marriage with the Earth Queen will take place. I do hope you'd be willing to serve tea at the wedding between your niece that has abandoned her country and the Avatar."
I stand and leave before he can fully process.
As I enter an alleyway I hear Zuko shout, "WHAT?!"