Avatar The Last Airbender Fan Fiction ❯ Fire Flakes ❯ Audition ( Chapter 4 )

Title: Audition

Author: Sephira jo

Rating: G

Warning: Focuses on Mai and Ty Lee and Azula.

Author's Notes: How Ty Lee made Center Ring

 

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar; I'm not making any money off of this.

 

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The first thing the Circus Master had said was indicative of everyone's first reaction to her. "We won't hire war-babies-," had been the first thing out of his mouth. And Ty Lee stood there and stared him straight in the eyes. It was the first thing everyone thought - everyone since she had run off.

 

Mixed heritage had never served her well. It rendered her permanently out of place in both the Court and the Royal Academy for Girls, and now here was a pompous ring master shuffling her off as a daughter of some poor Earth Kingdom woman raped by passing soldiers.

 

"I'm not a war-baby," Ty Lee said, with more force than normal. "And you haven't seen what I can do yet."

 

The Circus Master made a dismissive motion with his hand and the small crowd that had gathered looked on. Show time. Ty Lee seemed to be made of nothing more solid than the silk she was wearing as she moved quickly. The crowd suddenly turned appreciating of her, the way she moved. She turned her attention on the old Circus Master whose burnt smelling hands gave him away as a Fire Bender. He didn't see it coming, because she ended up pulling him down by his legs from behind and there she stood, one foot on his chest, which was bent over her back, her arms on the ground. The stunned crowd applauded.

 

"I'm Ty Lee, and I can't help it that my mom was part of a tributary to a Fire Nation noble, now can I?" And the second foot touched his chest, "Now, you going to let me join the circus, or do I have to keep you on the ground?"

 

The Circus Master nodded dumbly, and Ty Lee joined the show.