Post by kaitokatashi on Jun 9, 2010 16:05:14 GMT -6
“White…red…orange…yellow…green…blue…purple…red!” Beads slid down a string as if it was coated in grease and clacked together as they settled down to form an echelon of colors, and the young girl’s fingers dropped them into, what seemed to her was, a perfect sequence of colors. A few more slid down and joined their brothers and sisters, none of the same two colors next to each other; she absolutely hated that.
Ty Lee’s cinnamon eyes, perfectly matching her braided hair, twinkled as her fingers nimbly tied the loose ends of the string together, making the beaded loop big enough to slip over her wrist. The beads glinted in the lamplight of her room at the Royal Palace, sending small, faint bursts of color all over every time the soft glow hit them just right. Colors, colors everywhere, just like her life. Everyone had a color, even if they didn’t know it. She giggled as her fingers toyed with the beads, each color reminding her of someone different in her life.
While most people found it strange or funny that she could see the colors that surrounded everyone, but she found it strange and funny that they couldn’t. A person’s aura told everything about them, even if the person was a liar…much like Azula. Hers almost never changed, but what puzzled Ty Lee the most was why the Princess’ was the same color as someone who was completely at peace: blue. Sure, Azula used blue fire when she bent, but she was so calculating and…well, there was no other word for it…evil that a murky shade of dark gray or deep, burning red would suit her more. She looked pensively upward as she fiddled with the blue beads on her new bracelet, trying to figure out the reason for this; her face lit up as she realized that, despite the fact that the Princess was so horribly twisted that it scared her, Azula was cold, emotionless, hence the blue fire. It made sense! Her friend’s aura had been blue as long as she could remember and it had never changed, even when Azula got jealous and did things like push her into a pond for doing a better handstand, even though the Princess was good at so many other things. The one thing she was never able to understand was why Azula didn’t understand her need to show off. Didn’t Azula realize that she needed to show off, to prove that she was different than her six sisters who looked exactly like her? No, Azula wouldn’t understand that, not even if it was explained to her face. The Princess only saw Ty Lee’s antics as an attempt to show her up.
The people at the Circus, on the other hand, didn’t. They saw her as one of the best acrobats there, and the audience applauded every time she did something that seemed impossible. She wasn’t Ty Lee, one in a set of seven, there; she was Ty Lee, the star acrobat.
She laughed out loud again as she looked down at her bracelet to realize that Mai’s color wouldn’t be on her bracelet; no, all the beads were too brightly-colored for that. From what she’d seen in the palace kitchens, Mai was the color of dirty dishwater, a murky gray-brown. While the color of the water was almost disgusting, it seemed to suit her other friend very well; it almost seemed beautiful. Mai’s disposition bled through to her aura, and if anyone that knew her could see auras too, they’d agree. Mai was just bored by everything, even if they were going up against the Avatar and his friends…and the people hunting him.
Oh, that fight had been fun! People always seemed so surprised when she was able to knock them down or stop them from bending with a few jabs to select pressure points, but they didn’t realize how easy it was to do when you could see their auras. A lot of people she’d fought didn’t like her because of that, but it was all in good fun, right? Besides, it’s not like she disliked anyone she fought…
…especially Sokka. She blushed slightly when she realized that she’d put more orange beads on her bracelet than any other color, and that’s what he’d been: orange, like the brightly-colored koi in the palace pond. Of all the orange people she knew, his aura had been the brightest. From what she knew of him, he was very dedicated and loyal to his friends, passionate towards anything he did, and just a tad immature. It was a shame he had to be friends with the one person the Princess wanted to eliminate more than anyone else in the world.
As a matter of fact, all of Sokka’s friends had bright auras. Yellow for the Avatar, red for the Waterbending girl; they made sense. He was very mature for his age and at peace among all four elements, and she was overly full of love for the people she cared about. Personally, she didn’t understand why they had to fight, but Azula gave the orders and Ty Lee was never going to disobey the Princess again; still, trying out every battle technique she knew was fun.
She looked up as her room door opened, revealing the Princess with her ever present blue hue; she smiled brightly and held up her wrist. “Look what I made!”
Azula’s eyes narrowed, though her aura did not waver, and made a beckoning motion before turning around and walking away. Ty Lee’s smile relaxed when she realized that the Princess probably had some important news regarding the Avatar. Her body bent fluidly as her hands touched down on the ground, taking all of her weight as her feet lifted into the air; the beads on her bracelet clacked together slightly as she effortlessly walked out of the room on her hands. Azula might not like it, and Mai would find it boring, but she was the only one out of the three of them that could do it that well. Her smile widened again as she made her way down the hallway, thinking about other people she knew that would fit the colors on her bracelet.