Of Arrows And Fireballs
bandfic, crack/humour (various pairings), 3037 words
pg, avatar: the last airbender au
Where Ryeowook is a bison, Shindong is a lemur, and Heechul is bald.
Kangin is the first to awake and makes the shocking discovery that he was certainly not at home at all-he wasn’t snuggled next to Eeteuk on the bed, he couldn’t hear Heechul and Hankyung making disturbing noises in the next room like they usually did, and there were no screams from his not-so-civil members from the outside.
And then he opens his eyes wide to take in his surroundings-and he realizes that he wasn’t in Seoul at all; and certainly nowhere near his dorm either.
***
“Teuk, Teuk, Teuk, Teukie!” Kangin shouts as he tugs on their leaders arm violently. “Wake up, wake up, wake up!”
Eeteuk yawns, rolls over and continues sleeping. Kangin groans, and sits down on the ground in defeat. As he continues to stare at Eeteuk snore, he realizes that his leader had a sword strapped to his back. Kangin gapes and stares some more, wondering when Eeteuk had ever been into role playing, and why he hadn’t tried it out in their bedroom before.
Kangin sits, stares at Eeteuk, and assesses his situation once more. He’s in a giant, open field that was dotted with pretty flowers (as well as his sleeping group members); however there were no trees in sight, only mountain ranges that were so high that their peaks were hiding behind the clouds and a clear, sparkling lake a little to his right.
He was dressed in bright red clothing he never knew himself to have, and had golden tassels on his bright red shoes.
While still staring at Eeteuk, Kangin wonders what could have happened last night. There had been a storm, and plenty of lightning last night-but it had always been stormy in Seoul-what could have happened this time? He knew they should have stopped Donghae from playing with the light switches.
“Kangin?” someone calls from behind him, and he swerves around sharply, coming face to face with Yesung, who doesn’t do anything but strokes Kangin’s philtrum on impulse.
“Please, hyung,” Kangin says, rolling his eyes as he jerks away his face on instinct. “We have no time for this.”
“What’s going on, Kangin-ah? Why am I dressed like a tree?” Yesung cries as he gestures wildly at his brown and green clothing.
Kangin shrugs, and then screams as he catches sight of the enormous animal advancing on both of them. He screams and clutches Yesung’s arm, tugging it hard in an attempt to save him. “OH MY GOD, YESUNG, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? WE GOT TO GO, WE GOT TO SAVE EVERY-”
Yesung laughs deliriously at Kangin, and turns, enveloping the beast in a hug.
“THIS IS WOOKIE!” Yesung cries as he dances around the giant, furry beast, which makes Kangin stare at him and think: everyone’s going insane here.
Kangin watches his hyung stroke the creature all over, running his hands through its white hair. “What’s wrong with you, hyung? Have you been this deprived?”
“No, I’m serious,” Yesung says, patting the animal and climbing up onto his back. “I can understand animals for some reason. This is Wookie! Say hi to Wookie, Kangin-ah. No, don’t gape at me. Say hi. He’s a sky bison! Cute, isn’t he? And so nice to lie on.”
Kangin just stares with his jaw reaching the ground as Yesung continues talking. “And do you see that tiny lemur thingy over there up in the tree? That’s Shindong. It’s a bit harder to understand him because his voice is really squeaky and high, but I think that he’s looking for apples up there.”
Kangin just stares.
***
By the river bank, Heechul awakes too, and jumps up.
“Holy shit, I’m bald!” Heechul cries, running his hands over his head as he peers into the water for a clear reflection of himself. “Hmm, I don’t look too bad bald. Then again, I never look bad.”
Hankyung growls at him from behind. “You talk too much.”
“Hannie! You’re here too!” Heechul turns around excitedly, but then raises an eyebrow as he takes in Hankyung’s outfit. “Seriously, Hannie, I know you like red and all, but this is overkill.”
“Oh, go away, Heechul,” Hankyung rolls his eyes, tugging at his clothes consciously. “I woke up like this. At least I ain’t the one with the shaved head.”
Heechul smirks knowingly as he comes up close to Hankyung. “It’s turning you on, isn’t it, my new hairstyle?”
Hankyung guffaws at Heechul’s inflated sense of self and tells him giggling, “God, no. Your head’s too shiny for my liking. It’s radiating too much light; it’s practically blinding.”
“Hurrumph,” says Heechul.
***
When everyone finally awakes and come together just below Shindong the lemur’s apple tree; Eeteuk begins to address their serious situation that no one can make sense of-Henry and Zhou Mi had shown up as well, which surprised and delighted everyone, although it still didn’t change the fact that all of them were stranded somewhere far away from home.
“Well,” Eeteuk says, gesturing to the whole lot of them. “We have a problem.”
Ryeowook the sky bison snorts loudly, and Yesung translates, “He’s telling you to stop stating the obvious, hyung.”
Eeteuk ignores them and continues, “Does anyone have any ideas on how to get back home?”
Shindong squeaks for about 5 seconds, and everyone turns to Yesung, waiting expectantly for a translation.
“I don’t understand animals speaking in such high voices!” Yesung says defensively, and hides behind Ryeowook’s leg for protection.
Shindong makes a series of clicking noises and launches himself at Yesung’s hair.
Kibum can’t help but roll his eyes at this-what the hell was he doing here? He had a shoot back home!
Eeteuk groans-it was impossible to control his band mates. He says exasperatedly, “Well, any other suggestions?”
Eunhyuk is about to give another suggestion when Sungmin’s squeals cut him off. “Guys, guys!” Sungmin cries excitedly from the lake. “Look, there’s a man coming out of the water!”
“What man?” Everyone makes a rush for the lake, including Ryeowook, which results in excessive shaking of the ground. “Where’s the man?”
“There, there!” Donghae squeals while jumping up and down, and everyone stares at where he is pointing, and sure enough; there is a bearded old man rising out of the lake, drenched all over and sneezing like crazy.
“Haiiiiii,” Donghae is the first to greet the man, bouncing around him like an excited puppy dog. “Can you teach me how to do that? THAT WAS SO COOL.”
“And detrimental to one’s health,” the man wheezes, coughing violently. “I should really cut back on the dramatic entrances.”
“So, who are you?” Kangin asks suspiciously-meeting someone who could speak Korean in the middle of nowhere seemed more than a little fishy.
“My name is Uncle,” he tells them in between coughs. “I have been sent by the Supreme to teach you the ways of this world-because this is where you will be staying permanently. My ruler has told me to tell you that she has made the necessary arrangements for your new beginning in this land; apparently it was because you weren’t bonded enough back home.”
Kyuhyun gags, and whispers to Sungmin, “What kind of name is Uncle?”
Unfortunately, Uncle catches his words and points at him, “You. Come out right now-I will show everyone here just how much you can learn from this place.”
Kyuhyun smirks and moves forward to the face the old man.
“Oh my god,” Sungmin face palms, and Zhoumi pats him reassuringly on the back.
Donghae pinches Kibum excitedly, and Kibum smirks, “Kyu’s not gonna win this.”
“Gimme all you got, punk,” Uncle says as he takes up a fighting stance.
This causes Kyuhyun to guffaw loudly, but then he is serious again as he charges for Uncle, getting ready to land a punch on the old guy’s nose when-
He finds himself immobile, he can’t move anymore, and there is a coldness enveloping his whole body. Everyone around him gasps in awe as they applaud for Uncle-somehow he had managed to trap Kyuhyun in a block of ice.
“I am a water bender,” Uncle explains, setting Kyuhyun free as he starts to pace back and forth in front of the group. “I can will any liquid to do anything I want it to do.”
Kyuhyun shivers as he makes his way back to Sungmin. “Are you okay, Kyu?” Sungmin cries as he makes several fail attempts to dry Kyuhyun’s clothing. “You are seriously such a moron.”
Kyuhyun sniffles as he tries to protect whatever dignity he had left in him. “In my defense,” he huffs. “In my defense, he is an old guy!”
“There are four elements in this world,” Uncle continues solemnly. “Do any of you know what they are?”
“Sex,” Heechul voices out, and Siwon whacks him hard on the shoulder.
“Fishes!” Donghae cries happily, and nearly lists out all of the things that make him happy if not for Kibum’s hand clamping over his mouth tightly.
“Strawberries?” asks Eunhyuk, and looks at Uncle hopefully.
“Oh my god, you guys,” Henry rolls his eyes, appalled at the how ridiculous their answers were. “The four elements are fire, earth, water and air! Seriously, sometimes it’s so embarrassing to be associated with all of you.”
Uncle’s lips quirk up in a smile as he acknowledges Henry’s answer. “Yes, those are the four elements. Very good, young man-I see you’re a water bender like me!”
Everyone gasps again.
“Thank you, sir,” Henry flashes a bright smile at Uncle.
Uncle nods, and proceeds with his teachings. “All of you are benders of one of the four elements-and you are all going to train yourselves until you master your element.”
“For what?” Heechul explodes. “To save the world? This whole business is ridiculous-I’m going home right now and you are going to tell me how to do that, old man.”
Uncle looks at him, and is obviously displeased with what he sees because he scoffs and says, “Oh, and you’re the Avatar. You’re supposed to master all four of them.”
Heechul begins to protest, but Hankyung stops him, and whispers seriously, “You should have seriously been the lemur.”
Uncle turns back to rest of them and begins to sort them out into groups. “Alright, I want the rest of you sorted out-will the people in green please move next to the bison, and may I please have the people in red to my right, yes, yes, that’s right, and the orange guys in front of me, please! Okay, that’s perfect-yes, you blue people stay on my left.”
Eeteuk stares at his black clothes and then at everyone else’s-well this was queer, he wasn’t dressed in any of those colours; what could that mean? Was he the special one? Maybe they had assigned him something special-had they heard of his emo qualities? With that delightful thought in mind, he asks Uncle excitedly, “So, where do I go?”
Uncle stares at him, and gestures at the apple tree. “You can go hack at the tree till it falls.”
“What?” Eeteuk says, eyes glinting with excitement. “Oooh, am I a tree bender?”
Uncle stares at him, and the expression on his face screams is this guy serious? After five seconds, he realizes that Eeteuk hadn’t been kidding, so, with a no nonsense expression on his face, he tells Eeteuk, “No, you’re just the guy with the sword.”
Eeteuk cries and runs into Kangin’s arms.
***
“Hey, oh my god, guys!” Zhou Mi squeals, running around the lake towards Sungmin and Henry as he explores the limits of his abilities. “Look at my new jewelry!”
Sungmin screams and stops stirring up the lake for a while to catch Zhou Mi and demand to see his new jewelry-a pair of hoop earrings with intricate designs carved along the sides, glistening brightly in the sun.
“I fashioned it out of ice,” Zhou Mi explains proudly. “Pretty, isn’t it?”
“It’s gorgeous, Mimi,” Sungmin says happily as he passes them back to Zhoumi, all the while eyeing them a little too lovingly. “Make a pair for me?”
Henry sniggers next to them, dumbfounded by how insanely stupid his hyungs could be. “And have them melt in the sun? Goodness, hyungs, I don’t know why I keep you guys for company.”
Zhou Mi looks affronted, and Sungmin merely says calmly, “Well then, we’ll move to the North Pole.”
“Oh, you guys are insane,” Henry says, and throws back his head and laughs.
***
“Don’t burn down that tree, Kangin,” Hankyung says warily while playing with a warm flame in his hands. “Stop shooting fire everywhere-oh my god, no don’t shoot at me! Why are you so angry, anyway?”
“Ugh,” Kangin replies, and shoots a jet of hot flames into the sky.
“I know why he’s so upset,” Kyuhyun says tauntingly as he juggles a few burning apples, throwing them at Shindong the lemur once they are roasted and good enough to eat.
“Don’t tempt me,” Kangin growls, and continues shooting fire everywhere. “I could kill you.”
“No you couldn’t,” Kyuhyun laughs, still feeding Shindong the lemur, throwing roasted apple after roasted apple into its mouth, “If you did, Eeteuk really wouldn’t-”
Kangin pounces onto Kyuhyun, and both of them roll around on the ground as Hankyung watches on, amused.
Somehow, Kyuhyun still manages to talk at the same time, and shouts out, “He’s just upset because Eeteuk said no when he asked him to bring the sword home.”
Kangin groans, and gives up fighting Kyuhyun. He sits up, releasing Kyuhyun from his tight grip, and rests against a tree, depressed.
Just then, Eeteuk walks by with his sword and tells Kangin a little warily, “Hi, I’ve been sent to cut down this tree. No, I will not use the sword for other purposes.”
Kangin just groans again, and he runs away from the embarrassment that had begun showing on his cheeks.
Kyuhyun smirks, Hankyung laughs hysterically, and even Shindong the lemur is making high pitched noises that sound like laughter. Eeteuk sighs loudly, before finally beginning to hone his sword skills.
***
“Eh,” Heechul says, watching Eunhyuk and Donghae chase each other on balls of air. “How do you guys do that?”
“Just talk to the air, hyung,” Donghae replies as he laughs gleefully after both his and Eunhyuk’s air balls collide, causing a reaction much a kin to when bumper cars crash. “It’ll listen to you.”
“Hmmm,” Heechul says, and decides that he should try it. Hi, he thinks, directing his thoughts to the air around him. Will you carry me around on a ball of air, too?
When nothing happens, Heechul shouts “Screw this!” and walks off to find Hankyung-he just wanted to go home, really. It was all stupid, learning how to control air and all the other nonsensical elements. It was too hard work for him.
Donghae and Eunhyuk watch him go, and Eunhyuk asks, “How come he’s the only one who’s bald?”
Donghae shrugs his shoulders, and says, “Let’s go ask Kibum,” and the both of them drift off together.
***
“Hey, so why’s Heechul hyung bald?” Donghae whispers to Kibum, who is earth-bending huge holes in the ground.
“I think its cause he’s the Avatar,” Kibum tells him solemnly, gesturing at Heechul with Hankyung and Siwon a few metres away from them. “He needs to spend all his time honing his skills, apparently, so that he can protect the universe if needed-so he can’t spend time on daily grooming and stuff.”
“Oooh,” Eunhyuk says, fascinated. “But all Heechul hyung does is groom himself.”
Kibum chuckles, “I know right-he’d never make it.”
Donghae laughs, and then runs over to Heechul to give some words of encouragement, but makes a startling observation once he comes close enough to Heechul’s shiny new head.
“Hyung,” he says, tapping at Heechul’s head fondly. “Your head looks like an egg.”
***
“This is so stupid, Wookie,” Yesung whines as he pushes a few rocks here and there. “I miss home. I miss my bed. I miss your voice.”
The sky bison nuzzles him and makes a deep noise from the back of its throat.
Yesung smiles and lies back happily against Ryeowook’s legs. “Aww, thanks Wookie-you’ve always been nice to lie against.”
Ryeowook snorts; and Yesung kisses its nose.
***
“So, are we really not returning to Seoul?” Siwon asks as the fifteen of them watch the sunset together after a grueling day of training.
“Go ask him,” Heechul grumbles, looking toward Uncle, who was practicing a series of dramatic entrances down by the lake. “He’s probably the only one who knows how to get us back.”
“Um, maybe it’s best if we stay here, hyung.”
This comment, to everyone’s surprise, is made by Kibum.
“Kibummie!” Donghae cries, and launches himself at Kibum happily. “You don’t want to return to Seoul to act anymore?”
“Nah, I think I’d rather spend time with you guys,” Kibum grins sheepishly. “I’ve been away for far too long, haven’t I?”
This time it is Eeteuk who tackles Kibum, delighted because Kibum has finally decided to return to them after such a long time away-and happy that it was the fifteen of them once again, one big happy family, like how it should have always been.
“I don’t think we have much of a choice, anyway,” Henry smiles, lying back against Ryeowook comfortably.
“Poor Wookie and Shindong will never be able to talk, though,” says Yesung thoughtfully, then another though strikes him and he begins freaking out.“And how am I supposed to make out with a sky bison? Oh my god, what are we going to do, Wookie?”
Everyone can’t help but laugh at this, which infuriates Yesung at first, but he soon lightens up and figures that it can’t be that bad, smooching a sky bison the size of a whale.
“So, I guess it is here we stay,” Eeteuk announces, still overjoyed to have everyone back together again.
And all of them stay quiet and satisfied, watching the sun descend beyond the horizon, glad to have each other’s company-for now, and for as long as they wanted to.
A/N: This was my first idea for the miracle competition but it didn't make much sense so... ): thanks teexsaurus ,fillupmyheart , stanleee and paper_berries for all your help <3 this is for you guys :D
um, and in case anyone wants to know, this is how ryeowook looks like, and shindong too, lol. XD oooh, and heechul's hair is supposed to something like... this.
GO CHECK OUT THE SERIES BECAUSE ITS AWESOME. okay thank you guys for reading <33 OTL if this didn't make sense ;___; i'm sorry!
pg, avatar: the last airbender au
Where Ryeowook is a bison, Shindong is a lemur, and Heechul is bald.
Kangin is the first to awake and makes the shocking discovery that he was certainly not at home at all-he wasn’t snuggled next to Eeteuk on the bed, he couldn’t hear Heechul and Hankyung making disturbing noises in the next room like they usually did, and there were no screams from his not-so-civil members from the outside.
And then he opens his eyes wide to take in his surroundings-and he realizes that he wasn’t in Seoul at all; and certainly nowhere near his dorm either.
***
“Teuk, Teuk, Teuk, Teukie!” Kangin shouts as he tugs on their leaders arm violently. “Wake up, wake up, wake up!”
Eeteuk yawns, rolls over and continues sleeping. Kangin groans, and sits down on the ground in defeat. As he continues to stare at Eeteuk snore, he realizes that his leader had a sword strapped to his back. Kangin gapes and stares some more, wondering when Eeteuk had ever been into role playing, and why he hadn’t tried it out in their bedroom before.
Kangin sits, stares at Eeteuk, and assesses his situation once more. He’s in a giant, open field that was dotted with pretty flowers (as well as his sleeping group members); however there were no trees in sight, only mountain ranges that were so high that their peaks were hiding behind the clouds and a clear, sparkling lake a little to his right.
He was dressed in bright red clothing he never knew himself to have, and had golden tassels on his bright red shoes.
While still staring at Eeteuk, Kangin wonders what could have happened last night. There had been a storm, and plenty of lightning last night-but it had always been stormy in Seoul-what could have happened this time? He knew they should have stopped Donghae from playing with the light switches.
“Kangin?” someone calls from behind him, and he swerves around sharply, coming face to face with Yesung, who doesn’t do anything but strokes Kangin’s philtrum on impulse.
“Please, hyung,” Kangin says, rolling his eyes as he jerks away his face on instinct. “We have no time for this.”
“What’s going on, Kangin-ah? Why am I dressed like a tree?” Yesung cries as he gestures wildly at his brown and green clothing.
Kangin shrugs, and then screams as he catches sight of the enormous animal advancing on both of them. He screams and clutches Yesung’s arm, tugging it hard in an attempt to save him. “OH MY GOD, YESUNG, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? WE GOT TO GO, WE GOT TO SAVE EVERY-”
Yesung laughs deliriously at Kangin, and turns, enveloping the beast in a hug.
“THIS IS WOOKIE!” Yesung cries as he dances around the giant, furry beast, which makes Kangin stare at him and think: everyone’s going insane here.
Kangin watches his hyung stroke the creature all over, running his hands through its white hair. “What’s wrong with you, hyung? Have you been this deprived?”
“No, I’m serious,” Yesung says, patting the animal and climbing up onto his back. “I can understand animals for some reason. This is Wookie! Say hi to Wookie, Kangin-ah. No, don’t gape at me. Say hi. He’s a sky bison! Cute, isn’t he? And so nice to lie on.”
Kangin just stares with his jaw reaching the ground as Yesung continues talking. “And do you see that tiny lemur thingy over there up in the tree? That’s Shindong. It’s a bit harder to understand him because his voice is really squeaky and high, but I think that he’s looking for apples up there.”
Kangin just stares.
***
By the river bank, Heechul awakes too, and jumps up.
“Holy shit, I’m bald!” Heechul cries, running his hands over his head as he peers into the water for a clear reflection of himself. “Hmm, I don’t look too bad bald. Then again, I never look bad.”
Hankyung growls at him from behind. “You talk too much.”
“Hannie! You’re here too!” Heechul turns around excitedly, but then raises an eyebrow as he takes in Hankyung’s outfit. “Seriously, Hannie, I know you like red and all, but this is overkill.”
“Oh, go away, Heechul,” Hankyung rolls his eyes, tugging at his clothes consciously. “I woke up like this. At least I ain’t the one with the shaved head.”
Heechul smirks knowingly as he comes up close to Hankyung. “It’s turning you on, isn’t it, my new hairstyle?”
Hankyung guffaws at Heechul’s inflated sense of self and tells him giggling, “God, no. Your head’s too shiny for my liking. It’s radiating too much light; it’s practically blinding.”
“Hurrumph,” says Heechul.
***
When everyone finally awakes and come together just below Shindong the lemur’s apple tree; Eeteuk begins to address their serious situation that no one can make sense of-Henry and Zhou Mi had shown up as well, which surprised and delighted everyone, although it still didn’t change the fact that all of them were stranded somewhere far away from home.
“Well,” Eeteuk says, gesturing to the whole lot of them. “We have a problem.”
Ryeowook the sky bison snorts loudly, and Yesung translates, “He’s telling you to stop stating the obvious, hyung.”
Eeteuk ignores them and continues, “Does anyone have any ideas on how to get back home?”
Shindong squeaks for about 5 seconds, and everyone turns to Yesung, waiting expectantly for a translation.
“I don’t understand animals speaking in such high voices!” Yesung says defensively, and hides behind Ryeowook’s leg for protection.
Shindong makes a series of clicking noises and launches himself at Yesung’s hair.
Kibum can’t help but roll his eyes at this-what the hell was he doing here? He had a shoot back home!
Eeteuk groans-it was impossible to control his band mates. He says exasperatedly, “Well, any other suggestions?”
Eunhyuk is about to give another suggestion when Sungmin’s squeals cut him off. “Guys, guys!” Sungmin cries excitedly from the lake. “Look, there’s a man coming out of the water!”
“What man?” Everyone makes a rush for the lake, including Ryeowook, which results in excessive shaking of the ground. “Where’s the man?”
“There, there!” Donghae squeals while jumping up and down, and everyone stares at where he is pointing, and sure enough; there is a bearded old man rising out of the lake, drenched all over and sneezing like crazy.
“Haiiiiii,” Donghae is the first to greet the man, bouncing around him like an excited puppy dog. “Can you teach me how to do that? THAT WAS SO COOL.”
“And detrimental to one’s health,” the man wheezes, coughing violently. “I should really cut back on the dramatic entrances.”
“So, who are you?” Kangin asks suspiciously-meeting someone who could speak Korean in the middle of nowhere seemed more than a little fishy.
“My name is Uncle,” he tells them in between coughs. “I have been sent by the Supreme to teach you the ways of this world-because this is where you will be staying permanently. My ruler has told me to tell you that she has made the necessary arrangements for your new beginning in this land; apparently it was because you weren’t bonded enough back home.”
Kyuhyun gags, and whispers to Sungmin, “What kind of name is Uncle?”
Unfortunately, Uncle catches his words and points at him, “You. Come out right now-I will show everyone here just how much you can learn from this place.”
Kyuhyun smirks and moves forward to the face the old man.
“Oh my god,” Sungmin face palms, and Zhoumi pats him reassuringly on the back.
Donghae pinches Kibum excitedly, and Kibum smirks, “Kyu’s not gonna win this.”
“Gimme all you got, punk,” Uncle says as he takes up a fighting stance.
This causes Kyuhyun to guffaw loudly, but then he is serious again as he charges for Uncle, getting ready to land a punch on the old guy’s nose when-
He finds himself immobile, he can’t move anymore, and there is a coldness enveloping his whole body. Everyone around him gasps in awe as they applaud for Uncle-somehow he had managed to trap Kyuhyun in a block of ice.
“I am a water bender,” Uncle explains, setting Kyuhyun free as he starts to pace back and forth in front of the group. “I can will any liquid to do anything I want it to do.”
Kyuhyun shivers as he makes his way back to Sungmin. “Are you okay, Kyu?” Sungmin cries as he makes several fail attempts to dry Kyuhyun’s clothing. “You are seriously such a moron.”
Kyuhyun sniffles as he tries to protect whatever dignity he had left in him. “In my defense,” he huffs. “In my defense, he is an old guy!”
“There are four elements in this world,” Uncle continues solemnly. “Do any of you know what they are?”
“Sex,” Heechul voices out, and Siwon whacks him hard on the shoulder.
“Fishes!” Donghae cries happily, and nearly lists out all of the things that make him happy if not for Kibum’s hand clamping over his mouth tightly.
“Strawberries?” asks Eunhyuk, and looks at Uncle hopefully.
“Oh my god, you guys,” Henry rolls his eyes, appalled at the how ridiculous their answers were. “The four elements are fire, earth, water and air! Seriously, sometimes it’s so embarrassing to be associated with all of you.”
Uncle’s lips quirk up in a smile as he acknowledges Henry’s answer. “Yes, those are the four elements. Very good, young man-I see you’re a water bender like me!”
Everyone gasps again.
“Thank you, sir,” Henry flashes a bright smile at Uncle.
Uncle nods, and proceeds with his teachings. “All of you are benders of one of the four elements-and you are all going to train yourselves until you master your element.”
“For what?” Heechul explodes. “To save the world? This whole business is ridiculous-I’m going home right now and you are going to tell me how to do that, old man.”
Uncle looks at him, and is obviously displeased with what he sees because he scoffs and says, “Oh, and you’re the Avatar. You’re supposed to master all four of them.”
Heechul begins to protest, but Hankyung stops him, and whispers seriously, “You should have seriously been the lemur.”
Uncle turns back to rest of them and begins to sort them out into groups. “Alright, I want the rest of you sorted out-will the people in green please move next to the bison, and may I please have the people in red to my right, yes, yes, that’s right, and the orange guys in front of me, please! Okay, that’s perfect-yes, you blue people stay on my left.”
Eeteuk stares at his black clothes and then at everyone else’s-well this was queer, he wasn’t dressed in any of those colours; what could that mean? Was he the special one? Maybe they had assigned him something special-had they heard of his emo qualities? With that delightful thought in mind, he asks Uncle excitedly, “So, where do I go?”
Uncle stares at him, and gestures at the apple tree. “You can go hack at the tree till it falls.”
“What?” Eeteuk says, eyes glinting with excitement. “Oooh, am I a tree bender?”
Uncle stares at him, and the expression on his face screams is this guy serious? After five seconds, he realizes that Eeteuk hadn’t been kidding, so, with a no nonsense expression on his face, he tells Eeteuk, “No, you’re just the guy with the sword.”
Eeteuk cries and runs into Kangin’s arms.
***
“Hey, oh my god, guys!” Zhou Mi squeals, running around the lake towards Sungmin and Henry as he explores the limits of his abilities. “Look at my new jewelry!”
Sungmin screams and stops stirring up the lake for a while to catch Zhou Mi and demand to see his new jewelry-a pair of hoop earrings with intricate designs carved along the sides, glistening brightly in the sun.
“I fashioned it out of ice,” Zhou Mi explains proudly. “Pretty, isn’t it?”
“It’s gorgeous, Mimi,” Sungmin says happily as he passes them back to Zhoumi, all the while eyeing them a little too lovingly. “Make a pair for me?”
Henry sniggers next to them, dumbfounded by how insanely stupid his hyungs could be. “And have them melt in the sun? Goodness, hyungs, I don’t know why I keep you guys for company.”
Zhou Mi looks affronted, and Sungmin merely says calmly, “Well then, we’ll move to the North Pole.”
“Oh, you guys are insane,” Henry says, and throws back his head and laughs.
***
“Don’t burn down that tree, Kangin,” Hankyung says warily while playing with a warm flame in his hands. “Stop shooting fire everywhere-oh my god, no don’t shoot at me! Why are you so angry, anyway?”
“Ugh,” Kangin replies, and shoots a jet of hot flames into the sky.
“I know why he’s so upset,” Kyuhyun says tauntingly as he juggles a few burning apples, throwing them at Shindong the lemur once they are roasted and good enough to eat.
“Don’t tempt me,” Kangin growls, and continues shooting fire everywhere. “I could kill you.”
“No you couldn’t,” Kyuhyun laughs, still feeding Shindong the lemur, throwing roasted apple after roasted apple into its mouth, “If you did, Eeteuk really wouldn’t-”
Kangin pounces onto Kyuhyun, and both of them roll around on the ground as Hankyung watches on, amused.
Somehow, Kyuhyun still manages to talk at the same time, and shouts out, “He’s just upset because Eeteuk said no when he asked him to bring the sword home.”
Kangin groans, and gives up fighting Kyuhyun. He sits up, releasing Kyuhyun from his tight grip, and rests against a tree, depressed.
Just then, Eeteuk walks by with his sword and tells Kangin a little warily, “Hi, I’ve been sent to cut down this tree. No, I will not use the sword for other purposes.”
Kangin just groans again, and he runs away from the embarrassment that had begun showing on his cheeks.
Kyuhyun smirks, Hankyung laughs hysterically, and even Shindong the lemur is making high pitched noises that sound like laughter. Eeteuk sighs loudly, before finally beginning to hone his sword skills.
***
“Eh,” Heechul says, watching Eunhyuk and Donghae chase each other on balls of air. “How do you guys do that?”
“Just talk to the air, hyung,” Donghae replies as he laughs gleefully after both his and Eunhyuk’s air balls collide, causing a reaction much a kin to when bumper cars crash. “It’ll listen to you.”
“Hmmm,” Heechul says, and decides that he should try it. Hi, he thinks, directing his thoughts to the air around him. Will you carry me around on a ball of air, too?
When nothing happens, Heechul shouts “Screw this!” and walks off to find Hankyung-he just wanted to go home, really. It was all stupid, learning how to control air and all the other nonsensical elements. It was too hard work for him.
Donghae and Eunhyuk watch him go, and Eunhyuk asks, “How come he’s the only one who’s bald?”
Donghae shrugs his shoulders, and says, “Let’s go ask Kibum,” and the both of them drift off together.
***
“Hey, so why’s Heechul hyung bald?” Donghae whispers to Kibum, who is earth-bending huge holes in the ground.
“I think its cause he’s the Avatar,” Kibum tells him solemnly, gesturing at Heechul with Hankyung and Siwon a few metres away from them. “He needs to spend all his time honing his skills, apparently, so that he can protect the universe if needed-so he can’t spend time on daily grooming and stuff.”
“Oooh,” Eunhyuk says, fascinated. “But all Heechul hyung does is groom himself.”
Kibum chuckles, “I know right-he’d never make it.”
Donghae laughs, and then runs over to Heechul to give some words of encouragement, but makes a startling observation once he comes close enough to Heechul’s shiny new head.
“Hyung,” he says, tapping at Heechul’s head fondly. “Your head looks like an egg.”
***
“This is so stupid, Wookie,” Yesung whines as he pushes a few rocks here and there. “I miss home. I miss my bed. I miss your voice.”
The sky bison nuzzles him and makes a deep noise from the back of its throat.
Yesung smiles and lies back happily against Ryeowook’s legs. “Aww, thanks Wookie-you’ve always been nice to lie against.”
Ryeowook snorts; and Yesung kisses its nose.
***
“So, are we really not returning to Seoul?” Siwon asks as the fifteen of them watch the sunset together after a grueling day of training.
“Go ask him,” Heechul grumbles, looking toward Uncle, who was practicing a series of dramatic entrances down by the lake. “He’s probably the only one who knows how to get us back.”
“Um, maybe it’s best if we stay here, hyung.”
This comment, to everyone’s surprise, is made by Kibum.
“Kibummie!” Donghae cries, and launches himself at Kibum happily. “You don’t want to return to Seoul to act anymore?”
“Nah, I think I’d rather spend time with you guys,” Kibum grins sheepishly. “I’ve been away for far too long, haven’t I?”
This time it is Eeteuk who tackles Kibum, delighted because Kibum has finally decided to return to them after such a long time away-and happy that it was the fifteen of them once again, one big happy family, like how it should have always been.
“I don’t think we have much of a choice, anyway,” Henry smiles, lying back against Ryeowook comfortably.
“Poor Wookie and Shindong will never be able to talk, though,” says Yesung thoughtfully, then another though strikes him and he begins freaking out.“And how am I supposed to make out with a sky bison? Oh my god, what are we going to do, Wookie?”
Everyone can’t help but laugh at this, which infuriates Yesung at first, but he soon lightens up and figures that it can’t be that bad, smooching a sky bison the size of a whale.
“So, I guess it is here we stay,” Eeteuk announces, still overjoyed to have everyone back together again.
And all of them stay quiet and satisfied, watching the sun descend beyond the horizon, glad to have each other’s company-for now, and for as long as they wanted to.
A/N: This was my first idea for the miracle competition but it didn't make much sense so... ): thanks teexsaurus ,fillupmyheart , stanleee and paper_berries for all your help <3 this is for you guys :D
um, and in case anyone wants to know, this is how ryeowook looks like, and shindong too, lol. XD oooh, and heechul's hair is supposed to something like... this.
GO CHECK OUT THE SERIES BECAUSE ITS AWESOME. okay thank you guys for reading <33 OTL if this didn't make sense ;___; i'm sorry!