Sokka looked out the window of the carriage that was being pulled by a team of moose-dragons. It was lovely Fire Nation country. “I thought the nobles lived around the palace?” he asked.
“We do, my father lives there, but since the court is on a break because Zuko is with your sister visiting the South Pole, the nobles return to the estates,” Ty Lee tapped her chin. “We are going to my family’s getaway home!” Ty Lee smiled brightly. Sokka laughed and took her hand.
“I can hardly wait,” he kissed her and the acrobat blushed. “I bet there are wonderful trees and beautiful gardens and your parents are wonderful!”
“I have six sisters,” Ty Lee said.
“And your six sisters are…wait…” Sokka paused. “Six sisters? Six sisters! I can barely keep up with one!” Sokka shouted, which caused Ty Lee to giggle as she rested her head on his shoulder.
“And they all look exactly like me. We are all the spitting image of our mother,” Ty Lee said. “I’m the youngest.”
“So…what are your sisters’ names?” Sokka asked.
“Well,” Ty Lee paused. “There’s Azarni, she’s twenty-two. There’s Cho, she’s twenty-one. Ren who’s twenty, Lien is nineteen, Yuki is eighteen and Nyoko is seventeen, and you got me, who’s sixteen,” Ty Lee said.
Sokka blinked.
“Sokka? Sokka are you okay?” Ty Lee shook him a bit. “Sokka?”
“Wow,” was all he said.
“I know, that’s why I joined the circus, I didn’t want to be apart of a matching set. Anyways, stay away from Azarni; she’s vain. Cho is a real airhead, Ren is sensitive to a lot of things, and Lien is quite and prone to random bouts of laughter and fits of giggles. Yuki is really fun and she’s my favorite sister, Nyoko…Nyoko is…Daddy’s favorite,” Ty Lee said.
“Okay,” Sokka said.
“And we all have pink auras!” Ty Lee squealed clapping her hands.
“That’s great,” Sokka said as they pulled up to Ty Lee’s family’s house.
“And we are here!” Ty Lee said, as the carriage stopped and the pink clad acrobat got out.
“Ty Lee! Oh, my, Agni! Girls! Its Ty Lee!” a voice called out. There was a squeal of delight and six girls came and group hugged Ty Lee. The seven sisters jumped around squealing in delight.
“Ty Lee we have been so, so, so, so, worried about you since you joined Azula,” one girl said, she was slightly older than Ty Lee. With matching grey eyes and her hair was in two braids. “I always told you that Princess Azula was a nasty bitch,” the girl said. The other five nodded in agreement. Ty Lee blushed.
“Well…Azula has her good days and her bad days,” Ty Lee said.
“KYAA! Ty Lee I didn’t know you brought home a valet!” another girl said, dragging Sokka out of the carriage. “He looks Water Tribe,” the girl said.
“And so manly and tough,” the oldest girl agreed. Sokka puffed out his chest.
“I do look manly and tough don’t I?” he struck a pose. The six girls squealed. Ty Lee giggled embarrassedly as she looked at her feet allowing her sisters to clamor over Sokka.
“Ahem,” Ty Lee tried to get her sisters to pay attention to her.
“Ladies, ladies, settle down,” Sokka said. The girls quieted and looked at him with big round grey eyes. “I already have a girlfriend.” There was a collective groan among the girls.
“Who is it?”
“Can we beat her up?”
“When will she dump you?”
“Is she Water Tribe?”
“Is she beautiful?”
“Is she the same girl that married the Fire Lord?”
“No, that’s his sister, Nyoko,” Ty Lee said. Nyoko looked at Ty Lee.
“The Fire Lord married his own sister? Like eeew!”  Nyoko rolled her eyes.
“No, Nyoko! Fire Lord Zuko married his,” Yuki pointed at Sokka. “Sister! Not Azula!”
“Oh,” Nyoko turned to Ty Lee. “Why didn’t you say that in the first place Ty Lee.”
“I tried,” Ty Lee muttered.
“Actually, Ty Lee is my girlfriend,” Sokka said. The girls burst into laughter.
“Ty Lee? Shy little Ty Lee? Whatever made you look at her twice?”
“Azarni!” Ty Lee snapped.
“Well its true, you are so plain!” Azarni flicked her long brown hair over her shoulder. “I don’t see why you try to deny it.”
Ty Lee’s lip quivered.
“Azarni that’s not very nice,” Yuki stated.
“Well its true,” Azarni shrugged. Sokka walked over to Ty Lee and wrapped his arm around her pulling her close.
“There, there, its okay Ty Lee,” he whispered as she whimper softly into his chest.
“So!” Cho pulled Sokka away from Ty Lee. “How long are you going to be staying in the Fire Nation? Maybe we can get to know you better,” Cho said.
“Yeah!” Lien agreed. Sokka gulped as the six sisters crowded around him. Ty Lee looked sadly at the mob of bodies for walking away.
Sokka gulped and tried to fine an escape route. “Look! There Fire Lord is training shirtless!” he pointed, the girls turned and squealed running in the direction he pointed and Sokka ran off. “Phew,” he wiped his brow. “Now to find Ty Lee,” he muttered and began to wonder the grounds.



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Ty Le was sitting on a rock crying. “Ty Lee?” Sokka asked softly.
“What do you want Sokka?” she hissed.
“I came looking for you?”
“My sisters aren’t enough for you?” she looked away bitterly. “This is exactly why I didn’t want to come back here, they always ruin everything and since I’m the youngest they always get to do what they want!” Ty Lee sighed.
“Ty Lee, I love you,” Sokka took her hands. “And I wish you wouldn’t feel ashamed about your sisters.”
“You don’t get it, you only have one sister. I have six! You are the oldest and I’m the youngest, and…my sisters look exactly like me!” Ty Lee sobbed. “I hate being apart of a matching set!”
“Well you aren’t,” Sokka pointed out.
“How am I not apart of a matching set?”
“You have me!” he grinned. Ty Lee giggled a bit. “You’re sisters are shallow, they went running off in some random direction I pointed to because I told them Zuko was training shirtless. Of course he always trains with my sister and if your sisters suddenly attacked him just to hug him to death, my sister would waterwhip their butts,” Sokka said. Ty Lee giggled softly.
“You could always make me feel better,” Ty Lee cupped his face. “Thanks Sokka,” she kissed him.
“Oh,” he blushed. “No problem,” he grinned.
“C’mon! Its time to meet Daddy!” Ty Lee grabbed his hand and dragged him off.
“Daddy?!”