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Closing Celebration: Banquet Hall

At the end of the Championships, everyone filed through the great double doors of an enormous banquet hall. Hanging from the walls were tapestries with each nation’s emblem. Along one wall were the winning entries for art, videos, and writing contests. The Haikus Were enlarged so they could be read from wherever you sat. Along another wall were long tables covered in the delicacies of each nation and servants serving out plates and beverages. If you looked up at them carefully, you would recognize the NPC’s from the RP, though they never raised their eyes to you. You were the heroes and the attention was on you. 

The banquet tables were low in traditional Fire Nation style. They were groups into a giant square with cushions around the perimeter. The tables were lacquered black with red highlights. Black Dragons coiled up the red lacquered table legs and decorated the red satin cushions. Orange Phoenixes blazed in the four farthest corners of the table and upon each red dyed bamboo placemat. A huge yellow sun was lacquered on the center of the table. Surrounding it were items of the other three nations: green malachite stones carved as tigers and badgermoles, blue crystal bowls filled with fresh water, wooden statues of meditating monks painted to match their robed coloring.  

As the championship winners and hosts of the banquet, the leaders of the Fire Nation sat in the place of honor at the table. They sat on a cushioned bench to rtaise them slightly higher than the others in attendance, as was traditional in their culture. Fire Sage Uncle Iroh sat to the right of Fire Lord Gotag. The other Sages sat to the left. Everyone else wandered in and joined the conversation and celebration. 

Fire Sage Uncle Iroh started off the evening, “Hungry to talk with members of all the nations in one place? Starving for fun talk about your adventures? Tired of me preparing stupid puns? Then let’s talk and eat! Preferably not at the same time.” 

DAY 1

Scooz grinned playfully and leaned toward Uncle Iroh, “I was thinking with all Four Nations present that have been competing all summer, preferably not each other, but ok, not at the same time works too.” She chuckled. 

“We need cactus juice,” commented David. Then he called over his shoulder, “LOTS and LOTS of SWEET CACTUS JUICE!” The servants hurried about to accommodate. 

Taunt pouted, “Awe, Guess I can’t really spike the cactus juice now, can I?” Since cactus juice is already hallucinogenic, it obviously didn’t need spiking, thus spoiling his fun. 

David laughed, “Is that even possible?” 

DAY 2

Conzu marched in with all his military formality and sat, noting the current people present. ZTAD plunked down onto a cushion and greeted everyone and was soon joined by Nuncle Zero. Scooz grabbed some muffins and sent her advisor to report on something she was moderating, then she threw it at Nuncle Zero for the fun of it. 

Fire Lord Gotag caught it before it hit Nuncle Zero and popped it into his mouth, “Mmmm. Chocolate chip!” 

Scooz crosses her arms and harrumphs at Fire Lord Gotag, “You're no fun. Can't start a food fight if no one gets attacked with food.” Then a sly glint can be seen in her eye as she selects some pineapple disks for her plate and chuck some at the Fire Lord so that they go SQUISH on his head. Her laughter echoes in the room and other snicker with her. 

MediumRare sits down with a huge plate of lasagna and burgers. He contentedly engorges himself on them. BUUURRRRPPPP!!!! “S’cuse me,” he apologizes with a thick accept.

Uncle Iroh seemed far more surprised than the Fire Lord at Scooz’s pineapples. Into Scooz’s opened laughing maw, he shoved some hot peppers and then promptly hid her beverage, chuckling to himself. Taunt joined the fun and poured some BBQ sauce over her head, “What? I thought you needed a drink.” He grinned a big toothy grin.

Scooz was stunned at their ignorance as she wiped off the sauce, “I put jalapenos on my pizza, guys.” In the spirit of Air Nomads, the Earth Queen raised a banana pudding launcher and splatted both Fire Lord Gotag and Taunt.

Gotag was laughing at Taunt’s comment when his laughter was drawn up short at the sight of the banana pudding launcher. “No! My plan is ruined. I wanted Scooz to pay me for a drink. I need the extra cash.” He reaches over and pulls Taunt into the line of fire to avoid most of the pudding. However, Taunt manages to duck and slip out of range. As the pudding flies, Gotag dives behind Scooz. The pudding splats harmlessly onto the wall behind the Fire Lord’s seating place. He sneaks a hand around and grabs the butter to smoosh it into her hair.  

She turns quickly with asparagus spears in her hands, “OH! Here is some greens to go with that.” She throws them at him. 

“Would you like some ketchup with that?” Taunt offers as he twists some of the little packages and throws them randomly about. 

Gotag is a pro with the food fights at a banquet and deflects the asparagus with a pot. As he dodges back to his seat he grabs up some bread and chucks it at Taunt. Scooz managed to hit one of the ketchup packets with an asparagus spear and it exploded red all over the table. In a smooth martial arts leap (like in Matrix film), Taunt jumps back and snags his cushion as a blocking fort. He returns fire with the small bamboo cups of cream. Scooz tilts up her square of table to shield herself from the volley. From behind her shield she tosses tomato grenades in the general directions of Taunt and Gotag. 

Fire Lady ZKZ finally arrives to see how her husband was doing, “Hey people, what’s OOOOOO!” She too does a martial arts leap to evade the tomato grenades, a startled expression widening her eyes.

“Dang, I need some place to hide,” mutters Gotag, lacking a protective shield. He runs to the bathroom, tossing out the plunger as he closes the door. Then searches for more ammunition. 

Scooz laughs again at her victory then waves at ZKZ, “Hey ZKZ! Glad you could join us, lol. Feel free to catch anything you want to eat.” Her enjoyment clear on her face. 

Snickering evilly, Taunt sneaks over to the bathrooms and puts a combination lock on the outside of each. 

David is barely recovered from the cactus juice the day before. Seeing today’s food fight, he wonders if maybe he is still hallucinating. “Is it safe?” he asks uncertainly. 

“Sssuuurre…” says ZKZ as she firebends a fish that flies across the table. “dang, I couldn’t catch it.” She chooses a relatively safe place to sit. 

Scooz notes Taunt’s tactic, “Well that takes care of one problem.” She sharpens corn cobs into food daggers. 

A yell could be heard from inside the bathroom where Fire Lord Gotag is as he rattles the door. As host, he knows a few tricks to his banquet hall. He rings a bell of summoning, “Go my goatly minions!” A horde of goats charge down the door and chase after Taunt.

Taunt summons a giant whale that swallows the goats.  

“Aha! That’s was a trap!” Gotag cheers. He pulls a lever nearby that opens a trap door below both Taunt and the whale. A sploosh is heard as the whale is dropped into the ocean below the banquet hall’s overhang. 

“Goats!” exclaims ZKZ. “Well, that’s a new for me. I thought Ochibi would use the kagebushin no jutsu.”  

Gotag wipes the sweat from his brow and sighs, “I guess people just love ruining my plans, don’t they?” He chuckled. “No ZKZ, I gave up on clones.” 

To her husband, ZKZ calls, “OMG, why not? It was getting interesting!” She deftly catches a flying apple. 

Scooz peaks over her table. Her eyes grow wide at the scene of the whale before it drops out of sight. “What the heck is going on out here? I thought this was a food fight.” 

David jumps up as the whale falls through the trap door, “WOOPS! That is mine!” He ties a rope around the whale and walks it home. “C'mere Petunia, you've had enough excitements for today.” 

Relieved, ZKZ waves at the whale, “Bye bye Tunney.”

“Awe, no blubbered whale jerky? Would have made a great addition to the food being tossed around.” Scooz was falsely disappointed. Or was she? 

Gotag, seeing his Fire Lady waves briefly at her as he tosses lit candles at Scooz. 

Taunt had managed to catch himself and not fall into the ocean. He swings back up into the hall and throws corn. Gotag summons more goats to eat the corn from the floor. 

Young Ozai, brother of Uncle Iroh the Fire Sage, enters and scanned the buffet, the dining table and the chaos. “Why does nobody eat the fire cakes I baked for two hours for? I mean......bought, not baked........hehehehe.......yeah.” He snatched one up and sat next to his brother.  

Scooz continues the volley of food, having moved to cans of peas. Ozai joins the fun and throws a fire cake at Scooz, which knocks her edible ammunition from her hands. 

ZKZ watches carefully and manages to catch some fire cake as it goes by. “Mmmm… Spicy, I like it!” 

Taunt raises a brow in surprise, “Those are fire cakes?!” He then leans toward Gotag, “Psst! Where’d your goats get to when you need them?” They duck simultaneously as Scooz launches broccoli at them. 

Giving up, Ozai tries to call for some order, “come on guys! Can we all learn to get along?” 

“No,” states David. In the spirit and tradition of Air Nomad monks and in honor of Monk Gyatso, David airbends a cream pie and sends it flying at Ozai.  

Scooz looks over at Ozai as if he suddenly spouted three heads, “What are you talking about? This is perfectly normal social behavior for Gotag, Taunt and I.” She grins broadly.  

Meanwhile, Uncle Iroh retreats to the bathroom with the goats. “We need battle plans! Be out soon!” he calls from the safety of the bathroom. 

ZKZ hands Ozai some tissues and he wipes himself clean, “thank you Fire Lady.” Promptly he return fire to David by throwing bread at him. “Take THAT!” he shouts. 

“You are welcome,” replies ZKZ with royal courtesy. She raises her glass to catch some flying wine that she suspected came from a waterbender. “Oh Ozai, the cake is delicious by the way.” 

Taunt shoots pasta strings at everyone, not wanting to leave out any company at the table. And xxEarthGrlxx cheers, “WOOT! FOOD FIGHT!!!” A meatball gets launched back at Taunt from Scooz. 

ZKZ moves gracefully to avoid the pasta, “I already had pasta for lunch, thanks.” 

Taunt squeezes some tomatoes for the juice at Scooz, “Now all we need is some cheese!” With a sly little smile, ZKZ hands cheese to Taunt. “Oh, thanks!” He does some special spaghetti bending and laughs, “I hope everyone is enjoying our Taunt and Scooz spice!” 

Sadly, Scooz has to apologize and depart as family duty called. 

Anks arrives for the tail end of the food fight. “Food fight? Can’t we go outside with some drinks and watch the world end in the comet?” He smiles sarcastically then sighs, “Great… I was nearby but missed the party.” He waves to the departing Scooz.

DAY 3

Most people had left exhausted by this time, just as JessAangFTW entered. Seeing the food fight chaos she laughs maniacally, “MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!” She prepares to throw some food and looks about for a target. Her shoulders sag, “awww… nobody is here. Then she gets a devilish look in her eye and mashes the food into her own face. Why for? Nobody will ever know. 

Young Dandelions pokes in and sits to eat some mashed potatoes with her fingers. As she watches the craziness of JessAangFTW; she Sokka-slaps her palm into her brow. Then she moans as she realizes the stupidity of that action and the mashes potatoes now sticking to her own face. “Oops…”