Achievement Hunter: The Last Airbender
To: maevie
From: Your Secret Santa
Title: Achievement Hunter: The Last Airbender
Characters: Ryan, Geoff, Michael, Gavin, Jack, Ray, Lindsay, and special guest Edgar
Summary: Set in a modern-day universe, the Achievement Hunter gang have bending powers. In fact, Ryan is the Avatar. However, they take off for a night of goofing off in the name of friendship and the holidays.
Tonight was going to be epic.
Admittedly, tonight wasn’t really much special than any other time Ryan spent with his six best friends, but it was the principle. The Avatar hadn’t had a night off in months, and he was looking forward to relaxing and goofing off, if only for one awesome night.
He was finishing up with a quick tidy of his living room, having dismissed his servants for the night. While having servants was really cool, he wanted the night to be casual and not like the Avatar-centric social gatherings he was forced to throw every once and a while. As he finished, his small, black-and-white cat wandered into the room.
"Hello, Edgar," he greeted fondly, reaching down to stroke down its spine. It purred in response. "You ready for tonight?"
There was a knock on the door, and Edgar skittered away to hide from the visitors. Ryan smiled softly and went to open the door.
Before him was Geoff, who held up two large bottles of alcohol. “Yo, Avatar! You ready for this party to start!” He pushed past Ryan into the spacious living room. He stopped for a second before asking, “This place is about to get wrecked.”
Ryan chuckled. “Not literally, right? I don’t think anyone would appreciate such a disregard for money.”
Geoff turned slightly, just enough so Ryan could see a gleam of excitement in his eye. “No promises.”
He left to go put the bottles in the kitchen when Ryan heard a loud, “Bollocks!” from outside. Ryan opened the door to see Michael and Lindsay approaching, mildly annoyed and carrying food. Lindsay greeted Ryan and handed him a tin-foil covered pan before turning to help Gavin with whatever mess he had caused. Sure enough, the Brit was sprawled out on his back on the lawn, and he seemed to have given up on the idea of standing.
As Lindsay helped Gavin get up, Michael shook his head and turned to Ryan. “The idiot has mastered airbending for how long now? And he still can’t sneeze without giving himself a concussion.” He stepped past Ryan into the house to set down the two boxes of sodas he was carrying. Ryan watched Gavin and Lindsay for a few more seconds before following Michael to the kitchen.
Geoff had already gotten into the booze and was in the process of pouring two glasses for himself and Michael. Ryan set down the pan of what he realized were brownies, as he heard footsteps come in through the front door. He leaned around the corner to see the last two visitors, Jack and Ray, following Gavin and Lindsay inside. Jack held a plate of gingerbread cookies and Ray was holding a pie. Ryan greeted them and they brought their treats into the kitchen.
Ray grabbed a bottle of water and stood aside as Geoff set about pouring more alcohol. “Ready for a night of drunken assholes?” Ray asked Ryan, sipping the water.
Ryan smiled. “I hope so. I haven’t seen them get super drunk in months. I miss the morons.” Hearing this, Jack subtly bended some of Ray’s water and splashed it in Ryan’s face. “Hey!”
The first order of business was for the four drinking men to get a buzz, while Ryan and Ray stood aside, ordered and ate all of Jack’s cookies. It didn’t take long to accomplish either of these tasks, and they immediately moved into the living room to play some video games.
First they played two-on-two in Halo, but that quickly got boring. Ray had the brilliant idea to play games on the Kinect.
"Yes!" Gavin cheered. "I have an advantage over all of you as an airbender!" He grinned smugly at his friends.
"Yeah, but you have the disadvantage of being Gavin," Michael shot back, earning him a pout. "And the disadvantage that if you get too obnoxious, I’ll shoot flames into your eyeballs."
Jack laughed. “Airbender versus firebender. Because no one has ever seen that.”
So they played a few rounds of Kinect Adventures, with Lindsay and Ray, the two nonbenders, surprisingly doing the best. The pizza finally arrived, and Ryan brought it into the living room.
Despite having only been gone a minute and a half, he returned to chaos. Geoff was sitting on Gavin, pinning him to the floor; Michael was screaming at the Kinect about it not tracking his movements; Ray was beating him by a long shot; and neither Lindsay nor Jack were nowhere to be found.
"Seriously, guys?!" he exclaimed.
"Ryan, get him off!" Gavin screamed, squirming under Geoff.
"I’ll get up, buddy," Geoff said mischievously, patting Gavin’s back. He stood to reveal handcuffs made of rock formed around Gav’s wrists.
Ryan pinched the bridge of his nose. “Why did you bend a rock around Gavin’s wrists?” he asked as he undid Geoff’s handiwork. He formed the handcuffs into a rock and put it in his pocket. “Where’s Jack and Lindsay?” he asked.
"Kitchen, dunno," Ray replied, briefly diverting his attention and continuing to dominate in game.
"I’ll find them. Pizza’s here." He put the boxes on the coffee table and turned to go to the kitchen. "Who wants what to drink?" The others shouted back orders and he left to collect them.
He entered the kitchen to find Jack leaning over the table, tinkering with something. “Hey, Jack, food’s here. Have you seen Lindsay?”
Jack mumbled, “She said she’s not eating,” still absorbed in his work. Ryan set about collecting drinks when Jack jumped back and exclaimed in excitement. “It’s done!”
Ryan peered over and saw the most elaborate and beautiful gingerbread house he had ever seen. “Jack, you’ve been gone for five minutes. How did you create this so fast? And where did you even get the stuff to make that?”
Jack giggled. “I’m a master of house building.” He offered no other explanation and helped Ryan bring the drinks back out into the living room.
They all settled around to eat, and they put on some bad Christmas movie to watch during dinner. At some point, they made a drinking game out of it by taking a shot every time the movie used some horrible cliche. By the end of it, all the pizza had been eaten, and Michael, Gavin, Geoff, and Jack were drunk out of their mind.
At that time, Lindsay came bounding down the steps, holding Edgar in her arms. “Look who I found- hey! Did you guys eat without me?!” she exclaimed.
"Jack said you weren’t eating," Ryan replied, furrowing his brow.
She rolled her eyes. “I said I was going to find the cat, and to call me when food got here.” She smiled down at Edgar. “But you were worth it.”
Ryan broke out the desserts from the kitchen and they all dug in. Everyone agreed that Ray’s pie and Lindsay’s brownies had no equals in the entire world. Ryan put on a marathon of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
One by one, his friends passed out on the couch with varying degrees of sugar smeared to their faces. Ryan smiled over at his nearly-comatose friends. He bended some fire at the fireplace to warm up the room. Then he shut off the lights, lounged back in his big, comfy chair before dozing off himself.
Edgar was content with the household of sleeping giants and made himself comfortable on Lindsay’s lap. She stroked him softly in her sleep.
And it was a very great night indeed.
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