The Price

Chapter one

"I am an indestructible master of war."- Disturbed

Seems to fit.

(I'm starting this as the old owl is asking for donations to the library)

Wan Shi Tong library...

Sokka stood there thinking about what he would give the spirit, as did not have any scrolls or books. He could give him a special knot when he spoke without thinking. "How about a few games of pai sho instead" Sokka asked Tong. The owl seemed to smile as he heard this.

"I haven't played a game of pai sho with anyone but my knowledge seekers in two hundred years, so you have a deal boy. Come with me." the owl says giddy as he walks away.

Tong leads Sokka to a quant room with a beautifully carved pai sho table. The bird then glows as she becomes a beautiful librarian type older woman with a pair of fairly large breasts and horned rim glasses. She was wearing a simple grey robe that only slightly hugged her figure and a pair of grey pants that hugged her midsized round ass. Her eyes remained the same color and were fairly large.

"It has been too long since I last took human form." The reviled woman says as she stretched out, somewhat distracting Sokka.

"Since you are the guest you may have the first move, it will be the best three out of five games." Tong tells Sokka snapping him out of his starring.

Sokka lays down the black louts' tile for his first move, Tong sets down a white lout's tile and the game begins. The two have a pleasant conversation as Sokka wins the first two games.

"Your mind is very impressive as well as your strategy. To easily counter the white louts' gambit and the red louts' reinforcement is something very few can do." Tong tells Sokka impressed.

Sokka's conscious was getting to him and as he beat her for the third time in a row he came clean.

"I came to your use your library to use your knowledge to end the war by killing the fire lord. I still intend to but what would I have to do to get your blessing to use your knowledge to just end the war. I'll give you my life if you ask for it but please allow me to escort the three kids with me to Ba Sing Se. I will then return here for you to take my life." Sokka says in a serious voice.

Tong knew that he was here too use her knowledge for war and she was going to Sokka use it for war. So her books from the fire nation would be avenged. But she would never have thought the boy would reveal the truth to her.

"Well then I might ask for your life and I might not. Sokka if you would allow me to look into your soul I will determine what you must give up." Tong tells Sokka.

"Do it!" Sokka tells Tong showing no fear or hesitation.

So Wan Shi Tong placed her right hand on Sokka's forehead between his eyes and she placed her left hand on his heart. Tongs eyes then began to glow white.

Using energy bending Tong peers into Sokka's soul; she sees the love he held for her new friend Yue, she sees the love and care he feels for his sister Katara, the brotherly relationship and love Sokka has for Toph and Aang, and she sees the strong bonds he has with both Appa and Momo.

Tong sees the respect Sokka had for his father and how he looks up to the man. She sees how Sokka would die for any of his friends and family without any hesitation or regret, even if it would only give them a few extra second of life. She sees how Sokka would fight his way out of hell to save his family.

Tong also sees how much Sokka values his warriors honor, as well as his regret of not being able to fight with his father and the other southern water tribe warriors. She sees his eagerness to earn glory in combat. She also saw how the boy did not truly hate the fire nation since Sokka knew what a soldier's job was.

Tong saw that Sokka knew of Sozin's true ambitions and his knowledge of air nomad culture and his disgust of it. She saw the burden of killing he took upon himself to keep his friends and family's hands clean of blood.

Tong saw the hours of work he did to build up his body after his father left since he did not have a teacher to train him in the more advanced ways of combat.

Tong made her decision.

A few minutes after tong finishes peering into Sokka's soul…

Sokka walked with Tong who did not bother to retake her spirit form again. She led the boy to his friends, after getting him some maps he would need and a few books to read well he was traveling. After finding the boys friends she gave them the day and time of the eclipse.

She looks at the professor who asks to stay in the library. She found the intelligent man extremely attractive. She tells him he may stay before leading the young kids out of the library

In the desert…

The gang leaves the library and when they were all out the building sinks under the sands. That is when they find Toph bleeding from a head wound and Appa no were in site. As Katara revives and heals the small young girl Aang stares at Toph.

"What happened to Appa?" Aang asks Toph with an angry tone in his voice.

Sokka did not like the look in the Aang's eyes and the tone in his voice. Sokka clench his fists as Aang begins to yell at Toph. Sokka stays his hand since he figured the boy just needed to get it out of his system.

But when Aang grabbed Toph who still being healed and started to shake her Sokka reacted and he held nothing back. Sokka grabs Aang's right shoulder and gave him a hard right hook to his face. Sokka's punch knocks Aang ten feet back as and caused the boy to drop Toph. Sokka catches the small girl before she hits the ground.

After Sokka gently sets Toph down he marches up to Aang and grabbed him by his shirt lifting the boy off his feet.

"Aang I am only telling you this once. I know how air benders treat woman outside the abbeys. That is not how the rest of the world treats woman. You never lay your hands on a woman in an aggressive manner outside of battle or sparring. If they attack you out side of war you can shove them to get away from them. But you never hit them or shake them or kick them." Sokka tells Aang before he hits him in the face again bot not as hard.

"Aang I love you like a brother and you have my blessing to court Katara. But if you ever lay a hand on her like you did with Toph, I do not care if I'm dead. I will come back to life and I will fucking put you in a world of hurt avatar or not. And when I send you the fucking hell I send you to will look like heaven when I'm done with you. Do you fucking understand me Aang?" Sokka tells Aang who just looks away from Sokka.

Angered Sokka send a hard strait punch to Aang's face and this blow opens a cut next Aang's right eye. The last airbenders blood flows down his face. Sokka then delivers a blow to the ribs on Aang's right side. Aang tries to hit Sokka back but Sokka blocks his arm and delivers a knees to Aang's gut.

"Do you fucking understand me you pathetic little boy?" Sokka asks as he hits Aang in the face again.

"Yes I do Sokka." Aang yells at Sokka.

Sokka then throws the young boy down and walks back to the girls.

"I'm going to look for Appa." Aang yells as he opens his glider and fly's off. The boys now has a second cut above his eye right eye poring blood into it.

The girls stare at Sokka with a little bit of fear as they watch/hear Sokka beating Aang. Katara would later heal the injuries Sokka inflicted on Aang. but Sokka tells her to leave scars on his face so he does not forget his lesson.

Ba Sing Se, two months later...

Sokka dove off Appa throwing his boomerang at Azula as she shot a lighting blast at Aang. The blow from the boomerang makes most of the blast missed Aang. But the young avatar still took a fare amount of damage from the shot. It seals up the boys seventh chakra but does not stop the boy's heart.

When Sokka lands he immediately draws his club preforming a quick draw like movement. Sokka used the club to smash the nearest Dai Li agent in the face. The blow kills the man instantly. Sokka then caught his returning boomerang with his left hand and used it to slash the throat of the next agent.

Sokka then began a crude and savage dance of death. Katara on the other hand after seeing that Aang was still breathing tried to get Appa to go back for Sokka. The large beast would not listen to her commands and Appa continued flying away.

Sokka kills his way to Iroh and broke the old man free of his rock prison. Sokka grabbed Iroh by his shoulders. "Take care of them." Sokka whispers into Iroh's ear. Sokka then showing an unbelievable amount of strength, Sokka twists his body and throws Iroh onto Appa's saddle. As the Sky bison flies farther away he picks up speed. Appa would not stop until he reached Chameleon Bay.

Sokka uses his boomerang to kill his tenth Dai lee agent when pain sprang from his left shoulder were a stiletto was now embedded. Sokka ignored the pain as a woman with along braid rushed at him. It seemed Ty lee had been freed from her earthy prison. Sokka responded to Ty lee's rush by hitting her fairly hard in the stomach with his club.

Ty lee goes down hard puking as Mai through several shrunken at Sokka. Sokka blocked most of shrunken with his club but two of them hit him in the stomach, barley missing the vital spots. In response Sokka throws his club at Mai which hit her hard in the head.

Thinking Sokka had killed the girl he loved since he was ten Zuko rushes at Sokka. Zuko swings a fire whip at Sokka well the boy imbeds the bladed end of his boomerang into a Dai Li agents chest.

Sokka seeing the attack coming uses his boomerang to pull the dead body in front of him to block the fire whip. Well shielded by the dead agent Sokka pulls out his machete. Pulling out his boomerang Sokka throws it at Zuko hitting the boy right in the face taking the boy out of the fight for now.

Sokka ducks a rock blade launched at his head but Sokka did not get low enough to dodge the blade entirely. The rock blade cuts into Sokka's right eye lacerating him from the top of his cheek to his eyebrow, lightly cutting throe the middle of his eyeball. Sokka ignorers the massive amount of pain he is in rushes at his new opponent bating away more stone blades with the blunt edge of his machete.

When Sokka was close enough to the man he cuts his head off. In return Sokka takes a stone blade to his left upper arm pining the arm to his side. Sokka switched his machete to his right hand and throws it at the agent who hit his arm. The blade of Sokka's machete buried itself into the man's heart.

Sokka draws his knife and buries it into the chest of another member of the Dai Lee. As Sokka runs to the fallen Zuko he throws his knife at an agent trying to block his path. The blade precise the chest of the woman. Sokka then grabs his boomerang from the ground. Using his favorite weapon Sokka proceeds to kill ten more agents using both His boomerang and his feet.

During this time Azula was checking on Ty lee. Azula may be a sadistic bitch but she did care about her friends and family. If they betrayed her she would probably go crazy. Azula finishes up before she runs to Mai and called her blue flames to her hands. She runs her hands just over the girls head.

Azula's blue fire was special; it had healing properties similar to that of water bending. After healing most of Mai's head injury the point she would have a small concussion. Azula picked up Sokka's club and walks to her brother.

Checking Zuko with her fire she sees that he only had a small concussion so she left him alone, it would give Mai a chance to spend time alone with Zuzu. Hefting the club back up again, Azula approaches Sokka on his blind side.

"Hey peasant" Azula yells at Sokka who turns his head and barley brings boomerang up to block his club. But because Sokka's boomerang was made of a hardened cast steel which is strong but brittle, Sokka's boomerang shatters as it meets the softer steel of his club. Azula's blow continues to strike Sokka in the head, knocking Sokka down.

Azula stares at the blood covered boy with attraction in her eyes. Azula was impressed by Sokka's tolerance to pain. She could have fun interrogating him. Most fire nation prisoners crack so quickly under her tender care that she did not get much enjoyment out of it. She has not gotten to where her new interrogation outfit yet.

Azula eyed the shards of Sokka's boomerang that were now imbedded in his chest. He would need to go to the hospital to get all his wounds fixed up. Azula then signals the Dai Lee to pick up the boy.

"Don't kill him he has information we will need on the strength and weaknesses of the avatar and his allies. My bolt of lightning only winged the little Avatar. Take him to the best hospital in Ba Sing Se after all the fire nation does take care of their prisoners. And make shore the doctors save the shards of his boomerang. Water tribe steel is quite strong and I want it to be analyzed for use in fire nation weapons. And get any survivors there to. Be careful with my friends and Zuzu." Azula orders the few Dai Lee that are left alive.

'Sokka's fighting style is crude but beautiful brutal. I think I might like this peasant. Too bad he is probably all brawn and no brain. He would make a fine mate if he had some intelligence.' Azula thinks to herself as her remaining Dai Li agents take the injured away.

An Earth kingdom hospital in the high security ward...

Sokka groaned as he regained consciousness, pain sprouting from all over his body especially his head.

"I see you are awake, Savage." Sokka just groaned as Azula spoke trying to cradle his head.

But Sokka could not move his arms because they were chained to his bed.

"You impressed me Sokka of the Southern Water Tribe and that is why you are still alive. You managed to kill thirty skilled earth benders, you damaged Ty lee's liver, gave both Zuzu and Mai concussions. All the while taking two shrunken to the abdomen, a stiletto to the left shoulder a rock blade to the left upper arm, you suffered a laceration to your right eye from upper cheek to eyebrow, shards of your boomerang lodged into your chest. O and I smashed your own club into your face. You will be back to full strength in two weeks according to the doctors witch also is quite impressive. I am going to be generous and let a doctor give you something to dull your pain. I will return tomorrow at dawn and you will answer some questions I have if you do not the eye bandages come off and I will also tape that eye open. I will also discontinue your pain killers." Azula tells Sokka.

Azula then impulsively kisses Sokka on the cheek before she walks away with a little extra swing in her hips. Her tight black pants showing off her large heart shaped ass. She also had no pantie lines.

'She has a very nice ass' Sokka thinks as the doctors enter the room. They then give Sokka a shot of something he goes to sleep felling no pain.

To be continued...

authors note: ever have a cut to the eye and I don't mean around your eye area I mean right on the eye. I have and it becomes very light sensitive and it's like using alcohol to clean a cut but does not go away. Needless to say it's very very painful. I would love some reviews giving me ideas as for how this should it would help's with writers block. As for what Wan Shi Tong asked for that will be revealed next time. I also purposefully changed Tong to a woman.