Sokka walked up to the campsite, with many small twigs.
"Sokka, you were supposed to get firewood." Aang said.
"I did!" Sokka said being offended.
"Oh. Um...sorry..." Aang replied, putting his head down.
Just then Suki came out of her tent, in her Fire Nation outfit.
"Well? What do you think?" She asked.
Sokka dropped the twigs. He stared for a while. Aang's eyes followed the twigs falling and stared at them even after they had hit the ground.
"You okay?" Suki asked curiously. Sokka stared.
Katara causally walked up and stopped at her brother. Then, she slapped him so hard that he fell.
"What?" Sokka shouted.
They all laughed.
Katara looked at the fire, with an upset look.
"We're out of food... We can go to the village tomorrow!" She instantly seemed happy again.
"Ugh.........Fine." Sokka said lazily.
They all sat on logs near the fire. Suki leaned on Sokka. Aang sat next to Katara. Toph sat next to
Aang, then looked curiously.
"Where's Zuko?"
They all looked around, calling his name. There was no answer. They got up and started to look. Katara had a scared look.
"What if the Fire Nation caught him? Or if he ran away? What if this was all an act? What if he's in trouble? Maybe Azula caught him! Or Momo accidently-"
"I'm glad that you're worried, but I'm right here." Zuko's familiar voice answered.
"What? Never mind, where did you go?" She thought then quickly used her bending to freeze him to a tree. "You betrayed us didn't you?!" She accused.
"Not this again." Zuko said to himself. "We've been over this. I'm not going to betray you; I'm on your side. I went for a walk. Calm down Princess" He smiled. After Sokka started to say that he was like a prince, to get out of work; Zuko started a game by always treating them as royalty. Katara hated it, while Sokka was happy to get respect, even though it was sarcasm.
"Don't call me that!" Katara was angry, Zuko didn't seem to care. He broke the ice, and went on his knees.
"Yes your majesty."
Katara looked angry, but went back to the fire and sat down. Everyone followed. After a few hours of sitting and talking, they went to bed.
In the morning, Katara was first up, cleaning and getting herself ready to go to the village. Sokka began to pull his hair up. Zuko sat sadly, knowing that he couldn't go. Toph sat next to Zuko. Waited a few seconds of silence, and then punched him in the arm; causing him to fall off the log, and onto the dirt. Immediately, Toph stole his spot. Suki and Aang laughed.
"Ready?" Katara said eagerly.
"I'm gonna stay behind, incase Toph kills Zuko while your gone." Suki said staring at Zuko on the floor, knowing that he couldn't move Toph from his spot.
"Um… okay, we'll be back soon." Sokka said as they left.
At the village
As they walked through the village, they could hear many people trying to sell things to them. Katara went to buy the food, leaving the boys. Sokka looked around then grabbed Aang. They walked for a few minutes, when they noticed a line of men outside some building. They watched the line for a minute before they were interrupted.
"Get to the back of the line!" Men yelled at them. Sokka quickly grabbed Aang and ran behind a building.
"What's the line for Sokka?" Aang asked.
"Only one way to find out!" the line began to move and Sokka grabbed Aang and posed as if they were with a man in line. As they entered, they heard much noise. They couldn't see what was happening. Sokka again, grabbed Aang and pulled him. When they made it to the front of a large crowd they looked up to see a large stage; with poles; and girls on the poles; dancing, in small clothes. Aang's eyes were very big and Sokka just stared at one of the girls. Not in a perverted way, but he seemed to notice something, Aang looked at Sokka for a minute.
"Why are you staring at her like that?!" Aang said confused.
"Look." Sokka replied, still watching her. Aang noticed that she seemed to be staring at them, and then messed up her dance. She looked to her left then bit her lip and danced faster, still trying to see them.
"Why did she do that?" Aang looked at Sokka.
"I'm not sure, come on." Sokka replied, thinking deeply. They started to make their way to the door. Right before they opened the door, it was opened by Katara.
"What are you doing?" She said then looked up at the stage. She got an angry look and grabbed them both. As they walked, Katara lectured. After a minute they heard someone shouting at them.
"Um... Sir? Please stop! I need to talk to you!" A womanly voice shouted at them. When the looked behind them they saw the dancer from the mysterious place that they were recently at, the one who kept staring at them. She had boney legs and arms, and you could count her ribs easily. Some how she still managed to have a very large chest. She looked at Aang and whispered.
"You're the avatar, right?" Sokka, Aang and Katara all looked at each other with big eyes.