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The Lost Book

Chapter 2: The Blind Spot

"Tsu-what?" Was all Sokka could mutter before everything went blank. He looked around to find the grand sculptured buildings of the Northern Water Tribe. It couldn't be possible and yet, here he was shivering. It was nighttime, and the moon shone as fully and brightly as it did when…

"Sokka?" That voice sent chills down his spine. Its innocence and lightness. It wasn't possible; she died. Yet whose voice was this, then? Part of him didn't want to turn yet the other part did so he edged around to find the most beautiful silver haired blue-eyed princess.

"Yue!" Sokka cried as his arms flung to hug her. But almost as quickly as his joy peaked, it fell as he passed right through her. She wasn't part of this world anymore. But as he gazed at her, he didn't see her usual faces: joy, sadness, not even timidity. Yue's soft face became hardened with rage. Contorted, twisted, destructive even her voiced raised into a mixture of her and Aang in the Avatar State.

"You let me die!" Her finger pointed into him as if she was stabbing his heart. "I trusted you and you let me die!"

"No! It wasn't like that!" Sokka's strength left him as he fell to his knees. "I wanted nothing more than to protect you."

"Why didn't you then?" The voice became less Yue and more Avatar.

"I-I couldn't stop you; you wanted to do this."

The Moon became filled with blood. Her blood.

"Then you should have tried harder. Look at me! I'm nothing more than a spirit. I can't eat, sleep or rest. And you did this. Worst of all, I can't even punish you, but I know who can." Sokka could only glimpse in terror as the princess disappeared and behind him a giant fish shaped loomed. He could only scream as he saw the water claw sliced into him.


"Wait, what's going on? Katara looked around as the darkness was swept away. She looked at the little children running around as Gran-Gran cooked some fresh stewed sea-prunes. I'm home? But how? She looked as she saw someone she hadn't seen in the longest time ever. It was her.

"Katara, sweetie. Come and help Mom with the clothes." Katara sprinted to her. She jumped over children, spilled the stewed prunes and crunched through the snow. She was almost there, almost about to touch her when her arms were being held.

She struggled to break free only to catch a glimpse of her captor. The man with Crimson eyes. As the children ran home and the warriors were being mowed down by firebenders, she saw as the very same Crimson eyed man holding her, pulled a sharpened metal knife and plunged it into her mother's heart. Both gave a terrible blood-curdled scream.

But it wasn't over. The scene replayed again and again and for every scene more appeared. Katara tried to shut her eyes but the Man tore her eyelids apart as Katara had to see her two moms die…her three moms die…her ten moms die. Some things you get used to with time. Not this. Never this.


"What's going on?!" Toph cried when Katara came to conscious. She had never been so happier to feel the hot, dry ground of the desert. And as she looked up, the sun shone a bright yellow not the blood filled red.

"The short guy says something weird and all of a sudden everybody's screaming!" Katara felt her head as she looked at where the two men were and instead found two mountains collided with one another. Toph saved them from a fate worse than death. On the ground she found Sokka panting to catch his breath and the Earth king, in a fetal position sucking his thumb. The animals for some reason looked as if nothing had happened.

"Hello, somebody answer my question here?" Katara gave Toph the biggest hug as Sokka looked for them.

"Where are they?"

"Between the rocks, smart guy. I guess when you've got the world's greatest Earthbender, you can-"

Suddenly a noise uttered from the mountains. Slowly, but surely the two slabs of rock pushed away from each other as the two men appeared, each pushing a rock with ease. Before Toph could clasp her hand together, Sokka grabbed her and told everyone to run to the cave.

"Well, I guess now's a good time for some fun." The smaller man seemed to ignore the Shark man's comment.

"That girl's power can give us trouble. If she continues to be near land, this will take too long."

"Does this mean I can finally use…that jutsu? The Crimson eyed man stayed silent for a long time.

"Make sure you finish this quickly." The Shark man clasped his fingers together as he cried, "Suiton: Bakusui Shōha!"


"Okay, so what your saying is Mr. 'Red Eye' stared at you and you just lost it?" Toph tried to keep her tone as serious as possible.

"We all saw our deepest fears." Katara didn't need to know Sokka's vision and she certainly wasn't sharing hers. "It was like he knew what caused us pain and made us live it, over and over."

"But why weren't you affected, Toph?" Before the Blind Bandit could utter a response, he beat her to it, "I get it; you're blind!" The whole room stayed silent as the Earth king uttered a small cough.

"Well, duh!"

"No, don't you see? You don't see! That's why he couldn't affect you; we need to be able to look at him so he can cast his illusion." Katara's face lit up.

"That means you can fight him, Toph." Toph gave a small smirk to her 'abilities".

"This changes everything." Sokka's face showed a warrior's expression. "If Toph can take care of Mr. Red-eye then we can take care of the Shark man."

"What about us?" The Earth King gave a toothy grin along with Bosco.

"No offense, your hindness, but I think it's best you stay in the air with Appa." Sokka almost regretted the words as the Earth king frowned.

"Alright, is everybody ready?" Katara put her hand forward. Momo, Sokka, Appa all put theirs forward but Toph hesitated.

"Do you guys hear something?" Katara gave her a long stare.

"Like what?"

"Like a river toward us." Sokka gave a small peak outside to see a giant wave coming towards them.

"It's coming this way! Toph!" She didn't need another word. She spread her legs and pushed her arms upward as the cave, along with a significant amount of land rose along with them.


Some things were so impossible that no one could make sense of them, not even the Avatar. And yet there they were on top of the sky as water rose towards them.

"This is crazy" Sokka held his head in terror. "We're in the middle of the desert and the all of a sudden here this water comes out of nowhere." Katara glanced at the rising water.

"I don't get it either. Toph, how much more can you raise it?"

"Lemme put it this way. If I raise it anymore, we'll fall. I essentially just raised some rock from the ground leaving a big gap underneath." Katara looked as the water was rising still.

"Toph, it looks like you'll have to look after Aang in the cave. Sokka, I'll bend some ice so you and I can fight. Your kingship," The Earth king gave a giant grin again.

"Stay on Appa." He slumped down. "We just don't want you to get hurt." Sokka reassured.

"Wait a moment," The Earth King rubbed his chin. "Why don't we just go under instead of over?"

"And suffocate to death?" Toph crossed her arms. "Yeah, not a good idea."

"Then why don't we just put the Avatar on Appa and fly away?"

"We don't know what these guys are capable of." Sokka held his hand on the boomerang and his battle staff. "If they can somehow hit Appa,"

"Then we'll lose our source of transport." The Earth King looked extremely discouraged. Katara put a hand on his shoulder.

"Don't worry, we can handle this. Now get on Appa and start flying. Momo, you're with us, boy."

As the Earth King stumbled up the sky Bison with his bear, Toph put Aang in the far end of the cave while Katara, Momo and Sokka felt the water rising coming to a halt. What shocked them wasn't the fact that they were standing in the middle of the ocean and the tall tower was nothing more than an island or the fact that the two men stood on water but that all the water came from the Shark man's mouth.

"What kind of Waterbending is that?" Sokka screamed.

"I don't know but we better be ready." Katara could've easily grabbed the water from the lake but just held a firm stance. Toph was firmly beside them as Sokka grabbed his boomerang. Momo gave a hiss on Sokka's shoulder and the two men just stood there. The wait was long. Their hearts beat faster and faster, sweat from the midday sun shone on them. Katara started to tap her foot in a rhythmic pattern as Toph seemed to notice it. Time froze. Time resumed. The two men disappeared as they left a trail of splashes going forward.

"Now!" Katara and Toph made symmetrical overhead twirling motions that sent a giant wall of mud between the two men across the water.

"Sokka, this way!" Katara slid on her ice skates and began to approach the Shark man.

"Katara!" Sokka was the only one who could gave a whiney voice in a serious situation. She nearly forgot the ice for Sokka as she gave a quick wave to and a path for him. As the Shark man swung his clothed sword, Katara rushed water on the blade and froze it in midair. She was astounded as the pillar broke and pushed back aside.

"This is going to be fun," The Shark man replied.