Throw it, and it will come back

I had just tied a sword fight with one of my former adversaries, it was a hard fought battle, each of us refusing to lose. During the match, it seemed as if we were trying to kill each other, and if either of us had been a little slower, it would have been very probable that one of us would not have walked away.

Now my former enemy turned ally, and now a true friend, was going to teach me how to throw a water tribe weapon that was called a "boomerang."

"Okay, the first thing you have to know about boomerangs is that they can be very dangerous, even to the person throwing them," Sokka was explaining to me.

"Once you throw it, and it starts to come back to you, you have to be prepared to catch it. If you're not prepared the boomerang can hit your hand, and that will hurt. It may cut and break your hand at the same time. Even worse it may hit you in the head, and nobody will wanna see that."

"The second thing you need to know is that if you don't throw your boomerang right, if you don't throw it at the right angle, it will act like every other thing that you can throw, like rocks, or sticks. It will go a distance, and then it will drop to the ground. The third and final thing you need to know is that you need to aim when you throw this. And by aim, I don't mean just looking at your target and throwing, I mean looking beyond what you're throwing at. Remember when you throw this correctly, it is supposed to go in an oval like direction, it is supposed to curve. So even if you don'thit your target, when you first throw it, the boomerang may find it's mark on the way back."

Then Sokka got a stupid grin on his face. "Do you Remember? that's what happened to you when you invaded our tribe?"

"How could I forget?" I responded dully. "It's just lucky I had my helmet on, otherwise that thing could have killed me."

Sokka laughed. "Of course, that's what I was trying to do."

Suddenly the others started lauging, next to Sokka, Katara had the biggest and most annoying laugh, though The Avatar's laugh, was annoying to.

Their laughter was contagious, despite my best efforts, I eventually succumbed.

Finally the laughter was broken when Toph burst out, "oh man!I wish I was there when that happened!"

"But Toph you wouldn't have been able to see anything," Sokka pointed out.

"But I could have felt what was happening with my earthbending."

"No, because we lived in ice and snow."

"Oh yeah," she said with a disappointed frown on her face. "But I can still picture it in my mind!" And she burst out laughing again.

"Okay, are you ready to try?" Sokka asked.

"I'm ready," I replied.

"Okay, here you go."

And he handed me his boomerang. I took it and I threw it, my first try was pointless, the boomerang flopped uselessly to the ground.

"You gotta curve it," Sokka reminded. He sounded like Uncle right then.

It took me about ten tries before I saw the boomerang flying through the air. It was a thing of beauty, looking at it shine while it soared. I was so proud I turned around to express my triumph and joy, when I heard a whizzing behind me. Suddenly I remembered! It was coming back!

"Zuko! Look out!" Everyone shouted at once.

I looked around to see what had once looked so beautiful soaring through the air, change into something wicked, and deadly. I ducked, and I felt the hairs on my head moving as if they were waves on the sea. I must of looked ridiculous, because everyone started laughing again.

"Zuko you need to be more careful!" Sokka shouted, with an expression that was somewhere between a stern admonishment, and a laugh.

"That was fun, but next time I will be more careful," I said, with a nervous laugh.