Revenge is sweet.
Chapter two: Duel and blood.
"Oh no, there is no turning back now, you've woken up the demon in me." Disturbed-Down with the Sickness
"Sokka wake up its time for breakfast son." Hakoda said.
Hakoda was a man of about five feet eleven inches and wore the standard warm weather male water tribe garb. His hair was mid length with a two fairly thick brads on the right side of his head, each caped with blue beads. The back of his head was in a top knot. He also had a small beard that covered his chin.
"Dad let me sleep for ten more minutes." Sokka says as he rolls over.
"Wait a minute dad?" Sokka says as he rolls over to and sits up to see his father standing at the side of the bed he was using.
"Good morning son I hear you're fighting a duel with the Fire Lord. I also heard him has been doing… well 'things' with Suki." Hakoda says with an embarrassed grin.
"You heard right dad. Did you come to try to talk me out of it like Aang did a few days ago? Or are you hear to try to take my place like Katara did when I told Aang no. She thought that I would be hurt since I was not a bender." Sokka asks his dad.
"No I did not come to try to stop you or take your place. I came to support my son as he fights an honorable duel with the man who stole his woman. I also brought you this to ware." Hakoda tells his son as he hands him a bundle of clothes.
"Is this what I think it is?" Sokka asked his father.
"Yes it's the duelist outfit I ware when I fought Bato for the right to be the High Chief of the Southern Water Tribe. Now let's eat before the food gets cold." Hakoda tells his son with a smile, just before he is given a hug by his son.
"Thanks dad." Sokka says as he throws on a shirt.
Together they go down stairs to the kitchen. Sitting at the table are four men and woman. The first was a five foot five-inch tall old man wearing a blacksmiths apron. The old man's silver hair down along his back stopping at the middle of his back and his face had a large grey beard upon it. The old man most noticeable feature is the large slash mark going down his covered left eye. This is Jing the blacksmith Sokka was renting a room from.
On the right side of the old man, was the tallest man of the group. The man was of Southern Water Tribe descent and had long brown hair. This is Bato who is Sokka's father's best friend and a chief of one of the Southern Water Tribe villages.
On the right of Bato is a man about an inch taller than Sokka's father. The man is dressed in high-class black Fire Nation garments warn by several off duty swordsmen of the Fire Nation. Unlike most of the people of the fire nation this man had dark tan skin and grey blue eyes. The man's dull black hair was up in a full top knot this is Piandao the man who taught Sokka how to use the sword. Sokka spent three months with this man after the war ended continuing his education with the sword.
On the right side of Piandao was the shortest man in the group. The man was also the oldest man there at sixty-five. He wears the garments of a high level noble of the fire nation. The man wears his hair in a top knot, had mutton-chop sideburns and the gold eyes of a high level fire bender. This old man is the Dragon of the West, Prince Iroh of the Fire Nation.
And to the right of Iroh is the only woman of the group. She was about two inches shorter than his father and her long well cared for brown hair went down her back. The woman wares a nice fire nation clothes consisting of a red long sleeve shirt and black pants with pointy black and gold boots. Sokka noticed she had small round d-cup breasts and pretty brown eyes.
"Bato, Master Piandao, Iroh what are you guys doing here? Are you hear to ask me to not duel your nephew Iroh? And who is the woman?" Sokka yells at the group, he also could not help but notice all of them looked tired including his father.
"Well we all came to support you. Although I would prefer you did not fight my nephew, what he did was dishonorable and must be settled properly. I am here not as Prince Iroh, but as a Grandmaster Iroh of the Order of the White Lotus, here to support a young member of the order." Iroh tells Sokka.
"The woman is Ming a former guard in the royal palace and my girlfriend of four months Sokka." Hakoda tells his son with a bit of a sheepish grin as he sits next to Ming.
"Nice to meet you Ming and I hope you take care of my father. After all my sister and Bato say we both need adult supervision for some reason." Sokka says as he sits at the table next to his father.
"You definitely share your father's wit Sokka and I will do my best to care for your father." Ming tells Sokka.
"Thank you for all of you coming all this way to support me." Sokka tells the group.
After breakfast Sokka gets another surprise. When he went to grab his new spear he found that not only was it now polished but the triple bladed head had a sheath made for it.
"Do you like your surprise Sokka? Ming made the sheath belts well the rest of us polished the blade and shaft. It is a fine piece of craftsmanship. Both Piandao and I agree we could not have done better work." Hakoda tells his son with pride in his voice.
"Thank you, all of you this is one of the nicest things any one has done for me in the last two years." Sokka says as he each member of the group with tears in his eyes.
"Now let's get to the arena you have to get ready for your duel Sokka." Piandao tells the boy.
At the entrance to the Grand Arena…
"Place your bets for the upcoming Agni Duel between are Fire Lord and Sokka of the Southern Water Tribe." A man at one of the betting booths built into the arena yells.
"What are the odds on Sokka wining?" Sokka asks as he leads his group to the window.
"The odds are one thousand to one for Sokka to win the Agni Duel young man." The bet taker tells Sokka.
"Two thousand gold pieces for Sokka to win, After all I am only allowed to bet on myself to win according to Fire Nation law." Sokka says as he sets down a large bag of gold pieces.
"Here's your ticket young man and good luck I feel you will need it. Next person please."
In the end Bato bet a hundred gold pieces on Sokka, Hakoda bet the same as his son, and Ming bet three gold pieces for Sokka to win and three copper on Zuko. She placed the small bet on Zuko since she felt as a former member of the fire nation military she felt she should support her lord. Iroh and Piandao did not place a bet since Zuko was Iroh's nephew and Piandao's student.
Noon…
Sokka walked out of the waiting room wearing a pair of long black cotton pants with golden sea serpents going up his legs. As was the custom of the Southern Water Tribe Sokka also ware a pair of black boots. Sokka's well-defined cable like muscles gleamed in the noon day sun. Sokka's left peck had an x shaped scar upon it with the right mark going down to the top of his abdomen. Sokka's eight pack abdominal muscles are well defend but marred by a fist shaped burn scar. These marks were gained early during his time traveling with the Avatar. But what shocked the members of the audience was that under Sokka's tribal necklace was the black phoenix pendent Ozai had given him. The people knew that the former Lord Ozai only gave the black meteor iron pendent to his most trusted advisers. Only two people were known to have ware them.
At Sokka's left side was Space Sword and on his back over his left shoulder was boomerang. Sokka spent three weeks looking for these weapons after his leg healed up. Strapped to his right shoulder was the triple bladed spear head and held in his right hand was his new spear with the pig iron head on it.
In front of Sokka was Zuko his large stone like muscles were shown as all he had one were a pair of tight black shorts with gold trim. Strapped to the Fire Lords back were his twin dao blades.
"You could save yourself some pain and give up now Sokka." Zuko tells his friend not really wanting to hurt him.
"One shall stand, one shall fall" Is Sokka's response.
"Why do you throw away your heath so recklessly Sokka?" Zuko asks Sokka.
"That's a question you should ask yourself Zuko." Sokka tells his former friend.
Zuko sighs as he draws his blades and rushes Sokka leading with a slash from his left sword, the sharp edge of the blade cuts into the right pectoral muscle of Sokka drawing blood but the wound was not very deep. Zuko's follows up with a slash from his right sword which is blocked by Sokka's new spear.
"That's the only hit you're going to land Zuko." Sokka tells the young Fire Lord as he kicks Zuko hard enough in the stomach to send Zuko ten feet away from Sokka. Sokka follows after Zuko who spits blood out of his mouth as he quickly gets back to his feet. Unfortunately for Zuko this does not count as a successful blood draw for Sokka, since only blood drawn from weapons would count as a hit. Zuko is force to run towards the wall when Sokka throws his boomerang at him, since Zuko was not able make a fire hot enough to quickly melt the weapon fast enough to neutralize it. Sokka catches boomerang as it returns to him sheathing it.
Zuko was now standing five feet from the wall when a repeat of Zuko's first encounter with Sokka happens. But this time when Zuko doges the trust ready to counter the miss with his swords, Sokka smashes Zuko in the stomach with the lion's skull balance weight on the other end of his spear. The blow knocks Zuko into the wall. Sokka quickly fallow ups with a thrust to Zuko's shoulder imbedding the head of his spear into Zuko's left shoulder, pining Zuko to the wall and immobilizing Zuko's left arm. As Zuko drops his swords Sokka twists his spear detaching the blade from the socket of the spear.
Sokka proceeds to strap the spear shaft to his back before he proceeds to start beating Zuko with his fists. Sokka was careful to only crack Zuko's ribs as he works them over with, after all Ozai did ask that he not kill Zuko. After all if you puncture both of some ones lungs several times they tend to die.
"The only reason I'm not killing you Zuko is because a member of your family asked me not to." Sokka whispers into Zuko's ear before him cleanly brakes Zuko's right shin.
Screaming in pain Zuko begins bringing up his right arm in an attempt to send a blast of fire at Sokka. Before Zuko can send the blast Sokka grabs his right arm and brakes it. And well Zuko once again screams in pain Sokka brakes his left thigh preventing from easily firebending. Sokka then breaks Zuko's nose before grabbing chin to prevent the fire lord from using the Fire Breathing technique. Sokka knew that the Fire Breathing technique required tongue movements along with the opening of the jaw to use. Sokka dislocates Zuko's jaw, rendering him helpless.
"Your father should have killed you instead of banishing you. I'm surprised a coward like you actually accepted my challenge. The only reason you drew first blood is because I became passive during my time with Aang. I never made the first blow just ask some men who survived an attack by the Night Monster. After all I did leave some of them alive when they did not retreat. Your sister and I have something in common we can both kill without care. I just happen to cherish life a bit more than Azula and give some people a chance to live. I could have killed you with the first blow if I wanted to." Sokka whispers into his former friend's ear.
'That's why Sokka did not react much when he killed the fire bender I hired to kill the Avatar.' Zuko thinks.
"Since we were friends I will give you some knowledge and see if you have the wisdom to use it right. The first three colonies of the Fire Nation were purchased by Sozin. And they would have returned to the Earth Kingdom had the not attacked them two years before comet came, a hundred years ago when Koi's father took the throne. And by the way if you send any assassins after me I will kill them. Then I will kill Mai and Suki in front of you. Then I will kill you." Sokka whispers into Zuko's ear again.
Sokka then steps away from Zuko and picks up Zuko's fallen swords. Sokka proceeds to make an x slash along Zuko's chest barely any drawing blood ending the duel. Sokka sheaths Zuko's swords as he leaves the field to collect his winnings. After saying good-bye to his family and friends Sokka makes his way to the docks were his boat is waiting. A hawk lands on his shoulder as he sets sail for the island of Shin were the Navel Institute for Mental and Spiritual Healing is located.
To be continued…
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