Avatar, the last air bender

Tsuchi no Ookami

Writer : Asheron Karuma

DON'T OWN

Heuj chapter 2!

Chapter one was short but I only wanted to put that information in it :P don't worry the others will be longer

And yes as you read in the previous chapter in my story Sokka can water bend, you will find out why he doesn't do it anymore pretty soon :)

Sokka sighed, he had been waling through the busy streets of the outer rings of Ba Sing Sei for hours now but not one clue on Appa's whereabouts, it annoyed him deeply that all their searching could be in vain and he regretted the thought of coming back empty handed, what was even stranger was that Sokka had a slight feeling that he was being followed, he had not seen anyone behind him though, it was merely a feeling of instinct but Sokka knew to always trust his own senses, he looked back over his shoulder again, seeing a mere shadow quickly disappear, he had to go somewhere where he cold check his surroundings easily and could find out a way to lose the idiot following him

He stopped walking for a second and sniffed the air, smelling something that made him quite thirsty, a smell of fresh tea tangled through the air and he had found it's trail, slowly he turned and started to walk to this so called tea shop, it didn't look like much but he had been walking all day and had forgotten to eat or drink anything

He got quite a scare as he walked up to the entrance and stopped walking for a while as he starred at the person smiling and serving tea to one of the guests, a name flicked through his mind and soon after it escaped like a whisper from his mouth

"...Zuko"

He hadn't expected this to happen, how off all people did Zuko and his uncle get into the city, people... was the fire nation up to something...

Quickly he turned around to leave when he bumped into someone, he looked up feeling a strong hand grapping him by the arm, in front of him, this person was wearing Earth Kingdom military clothes and a big round hat that made it difficult to see his face, Sokka tried to get lose form this person but he held a firm grip around his arm and before he could say anything a rock like lair covered his mouth and he was being dragged off, as he looked around he could see that nobody even looked surprised at this matter but from the corner of his eye he could see Zukko looking his way, surprised and yet shocked

Short after being dragged into an alleyway Sokka felt a thud against the back of his head and as he grew dizzier and slowly lost his conscious he could feel that he was being swung over the guard's shoulder and was taken away

Sokka slowly opened his eyes as he was greeted by an awful headache and the sound of dripping water, he slowly looked around as he soon realized that he was lying on a stone floor in what seemed a cell, only a faint light spread through the iron bars and from under the door, Sokka quickly got up and started to bang against the door

"Hello! Anyone! HEY!"

it was then that the door slowly opened up and Sokka backed away against the wall as he saw someone enter through the door came Long Feng, who simply laughed at the sight of the teen and turned to his guards as he spoke

"Brainwash him later tonight, before his friends think he's missing"

'Brainwash...'

Sokka's eyes widened as he heard Long Feng say this but before he could take any action the door closed again, Sokka could only hope

Katara was worried, still no sign of her brother and it was slowly getting dark, she sighed as she got up from the steps in front of the house and slowly made her way back inside, they would have to look for him the next morning if he had not returned by then

"No sign of Sokka yet?"

Katara looked at Toph before shaking her head and answering

"No... Nothing at all"

Toph frowned as she thought for a while, but quickly forgot it off as she got up and headed to the bedroom's

"I'm going to bed... you should do the same..."

Katara smiled slightly as she slowly followed Toph, she was tired and Toph could easily sense that even when she tried to hide it, she took one last glance at the door before continuing to walk...

The next morning wasn't much of a difference, Katara got up as soon as the sun shinned through the window and quickly ran into Aang and Sokka's shared room, only to scare the living hell out of Aang who was still sleeping, he yelled as he quickly sat up and looked at Katara's depressed and worried expression

"Wha... what's wrong..."

he ended the line with a quick yawn before he continued to rub is eyes, his question was quickly answered as he looked next to him, Sokka's bed had been un slept...

Katara quickly walked to the living room and looked around, there was no sign whatsoever that Sokka had indeed come home that evening and she was now worried sick

"Something must've happened, they must have gotten to him somehow..."

"Who?"

Katara glared at Aang before answering

"Ever since we got here people started acting weird, noone mentions the great war that is going on outside the city walls and everywhere we go people seem to be hidden something! Whatever it is they must have gotten to Sokka!"

Toph slowly walked into the livingroom, hearing Katara's panicked voice

"Standing here yelling isn't going to find Sokka now is it... if something had happened to him then the Earth King would know what it is..."

Katara sighed as she slowly walked to the front door and opened it, she looked to her left as she saw papers inside the mailbox and quickly grapped them out, her eyes widened as she read what was in the mail and quickly ran back inside

"I've got it, I just found out how we're going to see the Earth King!"

"And how are we supposed to do that, one doesn't just pop in on the Earth King!"

Aang and Toph looked up to her as she started to read what was in the letter

"The king is having a party at the palace tonight for his pet bear"

"You mean platypus bear?"

"No it just says bear, the palace will be packed we can just sneak in with the crowd"

"Wont work, well no offence to you simple country folk but a real society crowd would spot you form a mile away, you got no manners"

"Excuse me, I've got no manners, you're not exactly lady fancy fingers"

"I chose proper society behavior and choose to leave it, you never learned anything and frankly it's too late"

"But you've learned it, you could teach us, i have to master every element, how hard could manners be..."

Sokka slowly opened his eyes again as he heard footsteps further down the hall, he placed his hand on the floor and slowly sat up, it had been probably a day since he had been arrested for unknown reasons, he knew there was something fishy going on in this city ever since they had arrived... but he was now worried for his own safety, he had to escape from this prison and warn Aang

Slowly Sokka got up and hid against the wall beside the door, out if sight

The cell door opened moments later and Sokka could hear the guards gasp before he stepped ino the cell looking around for the lost prisoner, Sokka quickly walked out of the cell and closed the door

"GUARDS! The prisoner is escaping! Capture him!"

Sokka hadn't even ran out of the hall yet when he crashed into another pair of guards, they both fell back and hit the ground and Sokka quickly got up and started to run to the other direction

"There he is! Seize him!"

Before Sokka could turn into another hallway he was slammed against the wall, a stone like lair covered his neck and hands, he coughed a few times before he was even able to breath again

Sokka looked at the guards in fear as more stone covered his mouth and his arm's were bound, he tried to yell for help but found that he couldn't get anything pass the stone lair beside a few mumbles, he was being dragged off somewhere...