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Title: Scary or Socks
Summary: Set sometime before Ba Sing Se.
A/N: Toph rules!!
It wasn't often when the Gaang could relax and entertain themselves somehow.
The 'family' were currently sitting around the campfire, leaning against Appa and watching the flames flicker. Momo was nestled in Katara's arms, snoozing.
It was then that they began to tell each other stories.
Mostly, the stories they told were old legends they'd heard before. Maybe a few childhood stories. Nothing really big.
The subject was slowly switched to the scariest things they had ever encountered.
Katara was the first to say anything.
"Socks."
Everyone stared at the young Waterbender in various degrees of confusion.
"What?" Aang blinked in his clueless, cute kind of way. "Socks?"
"Yes." Katara laid the flying lemur gently on the ground, and slowly stood up and walked over to their pack. She rummaged around in the inside of it, until she slowly pulled out a pair of blue socks.
Sokka shrank against Appa's fur. "Katara..."
"This, my friends, is the scariest thing you will ever see in your life," Katara solemnly said, as Toph and Aang lay there in silence.
Katara waved the socks around. "I don't care what you see later in our jouney--
"I don't care if you get eaten by the Unagi--
"I don't care if Azula is about to kill us--
"I don't care if you end up facing Fire Lord Ozai himself--
"The scariest thing in the world, no in all of existence, is Sokka's socks."
The children burst into laughter. Sokka scowled, a blush spreading throughout his cheeks. "Katara!!"
"We've found him at last--get the Avatar!"
The Gaang sprang to action as Azula and her cronies suddenly appeared from out of nowhere, brandishing weapons and fire.
"Quick!" Toph shouted, "Throw the socks!"