Sokka started to pull on his battle armor with the other soldiers preparing for battle. Zuko grabbed his arm and pulled him behind a wall. "You're not seriously going out to fight, are you?"
Sokka couldn't believe what he was hearing. There was no way that he could just sit and wait for the outcome. "Zuko, you know I have..."
"Have to? What about Tao? If anything happens to you he will be all alone!" Sokka frowned, Zuko was right but he couldn't just stay behind! "I'll go, just stay here and try to protect Aang."
"Fine, but you better promise to come ba..." Sokka was interrupted by Zuko's lips crashing onto his own. Sokka melted into the kiss and tried to make it more intense but Zuko pulled away.
"You'll have to wait until I come back," Zuko whispered into his lips. Sokka smiled as he watched Zuko walk away to go over the plan with the other soldiers.
Sokka watched as Aang tried to concentrate into the spirit world. Things were not going well. He jumped when he heard someone coming up behind him. Zhao was standing there glaring at him. "I don't know how you escaped my ship but it will not happen again!" yelled Zhao throwing flame at Sokka.
Sokka jumped in surprise as he tried to dodge so that he wouldn't be burned. He threw his boomerang as hard as he could hoping that it would be enough to distract Zhao. Zhao just laughed as he hit the weapon away, "Is that all you can do?"
Sokka tried to think of something to do when a flame separated them. He looked back in surprise to see Zuko standing there glaring at Zhao. "Get out of here!" hissed Zuko. Sokka didn't have to be told twice, he ran to get help.
Zuko faced Zhao, he hadn't killed him before but he would soon fix that mistake. Zhao just sneered at him as he got into a fighting stance as well. "I wonder how the Firelord will see this betrayal!" sneered Zhao as he took a shot at Zuko.
Zuko easily dodged it and laughed, "Probably as a way to explain away the death of his son!" Zuko was so sick of any thought of his father or any member of the firenation.
"He no longer sees you as his son!" Suddenly Zuko went flying, he had been caught off guard. Zhao laughed as he slowly walked to the small pond that Aang was sitting in front of. "This victory is just too easy!" he laughed as he picked up one of the fish with a sack.
Zuko was completely confused until he saw the moon covered in a red that looked so much like blood. Zuko's blood ran cold as he realized what that must mean. "Zhao what do you think you are doing?" yelled Iroh.
Zuko looked back surprised to see that Sokka had returned with Iroh. Zhao just smiled as he took aim at the sack that was still moving. "I am finishing this!"
"Whatever you do to that spirit I will do twice as bad to you!" Zhao glared at the general, angry that nobody could see what the death of the moon would mean for the firenation. They were all traitors and would be treated as such.
He laughed as he threw the sack into the air and shot it down with fire. "Nooo!" yelled Iroh.
Sokka felt like someone had punched the wind out of him. The world seemed to stop as the earth fell pitch black. It was eerily dark with no moon at all. "They will no longer be able to stand against us!" laughed Zhao as the screams of the waterbenders seemed to grow louder by the second.
Aang's glowing slowly brightened and a dark voice rasped out, "You will pay for that, Zhao." Sokka recognized the voice all too well, Aang was about to attack in the Avatar state.
The water that had been peacefully resting in the pond only moments before started to wrap around Aang as he grew into a giant sea creature. All the firenation warriors started to attack Aang but nothing touched him as he wiped them all out.
Zhao could only watch in morbid fascination until Aang turned back on him. Zhao tried to run but was only caught in the hand of water and dragged back to the ocean where the fleet was slowly getting destroyed.
"What are we going to do now?" asked Iroh as he held the moon spirit in his hands. Zuko helped Sokka stand up as the two of them walked towards Iroh.
"We have to do something," said Katara walking up to them.
"Is there anything that we can do?" asked Zuko. Katara looked at him as if he had just slapped her, she could not believe that he would be so defeatist about something so important.
"There has to be!" she whispered determinedly. Katara slowly approached the unmoving spirit, if her healing powers were really something special then she had to be able to do something!
As soon as her fingers touched the spirit's scales she could tell that something was happening. The wound was slowly closing under Katara's touch. The night that seemed to be pitch black slowly started to have light come back to it as the moon came back to life.
As soon as the moon was back in the night sky the spirit that seemed to posses Aang slowly calmed down. Aang slowly came to stand on top of the wall and look out at all the destruction that he had caused.
Katara stood next to master Paku as they looked around the nearly destroyed North Pole. "I have decided to go to the South Pole, some other benders have agreed to come with me. We can't believe that we have let our relationship die over these past years."
"What about Aang? He still needs to learn waterbending," Katara said looking at her younger friend.
"Well I guess he better get used to calling you master," laughed Paku.
Sokka leaned against a wall, he felt miserable and like an idiot. After the battle Zuko had disappeared without a trace and Sokka was actually surprised. Of course he would be gone, as soon as he was out of trouble he couldn't be trusted.
"What's wrong?" asked Aang walking up to him. "You look almost as if we lost the battle," he joked punching Sokka in the arm.
"I'm fine," he lied waving it off. "Just tired after the battle and all." Aang looked at him with an unbelieving look but didn't say anymore. Even Aang knew that if Sokka didn't want to talk he was not going to talk to anyone.