"Katara, PLEASE, try to take it easy," Sokka pleaded with his stubborn sister.
"Shut up Sokka," she playfully teased. "I'm in a good mood today! It's a beautiful day to have some fun!"
"That's what I was afraid you'd say," Sokka mumbled, sick of walking miles and miles on an empty stomach. Katara looked at her brother and sighed.
"How about when we get to that giant ice berg over there, we can take a break for lunch…sound good?" It was about all that Sokka was going to get so he nodded, suddenly energized at the thought of a lunch break soon. About twenty minutes later, they arrived. Sokka quickly plopped down on the ground as Katara tossed him the bag of dried fruits and meats she had grabbed before they had set off. Like an animal, he dug into the bag madly and instantly began to stuff his face.
"Where do you think you're going?" Sokka asked with his mouth full of food. He had stopped eating for a split second, enough time to see Katara walking around the enormous block of snow before them.
"I just want to explore this iceberg for a bit… I'll be back soon." She eyed the block carefully. "How odd," she thought to herself. The big block had swirled designs all over it, as if it had been frozen, churned up, and refrozen. She put her gloved hand against it and wiped some of the snow off. She was surprised to find that it wasn't solid snow but rather solid ice covered in a small layer of snow. It was no ordinary ice berg. She brushed off a larger area and found a small crack that ran from the bottom of the ice to the very top. "I wonder," she thought to herself.
She ran up to Sokka and snatched his war axe that he proudly carried with him no matter where they went.
"Hey, what do you think your doing?" he asked curiously with a hint of annoyance.
"Keep stuffing your face, brother. I just want to see something." She ran back to the block of ice and began hacking at the crack making it deeper. She was right in her hunch that the crack would prove to be a weak spot in the ice. She took a step back to look at her work. She had made a great gash in the solid berg but it just wasn't enough. She stretched her arms out a bit to warm them up, took another step forward and swung the axe as hard as she could into the gash.
The axe hit dead on, and shattered into hundreds of tiny fragments. Sokka heard this and ran up, opening his mouth to say some angry words to his sister. She had a lot of nerve breaking his prized axe. As words were about to escape his mouth, she covered it with her glove. Sokka's anger was muffled in it, only making him furious. Sokka quickly quieted when a small rumble began in front of them.
"Katara what did you do?" he peeled her hand off of his face. She never answered for right then the crack began to grow. It sprouted smaller cracks like branches of a tree and soon enveloped the entire ice ball.
"DUCK!" Sokka violently knocked Katara to the ground and went down on top of her in a feeble attempt to protect his sister. Instantly after, there was a loud exploding noise as the ice shattered into millions of pieces, a grander scale than what had happened to the axe. They were showered and peppered with tiny pieces of ice that would have cut into their skin if they hadn't been wearing heavy clothes to protect themselves from the cold weather. It went quiet and the two lay there, not moving, for two minutes. Finally Sokka got up and helped to pull his sister up.
"You okay Kat?" he asked, using his childhood nickname for her.
"I think so. Yeah," she quietly answered back, obviously shaken.
She was soon snapped out of it as Sokka grabbed her shoulders and yelled angrily at her, "Well in that case, why the hell did you do that. You could have killed us or really hurt us. That is the stupidest thing by far that you have ever done!" He wanted to continue, but as he looked Katara in the eye, he realized she wasn't even listening. She was staring at something behind him. Exasperated, he looked behind him to find two people, a girl and a boy, and a hairy monster all soaked to the bone with ice cold water and all unconscious.
Thayet awoke to the sound of sweet humming and the rustling of someone busily cleaning up. She sat up in her comfy, warm bed to find a plump old woman cheerfully dusting right next to her.
"Uhhh, hello there?" The woman jumped at her voice and turned to find her patient awake. She smiled brightly.
"Good morning…Avatar."