Ziggy's Corner: Rad, 40 reviews! I'm so happy that so many people have enjoyed my work. True I haven't gotten 40 reviews from 40 different people, but this works just as good. Okay the beginning chapter of Sokka's story, and you all guessed right! Suki is coming up! LOL, gee how did you all guess? Anyway, enjoy the story! It's a little alternate universe so please forgive me for being a little off with the chapter.
"A couple of months ago?" Aang asked.
"A few weeks after Katara and I found you in the glacial and went on this adventure," Sokka said his blushing still as red as ever. He swallowed and rubbed his head. "It was on Kyoshi Island . . ."
KYKYKY
Sokka paced back and forth, his chest rising and falling as he stared at the training house and he kicked a rock, which bounced off a moving wagon, dropped on a roof, rolled downward, and bonked the boy on his head.
"Stupid girls," he hissed. "Think they're so much better than me." His eyes darted back and forth and he dropped with a plop as he watched them do their little "dance" that they called combat. "How could they catch me doing such, girlie moves?" he asked a pacing dog. The animal looked at the water warrior and hiked his leg, and piddled on him.
"Ah come oh!" he wailed, leaping to his feet. Sokka stormed by the houses, and cleaned himself in the nearby river, before sulking back to the town. The people were abuzz with the news of Aang, many people were busy cleaning the statue of the patron of the island, a past age version of Aang, Kyoshi, one of the greatest of the Avatars, and the fortieth female avatar. Okay, after Kyoshi there were at least nine or ten more female avatars after her, but among them all according to history; Kyoshi was the mightest of them, save for perhaps the third female avatar, an Earth bender named Rajni.
Sokka sighed, and his mood even dropped further. "Even the avatar here is female."
"She's beautiful, isn't she?" a female voice asked from behind him. Sokka tensed and he turned to look at the girl who not only captured him, but had bested him in training too.
"Yeah, I suppose, I mean, if you're into a tall wooden statue," he said, trying to restrain his anger. He put his hands over his head and giggled. "I mean she's okay and stuff, for a girl."
"A girl!" The girl narrowed her own eyes and she stomped a foot. "A girl, huh? And what's wrong with that? If memory serves me right, you were bested by a girl." She smiled under her war makeup and took a step back.
"Yeah, well that's only because you blind sighted me," Sokka snapped. "If you and I had fought one on one in a fair fight, I don't really think that you would have stood much of a chance with me."
"Oh, so that's why I beat you so soundly in the training hall?" she cooed.
"I was going easy on you," the boy snapped.
"I see," the girl began walking around him, "So warriors in your village like taking it easy on their opponents? Not a very exact way to fight a battle. But I can now see how we caught you so easily," she cooed again, inching in on him.
"Look, I'm not in the mood for this," he growled.
"You've been here, what four days now. And all you can do is sulk. It's ruining the mood of the village, my village. And I will not have that. Whether you are friends with the avatar or not!"
"Now look, girl," Sokka growled, pointing his finger at her chest. She quickly grabbed it and bent it backward.
"I have a name, you know," she growled. "It's Suki."
"Well laud de da," he snapped, whining a little as she kept the pressure on. She continued pressing on it until she had him on his knees.
"Again, you are very lucky that you're friends with the avatar," she said, her voice lower than a dog's ability to hear. "I could keep this up if I wanted too. In fact, ask most of the men in this village who disrespected me, or our way of life. They'll be happy to show you their fingers." She released it and smirked. "If you want a rematch, please feel free to offer, I enjoy a good time."
She walked off, leaving Sokka to console his injured limb, and his eyes full of injured pride. He had never seen anyone like her, never faced anyone like her. Even Zuko didn't fight with the fire that this girl had in her heart. He shook his head and groaned, knocking those thoughts out of his mind. Okay, she was pretty good at hand to hand combat, but it was only because she was a girl. That was the only reason. If she was a boy, there would be no way she'd be a match for him.
Sokka strolled around the village, feeling the eyes of the curious glare at him as he walked. He stopped by a stand and bought a few apples and went back to the stream where he ate his lunch, and laid in the soft snow looking up at a large brown bridge. He blinked at it sleepily and sighed. The afternoon sky was warm and sweet, the sun bright as he lay there. How old was the bridge? As old as Kyoshi herself? Perhaps older than the village? He knew of some villages that built bridges to allow migratory people to travel from one spot to another before they ultimately settled down in one area. In some water nation cities, there could be found dozens if not hundreds of bridges. The village of Kyoshi was a water village, which of course meant that Suki and the other Kyoshi girls were water warriors. But Sokka had always been brought up to believe that girls did the sewing and made babies, and that was all. It seemed that Kyoshi was a lot different than his own village.
He fell asleep there, and probably would have stayed asleep if he hadn't heard very angry voices just above him. A man's and a woman's. Or perhaps a boy's and a girl's. Sokka woke up and looked at the bridge, the source of the angry words. He slowly rose to his feet and crept near the bridge, focusing his eyes in the dark as he moved. How long was I asleep?
Just how long did you sleep?
You should know better than asking that Aang, Sokka could sleep through a volcano exploding.
Haha, very funny you guys.
You know, I just realized that you never did come back to the room that night, so what happened?
He came back Aang, just not until really, really late. Hey, this isn't going to be a naughty tale, is it?
Katara, you know better than that! Now as I was saying.
. . . "I'm not interested in this," a very familiar voice said.
"Come on Suki, you know you want to date me," a very strong masculine voice taunted. "I've seen the way you've looked at me, at the way I impressed you with my skill on the battlefield."
"Kyoshi is a neutral party in this war, Elrich," she snapped. "We don't want to be involved in the war, and I don't want to be involved with some caveman like you."
Sokka watched her turn to leave, the light of the moon floating down on them, giving him a better glimpse of the two of them. It was Suki alright, and next to her was a hulking matter of talking biceps and flesh. Sokka guessed that this tall blue eyed black haired goon was Elrich.
"There you are, lacking vision again," Elrich said. The girl glared at him and turned to leave, before the massive male grabbed her wrist and pressed her against him. "Come on, Suki, just think of what the two of us could do for this village, for our people." She struggled against him, but unlike Sokka, or the other males of her village, he seemed to be prepared to retaliate against her style of combat. She wasn't able to fight against him, and grit her teeth as he held her tight against his chest, pressing her head against his heart. "Do you hear it? The rhythmic beating of my heart next to yours? It is the sound of the war drum. It is the sound of glory. Help me overthrow those old farts, and you and I will make so much mischief against the Fire Nation, that the Fire Lord wouldn't be able to do anything be end the war."
"I think the muscles in your body have taken over your mind at last, Elrich," she groaned. "Let go of me, you're hurting me."
"I don't mean to, my dear," he said solemnly.
She struggled against him, "Stop it," she hissed, wiggling to be free of him.
From where he was kneeling, Sokka could see the girl's face, without her war paint without the warrior's clothing. He felt his face flush, not because of her beauty, for truly she was very beautiful, with short red brown hair, and shining eyes, soft features and smooth shimmering lips. No, he was flushing to see her in such an embarrassing position. He swallowed and shot to his feet, storming up to the two of them.
"I don't believe the lady wants to have anything to do with you," he said, tapping the giant on his shoulder. Elrich looked over his shoulder and smirked at the smaller boy.
"I think that little boys shouldn't get involved with grown up things," the bully said with a chuckle. He turned his attention back to Suki and turned her around, holding her by her shoulders. "Now that we've gotten that out of our system, what do you say we try this again."
"There's nothing to try, because there was nothing here in the first place," Suki said. She turned her eyes on Sokka and waved him away.
"I don't like being ignored," Elrich growled, squeezing his fingers into her shoulders.
"Funny, neither do I," Sokka said. "However, I think that Suki would prefer to be ignored."
"Sokka, please just stay out of this," Suki groaned.
"Yes, for your own good, Sokka, stay out of this," Elrich snipped. He released Suki and turned to the smaller boy. "You're the one who keeps getting his ass handed to him by Suki and her little friends, aren't you?" He laughed, and pushed Sokka to his butt. "Just stay out of our way, and pretend you didn't hear anything."
"Yeah, that's funny coming from the Neanderthal who can't seem to get it through his thick skull that a girl doesn't like him."
"Sokka, no!" Suki screeched.
Elrich turned to her and back at Sokka, his lips twitching. "You would prefer this geek to me? What is wrong with you, I thought you had more ambition than that."
"Elrich, we grew up together, trained together, we live just a few houses away from each other," Suki said, "you used to be my best friend, what happened to you?"
"I actually grew up," Elrich snapped. "Our world is at war, Suki. War! How can you just sit and train and pretend that it isn't happening?"
"Look, I know how hard it is to stay home and do nothing when you're worried about your family and friends, but you should be happy that the war isn't even near the borders of Kyoshi," Sokka said.
"Shut up you little twit," Elrich growled. "I don't care about any of that. With a war brewing it could be interesting to bring in new political enhancements, new job opportunities for me, for the island. A new empire to be born," he smiled and looked at the stars. "A new emperor to bring peace to the people of this world."
"And how many people would suffer? None of us have ever seen true suffering, none of us have ever seen a battle, and that's the way we should keep it," Suki said.
"I can't believe this," Elrich growled. "War is everywhere, we could use it to drag our little dung hill of an island out of the squalor it's in, and you want to keep it as boring and poor as possible."
"If you want to throw away your life, for your own glory, that's one thing," Suki said with a very sad tone. "But don't expect me to help you drag our people to your gave with you, because I won't."
"Suki, look at it this way," he began. His features were starting to change, starting to grow more animal like as he looked at her. "You are the strongest of the women in our village, all you would have to do is say the word, and people would listen to you."
"I think she said the word already, friend, and I believe its peace," Sokka said quickly, his fingers twitching near his boomerang.
Elrich turned and grabbed the boy by his throat. "That is the last time I tell you to butt out," the larger boy hissed. He squeezed, tossing Suki to her bottom as she protested, and lifted Sokka off his feet.
Oh come on, Sokka, he lifted you off of your feet?
Yes, he lifted me off of my feet! Why would I lie about that!
Maybe for the same reason you said that Suki gave you your first kiss.
Okay Katara, calm down. But I do have to say, I never remember seeing a big massive guy in Kyoshi Island Sokka.
That's because he didn't live in the village.
Yet he knew Suki, and was part of the village.
Do you want me to tell this story or not?
Okay, okay keep going.
. . . Sokka tried desperately to gasp for air, the veins in his eyes beginning to grow as he struggled. He could see Suki back on her feet, pounding on Elrich's side, and calling for help. Elrich freed one of his hands and grabbed the girl by her face, pushing her off of the bridge, onto the hard dirt.
"Stop it, stop hurting him," she cried. "Elrich, listen I'll do whatever you want," tears were rolling down her cheeks as she watched Sokka kick ferociously at the other boy's thick arms. "I'll convince them to go to war, to overthrow our leaders and crown you king, or emperor, or whatever you want. Please, leave him alone!"
"I've never taken a life before," Elrich cackled at Sokka, his eyes deader than a skull's. "I've always wondered how it would feel. It's kind of exhilarating." He laughed at Sokka's face and looked down at the girl. "Don't worry, you will be joining him after he's done."
"You've gone insane," she said fearfully.
"From my perspective, you and those refusing to use the war for the good of our island are the insane ones," he chuckled. He turned to Sokka, and realized war rule number one. Never take your eyes off your enemy.
Sokka used his distraction to grab his boomerang and free it from his belt. Once it was in his hand, the boy slammed it hard against Elrich's face, hearing bone crack. Blood spluttered everywhere, and the monster bully of a teen dropped Sokka, who rushed under his feet, and dashed to Suki's side, and watched as Elrich tumbled off the bridge, straight into the water and float away.
KYKYKY
"We never found him, though we were looking for hours. I started to feel how I knew how felt to kill a person. And unlike Elrich, it made me want to throw up."
Katara shook her head. "Aang's murder mystery, you killing a guy, good grief is this a kiss and tell story or massacre theater?"
"I didn't say that I killed him," Sokka said. "I just said I felt like I knew how it felt. It wasn't until the next day, the day before Zuko attacked, when we knew what had happened. And it was bad."
Okay, the fifth chapter is over! True its shorter than Aang's story, but of course we know a little more about Sokka than what we learned about Aang, so I didn't want this to be a P.O.V. of The Warriors of Kyoshi. Anyway, let me know how you feel about it. And that being said, some reader reviews response!
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Okay gang, on to chapter six!