A Surprise Attack
It was awhile since Sokka and Katara's father had left the South Pole and as Sokka twisted and turned in his sleep only one thing came to mind.
Goodbye, Sokka. Take good care of your sister…The last words his father had said to him. The last memory of his father buzzed around his head ever since they had left the South Pole to go to the North Pole to find a teacher for Aang.
As he had already known since the death of his mother, it was hard to lose someone you love. His father wasn't dead, but he hadn't seen him for a very long time.
"Sokka, why are you up so late? It's a perfect night to finally rest and get some sleep."
He turned around to see Aang staring at him.
"You ok Sokka?" The young airbender looked at him questioningly.
"Yeah, just had a bad dream." he said to him hoping that Aang would believe it.
"Oh, ok. Well it's nearly dawn, Sokka. You should go back to sleep before you're tired in the morning." And with that the boys turned over to go back to sleep. But as Aang could tell, Sokka wasn't telling the truth.
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It's not like Sokka to be up before everyone else. He usually is the one Katara and I usually have to wake up.
Aang thought as he rolled back over to look at Sokka who was already asleep. The sun just began to peek over the top of the mountains nearby as Aang rested his head on the pillow of his sleeping bag. He decided to stay up since the sun was already rising and there was no point in going back to sleep when Sokka and Katara will end up waking up soon. For a while the airbender looked up at the sun thinking of his old home and Gyatso, his guardian that took care of him before he had ran away.Gyatso had taught him everything he knew about airbending and was like a parent to him.
Gyatso, I wish I could have taken you with me…
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Heading towards them, but quite a distance from the island the kids were on a fire navy ship was close by.
A day before the kids had left on the flying bison heading towards the north. The bison they rode was easy to see in the dark with its arrow and white, fluffy fur that Zuko and his crew could follow.
As they approached the island that night there was a sudden mist that captivated the entire island making it impossible to see where they had landed. But it was not a very big island therefore they should be spotted by daybreak.
"Helmsmen, head a course for the east part of the island!" The Prince commanded as they approached the island.
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As the sun became in full view from where Aang was in his sleeping bag he got up to wake the others.
"Sokka, Sokka wake up!" The airbender poked his sleeping bag trying to wake him up, which was never that easy.
Before Aang had a chance to try again, they heard a loud slamming noise come from the east part of the island. Both Sokka and Katara jumped from their dreams and sat up.
"What was that Aang?" Katara asked as she pulled the covers off of her body and stood up as so did Sokka.
"I'm not sure, but whatever it was must mean we're not alone. I'll take my glider and search the island for what the noise came from. Stay here and keep watch." With that Aang opened his glider and flew into the air without making a sound.
Not before long did Aang see the owner of the noise. A fire navy ship was resting on the east side of the island with its front buried in sand, which detected that whoever was on the ship was already on the island.
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"I hope Aang gets back soon, the longer he's away the more worried I get about what that noise was." Katara said then looked at Sokka as if he knew exactly where Aang was.
"It sounded like a type of metal or rock if you ask me." He replied as he got out his boomerang and went into an attacking position just incase they were ambushed.
"Sokka, you don't think it was a ship, do you?" There was worry and fear in the waterbender's voice. She tried not to sound scared but inside she really was.
"Could have been. Since fire navy ships are metal and it did sound a lot like the one that we were attacked by back home. I just hope…" Before he could finish another noise was heard in the bushes nearby.
Sokka readied his boomerang for attack and Katara took the top off of the water bottle she carried around with her most of the time.
A couple seconds later two Fire Nation soldiers came out of the forest and attacked with two strong fire blasts protruding from there palms and straight for them.
As they did Katara bended the water out from the water bottle she had with her and shot it at them as hard as she could.
Both soldiers ducked and shot two more at them twice as hard as the first time.
Clutching his boomerang in his right hand Sokka managed to throw it straight for one of the guards that was at the time watching Katara's movements and knocked him out.
"Hah! Not as tough as you thought you were, huh?" Sokka laughed and then struck it at the other soldier but missed.
Katara watched the first soldier go down in amusement then shot what seemed like a waterball at the other soldier and brought him down. Before being able to get up she shot another one at the firebender, which hit him against a nearby tree, leaving the soldier unconscious.
"We better look for Aang, before they find him!" Katara said then ran off into the forest with Sokka following close behind her.
