We were laying down on grass looking up at the sky, watching a meteor shower.

"Wow, this is amazing to watch." Katara said

"Kind of makes you realize how insignificant we are." Sokka said

"Wow Sokka that was very deep." I said

"Eh, you've seen nothing once, you've seen it a thousand times." Toph said

I see a big meteor heading for the ground and we all let out gasps of amazement.

"Oh, man, you've never not seen anything like this." Sokka said

We all stand up next to him, well minus Toph. The meteor files past us. We follow the meteor with our eyes and body we turn to see the meteor crash nearby. We all run up a hill, and look towards the crash site. We all exchange looks of concern. We quickly climb onto Appa and fly to the site.

"The fire is gonna destroy that town." Katara said

"Not if we can stop it." Aang said

Appa lands next to the crash site, all of us jump out except for Katara who moves to the front of Appa and takes the reins.

"There's a creek over here. I'll bend the water onto the fire." Katara said

Appa takes off. Aang turns to all of us.

"Toph, let's make a trench to stop the fire from coming any closer. Kida hold the fire back as long as possible." Aang said

"Why can't i just stop the fire all together, I mean I am a firebender." I said

"Now is not the time." Sokka said

I rolled my eyes, and moved to hold the fire at bay. Toph and Aang move off, Sokka just looks down.

"What should I do?" Sokka asked

Toph, Aang, and I stop to look back at Sokka. Momo flies by.

"Keep an eye on Momo." Aang said

Momo then lands on Sokka's shoulder.

"So what, I'm just a lemur sitter? There, there, feel better?" Sokka asked

I move my hands and hold the fire back, as Aang and Toph begin to earthbend. The trench begins to form. They are successful and the trench stops the fire from spreading. I let the fire go, I turn to see some little flames fly near Sokka, and land on the ground. Sokka puts on out by hitting it with his machete by hitting it. But Momo ups him by putting out five in the same time, much to Sokka's dismay. Katara flies over a river, she grabs some water and returns to the crash site. I look up to see a globe of water following behind Appa. She quickly puts out some of the fire with the water. Toph beings to earthbending to put some of the fire. Sokka just sits watching, along with Momo as the earth Toph is using rolls past. Katara gives some of her water to Aang. Aang use some water to bend, waterbending and airbending to out some more of the fire out. I finish putting out the rest of the fire. The mix of my bending and Aang's bending caused it to snow.

"Sokka, stand clear." Aang said

"Right. Staying clear, got it." Sokka said

Sokka picks up Momo and moves away. Sokka is still walking away as he gets drenched in water. Katara lands next to Sokka. I move over to stand next to Sokka. I quickly bend the water out of Sokka's close. Aang and Toph also move over to us.

"Good work, everybody." Aang said

"How come you didn't just have Kida put it out?" Katara asked

"I said I could but evidently they just wanted to have some fun." I said

Time Skip Text Day…

We are sitting at a restaurant in the village.

"These people have no idea, how close they were to getting toasted last night." Aang said

"Yeah, the worst thing about being in disguise is that we don't get the hero worship anymore. I miss the love." Toph said

"Well I don't know what there is to miss." I said

"That's only because you spent most time with you-know-who, that you never got the chance to feel the hero worship love." Toph said

I glared at her then remember that she couldn't see my glare.

"Boo-hoo, poor heroes." Sokka said sarcastically

We all turn and look at Sokka.

"What's your problem? You haven't even touched your smoked sea slug." Katara said

"I'll eat if you don't want it." I said

I reached towards the slug, but Sokka snatched the slug away.

"It's just, all you guys can do this awesome bending stuff, Kida can do two. You guys can put out forest fires, and fly around and make other stuff fly around. I can't fly around, okay? I can't do anything." Sokka said

"Sokka you can do tons of things I we can't." I said

"Kida's right. No one can read a map like you." Katara said

"I can't read at all." Toph said

"Yeah, and who keeps us laughing with sarcastic comments all the time? I mean, look at Katara's hair? What's up with that?" Aang asked

Katara's hands go to her hair.

"What? What's wrong with my hair?" Katara asked

Aang quickly answers after realizing her mistake.

"Nothing, I was just trying to…" Aang trails off

"What Aang is trying to say is that, you can do things that we can't." I said

"Look, I appreciate the effort, but the fact us each of you is so amazing and so special and I'm…not. I'm just the guy in the group who's regular." Sokka said

"Sokka you are far from normal." I said

"I'm sorry you're feeling so down but I hope you know, none of us see you that way. I know something that's going to make you feel better." Katara said

"You do?" Sokka asked

"Yeah so finish eating you slug so we can make you feel better." I said

It took less than a minute for Sokka to eat his smoked sea slug, and we were off. We headed to a shop we had passed earlier, it was full of weapons and armor.

"Shopping." Sokka said

"You would think that he would be happy about which shop we bought him into, but no he's happy were shopping." I said

Toph and Aang started laughing.

"Maybe a little something to reinvigorate my batting. Hey, how about these?" Sokka asked

He picked up a pair of nunchaku, he starts making attacking noises, but hits himself on the head and falls into some other weapons. Katara tries ono a pair of gloves.

"What do you think?" Aang asked

I turn around to see Aang wearing a strange, scary armor.

"Pretty sick, huh?" Aang asked

Katara and I look at each other. Katara steps towards Aang with a hand raised to block a glare from the helmet.

"All I need to complete the outfit is a wind sword." Aang said

"What's a wind sword?" I asked

"It's where I get a sword handle and then I just swing this around and bend air out like a blade." Aang said

Aang raises a sword handle, swishing it around like a sword and starts making whooshing sounds.

"Yeah…nice." Katara said

"If you have a wind sword, then Kida can have an ice sword or fire sword." Toph said

"A fire sword sounds cool." I said

Aang begins to fall over, Katara tries to stop him from falling, but Aang and the armor fall to the floor with a loud noise, causing Toph, Katara, and I to cover our ears.

"I'll just stick with what I got." Aang said

I look back over to Sokka to see him holding a guan dao. He swings it to one side, swings it over his head and spins it in a circle. The weapon flies up towards the ceiling and Sokka puts his hands behind his hack. He then step over to a new weapon, an enormous metal club he grabs it and drags it across the floor. He groans as he tries to lift it, but loses his grip and falls. Sokka moves over and picks up two swords. He marches and chops downward with them. Sokka moves to a spinning chain over his head, but he wraps the chain around himself and falls over. Sokka moves over to the spears he picks one up and starts running with it, it is very wobbly. Sokka puts the spear back and moves over and starts inspecting a sai, before using it as a toothpick. He turns and looks at the sword rack that is on the wall, and a particular sword framed and positioned above the other. Sokka moves over towards it.

"Ooh. That's what Sokka's talking about." Sokka said

"That's exactly what we need. Sokka referring to himself in the thord person." I said

"Maybe those fish really were that bad." Toph said

Sokka stops looking at the sword long enough to glare at us. The the shopkeeper walks over to us.

"You have a good eye. That's an original from Piandao, the greatest sword master and sword maker in Fire Nation history. He lives in the big castle up the road." the shopkeeper said

"That's it. That's what you needed all along, Sokka." Aang said

"A sword?" Sokka asked

"Not the sword, a master." I said

"We've all had masters to help us get better. You should see if you can study with Piandao." Aang said

"I never had a master." I said

"That's a great idea. I could've never gotten to where I am without Master Pakku. Everyone needs a teacher." Katara said

"I learned from badgermoles. They don't talk, but they're still good teachers." Toph said

"I might not have had a master but I learned from the people around me and Iroh." I said

"It would be nice to be a master swordfighter. All right, I'll talk to him." Sokka said

With that Sokka turned and left the shop and headed up to where Piandao lived. We rest of us headed back to where we had set up camp.

One Hour Later…

We were all laying in the grass and looking up at the sky.

"What should we do today?" Aang asked

"I'm tapped out. I already picked my toes, twice." Toph said

"Ew." I said

"Twice?" Aang asked

"The first time was for cleaning, but the second time's just for the sweet picking sensation." Toph said

"Once again ew." I said

"Sokka's been in charge of the schedule. I'm not sure what we should be doing." Katara said

"Plus, it's so hot today." Toph said

"How hot is it?" Aang asked

"I dunno. Real hot?" Toph asked

"I-it's so hot, it's so hot… Momo is shedding like Appa. Huh, Huh?" Katara asked

Aang scratches his head, I shake my head and Toph continues to pick her noise. Katara is disappointed.

"I guess the jokes don't run in the family." Aang said

"Oh, everyone's a critic." Katara said

Appa grunts in response.

"So where are we going next?" Katara asked

We were all huddled around the map.

"We're starting from here…" Katara said

"No, we're over on this island." Aang said

He points to a different part of the map.

"You noodle-brans don't know what you're doing. I miss Sokka.

"Ooh, I got one, if you miss him so much, why don't you marry him?" Katara asked

Katara grins at her joke. Toph rolls on her side, away from Katara and her bad joke. A winged insect buzzes in front of Aang, who simply blows it away with a quick blast of wind from his breath.

It was a hour or two pass mid-day when Toph spoke up.

"Sokka's coming." Toph said

We wall sit up. We can see Sokka walking up to the top of the hill.

"hey, guys. What are you doing?" Sokka asked

We all jump up and run over and give Sokka a hug.

"Sokka." Aang said

"You're back." Toph said

"We missed you so much." Katara said

"We are going crazy." I said

"Say something funny." Aang said

"Funny how?" Sokka asked

Aang and Katara both start laughing, Toph smiles and crosses her arms, while I just shake my head. Sokka moves over and stands by me.

"What's their deal?" Sokka asked

"Like I said, we're going crazy." I said

"They missed you or something. I didn't care." Toph said

"Thanks, that warms my heart. Anyway, I need some help." Sokka said

Sokka said how he needed something to make a sword out of and that he wanted to make his sword out of the meteor. So we all headed to where the meteor was. Toph use her earthbending to move the meteor up to where Piandao lived. We get to the door, and Sokka runs up and starts banging both knockers frantically. I notice the symbol on the doors was that of the white lotus title, a smile came to my face. A tall man with dark skin opened the door.

"Who's this?" Piandao asked

"Oh, these are my friends. Just other good Fire nation folks. Do you think we can make a sword out of a meteorite?" Sokka asked

Piandao places his hand on the meteorite and examines it.

"We'll make a sword unlike any other in the world." Piandao said

Piandao allowed us to stay and watch Sokka makes his sword.

"You four can stay but don't bother him. You cannot help, or talk to him." Piandao said

We watched Sokka do all the steps to make his sword. I had left the others and started to walk Piandao's house. I could see the white lotus in many different places. I turned a corner and ran into Piandao.

"I'm sorry." I said

"It's all right." Piandao said

"I see you like the white lotus." I said

"Yes I do. Do you play?" Piandao asked

"Someone tried to teach me, but he always one. He favored the white lotus as well." I said

"Can I ask who tried to teach you?" Piandao asked

"Iroh, and before you ask I know." I said

Piandao raised his eyebrow. Then a look passed across his face.

"Your Kida aren't you. The girl who can bend two elements. I heard about you from some of the members." Piandao said

"Yes I am." I said

"Can I see them?" Piandao asked

I nodded my head, I flipped my hands over. In my left hand was ice, and in my right was white fire. Piandao just smiled.

"I believe Sokka is done with his sword." Piandao said

"You knew who he was?" I asked

"I knew he was not fire nation. But now that I know who you are, I know who he is." Piandao said

We headed into a room, where the others were waiting. Aang, Katara, Toph and I were sitting towards the back, while Sokka was sitting in front of Piandao.

"Sokka, when you first arrived, you were so unsure. You even seemed down on yourself. But I saw something in you right away. I saw a hear as strong as a lion turtle, and twice as big. And as we trained, it wasn't your skills that impressed me. No, it certainly wasn't your skills. You showed something beyond that. Creativity, versatile, intelligence…these are traits that define you. You told me you didn't know if you were worthy, but I believe that you are more worthy than any man I have ever trained." Piandao said

Sokka looks down at the sword in his hands.

"I'm sorry, Master. You're wrong. I am not worthy. I'm not who you think I am. I'm not from the Fire Nation. I'm from the Southern Water Tribe. I lied so that I could learn swordsmanship from you. I'm sorry." Sokka said

"I'm sorry, too." Piandao said

Piandao quickly turns back around and swings his sword at Sokka. Sokka stands and avoids the attack. He unsheathes his sword, blocks a thrust from Piandao. Toph, Katara, and Aang get up to help Sokka, but both Sokka and I stop them.

"No, this is my fight, alone." Sokka said

We all head outside to the sword fighting ring. We watch from the deck. Piandao lunges forward and begins his attack. Sokka backs away. Piandao strikes four times, each one parried by Sokka. Sokka attempts a strike of his own. Piandao moves his head out of the way and stabs at Sokka, who sways back and avoids the attack; Piandao sweeps his sword at Sokka's legs, but Sokka jumps over it and lunges at Piandao, thrusting his sword forward. Piandao who deflects Sokka's blade and pushes him back. Sokka is knocked back several feet and slides over the ground. Sokka flips himself backward and grabs a post of a small bridge to regain his balance. He quickly climbs onto the post and leaps on the other one just as Piandao thrusts his sword at him. Piandao spins around and tries to slice Sokka's foot, Sokka jumps away. Sokka jumps to the other rail of the bridge. Piandao stabs at Sokka again, but Sokka jumps off the rail and rolls to the side. Piandao strikes again, but Sokka rolls under the blade. He blocks Piandao's next strike. Sokka runs to the left and jumps on the railing again, he leaps away to the end of the bridge, dodging as Piandao swings his sword at him.

"Excellent. Using your superior agility against an older opponent…smart." Piandao said

Piandao charges at Sokka again, Sokka readies his sword. Piandao strikes at him and pushes him up a large stone stairway. Sokka blocks all of the attacks, but the force pushes him against the wall of the stairway. Sokka's back hits the wall and he deflects a thrust from Piandao upward, and ducks as the blade slices through the part of the wall above his shoulder. Piandao swings his sword around his head and body in two large circles. Sokka barely didges Piandao's blade, cart wheeling to the right. Sokka spins back around, hops a foot off the ground and pushes off the wall with his legs, propelling himself forward, sword extended. Piandao deflects the attack. Sokka rolls across the stair to the other wall, climbing to the top, Sokka reaches the top.

"Good use of terrain…fighting from the high ground." Piandao said

Sokka swings at Piandao below him, who parries and swings at Sokka. Piandao thrusts his sword at Sokka, who pins the blade under his own blade, weighted down under his feet. Sokka is standing on the swords before switching back to Piandao, who tries to wrench his sword free. Piandao's feet as he steps forward and he pushes his sword upwards throwing Sokka off. Sokka grunts stumbling back into a tall stalk of bamboo. Sokka looks up fearfully, strands of hair falling over his face. Piandao raises his sword and charges at Sokka. He ducks Piandao's attack that slices through the bamboo just above his head. He turns to run off into the bamboo thicket. Sokka runs away, he runs through the bamboo thicket, slicing through the bamboo just above his head. He turns to run off into the bamboo thicket, slicing through as many surrounding stalks of bamboo that he can. As Piandao chases after, the stalks all begin to fall. Piandao skillfully cuts through the bamboo. Sokka runs through the bamboo and turns, grabbing a stalk and pulling it. He lets it go just as Piandao catches up. Piandao cuts through it with ease as Sokka tries to attack from behind.

"Yes, use your surroundings." Piandao said

Piandao deflects the attacks as Sokka runs away. Sokka grabs two stalks and pulls them back before releasing them. They ship around at Piandao, who slices through them.

"Make them fight for you." Piandao said

Sokka runs out of the bamboo and back toward the sword fighting ring, screaming in terror and Piandao not far behind. Sokka is very frightened and takes a look behind, but Piandao has run off to the side and out of sight. Sokka turns to look ahead only for Piandao to strike out in front of him, trying to make him run into it. However, Sokka leans back and slides under the blade. Sokka stands back up and stumbles forward, stabbing his sword into the ground to stop his fall. He uses his momentum to swing his sword back around, flinging dirt and dust at Piandao, the dirt hits him in the face, blinding him. Piandao spins around and positions his sword behind his back to defend any sneak attacks.

"Very resourceful." Piandao said

Piandao turns his head and listens for any sounds. Sokka nervously raises his sword defensively. He slowly tries to sneak away, careful not to make any noises that would give away his location. Sokka steps on a twig, snapping it. Piandao turns his head towards Sokka when he hears it. He twirls his sword around into an offensive position and charges forward. Sokka takes a step back as Piandao closes in. Piandao strikes. Sokka parries the attack. Piandao catches Sokka's blade with his own. He pushes Sokka's sword around in two circles and flings Sokka's sword out of his hands.

We all watch his sword fly into the air and stab into the ground several feet away. Sokka looks worried as Piandao moves to attack. Piandao swings his sword in large, horizontal arc at Sokka. Sokka is not cut by the blade, but is instead hit in the chest by Piandao's arms, knocking him on his back. Sokka lands on the ground and he looks up fearfully. Piandao turns and points his sword at Sokka's head. Sokka leans back in fear. Aang, Katara, and Toph as they all jump from the building to the ground and run toward Sokka and Piandao. I causal walk towards them knowing that Sokka was in no real danger. Piandao swings his sword away from Sokka, halting Aang, Katara, and Toph.

"Excellent work, Sokka." Piandao said

Sokka is squinting at Piandao curiously. Piandao raises his hand to signal to Fat. Fat flings the scabbard of Piandao's sword towards him. Piandao is still blinded by the dirt as he turns and points his sword upward. The scabbard flies right onto the blade.

"I think I'm a little old to be fighting the Avatar." Piandao said

Katara, Aang, and Toph who had been in their bending stances, come out of them. Katara and Aang look at each other than to me, and lastly to Piandao.

"How did you know?" Aang asked

Fat walks over to use with a drink and a cloth for Piandao.

"Oh, I've been around a while. You pick things up. (wipes face). Of course, I knew from the beginning that Sokka was Water Tribe. You might want to think of a better Fire Nation cover name. Try 'lee'. There's a million 'Lees'." Piandao said

"But why would you agree to train someone from the Water Tribe?" Katara asked

"The way of the sword doesn't belong to any one nation. Knowledge of the arts belongs to us all." Piandao said

Piandao gives his sword to Fat. Piandao then removes Sokka's sword from the ground. Then hands it to Sokka.

"Sokka, you must continue your training on your own. If you stay on this path, I know that one day, you will become an even greater master than I am." Piandao said

We all smile at Sokka, happy that he knows has something. Piandao and Sokka bow to each other. Sokka and Piandao exchange a few more words with each other before we leave. We were just outside the gate when we hear someone calling my name. I stop and turn around to see Fat.

"Wait. The Master wanted you have this, as something to remember him by." Fat said

He tossed me a small bag. I open the bag to see a white lotus tile. I look up at Fat and bow.

"Tell him thank you." I said

"Will do." Fat said

With that Fat turned and walked back inside the gate.

"What is it?" Katara asked

I reached into the bag and pulled out the tile.

"It's a Pai Sho tile." Sokka said

"Yes, yes it is." I said

"The White Lotus. Huh." Aang said

"What does it mean?" Katara asked

"I have no idea. Ooh, that reminds me. Toph, I thought you might like this, (hands her a chunk of meteorite) since you've probably never had a chance to bend space earth before." Sokka said

Toph takes the rock from Sokka with a huge smile on her face.

"Sweet. Check this out." Toph said

The space earth floating between Toph's hands. She shapes it into a swirl, a star. We start to walk down the hill.

"You know, I don't think there's a thing as 'space earth'. If it's from space, then it's not really 'earth'." Katara said

"Must you ruin everything?" Sokka asked

"I can't believe I missed you." Katara said

It didn't take us long to reach where we were camping. When we arrived it was late, so we all decided to head to bed. I laid down and Katara laid down next to me.

"What's wrong?" Katara asked

"What do you mean?" I asked

"You've been acting different. You are moody, and distant. You've barely talked the past few days. You can tell me what's wrong." Katara said

I turned my head to see Toph looking over at us.

"No matter what it is it won't change anything." Katara said

Toph gave me a nod.

"I was with Zuko." I said

Katara raised an eyebrow.

"With how?" Katara asked

"I kissed him the day we faced those pirates. Then he kissed me the night of the storm. Then after that we were together." I said

"Okay that make since. I don't blame you he is cute." Katara said

She looked at me.

"What aren't you telling me?" Katara asked

"I had…I had sex with Zuko." I said

I had never seen someone move so fast.

"You WHAT?" Katara yelled

I sat up. I looked around to see that Sokka and Aang were still asleep.

"Pleases don't yell. I don't Sokka to know." I said

"Why?" Katara asked

"We liked each other. We both wanted to." I said

"Do you regret it?" Katara asked

"Nope. Not one bit." I said

"There's something else. What is it?" Katara asked

I didn't answer, instead I wrapped my arm around my waist. Katara looked down then back up to my face. Her eyes got huge.

"No. You can't be." Katara said

"I am, Katara. I'm pregnant, and it's Zuko." I said