Chapter Two: Zuko

The next morning at breakfast…

Sokka, Aang, Suki, and Toph were sitting in the courtyard around the morning campfire waiting for Zuko to come back from hunting.

"Sparky better find another Fox-Antelope. Sokka almost ate all of its meat yesterday!"

"Well, I was hungry- MEEEAAATTTTT!" Sokka said when he then saw Zuko coming out of the forest with a Platypus Bear over his shoulder this time. "GIMMMIE, GIMMIE, GIMMIE!" Sokka put his hands in front of him and started grabbing the air in front of him towards the meat.

Zuko was eyeing Sokka, "Sokka, no. Sha-areee."

"MINE!" Sokka's eyes were gigantic. "I heard Platypus Bear is delightful!" he reached for the meat.

"PLATYPUS BEAR?" Toph's eyes were panicked. "I can't! There's no way I'm going to eat that! It's against the law in the Earth Kingdom to eat that! That's the same species as Basco!"

"Basco?" Zuko raised an eyebrow.

"THE EARTH KINGS PET!" Toph exclaimed. "We're not allowed to eat Platypus Bear!"

"But we're in the Fire Nation!" Zuko reminded Toph

"It's just not right to eat something like Basco." She argued.

"Toph," Suki put a hand on the Earthbender's shoulder, "You're just gonna have to eat it."

"hmph." Was all Toph said as she crossed her arms.

"Just to let you know," Aang said looking at the dead animal sadly, "I'm not gonna eat that for sure though. Vegetarian, remember?"

"More for me!" Sokka wooted. "Hurry up and roast that sucker now Zuko!"

Zuko threw three large blasts of fireballs to the Platypus Bear and it turned coal black and to a charred chrisp.

Sokka looked confused,"…"

"Uh… I didn't mean to do that." Zuko quickly said to Sokka.

"YOU! YOU! YOU- BURNED IT!" Sokka accused, pointing his finger at Zuko.

"Sorry."

Sokka then ripped a large piece of the burned Platypus Bear and stuffed it in his mouth. "Wha- wha- WAHHHH! IT'S NOT CHEWABLE!"

"I said I'm sorry, Sokka. I'm not the best co-" Zuko said.

"NOT CHEWABLE!"

"But it's better than little berries and fr-"

"NOT CHEWABLE!"

"Fine, but it's not like-"

"NOT CHEWABLE!"

"Sokka, c'mon, it's a lot better than no-"

"NOT CHEWABLE!"

"…"

"NOT CHEWABLE, NOT CHEWABLE, NOT CHEWABLE!" Sokka whined.

Zuko sat down at the morning fire that he made earlier and ripped a piece of meat off for himself. Without looking at the un-chewable meat he closed his eyes and threw it into his open mouth. He cringed as he started chewing the 'NOT CHEWABLE!' meat. The hard meat he was chewing on was starting to make his jaw ache so he swallowed it and winced as it tumbled down his throat.

Then Toph, Suki, and Sokka, sat around the campfire with their share of 'NOT CHEWABLE' meat with Zuko.

Toph tried to bite, Suki tried to rip, and Sokka tried to snap Zuko's burned and blackened food. It was just too darn hard to eat.

After a while of playing with the soiled food, Toph complained, "Sparkkyyy, this in un-edible! For crying out loud! I'd rather have Katara's Prune Soup thing!"

"Just eat the damn thing and please, shut up." Zuko sighed. "You're cooking tomorrow then."

"Pffft. I'll cook better than both you and Twinkle Toes! Forget 'bout me being blind! I'm cooking! My food can't be any more worse than this."

Right then and there Aang came out of the forest with some more little nuts and berries.

Sokka, Suki, Toph, and Zuko swarmed around Aang asking for some of his food.

"PLEASE! Just for right now! We need those fruits! SOMEONE can't cook edible things!" and he glared at Zuko.

"Please!" Suki said as well.

"GIMMIE!" Toph demanded.

And so GaAng had to live off of nuts and berries until the next day, the day when Toph was the cook.

A/N: Please review for the sake of my own sanity. And check out the website and tell me what you think! I was bored and wanted to see how this stuff works. This site is just a test run to see how it goes. .com/