Two years passed. Sokka forgot all about his family back home. He was utterly obsessed with studying. He stayed up all day and night, reading and making experiments.
Sokka learned quickly, his professors were pleased. But he didn't tell them all he was doing. Secretly, he was cutting up dead bodies to try to find where their life force came from.
Sokka got rotting corpses from graveyards and tombs. Slowly, carefully, he observed how dead bodies decayed. He studied living creatures too...... and finally found what he was searching for, the secret of life itself!
But Sokka couldn't rest. He had another problem, the life force he discovered needed a flesh-and-blood body to live in.
Sokka worked in a secret study on the top floor of his apartment. He decided to make a gigantic figure, about eight feet tall.
After frantic, sleepless months spent sawing, cutting, and stitching......Sokka was exhausted. But he couldn't stop now. He had to go on!
On a dreary night in november, Sokka's work was completed.
The giant body took its first breath, and opened a dull yellow eye!