Zuko wrote, asking Sokka to travel south to join him. But before Sokka left, he had to get rid of the unfinished female monster. Shuddering, he loaded it into his boat and rowed away from shore.
Overcome with relief, Sokka fell asleep.
He woke to find himself at the heart of raging storm.
At last, the winds and waves calmed down, and Sokka saw land ahead. He had no idea where he was.
He scrambled ashore, only to find himself surrounded and arrested! What was the matter? Why were the fishermen so hostile?
He had landed at a small fishing port on Whale Tail Island. The fishermen marched Sokka into town, and took him to the magistrate.
They were convinced that Sokka was a criminal! The magistrate asked the fishermen to tell their story.
The fishermen explained that last night they found a young man's body on the shore. It was not drowned, but strangled, and still warm! One of them saw a boat sailing away, and it looked just like Sokka's.
Sokka was taken to see the body. He couldn't believe his eyes. The dead man was his best friend, Zuko, who was travelling north to meet him!
"Zuko, my friend! Have my murderous machinations deprived you also of life?" asked Sokka.
Sokka could not bear to think that the creature had killed Zuko. He collapsed uncomscious.
Sokka was now a prisoner.
"I am sorry that I am still alive to feel this misery and horror." commented Sokka.
The magistrate visited. He was worried to see Sokka so ill, in mind and body. He had written to Sokka's father.
Who wrried all the way from Ba Sing Se to be with him. Sokka was overjoyed to see him again. At last he began to grow stronger.
"Are you safe, and Suki, and Haru?" asked Sokka.
But thoughts of Zuko's death and the creature's terrible threats of revenge filled him with deep despair.
"Destiny of the most horrible kind hangs over me!" claimed Sokka.