Title: The Southern Wolf
Genre: Action/Adventure/Humor
Summary: He had been plague by dreams for years. Dreams of going to great adventures, getting into lots of trouble, battling countless enemies, and meeting new friends. He had been preparing himself for visions that may never come to be, until said visions came true.
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CHAPTER 5
Of Suki and Wrestling with the Unagi
---Hey! Where's the men that beat us?---
---In our lands, only women are taught how to fight!---
---I wish to learn of your fighting arts. Please teach me.---
---If you want me to teach you, then you have do exactly what I tell you to do. So go get change!---
---I'm sorry. I was treating you like a girl when I should've been treating you like a warrior.---
---I am a warrior. But I'm also a girl.---
Sokka groaned as he was awaken by the sound of someone knocking at the door of the house that the people of Kyoshi Island had loaned them. He heard his sister stumbling from her bed to open the door, allowing several girls to bring in several dishes of food for breakfast. He could hear them giggling as they left.
"Wow! Desert for breakfast! You have to try this one, Katara." He heard Aang said.
Hunger overcoming his sleep, he rose from his bed and staggered towards the dining table filled with food. He took ate several rice balls and drank a cup of tea before turning to the others and saying groggily, "Good morning."
Aang was looking at him in awe. "Wow, Sokka. I never saw anyone eat before waking up."
"My brother is just weird that way." Katara scoffed.
"Ha-ha. Very funny." He deadanned as he shoved several more pastries in his mouh. After swallowing and now fully alert, he turned to them and asked, "So how long do you guys think it woud take to resupply and start heading North again?"
"But we just got here. Why would you guys want to leave already?" Aang whined.
Sokka and Katara groaned inwardly at the monl. Sokka had been expecting it considering the huge party he people of the island held last night in the Avatar's favor. Katara just wanted to get Aang away from those giggling girls that keeps gushing over him.
"Aang, we can't stay in one place too long or else the Fire Nation will catch up to us." Katara said diplomatically.
Sokka woud have inserted his two cents in but a figure walking by outside stopped him in his tracks. Thinking quickly, he said, "I think Aang is right. We should stay at least a day more. Anyway, I have something to do. See ya." Then, he left, only to come back a second later to grab a plate of pastries before leaving again.
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Suki was late for morning practice and it's all that Water Tribe boy's fault. His words on the beach had affected her in such a way that she couldn't help thinking about it. He had managed to defeat her and question her honour. And last night, during the party, everytime she tried to make insconpicuous glare at him, he would catch her and look back. He wouldn't admit it but his deep blue eyes unnerve her very being, as if he could see right through her soul.
Also, there was whispering among the crowd about the blue eyed boy being the Southern Wolf, a new warrior that had said to have single-handedly incapacitated half an entire crew of a Fire Nation Navy ship in a span of a few minutes.
Putting away thoughts of certain blue eyed boys who may or may not be a new legend in the making, she kept rushing to the dojo. She arrive to see that most of the other Kyoshi wariors already doing warm ups.
"Sorry I'm late." She said as she walk towards the front of the other wariors. When everyone was in formation, she continued, "Today we would be practicing our group battle tactics and then review the Kyoshi Warior Codes, particularly on honorable conducts during battles so that what had occured on the beach yesterday will NEVER happen again." At that, she gave a dejected Kyoko a half lidded glare.
Kyoko, who had been standing quietly within the group, slumped her shoulders. What she did yesterday was a breach in the Code's conduct. She should have never threatened the hostage as leverage. She would have voiced her apology when a new voice came from the door.
"You're a fool if you think she would have went through slitting my sister's throat yesterday." The male voice said.
As the Kyoshi wariors turned, they saw the Water Tribe boy leaning againts the doorway looking flatly at their leader.
Said leader reacted immeditely in anger. "This place is for Kyoshi warriors only. No males allowed. Now leave."
"That's rich, coming from you." Sokka scoffed, earning a feirce glare from Suki. "The only warrior I saw yesterday is her." He pointed at Kyoko, who gave him a bewildered look.
"You're wrong! True wariors don't use such despicable tactics to gain leverage to win in battles." She muttered hotly.
"Then it just goes to show that she have such great acting skills to fool even you." He said coolly. "She bluffed her way to victory and thus prevented any loss of life on your side. Even if her bluff didn't work, she had managed to provide a distraction for you and your other warriors. Too bad you're so slow on the uptake."
Suki and the rest of the warriors were bristtling now while Kyoko tried to make herself as small as possible.
Her teeth grinding againts each other, Suki asked, "And what makes you so sure she wouldn't have gone through with the threat?"
"Her eyes. Plus, her hands weren't shaking when she held her fan againts my sister's neck. She was afraid but she have good control of her body's movement." He then invaded her personal space, his nose almost touching hers. Then he said in a low voice so only she could hear, "Your eyes, on the other hand, had begged me to let you live."
Suki gasped silently at that. She tried to deny it but what he said was true. Despite what she said yesterday at the beach while she had his blades on her neck, she didn't want to die. And this boy had saw through it.
Then, he smirk and turned his back on her and the rest of the warriors and left through the open doors, leaving Suki frozen in place while the rest of the warriors whisper among themselves, most of them already planning to spy on the Water Tribe boy.
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"Sokka, what are you doing?" Katara asked as she saw her brother witing something on a piece of paper in the dining table during lunch. Looking over his shoulder, he saw that it was a map of the island.
"Just checking out the most likely route a Fire Nation invading party would take." He said as he used an ink and brush to highlight another line on the map.
"Do you really think they would catch up to us before we leave?"
"Zuko is a tenacious bastard. He'll stop at nothing to get Aang."
"Zuko?"
"You know, that guy with the scar on his left eye at the South Pole."
"How do you know he'll be like that?" She asked with genuine curiosity.
"Becasue he's . . .um, er . . . hmmmm. . . You know what, I don't know how. I just do."
". . . Those weird dreams again?"
". . . yeah."
After several minutes of silence, Sokka shook her head in defeat and said, "By the way, where's our resident airbender?"
Katara scoffed as she said, "Probably showing off to his fans again. Honestly! THat Avatar business is starting to get into his head."
Seeing his sister starting to go into one of her tantrums, Sokka took an involuntary step back and said carefully, "Well, it's another reason why we should leave early."
"You're leaving already? But why?" Came sudden distressed the female voice.
Turning, both of them saw three young girls about their age standing by the door looking at them, in Sokka particularly, the shortest one with teary eyes. They were wearing normal everyday robes found around in Kyoshi Island.
"Um, who are you?" Katara asked. She remembered haven't seeing them before since they arrived.
Sokka, on the other hand, noticed something familiar about these girls. Then, his mind tried imagining them with Kyoshi armor and white face paints and finally realize who they are. "Hey, you're Kyoshi Warriors. I coudn't recognize you without your armors and make up."
"Those are not make ups! They're face paint for warriors." One girl said defensively. She's the shortest of the group with a cute sightly chubby face. She have long brown hair in twin ponytails.
"Naomi, they are designated as warrior make up. We voted on it during the last warrior meeting." The tallest one with a bored look said. She have short pagecut dark brown hair and seems to be older than them by two years.
"Is that what we talked about during the last meeting, Sayuri? I thought Suki cancelled that one so I wasn't able to attend." The last one said. He recognize her as Kyoko. She is of average height and a high horsetail style of hairdo that Sokka didn't notice before because she was wearing her Kyoshi garb before now.
"Anyway, my name is Sayuri. This here is Naomi, and this is . . ."
"Kyoko." Sokka finished, staring at the nervously fidgeting girl.
"Um, yes. Our shift was over for the day so we're free for the rest of the day. We only wear our armor duing practice and patrols." Kyoko said carefully before finally snapping. She suddenly bowed in front of the two siblings, her head touching the wooden floor. "I'm sorry! Please forgive me for my despicable actions at the beach yesterday!"
Katara, being the forgiving person that she is, reacted accordingly and said, "Please don't do that. It was all in the past so everything is forgiven." When Kyoko look at her with skeptical eyes, she turned to her brother and said, "Sokka, help me out here."
Sighing, Sokka gave Kyoko a flat look and said, "You know, in case you didn't heard my pep talk this morning, I already told your leader you're the only one I considered a warrior because of your bluff yesterday. You used what you had and did what you need to do to win. So stand up already before your big bad leader see you and blame me for making one of her cute little soldiers cry."
Looking up with slightly teary eyes, blushing, she asked softly, "Y-you really t-think I'm cute?"
Sokka actually cringed at the girl's expression. He look around and saw Sayuri and Naomi looking at him funny. He turned to his sister for help but he saw her grinning at his predicament. No help there. He turned back to Kyoko and groaned as she saw her twidling her fingers and her blush more noticeable from before.
Immediately picking up his maps and ink brush, he stood up and said, "itwasnicemeetingyouallbutigotalotofworktodolikesetuptrapsandscoutforambushpointssoiwilljustbegoingnowandmeetyoualllaterbyebye."
All three Kyoshi girls blink as Sokka left so fast as if the demons of hell are after him. Katara, on the other hand, almost died laughing. He was too busy running away that he didn't notice several other set of Kyoshi Warrior eyes watching him as he ran, particularly his, according to most of them, sturdy fine ass.
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Suki couldn't understand what it is that makes that boy so infuriating. Oh yeah. He deny her claim of being a true warior while insulting her in front of her fellow soldiers. He had managed to see through her fear. He's mere presense is making the other Kyoshi warriors turn into lovesick fools. And most of all, he disappeared right when she finally decided to confront him.
She had searched for him everywhere but there was no sign of him in or around the village. So here he is now, looking at him by the beach. But there was still no sign of him. Finally giving up, she was about to head back to the village when she saw three of her fellow Kyoshi Warriors in civilian clothes, namely Kyoko, Sayuri, and Naomi, nearby. They all had their backs on her and seem to be whispering to each other. They didn't even heard her approach.
"What are you girls doing here?" She asked as soon as she was near enough.
"EEEP!" All three girls squealed in surprised, their hands rushing into the air as they turn around.
Several seconds later, several pieces of clothing landed on Suki's head. Grabbing said clothing away from her head, she found them to be similar to what that Water Tribe boy was wearing.
"S-suki! You scared us." Naomi said nervously, face flushed.
"What the hell is going on? And what is the meaning of this?" She asked, indicating the clothes on her hands as well as several rolls of parchment in the pockets.
"W-we found them on top of the rock." Kyoko answered with a matching blush.
"We were actually looking for Sokka to ask a few questions and we just happen to came upon his clothes here but that was all. There was no Sokka in sight." Sayuri answered in her usual deadpan tone but there was no mistaking the faint reddening of her cheeks.
She was about to lecture all three for imroper behavior for Kyoshi Warriors such as them when something huge suddenly blasted out of the sea. Turning, all three saw the Unagi surfacing. But what made them gasp is the person holding for dear life on one of its two whip like antenna.
"Is that Sokka . . ." Naomi begun.
". . .wrestling the Unagi. . ." Sayuri seconded.
". . .with only a single boomerang in his mouth. . ." Kyoko thirded.
". . .wearing nothing but his underwear?" Suki finished.
All four girls blushed at the last phrase.
"What the hell does the idiot think he's doing?" Suki shouted, concern evident on her voice. She couldn't look away as she saw the boy desperately trying to hold on as the giant sea serpent trash from side to side. It was clear that the Unagi doesn't like anyone hanging onto it's antenna.
"Looks to me like he's going after his blade stuck on Unagi's forehead." Sayuri commented. She was right. Sokka keep trying to reach for his boomerang that was stuck in the middle of Unagi's head everytime he swings by.
"THat's suicide! He's going to get himself killed." Suki shouted before turning towards the other girls. "Naomi, go back to the village and get the Avatar here. And why the heck is your nose bleeding?"
Naomi whined. "B-but the Southern Wolf is wrestling with the Unagi, almost Naked!"
"Correction." Sayuri suddenly said, her voice hitching higher than normal. "Totally naked now."
THUD!
"And there goes Kyoko." Sayuri deadpanned once more as Kyoko passed out with a nosebleed.
"WHAT?" Suki turned around so fast she almost broke her neck. Sayuri was right. The Unagi's trashing caused Sokka to get his underwear caught on one of the serpent's teeth. The piece of clothe stretched and broke, causing Sokka a great deal of pain. It also caused him to loose his hold, thus allowing the Unagi to throw him several feet up in the air. Fortunately for him, he landed in the water barely twenty meters from the shore, where the water was too shallow for the Unagi's giant body to reach.
Acting quickly, Suki and the other two went to get Sokka out of the water. As soon as they got a hold of him, he spit out the boomerang on his mouth into Naomi's waiting hands.
"Ish-tuu-pid fish! I'sh gets back meh boom'reng lah-shter!" Sokka grumble drunkenly in a high voice while glaring at the submerging Unagi before finally passing out from the pain.
The three girls looked at the unconscious, naked, and definitely crazy Water Tribe boy in silence for several minutes before Suki finally said hotly, "Stop looking at his ass and get his clothes. We need to get him back to the village."
"B-but . . . it's such a NICE ass! Couldn't we savor this moment for a few more minutes?" Naomi whined.
"And he does have a decent size package for someone his age." Commented Sayuri.
"Kyoko would be so jealous missing a close up look at his naughty bits." Added Naomi, giggling.
"As well as the rest of the girls."
Suki finally had enough and shouted, "SHUT UP AND GET HIS CLOTHES! NOW!"
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"YOU IDIOTIC, BONE-HEADED, MORONIC, DUNDERHEAD! HOW STUPID COULD YOU BE? IMAGINE, WRESTLING WITH A SIXTY STOREY SEA SEARPENT FOR A SIMPLE PIECE OF SHARP METAL! NO I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANY EXCUSES! IF YOU EVER TRY SOMETHING SO . . ."
"Wow! That waterbender girl sure does have a healthy set of lungs. I mean, she's been going at it with the same volume for the past hour." Kyoko thought as she and most of the villagers sat outside the visitor's temporary home, listening into the one way argument happening inside.
Suki had locked herself in the dojo once they got back. The other Kyoshi warriors and most of the village other women were drilling Naomi and Sayuri for information. Thanks to those two and Kyoko, the entire village knew Sokka had wrestled with the Unagi and lived minutes after they stepped back into the village. And thanks to the blushes the girls, including Suki, were sporting when they arrived, they found out he was naked at the time.
"Hey! That simple piece of sharp metal is called a boomerang, thank you very much, and is essential for my fighting style. I've already lost one in the South Pole to a petty fire prince with issues and I am not losing another one to an overgrown water snake." Came Sokka's reply.
The people outside started whispering. They just got confirmation that the boy really is the Southern Wolf.
"AN OVERGROWN WATER SNAKE? THAT THING HAS A MOUTH BIG ENOUGH TO SWALLOW ONE OF DAD'S BATTLE BOAT IN ONE GO!'
"I don't think it's that big, Katara." The Avatar's voice said. "Hey, Sokka, how about I get that back for you. Riding the Unagi sounds fun."
"AANG, SHUT IT! YOU ARE NOT ENCOURAGING MY DOOFUS OF A BROTHER TO DO ANYMORE STUPID STUNTS!"
"Awe! But it really sounds like fun." Aang whined.
"I SAID SHUT IT!"
Suddenly, every water container within the village sudden erupted, spilling water everwhere.
"EEP! Yes ma'am!" The monk's voice squeaked.
And the people of Kyoshi learned something very valuable that day. Never piss off the watebender.
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'Almost two days. Sokka had been in the island for almost freaking two days. How the hell did he manage to plan an entire seige plan in almost two days?' Was the thought of one Kyoshi Warrior leader as she read through the notes she had found in Sokka's pants.
When she was bringing Sokka back to the village after his encounter with the Unagi, one of he scrolls in his pocket fell open. When she saw what it was, she took all of it with the intention of helping refining his plans. But after reading all of it, she found no flaw at all. He had noted every possible scenario that the Fire NAtion may take to attack the village. He noted all primary staging point of invation and the best route to the village by highlighting it on a map, as well as the best ambush point for all invading forces. He even made a note about putting certain traps in specific places around the island to stall large enemy forces. Not only that, he deviced several escape routes for the civilians just in case the invading army is too large to fight off.
This guy. . . was a strategic genius.
Suki just couldn't believe that Water Tribe boy had managed to think and make a record of all of this in less than two days being on the island, while she, on the other hand, have lived in this island her whole life and never even thought of most of his ideas. She wanted to scream in frustration. Actually, she did scream.
She would have screamed some more if the very reason of her frustration didn't suddenly barge into her house. He was breathing heavily and have a frightened look on his face.
"What the hell are you doing in my house?" She shouted.
He quickly sushed her and hissed, "Quiet! I'm hiding from your warriors because they gotten a sudden case of hero-worship. I mean, I rather face off againts the Unagi with my bare hands than a dozen and a half fangirls."
"In case you forgot, you did go and faced off with the Unagi but didn't have the decency to die. And why the heck did you decided to hide here of all places?"
"Because your place is currently the safest place for me in the entire island. My sister is in a warpath and the rest of the village thinks it's open season from me. Have you any idea how scary having a dozen and a half girls shouting at me to father their future children?"
"I'm sure those girls would have enjoyed the baby-making sessions more considering your package." Mumbled an irritated Suki quietly to herself.
"Huh? What did you say?"
"Nothing!" She said louder than she intended, her face blushing several shades of red.
"Oh, okay." He said before sitting across the low tabe in front of her. "Hey, so this is where my plans disappeared to."
Blushing for forgetting to hide said plans, Suki tried to save her dignity and said, "I know. I was merely refining such plans for you. I am, after all, the leader of the Kyoshi warriors so I decide how the island is defended."
"Hmmm. . . okay. So which of my plans did you decided to change?" He asked in genuine curiosity.
"Um, er . . ." Suki sweatdrop at that. "I-I haven't decided yet. I mean, I h-haven't read everything yet."
"Really? I assumed you would have finished going through all of these in half an hour. I mean, there's only five pages."
"I was studying each plan very meticuously so it took me longer than neccessary to read them." She said, backing up her own lie.
"Oh. Okay then."
Suki sighed in relief at that. She wouldn't want to inflate this boy's ego anymore than it's already is. "So, what gave you the stupid idea to go toe to toe with the Unagi?"
"I was trying to get back my boomerang, okay. I already lost one at the South Pole because of a hot headed Fire prince with anger management issues and it put my entire fighting style on whack."
"So it's true what they say. You are Sokka the Southern Wolf."
"I'm the who and the what now?"
"You didn't know?" She tried looking for any hints of deception in his face but found none.
"Know what?"
"Haven't you heard the rumors? Fire Nation soldiers had been talking about how you beat half the crew of an entire ship in minutes. The Fire Nation had put wanted posters of you everywhere."
"Wow! Really? Cool! Troubling, but cool."
"How can you be nonchalant about this?" She asked hotly. "Don't you realize the Fire NAtion, as well as any bounty hunter scum that wants to make a quick buck would be going after you!"
"You make it sound like it's a big thing." He waved her off. "In case you didn't notice, we are going to be traveling with the Avatar and helping him take on the Fire Lord Ozai. The Fire Nation will be coming after me with or without the price on my head."
The Kyoshi thought about it and found his reason feasable. She hated to admit it but he's actually right. Why make such a big thing about having a price on one's head if the Fire Nation would still go after you with or without it?
"By the way." He said suddenly, gaining her attention. "What's the story with that Kyoshi dude?"
Suki scowled at that and said defensively, "How dare you! Avatar Kyoshi is female! Didn't you see her statue at the center of the village?"
"It looked like a man to me. I say you got conned by your wood carver."
"Shut up! My ancestors had hired the best sculpturer in the land to make an exact replica of her during the height of her power. She was considered the most skillful and graceful fighter during her time. Our own armor and war paints are derived from her."
"She must be very ugly then since she kept hiding her face behind very thick make up."
"You are IMPOSSIBLE! You - You . . . MALE!"
"Um, am I supposed to be insulted by that?"
Finally loosing her composure, Suki made an ear splitting scream before tackling in to the floor with every intention of doing bodily harm. Not only this this boy beaten her in combat, called her a lier, denied her status as a warrior, insulted her in front of her fellow warriors, showed no respect for her island's guardian monster, and turned her wariors into boy-obsessed fangirls, but he has the gall to not even realize he was being insulted!
Both teens went rolling all over the floor, messing up everything in their path. She keeps trying to hit him while he keeps blocking every move. She tried strangling him but he managed to catch her wrists with his hands.
Both teens suddenly stop when the door was kicked open and several Kyoshi warriors stormed into the room with their battle fans at the ready.
Kyoko, who was in the lead, shouted,"Suki! We heard shouting and fighting are yo. . . WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?"
Al of them were shocked at the sight. Why wouldn't they? They had just caught Kyoshi's Island current number one stud and their esdteemed leader in a very comfromising position, with Suki laying on top of him, her legs between his hips, their hand interwined, and their faces mere inches from each other.
"We can explain!" Suki said immediately.
"Um, it's not really what it seems, girls." Sokka tried to explain.
"It seems like our esteemed leader is in the process of finally releasing all her pent up tension." Sayuri said in her usual deadpan way. But there was no denying the blush on her cheeks, in fact, all of the girls were sporting a very deep shade of red on their faces.
"No fair! Suki is keeping the Southern Wolf stud all to herself!" Naomi whined loudly, her face pure of envy.
Like a rupture in a dam, several of the girls started voicing their complaints all at the same time. Some were asking for information. Some were even making catcalls at the two. And the rest are asking if they could borow him for a few hours.
Lewd comments started flying left and right. It was just the thing Suki needed to bring her out of her shock stupor and get back her mental faculties. She immediately jumped off of Sokka and shouted, "Everyone in the dojo in five minutes! I WILL explain EVERYTHING then! Now, GET OUT OF MY HOUSE BEFORE I GO AVATAR KYOSHI ON YOUR ASSES!"
As Kyoshi warriors, they know one thing about their leader Suki, you don't cross her when she use that tone on you. So everyone started clearing out of her site and house as fast as they can.
Seconds later, she and Sokka were once again alone in her house.
"Um, I could, you know, help you explain things to them." Sokka said carefully, hoping not to provck another attack from the girl.
"Good because I'll be using you as a meat shield in case they go feral on me." She deadpanned, sighing in defeat. She gave out a groan of frustration before saying, "This is not going to end well. I just know it won't."
"Hey, nothing really happened, except for you tackling me out of the blue, that is. And why are you looking at me like that?" And she was looking. Not glaring but not just staring either. She seems to be contemplating something and he is the target.
"I'm warning you, woman! Don't make me go feral on you!" He warned when she started crawling towards him in a very predatory manner, her face sporting a scowl. He gulped upon the great view he saw of her cleavege. Her robe must have come a bit loose during their tussle.
"What the heck are you doing, Suki?" He squeaked fearfuly as she grabbed the front of his shirt.
Her scowl just got wider as she said, "You . . .are the most irritating, boneheaded, moronic man I have ever gotten to meet." Then, she kissed him, hungrily.
Due to the shock, it took a few moments before his common sense took a leave of absense to be replaced by his own repressed libido, allowing him to kiss her back with equal fevor. The next few minutes were dedicated towards the first and hottest make out session in their young lives.
Several minutes later, when breathing finally became an issue, both teens disengaged themselves from each other. One still had a scowl on her face whie the other sporting a drunken grin. Both were breathing heavily, savoring the air that they neglected moments ago.
All of a sudden, Suki cocked her fist back. She gave the still grinning Sokka a small smile before punching his lights out. He was fortunately unconscious before he hits the floor.
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