Sha la la la looooooooooove! Okay, so maybe Aang was right. IS this really going to work out? And his last question is a bit of foreshadowing, so pay attention! I just LOOOOOOOOVE love triangles, whisch is why i write about them!! XD
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"There aren't a lot of girls like you, you know." Sokka said, after dusting himself off.

"I know." Nika said softly. I turned around and saw that she had taken Sokka's hand. I shook my head. This wasn't good at all. I may not have been the love doctor, but this was guaranteed to cause some kind of serious trouble. And why did I have the feeling that Suki was going to be the cause of all of it?

Chapter 2: Sokka

Dusk was fast approaching. We had just finished setting up camp when I decided to go and look for Nika. After we had landed, she was quick to go and search for a bit of food. Although it did seem a little suspicious, especially to Zuko, (maybe he thought she was seeing some other brooding jerk, heh heh heh…), we let her go. She seemed a bit edgy the entire ride. Maybe she had to go to the bathroom or something.

Nika had been gone for a while, so after getting everyone's agreement, I walked down the path I had seen Nika take. I began to wonder why Aang had had this concerned look on his face. Was there a stain on my shirt? Did I smell bad? Well, whatever it was, it blew away as soon as I saw her, with her back to me, picking berries. Every so often, she would lift her hand and rub her face. It took me a while to stop staring and walk up to her.

Through her thin shirt, I noticed that something was glowing. So that was why she kept on rubbing her face! Her mark was glowing, and it was hurting her again. I wondered what she was thinking about. I tapped her shoulder, and I found out.

When I first made contact with her, I felt a tingling going up my arm and spreading through my entire body. It moved past my elbow, down my front into my legs, and then back up the back, into my head. As soon as it reached my mind, everything went black. Then, a scene materialized in front of me. It was faded, like a dream. It was like looking through a window with shimmering white frame. I recognized where I was. I was in the temple of the Fire Sages. They were all gathered around something. A little girl. She looked afraid and alone, and I had to fight myself to reach out, grab her, and pull her to me, away from whatever it was that was scaring her.

The Fire Sages mumbled some kind of a… prayer? Chant? Whatever it was, the little girl seemed to shake fearfully. She asked her mother, whom I could not see, what they were going to do. I heard a soft and melodic voice answer that everything was going to be okay, and that there would be no need to worry. I wanted to believe it. The girl swallowed nervously and nodded her head as each one of the Sages shot a pillar of fire into the air, creating a kind of tent-like thing. I looked at the Sages, and couldn't find the one we had met when we had been there. I exhaled in relief.

That relief was short-lived when I realized that the Sages began to walk backwards. This widened the circle, and caused the fire tent to go lower and lower, closer and closer to the poor girl. I saw how hard she was trying to be brave, felt her fear and unease. It was like I was one with the girl.

The tent touched her hair, but she didn't catch fire. She wasn't burning, but I felt her intense pain. I tried to look away, but I couldn't.

She kept calling out to her mother.

"Mama, make them stop!" she begged.

The melodic voice was silent.

"Please, mama! Mama… mama please… MAMA!!" With her last scream, I was catapulted out of the mysterious and heart-wrenching vision, back into my own body. I had control over my eyes again. And at that very moment, they were staring at a very amused Nika.

"Earth to Sokka! Anyone home?" she asked. I frowned.

"Out of body experience?" she asked, resuming her picking. I nodded, but remained silent.

"Was it cool?"

"Not really." I replied.

"What do you mean?" She was curious now.

"It… it was like… like I was revisiting something. Like a memory. A very bad memory, actually. A very bad, childhood memory." I hinted. Now it was her turn to be silent.

"That's crazy talk!" she said after a while. She took a last look at the bush, which, I noticed, was severely lacking in berries. I looked into Nika's basket and saw where they all had gone.

"I guess that's all for today!" she said, a fake smile plastered onto her face.

"Let's go back?" I suggested. She nodded. Something was bothering her; I could tell by the way she was talking. It definately had something to do with the vision that I had just had. Then, something occurred to me.

Was it her memory that I had revisited?

We continued to walk through the trees.

"Are you okay?" Nika asked, concern in her voice. But there was something else there, too. Was it edginess?

"No, I'm fine. I'm just… thinking a lot." I replied quietly.

"Thinking, hm. Do you do that very often?" she asked playfully, trying to lighten up the mood. I smiled. It was working. The edginess was gone.

For the time being, I pushed the strange vision to the back of my mind, and proceeded to spit out a comeback.

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