Avatar: The Last Airbender: Continued
Part 2: Chapter 4 (Chapter 15)
Sokka's Poster
"Hyyyyyahhh!" Sokka of the Water Tribe growled as he practiced his sword fighting with two men in the Water Tribe Army. They were both teaming up against him to see who was better. Sokka was more encouraged to fight now because he had actually found his old sword that tumbled into one of the many Earth Kingdom forests with Master Piandao a few days ago.
"Eeeeek!" he screamed as one of the swords almost hit him. He tumbled backwards and then charged with astonishing speed. The man who tried to attack him that time was too slow and not good enough with the sword to be able to fight against the kind of power Sokka was running with. The man's eyes widened as Sokka hit the sword out of the man's hand and defeated him. Sokka picked up the second sword and now decided to use offense against the other man instead of defense like he was doing when he was fighting the first man. The second man was pretty bad… Sokka hit the sword out of his hand in less than thirty seconds.
"YESSSSSSSSSSS! I WIN! I WIN! I WIN!" Sokka started to do a happy dance around the two men.
"Sokka!" Hakoda, Sokka's dad, called, "What are you doing?"
The two men laughed as they lied down on the ground.
"Uhhh… Nothing!" Sokka called back.
Sokka started to turn around and walk away but someone put their hand on his shoulder. Thinking it was one of the people in the army wanting to fight him, Sokka jumped around, knocking the hand off of his shoulder and knocking the thing out of the person's other hand without even looking at it, which Sokka guessed was a sword.
"Sokka! What are you doing?" Hakoda asked, which was the person behind him, "And why did you just knock my bowl of sea prunes down onto the floor?"
This time the two men and six other people laughed at Sokka.
"Uhhh… Uhhh… Ummmm…," Sokka muttered.
"Just come with me," Hakoda said. Sokka nodded and Hakoda led them to their sleeping tent, and told Sokka to go in, and once he did, Hakoda followed.
"What the?" Sokka looked confused because there was a big desk in the middle of the tent.
"Surprise! I built you this desk so you could work on that poster you have to make for Aang!" Hakoda exclaimed, "But now you have to work on that poster," Hakoda's voice became serious.
Sokka was surprised, and since he did like to paint, even though he was terrible at it which he probably didn't know about, he hugged his dad really tight and said, "Thank you! Wait, how do you know that I have to paint a banner for Aang?"
"Uhhh… just paint," Hakoda replied nervously.
Sokka sat down on the chair in front of the desk as his dad left the tent. Sokka found different colored paints, a piece of paper, and a paintbrush in the drawer. He started to think about what to paint. Since he lived with the Water Tribe Army and by many other tiny Southern Water Tribe villages, he had to paint something that the people could relate to.
Everybody wants to see power in any form of bending. That's what people would like about it. So what's powerful in the Southern Water Tribe? Umm… Uhh… Hmmm… Ohhhhhh! Why didn't I think of it before! Dad! So I'll paint, Aang blowing Dad's sword away! That way, it'll show that Airbending can be powerful because it's blowing a sword out of one of the highest ranking warriors in the Southern Water Tribe, which would probably take some power, and it'll be a little joke to Dad! The background will simply be snow falling because I'm not in the mood to work too hard and think up a better background.
So Sokka painted a little, stubby Aang blowing a little, stubby Hakoda's sword away from a little, stubby Hakoda. In the background were little, stubby snowflakes, which look more like little, stubby clumps of snow just sitting in the air. Under it he wrote all the details about where to learn Airbending, who will be teaching it, transportation will be provided, etc.
I'm an awesome artist, Sokka thought as he looked at his gigantic yet stubby banner.