Post by sokka118 on Jan 15, 2008 0:35:50 GMT 1
This is a little story I wrote about my favorite couple in the entire Avatar world. Hope you enjoy it, please rate and comment. Let me know what you think.
A Moonlit Night
A Tokka Story
It was late that much I knew. I didn’t know exactly what time it was but I knew that I’d been asleep for a couple hours at least, before Sokka woke me with his huge, loud footsteps. I was surprised that he was up, wasn’t he just as exhausted as the rest of us? He should’ve been seeing how it was a pretty rough day. Yep, just another day of saving another town from some other form of danger. The usual typical day of traveling with the Avatar. Hama was her name, a formerly imprisoned waterbender who had been terrorizing a local town by kidnapping its civilians. Even though we beat her she still managed a victory by successfully teaching Katara bloodbending. Katara was deeply upset of this fact to and cried almost the rest of the night. If anyone shouldn’t have felt like sleeping it was her. Then why Sokka? The question pounded in my head for what seemed like hours. I just lied there thinking that he was just getting up for a late night bathroom break or something. I laughed inside my head and thought, just typical Sokka. But where he went didn’t add up with the thought. He just walked through the brush and sat down on the edge of the nearby cliff. I couldn’t help myself; I was curious so I stood up and began walking toward the cliff. But before I could reach the brush I stopped myself. I thought that going over there might be a mistake. Maybe he wanted to be alone and barging in on him would get him upset. Of course since when did I care if he was upset? He was the prime target of all my sarcastic insults, I spent every day teasing and taunting him about anything and everything. So why did I suddenly care now? Because the truth was, I did care. I didn’t want him upset, especially not at me. But I wanted to know what he was doing so badly that it ached inside me. I decided that I would risk it and go talk to him. Besides he could get up any minute so if I’m going to go then now was the time. I worked my way through the brush and into the clearing. I kept walking forward, this time with him fully in my view. Without warning my stomach went into knots. I winced at the sudden feeling. I’d felt it before, like the time I confronted my parents about my earthbending. It was nervousness. But why would I be nervous about talking to Sokka? Despite the feeling I continued my way toward him deciding that I could conquer the butterflies inside me. I was the greatest Earthbender in the world, the champion of Earth Rumble VI; the Avatar was my student for god’s sake! This was nothing. I was now only a few feet from him and decided to speak.
Me- “Sokka?”
I asked with weakness in my voice. Stupid! If that didn’t let him know I was nervous nothing would.
Sokka- “Oh, hey Toph. What are you doing up so late?”
His voice was weaker than mine, it sounded almost sad.
Me- “I could ask you the same thing you know.” So I did. “Snoozles what are doing out here at this hour?”
Sokka- “You want me to be honest?”
He surprisingly asked. I thought of a quick, witty response.
Me- “No dummy I’m out here, at god knows what time, to sit here and listen to you lie to me. Of course I want you to be honest!”
He didn’t get frustrated about the comment like he usually did. He just chuckled and shrugged it off like nothing. I knew then that something was definitely wrong.
Sokka- “You’ll probably laugh, but I came out here to look at the moon.”
He was right, I laughed. Being blind I immediately saw amusement in staring at the moon.
Sokka- “Yeah I figured you would, it is kind of dumb.”
I caught my breath and explained myself.
Me- I’m sorry (I was still half laughing), but you have to understand that being blind, well I don’t exactly see much point in looking at something I can’t see.”
He nodded his head, he knew what I meant.
Me- “But that excuse doesn’t work for you Snoozles. Why are you staring at the moon?”
He let out a deep, long “sigh” that made him sound miserable. And again sadness was the only word I could think of to describe it.
Sokka- “A short time before we found you, we visited the North Pole. We were there to find Aang and Katara a Waterbending Master.”
I questioned why he was telling me this. I already knew that they’d been to the North Pole and played with water. So where was he going with it?
Sokka- “During the original reception for our arrival, I met someone. Her name was Yue, Princess Yue of the Northern Water Tribe.”
At this point I became very attentive. I’d heard all sorts of little stories about their visit at the North Pole, but never this one.
Sokka- “She was the most beautiful girl I’d ever seen. At first I couldn’t even talk to her without making a fool out of myself. I even fell into one of the streams there after asking her out.”
I laughed, but only in my thoughts. I could easily picture Sokka doing something like that. But I quickly regained focus and continued listening.
Sokka- “But as we spent more time together the more I knew about her and the more I liked her, (he paused) loved her.
My heart sank all the way to the bottom of my soles. Hearing him say that about anyone always filled me with despair.
Sokka- “In time I found out that she loved me to (Again I became heavy hearted). But our feelings for each other could never become reality. She was engaged to be married. It was an arranged marriage which made it all the worse. She didn’t even like him but there was nothing she could do. It angers me just thinking about it!”
He suddenly raised his voice with the last sentence but quickly calmed down afraid to wake the others. My thoughts were anywhere else but Aang and Katara. I’d never seen Sokka express himself like this before. Not counting a few days earlier when he talked to me about his mother. I said the only thing I knew to say at that point.
Me- “I’m…I’m sorry Sokka. I wish it didn’t hurt you that much.”
And I meant it to. I hated seeing him so upset and sad and angry. I wish I could help and just take it all way. But I couldn’t which made me just as sad.
Sokka- “No don’t be. It wasn’t her jerk of a future husband that got me so upset.”
I was puzzled. Something like that would upset most people. What could’ve happened that was even worse?
Me- “What do mean? What else happened?”
Sokka- “You know of course the Firenation attacked while we were there right?”
Me- “Yeah, Sugar Queen’s mentioned it before.”
For him to bring that up caused the questions to start racing in my head; something happened to this Yue girl during the attack, and he was about to tell me what.
Sokka- “During the attack Yue’s dad gave me the job of protecting her. (He paused.)
But I failed, I failed to protect her.”
Sokka- “His name was Zhao, Admiral Zhao. He was the leader and organizer of the attack. With knowledge, that he somehow obtained, he discovered that the moon spirit lived in the real world not the spirit world. So he tracked it down and killed it.”
I couldn’t believe it, how could someone kill a spirit? It just seemed that the heartlessness and ruthlessness of these people never ended.
Me- “That’s terrible.”
Sokka- “Yeah, it was. But it only got worse.”
Me- “What do you mean?”
Sokka- “Princess Yue saw the death of the spirit as her burden to bear and took it upon herself to make up for it. (His voice weakened, as though he was on the edge of tears.)
By giving her own life so that the spirit could continue its. In short, she became the moon spirit.”
A thought occurred to me and I suddenly understood something that had taken place earlier in the day.
Me- Sokka? Is that why you got so defensive when I accused the moon spirit of just turning mean?”
Sokka- “Yeah, I guess it is.”
Me- Wow, Sokka………Sokka I’m so sorry. That’s must’ve been so hard for you.”
Now I understood why he stared at the moon, why he was out here on this cliff by himself. It was the closest he could get with her anymore. And nothing could change that. I couldn’t imagine experiencing such pain. I almost wanted to hug him, to try to make him feel better as much as I could. But I didn’t get the chance. Before I knew it he was leaning on my shoulder crying. I didn’t push him away like I would usually do. He needed me to be there and I was going to be. So I just let him cry. I leaned my head against his and just listened. Listened to the heartbroken watertribe warrior cry until he couldn’t cry anymore. After several minutes he began to dry his tears and, as much to my disappointment, took his head off my shoulder. We sat there for a little while longer. Then I broke the silence with the only thing I knew to ask.
Me- “Sokka? Do you feel better?”
I wasn’t going to ask a dumb question that I already knew the answer to like “Are you ok?” or “Are you going to be ok?” He took a deep, relaxing breath then sniffled a little.
Sokka- “Yeah; I do”
I smiled and gently put my hand on his shoulder.
Me- “I’m glad. Now come on, we should at least try to get some sleep. We still have to get to the rendezvous point in the next couple days. We need to be ready to travel.”
Sokka- Yeah, you’re right.”
He stood up and took one last glimpse at the moon. Then turned around and continued walking with me back to camp. He caught me off guard when he suddenly wrapped his arms around me and hugged me. It was the first time we’d ever hugged with just each other. I was immediately embarrassed and knew it to. I could feel my face get hot and could just picture in my mind how red my cheeks were. I tried to speak but nothing would come out, I just stood there. But he could speak and did so in a soft compassionate voice.
Sokka- “Thanks for listening Toph. It………it means more than you know.”
Me- “Yeah, no problem Snoolzles.”
We continued our way back to camp. And the redness in my face remained the whole way back. I just smiled to myself, I was okay with that.
THE END
A Moonlit Night
A Tokka Story
It was late that much I knew. I didn’t know exactly what time it was but I knew that I’d been asleep for a couple hours at least, before Sokka woke me with his huge, loud footsteps. I was surprised that he was up, wasn’t he just as exhausted as the rest of us? He should’ve been seeing how it was a pretty rough day. Yep, just another day of saving another town from some other form of danger. The usual typical day of traveling with the Avatar. Hama was her name, a formerly imprisoned waterbender who had been terrorizing a local town by kidnapping its civilians. Even though we beat her she still managed a victory by successfully teaching Katara bloodbending. Katara was deeply upset of this fact to and cried almost the rest of the night. If anyone shouldn’t have felt like sleeping it was her. Then why Sokka? The question pounded in my head for what seemed like hours. I just lied there thinking that he was just getting up for a late night bathroom break or something. I laughed inside my head and thought, just typical Sokka. But where he went didn’t add up with the thought. He just walked through the brush and sat down on the edge of the nearby cliff. I couldn’t help myself; I was curious so I stood up and began walking toward the cliff. But before I could reach the brush I stopped myself. I thought that going over there might be a mistake. Maybe he wanted to be alone and barging in on him would get him upset. Of course since when did I care if he was upset? He was the prime target of all my sarcastic insults, I spent every day teasing and taunting him about anything and everything. So why did I suddenly care now? Because the truth was, I did care. I didn’t want him upset, especially not at me. But I wanted to know what he was doing so badly that it ached inside me. I decided that I would risk it and go talk to him. Besides he could get up any minute so if I’m going to go then now was the time. I worked my way through the brush and into the clearing. I kept walking forward, this time with him fully in my view. Without warning my stomach went into knots. I winced at the sudden feeling. I’d felt it before, like the time I confronted my parents about my earthbending. It was nervousness. But why would I be nervous about talking to Sokka? Despite the feeling I continued my way toward him deciding that I could conquer the butterflies inside me. I was the greatest Earthbender in the world, the champion of Earth Rumble VI; the Avatar was my student for god’s sake! This was nothing. I was now only a few feet from him and decided to speak.
Me- “Sokka?”
I asked with weakness in my voice. Stupid! If that didn’t let him know I was nervous nothing would.
Sokka- “Oh, hey Toph. What are you doing up so late?”
His voice was weaker than mine, it sounded almost sad.
Me- “I could ask you the same thing you know.” So I did. “Snoozles what are doing out here at this hour?”
Sokka- “You want me to be honest?”
He surprisingly asked. I thought of a quick, witty response.
Me- “No dummy I’m out here, at god knows what time, to sit here and listen to you lie to me. Of course I want you to be honest!”
He didn’t get frustrated about the comment like he usually did. He just chuckled and shrugged it off like nothing. I knew then that something was definitely wrong.
Sokka- “You’ll probably laugh, but I came out here to look at the moon.”
He was right, I laughed. Being blind I immediately saw amusement in staring at the moon.
Sokka- “Yeah I figured you would, it is kind of dumb.”
I caught my breath and explained myself.
Me- I’m sorry (I was still half laughing), but you have to understand that being blind, well I don’t exactly see much point in looking at something I can’t see.”
He nodded his head, he knew what I meant.
Me- “But that excuse doesn’t work for you Snoozles. Why are you staring at the moon?”
He let out a deep, long “sigh” that made him sound miserable. And again sadness was the only word I could think of to describe it.
Sokka- “A short time before we found you, we visited the North Pole. We were there to find Aang and Katara a Waterbending Master.”
I questioned why he was telling me this. I already knew that they’d been to the North Pole and played with water. So where was he going with it?
Sokka- “During the original reception for our arrival, I met someone. Her name was Yue, Princess Yue of the Northern Water Tribe.”
At this point I became very attentive. I’d heard all sorts of little stories about their visit at the North Pole, but never this one.
Sokka- “She was the most beautiful girl I’d ever seen. At first I couldn’t even talk to her without making a fool out of myself. I even fell into one of the streams there after asking her out.”
I laughed, but only in my thoughts. I could easily picture Sokka doing something like that. But I quickly regained focus and continued listening.
Sokka- “But as we spent more time together the more I knew about her and the more I liked her, (he paused) loved her.
My heart sank all the way to the bottom of my soles. Hearing him say that about anyone always filled me with despair.
Sokka- “In time I found out that she loved me to (Again I became heavy hearted). But our feelings for each other could never become reality. She was engaged to be married. It was an arranged marriage which made it all the worse. She didn’t even like him but there was nothing she could do. It angers me just thinking about it!”
He suddenly raised his voice with the last sentence but quickly calmed down afraid to wake the others. My thoughts were anywhere else but Aang and Katara. I’d never seen Sokka express himself like this before. Not counting a few days earlier when he talked to me about his mother. I said the only thing I knew to say at that point.
Me- “I’m…I’m sorry Sokka. I wish it didn’t hurt you that much.”
And I meant it to. I hated seeing him so upset and sad and angry. I wish I could help and just take it all way. But I couldn’t which made me just as sad.
Sokka- “No don’t be. It wasn’t her jerk of a future husband that got me so upset.”
I was puzzled. Something like that would upset most people. What could’ve happened that was even worse?
Me- “What do mean? What else happened?”
Sokka- “You know of course the Firenation attacked while we were there right?”
Me- “Yeah, Sugar Queen’s mentioned it before.”
For him to bring that up caused the questions to start racing in my head; something happened to this Yue girl during the attack, and he was about to tell me what.
Sokka- “During the attack Yue’s dad gave me the job of protecting her. (He paused.)
But I failed, I failed to protect her.”
Sokka- “His name was Zhao, Admiral Zhao. He was the leader and organizer of the attack. With knowledge, that he somehow obtained, he discovered that the moon spirit lived in the real world not the spirit world. So he tracked it down and killed it.”
I couldn’t believe it, how could someone kill a spirit? It just seemed that the heartlessness and ruthlessness of these people never ended.
Me- “That’s terrible.”
Sokka- “Yeah, it was. But it only got worse.”
Me- “What do you mean?”
Sokka- “Princess Yue saw the death of the spirit as her burden to bear and took it upon herself to make up for it. (His voice weakened, as though he was on the edge of tears.)
By giving her own life so that the spirit could continue its. In short, she became the moon spirit.”
A thought occurred to me and I suddenly understood something that had taken place earlier in the day.
Me- Sokka? Is that why you got so defensive when I accused the moon spirit of just turning mean?”
Sokka- “Yeah, I guess it is.”
Me- Wow, Sokka………Sokka I’m so sorry. That’s must’ve been so hard for you.”
Now I understood why he stared at the moon, why he was out here on this cliff by himself. It was the closest he could get with her anymore. And nothing could change that. I couldn’t imagine experiencing such pain. I almost wanted to hug him, to try to make him feel better as much as I could. But I didn’t get the chance. Before I knew it he was leaning on my shoulder crying. I didn’t push him away like I would usually do. He needed me to be there and I was going to be. So I just let him cry. I leaned my head against his and just listened. Listened to the heartbroken watertribe warrior cry until he couldn’t cry anymore. After several minutes he began to dry his tears and, as much to my disappointment, took his head off my shoulder. We sat there for a little while longer. Then I broke the silence with the only thing I knew to ask.
Me- “Sokka? Do you feel better?”
I wasn’t going to ask a dumb question that I already knew the answer to like “Are you ok?” or “Are you going to be ok?” He took a deep, relaxing breath then sniffled a little.
Sokka- “Yeah; I do”
I smiled and gently put my hand on his shoulder.
Me- “I’m glad. Now come on, we should at least try to get some sleep. We still have to get to the rendezvous point in the next couple days. We need to be ready to travel.”
Sokka- Yeah, you’re right.”
He stood up and took one last glimpse at the moon. Then turned around and continued walking with me back to camp. He caught me off guard when he suddenly wrapped his arms around me and hugged me. It was the first time we’d ever hugged with just each other. I was immediately embarrassed and knew it to. I could feel my face get hot and could just picture in my mind how red my cheeks were. I tried to speak but nothing would come out, I just stood there. But he could speak and did so in a soft compassionate voice.
Sokka- “Thanks for listening Toph. It………it means more than you know.”
Me- “Yeah, no problem Snoolzles.”
We continued our way back to camp. And the redness in my face remained the whole way back. I just smiled to myself, I was okay with that.
THE END
wow that was awesome! 
keep up the good work 
Greenearth for Dai Li!!
