Chapter 1

该页暂无翻译

该页暂无翻译

Chapter 1 My name is Sokka. I'm a warrior from the Southern Water Tribe. My sister, Katara, and I have been traveling with Aang, the Avatar, for some time now. We're kind of his unofficial bodyguards. Katara is a Waterbender and she's been teaching Aang Waterbending. As a master of planning strategy, I'm here for my brains—and for my skill in battle with a boomerang. We've just stopped a Fire Nation attack on the Water Tribes of the North Pole. Okay, so Aang really did most of the actual stopping, but Katara and I were right there to give our support. While we were at the North Pole I met the most amazing girl in the world, Princess Yue. She was beautiful. And I say "was" because she became the moon to help save the Water Tribe. It was so sad. I was SO sad…. But she did the right thing. Well, enough mushy stuff! I've got a job to do. Aang has to travel to the Earth Kingdom next to begin learning Earthbending from his old pal King Bumi in the Earth Kingdom city of Omashu. You see, Aang has to master all four elements so he can stop the Fire Nation and end the war that's messed

up the lives of so many people—including mine. My dad left home with other warriors from the Southern Water Tribe to fight the Fire Nation. Katara and I haven't seen him in a very long time, and I really, really miss him. Aang, Katara, Momo (Aang's winged lemur), and I all climbed onto Appa (Aang's flying bison) and flew off toward Omashu. Our first stop was an Earth Kingdom base run by General Fong. This Fong guy was supposed to provide us with an escort to Omashu. "Welcome, Avatar Aang!" Fong said when we landed. "And welcome to all of you, great heroes. Appa, Momo, mighty Katara, and brave Sokka." Now THIS guy had things figured out. He called me "brave Sokka!" Awesome. But Fong had a strange idea: He wanted to force Aang into the Avatar state—where he gets amazingly powerful, but a little out of control—so he could defeat the Fire Lord quickly. Aang agreed with the general, but Katara didn't. "Aang, there's a right way to do this," she said. "Practice, study, discipline." That sounded pretty dull to me. "Or just glow it up and stomp that Fire Lord!" I countered. "Katara, I don't have time to do this the right

way!" Aang said. Glow it up, here we come! But no matter how hard Fong tried, Aang just couldn't force himself into the Avatar state. And Fong went all nutso about it! He slammed Aang with an Earthbending blast, knocking him through a window! I couldn't believe this guy had just attacked Aang. Before I could do anything, Fong's soldiers grabbed me, which made me even madder. I struggled to break free of the soldiers' grasp, then rushed to help Aang. At that moment, Fong made the ground in the courtyard open up and swallow Katara. "Katara! No!" I called out. That's when Aang's fury made him slip into the Avatar state. Come on, buddy, you've got to rescue Katara! He whipped up a huge funnel of wind that knocked aside Fong and his soldiers. Boy, Aang is really scary looking when he's like that. "Katara is really in no danger," Fong admitted. "Burying her in the ground was just a trick to get Aang mad." Well it sure worked! And just like that, Katara was freed. But Fong wasn't satisfied. That guy was really out of his mind.

"That was almost perfect!" he shouted as Katara comforted Aang. "We just have to find a way to control you when you're like that. I guess we'll figure it out on the way to the Fire Nation." Uh-uh. There was no way the general was coming with us to the Fire Nation. As far as I was concerned, the only place he was going to was dreamland. I sneaked up behind Fong and bopped him on the helmet with my boomerang. WAP! Down he went for a nice little nap. "Anybody got a problem with that?" I asked, looking around at Fong's troops. Not surprisingly, no one protested. Next stop, Omashu! We stopped by a river for a short rest. From out of nowhere I heard music. Looking up I saw a group of weird-looking people coming from the woods. They played musical instruments and sang. Hmm… they seemed friendly, but these days you never know. The Fire Nation is tricky and they've got lots of spies everywhere. I wouldn't put it past them to be working in disguise to throw us off. I confronted these so-called musicians. "Who are you?"