Intro: This is a project that has been going on for a long time. It's called the 100 Themes Challenge. For more information on the challenge, check out the page I use: 100themeschallenge dot deviantart dot com

This is not one huge continuing story! Each chapter is a tale of its own. Even though some chapters are connected in some way (Seeking Solace and Heaven, for example) each chapter can also stand on its own as a separate story.

Eventually there will be 100 Tokka stories here. Thanks for reading this – I know I'm boring with my explaining!

He still remembered the first day that he saw her. It was about a week after the whole swamp incident. When Aang had said something about seeing a girl in a dress that he was going to meet, Sokka had initially been relieved. Finally, he remembered thinking, now he will stop drooling after my sister.

But as he set eyes on the tiny blind girl, he found some different thoughts going through his head. Ones that (thankfully) had nothing to do with his sister.

"She can't really be blind. It's just part of her character, right?" Katara had asked.

Aang had seemed amazed by the tiny girl. "I think she is."

Sokka knew he had to say something. Katara and Aang almost seemed to wait for him to yell something similar to his previous yells of 'The Boulder knows how to put the hurt in the dirt!' He paused. "I think she is…" Beautiful. Brave. Delicate. Determined. "GOING DOWN!"

He couldn't understand why those words had slipped from his lips, but they had. He couldn't let Katara know that this tiny girl was so interesting to him. Or Aang. But Aang wouldn't notice. He was too enthralled with watching the tiny girl Earthbend.

And how she Earthbended. He had seen Earthbenders up close before, watching them manipulate their element around them. But it had been nothing like this. It was never like this. Aboard the metal Earthbender ship with Haru and his father, they had seemed to rely on brawn. Even the Boulder was huge, his muscles bulging with his every move.

She was different. Lean, small. She tried to hide it with her oversized clothes; they didn't give him any hint of the figure he knew must be underneath her clothes (wait – what? This was an Earthbending tournament! He wasn't supposed to be thinking about girls! Especially such a small one who had to be Aang's age!) but her exposed legs didn't hide her pale, fair skin.

Her Earthbending style was different completely. It was amazing. Instead of relying on muscle force alone, she was different. So, so different. It enthralled him. He found himself leaning forward in his seat, watching her quickly eliminate the Boulder, launching him out of the fighting ring made of rock.

"Your winner, and still the champion, the Blind Bandit!"

Katara seemed to glance over at Sokka suddenly, almost surprised that he was saying nothing as the Boulder had just gotten beaten so quickly and by such a tiny girl. "No!" he yelled, just for her benefit.

Xin Fu held up a bag full of gold pieces in his hand, offering the follow challenge: anyone who could defeat the Blind Bandit would receive the bag and would be the new champion. Not a person in the crowd stood to accept the offer. He almost smiled. Everyone was too amazed by amazing skills to even try –

"I will!" It was Aang who spoke. Aang accepted the challenge.

Cupping his hands around his mouth, Sokka yelled towards Aang. "Go Aang! Avenge the Boulder!" But what he really meant was, 'Go Aang! Get her to teach you how to Earthbend so that I can meet her!"

He couldn't hear what the beautiful girl was saying to Aang, but he could see their lips moving. Mostly his eyes stayed on her lips, though occasionally they flickered to Aang's. Then back to hers almost immediately. She was enchanting.

"Boo! No talking!" he yelled, panic rising in him. Girls just flocked to Aang. From the Aangy fan girls on Kyoshi to the Meng girl… He couldn't let this girl flock to Aang, too.

But she didn't. Aang beat her in the battle and she quickly disappeared behind a rock wall. Obviously she wasn't interested in talking to him. Relief now washed through him. "Way to go, champ!"

It turned out that the Blind Bandit was really a girl named Toph. Toph Bei Fong. He rolled her name around on his tongue a few times. Toph. Sokka. Toph. Sokka. Toph Sokka. Tophsokka. If he said it fast enough, it sounded like tough, Sokka. But it wasn't tough. He was determined to convince her to travel with them so he could get to know her better. Oh, and to teach Aang Earthbending. Maybe. If she had time left over after talking with him. But only under close supervision; Aang trained without a shirt. He would get Katara to do that. She was a pain in the butt sometimes, it wouldn't be hard to tell her to watch Toph train Aang.

As time went on and the Day of Black Sun quickly approached, he was amazed by how entranced he became with her. She was… amazing. More than amazing. She was fearless. She didn't take his sarcasm; she shot back with her own comebacks. They always made him grin on the inside, though he would never openly let her know that he enjoyed it.

She also made him forget the pressure they were all under. Train the Avatar. Defeat the whole Fire Nation. Become a hero. Do it by this certain time. Stick to the schedule. Train the Avatar. Defeat the Whole Fire Nation. Become a hero. Do it by this certain time. He found that she broke the repetitive pattern of thoughts he was always having. When he was talking with her, time flew by. When she was away training with Aang or having a girls' day out with Katara (when they had returned to camp, he had been forced to hide his glazed eyes of amazement by saying he was going to go wash their cooking utensils) he found that time moved so slowly. He would get worried and start bothering Appa or Momo. 'Don't you think they should be back by now? Where is she? Should I go? Should I take my boomerang?'

He sighed. This girl was messing up his internal clock. He was head over heels, though he was forced to hide it. If there was one rule about dating that he knew had to be followed, it was this:

You never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever dated girls that you had to face every day. Especially not ones that could detect your lies and increased heartbeats.