AN; alright... so it's been quite a while since my pilot went up and well, now I'm happy to say that this is the first official chapter of my multi-part story.

Here's the down low on how I write stuff.

"dialogue." "Thoughts" Emphasis

That's pretty much it. So without keeping you further from reading this, here you are, enjoy.

The Fall

Part 1: Summer

Chapter 1:Surprise

His heavy eye lids opened. He hadn't slept very well the past night... But then again who would, if they were in Sokka's situation. Imprisoned by your worst enemy, haven't eaten in a couple of days, tortured and questioned periodically. Yep, life style of a champion... He sighed as he (painfully) sat up. He began to soothe his wounds by placing them under steady drops of water coming from the ceiling of his jail cell. Although this relief was short lived as his "warden" (Azula) came in through the door. "Alright, peasant I'm done with you, you're obviously thinking you're foolishly brave in not telling me where your Avatar friend is... And I doubt your absence has gone unnoticed so they will come back for you and when they do, you will not be here... now if you will be so kind as to come with me..." Azula trailed off as one of the gaurds came in grabbed him by his shackles. As they walked out another gaurd trailed behind them, keeping any previous plots to incapacitate his escort out of his mind...

"Alright, let's get out of here." Aang said as he jumped on top of Appa's head, taking the reigns. They had packed all of there belongings onto the large bison of the sky in the early morning. With a "yip-yip." they were flying into the air. Of course everyone was greatly dejected at the current state of their late friend that had currently gone missing. After his brilliant plan did not go right. It was a shame really. Considering all the work he had gone to, to gain that information of the solar eclipse. He and his friends nearly died just getting it, not to mention of their friend and main source of transportation, Appa, being lost for a short period of time as that happened. With all of the party members deep in thought of something on a similar topic none of them noticed a bright red war balloon well below, partially hidden in the massive amount of foliage.

As they continued to fly through the sky, they seldom talked to each other, not even about trivial things, too afraid of bringing up their friend's current status somehow. Toph sighed, for one, this silence was getting on her nerves. Ignoring the situation was not going to help Sokka! But it would be too awkward to bring it up. Plus Katara, his sister, would probably take offense to her suggestions for some reason. Besides she wouldn't even know what to come up with. Sokka was the idea guy... Maybe some of his ability rubbed off on to Katara somehow? After all, she did grow up with him. Or maybe it rubbed off onto herself somehow. Thy did spend quite a bit of time together... She could only huff in annoyance as she realized these thoughts also were getting nothing done. She just leaned more heavily over the saddle as they continued to fly east and over the ocean.

"I have a surprise for you peasant..." Azula trailed off. She began to smirk evilly from knowing what said "surprise" was. She began to open a door from the hallway they were in. Her smirk began to grow into a wicked smile as he went into the room. As his gaze turned over to the wall onto his left, his blood began to boil, and he (literally) began to see only red. It was his water tribe wolf armor, but dyed red where the blue was and black where the white was. To think that they would've captured him and tortured him but now bringing his heritage into this just made it all that much worse. Sokka loved his tribe, and defiling it like this would not be taken lightly under his standards. He would kill her for this, and the ones who dyed it too! He would kill, the entire army, and even the entire nation! His rage induced mind ranting went to a halt as he heard her chuckle wickedly, with the same amusing smile too. Sokka hadn't realized that during his enraged thoughts his eyes began to tear up.

"Is our little water tribe peasant going to cry now?" Azula mocked him in a very child-like voice. He would attempt to get the few tears off of his face if he were able to move them that much. With the large burly guard holding his shackles and all.

"W-why have you done this? What is the point of this?" Sokka's voice wavered more than he wanted, he hated it because it made him look weak.

Sokka's questions only made her already large smile even wider, showing more teeth thus becoming more intimidating. "Another place we are going..." She said to him as she walked out of the room towards and into the hall. "Where else would we be going?" Sokka thought as they continued to follow her into another section of hallway that he hadn't seen before. He couldn't help but think that's what she wanted him to think.

They continued into the confusingly, winding hallway until they came to a set of stairs leading upward. He was surprised to see that they were leading him out of the cylindrical building that was where he spent his confinement. He was in the middle of the capital again. But unlike last time there were people everywhere. Children pointing, and parents telling them he was a savage that would kill anyone, given the chance. People even threw things at him, and even tried to mock him directly. He noticed that the way Azula's head seemed to be tilted upward that she was laughing, because of the people's treatment to him.

He continued to walk amongst these demons with his head held high. He would not let them get to him, or even acknowledge what they were doing. "What does this have to do with my armor?" He couldn't help but think. Eventually she led him to the palace. where the yells, and hollers of the people died down. She led him into the main foyer of the palace where she stopped at small and rather expensive looking table. "Oh look." Azula said pretending to be surprised. "It looks like our guest has some mail." The guard loosened his grip on the shackles so Sokka could grab the letter. He examined the envelope. It had a very official and intricate looking wax seal pinning it closed. It looked like it could've been for the military.

Sokka began to read the letter and as he read it, his eyes began to widen, and his heart to pound. He looked up and saw Azula's familiar smile as she saw his expression. It was at this moment Sokka knew, he would not see the end of this war.

He looked up to see the large bison flying away. "Oh no." he thought. "I've procrastinated too long..." He quickly went up and grabbed everything he could and unceremoniously dumped it into the basket of his war balloon. He followed the objects into the basket and quickly began to set fire to the furnace allowing him to gain altitude. He was already a safe distance away from the intimidating monster but didn't want to risk being seen. After all it'd take one look behind them and they'd see a red dot in the air. He had to be careful. They'd probably think he's chasing them to harm them. "I wouldn't blame them." He looked dejectedly to the ground. But he knew how he could get onto there good side. One: he could teach the Avatar to fire bend. and second: He knew where they could find their missing friend...

AN: Alright, I'm sorry to say about this that this is kind of like a preview chapter for Part 1 of the story. The reasoning of my apology is that I feel like I've done too many previews. with the whole Pilot and all. Oh, and I'd like to let you know. for those who have read the pilot that one important thing has been omitted and that was the letter he had sent. so yeah. I hope to get weekly updates happening but I Think I'll try to get the next update coming earlier so much as I get reviews that is, partially because it lets me do how well, or rather not well I am doing.

Also there is a few hints showing what will happen next. I think it's quite obvious, and you may think so too. but eh. what am I to do? How you liked this and yeah, stuff like that. See you people later!