DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN AVATAR TOPH AANG OR ANY OTHER CHARACTERS EXCEPT THE KIDS!
So I've decided to enlighten you all on the Taang Family and possibly Zutara and Sukka. This story doesn't connect with Reintro or NOJY. I just wanted to do stories on all of the births of the Taang family. So here you go. It's starting with the last one, I don't know why.
Tenneyshoes
The whole world was finally at peace. It had been for nine years. For the most part rebels were non-existent, yes there were some here and there that broke out at odd times, but mostly the world was calm. Even if it was raining koala-dogs and moose-lion cubs.
Thunder boomed out and lightning streaked across the dark sky, everyone still soundly asleep in their beds. At least everyone but seven solemn figures. Or not so solemn.
Out in the dark red halls of the Fire Nation palace, paced the young Avatar, hands folded behind his back. Pacing up and down the hall, he glanced at the door nervously every time he passed it.
"Aang! Your pacing isn't helping anything!" The young Fire Lord said, razors in his voice, as he rubbed his temples with his fingers.
"Don't tell me to calm down Zuko! I have every right to be worried." The blue tattooed man turned to his friend, his stony gray eyes glaring like a firebenders.
"Zuko's right Aang. Your pacing isn't going to help Toph any. You're just wasting your energy." Sokka slid down the wall he was leaning against, placing his arms on his knees.
"Why can't I go in to her?" Aang glared at Iroh, who stood guarding the door.
"Because you running around in that room will just make things worse. The girls need to concentrate." Iroh stepped forward, placing his old hands on his young pupil's shoulders, forcing him onto the ground.
"I've been next to her for every birth. Why can't I go to this one?" The distraught Avatar placed his head in his hands.
"You going to every birth explains why you have had a broken hand four times." Iroh laughed.
"I just want to be with her. Make sure she's okay. That she's safe," Aang said quietly, his silver eyes locked on the floor. "This is too early. What if I lose both of them. Toph has been sick for the past two months. The baby isn't due for another month and a half. I won't even be there to see her."
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-With the girls-
"Katara!"
"I know Toph, just wait a little more, it's not time to push. Suki, do you have that water ready?"
"No! I'll have to get Zuko to heat it up. Hang on Toph." The Kyoshi warrior ran out the door, water sloshing out of the deep basin she was carrying.
-With the guys-
"Zuko!"
"Suki!" Sokka jumped to his feet running over to his seven months pregnant wife.
"Move Sokka! Zuko I need you to heat this up!"
Zuko lit a flame on his palm, taking the basin of water and began heating it.
"Suki! How is she? Is she okay? Is the baby okay? Is-"
"Hush! She's doing okay." They young woman cut of the Airbender, taking the bowl of hot water from the Fire Lord, before spinning around and running back into the room.
Before the door could close, the young man slipped through after Suki.
"Toph!" Aang ran over to his wife, grabbing her hand as he reached her.
Toph grunted in reply. Her forehead glistened with sweat, her hair in every direction, and her pretty face messed into a grimace of pain as another contraction hit. Aang never thought she looked more beautiful.
"Can I push now!" The tiny earthbender screeched.
"One more contraction. Then we'll start pushing, I promise." Katara bustled around the room, making sure everything was ready.
"Okay Toph, Push!"
After six hours of labor, a black haired little girl was placed in Toph's arms. Aang had moved behind her, one leg on either side of his wife. Toph slumped back against him, her new baby in her arms. Katara and Suki quietly slipped out of the room, going to gather the rest of the family.
"What's she like?" Toph pulled the little girl closer, afraid she would lose her.
"Tiny… She's so early. A month and a half!"
"Don't I know it. Is everything there?" Toph dropped her head back onto Aang's shoulder, as she relaxed from her fifth labor.
"Yup. She looks just like you. Gorgeous. Just like the others." Toph smiled.
A tiny knock sounded through the room over the little baby's coos. Through the door popped a little black haired girl, her emerald eyes shining brightly in the light from the candles.
"Mama? Papa?"
An identical face peeked around the edge of the door, misty gray eyes slightly off, not looking directly at her parents.
"Bring everyone in girls." Aang spoke to his twin girls, and oldest children. The door opened a little wider and in trooped eight little children.
In order of oldest to youngest, they filed through the door before a mad dash broke out as all tried to reach their parents first. Little Araiya and Damien both stumbled and fell before, starting to whine and cry. Katara and Zuko followed the little troop of children, picking up the youngest set of twins, carrying them over and setting them gently on the bed, with the rest of the family.
Tiny hands and faces all tried to cram around the new baby. Aang's worry got the better of him, and he decided to do this orderly.
"Snag 'em!" Every person standing grabbed a child some taking two.
Aang held his two oldest, Miya and Arie. "Okay from oldest to youngest. Miya." Aang set down his emerald eyed princess, gently pushing her towards her mother.
Miya climbed onto the red satin sheets, crawling over to her mother and peeking into the folds of the blanket to see a tiny face. She looked at her mother before facing her father and asking, "bebe?"
Toph laughed and nodded. "Yes Miya, baby. Back to Papa."
Miya climbed off the bed and ran back to her father, hugging his leg tightly while he set down Arie.
The little blind girl walked, carefully taking each step around the bed, feeling the air circulating the room to find her mother. After climbing onto the bed, she gently held out her hand. Toph grasped her tiny
wrist and guided her hand to the baby's face. Arie's face lit up as she gently moved her hand over the tiny face, feeling the tiny nose, lips, cheeks and forehead. Finally satisfied that she had seen her new little sister, she stood up on the bed, hugged her mother around the neck and jumped off the bed, walking over to her Papa, while Zuko set down Kie, the next oldest.
The little boy padded over to the bed like his older sisters, climbed onto the bed, kissed his mother's cheek and turned to jump off the bed.
Toph's arm shot out to catch him around the middle, pulling him back down next to her. Kie giggled, then looked into his mother's soft face. The four-year-old, looked to the blankets in his mother's arms, his gray eyes finally seeing what she held. He stood up again, leaned over the baby, and kissed her forehead, before jumping off the bed and running to his father, like his sisters.
Zuko set down the next child in his arms Abra, as Katara set down Merek and Gyotso. The triplets were only three but they did everything together. The three stepped forward, touched the baby on the nose like they did everyone, laughed and ran to their father, whose arms had filled up by this point. The Avatar sat down on the floor, letting his children pool around him, Abra sitting in the center of his lap, the oldest twins, Miya and Arie hanging on his shoulders, Merek and Gyotso sitting on each of his knees, and Kie curling into his side.
Katara set down the next two children, and last set of multiples, Araiya and Damien, on the bed. The two had just turned one, and were starting to talk. However now, both looked quite confused. Araiya looked at the baby before patting Toph's stomach. Damien had the same vibe as his twin and said, "No be," pointing to his new sister," Be!" his tiny finger pointed to Toph's stomach, telling everyone, this wasn't the baby. The baby was still in Mama's belly.
Toph laughed, before hugging her youngest twins and sending them to Papa.
Everyone said their congratulations before taking the little children to bed, and heading off to their own beds.
Aang smiled at his wife and youngest child. Katara had checked the little girl before heading to bed and had announced, while she may get sick, she should be okay. She seemed perfectly healthy, just tiny. The Avatar walked to the bed and sat with his arm around his wife.
"So, what do we name this one?" Aang laughed as he asked the question.
"I don't know! I don't have any more names. After having nine kids in five years, you run out of names." Toph exclaimed as she nursed her little girl.
"Well don't blame me-" "Oh I blame you. You're the guy that got me pregnant after all."
Aang sat back and asked," Well how was I supposed to know most of your pregnancies would end in multiples? It's not my fault you're ridiculously fertile. Now can we get back to the topic of a name?"
Silence filled the room as both parents thought.
"What about Ashati?"
Aang smiled as his wife's suggestion. "You seem to have a thing for A names."
"Maybe it's because I married and Airbender." Toph snuggled into Aang's side closing her eyes tiredly.
"Ashati it is then." And slowly the Avatar found peace that night, and slipped off to sleep next to his wife and new daughter.
I Really like this one. I think I did good. If you want to know the other's process and reply. You also get a cookie. And since I haven't updated in a long time you should review if you want that cookie. Thanks guys!
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