Whoo, here's my second Avatar fanfic. Yep, another Kataang one. I'm just trying to bring more Kataang fics to this site.
The title is a mouthful isn't it? I couldn't really come up with anything else, so Reflections of Past Love will have to do. It fits the story well though. Here's chapter one. There will be 6 chapters to this story. Season 3 will be all made up of course, unless I rewrite it when it airs.
Anyway, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar the Last Airbender. If I did, Katara and Aang would be together already.
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Ah, love, it's a wonderful thing isn't it? To finally find the one person you may spend your whole life with. Such a beautiful feeling. I once thought I would never find that special someone, being a monk and all, but I was totally wrong on that one. The elder monks never did tell us we could never marry or have children, so I later assumed it was perfectly fine to.
I still remember the very first time I laid my eyes on her, she had the face of an angel. I honestly thought I had died and gone to heaven that day. But then I thought to myself, why was it so cold? Certainly heaven wasn't this cold. I finally realized I wasn't dead, but alive.
Being a naive 12 year old at the time, I ask the girl looking down on me if she would go penguin sledding with me. I hit myself for that later of course. I guess I was just nervous and couldn't think of anything else to say, oh well. She later caught me smiling at her when I was taking them back home on Appa. I tried playing dumb, but that didn't seem to work very well.
When we got back to her and her brother's home, I apparently fell asleep, cause the next thing I know I woke up from a nightmare in a tent. She told me the other villagers wanted to see me and told me to get dressed. Oh, and don't think I didn't know she was staring at me while I got dressed. I did that on purpose.
She seemed very impressed with me when I flew around the village on my glider until I crashed into Sokka's watch tower made out of snow. Did he really expect that thing to stand forever? It was made out of snow for gods' sake! Sometimes I worry about him, even now.
Anyway, after that she kept her promise to go penguin sledding with me. That was really fun, even more so when she was doing it with me. When we came to a stop, we were in front of a Fire Navy ship that was abandoned. I had no idea why it was there, but I wanted to explore it. Katara objected to the idea, but she eventually followed me in.
After a few minutes, she told me about the war and how I was stuck in that iceburg for 100 years. It seemed like a crazy idea, but deep down I somehow knew it was true and finally gave in to the fact. I was devestated by the truth and Katara comforted me. The first of many moments where she comforted me.
When we were about to leave, I tripped over a wire, which sent a signal into the air. I kept wondering why someone would put that there in the first place. Of course the only way out was through the top of the ship, so that's where we went. I quickly lifted Katara bridal style and airbended us the hell out of there. I had this strange feeling that someone was spying on us in the distance. I let that pass and quickly ran back to the village with Katara in my hands.
I was pretty much expecting getting the boot by Sokka when we got back. I was upset with the idea of leaving Katara and the village, but there wasn't much I could do. It sure was a surprise when Katara wanted to come with me and leave the village. I didn't want her to get hurt in anyway, so I didn't want her to come. But deep down, I was in denial and wanted her to come. No sense in being selfish, others must come first. That's what I was taught.
So I left, sad and lonely. Before leaving the South Pole altogether, I decided to rest myself and Appa. It was a good thing I didn't leave, because I saw this ship come into the village. I knew it was trouble. I got up, found a penguin and sledded all the way back to the village. Let's just say the rest is history between me surrendering and kicking Zuko's ass all the way back to the Fire Nation. Heh heh, I always liked that part.
After escaping Zuko, Katara wondered why I didn't reveal that I was the Avatar. I told her I never wanted to be, which was the truth. Afterward, I told them where I wanted to go and what I wanted to do before heading to the North Pole. Yeesh, I still feel stupid about that. I finally realized later that riding wild animals is dangerous and disrespectful. Good thing too, I almost got killed once. But I'll get to that later.
A couple days later, we headed toward the Southern Air Temple. Katara tried to warn me that the airbenders may be all gone, but I tried to show I was hopeful. I knew it was more than likely true, I just didn't want to admit it.
We got there and I showed them the temple, including the room full of Avatar statues. While we were in there, a flying lemur appeared in the doorway. Not wanting Sokka to eat him (idiot), I chased after the lemur, finally coming to a hut, where I discovered Gyatso's skeleton and went into the Avatar State for the second time. Luckily Katara was able to calm me down. How? I have no idea to tell you the truth. She just does it.
After that, the lemur, who I rightfully named Momo, came with us on our journey. It still amazes me how he survived. Anyway, we left the air temple and headed for the North Pole to find myself and Katara a waterbending master. I always found waterbending to be awesome and fun to do, not sure why. Maybe it's because it's the Yang to air? Hmm... I'll have to look into that later.
So anyway, after a day or so of flying, we landed on Kyoshi Island so I could ride the Elephant Koi that resided there. Of course I was doing it to impress Katara, even if she didn't realize it. Not paying attention, the koi stopped, sent me flying, and swam off. I wasn't sure why until I turned around to see a very large fin. Let's just say I was glad that I was in the water. I jumped out of the water and ran on top of it toward the island. I still don't know how I did that, even as an airbender.
In a matter of seconds, we were captured, blindfolded, and tied to a stake by a group of female warriors. Definitely was not expecting that. I saved our skins by showing them that I was indeed the Avatar after they didn't believe me the first time. I pulled out some marbles and airbended them in my hand. This one guy creeped me out by foaming all over the place and passing out. Glad I didn't have to deal with him again.
I pretty much spent the whole day trying to get Katara to pay attention to me and be impressed by me. I think she was jealous of the little girls following me all day and acting all fangirlish. I HATED it. I only wanted Katara to be impressed dammit. So I went out into the ocean and tried to ride the Unagi. Yeah, that didn't go well, I almost drowned. Good thing Katara saved me. Though I still get this feeling she was checking me out before she waterbended the water out of my lungs.
After that, I kicked Zuko's ass again (why did he even keep trying?), saved the town from burning to a crisp, and got a hug out of it. All in all, a pretty good day, sorta. Best part was the hug of course. Heh heh.
We then headed to Omashu, why? Not entirely sure, we just did. I think I just wanted to show Sokka and Katara the city. I got more than what I bargained for though. The king, who I didn't know at the time, made me pass these stupid tests to release my friends from their crystal doom (heh, crystal doom).
I ended up battleing the king at the end of the tests, just barely winning. I think he just gave up if you ask me. Anyway, I figured out that it was Bumi, my friend from 100 years ago (I thought he'd be dead, in fact, he's still alive to this day).
We left once again, ending up outside a town. Never learned what it was called. The only reason we entered it was because Katara wanted to follow this strange guy we found earthbending in the woods. I wasn't too happy about it, but I wasn't going to show that I wasn't.
We finally found him in town, and found out his name was Haru. Ok well, he and his mom allowed us to stay in their barn for a while until we were ready to leave. And I swear Katara wouldn't shut up about Haru. I was just about to get up and sleep outside, but I didn't.
Eventually, Haru got arrested by the Fire Nation for earthbending. I was happy inside and wanted to leave, but Katara insisted we save him and the other earthbenders that were arrested. So we did, and in the process, Katara lost her mother's necklace. Figures doesn't it? And it also figures that Zuko was the one to find it.
Once again, we leave and head for the North Pole. We come across this scar of land, where firebenders burned down the trees. I was upset and I blamed myself for this happening. Katara reassured me that the trees would grow back and I felt better.
Later, we entered this town that was being terrorized by a spirit. I came face to face with him trying to reason with him, but he wouldn't listen. He took Sokka to the Spirit World, and I tried to save him, but no luck. I then entered the Spirit World as well, but partially.
When I walked back to the town, this dragon came flying out of the trees and stopped in front of me. It gave me the vision of a comet and flew me to a temple, Roku's temple in the Fire Nation. It showed me where to go and what to do, and flew me back to the town. I was freaked to say the least, I've never seen a dragon before.
I came out of the Spirit World, entered the town, and got a crushing hug from Katara. She was crestfallen when I told her I didn't know where Sokka was. That night, I waited for the spirit to come around. It came and I finally reasoned with it, telling it what Katara told me. The spirit, Hei-Bai, finally calmed down and released all the people whom he stole. I was glad that was over.
I told Katara and Sokka about the temple and the comet afterward. I didn't want them to come and risk them getting hurt, but they insisted. So we left for the temple, traveling for a day, and once again dodging Zuko. I swear that guy never gave up. He was persistent though, I'll give him that much.
We reached the temple, had to dodge firebending sages, except for one who helped us, and finally got to where we needed to be. Those were the longest stairs I have ever had to climb! But, being fit does has it's advantages.
It took a while, but we finally figured out a plan to get inside the room where I needed to be. Once again, Zuko shows up as well as some monkey-faced character named Zhao. What was with the Fire Nation and their funky facial hair? Yeesh...
Anyway, after escaping from Zuko's hold on me (man, he smelled bad, he needed a friggen bath), I jumped into the room and talked to Roku. After finding out what I was supposed to do, not that I wanted to do it in the first place, he helped me defeat the firebenders. Before the temple came crashing down, however, we escaped. Boy I wish monkey-face and Zuko didn't, but nothing I could do about it.
Ok, so next up is when Katara stole a waterbending scroll from pirates. Nice example Katara, you almost had us killed. But it was alright in the end after we won, again, and kicked Zuko's ass, again. Oh wait, the pirates did that. My bad. The worst part of that trip was Katara getting jealous of me being better at waterbending and yelling at me. Oh well, I forgave her.
Oh boy, now we enter Jet. I still frown at the name. He tricked us, almost killed a whole town of innocent people, and worst of all, tried to swoon Katara. I didn't let on that it effected me, but it sure did. I was just being a kid at the time, which was the perfect cover-up. Still, that stings me to no end when I think about it. Thank heavens Sokka was there to warn the town. I guess he is useful once in a while.
Ok, so after that-
"Aang, dinner is ready!"
"Alright hon, I'll be there in a minute!"
Guess I'll have to write more later journal.
Aang closed up is journal, tied it shut so no one could open it but him, and walked back to his and Katara's house.
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Ok, well, there's chapter one. Took me over 2 and a half hours to type. Read and review if you would please! Chapter 2 will come sooner if you do!