Aang felt like his heart had just been brutally ripped out from his chest. He couldn't help but stare as he saw Katara kissing Zuko, their hands running in each others hair, on each others bodies. This sinking feeling make him feel like he was falling, plummeting down a dark hole of despair.

Sweat started to form on his face as he finally turned away and salty tears burned his face. Aang fell to the ground and gripped the soil with his fingers. He felt numb, like he was non existent. He threw his arms towards the sky and screamed, roaring at the injustice of the world.

Aang dimly heard Katara gasp and come running towards him with Zuko looking concerned. They stopped a few feet away from his quivering body, shaking with grief and anger. He glared into Katara's surprised eyes and she saw Aang hurt beyond any injury she had seen him sustain.

"Why…?" Aang whimpered his voice barely over a whisper. "Was it something I said? Something I did? Why? Why him?"

Katara just looked at Aang guiltily. "Zuko and I have been together ever since you mastered firebending. I didn't think…Aang, I would never hurt you… I would never…" Her voice was high and scratchy, her throat bone dry.

"Then why does it hurt so much?!?" Aang screamed his voice cracking. "Why can't I have one thing? The only thing that I have ever wanted was you Katara! I am saving the world for you, I am mastering the elements for you, I am still alive for you, EVERYTHING I HAVE DONE WAS FOR YOU!!"

Katara just stood petrified, next to Zuko who looked clearly frightened. Aang fell to his knees and gripped the earth again, this time earthbending cracks into the ground causing miniature earthquakes. He felt like he was truly defeated, Katara's love scorching his insides more ferociously than Ozai ever could.

"Aang… I am sorry…" Katara barely said, her eyes tearing up seeing her friend in so much pain.

"No…" Aang said to himself. He put on a look of fake determination and opened his glider. "I can't do this… I can't do this…" He leaped into the sky, taking off as Katara and Zuko called after him, but Aang ignored their cries.

Aang just felt the air roaring in his ears, focused on the air buffering him in the sky. Aang was destroyed. He needed to vent, he needed something, anything… Then he saw the mountain. Aang flew upwards until he was atop the towering mound of earth and he dropped his glider, letting it float to the ground, thousands of feet down. He began to freefall towards the mountains peak and he shrieked as he brought his fists down on the snow-capped mountain. The mountain began to fissure and crumble. Aang smashed his fists into the mountaintop again, letting his anger and sorrow turn into his constant unrelenting assault on the mountain.

After a dozen beatings the mountain began to rumble, and angry lava spurted from the earth's wounds. He bent the magma to start shooting up into the sky, spraying wildly in all directions. Aang saw Katara embracing Zuko in his mind, both of them groping and moaning…

He then unintentionally entered the avatar state. He was beyond any consul or calming. His eyes and tattoos glowed white as he drained the lava out of the mountain and sent it soaring into the air, landing all around the now broken mountain. He kept himself afloat on a vortex of air as the peak fell away. He let loose all of his powers in anger, eventually leveling the mountain. As he slowly started to allow himself to come to the cracked and blistered ground, he slipped out of the avatar state, but stayed conscious. He still had tears streaming down his face, still grief stricken.

As he was set on the ground, he saw the surrounding forest was entirely burnt and bleeding. Trees everywhere were slowly sinking in still bubbling lava, catching on fire. His glider was undoubtedly burned beyond recognition somewhere, but he did not care. He hurt so much, and could not heal himself. He gazed back where the camp was, where Katara and Zuko were…

He sobbed, crying uncontrollably, his hands gripping the sides of his head. This can't be happening, this is all a dream, life can't be this unfair, he thought. Aang smacked himself a few times desperately trying to convince himself that it a horrible nightmare.

But there he stood, burning chaos all around him matching the twisting turmoil in side him, as he laid down, still weeping into the ground. She was all he had, she was his life, how could she…

Aang didn't know how long he lay there, unmoving and crying. He didn't have the strength to move, and he didn't want to. His life was shattered, his inner fire cruelly snuffed out. He just lay there, atop charred and ashy earth, letting his tears run on the ground.

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Aang barely felt as Sokka ran to him, gripping his shoulders with Toph. Momo chattered unceasingly, roaming all over his curled body. Katara and Zuko just stood away, both looking bashful and concerned. Katara's eyes were puffy and red, and Zuko's face was so pale it looked ghostly.

"Aang! Aang speak to me, are you hurt?" Sokka said, gripping his shoulders. Aang wasn't just hurt; he was ravaged and brutally beaten. But he couldn't bring himself to say that.

"Leave me." Is all Aang said, his eyes pressed closed.

"Aang snap out of it, we need to move! Fire Nation forces found us, we need to leave!" Sokka nearly screamed. Aang didn't care, at least if he was killed, the pain would stop. Even feeling Katara's eyes on him was unbearable.

"Aang please…" Katara said. Aang recoiled as if he was stabbed with an icy knife. She spoke to him…

Suddenly he felt a heat wave flow over him, and he rose to a sitting position and opened his eyes. A group of firebenders approached, spitting flames from their hands towards Katara and the others. He then rose. These men were not going to survive this fight.

Aang earthbended a spear and hurled it at the nearest firebender. He was blown off his feet, impaled by the spike of earth. Aang heard the entire gang gasp at his brutality, but he didn't care. The next firebender came up and shot flames at Aang. He quenched the pathetic flame easily and shot one at his attacked that was ten times bigger. The man didn't even get to scream as he was obliterated, a charred scorch mark the only evidence he had ever existed.

The other five Fire Nation soldiers tried to flee, but Aang enclosed them within 3 walls and allowed the walls to fall upon the soldiers with a sickening crunch. He then looked back at his friends.

They all stared at him in horror, a pure terrifying horror. His normally bright and cheerful eyes were hard and uncaring. He had just murdered seven men in cold blood, and didn't even blink as he did so. Katara looked at him murmured something as he looked at her. The knife in him twisted and he blinked

Then he walked away. No one could believe that Aang was that evil, but he knew that this shell of his former self would never be able to restore itself. He had become a monster.

Katara started to sob as he walked away. "I am sorry Aang!" she yelled after him, but he didn't hear her. He just continued to walk, eyes cold and tearing up.

" I am too."