The Last Two Airbenders

~The Long Lost Airbender~

It has been two weeks since the war ended. One day, Aang was packing up so he could go back, and visit the Southern Air Temple. Appa slammed his tail down excitedly to the point he shook Aang's apartment in Ba Sing Sae.

Aang hopped down off of him, "I know, buddy. Isn't this great? We're going to stay there for a few days though-just to clean up just in case new airbenders come back."

Back in Aang's apartment, Katara was looking out the window, curiously, "Sokka, do you know where Aang is going?" She went over to him.

Sokka, who was sitting on the floor with Suki and MoMo, looked up at her, "Oh, he said something about going back to the Southern Air Temple and clean up. That's all I know for much." He turned back around, and continued talking to Suki. Quickly, Katara and MoMo zoomed out of the apartment, and caught Aang just in time.

"Aang, wait!" Katara ran up along Appa's long, furry tail. "We're coming, too!!!" She sat down next to Aang as Appa flew off. "Why didn't you tell me that you're going back?"

Aang blushed with guilt, "Oh, uh, I figured that you didn't want to come, since we've been traveling together ever since we first met."

"So, it doesn't matter," Katara kissed Aang on the cheek, "I love you."

Aang shook his head, laughing, "It doesn't mean anything. I love you, too, but I decided to give you a break--" BOOM!!! The loud rumble sound shook the whole town of Ba Sing Sae, and scared Appa out of his flying pattern. So when they made it to the outer wall of Ba Sing Sae, Appa landed safely on the ground. Aang hopped down off of Appa, "What the heck was that BOOM sound?"

Katara, who was covering her ears, followed him, "I don't know. Let's—Wait! Aang, look!!" She pointed a young girl with long black hair that ended all the way up to her bottom.

The girl was wearing air nomad clothing. Plus, she had blue arrow tattoos. She was also airbending!

Katara shook her head, "I know that she's not airbending."

"She is!" Aang whispered. "But that's impossible though. I thought I was the last airbender. Aang closed his eyes. He now knew that he wasn't the only airbender anymore. He also knew that the girl didn't know anything about the war. So he went up to her. "Hey, girl. Over here!"

The girl turned around and gasped, "AH!" She quickly flew over to Appa, and hid behind him, with her flying glider.

Aang looked at her real closely in the eye. He smiled, and went over to her, "Candi?"

"Speaking." The girl slowly came back out.

Aang grabbed her hand, and pulled her out from behind Appa, "Don't tell me that you don't remember me. Oh come on. Say something, girl."

Candi glared at Aang for ten seconds, and then looked down at his hands. She gasped, "Aang if you touch me again, you'll be a roasted arrow-headed duck!"

Aang laughed, "You haven't changed! Yep, you're definitely Candi!"

Candi and Katara glanced at each other, and asked, "Who's this?"

Aang went between them just in case they might get into a fight, "Oh, Candi, this is my girlfriend, Katara, the waterbender-the only waterbender of the entire South Pole." Candi bowed politely to Katara. "And Katara," Aang continued, "this is Candi. We met each other when we were just toddlers. She's really smart, and she learns very fast. When she turned four and when I turned five, she already mastered thirty-five levels of airbending, and now, I only mastered thirty-four. She's from the Western Air Temple." Katara bowed back at Candi.

Katara went over to her, "So, how come we haven't heard from you?"

Aang nodded, "Yeah, why?"

Candi grinned with guilt, "Well, I just got out of an iceberg last night."

"OH!" Aang slapped himself, "I remember now. You sent me a letter, saying that you wanted to see the world. So you decided to run away. I thought you were kidding."

Candi chuckled, "You should know me by now. Once I say something that I wanted to do, I will do it. You see, that night right after I sent that letter, I left out into the ocean with my glider. Then I grew very tired, and accidently fell into the ocean. I tried to create an air bubble so I can breathe, but I guess that the bubble froze, since I was in the South Pole waters."

"That's what happened to me, too." Aang pat her. "The monks tried to send me over to the Western Air Temple to complete my training, so I flew away on Appa, and then we got caught in the middle of a storm. Then I tried to create an air bubble in the water, and then it froze. One hundred years later, Katara and her brother, Sokka released me."

"WAIT!" Candi backed away. "One hundred? What are you saying, Aang?"

Aang followed her around, including Katara, "I'm saying that you're one-hundred eleven years old. You were in there for one-hundred years and several months. Our people were wiped out by the fire nation right after I disappeared. Then I found out that we were in the middle of a war. Two weeks ago, the war just ended. So…you missed all the action, Candi."

Candi shook her head, "What?" Tears crept out of her eyes.

Katara ran over to her, "Candi, it's OK. We got your back now."

Candi took out her glider, "I-I-I-I'm going back home. I want to take a look at all the temples."

Aang tried to grab her hand, "Wait, we were just going there." Candi suddenly flew off quick without saying anything.

Katara hopped on Appa and pat MoMo, "Do you think we'll be able to catch up to her, Aang?"

Aang just sat down next to her, "Well, the way I know her, she'll be there in an hour. We'll get there in three hours. So she'll beat us there. When she's upset in any way, she gets things done quicker than she used too. Appa, yip-yip."

Katara began to worry, "I hope she doesn't get too upset."

"She will," Aang sat back, "Even though she's smart, she gets upset very easily. Seeing skeletons is the worst for her."

"We still have to help her," Katara sat back with him. "I don't like seeing kids very upset. She's helpless, like you when you found out that your people were wiped out."

"You're right." He cleared his throat.