Rated MA for coarse language and possible lemons

Chapter 1: Something Equally Beautiful

It was a blazing inferno, a cacophony of horrors and nightmares. Aang screamed, bubbling pools of magma, lava was flowing everywhere. The entire place was made of rock, it seemed like he was in a giant cave. This was truly hell. His scream turned into something deeper, a true screech. Something more than just fear, this was something primal something that went bone deep. His scream came from the cells in him. His scream ended and tears streamed down his face. He jumped, startled when he heard Ozai laugh. He turned and looked at Aang, "What little mind games are you playing now little Airbender! Where are we, what are we to do in this hell hole? Well, two can play at this game Avatar!"

Ozai mocked Aang and then proceeded to bend his arm so his elbow was pointing downward and his wrist upward. Then straightened his arm out. His face expression changed from anger to dumbfounded.

The expression was so unexpected the Avatar laughed so hard he started to tear up. Ozai charged at him and put his arm around Aang's throat and tried to choke him, but Aang's expression immediately changed from laughter to anger. He might not be as muscular as the Phoenix King, but he definitely had the strength. He grabbed Ozai's wrist and twisted it. His eyes and the arrow tattoos around his body started illuminating and he floated in the air. His hand still on Ozai's wrist, he lifted him in the air. Speaking with the voice of all the Avatars, he spoke. "I am the Avatar! I am the balance of the Spirit World and the Earth. I am the only hope of these four nations, to ever be united again. You dare attempt to assault me! Avatar Aang was correct in his want to energy bend your firebending. You will be judged for your crimes. The hatred and misery of two nations is at your feet. The death of the Air Nomads are also your fault. What do you have to say?" Aang's voice was filled with rage. He was no longer Aang, he was all of the Avatars. His past lives all coming together to judge the need of an energy bending. There wasn't many times in the Avatar's life when a person was being judged.

"Hah!What is this energy bending nonsense!" Ozai exclaimed. "You have lost your chance to defend yourself Ozai, it is the will of I, the first Avatar and all of the existed Avatars, that you are to be punished for your crimes. The energy bending will commence, there is no lying to your energy. If you truly do not deserve to be punished, the bending will not allow it."

There was a look of true fear upon Ozai's face. He was scared. His energy engulfed him, ablaze in a fiery red. Aang's energy turned into a fierce ocean blue. The aura's battled, but to no avail. Sometimes Aang's power would slowly seep onto Ozai. But then Ozai would fight back and have his energy on the bridge of Aang. However, unlike Ozai, Aang did not spring back. Ozai was overcoming him. He had completely taken the lower half of Aang in his red energy, Aang's aura was retreating. Ozai was winning, now Aang only had his head covered in blue. The red had his left eye. All he had now was right eye shooting out a blue beam of light. It was over, Aang only had a sliver of blue peaking out. Only the center of his eye wasn't all red. Then he recaptured his eye with a blast of light, he regained his body in milliseconds. Suddenly he was attacking Ozai, he had obliterated all of Ozai's energy. Now both of them were emitting ocean blue energy. There open mouth and eyes shooting beams of energy. Aang closed his eyes. And they were back at the rock pillars. A wave of exhaustion hit Aang, but the pure euphoria gave him energy. "I've taken away your bending, you won't be able to hurt anybody anymore."

That was three years ago. Sokka had of course gotten Suki pregnant. "Sokka?" "Yes Suki?" "I uh, well. I'm..." "Spit it out LoveMuffin." "Well, your... I'm carrying your child..." "WHAT!" "I'm sorry, I thought you-" "THATS AMAZING!" "Really? Your not mad?" "I'm not mad, I'm excited!"

Now that she was a mother, she couldn't be a Kyoshi warrior, which was a topic of dispute. Before she found out, Sokka wanted to go back and rebuild the south pole, but Suki wanted to stay with her warriors. Ty Lee promised to take care of them while she was gone, she had really gotten the hang of the art of Kyoshi. Katara had gone to the north pole for 2 years because Master Paku had wanted her to help him train the flood of female students wanting to learn offensive waterbending. She had the secret intention of looking for a man. "Katara, I need to tell you something..." "What is it Aang?" "Well, I'm breaking up with you. I apologize, but I had stop liking you since we had gone undercover in the Fire Nation..." Katara's face was full of hurt and shock. "You fell for some Fire Nation girl when you went to school didn't you!" "No, that was when I decided I wasn't attracted to you anymore, there was someone else Katara..." Her face was composed of anger and sadness. "You cheated on me!" "No! No! But I do have feelings for another person, and I don't want to lie to you..." Katara walked away, Aang felt sad for his friend's hurt, but happy that he was free to pursue the one he really loved, instead of deceiving Katara." Aang told Katara he didn't love her a year after the events of the Phoenix King. Master Paku learned of this news and sent her a messenger immediately. He wanted to spare Katara (his granddaughter-in-law) as much humiliation and embarrassment as possible. Of course, Katara accepted and left the next day. Aang of course was a little sad she felt that driven to leave, was also glad she could spend some time by herself to think about it and cool down. Katara had recently gone back down to the South Pole, Sokka had big plans for their settlement when he returned. His construction had been slowed however. When he saw the North Pole's buildings, he expected that he would just pack some snow and have a building that would be straight and beautiful. That had not been the case. He had obviously forgotten the buildings were forged by waterbenders. So he sent Katara a message, come back! He subtly added to bring waterbenders. So, Katara came down to the South Pole with her trainees and used the building of the newborn city as training to the children. The deal worked out and Katara is able to live in her old house and visit her grandmother and her brother.

Zuko retreated to the Fire Nation, in the three years past, his relationship with Mai had flourished and the world had a new Fire Lord and Lady. Zuko had brought his nation out of the ashes better than a phoenix. His people were no longer despised, but respected and loved. The word firebender was not a feared one anymore. Mai is now pregnant and their baby is on the way (according to the servants it's surprising she HASN'T been pregnant yet with how often they hear the sounds of love from their room, of course this is all rumors anyway...). Leaving Toph and Aang to adventure the land. They had spent some of their three years traveling, they had visited Ba Sing Se once again. Toph had somehow gotten into a bet with some of the tram pushers, she had orchestrated a race between her and Chall on who could the push a tram 10 meters the fastest. All of this made possible with Toph's magical Bei Fong slip. She won, of course. From there they had traveled to swamp where Aang had first seen Toph. But, even with all of these adventures, Toph and Aang always found themselves drifting back to one of the Air Temples and slowly rebuilding all of them. This is where we find the duo at the moment.

"Twinkletoes! Wake up! We have things to do!" Toph shouted at Aang. Usually Aang was the one getting up early, which made him suspicious. "Why are you up so early Toph?" he said, his voice crackled like paper, his pitch indecisive as he questioned her. "Don't give me that look Twinkletoes, I couldn't sleep okay? Now hurry up and get a move on!" she cried. "Okay okay..." Aang sat up and earth bended the dirt he had accumulated on his skin. He waterbended the sweat out of his and Toph's clothes and walked over to her. She was tapping her foot on the ground. A normal person would've probably started a little speed walk to get to her, but Aang knew that Toph was just checking he was on his way. "C'mon follow me!" she said and sprinted down the massive hallway that had a moment ago, been their sleeping chambers. Toph reached the end of the hallway and turned to the right and ran in the door. Aang chased after and knocked into Toph on the way in. He gasped as soon as he looked around and noticed what room they were in. It was his room! Refurbished, and beautiful, Toph must have stayed up all night fixing this room! The window was perfectly shaped with no cracks anywhere! She had metalbended his old cot, so the old rusted bed was now an finely shaped mattress with a delicate headboard. "Toph! How did you..." Aang sputtered. "C'mon Twinkletoes! You thought I didn't notice your heartbeat sky rocket when we looked in here." she said smirking, glad that her plan had worked.

Aang didn't acknowledge the tears running down his face. He turned and towards Toph and looked her straight in her eyes, even though he knew she couldn't see it. "Thank you," he whispered. He hugged her waiting for her to punch him in the arm and yell at him for being so girly, or for her to call him an airhead for their proximity, but she didn't. She just hugged him back and they shared a moment. Then he let go and said quietly "I have to show you something equally beautiful."

He ran to Appa and grabbed a mirror and... set it quietly back down, deciding against his metaphorical idea. Aang had a much better idea now... Aang airbended all of their equipment onto Appa's saddle. "What are you doing, you crazy airhead!" Toph exclaimed. "C'mon, let's go! We're going to the Earth Kingdom." he stated. She stared at him, and then bent a pillar of earth under her to launch herself onto the saddle and didn't say a word. That was easy... I figured I would need to at least tell her a little of her plan to get her to come. She's completely fine with flying that entire way, just because I said so.. Aang thought. Aang bended Toph up onto Appa's head. He grasped the reins and gave her a portion of the rope. She took them wordlessly. Toph saw Aang grab the mirror. Even on Appa's saddle, her vibrations showed her his plan to show her the mirror, as if to imply she was beautiful. Which made her wonder even more why he put it back and where he was taking her. Deep in thought, the sudden thought popped into her head. Aang thinks I'm beautiful...

Hey guys! I kinda read obnoxious amounts of Taang on this website until I finally decided to write one! Please review and let me know if there is anything I can do to make my stories as great as possible! Oh, and sorry if Toph and Aang are a little out of character, I just wanted to get the ball rolling.