Author's Note: Okay, gonna keep this short and sweet. This is my first story, so please review! :D
Disclaimer: No, I do not own Avatar: The last airbender...*sigh*
(THIS IS SET FIVE YEARS AFTER THE DEFEAT OF THE FIRE LORD. AANG IS 18, KATARA 19, SOKKA 21, TOPH 18, AND SUKI 20)
Chapter one: One birth, one death?
Aang's heart almost stopped as another scream came from his and his wife Katara's bedroom, piercing through Aang again, like the last 15 had.
When would this end? He thought to himself. The Avatar couldn't bring himself to enter the room where his wife was giving birth to their first child,
not after the conversation he had had with Chief Hakoda around two months ago…
"And whatever you do Aang, don't look"
"Why?" asked the young Avatar
"Birth is a magnificent thing Aang, much the process of the birth is for women's eyes only"
"Why?" Aang asked the chief again
"They are in some ways, the stronger sex; they understand so many things we don't. Trust me Aang, don't look"
"Okay"
Hakoda hadn't actually told him what was so bad that he shouldn't look, but he didn't want to risk it, none the less.
After another 10 minutes of pure silence, Aang began to worry. Was the birth over? He began to open the door as one of the 3 midwives came
out towards him, wiping of what looked like the last of a lot blood from her tanned hands.
"Madam, what happened? Is the baby okay? Is Katara okay?"
As if on queue, a baby's cry could be heard from the bedroom.
"Your daughter is fine and healthy Avatar Aang. She has your eyes" the Midwife smiled.
"What about Katara?"
The silence that came before her answer scared Aang.
"Erm…your wife Lord Avatar…she struggled dearly with the birth and…she…isn't faring to well"
The midwife had hardly finished the sentence before Aang had burst through the bedroom door.
sight that he found almost killed him. His love, Katara, was unconscious on the bed, her blood covering the white sheets. Her beautiful chocolate
brown hair was matted with blood and sweat fell all over her tanned face.
She looked so vulnerable…so…broken.
His eyes then failed the young Avatar as he felt himself falling to the ground.