Avatar: The Second-To-Last Airbender

Yet another fanfiction consisting of the Team Avatar/Gaang members adventures as adults.


The road to building Republic City was a long one. Aang had been a fully realized Avatar ever since his victory over firelord Ozai almost seven years ago, but he was becoming more and more recognizable with new projects brewing left and right over the years due to the end of the war. With the conflict of the Fire Nation's involvement within the Earth Kingdom still at large so many years after the war, the Avatar with the help of his friends and allies, came up with a place for all people, no matter of which ethnic background, could feel comfortable to live in peacefully. This area was a newly established fifth nation known as The United Republic of Nations.

The Earth Kingdom had become well-know for abrupt industrial manufacturing processes since the end of the One Hundred Year War. The Fire Nation's colonies in the Earth Kingdom sparked an industrial revolution. One of the largest industries began rising somewhere in the middle of the Earth Kingdom. The Avatar, his friends, and allies had come to an agreement with the engineers, and alas, the plans for Republic City began.

Creating a city isn't something that happens over night. A majority of the city's roads and buildings were just mere ideas written down on paper and drawn out on a map. There was a large building consisting of large quarters for people to live in, mostly consisting of construction workers, called the Bayside Apartment complex. The building sat next to a large body of water, more commonly referred to as "Yue Bay", named by Sokka. The bay would be apart of the large, upcoming city. And best of all, across the bay were two small islands. There was a decent amount of distance between the two islands. Aang had landed his eye on the bigger of the two, and imagined building his home there. He wanted to be close enough to the city for helping with construction and setting up the society, but still wanted a remote place to settle down. Being an Air Nomad, he planned to build a home similar to the foundation of the Southern Air Temple. He also planned on having the growing group of Air Acolytes to live there as well. He explained his entire idea to Sokka, who found it to be genius! Aang's passion behind the plans warmed Sokka's heart; he was overjoyed and very honored to help him mull it out. Together, they came up with the name Air Temple Island.

Aang's plans for building Air Temple Island took over his desire for Republic City. He did not completely throw away his involvement in Republic City, but he made it his second priority. He wished to finish building Air Temple Island before Katara returned from the South Pole. However, he did not realize how complicated it would be, and by the time Katara came back, he wasn't even halfway finished. The physical temple was his main focus, and then he would build around it. He'd finished putting in basic household rooms, but did not finish furnishing them by the time Katara arrived.

Katara had actually arrived in Republic City, since there was no ferry to the island yet. Sokka built a small motorized boat to get to and from the island, mostly for himself or Aang to take, since flying in on Appa wasn't always an option; taking a flying bison to a giant construction project wasn't the best idea.
Sokka was the one to take Katara over to Air Temple Island one evening. Aang had known about her arrival, but she was arriving around the time of his meditation, so he was down by the water meditating on the rocky shores.

When Katara and Sokka arrived, Aang had actually been in such a deep meditation, he'd crossed over to the spirit world. The bright light illuminated the rocky shore as the sun was almost entirely beneath the horizon. In front of him was what seemed to be a small formation of fog that had a smokey appearance. They had a feeling he was communicating with one of the past Avatars.

Sokka tied up the boat to the very small dock on Air Temple Island. Since the temple was Aang's main focus, the dock was only really built for his friends and acolytes to use and was completely temporary.
Sokka stepped off the boat first to help his sister get off, along with her belongings. They each had two bags over their shoulders, and Sokka carried his sister's suitcase in his left hand. The two of them carefully made their way through the rocky shore to sit beside Aang. His mediation only lasted a few minutes longer, as Aang must've sensed their presence somehow.

He abruptly opened his eyes and let out a small gasp once he saw his finance sitting beside Sokka. He rose up to his knees and greeted Katara with a big hug.

"Hey, you made it!" He chirped happily into the fuzzy hood of her parka, "I'm so excited to show you around!"

"I'm very excited to see the place," Katara responded, just as happily, "Sokka wouldn't shut up about it the entire way here."

Sokka gave the two a goofy grin, "It's that amazing, sis. Wait 'til you see it yourself."

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Katara asked. "Let's go!"

Aang jumped up with a small gust of air. He helped Katara and Sokka to their feet the same way. He grabbed Katara's hand and leaped across the rocks with her. He then proceeded to walk quickly away from the shore, and up to the high elevated edges of the island. After building the temple, he began to build steps to get up the island with his earth bending. However, they weren't constructed properly and definitely needed to be worked on.
Katara felt like she was being yanked along because of her luggage weighing her down.

"Aang, slow down!" She called out for him, panting. "My bags are heavy!"

"Let me take them," Aang offered.

Katara pulled the two bags off of her shoulders and plopped them onto the ground. Aang picked them up and put them on his back. The grunt he let out suggested that he didn't expect them to be as heavy as they actually were.

"Spirits, Katara," Aang grunted through a few pants, "What is even in here? Fifty pounds of boulders?"

Katara rolled her eyes at him, "It's literally all of my belongings."

"How much can one girl have?" Aang questioned. Sokka laughed at his naivety.

"Well, I'm moving in here with you," Katara said, blushing sheepishly, "I didn't want to have to take multiple trips back and forth to the south pole."

Aang face lit up when the words came out of her mouth. They were living together... Here... At the place that Aang built himself. They would get married and have children here, in their home. So much laid out for their future together. Aang couldn't wait. He stood there smiling, with his head in the clouds.

"Aang..." Katara looked at him with a puzzled look on her face. "You going to finish leading the way?"

He shook head out of the clouds. He stammered over his words but quickly agreed to her request. He awkwardly gathered himself and continued to lead them up the steps of the island.

After a long, time consuming journey up the jagged steps, the three of them finally made it to the main grounds. In front of them was a giant temple, similar to the style of the Southern Air Temple. On the far western side of the temple, in the corner, there was a one story building, the only building that was completely finished and furnished. Aang pointed to it particularly.

"That's where we'll sleep," He said to Katara.

Katara smiled at him adoringly, "I can't wait."


And that's it. I don't know if I'm going to call this chapter 1, prologue, or what. Please give me feedback!

Q from ChaseC: Is this a Sokka and Aang pairing cause that is what I am getting at. And what is the major conflict

A: No (obviously now you can see that as I've added more). The conflict? Well there are going to be many, because this story is going to revolve around the entire adulthood of Aang/The Gaang. Stay tuned because I have big plans for this one.

Thanks!