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Summary: The war is over, Zuko is Fire Lord and Aang is wondering who will continue the airbending linage with him. Rating will change to M later. (Taang).
Last Hope
The thought occurred to Aang when he was meditating early in the morning: 'if I'm the last airbender, then who will carry on for me? the avatar line will end without a descendant from me'. There was never that worry before, Aang always thought that he'd end up with Katara after the war was over. Unfortunately for him Katara loved Zuko and married him a few months after the war was over. She of course then became Fire Lady Katara, and within another few months was pregnant with their first child. That was seven years ago, now Katara had four children with Zuko. Aang was named godfather to the third child, Hai Zhou, a mischievous and intelligent four year old that had the capabilities of both a fire and water bender. Although Zuko would swear that he had more tendencies towards a fire bender. As much as Aang loved his godson he could never take the place of a real child to Aang. With this thought in his head, Aang hopped of his stone and went to wake up Toph for another day of traveling.
It was a beautiful morning as Toph walked towards the nearby river to bathe, although Toph wouldn't know, as she was blind. Toph had continued to travel with him after the war was over, as there was nothing else better to do and she really didn't want to go back to her parents. Toph was now 18, a few weeks shy of 19. She had changed somewhat over the years. She was taller now than she was at 12, although not by much, she was still petite, such was her frame. She wore different clothes now, but she made sure that they were still comfortable. She let her hair down now, but she still wore her hair band and she still called Aang Twinkle Toes. For Toph, life was great; she was free and wasn't treated like an invalid. But something was bothering her lately. As much as she loved to travel with Aang, Toph couldn't shake the feeling the feeling that she was missing something. The feeling wasn't always so strong, and she didn't know what she was missing, but she knew that whenever she saw a child the feeling was at its strongest.
Aang went back to the campsite to find that Toph wasn't there. 'That's odd…' Aang thought. She wasn't usually up so early in the morning. He thought of going off to find her, but then he thought better, "she's probably practicing her earthbending", he thought aloud. He went off to find her but stopped in his tracks, 'I better not interfere with her earthbending so early in the morning, I wouldn't want her to hurtle rocks at me again', Aang reminisced. So he opted to take a bath and practice his waterbending instead. With that in mind, he set off for the river. Aang wanted to get to the river fast so he airbended himself there. If he weren't thinking about so many things, then he would've noticed he wasn't alone when he got to the river. When Aang got to the river he stripped off all of his clothes and stepped into the river. The river water was extremely cold for mid-summer, Aang winced as he got in; it almost reminded him of the water down at the South Pole. It was good for one thing though. It awoke him from the reverie he was in. It was then that he realized that he wasn't completely alone; he then proceeded to scream bloody murder.
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