AN: When I heard that they were doing another Kataang Week, I couldn't resist! Sorry it's a bit late, but I'll catch up with the other prompts!
NOTE: This specific prompt is like a peek into my upcoming multi-chapter story. I won't give anything away!

Panda Lily

He had an idea as he sat in the corner of his earthy abode.

The Avatar sat on a creaking wooden chair that unpleasantly screeched on the floor every time he made even the slightest of movements. Off on an errand for the world again, people would say, but there was absolutely no avoiding the job he was born to fulfill.

But as he sat calmly in the candle light, he heard the silent groan of the full grown bison sitting plopped out on the ground outside, his oldest friend, Appa. He tried to ignore the creature's vibrating snore as his hand fidgeted on the trinket that was sitting on the dusty wooden desk before him.

A sneeze or two would interrupt him occasionally as the dust entered his sensitive nose and he'd stop to rub the sleep out of his eyes every so often. The night only grew older but the object was becoming all the more complex and intricate.

"This is taking longer than I expected," he whispered to himself, "but I think it's worth the trouble."

Another round of concentrated earthbending consumed a good amount of his time when Aang decided to finally give himself a little break.

In all honesty, he had not the slightest clue as to what in the name that was good he was doing. Frustrated and incredibly exhausted, he silently blasted an air current to drift him down an extra floor out of one of the cut-out windows of the Earth Kingdom and glide his way toward the flying bison.

The grass crinkled under his light footsteps and suddenly an unfriendly gale of wind hit his back and sent a shiver up his spine, like a clump of ice had appeared out of nowhere and made its way to most unlikely place possible this time of year.

"Hey buddy," Aang said as he patted Appa's enormous gray muzzle. The beast grumbled his contentment.

"You're happy, aren't you boy?" The Avatar sighed. "I don't know what I'm doing this time. Do you have any ideas for me? "

Appa snorted.

"I know she's on the other side of the world right now!" His hand slipped off his nose and he collapsed onto the dew covered grass beneath him. "I need something. I need something that's different and completely out there, you know boy?"

His life-long friend nuzzled his head onto the Avatar's shoulder.

"Okay, okay, here's a moonpeach," he said as he pulled a fruit out of his pocket and shoved it up the bison's drooling maw. "You're not helping Appa."

Another snort, and then one of the bison's legs lay next to a beautiful flower.

This did not go unnoticed by the young man sitting near the spot. He slowly glanced over and his silvery eyes twinkled with excitement. "A Panda Lily," he mumbled, "I wonder what one of those are doing her so far from a volcano rim?"

"I can't believe you're dragging me all the way up here for a stupid flower."

Aang grinned. It was all too perfect.

-

He packed all his things onto the back of Appa as his flying lemur joined him on the makeshift saddle he had recently created to finally replace the useless boat he used before.

Aang knew he was finally ready to return to the South Pole, not just because he had finished his duties in the Earth Kingdom, even just for a short while, but because he was finally finished with his own little project as well.

Taking off into dawn's gentle rays of reds and oranges, the carefully carved form of a glistening Panda Lily pendant glowed as his placed the necklace into one of his hidden pockets, patiently waiting for the day it was given to ask her hand in marriage.