Disclaimer: None of these characters are mine, and though I wish it was so … I don't get any money from this. Thus … no suing please, because you will get exactly what I got … nothing.

Final Moment

By Dragon TRAINER

I never thought it would hurt this much. The searing pain … the sicken smell of my own flesh as it burns …, and the knowledge that this would be the last time that I would see any of them again. I felt her holding me up … the look in her eyes said more than any words could as she touches my face softly. The only thing cool in this world of heat and pain, and I look up at her and tried to smile. I didn't want to cause her any more pain then what I already saw there. I didn't want her to know how much it hurt … as I felt her hand grab mine, and I return the gesture with a squeeze.

The darkness was slowly starting to spot in front of my eyes as I felt a wave of pain so intense that my breathe hitch in my throat. Tears ran down her face … as she felt my hand tighten upon her own. I didn't want to leave her … I promise to protect her, but it would seem that I could no longer do that now. I felt a weight descend on my chest … it was so heavy and so hard … that I found breathing to be a struggle. My body was shutting down, and there was nothing that I could do about that … as a tear threaten to come to my eyes, but I forced it back. I couldn't … wouldn't leave this world with a tear on my face … I didn't want her last sight to be of me that way. Though … as I started to feel light headed … I had to wonder why that would matter so much.

My body is already beaten and bloody … with one eye closed shut … by the amount of blood that leak from it. Blood ran from my lips, and from my nose, and from the fatal wound on my chest … the place where the heat of the Fire lord has struck home. I wasn't a pleasant sight … at the end, and I knew that she had to take notice of this as well. So what did it matter if I cried … most people would say that I had the right … for I didn't want to leave them. I didn't want to go, and I was so afraid of the end … of the path that seemed now to be the only way to go. Yet, I couldn't spill a tear … instead I clutch on desperately to that hand … as I felt the world start to shift around me, and felt as though … my insides were on fire. It took a few moments for me to realize that the reasoning behind this pain … was the fact that my lungs were no longer gaining air from the world around me. I was suffocating … slowly … as my world dissolve into darkness, and I felt my heart rate slow.

Another hand … a new one touches my forehead, and I knew without any kind of sight whom that person was. Her words always as hard as stone, and her hand seeming to always be dusty … and rough … touches my skin lightly as though trying to comfort me in my last moments. I knew out of everyone … I had hope that she wouldn't make it back in time for this for I was sure that she could feel through the earth around her what was happening to my body and the shortness of my life. The slow beating of my heart … it was a burden to uphold the knowledge, and then … a sudden breeze passes over me … a coolness that went all the way to my soul flowed.

So, he won after all

I thought as my consciousness slip free of the bonds of my flesh. At least I can take such knowledge with me … that the world will once more return back to its peaceful ways. The threat of the fire nation was gone, and for the time being … the deaths by war will stop. It was a big sigh of relief for me to know that I lasted long enough to know the conclusion of his struggle. I just wished that I could be there to help him put the world back into order. Though … I guess … that I was never destiny to play a part in that …, and if I had lived … I probably would have been bored with it all. Maybe … my death was for the best, besides at least now I knew that someone would keep her safe. I had protected her for as long as I could, and now the job would fall on his shoulders … she would be alright. I knew this … because he loved her, and though she might not realize it yet … she felt the same about him. They would find peace and happiness with each other … I hope as I felt my body shudder one final time.

It was time … no … I wasn't ready … I didn't want to go. There was so much I haven't done … so much that I had never said, but it would seem that I had no choice in the matter as one last struggling breathe escape me. My eyes now closed … never to open again … as my hand lost it's hold on hers and fell limp back to the earth. I was no longer with them …

Then … the darkness completely descent and I found myself being guided by the light. I was leaving this world for the other, and as I near the end of the tunnel … I felt a pair of hands reach out and grab me. Hands that kept me from going any further into the darkness … as the light of one whom shines only in the darkness flow around me.

I turn to look at her. The one whom had taken my heart … the one whom had gone beyond my reach with it. She smiles lightly and hugs me close. Maybe the end wasn't so bad after all, as I turn to stare into her eyes. Those beautiful blue eyes … that sparkle like the stars and her pure white hair that seem to flow on the wind … with a smile that could melt ice. She is the spirit of the moon, but as she held me close … I knew … that I would join her as a star. I would not go to where my mother rest and waits for us … I would stay by her side forever. I guess … that meant that I would see them all again really soon, and though we will never be together again … in the same sense we would never part.

In the Koi pond … another fish appeared. One much smaller than the other two and one that swam side by side with the spirit of the moon. This small fish was silver just like the stars, and though it played no part in the balance … that small fish … always kept the spirit of the moon happy and protected. It had made a promise to protect her …, and this time it would not fail. For though this was goodbye to those he cherish the most … it wasn't a true goodbye .., because he would always be close.

((Well, I hope this was good, and that everyone could figure out whom he was talking about. I know that this is probably pretty OCC, but I have been thinking about this for a while, and just finally got the time to write it.))