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Aang 3rd person POV (A/N: I don't do 1st person Aang very well…)
How to do it? If everyone already bended, then why would they want to air bend? And if Aang could teach Katara air bending, then why didn't everyone know three elements?
Maybe it was an avatar thing. Aang was used to 'avatar things'. Meaning stuff only he could do. It wasn't very fun being the avatar in a time of peace. You were just famous. Aang didn't care about being famous.
And so by now, both Katara and Sokka could air bend. Katara was learning fast. Sokka was still practicing his stance. He's getting close though!
Now there were no elements of which only one person could bend. Well, except for metal bending. Maybe Toph could start a metal bending tribe.
Suki had gone back to Kyoshi island. Sokka was sad for a few days. But he got over it.
WAIT! Back to the subject matter. How to teach people air bending? Maybe he could just walk outside and say "Hey, I'll give people air bending lessons." With his reputation, there's probably some rule that says 'whatever avatar says goes.' Or more like 'whatever avatar says goes…everywhere.'
So he decided just to tell Zuko to announce it.
"Hey Z—Fire lord Zuko," He began. "Two things. One, I need you to make an announcement. Two, do you want to airbend?"
"I think your offer let me figure out the rest. And sure. What do I have to lose?" Zuko said.
"Okay, that's great!" Aang said happily. Zuko let out a small grin.
"So when do I learn?" He asked casually.
"When do you want to?"
"Later. For right now, we need to focus on rebuilding the cities."
"Okay," Aang began uneasily, "But teaching people other ways to bend would be nice."
"Fine then. You can teach the people earth bending. That way they can just earth bend buildings. Or at least bricks."
Aang let out an exaggerated smile and ran off.
"So," Katara said, and then hugged Aang as he came in. "What's the deal with the whole 'teaching the other elements' deal?"
"Well," Aang said, scratching his head and looking at Momo, who was eating an apple. "I guess you could teach the other elements the whole time,"
"But nobody even bothered to try?"
"I guess not,"
"So that means…"
"I guess anyone can be the avatar. Or in a while, An Avatar."
Kutan put the book down. He would continue it later. I guess anyone can be the avatar, the words echoed in his 10-year-old brain. There weren't many avatars today. But he was an air bender. He must have some of the avatar's technique in him. The original avatar. Kutan had read in a book that there were only 25 avatars alive. There would be 26 some day. It was his destiny. He wondered if there were any descendants of the avatar alive. The gene chart looked like this:
Aang + Katara Lee and Mushi
Lee + ? Ukan and Lokan
Lokan + ? ?
They didn't know who Lokan's child was. Nobody did. He wondered if it was his grandfather. But he shouldn't have such ridiculous thoughts. All he had to resemble Aang was the arrows.
But then again, if he became a new avatar, he could be just like Aang, and join the Avatar's guild.
That would be the day.
What's the Avatar's guild, you ask? It's where all the avatars go to decide things. The leaders of the four nations all learned the five elements and formed the avatar's guild. He had heard that the greatest earth bender alive had created metal bending. He also heard they you had to be really good in order to metal bend. There were several people in the avatar's guild that didn't know how to metal bend. He also heard that Lokan and the other leaders formed it. So he must have been the air king, so who was the queen? He needed to know. Too little was known about history. That was another goal of his. To preserve the history.
Later, Kutan was going to go pick up some tea at The Jasmine Dragon. It was the best tea in the world. It's so good, that the creator, another avatar, wrote a book on proper tea making. And a Pi-sho guide.
Yes, all was well.
But soon, Kutan would begin his water bending training.
And read some more.