Here's chapter 2! This chapter focuses on episodes 11-20 of season 1. Enjoy!
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Ok, so where was I before I got interrupted? Oh yeah, I remember. After we met Jet, we had to cross this canyon known as the Great Divide. I tell you, it wasn't very fun crossing that thing at all. With the fact that we almost got eaten, crushed, and almost starved to death, I'm just going to forget about those 2 days and move on.
After about a week, I started having nightmares about my past and whatnot. Of course Katara was there to comfort me through the entire thing.
We stopped at a harbor to gather some food for our trip, but as usual, we had no money. Sokka decided to get a job helping this old guy collect fish. I told them it was going to storm, but did they listen? Oh no... They never trust my feelings or instincts, except Katara of course. What was worse was that the old guy made me feel horrible, saying I turned my back on the world in it's time of need. I felt like killing myself, but instead I flew off and landed inside this cave to think.
Katara eventually found me, like she always does, and made me spill everything that has been bugging me. Well, almost everything. So I told her, got upset, and eventually calmed down. The old guy's wife came into the cave asking us to help her husband, which also meant we had to help Sokka. I warned them, but noooooo, they never listen.
Their boat had capsized while we were all on the thing, and I had to save them. I opened my eyes under the water to look at them and this activated my Avatar State, saving them the same way I saved my own ass over 100 years ago, but this time we didn't stay frozen. I swear that fate made things this way...
We headed back to the cave and I finally accepted things as they were and the old guy apologized. Not much else happened except Appa shaking the water off of himself and onto us. I wish animals wouldn't do that when people are around them...
A week or 2 later, Sokka and Katara got sick, and once again I had to save them, from sickness this time. So I headed to find an old lady who was crazy as hell to find a cure for them. After what seemed like an hour, she told me what to get and almost broke my fingers in the process, so I went out to get the cure, which happened to be frozen swamp frogs. Yeee-uuuuck! I don't know about you, but having to suck on them to get better seems wrong, you know what I mean? Anyway...
I went to the nearest swamp, got the frogs, and got attacked by these freaks with arrows. I'm glad they were skilled, but I still swear an arrow got stuck in my ass...
Not sure what happened afterward, but I woke up in a room, my arms chained up to posts with actual chains. I could have broken loose if I wasn't so damn tired from the chase with those freaks.
Later, monkey-face, a.k.a. Zhao, came in, talking some crap toward me. I don't remember much of what he said, other than what he said about me being the last airbender. I was so pissed at him I blew him against the door. Well, at least he left. A little while later, the frogs I had collected defrosted and hopped out of my shirt and escaped. I pretty much gave up at that point, until this even freakier dude came into the room, wearing a blue mask and wielding 2 broad swords. I thought he was going to kill me or something so I screamed. Boy was I surprised that he was just there to rescue me.
So we escaped, well, almost. As we were about to get the hell out of there, we got stopped, so the guy resorted to drastic measures, bringing his sword up to my neck, threatening to kill me if he didn't let us pass. I trusted him enough not to kill me, but I was still frightened...
They opened the gates and let us out, but monkey-face ordered one of those arrow freaks to shoot an arrow at the masked stranger, knocking him clear off his feet and unconscious. It also loosened his mask, and being curious, I pulled it off. That was the biggest shock I ever got, it was Zuko! I was so surprised I fell over, then scrambled up and started to run. I don't know what compelled me to do this, but I suddenly stopped, turned around, and gave him a look even I can't describe. Maybe it was sympathy? Eh... I don't know, anyway... I went back, retrieved him, and carried him off into the woods. My god he was heavy! I was tempted to ask him what he had been eating when he woke up, but I decided against it.
Zuko finally woke up the next morning, and I was there by his side when he did. I gave him one of my speeches and it looked as though he was thinking about what I said. The next thing I knew, he got up quickly and shot a stream of fire at me. I jumped through the trees, escaping and didn't even look back at him. I felt crushed...
After that, I went back to the swamp, collected 2 frozen frogs, and went back to Sokka and Katara in a slump. I gave the frogs to them and flopped down on Appa feeling miserable, all because of Zuko. Why was that guy so hard headed?
Well, it didn't take me long to get over it which was a relief. The next week we stopped at a river to rest and set up camp. I remember these past events well.
I made Katara a fishing line necklace that had a flower in the middle of it. Who knew I had such talent? Anyway, I gave it to her, and she asked how she looked. I turned around to look at her and I blushed like crazy. That was the first time I knew I was in love with her.
Being a stuttering idiot around her didn't help much, but she didn't seem to notice. I told her she looked great, which was a lie of course, she was gorgeous! Sokka started teasing me about it, saying I was in love with her. It was the truth obviously, but I didn't want to admit it. But Katara, being the oblivious one, took no heed, just saying I was a good friend and comparing me to Momo! Momo, of all things living! Apparently I was just like a lemur. Man that was insulting.
We suddenly heard roaring in the distance, and went to see what it was. It was some random guy getting attacked by a Platypus Bear. We told him what to do, but of course, he wouldn't listen and just kept dodging the blows the bear blew. Appa came up and scared the crap out of the thing and it ran off. The guy gave us an umbrella and told us Aunt Wu said it would rain and to give any traveler that umbrella. Ok, so it did start raining, and it was just me and Katara under the umbrella. Why she needed one was beyond me, she could waterbend the water away from herself, like she did before she got under it. Maybe she wasn't as dense as I originally thought.
We decided to head into the town where Aunt Wu lived and pay her a visit. Some girl named Meng came up and acted all blushy around me when we entered the house. It freaked me out to tell you the truth.
Katara was the first to get her fortune read. Being nosy, I snuck up to the door and eavesdropped. Wu said Katara would marry a powerful bender. I was overjoyed because being the Avatar, I was the most powerful bender in the world, well, in my mind.
Basically, after Sokka and I got our fortune read, I spent the day trying to get Katara to notice me, avoiding Meng, and trying to tell Katara how I felt. Sokka tried to convince people not to listen to Wu, but it didn't work. I overheard this new couple, in which the girl got a panda lily from the guy, and rudely pushed my way in between them asking where I could get one. The guy told me, and I dragged Sokka along to the top of the volcano, picking one. We were not expecting what we saw. The volcano was going to erupt! So we went back into the town to try and warn them. Phhfttt... Once again, nobody listened to us, but they would listen to Wu, so we formed a plan. I went and took Wu's cloud book, and with the help of Katara, we formed the symbol for volcanic doom in the clouds. Wow, I must say Katara moved beautifully in time with me! Uh, anyway... The skull formed, the volcano erupted, the lava was going to overflow, I airbended the lava back, and saved the town, then we left after talking to Wu once more. End of story.
After a couple of more weeks, we came across a Water Tribe ship and camped outside it. The ship was from Sokka and Katara's dad's fleet.
That night, one of the men, whose name was Bato by the way, came up to us and escorted us into the town he was staying it. He looked like he was been hurt, so they left him behind. Probably got burnt by the Fire Nation, those asses. Yeah, I still dislike them to this day.
They pretty much ignored me while Bato was in their presence. I was hurt, but I understood why they did later on.
I walked out of the house and back to the ship and sat on the tip of it. This guy came up on an ostrich horse and asked me if I knew Bato. Well of course I did, and he handed me a map. I knew Bato was expecting a map to where Katara and Sokka's father was, but being selfish, I crumbled it up and put it in my shirt and crossed my arms, then leaned over in a slump.
After a while, I walked back to the town and back into the house trying to act like nothing happened. The next day, their dad took us ice dodging, or in this case, rock dodging. After we succeeded, we each got a symbol, and ironically, I got the trust symbol. I told them what I did and pulled out the map. They were pretty upset with me, well, really upset. Sokka told me I could go to the North Pole by myself and that they were going to go find their dad instead. I pleaded to Katara with my eyes, but she followed Sokka and Bato instead.
I went back to the town to get ready to leave, when one of the women there told me to leave because of these two characters came into town looking for me. I pretty much figured it was Zuko with someone and left. But I came back to fight him and rescued Katara and Sokka. And guess what? Once again, I owned his ass, and took back Katara's necklace in the process. We left the town and Bato behind and gave Katara her necklace back, getting a cheek kiss out of it. Oh yeah, she totally digged me, I could feel it.
The next week I could totally forget if I tried, but it's hard. I'm just basically gonna sum it up for you.
We enter this festival, escape these firebenders, meet Jeong Jeong the Deserter, I learn firebending from him, sorta, burn Katara, kick monkey-face's ass, escape, and learn Katara has healing abilities. The healing ability will save my life later on, but I'll get to that later on.
So there you have that one. The next adventure is when we went to the Northern Air Temple. Was totally not expecting to find Earth Kingdom refugees living there.
We got there, met Teo, a disabled kid who didn't let his disability get to him. What was worse was that his father was tearing up the temple, and pissing me off because of it. We later discovered that Teo's father was building weapons for the Fire Nation and Teo lost his respect for his father.
One of the generals or whatever he was came around later demanding weapons, and I told him to leave, quite forcefully. He said he would be back with an army, and he wasn't lying. We formed a plan to fight him, and it worked for the most part, but they eventually retreated. Teo gained back his respect for his father after that and we left the temple, continuing our quest to the North Pole.
We eventually reached the North Pole, where we stayed for the rest of the winter. After a feast and waterbending demostration, Katara and I met up with Master Pakku to begin our waterbending training. Turns out that whole damn city was sexist and didn't allow women to learn waterbending. I didn't want to learn waterbending without Katara, but she insisted that it was important. So I went ahead with it. Never in my life did I find waterbending so hard! It was probably because Mr. Poop-Head Pakku was way too damn cocky.
I wanted Katara to learn waterbending as well, so I tried to teach her at night what Pakku taught me during the day. Unfortunately we were caught by Pakku himself, and he banned me from his classes. Katara wasn't having any of it, she took it up with the tribe's leaders and forced them to take me back in as Pakku's student. Not that I wanted to, that egotistical, stubborn ass! -Cough- Anyway, she refused to apologize to Pakku and ended up fighting Pakku, with him owning her. She did very well though for an untrained bender. After finding out he could have been her grandfather (yuck), he finally allowed her in his class, as well as letting me back in. Man, talk about luck.
Now comes the big finish to our North Pole adventure. We were there for about a month or two, and Katara had pretty much mastered waterbending and beat the benders, who were males, in waterbending. And what did I do? Goof off... Geez I feel like an idiot for doing that. I make up for that later on though.
So anyway, the Fire Nation later attacks the North Pole, being of course, lead by Zhao. I'm not sure who I hated worse, him or Zuko... Anyway, he and his army raided the city. I had done my best to hold them off, but there were just too many ships for me to take care of. Yue, the princess, had taken me to the Spirit Oasis, so that I could try and contact Tui and La in the Spirit World. When I got there, Roku told me to find Koh, the Face Stealer. He told me not to show any emotion at all when around him or he would steal my face. He sounded like more of an ass than Zhao! Well, I took his advice, found Koh, got the info I needed, and woke back up in a cave. No surprise that I found Zuko next to me. I gave him that kiss Katara wanted me to give him, and tried to wiggle away, but Zuko caught up to me. I figured he would.
In a few seconds, Katara, Sokka, and Yue with Appa came to my rescue and Katara waterbended his carcass to next Tuesday, knocking him unconscious. Sokka wanted to leave him there in the snow to die, but being me, I saved him from being a popsicle, because not even someone who always gets his ass kicked one way or another deserves to die in a blizzard right?
We headed back to the city and to the oasis. We came face to face with Zhao who had captured whom I presumed to be La, the black fish, in a sack. Zuko's uncle, who I was surprised to be on our side, forced him to release the fish, but out of anger, he had killed Tui, the white fish. Iroh went in to attack Zhao's group, but Zhao escaped, going who knows where. I had to do something, so I merged myself with La's spirit, becoming a huge water fish thing. I went on killing almost the entire Fire Nation fleet and any Fire Nation that remained in the city.
After coming out of it, I headed back to the oasis, and watched as Yue sacrificed herself to save Tui. She gave her soul to Tui and died. Her body became a spirit and floated off into the heavens, but not before she lip-locked with Sokka. I don't really think they noticed me there, but whatever. The next morning, we stood and watched the sunrise. I turned around to see Katara staring at me. I stood there for a second before running into her arms and hugging her. We broke the hug as Momo and Sokka came over along with Appa and we all stared off into the East.
The next month-
"Aang! Tuck the kids in would you? I'm kinda busy here."
Aang gritted his teeth and almost broke his pen because he was squeezing it so hard. He sighed and gave in, got up, tied up his journal again, and went to do what he was told.
"Alright Katara, alright..."
"You and that journal, honestly! I should have never given that thing to you for your birthday."
"I happen to like it."
"I know, but I never expected you to actually write in it!"
Aang just smirked and walked off to tuck his kids in for bed.
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Wow, that took me over 3 hours! Gah! -Bangs head- Please review!