I held onto him with all my drained energy could muster.

Please don't leave please don't leave me please don't leave me my mind and my heart, which was shattered, cried out. The over head lightening crackled and slashed through the sky like a warrior with a war cry.

Like his war cry.

I remember how when I felt like the pressure of the world on my shoulders would crush me to pieces, he was there, wrapping me in his warm embrace. He would whisper sweet nothings to my weary soul, and mend my heart back together, just by his faithfulness to me. When I left him to suffer in Ba Sing Se with the world who never saw his delicate heart, never noticed the loneliness in his soul, he remained strong. Through the mud. Through the storms that crashed against him. Through it all.

CRACCCK!

A sudden tear ripped my heart in two, as I realised I couldn't keep up. NO! DON'T LEAVE ME!

"PLEASE! I'm so sorry! I'm sorry!" I screamed as he vanished into the the air.

I saw his soul drift up into the heavens. I saw his last breath. And now, I see a part of my heart die. I stroked his soft face and leaned against his now cold, lifeless body.

My body began to shake as the tears are threatening to run down my face. I clutched on his hair, gripping him tightly as I whimpered like a puppy that lost its mother.

Hes gone.

Appa is gone.

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Ya didn't expect it to be Appa dieing, did ya? MWAHAHAHA!

Im was never really one for smut or romance, because I suck at it and all _

Azula and a fit of mayhem will be coming, um soon enough!

-Knoxthefox