Chapter 3: Shock Wave

All eyes were now looking at the heavens above as the comet silently swept by. Its long brilliant tail stretched beyond the horizons as it radiated a bright glow that blanketed the landscape in a warm pale orange tint. There were only two exceptions to this, both Katara and Aang gazed deeply into each other's eyes and both could see their passion, their love and their distress. Aang reached forward and began to gently caress Katara's, cheeks wiping away the soft tears that were running down it.

"Aang…"she pauses as more tears began to run do her face "I love you…"

Aang's heart explodes with passion and he knew he had to do something.

"I have always loved you from the moment my eyes graced your beauty." Aang whispered into her ears. "Hold on tight to me and I shall take you away from this."

At this point Aang finally commits to his ability of fire bending and allows the avatar within him to take in the comet's powerful effects. He feels its warmth reaching deep into his body causing the night dew to steam off him.

"Aang what are you doing?" Katara whispers in her weakened voice.

"Just hold on tight!" he replies as he clenches her tighter to him.

In an instant the remnants of Ozai's castle is once again ravaged by a shock wave of air and fire. The sound shatters across the land as Aang and Katara are propelled straight into the sky followed by a molotov cocktail of air and fire behind them.

"Aang, you're…we're flying!" she screams, for her voice could just be barely heard over the rushing air and roaring fire, as they part through the clouds.

'Aang'

"I'm taking you to the Southern Water Tribe let's just hope we have enough time with the comet."

Aang's face begins to sting as the winds lashes against it, his arms burns from holding Katara up and his body pleads and yearns for him to stop bending but he defies his bodies' calls and bends harder, pushing him faster and higher through the sky.

As they part the heavens Aang just begins to see the tips of the settlement creeping towards them but he also feels the effects of the comet leaving his body. He clenches his teeth and tries to bend even harder but with little effect as they slowly begin to lose speed.

"Come on! Just a little bit more" he hoarsely repeats as Katara's grip slowly begins to loosen.

"Katara we are almost there! Just hold on, hold on please!" He screams at her.

With the settlement only a few hundred feet away the pale glow of the comet's tail vanishes in the horizon behind them and they begin to plummet towards the frigid cold sea, but just at the instance of impact Aang water bends an ice tunnel opening into the heart of the sea with a gentle curve that softly catches their fall. He continues to waterbend while sliding through the newly formed tunnel and redirects the opening of it back to the surface of the sea.

Finally after an extreme amount of bending, an exhausted Avatar and an unconscious water bender slide up to the New Southern Water Tribe.