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Dai's POV

It's been hours since I actually stepped foot on the ground and my ears were popping no thanks to the altitude. I managed an hour or so of sleep then woke up to something that felt like an earth quake, my eyes fluttered open with frightened concern.

"Where are…" I started but stopped myself when I saw the beautiful view. We were flying right next to a statue of somebody that was familiar to me. Aang? It looked like the statue was made when he was around thirteen years old or so.

"That's Aang's statue," Bumi said to me.

"It's amazing!" I looked around and saw a whole city. Away from the city was a huge island. I was gawking at everything and pointing at it like a little kid in a toy store. "Look at that huge tower! Ooh! I wanna dive off of that cliff! And surf those waves! And…"

"Calm down," Iroh said with a chuckle. "We sense that you're very excited, but your duties go first."

I let out a quiet groan and shrugged. "Alright."

Appa landed in the middle of a giant Yin Yang sign on the floor. I slung my backpack over my shoulders, grabbed my two suitcases, but Iroh insisted on taking the suitcases for me. Bumi, Pakku and Iroh were walking beside me, then, an Air Acolyte took the suitcases from Iroh, she grabbed my backpack and took them into a building that looked like an air nomad-style motel.

"In there is where you'll have breakfast, lunch and dinner," Pakku said and pointed to a smaller building.

"Known as the Dining Hall," Bumi simplified.

"Hold on," Iroh said and stopped Pakku and Bumi from speaking. "We can give her a tour of the place after she's settled down. She is going to be here for a while."

"Oh yes, ofcourse. My apologies," Pakku said to me.

I smiled. "It's alright."

"So," Bumi said. "What do you think of Air Temple Island already?"

"It looks amazing and beautiful and breath-taking! It's the most astonishing place I've ever seen! It looks like it was made in a dream!" I exclaimed.

"Most people don't describe it like you do," Pakku said. "They describe it as peaceful and a place to get to know your spiritual self."

I chuckled. "That's because they're not going to do things I'm planning to."

"Remember," Iroh added. "Your duty's and responsibilities come first."

"So I'm going to train until my arms fall off?" I asked.

Bumi laughed. "No, ofcourse not, silly! You're just going to train until you can't take anymore of it."

"You're polluting Dai's mind, Bumi. Dai, you're going to train for four days a week, meditate two days a week, and have your own day to do whatever you please one day a week," Pakku explained.

"One?" I asked then shrugged. "Atleast it's something."

We walked along a random side of the island until a female Air Acolyte stopped us and offered to take me to my dormitories.

"Sure," Iroh answered and I followed the Air Acolyte to the female dormitories. Song was middle aged woman with light brown hair, fairly light skin and green eyes. She must've been from the Earth Kingdom. As soon as I walked in, I felt a wave of peace fly through me.

"My name's Song," the female Air Acolyte said to me.

"I'm Dai, pleased to meet you."

"You're going to love Air Temple Island as much as anybody has, Dai. We all know you're the Avatar, if you were wondering."

"I'm still a little stuck on there being two Avatars instead of one."

"Simple, Aang was in suspended animation for a hundred years, the Spirits didn't know if anybody would ever find him, so they made you out of a part of Aang's soul."

"Aang's soul?"

Song slid open a door, it was a small bedroom, there was a two twin beds, two dressers, two desks and two wooden chairs with an orange cushion on it. There was a window that I obviously couldn't fit through, but it had a far view of a weird looking contraption.

"Those are the air bending gates," Song said as she noticed me looking out to them.

"What're they for?" I asked.

"It's used primarily to teach air bending pupils of the bending art's fundamental principles. The gates are initiated by a gust of air, and the pupils maneuver their way through the gates by employing circular movements," Song explained.

"Is that what I'm going to use when I train to master air?"

"Yes, but that won't be for a few years."

I examined the gates and noticed that a leaf was being carried by the wind and through the entrances of the gates and I looked at Song. "So, you have to be like a leaf? Just let the wind carry you? Move like the leaf?"

"Wow, you weren't even here for a whole day and you already figured out how to move with that contraption."

"Have you ever gone into the air bending gates?" I asked.

"Yes, but unfortunately, I am not an air bender. Nor the other Air Acolytes on the island. Aang is the only one."

"Was it hard? To go through the gates?"

"I'm not going to lie, yes, it was very hard. That's because most people don't let themselves be free. Air bending is about letting your spirit be free, not tensed up."

"That sounds… not like me."

"Don't worry," Song said. "You'll get it."

"How long do you think it will take until I actually go into that?"

"Twelve years or so."

"Twelve?"

"It takes years for the Avatar to master one element. But don't you worry, Avatar Roku was twenty eight before he officially mastered everything there is to know about being the Avatar."

"I just hope I don't mess this up…" I said with pitty.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean… I'm impatient, sometimes when I fail at something, I don't want to go back to it because of I'm afraid I won't do it right."

"You're afraid of failure. Like any other human being in this world. I sense that you're afraid of something else, too."

I nodded and sat on one of the twin beds. "Fire bending. My mother was the only female warrior in the entire North Pole, she took down a fleet of fire nation ships with the help of some other water benders. Little did we know that it would cost us her life."

"What happened to her?" Song asked.

"Two of the fire nation ships managed to reach our wall and invaded our tribe. They burned down houses and a small amount of people were killed. More than half were injured. The fire benders were looking for somebody, I don't remember who it was at the time. But my mother knew. She told me to stay inside the palace. But I couldn't stand to watch her fight like that and get hurt. My brother came and forced me into my room. And… I heard her scream. I ran for my mother, the guards tried to stop me but I was to quick, in my opinion I was too slow. When I got there… my father was holding my mother, he was crying. My mother was still conscious but in so much pain. She had a spear in her stomach and her arms were burned severely. I ran to her and grabbed her hand, trying not to hurt her, she told me to go back inside, but I refused. She kissed my forehead and told me to be never forget what I'm fighting for," I explained and felt teary-eyed. "Those were the last few words she said before she... 'left'."

"They were looking for you... weren't they?" Song asked.

"Yes." I sighed. "It's okay. I promised myself that day that I wouldn't let anything like that happen to anyone ever again. Seeing my mother suffer was… excruciating. It broke me. It's my fault my mother and those people died. It's my fault I wasn't there to help."

"How old were you?" Song asked.

"Ten. A ten year old little girl watched her mother die."

"How do you expect a nine year old Avatar to save people when she's too afraid of what'll happen next?"

"I...don't know. All I know is that I should've healed her. I should've helped those people."

"You were a little girl," Song said

"I still should've done something."

"Well, now you have the opportunity to make a difference."

I stood up and face the window, touching my mother's betrothal necklace. "I wasn't there to help when the Fire Nation attacked my people. I'm going to make a difference this time."