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"Katara! Stop talking to yourself and get back up on Appa!" Sokka yelled as he took his place on Appa's head.
Katara snapped back into reality and glared at her older brother.
"…Uh…not that talking to yourself is a bad thing…" Sokka said nervously, his hand pulling on his collar.
Katara rolled her eyes and started to climb on Appa. As soon as they were all on, Appa took off in the direction of the blimps, but Katara's eyes were still focus on the young airbender, who was standing on the rock column, his eyes full of fear and determination.
Katara bit her lower lip, her forehead creased in thought and worry.
'Now he may never know….and it's all because of your stupid cowardice. Stupid…stupid Katara…' She mocked herself as she turned to face forward, unable to bear watching Aang anymore.
After a few minutes of silent flying, Toph decided to break the silence with a joke.
"Hey! Look the blimps are here!" Toph yelled, pointing randomly to a spot in the sky.
"Nice catch Toph! I actually didn't see them!" Sokka said, turning Appa around to where Toph was pointing.
"Wait….I was right?!" Toph asked. 'Damn it!'
"Yeah!….wait….aren't you suppose to be blind!" Sokka said, also confused.
Toph punched Sokka. "I AM blind! I was just joking when I said I saw the blimps!"
"Ohh….sorry."
Katara watched the two silently, wishing that Aang would be okay. Her mind drifted to all of the memories of the cave of two lovers. Katara wished desperately that she could kiss Aang again, just to taste Aang's amazing lips again. Sure the kiss was short, but it left Katara wanting more.
Her thoughts of love were disrupted when Appa almost threw them off, while performing a number of dodges. Fireballs were coming from every side and the comet wasn't helping them at all.
Appa finally was able to fly above one of the blimps, allowing Sokka, Toph and Katara to drop down below.
"Thanks Appa! Now just hide until we call you again!" Sokka said. Appa growled and flew in the other direction.
Sokka and the others turned their attention towards the metal hatch.
"Toph, would you do the honors?" Sokka asked jokingly, knowing well the answer.
Toph spat on her hands and rubbed them together. She made quick work of the hatch and the three jumped in. They found themselves at the catwalk surrounding the center of the blimp and were instantly met with resistance. Most of the workers had stopped and started to attack the small group, but were instantly dispatched by Toph and Katara. Sokka ran ahead and took over the cockpit, taking out all of them one by one with his space sword. He immediately took control of the wheel and turned it around to face the other blimps.
"Sokka! Watch out!" Katara said, while whipping a firebender on the head, but she was too late.
Another firebender had made his way behind Sokka and struck him with a huge flaming ball. Luckily, Toph was able to bend a huge metal wall in front of him, but some of the fire had already made it to Sokka. Sokka screamed in pain, his whole left leg was burnt and he fell down to his knees to try and ease the pain.
Katara instinctively ran towards Sokka, bending water onto her hand as she did. She tried to heal Sokka as best as she could, but she knew that it wasn't enough.
"Sokka…you okay?" Katara said, while lifting him up.
Sokka groaned. "Yeah…I think so. Let's go….we can't let everyone down." He said as he limped slowly towards the wheel. He continued to turn the blimp until it finally faced the other blimps.
"Are you sure about this?" Toph asked as she walked over to them after she finished the last of the crew.
"Yeah. The advantage of this is that all we have to do is fly in a straight line and we'll be able to take out all of the firenation fleet…of course minus the fire lord's blimp since his is already reacting the forest." Sokka replied while smile haughtily.
"Uhh….Sokka, have you taken into account that this blimp isn't really made for ramming other blimps?" Toph said.
"Oh…" Sokka said, his face filled with realization. "Run!" He said while grabbing Toph's hand and tried to pull her, but his face twisted in pain.
In the end, Sokka had to wrap his arms over Katara's and Toph's shoulders. They managed to get to the top as the first blimp was hit. As Sokka pulled out the bison whistle, their blimp hit another blimp, knocking him off.
"SOKKKAAA!" Katara yelled.
"AAAAHHH!" Sokka yelled, Katara turned away, not wanting to see her brother fall to his death.
"Hey! Stop yelling and jump down" Sokka said, laughing more from amazement than amusement. Katara looked down and realized that there was a blimp underneath them.
"You jerk! Why did you make me worry about you?" Katara yelled as she jumped with Toph, while holding her hand. They landed with a thump.
"Hey! I didn't know that there was a rogue blimp under me! I just thank the spirits." As Sokka jumped down into the hatch and he immediately headed to the cockpit. He was about to knock out the pilot when he recognized the girl.
"Suki! I should have know! Thanks…I owe you one." Sokka said while hugging Suki.
"No problem…so how is your plan working and how is Aa-" Suki stopped as they saw a huge inferno engulf one of the rock pillars. They continued to watch as a small figure shot out of the smoke.
"Suki! As much as I like watching Aang kick butt, we need to continue destroying the blimps! Our blimp only took out five of the blimps. We need to take over more." Sokka yelled as he tried to pull Katara and Toph with him, but to his surprise it wasn't because he was injured and couldn't move them both, it was because Katara wouldn't budge.
Katara seemed entranced by the battle, her eyes never leaving Aang. She unconsciously gasped as Aang narrowly dodged a lightning strike.
Sokka rolled his eyes. "Come on sis. It isn't helping if you just stare at the battle."
Katara hesitantly complied and went to top, where their little assault group continued to the nearest blimp and took over the crew and steered the ship into the others. This pattern continued, but it seemed as they destroy one of the blimps, another would take its place.
'I hope Aang is having more luck than us.' Katara thought gloomily.
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Aang was losing, despite his best efforts. Blimps crashed around him as the fire lord unleashed another lightning strike towards him. Aang managed to narrowly dodge it.
"You can't run forever Avatar! And once you are dead, I'll take down your friends and then…the WORLD!" Fire lord Ozai said while laughing manically. "Just look at yourself, you aren't cut out to hold such power! I was right to kill all of the airbenders! They were too weak to live in this world!"
Aang looked at his hands and his tattered clothes. He knew he wasn't even really fighting his hardest; it was as if the will to fight was gone from him…and he didn't know why.
'He is right…I wasn't ready for this...'Aang thought gloomily.
A stray thought entered. 'Pfff…No wonder Katara left you, just look at yourself…pathetic really… without her you are nothing!' At that moment, Aang felt undeniable rage and hatred.
'Shut up! I don't need her! I don't even love her anymore! I don't need anyone's help!' Aang told himself, his body shaking from rage.
With that, Aang shot a powerful air slice, blowing Ozai into one of the many rock columns, causing it to collapse upon him. Ozai quickly blew himself out of the rubble.
"Well…well, it seems like someone has had a new burst of energy. No matter, I will still defeat you!" Ozai said haughtily, ignoring the Avatar's evident rage.
Ozai shot a fireball at Aang, engulfing the Avatar in what seemed to be a never ending inferno. Ozai smiled at this. The smile quickly turned to a frown as a sharp rock dagger appeared from the inferno, piercing his left bicep. Ozai staggered backwards, surprised by the retaliation, his bicep bleeding freely.
Suddenly, from the smoke of the inferno, Aang shot out into the sky, his eyes and tattoos glowing. His arms rose up, causing the water from the ocean to rise up suddenly. Aang moved his hands deftly, making the floating water into a deadly water whip. He suddenly caused the whip to slice Ozai's left leg off, forcing Ozai down to fall to his knee while screaming with pain. Ozai's face now filled with horror, realizing that this was the end. Aang allowed himself a smile as he cut open Ozai's stomach with the whip. Blood poured out quickly as the fire lord let out a blood-curdling scream, after a few minutes Ozai's body had given up. The insane fire lord had finally been defeated, after 100 years of war and devastation. Aang's eyes and tattoos stopped glowing at this point.
Aang stood there for sometime, realizing what had happened. Aang felt weak…but he also felt numb. Numb from the fact that he, a monk by heart, had killed someone. Sure Ozai deserved to die, but that didn't put Aang's mind to rest. He suddenly felt sick; he threw up as he collapsed onto his knees. His eyes started to water up, feeling as if he had disgraced all of the air nomads. He never felt more impure or…disgusting, he felt horrible killing Ozai like a rabid dog over food.
'What made me do such a horrible deed…oh that's right Katara.' Aang thought bitterly. 'Though again without her, I probably would have lost.'
'HAHAHAHAHA! Told you that you need Katara even if you don't love her…of course you do still love her anyways' His conscience said in a sing-song voice.
'Didn't I tell you to shut up?!' Aang thought annoyingly as he retched again.
Aang felt the ground around him shake as Appa landed only five feet away.
"Aang! Are you okay?!" Katara asked as she jumped off of Appa and ran towards Aang, trying to envelope him in a loving hug, but Aang pushed her away.
"No…Katara…don't come any closer…I'll corrupt you…please just leave me alone…please." Aang begged, while retching once again. His face now streaked with multiple tears.
Katara felt torn, she had never seen Aang in such a state…but then again no other 12-year old boy had to murder a power-hungry dictator. Despite Aang's request, Katara's motherly instinct kicked in as she found herself hugging him to try and comfort him.
"Shh…Aang it's okay…you had to do it and I'm proud of you…you saved the world…and I will always-"
"No it's not alright! I just went against everything I knew! I just killed someone and NOTHING will ever make it okay!" Aang snapped tears running freely down his face. He pushed Katara away, causing her to fall down the ground and jumped onto Appa.
Katara moved back, clearly hurt. Her own eyes started to water.
"…I'm sorry, but I-I need to work some things out…don't try and follow me…I need to do this alone." Aang said quietly.
Katara felt a nagging voice in the back of her head.
'Here is your chance! Tell him that you love him or at least force him to bring you along!'
Katara bit her lower lip, her mind trying to find out what to do. Before she could say anything, Aang had already flown away.
Katara's heart fall into her stomach as she felt the blimp that her friends had commanded land just behind her.
"Katara! Can you believe it?! We won! After all of those years! Where is Aang I want to congratulate…" Sokka drifted off as he saw tears run down Katara's face.
"Katara…what's wrong….did Aang….die?" Sokka said quietly.
"Wha-What…no…he just left…left me…he said he need-needed some time...alone" Katara managed to stutter out before she collapsed onto the ground sobbing loudly. She felt sad because Aang now may never know that she loves him back. Oh how she wished that she could tell him how much she love him and envelope him in a kiss.
Sokka was obviously shocked and confused.
'I thought she loved Zuko?! Or did Aang tell Katara news about Zuko?! And why would Aang leave after he saved the world?!'
Sokka pulled up Katara and embraced her.
"It's okay…he'll be back…after all we are family." Sokka said, trying his best to cheer his baby sister up.
Katara looked up in the sky, tears still streaking down her face.
'But I want to be more than just family; I want to be able to kiss Aang all the time…I want Aang to always be by me and tell me that I am his and he is mine…I want be with him for the rest of my life' She thought sadly as her brother lead her into the blimp.
Okay...not much to say but review!
Yeah...kind of sappy at the end. Aang runs away like a true 'airbender'...hehehe...too bad for Katara...still trying to decide whether to keep Zuko or have him killed off.
Also I hope I kind of made Aang less of a blood-hungry beast. Hopefully it is less OOC for you guys. I know he should be able to 'control' the AS but unfortunatly rage tends to make thinking a bit difficult.
