The bridge between Universes
-AVATAR-/-Avatar last airbender- crossover
(I do not own any of this, they belong to their respective creators James Cameron/ Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. This is a fan fiction only.)
Chapter 9. Telling of tales
"Okay. Start talking." Were the first words Aang spoke when Norm finally finished his food. Norm just looked blankly the boy, he was eager to hear what norm had do say.
"All right." He said putting down his fork and knife. "As promised I will tell you of the uprising, the incredible world of Pandora and the folklore of the Na'vi, well as much as I know." Norms words caught a small glint of interest from the nearby colonist.
"Okay… Pandora 101, you're on a moon."
"Wait what?"
"You already know that you are not on your home word, so I go straight to the point. First one is that Pandora is a moon that orbits around a much bigger planet known as Polyphemus."
"Really?" Aang said thoughtful "I don't recall seeing a planet in the sky".
"You haven't?"
"Well… it was cloudy. So I didn't get a clear look on the sky."
"Right. And you have already figured out that the air is toxic to us humans."
"Yea." Aang said rubbing his throat, the memory of that painful experience is still fresh. "I did it the hard way."
"Ouch." Norm said remembering how it felt for him the first time he tried to breath the air without a mask.
"Hey… Norm." Aang said looking at the man. "Who's Eywa?"
"Who's Eywa!" Norm said in shock. "Eywa is the mother nature of Pandora, the goddess of the na'vi, the entity of all living things on Pandora." Norm said waving his hand's in the air trying to make a point.
"So she is a spirit?"
"A spirit? Pa lease, spirit is a superstitious nonsense. There is a scientific fact explanation to how it works." Aang quirked an eyebrow and smiled, he was reminding him of Sokka right now.
"Right… and how does it work?"
"Eywa is a connection that runs through the planets whole plant and wildlife, similar to the nerve system in a living body, well except it is on a grand planetary scale."
"So this world is one big person?" Aang said choked.
"What? No no no no. it's a collective connection trough the trees and plants that makes up Eywa, at least that's what we had figured out so far. But the basic knowledge is that Eywa is voice of nature of this world." Aang looked amassed at Norm as an idée hatched in his mind. This Eywa is the apparently exist all around him, all he need to do is to get in contact with here, hopefully then he can get some help into figuring out to get home.
"Is there a way to talk to Eywa?" Aang asked curiously. Norm frowned at the kid.
"Talk to Eywa? Why would you want to do that?"
"You can't talk to her? Or do anything to get in contact with her?" Aang was getting a little bit worried now.
"Well… there is one way if you really want to talk to Eywa." He said seeing the boy giving a relieving smile. "But that is close to impossible." The smile disappeared.
"Why is it impossible?"
"If you really want to get in contact or 'speak' with Eywa then you have to get to a tree known as a 'tree of souls', only with this trees you can connect with the great mind of Pandora. But you have to be a na'vi to do something like this."
"Why do you have to be a na'vi?"Aang frowned.
"Two reasons. The first one is that all na'vi have the ability to connect with any kind of organic life form with a neural connection which is known as Tsaheylu, it means 'the bond' in our tongue. They have a braid which is wrapped around a queue that is connected to the back of their brain. Each time they ask for aid from an animal they attach there queue to the animals queue, this will allow them to literally share thoughts and minds." Aang was completely dumfounded by what Norm just told him. Never would he ever have imagined coming to a world where things like this were possible.
"That's incredible." He said impressed.
"Yes it is. One of the Pandora most incredible feat, connection via the simple organic mind."
"But still, why do I have to be na'vi to speak to Eywa?"
"The trees of souls are sacred shrines to the na'vi. They aren't so intrigued to let outsiders approached the tree."
"So… reason number two is…?"
"You are not only an outsider, you're also a non na'vi. They will slice you into pieces before you even get to the clearing." Aang was not so very certain he was going to get in contact with Eywa.
"Why do they show smutch hostility to outsiders?" Aang asked.
"Well… last time around, humans tried to destroy a nearby tree of souls and everything around it." Norm said with regret in his voice. "The RDA was going to blast a crater so deep in there racial history that they would never come closer than a thousand clicks to that place ever again." Aang now looked with shock and horror at Norm, this sounded very similar to when fire lord Ozai tried to burn down the earth kingdom. Aang had to know the whole story now.
"What happened?" Aang asked leaning over the table trying to catch every word Norm spoke.
"Well… since you are going to stay here for a while, you might as well know the whole story." Norm leaned back in his chair while taking a deep breath. They were going to sit there for awhile.
"It all started seven years ago. At that time I joined the avatar program." Norm started. "I was one amongst thirty other people. And we were the lucky few."
"How so?" Aang asked.
"Well… there were over a thousand people who wanted the job. And there were on spots for a few." Aang looked in shock at the man.
"That's a lot of people." He said impressed. "How come there were so few?"
"As I said before. Creating an avatar body is very difficult and expensive. Costs about 5 billion dollars just to make one." Aang jaw dropped by the mention of the amount of money, even thou he do not now the currency of this world he know a big number when he hear one.
"5 billion! For just one?" Norm grinned at Aang's expression. "And there were thirty of you. Then that would make…" Aang started to count on his fingers to found out the sum. However Norm interrupted him.
"Only two was made." Aang stopped counting ad looked up.
"Why?"
"The twenty-eight other people failed the five year training. Only two people passed. Me and another man by the name Tom Sully."
"Tom Sully was a brilliant man and a good friend. He and I were suppose to worked alone side each other during the program."
"'Suppose to'? What do you mean by that?" Aang said rising an eyebrow.
"He died." Norm simply spoke, causing Aang to regret what he just said.
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be. Thing like this happens." A moment of silence hung over the table, until the kid broke the silence.
"How did he… past way."
"Killed by a mugger two weeks before the shipping to Pandora. Sad way to go. Fortunately my focus on the job helped me to get over his decease. It was thought times, but I managed at the end." The man said looking up to the roof. As if he was trying to get a glimpse of his old friend.
"So what happened then?" Norm looked back down.
"Then the company that funded the program went crazy." he said with a faint smile. "Five billion dollars spent on creating an avatar body for a man that is dead. Like flushing money down the drain. But they were lucky"
"How so?"
"You see… The avatar is bound to one specific individual because of the drivers DNA. However there is one exception." Aang leaned forward on the table
"But you said that everyone have a unique DNA thingy. Then the exception would be if someone else shares the same DNA."
"Yes. And there was one who did, his twin brother Jake Sully."
"Jake… Jake…" Aang said to himself, that name sounded very familiar. "I've heard the name before."
"That's because he is the chieftain." At those words the face of the blue leader appeared in his mind.
"Wait… he is Tom's brother?"
"Twin brother to be precise."
"Walking around in his brother's body?" Aang would never have imaged saying something like that.
"Well Tom never got the chance to use it, and the RDA didn't want to waste five billion dollars so they found Jake and asked him to fill in his brothers shoes, literally speaking."
"RDA?" Aang said wonder. Norm looked a bit choked at the boy. (He doesn't know of the RDA?) He thought.
"The RDA is the company that funds the avatar program. RDA is an acronym for Resource Development Administration." Norm explained hastily. "The RDA was committing a mining operation here on Pandora. They were strip-mining for an extremely rare metal known as Unobtanium. This metal has incredible and valuable properties in our society, and it sold for twenty million a kilo."Yet again Aang reacted to the big number." Unfortunately there was a problem. They set up their operation right in a na'vi territory."
"And they weren't so very fond of it I take it." Aang asked even knowing the answer.
"No they were not." Norm said with a sad voice. "The RDA destroyed a big part of the landscape for their mine. They tried to convince the natives that they did not have any bad intention against them. But they turned a deaf ear to their explanation." Aang didn't like the look on Norms face, it showed sorrow and despair. "One na'vi clan declared war on the RDA compound known as 'Hells gate'. They made some damage but were forced to retreat. They didn't expect their opponent to have such powerful weapons."
"Powerful weapons?" Aang asked curiously, yet again Norm frowned at him.
"The Na'vi uses bows and arrows, the RDA military had a big arsenal of assault rifles, flame throwers, grandee launchers and a whole lot of machine guns."
"What's a machine gun?" Norm was in shock by his question. (He does not know what a machine gun is? How the hell is that possible? Was he born in a cave or something?). Norm quick snapped out of his state of chock and turned his attention to Aang.
"A machine gun is a metallic devise that… shoots metal out of a long pipe in a really high velocity." At that moment Aang remembered seen a device of that description in the night before, that gave him an uneasy feeling.
"That thing last night, the one that the na'vi attached me with…"
"Was an M60 Machinegun." Norm finished. "Fully automatic heavy duty hardware with a rate of fire of 550 rounds in a minute." Shock envelops Aang, he remembered that he barely dodged the shots during the fight. The power of that device was terrifying. "A lot faster than bow and arrow don't you think?" Aang could only nod.
"So what happened to the clan of na'vi?" He asked fearing the answer. "Did they…"
"They were massacred by the military forces. They didn't stand chance." Aang gulped when hearing their fate. "On that day one of the many na'vi clans was wiped of the face of Pandora. This 'incident' sent a message throughout the land, telling all na'vi to rethink crossing paths with us humans. Since then they resorted to small hit and run tactics noting major. There was… well… reasonably peaceful, but it was soon to change."
AN- This part is a recap of the movie AVATAR you are free to skip this part if you know what has happened. Otherwise you are free to do whatever you want to do.
(I recommend you to read it thou.) -AN
"The first time I meet Jake was right after the safety briefing. He looked exactly like Tom, but that's where the similarities ended. "
"How so?" Asked Aang
"Well you see… Tom was a scientist, very bright and clever. He had high grades and a good education. But his brother was not the 'study type'." Aang wonder by what norm meant by 'study type'.
"What do you mean by that? Surely he was into a little bit of reading things?" He asked hopefully.
"No he was more in to shooting things. Jake was a soldier." Aang's hope fell. "A marine of the US army, a fighter type of person and… kind of a jarhead."
"Jarhead?" Aang said raising an eyebrow. "Was his head shaped like a jar?" he said imagining a man with a head shaped like an edgy jar.
"What? No no, it's just a saying, because in the soldier's cuts their hairs so it is shape looking like a jar." Norm answered with a chuckle.
"Strange." Aang said with the image still fresh in his mind.
"But Jake wasn't a marine anymore, he was a veteran, a retired soldier."
"How do you get to be a retired soldier?"
"By a shot in the back."
"Ouch"
"Yes. During one of his missions he took a salvo right to the lower spine severing his control to his legs." Norm said pointing at the backside of his waist. "He could have got surgery to get him to walk again. But didn't have the money."
"So he took his brothers job for the money?" Aang figured out.
"O yes, believe me the pay was good, real good. If he had returned home not only would he have got his legs back, he would never have to work ever again. But of course that's not what happened."
"So what happened?" Aang said gaining more interest. Now they were getting to the interesting part.
"What happened were love, anger, betrayal, and death." Norm said leaning forward.
"Grace didn't like him." Norm said with smile of nostalgia. "But after a talk with the supervisor, she was persuade to allow him to join the avatar team. He was of course put in as an escort. The guy wasn't trained like his brother."
"Who is Grace?" Aang Asked.
"Grace Augustine is one of the brightest persons I've ever meet. She singlehandedly mapped the whole biological ecosystem of Pandora. She is also the leader of the avatar program. And one hell of a fighter."
"But why didn't she like Jake."
"Grace saw every soldier here on Pandora as a trigger happy moron. She was trying to get the na'vi to try and trust us humans, but it was hard since the na'vi continued their hit and run tactics all over the dig sight, and that the soldiers would then see them as target practice."
"So here progress was slow."
"Yes, really slow. You see, the RDA didn't care much of her science program. All they cared for was the Unobtanium. They would have ignored the na'vi completely if it wasn't for the huge vein of ore that rested right under their village. And trust me when I say this, they wanted it badly. "
"So they used Grace to try and get them to move."
"Exactly. However she never had a chance to try and send forward the message. But she didn't have to. The opportunity came to Jake."
"How did it happen?"
"It all started with a mission with me, Grace and Jake. The mission was supposed to be routine field documentation, taking test on the field and document our findings. But it all went wrong."
"What happened?"
"He was chased off by a Thanator."
"What's a Thanator?"
"The biggest and the most dangerous land predator on Pandora, this cat is bad, real bad. Trust me, running is the best and only option."
"And I guess that Jake followed that option."
"Of course he did. Last thing we saw was his sorry behind disappearing into the bush. Grace and I regrouped back at the transporter, and took off to the air. We then search for his avatar for hours but found nothing. After more searching we then decided to give up and return back to base, hopping that he had survived the night. But I tell yea, he did more than that."
"A na'vi clan found him and they accepted him into the clan to study him." Aang said smiling. This was all too familiar.
"How did you know?" Norm said frowning.
"Call it a hunch." The kid simply responded.
"Yes, of course. But I can't fathom how they accepted him like that. It was a miracle that they didn't fill him with arrows at the sight of him. And lucky him that it was the chieftains daughter that found him. 'Lucky bastard'" Norm said the last part with small caught.
"What?"
"Nothing." He said with the wave of his hand. "The Omaticaya thought they could learn from him and that he could learn from them, but the RDA wanted him to gain their trust so that in the end he could get them to move. So during the three months he was gaining there trust and our team to the Hallelujah Mountains."
"The Halle-what-now?"
"The Hallelujah Mountains. The mountains that defies gravity. It is a huge group of mountains that floats in the air, one of Pandora's breathtaking views."
"Ahhhh. So that's what you call them. I remember flying over a couple of them. Pretty impressive."
"Pleas, impressive is an understatement here, we're talking about mountains sized rocks that…" Norm had to stop taking there, because Aang said something that severely confused. "Wait as sec. Did you just say 'flying' over a couple of them?"
"Yes I did." Aang said smiling at norms excretion, he was flabbergasted.
"You can fly?"
"Yes I can."
"May I ask how?"
"Oh it is easy, all I need is something that allows me that glide on air, and then add some airbending focus and tad-da." Aang clapped his hands together. "I am airborne." He said waving his and as if they were tiny wings. Norm looked at the airbender with shock and wonder.
"Is there something that you can't do?"
"Don't know, never really thought about it." The airbender said trying to make a list in his head. However the list was pretty blank.
"Never mind that. Please continue the story." Norm thought for himself for a moment trying to remember where he last left off.
"Where was I?.. O right, our team relocated to the Hallelujah mountains. Jake was gaining there trust by the week. Neytiri continued to teach him the ways of the na'vi and me and Grace continued our research. It all went well until the RDA called him back to base. They told him that the job was finished, there was enough inlet on how to relocate the na'vi, by force. But Jake wasted to see it through to the end. He connived them to give him more time in order to pass a ceremony. Passing this ceremony allowed him to become one with the na'vi, giving him full support and trust, and also a mate. And there was one specific person he chose as a mate."
"Neytiri."
"Exactly, during their time together they developed a strong relation. But truth fully, it was an accident waiting to happen."
"She didn't know of his mission."
"Right, and when he finally told them of his purpose there. All that respect and trust vanished in an instant. And the cherry on top, the nasty rotten cherry, the bulldozers of RDA had wrecked a sacred ground belonging to the Omaticaya. They wanted war."
"I saw what happened that day, that day when the RDA got what they finally wanted." Norm spoke with a voice of weight. "They had launched a squadron of Aerospatiale with a dragon at the spear head to the Omaticaya home tree." Aang jumped in his seat by Norms words.
"A dragon! They had a dragon?"
"Easy now, I'm not talking about some mystical lizard. I'm taking about a big assault gunship." Aang returned to his seat feeling a bit down, he hoped to meet another dragon. "Jake tried to warn them, he tried to get them to leave before the gunships arrived, but the na'vi chose to stand and fight than leave there land." With each word Norms voice got heavier. Now could clearly see a sorrow in the man's eye. "I saw in a live video fed when the gunships lunched there smoke and incendiary rounds right into the opening of the home tree. They tried to scatter them as if they were roaches. Then without hesitation they fired a barge of missiles right at the lower parts, destroying the supporting colons. The whole tree fell down with a furious force, crunching hundreds of innocent lives beneath it."
The young airbender looked at Norm without breaking eye contact. He paused for a moment to give a silent moment for those that died that day, then after a deep breath he resumed the tale.
"Before we knew it we were thrown into custody waiting for a decision to do with us surrounding our 'crime'". He said air quoting the last word. "Stuck in that cell taught that it was all over. The finally we had a brake of luck. Our team pilot Trudy knocked out the guard and helped us out. With her help we manage to escape hells gate, barley." Aang notes once again sadness flow over Norm.
"What happened? Did you leave someone behind?"
"No, we all got on the Aerospatiale in time, but our escape didn't go unnoted. The chief of security colonel Quaritch saw us escape. That jarhead stomped out on the landing field and fired on us while we took off. I, Jake and Trudy didn't get hit, but Grace wasn't so lucky. She took a salvo right in the side. We did everything we could to try and stop the bleeding, but she was slowly dying. However there was one thing that could save her life."
"By transferring her consciousness from here human body to her avatar body with the help of a tree of souls." Aang suddenly spoke.
"By trans… Wait… how did you know that?" Shock enveloped them both, how did Aang know this?
"I… don't know, the word just jumped out of my mouth." The young bender said scratching the back of his head.
"Yes, that was our only option to save Grace, however the only one that could allow us to do that was the na'vi, and they also targeted us as traitors, Tsu'tey would never let us near the clearing."
" Who's Tsu'tey." Aang quickly asked.
"Tsu'tey was the na'vi that took the place of the chieftain after the death of Neytiri's father. He died during the assault of the home tree. Now Tsu'tey really despised Jake and it was obvious that he would gladly scalp him on sight. However, Jake had a plan, a very bold and risky plan." Aang leaned forward in his chair, curiosity rose within him.
"What was his plan?"
"Jake had the idée to become a Toruk Makto"
"What's that?"
"It's the title given to one na'vi that can fly the biggest and most dangerous predator of Pandora, the great Leonopteryx, or as the na'vi calls them, Toruk. It means 'last shadow'."
"Why is it called last shadow?" Aang said frowning.
"Because it is the last shadow you see in your life, before it dives down from the sky and eat you. And Jake had the crazy decision to mount one. Ant yet aging by some miracle he tamed the beast and became a Toruk Makto, rider of the last shadow."
"That's an impressive title."
"Yes and with that title he gained the support of the can in a heartbeat, even Tsu'tey called him brother. This allowed us to get Grace to the tree of souls. By the help of the people we got the chance to transfer her mind to her avatar. But the wounds were too great. She died connected to the tree of souls." Yet aging Norm made a pause in memory of his friend. "Grace's death hit Jake hard, but it also sparked something in his heart, I don't know what, but he wanted the people of the RDA to pay for what they have done, he wanted to gather all the neighboring clans and send them back to where they once came. This, is how the na'vi uprising began."
"Jake sent out a call, a call of Toruk Makto. They heard it, and they answered, they answered with battle ready warriors in the thousands." Aang could only respond with a look of concern, thins was soon to get worse. He could feel that. "Even if we had the numbers, an direct assault was to end in sever casualties, on our end. That's why we waited for them to come. And they came right in to the region where most of their systems won't work, Hallelujah Mountains."
"You had the high ground. A home field advantage." Aang simply said.
"Exactly. Now the battle took place on two locations. The air, where we had our horde of ikranay's warriors fought against their battalion of gunships and flyers."
"I'm sorry… what's an ikranay?"
"A four winged lizard, very commonly used by the na'vi to fly." A visual memory appeared in Aang mid of the creatures he flew by a day ago.
"And the second battle?"
"That was the ground battle of army of riders and warriors against platoons of marines. I was on the ground fight and ducking for cover against their forcers. Jake was high in the sky taking out gunships. Even Trudy joined the fight, shooting down the attacking gunships. At first we were doing damage, lots of it, however that soon change. The soldiers were adapting to the terrine, even though we had the advantage in numbers, they had the advantage in weapons and training. We were dying like flies, Neytiri got shot out of the sky, Trudy's flyer took a missile, Tsu'tey got shot in the chest and my avatar got hit in the shoulder." (I was lucky to ever get that body working again.) Norm thought to himself. "I remembered hearing Jakes voice on the radio, calling for any one that could stand and fight, very few responded. We were losing the battle, and the bomber was approaching the Omaticaya refuge."
"As soon as I got out of the link unit I grabbed a rifle and rushed out to fight." Aang hung by every word. Even thou he have been sitting still for a while he continued to listen" As I ran through the jungle I hear the battle from afar. Bombs detonating, missiles exploding, machineguns in rapid fire, screaming and cries of na'vi. It was terrible. Then suddenly… it all just changed. I still don't know how it happened, but it was as if the nature itself turned against the humans. Packs of hammer head beast's, flocks of wiper wolves and an army of Ikranay's descended on the humans and ripped them to shreds. This sudden assault gave Jake an opening to take out the dragon and the bomb transporter. With a few well placed charges he brought them down in an inferno. And in the end Jake and Neytiri manage to defeat Quaritch, ending the assault and assuming victory." Norm leaned back in his chair with relief.
"So in the end the na'vi won." Aang maintained eye contact with Norm.
"Yep. The RDA packed their stuff and left Pandora. Some decided to remain. Jake was declared chieftain and a legend amongst the na'vi clans." Norm took a deep breath, as if relived from a burden. "All this happened over seven years ago, during that time we built this colony and improved our relations with the people, a good end to years of conflict."
AN- Recaps over- AN
"That was an infesting story." Aang said looking around at the small crowd of people that dropped in to listen to Norm's tale. Norm looked surprised around him. He didn't notes the small crowd of people. "Even it was a bit long, it was still a tale worth hearing."
"Well… story telling has never been one of my strong points, but I do my best." Norm said smiling, but that smile faded away by the sight of the sad look on Aang. "Is something wrong?"
"So many people died, just to reclaim land that was ones their own. Was it worth it?" Aang's words caused a lot of gears to turn around in Norms head. Thinking for a moment for himself he then finally answered.
"The RDA would have sent for more and more soldiers. It would be a matter of time until the would strike the unprepared na'vi in order to advance their territory. No matter what they did there would be blood." Aang thought to himself for a moment.
"But still…so much death."
"I understand. War is a nasty thing, but sometimes you just have to fight to protect the ones that you love." Norm paused for a moment before he let out a small chuckle "Look at me here, old man Norm preaching about war, man this is not my style." Everyone else also let out a small chucked. "But I truly miss the old days when we spend time helping Jake pas the day and committing simple research. That's reminds me." He suddenly went digging in his pockets, trying to find something of value. "Here a picture of the team." He said holding a small photograph. Aang took the small picture to see four people smiling back at him. Right away he recognized Norm, especially since he positioned at himself on the picture. Continuing observing the picture he saw a muscular man with short hair sitting in what looked like chair with wheels, that man was Jake, he resembled his avatar very closely, as if they were brothers. To his left stood a young woman with black hair tide like a ponytail, that was Trudy, there former pilot smiled happily back at him, unknowing of her sad future fate. Switching his focus on the fourth and final person Aang froze as if someone had poured a bucket of ice cold water over him. The fourth and final person was a smiling woman with bright brown color hair, almost a little bit red. That was the exact same woman he saw in his dream.
"Is this Grace?" He asked trying to hide the shock in his voice.
"Yes, that is Grace Augustine." Norm said not noticing Aang's shock. "The one and only person with proper common sense here on Pandora. God bless that woman." At the last sentence norm turned his view up on the ceiling, as if Grace had heard him. Norm then returned his sight on Aang, thinking for himself for a moment before saying.
"Everything was peace and quiet, until you showed up." Aang felt a little change in the surroundings for some reason. "Right now the na'vi sees you as an agent of the RDA sent her to Pandora to destroy us. I do not what to what to believe, so perhaps you can enlighten me be telling who you are." Aang was about to say something to answer Norms question, but was interrupted by a familiar voice.
"Hey Kid." Norm and Aang turned their heads to see Ariel approaching them. "How's the arm?" Aang automatically moved his arm in response.
"Its fine, thank you for asking."
"I was passing by when I hear taking something about Norm sharing stories of old. Like to share some with me?"
"No problem" Norm said with the shrug of his shoulders. "Have a seat." Grabbing a chair to join the small group.
"By the way, Aang I would like to asked you something."
"Okay, what do you want to know?"
"How are things back home?" Ariel said looking curious.
"Back home?" Aang asked confused.
"Well… you know. Back home as in earth, the world of humans and such." Now Aang was really confused, what was she taking about?
"I've been meaning to ask you?"
"Okay what is it?"
"What is this 'Earth' place all of you people are talking about?"
AN- Finally I am finished with this chapter. Man this was a piece of work believe me. You guise are probably wonder why I wrote down big parts of the movie, simple I like to stand on a solid ground. Usually people are sloppy work in writing down the whole back-story in their stories. I am doing the opposite because I want to follow my BAR standard (Behavior, Action and Reaction), the purpose was to show you how Aang would react to this universe history, simple as that. Well now it's finished so enjoy. And He fun waiting for the next chapter. -AN