Well I did Zutara so I might as well do the other pairing that there is so much controversy over.
Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender, no way, no how.
"I'm hungry," Sokka moans.
"I'm hungry," he repeats louder.
"I'm hungry!" he practically yells again.
"I'm annoyed!" Katara retorts.
"Why?"
She growls in frustration.
"I'm Aang," I say cheerfully.
They both look at me, Katara nearly ready to pull her hair out, Sokka holding his stomach as if he's in agony.
I huff. "Well let's find somewhere to eat."
Sokka nods enthusiastically and Katara points to a poster on a notice board. On our travels to find my fire bending teacher we have come past countless posters advertising a Fire Nation fair for…
"Today! Let's go!" Katara squeals.
"Sounds good," I agree.
"You do know that something is going to happen, right?" Sokka questions gloomily.
I look to Katara and we both shrug. "Doesn't it always?"
We begin our walk to the village where the fair is being held and I hear Sokka sigh behind us and his stomach rumble, which causes him to carry on behind us.
The small, cobble streets of the village are filled with hundreds of Fire Nation citizens on rides, eating, talking and playing games. I see a small girl point at a dragon excitedly but quickly recoils behind her mother when it breathes fire. "Mummy," I hear the little girl say. "Can that fire hurt people?"
Her mother throws her head back and laughs. "No sweetie, fire doesn't hurt people."
I continue to glare at the mother who of course is not looking at me. How could she lie to her child like that? 'Fire doesn't hurt people'? As if it doesn't. It's killed millions of innocent lives.
"Aang?" Katara taps me on the shoulder.
I wheel around. "Yeah? Sorry." I shake my head and spot a sign with pictures of the Fire Lord on it. It reads, 'Go through the tunnel of the jumping Fire Lords'. I chuckle and bend down trying to see as far as I can through the tunnel but it's too dark. "Aw, I really want to go in there." I empty out my pockets to reveal no money whatsoever. "But I'm broke," I sigh.
"Here, Aang, I've got some left," Katara offers sweetly.
I grin and jump up and down.
"What about me?" Sokka whines.
"Sorry, Sokka, I haven't got enough for you. You'll just have to wait out here."
Sokka walks off grumbling, most likely to buy some food.
I help Katara into the boat and I follow after her. We commence to move along the rippling water at a leisurely pace. And it is then that I see the arch that is in the shape of a heart that we go underneath. There are more hearts scattered inside the tunnel and the couple in front of us are kissing. My heart beats faster. I thought we were just going to watch people dress up as the Fire Lord? I wonder if Katara realised this was some kind of romance tunnel? I look to her but she's too busy looking around in awe.
"Look, Aang!" She points in front of her.
There, up ahead are people dressed up as the Fire Lord fire bending and…leaping around the place like clowns.
One of them suddenly breathes fire in the shape of a love heart but Katara has already recoiled and has scooted closer to me. She holds my arm with both her hands. The fire gets closer to us from both sides. We both have the same idea and construct a wall of water. I take Katara's hand and I skim us across the water's surface.
Daring to take a backward glance the 'Fire Lords' are hot on our heels; I go faster.
We finally reach the end of the tunnel and straight away I see Sokka sitting alone at a table. I take his arm and he complains about something to do with food, but I'm not listening. We need to get to safety. Calling Appa with my bison whistle I begin to fend off the 'Fire Lords' who still seem to be leaping around as they send volleys of attacks at us. More people crowd around us and guards begin to shout orders and unleash even more attacks on us.
To my relief Appa swoops down causing the Fire Nation population to take a step backward and stare in awe at Appa. We quickly jump on, Sokka struggling to scramble up Appa's fur, and fly off into the distance. I look around to see one last fire blast aimed right at Katara who is still in shock. I use my air bending to veer it off and breathe a sigh of relief.
Katara does the same and kisses my cheek. "Thank you, Aang."
I smile sheepishly.
"I told you something would happen," Sokka says knowingly.
"Yeah...but did you see those people dressed up as Fire Lords?" I laugh, breaking the lingering tension.
Aang: On the tenth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Ten Fire-lords a-leaping,
Zuko: Nine ladies dancing,
Meng: Eight panda lilies,
Azula: Seven grasshopperswans a-jumping,
Zuko: Six geese-reindeer a-laying,
Mai: Five golden rings,
Aang: Four calling birdrats,
Ty lee: Three rabbithens,
Katara: Two turtle ducks,
Toph: And a partridge in a pear tree
