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"How did you do that? With the water!" Katara exclaimed. "It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen!"

"I don't know. I just sort of…did it." Feeling uncomfortable, I looked away. The whole experience was crazy confusing. I felt this unbelievable surge of energy and I felt like a thousand years of wisdom and bending arts were suddenly at my fingertips. Not even mentioning connecting with Prince Zuko's core in such an intimate way. My cheeks enflamed at the thought of it.

After a moment, Katara asked, "Why didn't you tell us you were the Avatar?"

"Because…I never wanted to be." The truth had finally come out and there was no turning back. After everything that's happened, I can't ignore the fact that I'm no longer just Aang. I'm the Avatar, and that came with the burden of the world on my shoulders.

"But Aang, the world's been waiting for the Avatar to return and finally put an end to this war." Katara spoke softly as if trying not to scare me off.

"And how am I supposed to do that? I'm just a simple nomad. All I know is airbending and travelling." My voice sounded foreign even to my ears. I wasn't usually this downtrodden, but usually I wasn't the supposed savior of the world either.

"Well, according to legend, you need to first master Water, Earth, then Fire, right?"

"That's what the monks told me." I shrugged.

"Well, if we go to the North Pole, you can master waterbending!" Katara looked as excited as I was starting to feel.

"We can learn it together!"

"And Sokka, I'm sure you'll get to knock some firebender heads on the way." Katara smirked.

"I'd like that. I'd really like that." Sokka smiled lazily and I couldn't stop the chuckle from escaping my lips.

Katara smiled before declaring, "Then we're in this together!"

Sokka suddenly turned to me with a wild look, "So, what happened on the fire navy ship, anyway? Did they torture you? DID THEY TRY TO EAT YOU?!"

"…uh no. They didn't try to eat me. They didn't torture me either." I thought back to the way Iroh had shown me such kindness. How could such a kind man be part of a ruthless war? "I was just sitting in a cell the whole time, until I heard Appa that is."

"Um, Aang? I'm a little afraid to ask but, what did you do to that firebender? You were all glowy and then his eyes were all glowy, but they were a red glowy. It was really weird. He looked all kinds of freaked out." Sokka backed away from me a little, his eyes still holding that weird goofy look in them.

"Uh…I don't know. I don't remember."

Katara put her hand on my shoulder, "You don't remember anything at all?"

Images flashed through my mind; Prince Zuko's golden eyes holding pain and fear, the small white flame I held in my hands, somehow knowing that flame was Zuko's spirit, me brushing his hands to have him hold the flame, the way his eyes wouldn't leave mine.

"No, nothing."

"Oh, okay." Katara's eyes were skeptical, but she dropped the subject much to my relief.

Sokka's optimism cut through the tense air surrounding us, "Well, if we're gonna travel all the way to the North Pole and fight some Fire Nation losers, we might as well get some sleep. Goodnight Team Avatar!" I giggled at the goofy name for our little group.

"Goodnight Sokka!" Sokka gave me a silly smile before he laid down on Appa's saddle.

"Goodnight Aang." Katara gave me a warm smile before opening her sleeping bag and laying down beside her brother.

"Goodnight Katara." I couldn't be more thankful to have these two people by my side on this journey.

I climbed down from Appa's saddle onto his head and he let out a little grunt, to wish me goodnight. As I closed my eyes, I dreamt of angry golden eyes.