Chapter 13: Goodbyes

Rose left her house around 8:30 and headed down to the shop. It was the perfect day; a warm summer morning with a slight breeze and not a cloud in the sky.

Rose entered the shop to find Jake, Zuko, and Katara all seated on the couch and Fu dog on the floor sitting next to the nearly complete portal potion.

"Well," Jake chuckled, "look who showed up last again."

"Nice to see you too," Rose smiled. She sat down next to Jake and began to fidget with her hair not knowing what else to say.

After about a minute of awkward silence, Jake spoke up. "So, what are you guys looking forward to when you get back to your world?" He asked.

"Well," Katara replied, "I haven't really thought about that. I guess it will depend on what happened while we were gone. If something came up, then we'll most likely have to go find Aang and help him."

"And if anything unusual hasn't happened?" Jake asked.

"Hmmmm. I'm not sure. I'd kind of like to go penguin sledding." Katara replied.

"Penguin sledding? Are you serious?" Jake laughed.

"Yeah it's a lot of fun! We don't have movies and giant green ladies back home!" Katara laughed.

"Alright kids," Fu dog spoke up, "the potion is ready."

The four teens gathered around the small cauldron Fu dog had chosen to use for the mixture.

"We don't have to drink it, do we?" Zuko asked staring at the greenish lumpy liquid in the caldron with disgust.

"No, it works kind of like a portal spell, except you can't really see where you are going, and you don't have to say it out loud."

"So what do we do?" Katara asked.

"We'll, I'm going to read this spell," Fu dog replied holding up an old, torn book, "and you're going to look into the potion and picture in your head the place you want to go. Then, bingo bango bizingo, you will be transported to the place that you chose."

"Sounds simple enough," Zuko responded. "Well Katara are you ready to go home?"

"Yes," she replied. Katara turned to Jake and Rose. "Thank you for everything. It was really nice to meet you."

"Yeah, it was nice to meet you too," Jake smiled.

"Maybe you can come and visit us in our dimension sometime," Katara smiled.

Jake and Rose laughed. "That sounds like fun," Rose replied, "I'd kind of like to meet your friends."

Katara smiled, "Hopefully we'll all meet again someday. Goodbye for now."

"Bye," Jake replied.

Katara and Zuko stared into the potion while Fu dog read the spell from the old tattered book in his paws. The lumpy green liquid began to spin really fast, and Zuko and Katara were sucked inside. It was over fairly quickly, and now Rose, Jake, and Fu dog stared into the empty bowl.

Jake sighed. "I'm going to miss them."

"Me too," Rose replied, "but it was a pretty interesting week."

"You've got that right!" Jake laughed.

They stood there for a couple of minutes without moving.

"So," Jake spoke, "what are we going to do now?"

Rose laughed. "We're finally alone, and we can't even decide what to do."

Jake smiled. "How about smoothies?"

"Smoothies are good," Rose replied.

Jake and Rose walked out the door and headed towards the nearest smoothie place. All in all, it had been a very interesting, terrifying, and thrilling week, but now it was time to relax.

At least for a little while.

Sorry this is kind of short. I planned for this to be a short chapter anyway.

One chapter left plus the epilogue!! Both will probably be semi-short.

I might actually try to post the last chapter tonight and the epilogue tomorrow. I kind of want to finish this story. We'll see what happens.

Anyway, thanks for reading!! Please review.

~ada69