In the morning, Korra and Asami headed over to Air Temple Island to make use of the high powered radio transmitter there. The air kids spotted them as soon as they set foot on the island and rushed out to meet them.

"Korra! Beauitful lady!" Meelo ran up the to the two young women and didn't bother to hide the disappointed expression on his face as he approached them. "Oh."

"Hey, what did we do to deserve this expression?" Korra laughed as she pulled the young airbender in for a hug, ruffling his hair.

"How come you're not huge like Mom was with Rohan yet?" Meelo put his hand on Korra's still mostly flat stomach and frowned. "Isn't there supposed to be a baby in there?" He looked over at Asami and put a hand gently on her stomach too.

Korra laughed. "We're still in the first trimester, Meelo. I might take a couple more weeks before we start to show. "

"That long?" Meelo wrinkled his nose. "Okay. Do you want me to go get Auntie Kya?"

"Actually, we were hoping to use the radio first before we went to see Kya, but if you'd let her know we're here that would be great."

The young airbender took off and Korra and Asami headed over to the tranmission tower where the operator rang up the Southern Water Tribe for them. The operator on that end picked up right away but it took a while longer before they could track down one of Korra's parents. In the end, it was Tonraq who answered.

"This is Tonraq."

"Hey Dad, it's Korra."

"Korra! What's going on, Sweetheart? We haven't heard from you in weeks. How was the vacation?"

"It was really great, Dad." Korra looked over at Asami and smiled, glad that they had rehearsed this conversation ad nauseam the previous night. While her relationship with her parents was a good and open one, and she could talk to them about pretty much anything, there were still some topics that would always be a little awkward to bring up between children and their parents - magical pregnancies outside of wedlock being one of them. "Hey, listen, a few things have happened in the last few weeks, and I kinda feel like I should talk to you and Mum about them. Do you think it would be okay if Asami and I came home for a few days to chat?"

There was a bit of a pregnant pause in the conversation then, and it took Korra a moment to realize that the most natural turn of phrase off her tongue, 'if Asami and I came home', had probably disclosed to her father quite a bit more about what it was she was hoping to talk to him and her mother about than she had initially planned for. Korra winced as she shot Asami an apologetic look while her girlfriend gave her a weak smile.

After a moment, Tonraq answered smoothly, though Korra thought she picked up on a hint of amusement in her father's tone, "of course. You know you can always come home whenever you want. And did you say Asami was coming with you? Of course she's welcome to stay with us. The Glacier Spirits Festival is just around the corner; are you bringing any other friends along?"

"I think it's just going to be us this time," Korra smiled, giving Asami a thumbs up.

"You guys are going to the Glacier Spirits Festival?! Oh oh oh ! I wanna go too!" From out of nowhere (well, maybe not nowhere; just around the doorway to the communications room), Ikki rushed out with her younger brothers hot on her trail, Tenzin and Kya following after the children.

"Ikki," Tenzen chastised his youngest daughter. "What have we told you about interrupting?"

Tonraq laughed merrily on the other end of the radio. "Is that Tenzin?"

"Hello, Tonraq."

"You should bring the kids down, Tenzin. I'm sure Katara would love to see how they've grown. Senna and myself as well."

The airmaster thought about it for a moment, stroking his beard. "It has been a while, hasn't it? But doesn't the festival start in a couple of days? Even if we took Oogi, by the time we got down there, we'll have missed out on most of it."

"Actually," Korra piped up. "Asami and I were planning on taking a little bit of a short cut through the spirit portal. That would cut down on the travel time to less than a day."

Tenzin was intrigued. "A short cut through the spirit portal?"

"Yeah." Korra smiled. "The spirit portal in Republic City opens up in the Spirit World in the same place as the portals that connect the North and the South pole, around the Tree of Time. You could walk between them in a few minutes. The more dangerous part would actually be getting from the South Pole back up to the Southern Water Tribe, but, if we had Oogi, that part of the trip might not be so bad at all."

"Oh Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, pleeeease? Can we go?" Ikki ran up to Tenzin excitedly, practically jumping up and down.

Tenzin thought about it some more before smiling. "Well... that doesn't sound like a bad plan at all."

Kya finished the pre-natal exam of both Korra and Asami and smiled at both young women. "Everything looks good on my end. How have things been coming along for you two?"

Korra and Asami shared a glance, and Korra motioned for Asami to go first.

"The morning sickness has been pretty brutal," Asami confessed, almost sighing in defeat. "There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for it - it just seems to strike all the time, with no warning or pattern. I've tried to figure out if it's something I'm eating or something I'm smelling but it doesnt' seem to be any of those things. We've tried a few different remedies but nothing really seems to work. And if you wouldn't mind handing me that garbage can over there, I think I might be on the cusp of another bought."

"Ah." Kya gave Asami a sympathetic smile and handed her the can. She looked over at Korra. "Have you tried correcting her chi flow with water soothing yet?"

Korra blinked. "Wait, what's that?"

"Water soothing. Here, give it a try." The master healer called forth a small ball of water from her water skin and warmed it up, passing it over to Korra for handling. "This will help you too, but it won't be as effective."

Korra's eyes furrowed as she accepted the ball of glowing water and studied it for a moment. Her eyes widened as she recognize the technique as one Katara had taught her years ago. "Oh! Asami, can you take your shirt off?"

Asami did as Korra asked and then Korra soothed the warm glowing ball down overtop of Asami's throat, chest and belly. "And then I just...?"

Kya nodded. "Yup, that's right. Feel that block there? Try to smooth that out and re-balance the flow there."

Korra nodded and did as Kya instructed. Asami gave a sigh of relief as the nausea left her.

"Oh, Korra," Asami almost moaned. "That feels heavenly."

Korra cracked a small crooked smile and shot the master healer a grateful look. "That's good news. Thanks Kya. And I can just do this when Asami feels sick until she feels better?"

Asami gave another moan of relief, one that had a distinctly amorous undertone to it, causing Korra's eyes to widen and a couple sweatdrops to sprout on the back of her head.

"You could." Kya laughed. "Or, hey, its got other, uh, practical applications too."

"Oh." Korra blushed. "Um. Good to know."

Once the decision had been made to head to the Southern Water Tribe, things moved along relatively quickly after that.

Oogi and Pepper were both saddled up, and there was a little bit of an argument as to who should ride with who.

Ultimately, it was decided that Tenzin, Pema, Bumi and Kya would ride on Oogi, while Korra and Asami rode with Jinora, Kai, Meelo, Ikki and Rohan on Pepper.

The decision had weighed complicatedly on Tenzin and Pema, and for the longest time, Jinora had argued that Korra and Asami should ride on Oogi, because if anything happened in the Spirit World, it was safer that she and Korra, as the most spiritually connected out of all of them, each be able to look after a separate bison full of passengers. Tenzin and Pema, on the other hand, felt much safer knowing that Korra was with all their children, and even went on to say that at least all of the over 50 crowd had actually already physically set foot in the spirit world, thank you very much young lady, whereas Jinora had only ever gone in spirit form.

Rohan, only four years old, was originally meant to ride with his parents. He raised a massive stink about being the only kid stuck in the "old and boring car" and had airbent his way up a tree, refusing to come down until his parents had managed to negotiate his cooperation by extracting a promise from him that he would be on his utmost best behaviour and would hold onto one of the adult's hands the entire time. (He nodded solemnly and went straight for Asami, much to his older brother's jealousy.)

"Are you sure it's okay for me to come along?" Kai asked Jinora quietly. He was seated beside Jinora on Pepper's head, while everyone else was in the saddle on the sky bison's back.

With her hands on the reins, Jinora could only simply smile back at Kai and then leaned her head onto his shoulder in support. "Of course it's okay. Don't worry, Gran Gran will love you."

"Oooh! Are you two going to kiss?" Ikki cat-called from the saddle, causing both teenagers to spring apart hastily.

Korra knew better but couldn't help herself as she laughed. "Kai and Jinora, sitting in a tree?"

Rohan made a face and looked over at his brother. "Eww! Why is everyone always talking about sucking face?"

"Because it's beautiful, Rohan." Meelo educated, although he did wrinkle his nose as she looked out of the corner of his eyes at his sister and her boyfriend. "Except when it's happening to your sisters. Then it's gross."

"Jinora!" Tenzin shouted from Oogi, flying just above and behind Pepper. "What are you doing? Pay attention to the skies!" The father of four was practically tailgating his daughter in his anxiety as they approached the spirit portal.

"Oh, lighten up, Tenzin," Bumi laughed. "Jinora's a better driver than you are. Remember that time you were making out with Lin and flew Oogi into a tree?"

"No." Tenzin glared at his brother. "If I recall the story correctly, you were the one who flew Oogi into a tree after you stole him from me to use him to pick up a girl."

"Really? Is that what happened?" Bumi scratched the back of his head in confusion. "Funny, I could have sworn Lin was involved in this story somehow."

Pema's eyes widened. "Oh my god. Don't tell me. Was Lin the girl...?"

All three of Aang and Katara's children suddenly got very, very quiet.

(Back in Republic City, a certain police chief suddenly came down with a case of the chills and started to sneeze wildly, sending snot flying all over the face of the detective she had been talking to when the fit had come over her. Mako tried not to be too grossed out.)

Then Tenzin gave a long suffering sigh even while Bumi slapped his boot and howled wildly with laughter, his antics startling Bum-Jun a little bit. "Oh, I remember now! No, Lin wasn't the girl, Pema. She just showed up to give me a traffic violation for reckless driving." The retired general looked over at his two younger siblings, still howling with laughter. "But could you imagine if she had been? That would have made it three for three then, wouldn't it?"

Pema blinked. "Wait, three for-?" Lin and Tenzen were old news, and Pema didn't even feel all that upset anymore when she remembered how the policewoman had tried to arrest her after she had confessed her love to her future husband. But Kya?! Pema whirled around to look at her sister in law and Kya suddenly found the clouds to be very interesting. "Really? Seriously? Kya, when did this happen? Why haven't I heard of this before!"

The expression of long suffering on Tenzin's face grew ever more long and more full of suffering, and he didn't say anything while his sister laughed really weakly and awkwardly. "Aaah, there's not much to talk about, Pema. It was eons ago and-"

"Speak louder!" Korra's jovial voice came suddenly. "We can't hear the story!"

All of the older adults were startled to see that Pepper had maneuvered upwards and was now flying beside Oogi, the younger generation looking over at them with stupidly wide grins on their faces.

Luckily, (or maybe unluckily as the case may be), the adults didn't have to say very much more as the spirit portal was looming large in front of them, and with a gentle glimmer, the two sky bison entered into the Spirit World.

A/N: Bear with me for a little bit here guys. I'm not sure why this is happening, but I can't seem to get this idea out of my head, so the next couple of chapters are going to end up being a little more on the action/adventure-y side than fluffy humour. I hope this will strengthen this story and ultimately make it a little more enjoyable as a whole when it's all said in done. =_=