So he has to let go of all earthly attachments.

Okay, easy enough.

The images flow through him; images of the things he needs to leave behind. Aang finds it surprisingly easy to watch so many things leave; money, his staff, the bison whistle- he didn't own much in the first place.

But then Katara flashes through his mind, and Aang experiences what can only be described as a brain fart.

What? None of this made sense, why would he have to give up Katara? He was only supposed to let go or earthly attachments, right?

And the Guru explains to him that he's much too attached to her, and in order to master the Avatar State and save the world he has to let her go.

But that's not how Aang sees it. To him, Katara isn't an earthly attachment at all. She more like water, or the ocean; slipping and sliding and rolling and folding and crashing and always so close, so big, so right there, but impossible to get a hold of.

She's not tied to the earth at all- quite the opposite. She doesn't need the earth like Toph, or prefer it like Sokka. Aang would know- he's taken her riding on Appa a thousand times.

No, Katara hardly ever touches the earth at all. She'd rather be in the ocean, or riding Appa, or way up floating with the moon. She'd rather be bouncing on clouds or swinging from stars or ripping through the skies on a glider. She grew up on the ice; on the water.

When Aang thinks of Katara, the word earthy never even crosses his mind.

Maybe that's why he didn't think twice about leaving the Guru behind- because none of it made sense. Come to think of it, neither did the Avatar State. What did make sense, though, was Katara (or as much sense as a girl could make) and right now she needed him.

And the feeling of needing her back, well, that made all the sense in the world.

So now he has to go get Sokka and find Toph so they can rescue Katara and gather an army in time for the Day of Black Sun where they'll invade the Fire Nation and he'll have to defeat Fire Lord Ozai and overthrow the Fire Nation in order to end the war and save the world all without the use of the Avatar State.

Okay, easy enough.

Note: Oh, goodness, don't we all love overwhelming people by sticking all of Aang's duties to the world into one run-on sentence.

Pssh, another finale drabble. And uh-oh, I heard that the Season 3 premier got some baaaad reviews…

Thanks for reading!--- -Sweet dreams, ya'll!