Yu Dao

Shun was walking the streets of Yu Dao on foot and in disguise, for the past two months since his arrival he's been ruling the colonies, but he was ruling through fear and torture, whoever decides to rebel against The Firenation would be executed or tortured, to set an example to his followers, as time progressed, Rebels ceased to exist in the city, only two groups of rebels, one led by Kori Morishita, the former mayor's daughter, and one which was more dangerous and more rebellious led by a guy named Jet,

Shun wanted to capture Jet more than anything in the world, he wanted to torture him, dismantle him, as much as he loved torture, but he doesn't even remember wanting so badly to do that to a human being, but now he does, it was mid-night, and it the rain was drenching the entire city, so nobody was outside to see Shun, with a shawl wrapped around his head to cover his face, as he was walking towards one of his bases.. his bases of torture.

He finally arrived at the place, he entered finally removing his shawl, heating his entire body to cool his temperature and evaporating the water on his clothes, after he finished the process he walked towards the hidden door that leads to the secret room, which was basically a wall but marked with a sconce, you turn the sconce to the right, and the door opens, after the door opened, Shun marched in, taking the stairs and going down to the basement, when he arrived he found three of his men circling around a youngman,

remarkable features of the youngman, he was fat, his hair was styled in a top knot and he works for both Jet and Kori, being Jet's friend and Kori's boyfriend, finally Shun made his presence felt.

"Hello, Sneers." The three men and Sneers, who was tied up to the wall, looked at Shun with a start, he raised a hand to his men to put them at ease.

"Shun ? so you were the one that captured me ? No wonder those fools never told me who did." Sneers sneered at the guards, who gave him death glares but Shun interfered.

"At ease, Boys, this one here is our guest.." Shun kept marching towards Sneers until he reached an arm's length distance from him, Shun had that menacing smile plastered on his face as he kept talking.. "Now, Sneers, how's Kori ? i hope it's going ok between the two of you, more importantly How's Jet ?" Shun asked, his face flashing anger for a second but gone a moment later, Sneers understood Shun's frustration with Jet and had a smile of his own on his face.

"Oh, they're pretty good, especially Jet, sometimes he gets tired of capturing your street patrols and compromising your attempts to capture him, but other than that he's fine." Sneers taunted, Shun's confidant smile wavered, his eyes twitched, but he kept his cool.

"Well played, Sneers, but as you can see, i have no time for this, you see these boys get tired of so much talk after a while, they might do unspeakable things to you, they frighten even me to think about, you might want to reconsider your choices." Shun threatened calmly, but Sneers's confidence still hasn't swayed.

"Go To Hell." Sneers offended, which set Shun off, as he held a now frightened Sneers by the collar roughly, brought him face to face with him, and yelled to his face.

"WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR FAT FACE AFTER I DEFORM IT ! Does it finally get a little thinner, or does it blow up like a bubble from so much FATS ?!" Shun threatened with a high-pitched tone, making Sneers truly frightened at the moment from the menacing look in his eye, but he still won't sell his friends out,

Soon Shun removed his hands from Sneers's collar and stepped back a few paces with a chuckle, Sneers was looking utterly confused at the moment, as Shun kept laughing.. "I GOT YOU ! Admit it, I GOT YOU !" Shun pointed at Sneers still laughing and clutching his stomach, while Sneers was still panting and looking in confusion at the man, soon Shun's laugh subsided, and he regarded Sneers with the menacing smile once again, "Now tell me, Where is Jet ?" Shun asked, and waited until Sneers regained his cool, and stopped panting.

"GO.. TO .. HELL !" Sneers yelled and spit on his face, Shun's smirk was wiped away, as he put his hand on his face to remove the saliva.

"That wasn't very nice.." Shun said as he was staring menacingly at Sneers' face, after fully wiping away the saliva,

"Chit Sang, Take him to the reforming room." Shun said with a sense of finality, Chit Sang had a smile on his face after Shun mentioned the reforming room, which made a shiver run down Sneers' spine, Soon the three men untied Sneers and took him to the reforming room, while Shun left the room and got upstairs with a neutral face, getting his shawl and getting out of the house.

Foolish Boy, he had to make me let him visit the reforming room. Shun thought disappointedly shaking his head, he made his way through the rain once again.

I'll catch you, Jet, you can bet your life on that. Shun made a promise as he was making his way back to his secure house in Yu Dao.

Aang

People were stunned after they heard Aang's story.

It wasn't like he told any more than the three people in front of him, but if his story rendered the three people in front of him speechless, what would it do to the other people of the world, he just told Sokka, Katara and Monk Tenzin about the upcoming war between Humans and Spirits, a war Aang could have deflected if it wasn't for his stupidity and weakness, Katara was the only one that tried to comfort him, but the other two didn't have anything to say, Aang saw the look of disapproval on Tenzin's face which was expected,

but as for Sokka, he had a pensive look on his face, maybe he was gradually falling for that man, in a time where you should be panicking, making excuses to go cry in your room for your presumed dead parents, he was thinking for a way out, he was thinking of other's safety before his, no matter how little he shows it, but Aang's ability to read people made him sure Sokka was that type of guy, and he admired him deeply for it, at the moment they were still frozen at the moment after Aang told his story, there were awkward silence, even Katara wasn't sure what to say, Aang noted, and he waited for Sokka to be the first to contribute.

"So, do you know of any way to fight those spirits ? Like an ancient way, or how the original humans used to fight spirits ?" Sokka asked his concern showing.

"There's an ancient way, but only Waterbender can do it, they can peacefully return the spirits to the spirit world with their Waterbending, if their spiritual side is active." Aang informed, making Katara's face light up at the information, Aang knew she loves it when she discovers new merits to Waterbending.

"But, not all the people in the world are Waterbenders." Sokka said, Aang didn't want to tell them this other peace of information for the safety of the good spirits that got turned by the evil spirit, but he just had to..

"Well, when Vattu decides to come back to the world, the only way is through one of the locked portal, so he will have to find a way to open it sooner or later after gathering an army, and after they open, Spirits are just as vulnerable to be stricken as men." Aang said his gaze fixating on the ground, he wanted to uphold this peace of information, but he couldn't the world's safety was at stake, and it was all his fault.

"When do you expect the dark spirit to come here ?" Monk Tenzin asked after regaining his voice for the first time since Aang dropped the news on him.

"Time in the spirit world doesn't work the same as in ours, so if Vattu is going to take a month to gather an army, that means approximately a year or more in our time, maybe less i'm not sure.." Aang trailed off, he was still not sure whether the dark spirit would take a month to gather an army, but he was told as much by Avatar Yangchen.

"Is there anyway for you to solve this without conflict ?" Katara asked still putting a hand on Aang's back for comfort.

"There could have been had Ozai decided to help me, but all he did was block my chakra and now i can't even go into the avatar state." Aang said calmly, but his face showing eternal conflict and anger, for which Katara rubbed his back more gently to calm him down.

"It's alright, Aang, i know we can find a way, This is not the end." Katara said with determination, Aang was having none of that at the moment and he stubbornly turned away from her, grabbed his staff to help himself up, Katara offered to help but Aang just held a hand to her, saying he can walk on his own, he excused himself and without farther words he limped on his staff making his way to another side of the temple, while he knew all eyes were on him with concern, but he wanted to be alone at the moment to think,

he contemplated running away, facing this evil on his own to prevent the world from doing the same which would mean certain death for everybody, but then he decided against it, not until he informs his friends first, He decided he will tell them about it after his short tour around the temple,

as he kept walking he saw new students still learning to use their staff for flight, that reminded him of his early practices to fly with a staff, he remembered trying to twirl the staff during flight to boost him upper than his other friends' level, only for his hands to give out and he fell, his Airbending saved him at the last second before the fall crushed him and he landed gracefully on his legs, but the fear of the fall itself made him faint anyway, Aang smiled faintly at the memory, as he kept holding into his staff to move around the temple,

he finally spotted his best friend, his flying bison Appa, who was at the moment playing with other Bison, Aang smiled at the sight as Appa got reacquainted with his friends, but Aang frowned again as he remembered his own friends, what happened to Zuko, Toph and Iroh after The Firelord shot him, he hoped they're still alive and well, as he'd blame himself again if otherwise, he finally reached Appa's place and Appa was flying above him with the other Bison.

"Appa !" Aang called, and the bison heard him, with a happy grunt he headed towards him, Aang was now afraid for his life but there was no where to run, but Thankfully Appa landed in front of him and gave him a playful lick, Aang laughed and hugged the huge bison, but carefully not to damage his sore body, Appa released another happy sound,

Aang smiled and replied. "Yeah, I missed you too, boy.", from where Aang and Appa were the view was breathtaking, so Aang decided to just relax, he took a seat on the floor, and gazed at the setting sun at the far side of the world, maybe the company of Appa and this magnificent sight would clear his head, Aang kept gazing with Appa beside him as he refused to go play with the other Bison as his best friend came to be with him, but then Appa released another grunt but this time it was to greet the other presence that made itself felt to the seated companions, Aang turned around to see who was approaching, only to see the pleasant sight of the woman who saved his life.

"Lovely sight, huh ? i'm used to come here everyday to watch the sunset for the past two months." Katara announced as she came to a halt, she greeted Appa with a pat on the nose and took a seat beside a smiling Aang.

"Yeah, the sight is lovely." Aang agreed nodding his head to her, but then turned his head to gaze at the horizon again, having no more words to say and the silence that followed was so awkward until Katara broke it.

"So, how's your back ?" Katara asked to make conversation.

"It's getting better, by the way i've been meaning to ask you, the shot left a scar on my back, right ?" Aang asked, and Katara gazed on the ground with sadness but then she nodded.

"Yeah, there's a scar on your back, but don't worry, i'm sure your new hair and beard will make up for it." Katara said trying to lighten up the mood, but all she did was dampen Aang's mood more.

"First of all, i checked the beard it's not a full grown beard, and secondly i will shave my head and beard as soon as i get the chance."

"But it looks good on you, like really looks good." Aang regarded her with a confused expression making her blush and avert her eyes in return, but then he decided to brush it off.

"But i don't feel like myself with it, i might have let go of my air nomad teachings, but this is just unacceptable." Aang said, suddenly feeling the weight of what he just said, the guilt.

"That reminds me.." Katara spoke hesitantly and Aang regarded her pensively, knowing full well what topic she wants to talk about.. "Is it true ? What you said in front of Monk Tenzin ?" Katara asked slowly turning her head towards the now setting sun, Aang didn't know what to say, he did admit his actions in front of them.

"I talked about a lot of things in front of Monk Tenzin." Aang said in an attempt to dodge the question, but failed when Katara spoke again.

"You know what i mean.." Katara said hesitating again, which unsettled Aang but she kept speaking.. "is it true you let go of your air nomad teachings ?" Katara finally voiced her question, and Aang kept thinking of words to say as both of them weren't looking at each other at the moment, he finally decided to remember the truth.

"Yes." Aang said and he heard Katara release a sigh, what sounded like a sigh of sadness, but Aang kept talking.. "It all started when i took down my first man, it was too much to handle, i felt like i failed as an airnomad, as an avatar, so i ran away from the world, resided in a small Earth Kingdom town hiding my arrow tattoo with similar hair and a headband, i dedicated my life to drinking and eating and doing nothing useful for nearly two years, until my friends found me a year ago and brought me back to life." Aang confessed the hard truth, but apparently that wasn't the part Katara was asking about.

"And the other part ? Bedding women you have no feelings for ?" Katara asked still not looking straight in Aang's eyes, Aang looked abruptly towards her, having the grace to blush deeply at her words, remembering slightly remembering the time he had with The Firenation Princess, to this day he still can't believe it happened, he looked down shamefully.

"It was one time, and i was drunk, i only said it in front of the monk like that because that's what they said about me in the temple." Aang confessed in front of Katara, having no idea why he confessed all that to Katara, a girl he just knew two months ago and if you don't count the days he spent in a coma you'd say he knew her for less than a week, while he never confessed it to any of his other friends, Katara opened her mouth to say something but then she closed it again, Aang understood her inability to speak at the moment and decided to speak again,

"Like i said, Katara, i'm not really proud of that either, and i tried fixing everything because fixing it was the only way to have a chance against Vattu, but then came Ozai and.. you know the rest." Aang was speaking with difficulty but he was glad Katara regarded him with a nod nonetheless..

"But, if you had no feelings for the girl you bedded why would you do it ?" Katara asked once again.

"It's not that i don't have feelings for her, she's my friend after all, but i don't have romantic feelings for her, that's why i felt guilty for it as well." Aang said with guilt, normally it would be so hard for him to speak about the topic but with Katara there, it just felt right to confide in her.

"Is it The Firenation Princess ?" Katara asked suddenly, making Aang take a sharp intake of breath and coughed roughly, 'How did she know that ?!' Aang screamed inwardly, but then he decided to calm himself down.

"Why would you say that ?" Aang asked incredulously, not sure what Katara was implying, Katara shrugged nonchalantly.

"She looked pretty terrified for your condition when we were escaping The Firenation, and you said she was your friend, so i assumed it was her." Katara said appearing not to care about the topic that much, but Aang saw through her facade.

"Anyways, it doesn't matter anymore, we settled it between us as soon as we had the chance, and that eased my conscience a little bit." Aang wished what he said was true, but he never got rid of the feeling of guilt towards Azula.

"Well, why didn't it work for you ?" Katara asked again, Aang's patience was wearing thin as he wanted to let go of the topic, but he decided to answer anyway.

"Azula wasn't the one for me, i don't know how but it just feels like a cosmic feeling telling me that she isn't the one for me, and we were never destined to be anything more than friends." Aang replied feeling ridiculous for voicing this thought out loud, Katara might think he's stupid and superstitious.

"Actually i can relate to that, many Watertribe men tried to propose to me when i reached sixteen, but none of them felt like they were the one for me." Katara agreed with Aang, to which he released a sigh of relief.

"Thank the spirits, i thought you were gonna say i am being stupidly superstitious." Aang said chuckling lightly, with Katara joining him in laughter.

"I guess we're both stupidly superstitious.." Katara murmured and both her and Aang laughed louder, after the laughing subsided, Katara spoke again.. "Aang, you don't have to hold onto the past, sometimes we have to let go to live and protect those we love, you have to stop thinking about the past to ensure a better future for the world and for yourself." Katara said with a smile.

"But what if i can't do that ? What if my inner struggle is stronger than my inner strength ?" Aang asked sadly.

"Well, that's where my part comes to play." Katara said with determined look and a smile still gracing her face, giving Aang the courage he needed to slightly let go of the past, maybe he still hasn't fully recovered, but he'll keep fighting for the world, for his friends and for himself, finally a smile found its way to Aang's lips causing Katara's smile to widen.

"Thank you, Katara, For my life and for everything else." Aang said with tears shimmering his eyes, Katara let the happy tears fall freely on her cheeks and then she hugged him tightly, Aang winced from the hold at first but then he hugged her back, feeling safe to be in her arms, this is where he belongs. He found out, this is when the cosmic feelings stopped haunting him, because he finally found the one for him.

The Countryside near Yu Dao

Kori Morishita daughter of former Mayor Morishita was planning something disastrous.

ever since Shun arrested her boyfriend Sneers, Kori has been in a state of panic, she gathered her followers and recited her plan to rescue Sneers from that monster, who knows what unspeakable thing he might be doing to her sweet boyfriend right now ?

Of course, everyone rejected the idea, saying she's sacrificing herself which means sacrificing their whole movement against Shun for one man, It wasn't fair for the rest of the movement, but Kori couldn't care less about fair right now, the man she's fallen in love with was being tortured and scarred, but the rest of the movement still weren't convinced, as they were gathered in front of a small fire in the countryside outside Yu Dao.

"You're planning on putting the whole movement on the line for one man ? do you think Sneers would have approved of that ?" Said her archer friend Shu, one of her brothers in arms, as he was sitting holding onto his bow.

"I don't care about that, Shu, our friend is being tortured, had the roles been reversed, would Sneers have abandoned you ?" Kori asked rather aggressively.

"We're not abandoning him, but we can't sacrifice you, send someone else in your stead." contributed Bao, her sister in arms.

"I can't sacrifice any of you either, it has to be me." Kori replied, but before any of her companions could reply, another presence made itself felt.

"Allow me to present the alternative." Kori and her friends stood up abruptly, assuming their fight stances, only to drop it seconds later once they figured out the approaching figures.

"Jet, you scared the heck out of me." Kori put her hand on her chest as she observed the other companions following Jet, of course his freedom fighters, Longshot, Smellerbee, Pipsqueak and The Duke, Jet smirked with his trademark wheat in his mouth.

"I'm sorry, i couldn't resist you looked so engrossed in whatever shitty plans you were making." Jet taunted playfully, making Kori glare at him, but before she could say anything, Jet turned to her friend Shu who was holding his bow at the ready..

"You still hold onto that bow, Shu ? i thought you shoved it up your ass when Longshot beat you for the millionth time." Jet taunted the archer, making his whole gaang burst out laughing, except Longshot who had a proud smile on his face, and Kori's archer friend Shu had a faint blush on his cheeks, he turned his face and muttered inaudible curse words.

"Just state your business and tell us what you are doing here, Jet?" Kori asked impatiently, and Jet chuckled lightly.

"Take it easy, I'm not here to merely pick on you and go, i came with some good news." Jet announced with a genuine smile, that made Kori rather suspicious, his friend is being held captive and he's happy ?

"Nothing is good nowadays, Jet, but i'm willing to listen anyways, just get it over with." Kori stated but silently hoping Jet's news would be actually good, Jet cleared her throat to create an exciting atmosphere for the revealing of the news, and finally he said it.

"Aang is alive." Silence. Kori's whole camp was rendered speechless after Jet dropped the news, Kori had a million thought running through her mind right now, Aang is Alive ?! Of course she knew Aang a long time ago when Sneers introduced him to her, when Aang first met Jet and his gang including Sneers, Jet was about to blow a whole Firenation village, but Aang was there to stop it from happening and he helped Jet change his way to fight real threats and not innocent people,

and since then Aang and Jet became good friends and actually Aang used Jet and his gaang's help to fight the firenation rebels along the way until Aang drew himself away from the world three years ago, Kori and Jet actually started their movements again after they heard the news of Aang's death, Kori remembers Sneers telling her what a bad mood Jet was in, when he heard the news, his anger drove him to almost destroy his whole room,

but then he was motivated to avenge him, that's why he decided to start with The Firenation government in the colonies, and he's doing a pretty good job with it so far, with Kori's help of course, but now, Jet revealing that Aang's still alive could change the entire game, if Aang is still alive, their chance in the fight against the firenation triples, Kori finally regained some control over her senses and was finally able to speak..

"You're lying.." Kori couldn't mutter anymore words as the shock was truly overwhelming.

"Why'd i lie about that ? one of the Airnomads from The Southern Airtemple came down to one of the earth kingdom villages to buy some supplies and after some interrogation skills from the merchant he revealed that the avatar is still alive and well, recovering at the temple, the merchant is one of ours, we recruited him alongside many others to tell us of The Firenation movements, and he told us." Jet informed proudly, Kori was still speechless at the first but then found her voice.

"So, that's how you caused as much trouble as you did to The Firenation army in the colonies, you have spies everywhere.." Kori surmised, and again Jet nodded proudly with that smirk still plastered on his face, "Clever.. i can't believe he's alive, what're you planning on doing now ?" Kori asked and Jet held onto his wheat and that only means he's thinking.

"I'm still thinking of a way to reach him and get him back to the real world, but it's too dangerous to send a messenger hawk." Jet said with concern.

"You have to think of something quick, if the information of Aang's survival reached you, that means it will reach The Firenation as well in no time." Kori stated, and Jet nodded apprehensively still holding onto his wheat.

"I know, that's what worries me, also if Aang joined our cause, The Firenation will be defeated in no time, we need him, and we have to reach him as fast as possible." Kori thought for a while before Shu finally interfered..

"Jet, we have no choice but to send a messenger hawk to Aang, i know it's not a safe way, but there're no other way, nobody has ever climbed one of those mountains and lived to tell the story." Shu voiced his thoughts, and Kori agreed with him, Jet had a frown on his face for a while before he finally sighed.

"I hate it when you are right, Shu, makes me believe the end of the world is truly near." Jet taunted and Shu gave a sigh of irritation, before Kori broke the tension and announced to the recieving crowd from Jet's gang and her gang.

"Alright, let's get The Avatar back to the world, it's time to end this war once and for all." Kori annonuced with a boost of confidence, and transmitting it to the rest of the people around her, even Jet had a smile on his face, with the avatar's help, there's no stopping them,

it was truly time to end this war once and for all.