Loving the reviews! (hugs to everyone!)Sorry about this fight scene, I'm not good at them. Don't forget your tissues, this chapter has more than one sad scene..

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The crowd was seperating where the voice was coming from. They all stopped just inside the doors to the Temple to see what all the commotion was. Aang's head was down. He knew who it was and was seriously hoping she didn't show up for her sake.

"Aang, what's going on?" Katara whispered.

"She's here. I told her not to come, but she wants to help."

"Who wants to help?"

"Toph."

The little blind girl was pushing through the bit of the crowd that didn't move. She was small and about Aang's age, but she was fierce. "You're not taking him!" She marched right up to them.

"Toph, what are you doing?" Aang whispered loudly.

"Let him go!" she yelled at Zuko.

"Toph, it's a set-up," Aang tried to whisper again. "Zuko's going to take you, just let him."

Zuko knew what Aang was whispering about and walked up to her. "Do we have to take another prisoner?"

"If you're taking him, you're taking me."

He kept his serious face and grabbed her and dragged her in with them, leaving the crowd confused and wondering what just happened.

They stopped just inside the doors after they closed behind them. "What are you doing here?" Aang almost yelled at her.

"I wasn't about to let you have all the fun."

"I don't want you to get hurt, you're all that I have. Please, just go back! I can do this!"

"I'm not leaving you!"

Zuko looked at Sokka and smiled. "What did I tell you? Stubborn or brave."

"Both," Sokka smiled back.

Aang was almost in tears. He was nervous and scared and excited all at the same time. He was afraid of who would be hurt today, who could lose their life today, who would come out on top. All of them were still kids, except for Iroh and Pakku, and the outcome of this battle would change the world forever no matter who wins.

"Okay, let's do this." They kept going and entered the chamber that Firelord Ozai was waiting. Aang whipped the air around and slammed the doors and he and Toph called the earth under the floor to seal it make sure no one outside could get in.

"Well, if it isn't my former son. I heard you were coming with the Avatar, but I half expected him to be in chains. I always knew you were too weak to capture him. You were always weak. Your sister, on the other hand-"

"My sister is no more," Zuko cut in. Ozai almost looked shocked. Zuko grabbed Katara's hand and brought her to his side. "My soon-to-be wife took care of her no problem."

Ozai looked her over. "A waterbender took down my prodigy?"

"No ordinary waterbender. A master."

"She's fourteen years old, she's no master."

Katara glared at him. "I'm fifteen and I can prove I'm a master. You people seem to forget that water beats fire. Azula was no match, she was down in a matter of minutes." Toph walked up to join her. Ozai just watched them with an amused look on his face.

"I suppose she's some kind of master too? She's tiny and blind."

Toph stomped on the ground, causing all the earth under the floor to rise up in a trail to where Ozai sat. "Do you want to repeat that? I think I might be deaf too!" For someone so small, she sure had a lot of courage and a big attitude.

Zuko finally stepped back in, putting a hand on Toph's shoulder to calm her down. "Step down from there so we can finish this and end this war."

Ozai stood up and started to walk down to them. "I noticed your scar is gone. I suppose your girlfriend did that?" Zuko didn't reply. Ty Lee was almost laughing inside because she just realized that Azula's messengers never came. They were supposed to tell him all these things, including the storms.

He stepped onto the floor in front of them and looked over them all. His eyes stopped on Katara. "Is she okay?"

Zuko looked at her. Her eyes were starting to speckle with gold. It was time. "Oh yeah, this is what happened to her right before Azula died. Something similar happened to Aang right before the Southern Air Temple was rebuilt. I don't think you're in a very good position here, father."

Ozai continued to look around. Toph's eyes were changing too. Green spots were popping up in them. He looked at his long hunted Avatar and noticed his eyes and his arrows all over his body were glowing a bright blue, his Avatar state. Then his own son's eyes were popping up with a flaming red against his own amber. He started to get a little paranoid, but tried not to worry. Besides, he's the firelord and these are a group of teenagers and a retired general.. and another old man he didn't seem to recognize.

Katara walked right up to Ozai's face and stared him square in the eye. "The only reason we know for a fact that you won't win here today is because we have friends in high places that are helping us. The spirits of the four elements, including fire, are disappointed in you and will use the talents we already posess to make us stronger to defeat the likes of you." Her voice changed again like it had the day she fought Azula. Her gold speckled eyes glowed when she spoke.

All four of them spoke up at the same time, all in mixed voices, "You will not win here today, Ozai."

Zuko walked up and pulled her back from his face. "Are you ready?"

"More than ever." Ozai was so unsure of himself right about now but if he was going down, he was going down fighting. That's what firebenders do. He got in his stance, as did the other six benders and the three warriors.

Thunder rumbled overhead. They could hear the rain start to fall. Zuko looked up and shot the ceiling with his lightening bolt so the rain could get in for Katara. Ozai was startled by this move thinking it was a first shot and hit Zuko with a blast of fire, sending him flying. That made Katara really mad. The rain started pouring in like a faucet. She yelled at everyone, "Everyone at the same time. Now!" All at once, there were streaks of lightening, boulders, ice disks from everywhere, a tornado of wind, and all kinds of water spikes, fireblasts, whips and everything you could think of from every direction at once, all headed straight for Ozai. There was nowhere to jump out of the way and was hit with all of it. He went down, but somehow recovered quickly and jumped back to his feet. Zuko's eyes were flaming now, Katara's eyes completely gold and Toph's all green as well.

Aang was still in Avatar state and suspended in mid-air surrounded by his tornado, which was now gathering earth, fire and water in it. Ozai tried to hit him, but nothing was getting through that tornado. Sokka and Suki had snuck up behind Ozai and attacked while he was mesmerized by the blur of colors in the tornado. Sokka hit him with the corner of his boomerang and Suki jumped off the steps and kicked him square in the back of the neck. While he was down, Iroh blasted him. You could smell his clothes burning, but he weakly got back to his feet. Zuko ran up to him, his father braced himself for another blast, but Zuko went sliding across the floor in front of him and kicked his feet out from under him making him hit his head on the now destroyed marble floor. Blood was dripping from a spot on his head and some from his ear, but he managed to get to his feet. Just then, Toph stomped causing the earth underneath him to lift really fast, making him fly. She put it back down and he came hurtling back to the marble floor. Katara quickly gathered water and whipped him with it as he was falling, sending him back. He blasted the ground, slowing his fall but not quite enough as he hit with a loud thump. He slowly lifted his hand and tried to hit Iroh with a bolt of his own lightening, but it only made it halfway to him when Aang's tornado hit him head on, all the elements engulfed in it.

This time he didn't get up. Everyone started to get excited when they walked over to him and he still hadn't moved. Iroh put a hand on his throat to check for a pulse when he flung himself over and shot a random lightening bolt to the back of the group. Ty Lee jabbed at a pressure point so he couldn't move and he fell limp again before Sokka pulled out his sharpened boomerang and slid it across the firelord's throat. Blood poured out around their feet, as dark and red as his own robes. He was down for good this time. They had won. Zuko turned to leave and his heart fell to his feet.

"Katara!" He ran to her. He had a feeling that lightening bolt wasn't so random after all. "Katara, wake up please!" He picked her up and held her limp body. Aang's Avatar state receded and he slowly floated to the ground and fell to his knees, weakened greatly by the battle. Toph helped him over to Katara and Zuko and everyone else slowly followed. Zuko was crying, he wasn't holding the tears back like he had always done. "Aang, can you help her? Please, you have to do something. I love her and I don't know what I'd do if I lost her. Please, try something. Anything!"

Aang sat down next to her and looked at the scorch marks in her Water Tribe clothes. He felt for a pulse as he had seen Iroh do. Nothing. It was too late. He couldn't save the dead, even in the Avatar state. "I'm sorry, Zuko."

He started crying even harder, burying his face into her chest. Toph release the earth on the door and soldiers came running in to see what happened. They took one look at the mess, the firelord on the floor dead, and then Zuko. Aang walked to them. "Your new firelord has arrived. Tell the people." They nodded with almost scared looks on their faces and ran out. He could hear Zuko muttering into Katara's chest. He couldn't make it out, but he knew he was telling her to come back to him.

Iroh walked over to him and tried to pull him away, but he wouldn't budge. "Leave me! Everyone, just leave please!"

"Firelord Zuko, you couldn't help this. It's not your fault." Iroh leaned down and kissed his nephew on the head before walking out with everyone. Sokka stayed behind, crying just as hard as Zuko. He was sitting next to her, holding her hand in both of his.

"Katara, please wake up," he cried. "Come on, you're stronger than this, I know you are. You're the strongest person I know because you're my sister. You have to come back now, we won. We won for you." He couldn't talk anymore because he was crying so hard. He put her hand up to his cheek and just hugged it since Zuko had the rest of her. "I was supposed to take care of her. My baby sister.." he faded out again to cry.

Kana ran in to the room screaming. Both of the boys moved for her. She knelt down beside her granddaughter with a hand over her mouth to keep from screaming more, tears streaming down it. "What happened?" she finally got out.

"Surprise attack move from my father right before we killed him." Zuko was almost all cried out by then, but couldn't stop. He was sitting next to her with his knees pulled up to his chest and his arms wrapped around them.

Kana's tears hit the floor and ran across the ruined marble to Katara. Then, something happened. Her body lifted up in the air. There was light all around her from the gaping hole in the ceiling but it made it all the more dramatic. They heard a voice that sounded very familiar. It was a spirit, but not hers. It was the moon spirit. It was Yue.

"Tears from her loved ones will be cherished forever for they contained pieces of her spirit. La also contain those pieces and with them all, she can continue through her life as a wife, daughter, sister, and mother." Zuko looked up with big eyes at that. "She gave her life to bring order back to a world of chaos, and for that she gets to keep it."

The light dimmed some and she started coming back down. Yue appeared under her and she landed in her arms. She handed the limp girl to Zuko. He watched her for a second, tears still lingering in his eyes. Then, she took a breath. A smile grew so big on his face that it hurt, but it was a good hurt. She was still unconcious, but alive and well.

He looked at Kana and Sokka, his eyes welling with tears again. "Did you hear that last part?" They looked at him, too happy to talk. "I'm going to be a father."

"You have your love back. You helped in avenging my death, it was the least I could do for you. It came at a cost, though." She turned to Sokka. "I told you I would always be with you." She blew him a kiss before disappearing and the light fading the rest of the way out.

A happy tear ran down his cheek as he walked outside to his new kingdom. Sokka was about to cry again, but wondering what it had cost them. Then they all looked up and gasped. Aang was laying on the ground surrounded by everyone that had fought with them. Sokka ran up to them, Zuko trailing behind carrying Katara.

"What happened?" Sokka asked as he reached Aang.

Toph had a tear running down her cheek. "He gave his life to save hers."

"There was a bright blue spirit coming out his mouth and flew into the sky, then a light shone through the clouds onto the Temple," Iroh spoke up. "The Avatar has passed and the Water Tribe is the next in line."

Zuko's eyes lit up. "I'm going to be the father of the Avatar?"

Everyone looked up at him confused. "What?"

"When the light shone in, the spirit of that Water Tribe princess spoke to us. She said that because Katara gave her life to bring order to the world, she gets to keep it. She said.." he hesitated as if it were almost a dream. "She said I'm going to be a father." Another happy tear rolled down his cheek.

Iroh stood up and walked over to his nephew, the new firelord, placing a hand on his shoulder. "Congratulations, nephew. I think you will make a greater father than yours ever knew to be."

"I think you were a better father than my own," he smiled. "You cared more and never left me even when I didn't want you around."

Sokka picked up Aang's lifeless body. "Let's give him a proper burial. In the Southern Air Temple where he grew up. The only family he knew before us died there, it only seems right."

"Where's Appa?" Zuko wondered. Just then, almost like a sign, the bison whistle fell out of Aang's clothes. Zuko picked it up and blew. It didn't make a sound. Sokka was looking up in the sky for Appa. "It doesn't work," Zuko said, noticing him.

"Yes it does, it's a whistle only animals can hear." Appa came flying towards them with Momo riding on his back and only a few of them climbed on so not to weigh the animal down too much.

Zuko turned to face his people. "I will return to bury my father and claim my position on the throne, but right now my friend is more important." Then they took off to the Southern Air Temple, leaving the crowd baffled.

Katara woke up when they landed. Her eyes fluttered open to see Zuko still holding her. "Where are we?"

He jumped a little, looked down at her and smiled. "I'm so glad you're okay. We lost you there for a while. We're at the Southern Air Temple."

"What for? Didn't we win?"

"Yes, we did but at a great cost." He helped her sit up and pointed over to Aang's body. "He sacrificed his life so you could keep yours."

A tear rolled down Katara's cheek as she shakily crawled over to the boy that had become her little brother. "Aang," she whispered, rubbing his cheek. "Come back to us, Aang." Another tear came to her eye but she wiped it away.

Zuko came up behind her. "We came back here to give him a proper burial in the Temple he grew up in. It was Sokka's idea."

"But he can't be.." she started, but stopped when she felt a cry rising up in her throat. She fought it back. It's a sign of weakness.

"It's okay to cry sometimes."

"He wouldn't want us to." She helped them lift his body off of Appa and carry it to the chamber that they discovered the first time they ever went there. Surprisinly, it was already open. The statues of all the past Avatars went up at least five stories high. They went to the center, next to Avatar Roku's statue, and there was Aang's. Katara looked confused when she saw it. "This Temple was just rebuilt, all the statues are still here, and now Aang's is here too? His wasn't here the first time we came, and Roku's name wasn't engraved either. Someone's been here."

Sokka helped guide Toph to the center of the room. They decided it was the perfect spot to bury him. She stomped the ground and a giant chunk of stone lifted out of the ground. They moved him into the hole and laid him as comfortably as they could, not that he could feel it. As they climbed out of the hole, Katara grabbed her stomach and fell to the ground. Zuko rushed to her to make sure she was okay.

"Don't let that rock drop yet!" she yelled, still clutching her stomach. Toph laid the rock down to see what was happening.

"What's wrong?" she asked, walking to them.

Katara was in too much pain to answer with words, so she just screamed. She was in that position for a few minutes, unable to move. Then it just went away like it was never there. She uncurled and tried to sit up, almost afraid it would come back.

"Hey guys, what's going on?"

Katara looked up into his brown eyes and smiled. She looked around to make sure everyone was okay, then got up and hugged him. "Aang, you're okay!"

"Yeah, I guess I am."

"How? I mean, what happened?"

"I got to talk to Roku. He sent me back, but he said that since the Avatar spirit had already been passed on I'm just a normal airbender now. I think I can live with that."

Toph grabbed him as soon as Katara let him go. "I thought I'd never see you again."

"Wow, how long was I gone?"

"Well, however long it takes to get from the Fire Nation Temple to the Southern Air Temple."

Zuko was looking at Katara. He was kind of glad she didn't know about their news in case something happened to it just now and hoped that everyone else knew not to say anything. He was glad that Aang was okay though. "Let's get back to the Fire Nation Temple. We still have business there."

Toph put the stone back in the hole and they walked out. When they got back out there, Momo was playing in the trees. He came running back to Aang when he saw him, but he had another one following him that jumped up to Katara and Zuko. Zuko picked it up and noticed it was a girl.

"Aw, let's keep her!" Katara squealed. Zuko already wanted to, it would be a good pet for their child if they still had one. He was so hoping they did, even though they were still very young. "Her name will be.. Kaia. I like that name, it fits." The leemur crawled across Zuko to Katara and purred in her ear, making her giggle.

"Okay, we can keep her. Now let's go please."

Appa saw Aang coming back and licked him with his huge, Aang-sized tongue, making him laugh and hug the giant beast. Everyone climbed up on his back, and there were quite a few of them, and they left for the Fire Nation Temple they had just come from.

There were crowds around the Temple when they got back the next day. They made room for the flying bison to land before they took up yelling again. Zuko stood up on Appa's saddle and tried to calm them down. "Quiet!" They shut up instantly. "My father is dead. My sister is long gone. I am your firelord now and you will listen to me without a fight or you'll be harshly taken care of. I, whether you like it or not, am taking a waterbender as my wife and she will help run this nation that my father ran into the ground. This place will be better and I am putting an end to this ridiculous war and pulling back all troops before any more get killed out there. If you want to fight me on it, so shall be your death. Any takers?" The crowd was completely silent. "That's what I thought. Now you can go. If you have any questions, you can come to me in the Temple with them."

Zuko jumped down off of Appa and helped Katara down. Kaia was still sitting on her shoulder, wide-eyed and looking around at her new home. They walked towards the Temple together as the crowd watched. A little girl stepped out to them and hugged Zuko's leg. "Thank you, Firelord Zuko. Can my daddy come home now?"

He knelt down to face her. "I'm bringing all the soldiers home, little one." She hugged him again before her mother pulled her back.

"I'm sorry, Firelord Zuko," she apologized.

"It's quite alright. I'm starting to get used to them." He smiled and kept walking until the doors shut behind them. He looked around. Someone had been here. They cleaned up the mess of the battle and removed Ozai's body. They had started on patching up the ceiling and all of the floor that had been destroyed.

Zuko walked up the stairs to his father's chair and sat in it. "Wow. After all that time running around the world, I never thought I'd be sitting here." Katara watched him with a smile as he sat there looking around him. He noticed her. "I'll have them make one to sit right next to mine. You're helping me run this place."

She walked up the stairs and sat in his lap with her arms around his neck. "What was the deal with that little girl outside?"

"I figured if we're going to have kids, I want to be a better father than mine was. I need to talk to you about that."

"We have time. Right now we need to get you settled in here."

"No, we don't have time." She looked at him confused. He sighed. "When that spirit brought you back, she said that you would continue through life as a wife, daughter, sister, and.. a mother. That's when Aang died. Uncle Iroh said that the spirit left Aang's body and went towards the sky, then the clouds opened and shined onto the Temple. That's when you came back. You're carrying our child. Our child is the next Avatar."

"Which means he or she is a waterbender," she smirked. He didn't like that, but it only made sense. "We need to start making up a nursery then." Somehow she didn't seem surprised by all of this.

One of the guards came in. "My lord, my lady, there is someone here to see you. He says he has a question for you."

"Let them in! We welcome all questions!" Zuko yelled cheerily, which didn't suit him much.

"Yes, my lord." He bowed slightly and walked out.

A young man walked in who looked about Zuko's own age. "My lord, my lady," he said as he bowed slightly. "I know you aren't well liked just yet, so I was wondering if there was anything I could help with. I'm glad you are ending the war and I fully understand the mix of elements. You can't help who you love, right?"

"I like you," Zuko said, walking down to him. "What's your name?"

"My name is Kiatoh. I'm the son of your late enemy Commander Zhao. I thought of my father the way you thought of yours and I'm offering my services to help and to spite him, even if he is dead."

Zuko looked back at Katara and smiled. "I like you even more. Would you like to help build a nursery?"

"You're expecting already? Wow, I'd love to help!"

"It has to be perfect, our son or daughter is the next Avatar. Now, run along and see how many of your friends you can sway. We are going to make this world better, you'll see."

"Yes, my lord!" He sounded excited as he ran out.

"Aw, we have loyal subjects!" Katara said, putting her hand to her mouth. Kaia had fallen asleep in her lap as she sat in the chair. "That's sweet."

Zuko walked up to her and picked her up. "You want to see the bedroom of a firelord?" He smiled and wiggled his eyebrows at her. He carried her off to their new estate, she was laughing the whole time.

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Told you I wasn't any good at fight scenes. It was too short and not enough action.. Did you cry? I did.. again lol. I have more chapters after this one, but it's up to you whether I put them up or stop right here. R&R! XD

Jenn, waterbending master of the south