DISCLAIMER: don't own AVATAR.

SHOUT OUTS! YAY!

Queen rat gurl: u find out this chapter.

Rioki Moondove: BUT I WANNA COOKIE! (Inner Devil: yeesh)

Sulana Jay: I made sense of it, and I'm not telling!

Lopchop: yay! U's mad, and I happy 4 that! U hav weapons? Kool! I hav this: (holds up a bazooka) and this! (holds up a flame thrower) and a bunch of medieval weaponry! (Inner Devil: where'd u get that?) and y can't I laugh? It's funny 2 watch u scream. Lol. And I don't hav a problem, like u say, saneinsane, and insanesane. And I happen 2 b insane, so u get the idea.

FyreFlower: I don't. I look stupid (as in, humiliating from all the crying) and I'm not very good at tearjerkers, but this is sorta sad.

Chapter 3: Forgotten

The Master of the Worlds grinned along side Kierra as they watched Zuko and Kellie wake up. The Master turned to the goddess.

"Now?" He asked eagerly. Kierra grinned at the window.

"Just a few more minutes."

Kellie smiled as they started their hike once more. Zuko seemed to be going slower, and he moaned that his legs were in pain. Kellie laughed at her husband.

"Your legs are getting stronger, don't worry, the sore will stop in about 3 days. Trust me, my legs have been sore more times than I can remember." Zuko looked at his wife.

"But you suffer from a mild case of short term memory loss!" Zuko teased. He got the desired reaction, as his wife laughed.

"True." Was Kellie's reply.

The Master of the Worlds turned to Kierra.

"Now?" Kierra grinned first to the window, then to the Master, and nodded.

"Now."

Kellie paused mid-step, her eyes wide. The rocky terrain had left, and was replaced with a neon blue tunnel. In the middle of it, stood the Master of the Worlds and Kierra.

"Have fun, Kellie!" Kierra called.

"Kellie?" Kellie snapped out of her trance, and turned to Zuko, who had just caught up.

"What's wrong? You stopped. That's unlike you." Kellie looked from Zuko, to straight in front of her, where the Tunnel had just been.

"Nothing, nothing's wrong."

Zuko paused, he saw a neon blue tunnel surrounding him. Two strange people were in front of him.

"Have fun, Zuko!" One of the strangers, a man in a robe, called.

"Hurry up, slowpoke! You're falling behind!" Zuko snapped out of his trance, when he heard Kellie call out to him. He looked up, and saw his wife getting farther and farther away.

"Wait up!" Zuko called, running after her, Kellie laughing all the while.

Kellie couldn't help but feel as if something was wrong. The plants were getting rather, shrub-like. Desert shrub-like. It all felt so familiar, this wasn't common for a mountain, it was more common for…

Kellie looked up, and screamed. There was the radio tower. It was too good to be true!

The Fire Lady ran down the hill, and threw her arms around her husband's neck, kissing his cheek over and over again.

"Zuko! We're back! We're actually back!" Zuko looked into his wife's excited eyes. They had once been pine tree green, but her eyes had been glazed slightly with gray ever since that Great God thing two years ago, showing that the Goddess of Healing lived within her.

"Back where?" Kellie's eyes sparkled up at him, and Zuko saw, for the first time in years, whole green in her eyes.

"We're back in Ephrata!"

Kellie had abandoned her backpack on the hill, and was now running up her street, Zuko quietly following behind her.

She looked around with her neighborhood with excited eyes. Zuko recognized that look, he had had the same look when he had returned to the Fire Palace two years ago. Kellie had been separated from her home for two years, and now she was taking in all everything that had changed, which wasn't much.

To her, everything was exactly as she remembered it. Only, something was wrong. It had, changed, but Kellie couldn't place her finger on it.

As she rounded the bend, Kellie saw one of the people in the world she loved most, she screamed his name just as she saw him.

"AARON!"

The young man who Kellie screamed at, and she froze to the ground. This man, whoever he was, was not Aaron. He was, too old to be Aaron. This man looked to be around 25 or so, Aaron should be about 23.

Aaron whirled around when he heard a woman call his name. He saw a red haired girl running up the street, but freeze when she saw him. Who was this girl? And how did she know his name?

There was something very familiar about this girl, Aaron decided. She looked to be 17, and she looked so familiar to his…

Impossible.

Aaron's eyes widened. It couldn't be, his sister had been declared legally dead years ago, and to him, that's all he needed to hear. After all, he had gone to law school, and he was learning to be a lawyer.

"Aaron? Is that really you?" The red haired girl asked quietly with a bewildered look. Aaron took a step back.

"H-h-how do you know my name?"

Kellie stared at the man before her, he was at least, responsive.

"Aaron, you've changed a lot." Kellie said quietly. Aaron looked at his sister with bewildered eyes.

"Who are you?" Kellie smiled warmly.

"Aaron, it's me, it's Kellie."

Aaron could only stare at the young woman in front of him. She claimed to be his little sister! It was impossible, his sister was legally dead! She was gone, how could she come back?

"No, you're not Kellie. She was declared legally dead years ago. I heard it with my own ears. And as far as I'm concerned, that's all I need to hear." Kellie stared at her brother. Her heart felt as if it were torn in two. She had prayed every night to God that she would one day go back home, and see Aaron. Hadn't he done the same?

"Aaron, don't blind yourself with all that lawyer crap! Don't you remember all those jokes dad told us about lawyers?" Aaron stared. Dad. Lawyer jokes. Maybe…

Who are you kidding? Your sister was declared dead a long time ago.

But, I miss her. Maybe this kid is telling the truth.

Listen to yourself! You ACTUALLY think your sister is alive!

That's because she's standing right in front of me!

"Aaron, I left a note saying I would be fine! I told you I would be with Zuko! The Master of the Worlds told you that I love you!" Aaron backed away.

"There's no way, no way, you could know all those things." Kellie glared at her brother.

"Yes there is! Zuko's right behind me! He came back with me when the Master sent us here!" Aaron just then noticed the strong young man that stood behind the woman who claimed to be his sister.

Aaron flinched at the tale-tell scar on his face. It was indeed Zuko. But he still didn't trust the red haired girl next to him.

"I'm sorry, but whoever you are, you are certainly not my sister. Now, good day and good bye." And with that, Aaron walked back into the house, and slammed the door behind him. Kellie fell to the ground when she heard the click of a lock.

The tears streamed down when Kellie came to the horrible truth.

I am forgotten. My brother gave up a long time ago. He doesn't love me, only God and Zuko. My brother gave up hope long before me. I am a forgotten sibling

Aaron watched the girl on his lawn cry, with no feelings. After all, his sister had been declared dead a long time ago, and to him, that's all he needed to hear. His sister was dead.

(sniffle) I can't b-lieve that jerk!

CHANGE OF THOUGHT

YAY! I saw the new eppi of Avatar! I AM SO SCARED! THE FIRE NATION HAS AIR BALLOONS! THE FIRE NATION HAS AIR BALLOONS! Inner Devil: we heard u the 1st time.

INSANITY AT ITS FINEST
LONG LIVE THE HIPPIES!

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