Girl Dilemma
As the radiance of the golden sun died away beyond the snowcapped peaks of cobalt lilac series of mountains, it seem to let its tangerine light shed light on the large mountain lake below.
The gang was all busy getting things ready for the night. They had been traveling non-stop for days and now they had a chance to rest and be rejuvenated
Sokka had just finished pitching the tent while Katara prepared dinner over the campfire. Momo and Appa were resting quietly nearby while Aang went to the lake to get fresh water.
Aang was in a compteplative state of mind as he used his water bending skills to fill the canteens. He looked at his reflection in the water and sighed. What was the matter with him? He didn't look any different, but he sure felt different on the inside.
His heart was beating very fast and his pulse was racing. The blood was rushing all through out his entire body and new sensations flooded his senses. A picture of Zara entered his mind and he smiled. "She's so attractive," he said to himself. He then slapped himself. "What am I thinking? She's the Princess of the Fire Nation, my enemy. Oh I'm so mystified."
"Aang, you okay?" Katara asked approaching him. "I was getting worried when you didn't return with the water. Is everything okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine. Can we go have some dinner I'm hungry?" Aang said hurriedly. He unfolded his glider and took off heading back to camp leaving a stunned Katara at the lake's edge.
Dinner that night consists of fruit, bread, and a salmon that Sokka had caught. The three friends ate in silence. Katara and Sokka kept glancing at each other. Both siblings were worried about their friend, but neither of them knew what to say.
Finally Sokka broke the silence by slamming his plate to the ground. "Alright enough is enough! What is up with you Aang? You've been feeling sorry for yourself all day like you lost your best friend or something."
"Sokka! Don't start please." Katara pleaded.
"It's alright Katara, I can speak for myself. For your information I was thinking about Zara." Aang acquaint with him.
"Why are you thinking about that traitorous Fire Nation girl? She's malevolence Aang! You heard what she said to you. She was going to aid her brother in incarcerate you!" Sokka yelled at him.
"She's not evil! She's kind, caring, and a funny human being. She saved us from her brother and made him let us go or have you forgotten that fact?" Aang retorted.
"Aang she betrayed us. You saved her from certain death, brought to our room to be cared for, shared stories with her and how does she repay us? By hunting us down and trying to capture us for her father. You know who her father and her brother are Aang. The rotten apple doesn't fall from the tree." Katara told him soothingly. She reached out for his hand but he wrench away.
"I can't believe you two. You of all people shouldn't judge people by their cover. She's a decent person. You heard her. She hates her powers. Plus she's a lot like you two. She doesn't have a mom." Aang pointed out.
"She may not be Jet but she most definitely is trouble Aang. You saw her hand. How do we know she was just pretending about how she got that? She could be lying about everything. Besides the way she kissed you was just wrong." Katara said her voice full of covetousness.
"Aang I know you're attracted to her, but you have to get over it. Zara is the enemy. She was never our friend nor will she ever be. So get your head clear and lets focus on the task on hand, mainly you mastering all four elements." Sokka insisted.
"I won't forget Zara. She's good I know it. Just leave me alone." Aang told them tears streaming down his face. He took off running towards the woods with his friends calling after him.
"AANG! AANG! Come back!" cried Katara as her ponytail wiped passionately in the twilight breeze as she watched him disappear into the woods.
"Let him go, Katara. He just needs time to chill. No one said love didn't hurt! He will be back in his own time so good night!" Sokka said as he rolled out his sleeping bag and slept with his boomerang in his arms.
Sighing she add more kindling and went to sleep. She gazed out at the constellations and saw a shooting star. Closing her eyes she made a silent pray.
Aang ran deeper and deeper into the forest stumbling over rocks and roots. He kept running till he came to the oldest tree in the entire woodland. It was a mighty redwood and used his glider to take to the air up to highest point in the tree and he the savored the land. He then began to rub his tears stricken face but only managed to smudge it with dirt and mud.
"I wish, I wish" he blubbered as he become quite chock up he manage to calm down and said to him self. "I wish I could talk to someone who would understand how I feel. And tell me what to do. Not a kid an adult! But its not like I can beckon Monk Gyasto and have a discussion with him. I really wish I could. But maybe…" he said as realization set in at last "I can talk to Avatar Roku!" he cried out cheerfully
He looked at the moon and deiced he get in a clear spot. He hurried to a clearing and waited for the moon to reach the midnight point. He then began to call out over and over "Avatar Roku! Come froth I need you!" The wind began to swirl and the trees creaked as birds scattered. Finally a radiant beam of sliver light shot out and hit Aang in the forehead. He was knocked out and when he came to he was being help up by Avatar Roku.
"Aang its good to see you again. But I would have expected you to be not so contaminated. You might want to clean up first before we speak." Roku said sympathetically to the boy Avatar as he helps dust him off best he could.
Smiling embarrassed a little to him Aang went and clean up and said with much gradated in his voice "Thank you for coming. I really need to speak to someone and you maybe the only one who will understand me. So you ready for what I have to ask?"
Smiling warmly at the boy he nodded. "Does this have anything to do with Sozen's Comet? Or you mastering all the elements?" he questioned
He sighed and shook his head. "No its not question about being the Avatar." He answered back.
"Then what in Heaven name is it, Aang? It must be important or you won't be this disheartened. So what is it?" asked Roku who was totally confused right now.
"After we meet I went to the Isle of the Avatar just like Gyasto told me to do. It was there my life changed forever. I've been having very vided strange dreams lately. They were about a girl with lengthy crimson tresses and ocher eyes. Sokka told me I was expressing my first "Wet Dream" but that was not it. But while on the island I saved that girl life. And I healed her. Her name was Zara and we spent the night together. Next day she was gone I went to find her and Zuko cornered me. And I would have be capture by him if Zara hadn't intervene but then I found out who Zara was." He paused not sure if he should go on.
"Tell me who was Zara?" asked Roku looking intensively into the child eyes.
"She was Zuko's little sister! The Princess of the Fire Nation! Before we parted she did something that still making me a basket of unstable emotions!"
"What?"
"She kissed me!" he said with his arms flaying around madly
Smiling at Aang Roku chuckled a bit. Aang gave him an outlandish look.
"Why are you laughing? I really need help!" he said as he crossed his arms and stomped his foot.
"Aang you are telling me you contacted me because you are having girl trouble? That is very amusing to me," explained Roku.
"Well I didn't know who else to talk to. Katara and Sokka think she evil. But I believe she is good. She doesn't seem like the rest of the Fire Nation to me. I don't have a crush on her, I. I. I love her! What do you think?" asked the confused child with lost gaze in his depressing eyes.
"Hmm Roku said as he stroke his beard. "You said you met in a dream correct?" Aang nodded "Then I believe that Zara has the gift of clairvoyance."
"Clairawhatsthe?" asked the perplexed bald boy
"Clairvoyance. It means the ability to see events yet to come. It's an extremely rare gift and only a selective few girl in the Fire Nation get it. Its sounds to me that your friend Zara possess this out the ordinarily gift but to her it may be as well a curse." Roku sighed heavily as he shook his head.
"Events yet to come? You mean she can see the future?" asked the bewilder young monk
"More like she sees cryptic metaphors of possible future. For as you know the future is not written in stone, it's constantly changing. Also with the gift of clairvoyance you have the gift of empathy." The old Avatar explained tiredly
"Empathy?" asked Aang
"She can literally feel the collective emotions of her vision which means she can feel all the pain that the Fire Nation has caused. The Fire Lord mostly likely has used her visions to his own benefit in the war." Explained the old man
"I didn't know she suffered so much. But what to I do about my thoughts for her? I can't change my feelings and I can't fight her." Aang said with a forbidding look on his face.
"Aang I would be not human if I told that even the Avatar can't love. For you see being able to love it what real humanity is. To be truly human is to care about someone more than your self. I to have loved and I can tell you I've felt just like you do now. Zara has been like her brother Zuko trained and raised to be like all the other people of their nation. But that does not mean that she and possibly her brother feel differently in their hearts. Its truly is a battle between the heart and the mind but who will win only time will tell. But if she does battle you, you must fight back. But if she truly is a divan soul than maybe your love can free her from the fiery clutches of the Fire Lord. I do believe the union of Air and Fire can help end this war. For fire to live it needs the air to give it life. The midnight hour is almost passed we must go our separate ways. You know where to find me if you need anything. See you later Avatar Aang." Avatar Roku said as he bowed.
Aang bowed to him and said "Thank you for your wisdom. Is there anything else you think might help me before you go?"
"Trust your heart. That all anyone can do. Believe in yourself and in your heart." Said the fading voice of the old Fire bender as Aang woke in the clearing.
Looking at the stars he made a silent pray before he return to the campsite and went to sleep. But while he was dreaming he heard Zara calling to him but a locked steel door blocked him from going to her. He called to her all night in vain, but he refused to give up.
