Face From the Past 6

Everyone was looking down at this old woman who claimed to be Chi. Was she telling the truth?

"If you're Chi, then.. tells us something only Chi would know." Sokka said

"Hmm, there are a lot of things I know." she said. "Aang is my older twin by five days, the fan I have belonged to my mother, I am an airbender, and Monk Kotsu smelled like moon peaches when he fell into the bison food bucket for a week."

"And Appa wouldn't stop licking him. She's Chi." Aang said

"But if you're Chi, why are you so old?" Katara asked. Chi got up and looked at the trio.

"If you want to know, I will tell you." she said. Katara, Sokka, and Aang all sat down in a circle, and soon she sat down.

"I was lying to you all, but not about everything. When the firenation attacked, I did try to find you Aang, but I couldn't. When I came back the next morning, everyone...everything..." Chi said. She looked down while tears filled her eyes.

"I'm sorry, every time I remember that day, I just... it was a horrible sight." she said, "I found all the monks, except Gyatso, and gave them a proper funeral."

"That's why we only found Monk Gyatso's skeleton and no others." Sokka said

"Yes. After the attack, I ran...er...flew away, never to return to that sad place. I knew the firenation was most likely going to attacj the other temples, so I kept flying. Then I landed in an earth kingdom village. I lived there for most of my life." Chi said

"Wait. How were you able to survive all these years? You've got to be like, one hundred years old!" Sokka said

"Boomy lived a long time. And I'm one hundred and ten! Anyway," Chi continued, "I was twenty when I began traveling the world, seeing many interesting things, learning hypnosis, and keeping my airbending a complete secret from everyone I met. I lived like that for about fifty years, until finally settling down in a town. Then there was a firenation raid, and I used hypnosis to control the gaurds to fight each other. In the end, because of my old age, I was defeated and brought to the fire lord himself. He told me, that he had use for me, and knew I was an airbender. He also said that if I brought him the Avatar, he would have his men rebuild the airtemples they completely destroyed, the Eastern, and Western."

"That's why you came after us, and sent our minds into another world." Aang said

"Aang believe me, I didn't want to hurt you. But to see the last two airtemples, even for a minute, I would've done anything." Chi said putting a hand on her twin's shoulder.

"That doesn't explain why you were a kid in our hypnotic worlds, and an old person in this one." Katara said

"I controled the world you were in. I wanted to see my brother just once. So I changed my image in the world so I would appear as Aang would remember me." Chi explained

"But that doesn't explain why you were trying to kill your brother." Sokka said

"I have spent too much time with Aang and I... I couldn't just let my brother get taken away by the firenation. I've seen what this war has doen first hand from my travels. The power of the Avatar on the firenations side would be disastrous. I realized I had to wake you up. I thought it would be as easy as killing you in the hypno world, but it wasn't enough. You needed something to happen. Something so painful you would instantly have to wake up." Chi said

"What?" Sokka asked

"Having Aang kill his twin sister. And as you can see it worked." Chi said. "But Aang, I was glad that I had the chance to see you now." Chi gave a large cough at the end of her sentence, and leaned on Aang when she was getting up.

"What do you mean." Aang asked

"I mean, I'm old Aang. I don't have enough time left. I was glad to see you before I died. I love you Aang." she said

"Chi." Aang said, tears welling up in his eyes.

"Good bye Aang." Chi said. She turned around and began walking. Then everyone saw her collapse on the ground.

"Chi!" Aang yelled. He ran over to her side and turned her over to see her eyes closed.

"Chi, no don't do this to me! Chi! Wake up, please! Please." Aang said. There was no response. Aang checked every where for a pulse, but there was nothing.

"Aang, she's gone." Katara said. Aang began crying and hugging his sister, feeling as alone and sad as any person can possibly feel in their entire lifetime.