Well, seems no one wanted to add a quote. It's ok; I'm ditching the quote thing anyway. You'll still get the title thing though. Here's the next epic chapter of Broken Hearts. Enjoy!

Shards of War (Part 2 of 2)

Written By TheHiddenWriter

Based of ATLA, created by Nick and Viacom

For my fans, you guys rule!

Koh kept charging at Sokka, forcing Sokka to use all the strength he had to fight off Koh's many face-stealing tentacles. He kept taunting Sokka with the faces of Suki and Yue, hoping that it would have some affect on him. Sokka looked back towards Kuruk, who bent down for a moment.

"Kuruk? Are you ok?" Asked Sokka.

"Aang… is in trouble… I need to help him."

"What? But he's…"

"I have to go to him. I'm the only avatar that still has a face and can help him. He'll be in a weak avatar state, but I still have to do my job."

"But I can't hold off Koh by myself!"

"Yes you can. At least until I get back. Just try, Sokka."

And with that, Kuruk vanished.

"Great… I'm all alone now." Said Sokka.

"You still have me." Said Koh in a taunting voice, as he charged towards Sokka.

Sokka held up his sword defensively. This time, it might not be as easy to defend himself…"

Hakoda jumped out of the way as Xiang fired an air slice at him. Piando charged towards him with his mighty sword, but Xiang leaped over him, and blasted him into a wall. Two harpoons suddenly flew past Xiang. Before he had time to react, Teo's wheelchair smashed into him, sending him flying into a wall.

"Nice hit, Teo!" Said the Duke.

Xiang got up and raised one hand. Teo suddenly started to suffocate. It was getting harder and harder for him to breathe.

"D-Duke… H-Help!" Shouted Teo in the loudest voice he could.

"I told you it's… oh… your choking!"

Hakoda slammed into Xiang, releasing Teo from his attack. Teo breathed again and retreated, preparing to reset his harpoons. Hakoda made a few attempts to hit Xiang with his spear, but all the attempts were quickly dodged. The Duke ran towards Xiang with his small spear, but was slammed into a building before he reached him. Xiang was tired of playing games. He raised his hands, and began to suck the air out of all four warriors lungs. They slowly began to suffocate.

Meanwhile, Toph and Haru were trying to hold off Gang. They kept firing any large rocks they could at him, but they had to be careful. They didn't want to hit any buildings, so they had to watch what kind of attacks they did. Gang, meanwhile, ripped off some metal from a near by building. He shaped it as a missile, and aimed it at Toph and Haru.

"Look out!" Said Toph.

She used her earth bending to push her and Haru out of the way, as Gang used his metal bending to fire the "missile" at them. It missed and went through a couple of buildings.

"Thanks." Said Haru.

"Now, we're even." Said Toph.

Gang jumped into the middle of the area and stretched his arms out.

"She hates the water, I'll give her a whirlpool."

He began to spin around, causing the land below and around him to spin rapidly. Toph and Haru quickly grabbed on to a pole near by.

"Oh great… this." Said Toph.

"Wait, didn't you teach Aang this?" Asked Haru.

"Yeah, about that. I kind of decided not to teach him that after he bugged me about it on day 1 of training. I was going to get around it eventually…"

The land whirlpool began to spin faster. Gang was laughing manically.

"Maybe I should have practiced it with Aang so I could figure out a way to counter it…" Said Toph.

"You think?" Haru said sarcastically.

Mai and Zuko kept firing shots at Qiang. The firebender was getting angry. It wasn't that he was weaker than them; it was just impossible to attack one of them without the other retaliating. Qiang quickly came up with an idea. He shot a wave of fire in-between the couple, separating them, as well as blocking their view of each other.

"Zuko?" Mai shouted over the flames.

"Mai? Are you ok?" Zuko shouted back.

Qiang made a small flame line in front of him for protection. He then shouted out to Zuko.

"Fire one more shot, and she burns!"

Zuko was furious, but decided to halt his attack. He didn't want to risk getting Mai hurt, but he had no idea if she was ok or not. Meanwhile, Mai was shouting over the flames to Zuko, but he could not hear her.

"Zuko! No! Don't stop attacking!"

She couldn't fire her daggers, because they would just burn up in the flames, and she was running low on the daggers she had. Qiang smiled evilly. He was in the perfect position to kill them both. He put both his hands behind his back, and started to create two flames in each hand. He was going to shoot out both flames so fast, that by the time the couple would react, they would burn up. Victory was so close.

Shen and Yuan kept firing lightning at each other, both furious and angry. They both wanted to finish the battle quickly. So much was at stake. One wrong move, and everything would be over. Suddenly, Yuan looked over and laughed.

"This is it, my friend. The last of the people you care about are going to die. Turn around."

Shen looked over his shoulder. A sharp ice dagger was headed towards Katara.

"NO!" Shouted Shen.

He started running towards her, but Yuan tackled him to the ground. He took Shen's head and pulled it up, forcing him to watch what was about to happen next.

"And so ends the lives of all your friends." Yuan said darkly.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Shouted Shen.

Katara stopped running and looked to her side. The ice dagger was about to hit her. She screamed in fear. Suddenly, Aang's tattoos began to weakly glow. He raised a hand up, and a wave of blood blocked the ice dagger, stopping it right in front of Katara.

"A-Aang?" Katara said, worried and confused as to what was going on.

Aang moved his hand, and the wave of blood fired the ice dagger back towards Tao at full speed. Tao quickly back-flipped, narrowly missing the ice dagger, which slammed into a near by rock. Tao landed on his back, breathing heavily as he tried to recover. Aang exited the avatar state and was unconscious again. But his breathing returned, but it was faint. Katara took this time to start bending blood back into Aang. Yuan growled at this sight and slammed Shen's head into the ground. He walked towards the area and shouted at Tao.

"FINISH THEM!"

Tao got up and faced Katara and her unconscious lover. He was growling, and his fists were clenched. Katara looked up towards Tao. She was breathing heavily, tired from the long battle. She knew she couldn't beat him while the moon was in the state it was.

"Forget the mental torture. I'll kill you both… together…"

Sokka was trying his hardest to block Koh's attacks. They were getting harder and harder to block every time. Eventually, he was out of energy to block. Koh was about to charge for Sokka's face. Suddenly, Hai Bei rammed into Koh, knocking him down. Iroh was on Hai Bei, telling him to keep Koh occupied. He then jumped off him and ran towards Sokka.

"Take your sword! I have an idea!" Shouted Iroh.

Sokka nodded and followed him. The two ran towards the machine. Sokka looked at it for a moment, then tried to rip off the metal hatch to the inner part of the machine.

"I can't get it off Iroh, I don't know how we're going to…"

Iroh grabbed onto the metal hatch and lifted it of with ease. He then threw it towards a wall in the chamber.

"Oh…" Said Sokka.

"Quickly! Jam your sword into the machine!" Ordered Iroh.

Sokka slammed his sword as told, and the machine began to spark.

"RUN!" Shouted Sokka.

The two quickly ran away from the machine, leaping away from it as it made a tiny explosion. Thankfully, Yue was un-harmed from the explosion. Her spirit was no longer being electric-shocked. Unfortunately, Sokka's sword was destroyed in the process. Which was bad, because Koh had just gotten Hai Bei off of him, and saw what was going on.

"What have you done!" Shouted Koh.

Tao was about to attack Katara and Aang, when suddenly he saw the moon change back to normal in sky. It was now dim, and wasn't giving Tao any more power. He called out to his master.

"Supreme Emperor!" Tao shouted.

Yuan was about to attack Shen, who was slowly getting up, when he looked towards Tao to see what was going on. He looked up towards the sky and saw the dim moon. He growled when he saw this.

"Koh has failed us…"

Koh looked towards Sokka and Iroh, growling.

"My plans… to rule the spirit world… are crushed. I'm not going to steal your faces… I'm going to destroy them!"

He began to charge towards Sokka and Iroh, when he felt something tap his neck. He turned his head to see what was behind him. Kuruk was holding his spear and holding it towards Koh's head.

"Payback time."

Sokka closed his eyes. He heard a stab, followed by a loud scream. He then heard something thud on the ground. He opened his eyes and saw Koh's tail lying on the ground. He could not see the rest of him, for it was lying in the shadows. Kuruk was on the ground walking towards Sokka and Iroh.

"We did it. We slayed the face stealer."

Suddenly, Yue's face returned to her, and she began to breathe again. Kuruk and Iroh ran towards her, and began to free her from the chains. Sokka smiled, knowing his mission was complete. Suddenly, he saw Suki, now having a face again, running towards him. Her face was glowing.

"Sokka!"

He smiled at her. Yue was now free, and floating towards Sokka as well. She too, was smiling.

"Sokka!"

The two girls reached Sokka at the same time. They looked at each other for a moment, jealousy was in each girl's eyes. Sokka walked over and hugged them both.

"I'm so glad you two girls are ok."

Both girls hugged Sokka back, thanking him for saving them. In the corner of each girl's eye, they were staring each other down, both angry that the other girl was trying to steal her man.

Kuruk was starting to walk towards Sokka, when he heard a voice.

"Kuruk!"

He turned around to see his lover, now with her face returned to her. He ran to her, smiling. When they finally reached each other, they hugged. Both lovers had tears in their eyes. They looked at each other and then kissed passionately. When Kuruk was done kissing his lover, without looking towards Sokka, he spoke to him.

"Thank you Sokka."

Sokka smiled at the sight. For once, everything turned out perfect.

Yuan growled as he saw the moon return to a full, white circle. The plan had failed, and they no longer held control over the spirit world. He back flipped a few times until he was next to Tao. Shen ran over to where Katara was, as Katara stood up to face Yuan and Tao.

"It's over. Your plan failed." Said Katara.

Yuan chuckled.

"You only won the battle. You are lucky that fate smiled upon you all on this day. Next time, we will have your blood. But for now, we will have to settle for another's. Won't we Shen?"

Shen growled at this comment. Yuan breathed out through his nose, as white smoke covered his and Tao's body. When the smoke disappeared, the two warriors were gone. Shen sighed then looked towards Aang. Katara and him kneeled down and looked towards Aang. He still had a lot of blood outside his body.

"Continue to put his blood back in, but slowly. Otherwise, it may cause damage." Shen said.

Katara nodded and did as she was told. A tear went down her eye as she slowly bended the blood into his body.

"Please, Aang. Don't leave me."

Qiang was about to shoot the fireballs at Zuko and Mai when he looked up into the sky. He saw the full, white moon shine brightly. He knew the plan had failed. He breathed in, and the inferno circle began to die down. The fires started to vanish. Mai and Zuko looked around. Burnt grass could be seen everywhere. They looked up and noticed the moon was full again. They knew it had to be some sign that Qiang's allies were losing. They looked back towards where Qiang was, but he was no longer there. He had vanished, leaving only Zuko and Mai alone. Zuko looked towards Mai.

"Are you ok?" He asked.

Mai walked over to Zuko and kissed him for a moment. Then replied.

"I am now."

Xiang was about to suffocate the four non-benders. He looked up though and saw the current state of the moon. He growled and stopped his bending. The foursome began to breathe again, trying to catch their breaths. Xiang bended himself towards where Gang was. Gang saw Xiang as he pointed up to the sky. Gang looked up and saw the bright, white circle of hope. He growled and stopped the whirlpool. Xiang bended himself next to Gang and faced Toph and Haru, who were just getting to their feet. Hakoda, Piando, Teo, and The Duke ran over to join Toph and Haru. They all looked up towards the sky and noticed the moon was back to normal. They looked at Xiang and Gang.

"You lost." Said Hakoda.

Gang growled. "The war is not over yet."

Xiang created a fog around him and Gang. When it ended, they had vanished.

"Well that was weird. What the heck were they talking about." Said Toph.

Piando looked towards an Alley near by and smiled.

"Looks like our allies have arrived."

The other five looked over towards the alley and also smiled. Things were starting to look up.

Back in the Fire Nation, Katara had bended most of Aang's blood back into his body, but he was still not ok. Katara sighed.

"I don't have any spirit water. That means that…"

She covered her mouth and started to cry. Shen tried to confront her as best as he could. He had felt the pain she was feeling once before.

"Well, looks like your going to need some help then…"

Katara and Shen looked up. A small spirit world portal had appeared, and Sokka was coming out of it.

"Sokka? How did you get here?" Asked Katara.

"You can travel pretty quickly across the spirit world, which gave me enough time to get this…"

Sokka reached into his pocket and pulled out the spirit oasis water holder, now filled to the rim with the special water. Her face glowed as she took it from him, and kneeled down to heal Aang with it. She healed him for a moment, but he still wasn't responding.

"Perhaps it's too late…" Katara said disappointed.

She moved her head towards his face and whispered to him.

"I'm sorry I couldn't save you fast enough…"

She then kissed him lightly on the lips. She suddenly felt an arm around her. She stopped kissing Aang to notice he was wide-awake, and smiling.

"I'm still here Katara. I'm always here for you."

Tears of joy went down her eyes. She brought his face close to hers and kissed him slowly and passionately. They kissed for a few minutes. Sokka gagged.

"Ugh… this is so cliché."

"Nah. It be cliché if she said I love you for the first time, and then he woke up." Said Shen.

"Yeah, but… Hey wait a minute. Who the heck are you?" Said Sokka.

Shen sighed. "I'm going to have to tell everyone this over and over again, aren't I?"

Katara and Aang stopped kissing and looked at Shen. They giggled as they nodded.

"Hey wait a minute, last I remember only Aang said…"

It finally hit Sokka. He smiled strangely at the couple.

"Are you all better Aang?" Said Sokka in a strangely happy voice.

Aang nodded.

"Good, because now I'm going to kill you."

"Sokka!" Katara said worried.

"Kidding, Kidding."

"Same old Sokka." Said Shen.

"Why are you talking like you know me?" Asked Sokka.

Aang and Katara giggled again.

"Let's go get Appa and Momo, then go into the portal." Said Aang.

"It's ok. Zuko and Mai found them, and they're with us inside the spirit world now, along with Toph, Haru, The Duke, Teo, Master Piando and Dad." Said Sokka.

"Dad's with you guys?" Asked Katara.

Sokka nodded. "Come on guys. It's time to celebrate, we won!"

Sokka hopped into the portal. Katara gently helped up Aang and they started walking towards the portal. Right before they got in, they looked towards Shen.

"You coming?" Asked Aang.

Shen sighed.

"Sokka is wrong. This is far from over. It's only just begun."

Shen started walking towards the couple, as the trio hopped into the portal. The portal closed, and everything was silent. Back at the royal Fire Nation prison, Ozai was resting. He suddenly heard his door open, and a body hit the floor. It was his daughter's corpse. He looked over to it in sorrow.

"M-My daughter…"

"… is dead."

Yuan walked into the room and shut the door.

"The last great thing of yours has fallen."

Ozai looked at Yuan, angry and in pain.

"You did this."

Yuan shook his head.

"I can tell you who did, and give you an option."

"What option?"

"I'll tell you who killed you daughter, and give you everything necessary for you to get revenge… if you promise to swear your loyalty to me."

Ozai thought about this for a moment, and sighed.

"Fine. Who did it?"

Yuan kneeled down to Ozai's eye level and smiled.

"It was a southern water tribe girl, named Katara."

Extra long chapters rule! Woot! Plus, you got a bunch of action moments, and a bunch of shipping moments! Woot! And I got my cliffhanger to torture you all with, and I bet you didn't see it coming. I call dibs on the first DUN DUN DUN. Thanks to everyone who is reading, reviewing, and getting alerts on this story. You guys rule, seriously. Oh, by the way, I had a spelling error with Hakoda. Thanks to the person who alerted me about that, (sorry I forgot your name). I don't know if chapter 13 will be as long as this, but you never know... Thanks for reading. Chapter 13 is coming!