Note: This is the longest chapter to date if I'm correct. Almost 3,000 words are in it. Usually, my chapters average to about 1,000 words, with a rare 1,500 and once, 2000. So this chapter is about 3 times as long as previous chapters. Hopefully this will make up for the long wait for this chapter. Enjoy!

Broken Hearts, An Avatar: The Last Airbender Fan-fic

Written by TheHiddenWriter

Based of Avatar: The Last Airbender

Chapter 6

They began to slowly sneak around the hill, hoping to catch the five soliders by surprise. As they made their final approch into the town, one solider got onto a box and looked like he was going to speak to the citizens. Kya stopped the rebellion from moving.

"What the heck is going on?"

"Ma'am, you might want to look over there."

He was pointing at another enemy solider, who was holding a knife to the neck of the citizen who gave the rebellion information.

"Damn it." Kya mumbled in a low tone. "They know we're here."

The solider on the box spoke.

"Citizens, we have an announcment for you. We've figured out one of your citizens was giving info to a rebellion that they were going to liberate you. He hasn't given info as to where they are hiding, so I'm going to be as clear as possible. Tell me where they are right now, or consequences will occur. Oh, and if the rebellion is listening, if you attack, my group of 5 soliders will use their newly accuried waterbending skills to flood the town, and drown the citizens. Your choice."

He grinned evily, and got off the box. Kya slammed her fist into the hill, being careful though that it didn't make any noise.

"Now what, Ma'am?" Asked a rebellion trooper.

Kya sighed. "Find out where each of the five soliders are. I also want you to figure out the quickest way to kill them without them seeing us. Get it done."

"Yes, Ma'am."

The rebellion trooper went to give the orders to the rest of the rebellion. Kya sighed and looked around the town. There were a lot of women and children there, and if they didn't pull this off correctly, they could die. Kya looked at the head solider from her hiding spot with anger.

"You son of a..."

"Ma'am, we have an idea on how to sneak up on them."

"Tell me now."

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"Commander. We have no idea where they are."

"WHAT?"

Ozai slammed his fist into a broken building. They were in Shen's hometown, still as damaged as it was when Shen and the gang left it. The building Ozai hit collapsed.

"Grrr.... Yuan told me it would be easy to find them."

"Sir, you think this could be a trap?"

"If Yuan was really monitoring us, he would have prevented me from doing this."

He rose his hands and a giant rock came out of the ground. He then set it on fire and flung it in a random direction. The rock landed hard about 20 miles away.

"No, Yuan lied to keep us in control. I have power un-like any other, and a powerful army. I say we do a little multi-tasking."

"What should we do, Master Ozai?"

"What's the nearest town from here?"

"We'll send out a scout right now to find it."

So they waited through out the day for the scout to return. By nightfall, the scout returned with new information.

"Sir, while I haven't found the avatar's trail, I found a medium-sized town of about... 700 people."

Ozai smiled. "Yuan will pay for his lies, and my empire will rise again. We'll take over this land, kill Katara and Yuan, then return to our homeland and conqure it with our super army. Then both lands will be mine!"

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The gang proceeded towards the capital city of the Comet Nation, hoping to liberate the city that once planned the take down of the old empire. By nightfall, they made it to the main road to the capital, and decided to camp out in a desterted area near by.

"How are we possibily going to take down the army in city, and Xiang? We've seen thousands of soldiers pass by, and some of them are firebenders who can shoot purple fire out of their hands! That's worse than Azula!"

"Stop being so pestimistic, Sokka..."

"I'm being realistic, Katara."

Katara and Sokka continued to argue for a minute. Piando looked from the fight to Aang.

"Do they usually argue like this?"

Aang, along with Shen who was un-packing his bag, and Toph who was walking past them, quickly replied, "More than you know..."

After a few minutes of the siblings arguing, Shen walked towards them and decided to end their bickering.

"Look, we have a group of highly talented people here. We have two master swordsmen..."

Sokka interrupted Shen before he could continue. "Umm... I don't have a sword anymore, it broke in the spirit world..."

Shen looked at Sokka, annoyed and confused. "Why didn't you say something when we were back at your homeland?"

"See this is why I argue with him all the time, he forgets stuff so easily!" Katara added.

"Oh, so says the girl who kept ordering me around while we were back at home, so I never got the chance to find another sword!"

"I didn't order you around!"

Before they could continue arguing, Hakoda interupted them.

"Actually Sokka, I never got a chance to tell you this, but I brought you something from the south pole. It's something that has been passed down in our family for a long time."

"A Warrior Sword?"

"Nope, a spear."

"Wow... I thought it was..."

"Sokka, he was kidding." Katara commented.

Hakoda took out the sword and gave it to Sokka.

"Awesome!"

Shen sighed. "Moving on then... the whole point of what I was getting at was that all of us are completely capable of liberating this city. Once we liberate this city, we'll be able to get more people to help our cause, and we won't have this problem again. Ok?"

Everyone nodded, and then the group broke apart to get the camp set up. After a few minutes of peace, Yue and Suki started to argue again (Sokka was no where near them when this was happening.) Shen groaned at this and decided to go to sleep early. Meanwhile, Toph chuckled at their fighting.

"Just you wait girls... just you wait."

Suddenly, the Duke approached Toph and tapped her shoulder.

"Ummm... Toph?"

"Ugh... What is it?"

"Ummm... about this whole "dating" thing?"

"No Duke, we're not making out again for awhile."

"Yeah, about that. I've been talking with Teo and Haru..."

"Look, we're just dating so that I can make Sokka jealous and he will go out with me. We're not..."

"Yeah, look, we're breaking up."

Toph grabbed him by his coller. "Wanna say that again?"

"Look, I really don't feel conformable doing this. Your a nice girl and all, but this isn't working out."

"Listen Duke..."

"The Duke."

"Whatever. Without you, my plan to get Sokka is doomed. If you try to break up with me I'll break your neck."

"Toph, everyone here would understand why I would break up with you."

"Why's that?"

"Because how is anyone suppose to be in a relationship with you if you threaten them every 5 mintues?"

"Well Zuko told me it worked for Azula..."

"Toph, we're breaking up. That's it."

As the Duke started to walk away, Toph stomped her feet on the ground.

"OH YEAH, Well... YOU SUCKED AS A BOYFRIEND ANYWAY!"

"You sucked as a girlfriend!"

"Grow a pair!"

"I will when you lose a pair!"

Toph slammed her foot into the ground, which sent the Duke flying a few feet.

Toph pouted and walked away angrily. This caused Suki and Yue to stop fighting and look towards Toph, who just made an earth tent and went inside it.

"Ouch... Poor Girl."

"Should we talk to her?" Asked Suki.

"Talk to who?" Asked Sokka, who had just returned from collecting firewood.

"The Duke broke up with Toph." Replied Yue.

"Ouch. Poor kid."

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Aang stood on the hill, looking towards the city. All though it was far away, to him it seemed so close. He knew once he got to the city, he would have to risk everything for them to advance. The moon above Aang was dim, but gave what little light it had to him. Aang wondered if this land had any spirits. This place seemed so similar, but yet so different. Had Yuan and his crew never gone to his homeland, what would have happened? Would there never be benders here?

"Aang..."

Aang turned around to see Katara behind him. She looked tired, yet she seemed alert. It was late at night, and most of the gang was asleep.

"Aang, why are you up here?"

"I was just thinking."

"About what?"

Aang didn't respond, and just turned his head back towards the city. Katara slowly approched him.

"Aang... you know you can talk to me about anything. Right?"

Aang still didn't respond. Katara slowly put her hand on his shoulder. Suddenly, Aang's eyes glowed, as well as his arrow tattoos. Within seconds, Katara's eyes glowed the same way as Aang's, and soon become stuck in the same trance as Aang.

Katara woke up and slowly got up. She was standing on what appeared to be a large stone platform which hovered in the sky. The wind gentely touched her face. She looked towards the edge of the platform, and saw Aang slowly getting up. She ran to him and helped him off the ground. Aang stared at her confused.

"Where are we?"

"I don't know, Aang. One mintue, I saw your arrow glow, and the next I woke up here with you."

Aang looked around and thought for a moment. His arrows on his body glowed, which startled him. He slowly closed his eyes and thought for a moment.

"This... is my mind."

Suddenly, an airbender was seen flying by the platform. Katara tried to call out to him, but he dissapeared as quickly as he appeared.

"Aang, what's going on?"

"Katara... this is my inner spirit... this is the part of me affected when I spiritbend."

"Spiritbending... you mean when you took away Ozai's ability to bend?"

"Yes.... and what I have to do to Xiang."

"What?"

"Shen told me that to make sure Yuan and his servents could be stopped, I need to take away their powers. Then we can have the people decide their punishment, instead of just killing them."

"That's a good thing, isn't it?"

Aang sighed. Suddenly, the floor began to glow blue. They both looked down at it as the glowed dimily. Suddenly, orange slowly began to spread across the platform, as if it was infecting it. It looked as if the blue side was trying to push the orange side back, but the blue side was slowly getting weaker. Eventually, the platform became fully orange, and started to show signs of cracking.

"Aang... what happens if you don't correctly use spiritbending?"

Aang sighed.

"The other spirt takes over me... and I become corrupted."

Suddenly, the platform cracked and split into pieces, causing Aang and Katara to fall. Aang moved towards Katara and took her hands as they fell. She resisted the urge to scream in fear as she felt his soft warm hands take hers. She closed her eyes, as he closed his. Suddenly, the pieces around them glowed a dim pink. Aang's arrow then started to dimly glow, and the couple stopped falling. The pieces of the platform started to swirl around them, and slowly started to turn into a new platform under them. But this time, it started to take a new shape. You could see the cracks in the shape, but the platform didn't break apart again. Katara and Aang slowly landed onto the platform.

'Do you remember the day we fell from the sky?' Aang thought in his mind.

'I do.' Katara thought.

'Do you remember the promise I made you?... The promise we made to each other.'

"I do" Katara gentely replied, as she opened her eyes.

The couple slowly got up and looked below them. The platform now was in the shape of a heart, but had many cracks in it. The platform no longer was bright orange, but instead was a bright pink/red.

"You'll never let go... right?" Katara asked.

"I'll never let go."

The couple got out of their trance, and were back on the hill. They looked at each other and kissed, blocking from their mind what may occur in the future. Their tounges clashed together, wanting to savior the kiss they shared. No corrupted soul or broken heart would seperate their love tonight.

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He walked into the room slowly, not sure what to expect. He looked around, looking everywhere for something. He seemed to be calling out a name, but no sound came out. Suddenly, his hands were around his neck. He was losing oxygen, and quickly. He fell to the ground, crying out a name. Tears went down his face. As he breathed his last breaths, he looked everywhere for a way to deliver his message. He suddenly saw some dirt on the floor, and knew what he had to do. With the last of his strengh, he drew a heart into the dirt, and before he could write anything else, he stopped breathing. A scream was then heard, and everything turned to white.

Iroh woke up from his dream and breathed deeply. He noticed Piando and Hakoda were up, just as startled as he was. They all knew what this meant. Someone close to them was going to die.

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END OF CHAPTER

Author Notes:

-Reference to Winds and Waves, my first fan-fic/prequel to this story, is in here. If you've read it, you'll know which part it is. Actually, Chapter 1 also made a reference to it.

-Katara is Aang's spirt, as Aang is Katara's spirit, which is why they ended up in that area. A reference to the series finale of ATLA was made, as the platform showed what could have happened to Aang had Ozai corrupted his soul. It also showed that Aang's spirit can be broken, but as long as Katara is in his life, it can be repaired. But, if something happened to Katara, he could easily be corrupted, and the avatar spirit would be destroyed. If someone's spirit breaks, it becomes a broken heart, thus the reason why the title of this Fan-Fic is "Broken Hearts".

-As Aang uses spiritbending more and more, it will become harder and harder for him to do it. Katara's love is the only thing that can heal the wounds of the spiritbending.

-One of the main characters will die by the end of this season.

Thanks for reading. If everything goes to plan, a new chapter will arrive next week. But, no promises on that.