The Burning Rose
Chapter Four
Mysteries and Questions
OOC- This is a shorter chapter, so don't get mad, please. I will try to keep them about the same size.
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Aang decided to go check on Katara as he left the healer with Sokka, who really didn't need anything but rest.
He walked down her corridor to Katara's room. He noticed the door was closed, so he decided to be polite, and he knocked on the door. When nothing happened, he knocked, but a little more frantically this time. When nothing happened again, he began to panic. He heard a rustling behind the door, and he became frantic and began to scream.
"KATARA! KATARA! What is going on in there?" he started to pound on the door when Katara opened it and rubbed her eyes. Her hair was messy and her clothes were a little wrinkled.
"Yes, Aang?" she said with an angry tone, crossing her arms, and leaning on the doorway.
"What were you doing in there?" he said as he pointed toward their room, sidestepping her to point. He noticed the blankets were thrown around the bed.
"Sleeping, Aang." She said as her eyes widened. "What are you implying?"
"Nothing," he said as he looked down at the floor. "I just thought you were with… someone else."
"Aang, do you think that I would sleep with another man? Do you really not trust me that much? You think I would sleep with another man while you are here?" Her arms moved as she paced the doorway and threw her hands behind her. He could feel her frustration as some of the water in her room began to slosh around.
"No," he said quietly, his head still looking down.
She took his chin into her hand and forced him to look at her. She saw that his grey eyes were starting to become shiny from tears that were going to come soon. She quickly felt her rage and madness go away, and she felt sympathy for the little 16 year old avatar. She pulled him into a hug, and he immediately began to cry. Katara began to sing a song that her mother had sung to her when she was crying. It immediately pulled Aang out of his tears as he heard her voice ring and hit every note. It moved up and down the scale and it had a tone to it to make it seem like water. It made him feel happy to hear her sing like that. He pulled her into another hug, but there were no tears. He rocked with her slowly as she kept singing.
Soon, she stopped. He pulled away to look at her, and he saw that she had gone to sleep. He picked her up bridal style and laid her gently on the bed and pulled the covers over her. He kissed her on the forehead and left the room, glad that she was all his.
When he heard the Avatar pound on the door, he immediately picked up his mask and ran out the balcony window. He grabbed the ledge of the balcony and quickly flipped over the edge right as the Avatar began to scream the waterbender's name.
"KATARA!" Aang screamed.
Katara was her name. He had to remember that. He held on a little tighter and dropped his hands and held on to the balcony floor, hanging from sudden death. He flipped so that his feet were under the balcony. He found some holes under the balcony that was big enough to fit his feet in, but small enough for him to let go of the balcony and his feet would stay there. He let go of the balcony and hung there, feeling all of the blood rush to his head. He quickly pulled out his twin Dao swords and tried to pierce the wall of marble. He did everything he could think of, even heating the wall, but nothing would pierce the smooth marble. He looked around and saw that someone had made some holes like the ones that were holding his feet. He wondered what those holes were doing there, but he didn't think anymore of it and took his swords and stuck them firmly into the holes one by one. He pulled on the swords slowly to make sure they wouldn't come out, then he took his feet out of the holes and put them into two new ones below where the swords were. They were made to his body height exactly.
'That is weird.' He said to himself as he continually pulled out the swords, then put them back in and pulled out his feet and put them back in. Soon, he was down to the ground and he walked over to the bushes, walking around and waiting in the forest till he could see the sun over the trees.
About three fourths of the circle around the Temple was trees and forest. The other fourth was a small town that was growing around the temple. They were trying to cut down the land, but the Avatar prevented them from taking too much, and making sure that they kept replanting trees.
He found a pool down by a waterfall, and he took off his clothes and bathed in the river, but kept his mask on to keep his identity secret in case anyone found him.
Once he was done with his bath, he quickly heated himself and he became dry. He put his clothes back on and he decided it was time for lunch when his stomach rumbled as he put on his shirt. He looked all around the forest and saw the sun directly above him. He moved around to find some food, but all of the bushes and trees he could find were full of rotten fruit and he couldn't eat any of it. There was no game because he was too close to a city and they had already hunted all of it in the area. He couldn't go into town and buy food because he had no money. He finally decided to go into his room at the Northern Air Temple and get his clothes and change into them, then have some lunch with the Avatar, the waterbender, Toph, Sokka, and Suki.
'No, not the waterbender, her name is Katara.' He reminded himself. 'I have to remember that. Katara.'
He slowly crept around the Northern Air Temple using some of the trees as cover. He clung to the shadows like glue to paper, walking very slowly so he couldn't be heard.
Once he got to his window, he stealthy climbed in and walked into Uncle right next to it.
"Uncle," he said, hastily pulling his uncle aside. "What are you doing here?"
"I was wondering where you were," Uncle said. "You didn't show for lunch."
"You have already had lunch?" he said as he quickly paced back and forth, getting mad at himself for waiting too long.
"Yes," Uncle said as he rubbed his belly and chuckled. "I loved it, and the lovely Katara made it for us. There is some leftover. Do you want it?"
"You know what, Uncle?" he said as he began to walk out the door and said, "I do," before shutting the door.
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