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We didn't know it at the time, but as we dangled for our lives, the Avatar was having his own issues...
They stopped in a near-by town for a rest. But after they parked Appa and made sure it wasn't a fire-nation town. After knowing it wasn't; they walked into the town and were asked to stay a while by the chief. The town was pretty small, dojos every which way, and people wore green. They agreed to stay, because they needed to rest.
While Aang practiced in one of the dojos, a doctor asked him if he was the avatar.
"I am." Aang replied smiling. The doctor looked through his bag and pulled out a purple bag with a stick figure on the frount. "What is that?"
"Its Shadow Medicine. It creats an alter Ego of yourself; so you can practice without hurting anyone." Aang smiled, now he could practice fire bending; without burning anyone! "Its only 30 copper peices! and I'll throw in this free incence pot." Aang didn't have that much money. But they haggled, and he got it. For how much? only god knows..
Katara sat with him in one of the Dojos while he burned the medicine and inhailed it. Coughing after he did so; they relized it stunk. But he kept in hailing it untill the aroma was gone. Aang stood up and waited for something to happen; But nothing happend.
"You got ripped off." But just as soon as she said that, his shadow rose upto the wall, and gave itself depth. It was exactly the same height as Aang, and even had his staff. He was gray, nearly black, and had no pupils or a mouth.
"Neat!" Aang said happily. Ready to train with his shadow.
"Aang. It says something about side effects. An altar shadow ego." Aang payed it no mind; he kept training and eventually, got really good at his fire blasts and water blows. Over the next few days; he didn't eat much, and would train from sun up to sun down. One night; Katara was relaxing in a bath at the house of the cheif. Her naked body under the steaming bath water,she heard a rustle of the leaves outside; and told herself that she was paranoid. But the feeling that someone was watching her grew stronger and stronger. She grabbed a towel and mumbled
"Whos there!" She looked at the oddly placed window and saw it was Aang. But not him him. His shadow. But she thought it was him; she growled, wrapped the towel around herself and charged down the hall of the house. Aang was going to walk down the hall; but Katara cut him off.
"K-Katara! Cover yourself up!" He told her, she growled and screamed at him.
"YOU SICK PEEPING TOM!"
Hearing his sister yell about a peeping tom, Sokka came running. He saw Katara with the towel around her body and glaring at Aang.
They tell me that the shadow Aang was a side effect. As I sit here now, writing down what they've told me about the shadow Aang. I wounder about you mother. Has he gotten you?
As the days passed, Shadow Aang has pulled tricks beond comprehension; and they've been blaming Aang. The strange thing is; the shadow only comes out at night. So they don't know for sure if its Aang; or just his shadow. He denies what they say he did, and felt insulted that they would ever accuse him of peeping in on Katara in the bath, or trying to sneak into the room she was sleeping in, or raiding the fridge. Sokka would be the most likely one to raid a fridge. But he kept practicing with his shadow. He got alot better with his fire bending that he could probably be a match for Zuko.
One night, two nights before Zuko met Monica, he decided to stay up, because he noticed an occurance to the events. Bad things seemed to happen that made them blame Aang, while he was asleep.
"Are you going to bed?" Katara asked him that night, he shook his head.
"I'm going to wait.I'll prove to you that I didn't do any of that." Katara felt bad about making Aang feel bad. "What about you?" Katara shook her head.
"Im calling it a day. Goodnight."
Aang sat there for hours and nothing happoned. So long that he ended up falling asleep. He woke to the sound of Katara's scream; he woke and ran to the room she was asleep in, Thats when he saw shadow Aang trying to grope her.
"Don't touch her!" He yelled, throwing a gust of wind at him, thus, knocking him out the window. Aang and shadow Aang fought untill just before dawn. But when the sun rose; he didn't dissapear like he usually did. He stayed. Shadow Aang made a run for the woods, that was filled with shadows; and Aang stood there, stairing at where his alter ego went. "What have I done...?"
Short chapt! omg. I got the Shadow thing from Ranma1/2 by Rumiko Takahashi, who the crap is Zula? Is that like..his sister or somethin'?