Disclaimer: I own naught at all - besides some gum, a bit to many books, and my computer - deffinatly not Avatar.

A/N: Not much to say here. Hope you enjoy, please R&R

"Here we are!" Aang said cheerily while he looked over his old home with nostalgia "The southern air temple, the place I grew up!"

"Wow" Kenyasan said, awed. "It looks" she fell silent, apparently lost for words "It looks - I don't know how to put it – amazing, wonderful, great, huge," she paused "home" she said the last word with a softer tone as if fully appreciating the word.

Appa landed with agonizing slowness for both of the airbenders. One couldn't wait to see what was like a whole new world to her; the other just wanted to finally go home. Aang had decided not to come here once the war was over because he thought it would remind him to much of everything that had happened, but now that he was here the memories felt good. By the time Appa was close to the ground both of them had jumped off and were using the air to slow their landing.

"Can I go?" Kenyasan asked, tugging on Aang's sleeve as if she was five instead of ten. She didn't wait for an answer and was already running down the temples long corridors. Aang laughed at her enthusiasm.

"Just don't leave the temple!" he cried after her.

"I won't! Not ever!" Kenyasan shouted back.

"And don't get into trouble!" he yelled. He got no reply, but he thought that she had heard him.

Aang smiled to himself, and then got to work unsaddling Appa. Once he was done the furry animal gave a grunt and flew off, Momo riding atop the arrow on his head. Aang irbended the saddle and its contents off the ground and carried them down a wide archway to where they used to keep all the old saddles. Some of them were still there, stillmusty smelling, it reminded Aang of times long ago. He remembered all the times he had landed Appa here, how before he had bonded with the big bison he had watched with awe while older airbenders flew on theirs.

"AHHHHHHHH!" The eleven year old boy wailed as the air rushed past him. "Appa! SLOW DOWN!" he screamed, clutching to the white fur for dear life. He tugged upward, trying to get his ride to slow down, but it was no use, Appa seemed determined to fly straight into the wall at top speed.

Suddenly the bison turned sharply and stopped in the docking place where a bunch of his friends were cheering.

"Way to go Aang!"

"That was awesome!"

"Was it fun?"

"Did you see when he –"

"Yeah, and when –"

"That was so cool!"

"I can't believe you didn't fall off!"

"Neither can I!" Aang said, sliding off Appa and wobbling for a second. Then he blinked at them and asked "How long did I make it for?"

"A whole ten minuets!" said one of the boys.

"Really?" Aang smiled "New record!" he jumped up and punched the air.

Aang smiled as he remembered that day. He had felt so proud, setting the record for staying on. Bare back riding still wasn't his favorite things, but he had gotten better at it. Being home again didn't hurt nearly as much as he thought it did, and as he walked through the halls, touching old relics from his past and remembering things he hadn't thought about in years, he found himself smiling at the memories. And though some of them brought tears to his eyes, he wasn't truly sad. He missed them, true, but the memories of them were of the happy moments in their life, when their souls had shone brightest, and Aang knew they would not want him to remember them with tears.

"I won't! Not ever!" I shouted as she ran down the corridors. "This place is too wonderful to leave." I ran until my feet felt tired, stopping by a large fountain, now run dry. It was dusty and had cobwebs in it, not how it was meant to look, I knew. Using the bit of airbending I had taught myself, I carefully blew out the left over debris that had been sitting on the bottom of the fountain. I dusted her hands off, thinking: 'Not bad for a first timer!' with a smile.

"Who are you and what are you doing here?" A gruff voice shouted, making me jump. The voice continued, angry now "Don't you know this place is sacred? What gives you the right to go and change it?"

I turned around to face a sturdy looking blind woman. I cowered for a second, but then thought 'I have as much right to be here as her, if not more. I'm an Airbender!'

"I am Kenyasan, daughter of Katara and Zuko. I am here to learn airbending" I said, my head held high and pride in my voice. I looked to the woman to see what she thought of this, her voice was straight, emotionless.

"Zuko is dead" she said "I felt him die, and neither he nor Katara were airbenders, therefore you cannot be. The last of the airbenders had no child."

"No he is not!" I said, angry and upset "Mother got him out of that volcano; he's told me the story before, that's why his whole face is burned. And I am to an Airbender! I don't know how, but I am!"

"I don't like being lied to" the woman said, like it was a warning. Suddenly, the ground began to shake below my feet.

Aang looked up as he felt the earth rumble. He dropped the ball he was holding – a wooden one that he used to play with along with his friends – and cursed.

"I thought I told her to stay out of trouble!" he said, running full speed down the hall. "What could she possibly have -" he stopped as a wave of earth spread outward and just barely managed not to fall over. The stones fell exactly into place, apparently the attack had been meant only to knock the attacker's opponent off balance without damaging the temple. He ran into the large room where the fight was taking place – the fountain room where the baby bison would sleep if it got to cold out, and where they were fed – and skidded to a halt.

"STOP!" he shouted. Both Kenyasan and her attacker froze. "The southern air temple is not a place to be fighting! If your gonna have a disagreement take it outside and have it with someone other than my pupil!" Aang turned to Kenyasan "As for you" he said, and she cowered back "I thought I said stay out of trouble!"

"She started it!" Kenyasan said, pointing an accusing finger across the room.

"I DON'T CARE WHO STARTED IT!" Aang shouted, turning around and ready to shout 'I'M GONNA FINISH IT!' when he saw who it was that had been attacking Kenyasan.

"Toph?" he said questioningly, head tilted to one side. "Is that you?"

"Who else would it be? Ozai?" Toph said ""course it's me, twinkle toes!"

"Hey!" Aang said "I mastered earthbending! I don't think you have the right to call me that anymore, and I don't want you giving her" he pointed to Kenyasan "any ideas!" Toph just laughed at this. She inconspicuously kicked the ground with her heel and a chunk of rock sent Aang flying into the air and crashing back down again.

"Still think I don't have right anymore?" she asked with a smirk.

"All right, all right you got me!" Aang said, sorely rubbing his rear end. "Do me a favor?" he asked "Next time you show me up with earthbending, don't do it in front of her?"

"Aww, but its fun to embarrass you twinkle toes!" Toph said with a smile in her voice. She just never got tired of teasing him, did she?

"Hang on a second!" Kenyasan's voice came from across the room. "Sorry to ruin the moment here, but… Who is she?" she pointed at Toph "Why is she here? And why was she attacking me?"

"Oh" Aang said "Kenyasan, this is Toph, my earthbending teacher. Toph, this is Kenyasan, Katara's daughter. I'll explain later. As to what she's doing here" Aang paused, turning to Toph "what are you doing here? I thought you returned to Jang Town to regain your title at Earth Rumble 6"

"I did, but it had kinda fallen apart after I left." Toph explained "Something about the owner selling it, it's just not the same anymore. Then I started feeling these odd vibrations coming from the south. I followed them here and tried to get in to the room they were coming from, and they stopped. There's something in there though, and I need an airbender to get inside. If the vibrations could reach me all the way in Jang Town I figured it was probably important. When I came here I felt foot patterns similar to the ones you have, so I followed them to sugar queen mark two here and found her cleaning out the hole over there. I thought that she shouldn't be touching anything in this temple so I started yelling at her. She told me she was Katara and Zuko's kid, and I knew that Zuko was dead, so I got mad. I don't like it when people lie to me."

"Zuko's not dead" Aang said "but we can talk about that later, lets go find out what you felt all the way back at your house. I bet I know which room it's in, but you lead the way, just in case I'm wrong."

Toph led them to the Avatar room. Her attempts to open the door were evident in the crushed rocks that now lay in small piles along the ground. The door, however, was untouched, still as smooth as the day Aang first saw it, if a little weather worn.

"I threw everything I had and more at it" Toph was explaining as they approached "but it wouldn't budge! Thought maybe you would be able to do something about it, twinkle toes."

"I can" Aang replied, getting into an airbending stance. He shot a long, solid stream of cold air into one of the pipes, and then waited as each of the three blue circles turned purple and the door opened.

A giant roar shook the whole temple and the group took a step back and got in fighting stance, ready for whatever was going to come out.