The sky was cloudy now, but dry. It seemed to have stopped raining sometime in the night. Appa was traveling at a decent speed as they headed towards Chin Village. That was some odd memory, watching Aang stand on an effigy of himself. This time hopefully nothing would be on fire.

"So Katara, are you gonna make us a nice big fancy wall with your water bending when we get home?" Sokka asked, leaning against the back of the saddle, his arms lazily supporting his head. Katara chuckled. "I guess I could start on one." She said smiling. "Would you help me Aang? I'm sure together we could make a wall like none ever seen." Looking towards the front of the saddle, no response came.

"Uhh, Aang?"

"Huh, what?" He replied looking back, blushing slightly.

"A wall in the South Pole. Would you help me build one?"

He beamed. "Of course Katara."

Daydreaming while riding a flying bison was dangerous and stupid, being caught by your friends on the back was embarrassing, but Aang hadn't learned his lesson. He had imagined himself with Katara, they were much older, her hair white, but beautiful, as she remained in her old age. They were on top of a mountain, hand in hand, looking over a great city full of Air Benders. They were their children, and the thought made him happy. At least no one knew what he was thinking about.

"There it is!" He called out, pointing to the village in the distance. "Yip yip Appa!" He said smiling, glad to have another stop before the South Pole. He was getting more nervous by the minute.

They landed softly shortly after mid day. It was a nice, cool day, the rain must have passed here already, making the place clean and fresh.

"Avatar Aang! Welcome back to Chin Village!" Greeted the mayor, last time he was going to be boiled in oil, now he was formally greeted, that a good change. "Come see what we have done with our humble village!" Sokka hopped off after Katara, looking somewhat annoyed.

"Yeah, let's just see what's so great and then get going, I want to get to Kyoshi Island." He said, sounding distracted. Aang and Katara shared a look, he was just eager to see Suki, and they all knew it. Aang offered his arm to Katara, which she took with a blush and followed an impatient mayor to see what was so special about the renovations they had done to this strange little town.

They were being taken to the site of his hearing, where he had dressed up as Kyoshi and ended up confessing to murder. That seemed so long ago now, it was hard to believe that so much had changed since then. Walking forward Aang and Katara stopped, a surprised gasp slipping from Katara.

"Aang…it's…"

"I know Katara…

Sokka ran into them unaware they had stopped, ran into them. "What are you guys…oh…" They all stared forward. In place of where the statue of Chin had stood was him. They made him out of stone in almost perfect detail.

"We started it shortly after you saved our village, and finished it after the war had ended. We figured it would be a better addition then building another one of our founder. It's our way of thanking you for what you've done Avatar." Aang smiled brightly, they actually cared, celebrated him. He never thought there would be a statue of him, but sure enough…there he was. "Thank you." He said, bowing to him. "Of course Avatar." He replied. "Now I do hope you can make the next Avatar day! We have celebrations planned!" Aang chuckled in response. "We'll do our best." He replied.

"Okay, okay, nice statue, let's go." Sokka said, turning around and walking away.

"Suki here I come." He muttered under his breath so no one would hear.

"Sokka…" Katara began. Aang touched her arm and looked up to her. She smiled at him, and understood how Sokka felt.

"Thank you for honoring me." He said as Sokka started dragging them away. "I'll visit soon!" He called out as they got further away. Katara laughed, following Sokka who was still dragging Aang away towards the sky bison and the way to Kyoshi Island.

Sokka wasted no time, taking it upon himself to climb onto Appa's head. Aang didn't protest as he helped Katara up, joining her in the saddle and immediately leaning into her. "Yip yip!" Sokka said, excitedly, obviously in a hurry to get to the island.

"It's kind of nice not having to be at the reigns." Aang said, feeling Katara stroking his cheek gently.

"It's nice to have you with me in the saddle." Katara whispered to him with a smile, kissing the side of his head gently, causing a happy sigh to escape him. From the head of the bison, Sokka could be heard muttering to himself about something. Appa let out a small roar, as if interrupting his muttering. Aang chuckled a little.

"Sounds like Appa is tired of your Suki goo goo voice." Katara joked with her. He waved his hand at them without turning, much too involved in the idea of landing at the island then anything else. Nuzzling in close, Aang closed his eyes, wondering just how it would be if time could just hurry up.

They landed softly on Kyoshi Island, outside where the Unagi resides. Once they dismounted the town people cheered, having seen the Bison from the sky.

"Well welcome back everyone." Greeted a voice from behind the crowd. Sokka leaped off of Appa's head, falling on his face before getting up and scrambling forward to meet the Kyoshi Warriors who were not walking to the front, Suki leading the pack with Hawky on her shoulder. Sokka grabbed her and spun her around.

"Suki!" He beamed, as she started laughing. "Well hello ponytail." She teased, kissing his cheek as he set her down.

"Let's get back to the town, a feast has been prepared." She said with a smile, looking at Sokka especially. "Yeah, I'm starved!" Ty Lee interjected, walking on her hands from the back of the group. Aang and Katara who were just now dismounting Appa chuckled as they watched Sokka withdraw a little from Ty Lee. Sokka took Suki's waist

"Come on lazy bones! Let's get going." Sokka said ecstatic.

"Let's go boy, you can come into town with us." Aang said to Appa as he took Katara's hand in his, leading his bison to the town while the rest preceded him.

"I am so stuffed, I don't think Appa can carry me." Aang said laying down onto the ground in their house they had been given. The feast had been the biggest outside of Ba Sing Se that the group had ever seen. Sokka still wasn't home, no one expected to see him until morning. Katara chuckled gently, and threw a head of cabbage out of the window. Crunching outside showed Appa was eating it happily.

"It definitely was good though wasn't it." She said with a smile. Aang answered her with a groan as he refused to move off the floor. Chuckling she sat down next to him, legs crossed. In a moment Aang had pushed himself off the floor and had laid his head in her lap, causing her to chuckle as she stroked his cheek. In this moment she was glad Sokka was happy with Suki, because if she made Sokka feel how she felt then nothing in the world beat it, nothing even came close. They laid there for awhile, unwilling to move from the comfortable position. The cry of a hawk broke the silence, causing them both to look up. Through the open window a prestigious looking hawk, weathered a bit, but proud. It was from the fire nation. Aang leaned forward and took the scroll and the Hawk flew out the door. Becoming serious he looked at Katara. "We need to get to the South Pole."