DISCLAIMER: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender, but I wish I did and I definitely own this story. So don't steal it or I'll go Avatar State on ya! LOL
Chapter 4: The Spirit World
Aang and Katara had just arrived at the Eastern Air Temple. Aang's mind filled with memories of when he used to visit from the Southern Air Temple. He and Katara had decided to split up and look around absolutely everywhere for any stones out of place or a hidden passageway. They had also decided to search for three days and then have a break and then search for the remaining three days.
'We are bound to find the Air Nomads here, aren't we?' Aang thought to himself as he and Katara unpacked their supplies off Appa's back. Katara soon noticed that Aang was very quiet so she decided to comfort him.
"Are you okay Aang? Don't worry, we'll find the Air Nomads" she said as she walked over and sat next to him on the stone, dusty floor.
"Yeah I'm fine Katara, I know we're bound to find them" he replied, doubting himself in his mind.
"C'mon Aang, let's not waste time. Let's go find some Airbenders!" Katara said enthusiastically as she got up and helped Aang to his feet. "We can go to the Air Sanctuary first and see if you can talk to Roku and get his advice".
"Sure thing Katara" Aang picked up Katara and he Airbended them onto the mountain where the Sanctuary was built. Katara knew that Aang would want to meditate so she decided to give him some peace and quiet. "I'll leave you some space, hey Aang? Aang kept his head down, he just nodded and Katara was just about to leave the Sanctuary when Aang ran after her.
"Hey Katara wait up" she turned around as he grabbed her face and smashed his lips against hers. She wrapped her arms around his neck as he wrapped his arms around her waist. They soon had to stop kissing because Katara had forgotten how to breathe and needed some air. 'Wow, two very loving kisses from Aang in two days. I wonder what's up with him' she thought as she tried to get in some air. She then started giggling uncontrollably as she walked out of the Sanctuary in a daze. She went out and sat just outside the doors. Aang walked up to Avatar Roku's statue and sat down and meditated. After a couple of minutes, Aang felt his spirit float up into the sky and he entered the Spirit World. Avatar Roku was waiting for him with his dragon.
'Hello Aang, you wanted to speak to me?' Avatar Roku walked up to Aang and signalled him to get onto his dragon to take a ride with him. Aang went up to him and jumped onto his dragon's back.
"Yes Roku I did want to talk to you. I want to ask you about –"
"Where the Air Nomads are?"
"Yes, how did you know?" Aang asked a little surprised.
"I am an Avatar in the Spirit World, and I'm one of your past lives Aang, I know everything" he replied without looking back at him.
"Okay, well can you please tell me if the Air Nomads are alive or not? I really want to find them," he told Roku with an impatient urge to his voice.
"Okay I will tell you. As you know Aang the Air Nomads were a peaceful nation. They didn't have a military or anything, so they had to have a plan on what to do if another nation attacks them".
"Yeah yeah I knew about that, can you please hurry up and tell me where they are hiding" interrupted Aang, his patience getting thinner and thinner with every minute of already-heard nonsense. "I'm getting to that hang on. So, the Monks of every Air Temple held a meeting, for the day of Sozin's Comet was nearing. In their meeting, they were discussing about what to do with you".
"Me? But why?"
"They were discussing about whether to move you to another Temple. Every monk agreed that it was time to tell you that you were the Avatar. They also decided to move you away from Monk Gyatso so that you could master Airbending. But you ran away soon after they told you. They had to think of a new plan since the Avatar wasn't there to save the world. No offence" Roku looked behind him at Aang, who was getting teary-eyed at the memories. "Non taken" replied Aang, "so what was their decision?"
"They decided to send some monks down to the Earth Kingdom. They asked them to build a big underground city underneath one of the Air Temples. I do not know which one or whether they are still alive. But I do know is that they made it underground before Sozin's Comet arrived. The monks were the last ones to go underground and some didn't make it back alive. Are you okay Aang?" he asked once again looking behind his shoulder and looked at Aang. Aang just nodded at him as they landed onto some Spirit World land. "The underground city should be in an Air Sanctuary or underneath the Temples. Was that all you needed Aang?"
"Yes thank you Roku, I should get back to Katara".
"Good bye Aang" and with that, Roku and his dragon disappeared and Aang returned to the Air Sanctuary.
Aang woke up from his meditation and Katara came up from behind him when she realised that he had returned to her world.
"Well, what did Roku tell you?"
"He said that the Airbenders may have survived for the hundred years when the war was going on. He said that the monks had arranged the Earth Kingdom to Earthbend an underground city for them underneath one of the Air Nomads' Sanctuaries or Temples. We'll have a look around the Eastern Air Temple first and then we'll travel around to the others". He and Katara hugged and they decided to play some Airbending games and relive Aang's memories. They would search around the Air Temple the next day.