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Chapter 8: The Northern Air Temple
"Wake up Aang, wake up dear" Aang heard a voice call to him. He opened his eyes, and he realised that he was in a blue tent. He was wind that was coming through the tent was very cold and bits of snow flew into the tent. Where was he? Where did that voice come from? Aang sat up and sat on his elbows. A figure was standing outside the tent. Aang went outside the tent and the figure bent down and sat on the snowy floor. He was in the Southern Water Tribe village where Katara lived. Aang walked up to the figure and the figure turned slowly into Katara. She was looking down on something, a small bundle wrapped in fur. "What's that Katara?" he asked as she looked up to him with a loving smile on her face. 'Oh no' Aang thought to himself. Katara had the motherly look on her face, she only ever wore the "motherly look" was when she was with babies or little children or even when she talked about having kids. She lifted up her arms and Aang saw it. It was a baby, it was sleeping, and it was cute. The baby had short brown hair and a blue arrow on its head. "Who's is that?" Aang asked a still smiling Katara. She looked down at the baby and stared at it.
"Its mine Aang, and yours" she whispered. This took Aang by massive surprise. He was a father! And Katara was a mother! 'Hang on, how old am I?' he thought and he ran to a water puddle. He still looked like the soon-to-be fourteen-year-old boy that he was before. 'Thank goodness'. Then suddenly a small child popped up behind Aang. The child had brown hair and an arrow on her head. Then another identical child appeared, and another and another. Suddenly children with brown hair and arrows surrounded Aang. They jumped onto him and he yelled at the top of his lungs –
"AHHHHH!" yelled Aang as he leaped out of the bed. His screaming woke up Katara and possibly the whole Water Tribe palace. 'That was a really weird dream' Aang thought as Katara looked at him as if he was crazy.
"What's wrong Aang? Another nightmare?" she wrapped her arms around him and hugged him.
"Yeah Katara, just a nightmare." he wrapped his arms around her and they hugged for a good three minutes.
"Do you want to tell me about it?" she asked him with a curious yet sympathetic look on her face. Aang shook his head and stared at the bed covers. "Okay Aang, well goodnight" she kissed Aang on the lips and rolled over and fell asleep, leaving Aang wide-awake with his thoughts.
The next morning, Aang woke up very tired. He had stayed awake all through the rest of the night. He was thinking really hard about his future, about children. His head had been full of thoughts all night. When he finally had fallen asleep, it was time to get up and plan their next trip to the Northern Air Temple. They planned that they were going to stay at the Northern Water Tribe for a few days and then leave for the Air Temple soon after. Zuko, Mai and Ursa enjoyed their visit to the Water Tribe very much and when it was time to leave, Hahn had started to trust the Fire Nation visitors and even started to get along with Zuko.
A couple of days passed and the group had left for the Northern Air Temple. It was Ursa's first trip on Appa and she enjoyed it greatly. The Air Temple wasn't far from the Water Tribe so they didn't have far to travel. Before they left the Water Tribe, they restocked on supplies and they gave them two more tents for Zuko and Mai and Ursa.
"Here are some gifts for the Avatar and his companions" Chief Arnook said to them when he gave them the supplies. He also gave Katara some more Spirit Water from the Spirit Oasis. Before they had left, Zuko apologised once again for the destruction of their magnificent city two years ago.
When they arrived at the Northern Air Temple, they decided to split up. Aang and Katara were to go to the Air Sanctuary and Zuko, Mai and Ursa were to look around everywhere on the mountain for an underground city. When they split up, Aang got his glider and Katara held onto him for dear life as they glided onto the tallest mountain where the Air Sanctuary. When they reached the door, Aang Airbended the door open and walked into the sanctuary. Inside the sanctuary was a dark, eerie room. In that room there were statues of all the past Avatars, just like the other three Temples. Aang walked straight up to Avatar Roku whilst Katara walked to the other statues to check out the other Water Tribe Avatars. Aang sat down in front of Roku and started to meditate. He needed advice, mainly about the Airbenders but also he needed advice about his love life. He opened his eyes and looked at Katara, who was checking out Avatar Kuruk. She smiled at him and blew him a kiss and blushed. Aang blushed as he closed his eyes and soon felt his spirit rising until it stopped. Aang was in the Spirit World, and Roku was standing there right in front of him.