The ceremony was held on the great staircase at the entrance of the earth king's palace. The same staircase that Toph and Aang had destroyed the first time they had been to the palace. The location was chosen so that the most about of people would be able to be there..

When they had come back after the final battle one of the first things Toph had done was to fix the staircase, despite still being very weak. She had argued with Katara that if she didn't fix it then she would have to help everyone get up to the door, or down all the time, so in the long run she was saving herself work.

For as far as they could see there where people of ever nation, of all different ages and backgrounds. Just wanting to be there to be part of the history that was being made. It was the most beautiful sight Aang thought he had ever seen, it made him feel like everything they had been through was all worth it.

There where a lot of differences from the first time they had been here. They where all taller, and seemed older move steady. They knew who they where and what they where meant to do. They had were all dressed in formal traditional dress for the occasion, unlike the travelling clothes they had wore the first time they were on these steps. The six of them stood in a row in front of the main door, that had miraculously remained in one piece. Iroh, Pakku and the earth king stood in front of them.

The first part of the ceremony was to crown Iroh the new fire lord. In his speech, he had made it very clear he was only going to be a caretaker fire lord until Zuko was able to take the title. As much as he loved his nation his heart just wasn't in, it never really was.

The earth king then came forward to speck "I would now like to give this medal to the new major Suki of the Kyoshi warriors"

Suki made her way to the earth king. She was wearing full Kyoshi warrior dress. The earth king pined the medal on, and she bowed to the crowed who cheered. She then made her way back to line of heroes.

Pakku then took his place canter stage to play his part "I would like to present this medal to the new caption Sokka of the water nation navy"

Sokka's leg was still a bit stiff, so it he a bit longer to make his was to Pakku, which just gave him more time to be the centre of attention. He had the medal pined on and bowed. Then when he was lifting his head up, he whispered "thanks gramps" both smiled. Happy that they have been able to finally agree on a nickname.

It was then Iroh turn to take centre stage again "It is my great honour to now introduce to you, the four ambassadors of the four great nations" the four ambassadors slowly bowed to the crowed "Avatar Aang, our new air nation ambassador" Aang took three steps forward and bowed again.

"Prince Zuko, our new fire nation ambassador" Zuko also took the three steps to stand level with Aang with a space between the two.

"Lady Toph Be Fong master earthbender, our new earth nation ambassador" Toph frowned slightly at the use of her full name, but took her place between Aang and Zuko

"Katara master waterbender of the southern water tribe, our new water nation ambassador" Katara then took her place next to Aang.

"The future" a cheer louder than before filler the air.

In perfect sync they all bowed one last time to the crowed. They where all then presented with badges, that they pinned to their robes, or dresses. Each one was the same in was a silver base with four precious stones placed in it. One in each corner green in the top right, red top left, yellow in the bottom right and blue in the bottom left.

Aang then made his move he took another step forward.

"I would like to give someone else here another title" Aang didn't have to look back at this friends to know that they where all looking at him with confused looks on their faces. This image on his head cased a faint smile to appear on his face "I want to present to you, the first grad master in all most four hundred years. Grand master earthbender Toph" he had noticed her reaction to her full name and decided not to use it.

Toph had no idea what was going on, except she was sure he had said her name. She stood still not knowing what to do, until Zuko kindly gave her a little push to fill the space between her and Aang.

When she was close enough Aang reached out and took her right wrist so he could tie the bracelet around her wrist. It wasn't really a bracelet it was a piece of green martial with cherry blossoms embroidered in it with sliver thread, he had also added a piece of jade. The jade was in a diamond shape, which had a odd colour to it. If you squinted it looked like the symbol for yin yang. He had decided not to add the earth kingdom symbol to it, mainly because be wasn't sure how to. It also seemed to fit Toph better this way, simple yet pretty.

After the bracelet had been tied Toph took in a deep breath, before throwing her arms around Aang's neck to pull him into a hug. A hug gladly returned.

"Thank you Aang" she whispered into his ear, before she started to pull away

"You are always saying you're the greatest earthbender alive. I thought this would save you the trouble of having to say it all the time…. Wait did you just call me Aang"

"Of course not twinkle toes" with that she gave him a punch on the arm. But she didn't put all of her strength in to it.

The rest of the group came forward to from a line again. This time including three rulers. The nine just stood and looked out at the crowed. Looking out into the endless see of faces, and heart beats, the huge weight of the job they had to do fully hit them. In the bit of their hearts they knew that, together they felt strong. After all they had done the impossible together before.

Six paper lamps took of into the air each with four candles inside, each lamp had a name painted on to it, for the six heroes that ended the war. The sun was in the sky, but it only gave of a warm glow from behind the palace, as it was starting to set. The moon was appearing in front of them. Casting shadows on the nine figures at the top the grand staircase.

i know that this was kind of a borning chapter, but i liked getting to rewrite it. i am sorry if anyone finds the question annoying. i have just found from when i first posted this story nearly a year ago that if you want to have feedback that you can use to make the story better you have to ask questions to find out about areas that you are worryed about. if i didnt do this all the feedback i would get is about how bad my spelling is. i would also like to say that even thou it looks like i have a lot of reveiws for this story, but i dont 9 of them are from the first time i posted this story that other 5 are from this time round. so pleace reveiw.