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Gyatso and Kara: Prodigies of an Avatar

Chapter 16- "Kara, Mama started Crying. . ."

It was a rainy day that oddly fit Katara's mood. She couldn't stop crying at all. Her light blue eyes were stained with red and glistened with water. Katara was sitting on the bed that she had once slept on as a child. The place was her calmest sanctuary, a place where no one dared to enter if she had water-bended a lock on the door. Her crying was so soft that only the people who had the best hearing could realize it. Only them, or people that could tell when a soul was aching, someone such as her youngest son Kuzon.

Only four, but could tell what kind of person someone was. Topaz, for instance. She was usually very cold to him, but he could easily forgive her. For he knew that she was only acting that way out of sadness. He didn't know it, but he greatly reminded her of Gyatso, and as you know, she only wished to forget about the boys. Kuzon was an automatic reminder of them. Also, children, unlike adults, are very sensitive to the spirit realm or world. Especially an offspring of an avatar.

Kuzon walked up to his mother's room and knocked lightly. "Mama, why don't you come play with us?" "K-Kuzon?" Was Katara's teary reply. "Yes, Mama, that's me." Kuzon's eyes started to dim with worry as his mother continued. "I can't play right now, okay. I need to be alone." To Kuzon. It was an unlikely thing for his mother to say. Katara was never one to dislocate herself from everyone. "Mama what's wrong?" Kuzon felt himself start to tear up as his lips quivered with every word he said. "I'm just a little bit sad, Kuzon. Don't worry about me; just go out with your sister." Katara's voice broke as she ended her sentence. Those words stabbed the child in the heart hard. He didn't know why, but his mother was sad. He tried to retrace his steps to see if anyone had said something wrong or mean to her. Katara had been happy all of the seven or eight weeks they had been in the South Pole. Nothing seemed to fit. All he knew to do was go to Kara.

Kara was talking to Li when Kuzon came up to her. She could tell by his face that something was wrong with her little brother. "What is it, Kuzon? Why are you sad?" Kuzon sniffled up his tears and tried to be strong. "Kara, Mama started crying in her room, and I don't know why? Did anything happen to her?" Kara's nose scrunched lightly as she turned to Li. "Um, I'm sorry, Li. I promise to-" "Kara, nothing is wrong with helping your Mom. I can always talk to you later; I have to get ready for a date anyways." Kara's left eyebrow raised and she gave him a teasing smile. "A date with Kyoshi by any chance?" "That's for me to know, and you to find out after you help your Mom."

"Mom, open up." Kara knocked on the icy door to her mother's room. "Kara, please let me be." Katara sniffled, and then returned to crying. "Mom, we are worried about you. Everyone is." "Kara, please let me be sad this once. You do not need to rescue me this time; I have seen you out there. You need to learn how to rescue yourself know." Kara's grey eyes looked at the floor. "Dad would want me to help others first." Katara's cries seemed to worsen when Kara mentioned Aang. Katara itched her brain for something to help her out. It was the first spring month in the Water Tribe, the second in the Air Temple . . . that was it! It was her father's 133rd Birthday. That would easily explain Katara's actions. "Mom, please let me in. I can help you. I went through the same thing on my Birthday." The lock on the door melted and Kara went in to see her mother on her bed. She looked like time had been rewound to when Katara was 5 years old and Kya had died.

Katara's hair was frizzed and messed up. Her tan skin was now as pale as a newborn baby's and tears enveloped her face. "Oh, Mama" Kara sat next to her mother's bed and took her hand. "Did you cry when Dad's birthday came up all the other years you were away?" Kara tried not to pull information from her mother in a venerable state but did not know how to get answers. "Not at all, but something seems off today. Like his soul is no longer here, or his face. It's almost as if he died." Deeper tears began to develop in Katara's eyes as she thought. "What-what if he did die?" "Don't think about that, Mom. He couldn't have died. He's the avatar." "He died once before, years ago." "What?" Kara stiffened. "Before we even got together. In a battle in Ba Sing Sei." Katara's voice faltered. "He still had that scar on his back when I was there. . ." "Mama! What is wrong? Ho-how do you sense something like that?" "I don't even know. You know what, if he were dead, one of you would sense it. You shouldn't even listen to me." Katara sat up. "Do you sense something?" Kara closed her eyes and tried to concentrate. "Nothing at all."

As Kara walked out of the room, something hit her. Something grim and evil. A scent tinkled her nose and her bones tightened. She started to feel sick. The scent smelled like death, and that's when it hit her. Her father was dead, and told her mother so that day. Being the avatar's wife meant you probably got signs from the spirit world. They did have a physical and spiritual bond. Kara stopped to turn and tell her mother, but vowed that she could not break her heart all over again.

I totally gave you guys two BIG HINTS.

1: Aang has died. This is no joke. He is as dead as fried meat.

2: You'll have to re-read those last two paragraphs to find out.

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God Bless,

Leelee488512

P.S.- If this chapter stunk (which I think it did-kinda) just know that it was a plot setting chapter.