Author's Note: I know this one is short(er) but I wanted to show her that she is proud of her father and isn't just angry!
Chapter Eleven: Why now?
Kaya's Point of View
I looked up at my father's face, his eyes confused, yet boring into me. Did he look disappointed? I shifted my gaze from his face to my feet.
Why does he automatically think it was me? Sometimes I don't do it!
I looked back up at him and tried to form words.
"I-I-I-I be- I-umm-found my-" I stammered. Tears started to run down my face, as I looked at my father. I couldn't form the words, an explanation. I tried to swallow, then licked my lips. Despite the cold, a small sweat broke out on my forehead. I sweeped my dark hair from my face and opened my mouth. Tears hit my tounge, I swallowed the salty water. My face puckered and I looked down.
Aunt Suki looked as if she wanted to pull me into her arms, but restrained and hugged herself instead.
I took a breath, and did the first thing that came to mind. I ran, for the second time this day.
"Kaya!" I heard three voices call after me, but I kept running. I ran just as fast I had when I was running from the man.
Soon though exhaustion swept over me once more, sooner this time. Pangs exploded in my sides and chest, my breath came in ragged gasps, and blood pounded in my ears. I stopped in front of an iceberg and looked up at the massive form. I jumped and found myself on the top, breathing hard but smiling at my accomplishment (A.N. She airbended herself up; if you got confused).
I looked back on today, and all that I had done. Pride swelled in my chest, like one of the war balloons that Uncle Sokka told me about. I had airbended! I had airbended, like my father. My father, yet again, was on my mind. I knew I was proud of him. He saved the world, and didn't give up love. After everything he had been through, he had remembered love, and fell into it's immense trap. He still got my mother in the end. Plus he was recreating the airbending nation with me. I knew I loved my father and I shouldn't be angry but sometimes it's frusturating. But now, now that we know I am a bender, he will have to take me or stay with me.
Then I had waterbended. Lie my mother. My mother, the one I knew almost nothing about, but believed in fully. My beautiful, yes I knew my mother was beautiful, and wonderful, talented mother. I knew I would now be more like her, but did I want that? Did I want them to see me as so just another Katara? Did I want that? I shook my head, clearing it of all of those thoughts. I wanted them to know that I was Kaya. They would know. The world would know. Know that Kaya Agi, daughter of Avatar Aang and Master Katara, was here. A bender. And likemy mother, I won't be knocked down. Like my father, I will save as many people as I can. I am here, and nothing, nothing will stop me.
I took a deep breath and tried to picture my mother again. This time a somewhat blurry picture appeared in my mind. Was it a picture or a memory? This face, I knew it, it had swam through my thoughts and dreams for years. A dark haired, blue eyed woman, with tan skin. She was wearing a smile on her dark pink lips and had a look of such happiness and pride on her face. Was this my mother?
Then I heard something and turned, my arms making contact with a body as I pushed them down. I looked, expecting to see another man, coming to take me. But instead saw my quiet, and now wet and snow-covered father on the ground.
"Kaya will you tell me what happened because Sokka and Suki told me you should tell me instead. Did someone hurt you Kaya?" He asked, sitting up.
Anger blazed inside me. I can take care of myself dad. But I swallowed my fury and smiled softly, looking up at him. I was ready to tell him. Ready to say I was a bender. Ready to ask him about my mother. I knew it was finally time.
Author's Note: I know this is kind of a sappy ending, but I love her determination. Plus her readiness to take on the world I love. Okay so Zuko and his family come in in two chapters, so I am still taking suggestions.