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Chapter 2 – Goodbye Avatar Aang

"Keisha, look out!" yells Aang as he dives for his daughter.

Aang jumps in between his daughter and the arrow heading straight for her. Just as he reaches her, the arrow instead of hitting it's target, Keisha, it pierces Aang in the back. "DADDY!" yells Keisha in fear for her father's life. She looks in the direction the arrow came, but saw nothing there.

Keisha looks into her father's eyes as he says his last words to her. "Keisha, it would appear fate has taken me before I could teach you anything while I live. Tell your mother and brother I love them. Tell your uncle Sokka, aunt Sukie, your cousins and everyone that I'll miss them. I promise to contact you when I settle properly in the Spirit World."

"Help me, someone please help me," yells Keisha at the top of her lungs with tears running down her cheeks.

"Keisha, what's the m- oh my god, what happened?" exclaims the nearest Southern Water Tribe resident who Keisha recognizes as Eli.

"Daddy was talking to me about the Avatar State and the Spirit World, then an arrow was heading towards me, I think, cause daddy yelled for me to look out, then he jumped at me, then he was in between me and the arrow, then it hit him in the back, then he told me to tell mummy and Hiro that she loved them, then he told me to tell uncle Sokka and aunt Sukie and my cousins and everyone that he will miss them, then he told me-"

"Hold on Keisha, let's go to your mother and talk then, I'll carry your father," replied Eli cutting her off.

"Okay," Keisha consented as Eli picks up her father and heads towards the Avatar's home, so she follows.

Aang and Katara's House

Katara was making lunch for her family knowing very well that when Aang and Keisha returned, they'd be hungry. Then she hears running outside, so she goes to investigate only to be met with a horrible sight. Running towards her were a crying Keisha and Eli holding the lifeless body of her husband? "Mummy, daddy got shot," cried Keisha as she reaches her mother.

"Oh no, Eli is he…?" she couldn't say it.

"I'm afraid so my lady. I'm sorry," Eli replies while hanging his head in remorse.

Katara, not being able to stand on her weak knees, collapses to the ground and holds her daughter in her arms. As they cry in each others arms, an unsuspecting Hiro comes out to find out what's happening. "Mum, what's going on?" he asks with fear in his voice after seeing his mother and sister crying. He then looks over at Eli and sees his dad absolutely unmoving. "Dad? What's wrong with dad?"

"He's gone son, I'm truly sorry," answers Eli in a truly apologetic voice.

"No, no, no, that's not possible, dad is the strongest person I know!" exclaims Hiro in absolute denial. He is, after all, only 10 years old.

"But he isn't immortal, Hiro," whispers his mother. "Everyone dies sometime; all we can do is mourn. Come here Hiro."

As Hiro goes over to his mother and sister to cry with them, Sokka, Sukie and their two children come over to see what's happening. Sokka holds his wife and children in his arms, as they too cry over the death of Avatar Aang.

The next day was his funeral, the whole Water Tribe was there. Unfortunately, due to the early date, none of their friends from the other nations could make it, but they are having a memorial service for their dead friend and Avatar. The whole world was mourning the death of the Avatar.

Keisha was standing with the rest of her family. She was crying along with her mother, aunt, cousins, Kinta and Joey, 7-year-old twins. Hiro, unable to take that his father was dead, just stood in silence and watched as they lowered his coffin into the ground. The whole Southern Water Tribe was quite, it was silent and the only thing that can be heard is the penguins eating their fish and the weeping of the people.

Later that day, while sitting at the table at her aunt and uncle's house, Keisha was thinking intently to herself until she finally speaks her mind. "It's my fault, it's all my fault. That arrow was meant for me and he took it instead. I could have saved him, but I was too scared to do anything."

"No, Keisha, don't say such things sweetie, it's not your fault. You're five years old, there was nothing you could do. It was the person who shot the arrow in the first place's shot. Your father was protecting you, he wouldn't mind going by that means of death. You should be proud your father left us doing what he did best, protecting people. He went a hero," replied Katara in shock that she would hear her daughter say such things.

"I still think it's my fault," Keisha whispered to herself.

I realise that this one was shorter than the last, but I'm starting to think that all my chapters are going to be short. Sorry if it disappoints anyone. Review please, just like always. I know the second genre I have is humour and this chapter is tragic, but the story isn't over yet, the humour comes later. If you are upset about Aang dying, then I am sorry, but in the previous chapter it clearly says that he wouldn't live much longer, I just didn't say when.

I know it seems that Keisha is talking like a teenager would, but my internal typing instincts don't allow me to mess up real spelling and grammar, so I can't write like a five year old. We'll just say that, even though she's five, she's very literate and intelligent. Eli is pronounced Ee-lie, Kinta is pronounced how it is spelled and Joey is pronounced, well think of a baby kangaroo. These names are coming off the top of my head, so sorry if it doesn't go with the whole Southern Water Tribe name guess thing.

Sorry if I'm making it sound like I'm saying you guys are stupid and don't get it, because that's definitely not the case. I add all this just in case someone doesn't get it or if people get the wrong idea.