Avatar: The Last Airbender: Continued
Part 2: Chapter 5 (Chapter 16)
Airbending and Kingdom Breaking
(Last chapter of Part 2)
Sunlight slowly came over the tired-looking face of Avatar Aang. His eyes suddenly shot open from sleep and were blinded by the sunlight. He shielded his eyes with his arms and stood up on the floor of the Eastern Air Temple. He groaned and wobbled around in his place until he remembered what day it was. He stopped wobbling and stood in place, a sudden smirk evolving on his face. He then screamed for joy and got on his Air Scooter and went up the walls of the Air Temple, still screaming. Today was the day, the day when the Air Nomads would become reborn into this new generation. An old nation that was almost extinct was about to become refreshed and come to back to this world. Today was the day when Airbending Classes would begin.
"Wahoo!" Aang screamed for happiness. He suddenly heard a familiar sounding purr. His screaming had woke up Momo.
"Rahhhh!" Appa too.
"TODAY'S THE DAY!" Aang jumped for joy. Aang then realized that he wasn't on the Air Scooter anymore.
"Oh, dang," Aang said calmly. He started plummeting toward the earth at incredible speed, "EEEEKKKKK AHHHHHHHHH!"
Then he used Airbending to land on the stone pavement softly, like when he did that to Toph in Earth Rumble 6 and that's what made her give him the nickname Twinkle Toes. He sat on the ground and pet Appa and Momo, then started to meditate, if the Air Nation was coming back, he should renew the practices the Airbenders performed, one obvious one was meditating. His mind lost contact with the world and went into a state of blankness and nothingness. His mind suddenly entered the Spirit World, his tattoos glowed. This usually doesn't happen without being in a spiritual place, which Aang was not in, he was just on one of the terraces at the Eastern Air Temple.
Inside the Spirit World he saw four different doors, somewhere he's never been before. Each door had a different color on it, one blue, one green, one red, and one white. Aang thought that it must've been one door per nation, blue is Water, green is Earth, red is Fire, and white is Air. Aang wondered if, since he was a fully realized Avatar now, he could open these doors to check on the Four Nations, as it is the Avatar's duty to check on the Four Nations and make sure each nation was having peace.
He opened the door to the Fire Nation first. It was just normal Fire Nation activity, people at the markets, people sleeping, etc. Next, he opened the doors to the Water Tribes. Inside, there were two more, probably one representing the Northern Water Tribe and one representing the Southern Water Tribe. He opened both doors at once, just normal activity once again. However, his mouth dropped to the floor when he saw how advanced the Southern Water Tribe was. It was almost better than the Northern Water Tribe! Waterbenders had got there from the Northern Water Tribe and made it into a spectacular place, new buildings, new homes, new people, it almost looked overcrowed! What would be behind the Air door? Aang thought. He quickly opened it and just saw himself looking through the doorway, just like a mirror. Aang decided that he should've seen that coming and closed the door. Now, for the Earth door, Aang just expected to see normal life in Ba Sing Se. But when he opened it, he saw nothing even close to that. People were screaming, people were fighting, it wasn't normal Earth Kingdom at all. It wasn't even in Ba Sing Se, it was in different villages, the door was showing all of them at once, what was going on? Aang closed the door and started to think about it. Why would the people of the Earth Kingdom be fighting? He decided to not think about it now, he'd tell Toph, Katara, Zuko, Sokka, and Suki, if she comes. For now, he wouldn't worry about it. But how would he get out of the Spirit World?
He walked out of the room with the doors and into the area of the Spirit World he always arrived into. He suddenly saw a creature move around at the corner of his eye. He turned toward it and he saw it was Hei Bai.
Hei Bai saw him and bent down for him to get on. Hei Bai knew the drill.
"Hi Hei Bai!" Aang said.
They were about to cross over into the mortal world already, in only a few seconds.
"Bye Hei Bai," Aang said. He jumped into his body and stood up, worried. Why would the people of the Earth Kingdom be fighting? Aang thought.
His thoughts were suddenly interrupted by the sounds of four trains arriving in front of the temple, someone must've bended railroad tracks. Everyone's here! Aang ran at incredible speed over to the front of the temple.
First he saw Zuko come out of the train with the Fire Nation Insignia on it. Aang waved excitedly at him.
"Good day, Firelord Zuko," Aang said, purposely pretending fancy and formal, he reached out a hand for Zuko to shake. Zuko caught on to the joke.
"Same to you, Avatar Aang," Zuko said, shaking his hand, both of them laughed. Next, Sokka came out with Suki from the train that had the symbol for the Water Tribe Army. Aang was simply going to wave to him and say "Hi" but instead Sokka came over and hugged Zuko and Aang.
"IT'S BEEN SOOOO LONGGGGG!" Sokka screamed as a little, stubby tear came out of his eye.
"Hey guys!" Suki said enthusiastically.
Toph arrived shortly after in the train with Earth Kingdom Symbol on it.
"HELLOOOOO EVERYONEEEE!" Toph shouted.
Lastly, Katara walked out of another Water Tribe train almost identical to Sokka's while the others piled out of the train.
Aang ran up to her and embraced her in a tight hug as she did the same back. Aang held her hands and said, "!"
"Hi, Aang," Katara laughed.
"YAY! We're all here," Sokka said.
"Ty Lee?" Aang said.
"Hi! I'm here to learn Airbending!" Ty Lee said.
"But I thought you were a-" Sokka was interrupted.
"Kyoshi Warrior? Yeah, I am, I just wanted to learn something extra, just for the fun of it, and to help rebuild the Air Nation, you know, peace and all of that stuff," Ty Lee said.
"Great," Aang said.
They all started walking toward the main terrace of the temple when Aang signaled all the students to go that way.
"Hello, everybody!" Aang said after gather his many students together on the terrace, his friends sitting on the side, "I am Aang, the Avatar, and this is my sky bison, Appa. We are both the only two of our species left, I am the last Airbender and Appa is the last sky bison. I have invited everyone to come here to learn Airbending because it is almost extinct. I would like you to try your best to become a successful Airbender and I'd like you to practice the things the Airbenders and monks did a hundred years ago, like meditate and live in one of the four temples. Okay, I know you must not like the idea of living in the temples but you can try it, I know it's hard being away from your family but think about it like this: this is your home, and that is the home your family stays in. And it's not like you're being kidnapped or something, you can go visit home, or even live at your house for a while if your want to. I just request of you to treat this as your home. Spread out, get some of your own space. Now, just push your hand forward and let yourself move with the wind. Feel the air on your face, and feel the desire to move it. It will not come right away, considering the fact that you were not born into the Air Temples as an Airbender."
It took a few hours for the first person to be able to move the air, much quicker than Aang expected, after that, others started catching on, too. By sunset, everyone had become an Airbender.
"Congratulations, everyone! You are all Airbenders!" Aang exclaimed.
Suddenly, another Earth Kingdom train arrived at the front of the temple, "Lesson over, you are all dismissed, now, find a room and unpack, see you in the morning for the next lesson, oh yeah, and if you want to practice or try to get ahead, use the lesson scrolls I wrote with all of your lessons for the next month on it," Aang said as he, Katara, Zuko, Sokka, Suki, and Toph ran to the front of the temple to meet the person from the train, all confused about who could be there.
"Good evening, all of you, the Earth King has an urgent message," Han, the Earth King's personal assistant, said.
"Well, what is it?" Toph asked.
Han looked down, "The Earth Kingdom has broken,"
Everyone's eyes widened as they looked at each other.
"I don't have time for explanations, I have to get back and try to control all the chaos going on in Ba Sing Se," Han said, as he got on the train, "Bye," the train left.
"What just happened?" Toph asked.
"I have a confession to make," Aang said, "Before everyone came, I was meditating, and when I meditated, and I know this is weird considering I was just sitting on the terrace floor, I went into the Spirit World. But I went in at a different place than I usually do, I was in this room, and there were four doors, one for each nation. All of them seemed normal, but when I opened the one for the Earth Kingdom's door, I saw a bunch of different villages fighting, and it looked like war. When I left the Spirit World, I didn't have time to think about it because everyone had arrived. When I saw everyone, I guess I forgot to tell all of you, I'm sorry,"
"We don't have time to get angry now," Toph said, "We have to leave for Ba Sing Se, all of us!"
"Wait! I have to tell my students something," Aang said.
"Everyone!" Aang screamed across the temple, "I have some Avatar duties to take care of, use the lesson book and Appa to learn Airbending while I'm gone!"
Aang took one last look at the Eastern Air Temple and hopped on Appa with the rest of his friends. They sailed into the sunset, thinking about the chaos going on in the now, broken, Earth Kingdom.
A/N: Hope you liked that chapter! It's the end of Part 2, as I said before, Part 3 will start soon! I'm going to name this third part. Part 3 will be called The Broken Earth Kingdom. Lastly, I'd like to thank mike50333 for the idea of having Ty Lee learn Airbending.