YEAH! Ok so the homecoming football game was last night and we dominated 42-0! Yeah go us! Ok remember this is a two part chapter, this part is the wedding but follows Katara and Aang around, mostly Aang. It will start right after the speech Iroh gives, so everybody knows where it is. I guess you could say this is a bit of a filler chapter…to fill in the vastly opened previous chapter. Is it just us or does Mai seem like if she married Zuko she would be very happy and not doom and gloom? Also thank you buddygirl1004 for the idea about Suki being pregnant. We decided to tweak it a bit however, read and find out how.
Disclaimer: We do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender if we did then Derek would have cooled down all of the sexual innuendo in the episode Bitter Work. It was funny to us but we don't need the youth of our world hearing that! (Calm down dad) Hey! I'm not acting like dad…am I? (Yeah you kind of are) *sad face* what a long disclaimer.
This chapter is a dedication to all the people who lost their lives in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
Iroh had given his speech and unified Zuko and Mai. They were sitting at a grand table with the Gaang, Ty Lee, Iroh and Ursa.
"So, now that you two are married, when can I expect some grandchildren?" Ursa asked the couple who almost choked.
"Um mom, we just got married and you already want us to have kids?" Zuko asked Ursa who just smiled at them. They both knew the answer was a yes.
"Fine I'll ask later, I'm going to go and talk with our guests, Iroh would you care to join me?" Ursa asked the aged general.
"It would be my honor." Iroh stood up and offered his arm to Ursa, who gladly accepted it.
"So Mai, I noticed that your aura is a lot less dingy and grey. Did Zuko do that or are you actually going to be happy now?" Ty Lee asked her longtime friend.
"Well I guess the answer is yes to both of those. Zuko is the cause of my happiness." Mai said as she grabbed Zuko's hand and intertwined their fingers.
"Aww, you two are so adorable!" Ty Lee said receiving a glare from both Zuko and Mai.
"Anyways, if you will all excuse us we should thank our guests for coming." Zuko said as he and Mai left the table and instantly blended in with the crowd.
"Hey Katara, Toph, can I talk to you guys in private real quick?" Suki asked.
"Of course, come on let's go to my room." Katara said as she Toph and Suki left the table leaving only Aang, Sokka and an overly excited Ty Lee. Just sitting near her made Sokka feel uncomfortable.
"Um…hey Aang, do you want to go get some food with me?" Sokka asked trying to get away from Ty Lee.
"Ok, I guess? Ty Lee would you like us to bring you back anything?"
"Oh no thanks I think I might go find the other Kyoshi warriors." She said getting up from her seat and for once, walking away.
"Well that was easier than I thought." Sokka said.
"What are you talking about?" The curious monk asked.
"I'm trying to stay away from Ty Lee. I think she might still have a crush on me."
"What? Ty Lee may not be the smartest girl you'll meet but she does know when to not go for a guy who already has a girlfriend."
"Oh, and you're the sudden expert on Ty Lee now? What makes you say that?"
"Just a hunch." Aang shrugged.
"Actually you reminded me of something that I need to talk with Zuko and you about…well mainly Zuko."
"Ok, do you want to talk about this now or some other time?"
"Now, but we need to find Zuko first, come on." Sokka led Aang through the crowd to find Zuko. Upon finding him they asked Mai if they could borrow him from her for a moment. She reluctantly said yes and the three headed down to Aang and Katara's room, completely forgetting that the girls were having a private chat in there. They arrived at the door just in time to hear some of the conversation.
"Ok Suki, stand still. I'll see if I can feel another heartbeat." They heard Toph say. Sokka looked at Aang and Zuko who, just like him, were confused.
"It's there, I can feel it! Wait hold on…I don't feel one, but two!" Toph said as Katara screamed in joy.
"Suki you're going to have twins!" Sokka's face went from confusion to a grin larger than Aang's in record time. He tried to burst through the door but was held back by Zuko and Aang. They dragged him down the hall and entered another empty room.
"Guys let me go! I want to go see Suki!" Sokka said struggling against their combined strength.
"Sokka we can't let you go. If you go see Suki about this now, you'll be in big trouble for eavesdropping and you know it." Zuko scolded him pushing him onto the bed.
"Sokka even I know that's a bad move and I'm younger than you." Aang said.
"Well technically your 113, so you're a lot older than me, but I see your point. How long do you think I'll have to wait?" Sokka said accepting the fact that he couldn't bring this up with Suki.
"Until she tells you." Surprisingly this came from Aang. He received weird looks from Zuko and Sokka.
"How would you know that?" Sokka questioned. Not thinking before Aang spoke he said something he regretted.
"You could say I have experience." Sokka's eyes went wide and Zuko took a step back. Sokka looked at Aang for a few seconds and lunged at him and grabbed his shoulders with a vice like grip.
"How do you have experience with girls being pregnant, Aang?" Sokka screamed as Zuko came over and tried to pry Sokka off of Aang.
"I've traveled around the world several times so I think I would have run into a few girls being pregnant." Aang said trying to cover his earlier remark.
"Oh no, that's not going to cut it! What did you do to Katara?" Sokka pressed.
"Nothing I swear!" Aang stared deep into Sokka's eyes as he eventually let go of Aang's shoulders.
"Fine I'll believe you for now, sorry." Sokka said as his voice returned to normal.
"Don't be, she's your little sister, it's your job to be the protective big brother. Just sometimes you've got to know when you're being overprotective and stop before you do something irrational." Aang said placing an assuring hand on Sokka's shoulder.
"Now that we're all back to normal here, Sokka what was it that you originally wanted to talk with us about?" Zuko asked lightening the mood by changing subjects.
"Oh yeah, I almost completely forgot. I want your guy's advice on a personal matter. I want to ask Suki to marry me and I was hoping that you two, well mainly you Zuko, could help me on the matter."
"Really? Everybody's coming to me about this stuff lately." Zuko said making a quick glance over to Aang who was blushing.
"What do you mean? Wait you're not saying that…Aang you want to…with Katara?" Sokka stuttered.
"I talked with Zuko for some marriage advice just like you're about to do. I know were still both young but I want to be with her forever when the time comes." Aang said.
"Well…I guess I'm glad it's you over anybody else we've met."
"Ok can we please stop getting sidetracked? Sokka here's your advice, take your time, don't rush and it's a team effort. There you go that's the quick version of what I told Aang." Zuko said annoyed by everyone getting off topic so easily.
"Sorry, ok so time and a team effort. Got it, thanks Zuko." Sokka said as he rushed out the door back to the party.
"No Sokka you forgot…fine whatever. I'm going to head back to Mai, she's probably wondering where I am." Zuko left the room leaving only Aang. He thought to himself while making his way back to the party.
Wow who would have thought that one wedding could bring up so much about other people's marriages. I wonder what type of wedding Sokka will have, an Earth Kingdom or Water Tribe one. Or maybe a little of both. I wonder what Airbender weddings are like. I guess I could make it up if I never find out.The loud conversations brought Aang back to earth as he rejoined the party. He found Katara and Sokka talking with Hakoda on one side and Suki and Ty Lee talking with the Kyoshi warriors on the other. He walked over to Hakoda, Katara and Sokka and joined in on their conversation.
"So how are Gran Gran and Pakku doing?" Aang heard Katara say.
"They're great, they both send their congrats to the new couple and their love to you both, even you Aang." Hakoda said registering Aang's presence.
"Did you have a safe trip here?" Aang asked as he extended his hand for Hakoda. He smiled at the boy and shook it firmly.
"Yes we did, how have you been Aang? We didn't get to talk much at our last visit."
"I've been great. Katara helped me learn how to heal, so that's good as well."
"So I've heard, Katara was just telling me about that."
"Hey dad, how long are you going to be here?" Sokka asked changing the topic.
"Actually we leave early tomorrow morning."
"We?"
"Yep, just about every single guest here is leaving tomorrow. The only ones I know are staying are you three and your friends Toph, Suki and Ty Lee."
"Oh…ok, well I guess we'll have to visit you more often."
"That would be nice. I think all of you should visit more often."
"Oh, I just remembered, Chief Hakoda will you be attending the upcoming meeting about this new city?" Aang asked the southern water tribe chief.
"Yes, Sokka and I will be the representatives for the southern water tribe and Chief Arnook and Master Pakku will be the northern water tribe."
"If Master Pakku is in the southern water tribe why is he representing the northern one?" Katara asked.
"Good question, I too would like to know the answer to that." The night went on with a few guests leaving and the rest finding rooms to sleep in. By the time the meeting was a few days away everyone had left except for the Gaang and Ursa who had decided to stay and live in the palace once more. Everyone was on a Fire Nation Royal cruiser heading toward the Earth Kingdom for the upcoming meeting. While making their way there a messenger hawk landed on the ship next to Zuko and Mai.
"What do you suppose that's for?" Mai asked her husband.
"It's probably for the meeting; we should go find Aang and Sokka if we're going to read this." With that Zuko and Mai were making their way to the lower deck to find everybody else. Since it was the only open place inside the ship, Zuko and Mai found everyone sitting in the mess hall.
"Hey Zuko nice of you to join us, what's that?" Aang said seeing the message.
"I don't know yet but it's probably about the upcoming meeting, so I decided to read it with all of you here as well."
"Ok then read away." Sokka said as Zuko read aloud.
Dear Fire Lord Zuko and Avatar Aang,
This is a message to inform you of who all will be representing each of our four nations. For the Fire Nation it shall be you Fire Lord Zuko and your uncle General Iroh. For the Northern Water Tribe it shall be Chief Arnook and Master Pakku. For the Southern Water Tribe it shall be Chief Hakoda and his son Sokka. The Earth Kingdom shall have King Bumi represent Omashu, and Toph Be Fong, The Earth King and The Council of Five represent Ba Sing Se. As for the Air Nomads Avatar Aang shall be their representative. We will also have representative for the new city, more detail for the reason why when you arrive. These people shall be you Fire Lord Zuko, Master Katara, Toph Be Fong and Avatar Aang. One representative from each nation.
We await your arrival,
The Council of Five.
"Great." Toph said sarcastically.
"What's wrong Toph? You should be happy." Aang asked.
"It's just a boring old meeting talking about some city that's all."
"Well think about the future, when this city is built you'll be the person who gets to train a bunch of Earthbenders to be a special squad." Katara said trying to change her opinion about the meeting.
"So basically I'm creating the Dai Li just stronger and without the corruption?"
"Yeah pretty much and you get to hurt them in their training." Sokka said.
"Sweet." Toph said as she made her trademark grin.
"So Zuko how long until we get there?" Sokka asked.
"About three or four days. I know I know Appa could get us there in a day and all that." The Fire Lord responded.
"Actually he couldn't, we would be walking a lot. There's about eight of us and that's a lot of weight for Appa." Aang said.
"Well then we will be seeing you all later then." Zuko said as he left the room with Mai.
"Ok now who's hungry?" Sokka asked the Gaang. Everyone raised their hands.
"Me too, alright Katara and Suki, would you mind making us something?" He received two glares but both agreeing to it.
"Of course Lord Sokka, we shall have to you immediately." The girls mocked.
"I'll come and help." Aang said as he followed the girls to the kitchen.
"Why are they going to make something? I'm pretty sure this ship has a functional cook." Toph said to Sokka.
"Shhh, Toph, are you trying to ruin this! Those two together can cook way better than any cook I have ever met."
"I'm just saying." Once everyone had lunch they felt like the trip was taking even longer. They managed to reach the shores of the Earth Kingdom by nightfall. Everyone decided it best if they continued in the morning. Alone in their room Aang and Katara lay awake.
"So have you and Zuko found out who the Firebending teacher would be?" Katara asked her monk boyfriend.
"No, all of the generals sent back messages saying that none of their finest soldiers were level headed. Looks like I'm going to have to do it."
"Well that would be great actually, you teaching the Firebenders, Toph teaching the Earthbenders and me teaching the Waterbenders."
"That does sound great; I wonder what the people would say to a bunch of kids controlling an entire city."
"Who knows, we can only wait and find out, right?"
"Right…you know I just thought of something." Aang said as he started playing with Katara's hair.
"Oh and what might that be?"
"Who's going to train all the benders in hand to hand? You know in case they get to close to the person they're fighting and they can't bend."
"Good question, maybe we can get them to allow Sokka and Suki to train them. Suki is the leader of the Kyoshi Warriors and Sokka has trained with masters in the Water Tribe, Fire Nation and if you count Suki, The Earth Kingdom."
"I guess we'll have to bring that up with all of the representatives, wont we?"
"Yeah and I get the feeling that Sokka and Suki are going to be together very soon."
"Me too." Aang said. Katara raised her eyebrow asking him how would you know?
"Ok Katara, I've got to tell you something about Sokka and Suki."
"What is it?"
"Well during Zuko's wedding Sokka wanted to talk with Zuko and I about something. While we were walking to a room we passed by where you, Suki and Toph were and kind of found out about Suki being pregnant…with twins." Katara's eyes widened.
"You were eavesdropping on us?" Katara said as her voice started getting louder.
"Not on purpose, we only meant to pass by."
"That doesn't change the fact."
"Your right and I'm sorry, we did talk to Sokka about it and how he's not supposed to talk with Suki about it until she tells him."
"Well good and I'm sorry too, I shouldn't have yelled at you for such a stupid reason."
"It's ok, let's try to get some sleep, we got a big day tomorrow."
"Ok good night Aang, love you."
"I love you to, good night Katara."
Ok so do you all remember how our goal WAS 100 reviews…well now it's doubled, we're aiming for a whopping 200 reviews! We'll get it; we have faith in our amazingtacularreaders (that's not a word) do you have to ruin every word I make up? (No, but it is fun) Alright time for the homecoming dance! I have to drive Becka and her date along with me and my girl…great (HEY!) what? You know he should drive you on his own. (We're both freshmen how can either of us legally drive?) Who said anything about being legal? (Just drive us.) Ok ok fine…the things I do for young love.
Review Responses:
PandaLily22: Hmm, I don't really think Aang and Katara would want to tell Sokka that he was almost an uncle, do you? But yes his reaction would be pretty good to see.
aangxkatara4evr: Thank you, we will.
The Dark Knight's Revenge: Haha we don't really know…it just kind of happens.
Mithendel: She's a pretty good author isn't she? I haven't read any story that's like either of hers.
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allikittenkat1: We try to keep the characters as in character as possible, it helps the readers understand what they say or how they're saying it.
Kataang4ever1: Criticism is always welcome…as long as it's constructive. Well at least we know the only part of the wedding that wasn't ours was good. Both of us hate writers block! Why does it exist! In my eyes, if we post anything down in the review responses it's open to the public. So there is no stalker likeness here. I've had both 'coon eyes and blisters so this is from experience: Blisters are FAR worse than 'coon eyes.
buddygirl1004: Well that's a lot more creative than how we got our name. We just loved reading Kataang stories so we called ourselves Diehards. That's about it, but why only 30 min each? That's hardly any time at all.
Private LL Church: What did you do for your weekend? Becka went shopping for her homecoming dress and I went to a lake with some of friends. Like I said we bit off waaaayyyy more than we could chew with the wedding thing.
JasmineDragon22: We tried at first to make it ours at first but none of it seemed right. Any wedding decorations fit us not Mai and Zuko, so we thought it would be best to skip through it.
act15615: Ok I don't know if we can make the chapters five septillion words long, sorry. Yes that's right I counted how many zeros you added. I think waterwriter144 is one of the better authors on this entire website.
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