Hello everyone! I'm back again with a new chapter. This chapter is a little longer, plus it contains three POV's! Katara even gets her own POV in this chapter. Exciting stuff happening in this chapter. :) Anyways, the Avatar universe is not mine and nor are the Green Day lyrics.

"Dawning of a new era

Calling, don't let it catch you falling.

Ready or not at all.

So close enough to taste it

Almost, I can embrace this

Feeling, on the tip of my tongue." -Green Day, Warning, "Waiting"

Four Years Later

Toph's POV

Fire Lady Toph, now the age of twenty-three, had taken the day to go deep into the volcano surrounding the city to practice earthbending and keep her seismic senses sharp. Something had been going on lately where she didn't feel quite as sharp as she usually did. She didn't understand it. A part of her had worried that maybe she was slipping. In any case, she had asked Katara to come check her out.

Toph used her earthbending to move a wall of rock in front of her and leapt out of the tunnel onto a city street, startling some nearby passers-by. She offered them a half-hearted sorry and hurried onward to the palace.

Zuko and Katara were waiting for her in Zuko and hers bedchamber. Zuko seemed very impatient in contrast with the calm patience Katara was radiating. Zuko was also worried. Toph let out a sigh. These days he was almost as bad as her parents had been in terms of his anxiety for her.

"Toph, where have you been?" he asked her, the nervousness clearly evident in his voice.

"Calm down, Zuko. I was just out practicing," Toph responded, snorting in derision as she did so.

"Oh, I see. Well, can you just make sure you're careful when you do these things?" Zuko pleaded with her.

"Yes, dearest, I'm always careful," Toph put a note of finality in her voice. "Hello Katara," she said, turning to her friend, "can we get this over with?"

"Sure, Toph," she replied. "Come lie down here on the bed so I can get started."

Toph did as she was instructed. She felt Katara begin to waterbend the water out of a bowl on the bedside table. Katara began going up and down Toph's body with the healing water, trying to find something amiss. At last she seemed to settle the water on Toph's midsection.

Katara began muttering things under her breath and Toph felt her nodding her head. The moment seemed to drag on forever.

"Come on, Katara. I'm tired of waiting. What is it? Will it kill me?" Toph asked, only being half sarcastic.

"Well…" Katara began, and then she actually laughed. "No Toph, this won't kill you," she replied. Toph breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then was it? And why are you laughing?" Zuko demanded.

"Yeah, what is it, Katara? It's not something that's going to affect my bending, is it?" Toph wanted to know.

"It'll only affect your bending for a few months, Toph. Right now your body will be a little thrown off, though, because this takes quite a toll on the body," Katara told them.

"For a few months? What is this, Katara?" Toph asked, still clueless.

"Wait a second. Let me just make sure of something first," Katara said and paused. "Okay. Let me be the first person to congratulate you, Toph and Zuko. The two of you are expecting twins!" Katara exclaimed, her voice full of joy for her friends.

"Twins?!" Zuko was almost speechless. "That's wonderful! Did you hear that, Toph? Twins!"

Toph heard it, all right. She just couldn't quite believe it. Well, this was certainly going to be interesting.

Seven months later

Katara's POV

Waterbending master Katara had been around many pregnant women in her life. She herself had even had she and Aang's first child recently, a beautiful little baby girl named Kya. However, none of the women she had been around were as cranky as Fire Lady Toph Beifong.

Katara, Aang, and Kya were staying with Toph and Zuko for a few weeks until Toph had her twins. Katara had needed to keep Toph in bed until their birth for several reasons, one of which was that with Toph's body functions all out-of-kilter right now, it meant that her seismic sense's depth perception had been affected and Toph had frequently been running into things. It sounded crazy, but it was true.

Katara was sitting in the royal gardens, taking a break from tending to Toph. Kya was sitting beside her and was laughing at the gardens' turtle ducks and the little splashes Katara was making with her waterbending.

"Aww, you like the turtle ducks, don't you, Kya?" Katara asked her little daughter, kissing her on the head.

Katara was just about to start really enjoying the peaceful moment when Ty Lee came running out of the palace. She had been keeping an eye on Toph while Katara was outside.

"What is it, Ty Lee?" Katara demanded, leaping up and startling Kya and the turtle ducks in the process.

"Come quickly! Something's happening with Toph! I think the twins may be coming!" Ty Lee exclaimed.

"What?! Okay, I'm on my way in. Here, watch Kya for me. Go get Zuko and Aang. I don't care if it interrupts their meeting," Katara ordered, picking up her crying daughter and putting her in Ty Lee's arms on her way into the palace.

Zuko's POV

As soon as Ty Lee had come to get him, Zuko had rushed to his bedchamber. He had never felt so nervous in his life. All he could do was stand by and watch while Katara took care of everything. Now he sat on the edge of his bed and held the first-born twin in his arms, their daughter, while Toph held their son.

Katara, Aang, and Ty Lee were standing over both of them, telling them what gorgeous babies they had and how proud they should be. Zuko agreed with them. He had never felt this proud in his life. He sat there holding the daughter of him and the woman he loved more than anyone else in the whole world, while she held their son.

"So what are you going to name them?" Ty Lee asked excitedly.

"Well, if it's okay with you, Zuko, I think we should our son here Lu Ten, after your cousin," Toph said proudly. Katara, Aang, and Ty Lee all let out little awws or ooos.

"Thank you, Toph. I think it's a perfect name for him," Zuko said, brushing his hand over Lu Ten's little tuft of hair. "I think I have an idea for our daughter," he told her shyly.

"Really? And what would that be?" Toph asked her husband.

"Ahnora," he replied. "Crown Princess Ahnora."

There you have it! Chapter 6! Ahnora's name is kind of a play on words. XD Kya, Lu Ten, and she will have many adventures, I'm sure. ;)

~Cori