To the Guest who commented that Aang is 12... read the freaking summary description below. I deal with enough stupid people at work, please don't make me deal with them here, too. And BTW... the SOUTHERN Watertribe is ANYTHING but conventional. If it was, Katara would not be as outspoken and strong as she is.
Little bit of back ground info: \/ \/ \/ READ! \/ \/ \/
-Aang was born about 6 years sooner in this universe, so he was 18 when the monks told him he was the Avatar. After they tell him that he would have to give up his attachment to Gyatsu, he ran away, and we all know the story after that.
Ages for all characters are:
18 - Aang and Suki
17 - Sokka and Zuko
15 - Katara and Toph (just so she isn't so many years younger then everyone else)
In the last chapter...
The kids explain to Zuko why they are there, and who exactly Tom Tom is.
Chapter Eleven
Katara came to just in time to hear that Zuko and Aang had started another war. Because of her. She had, somehow, caused a riff between the two friends and had, inadvertently, started something she had spent the last year of her life trying to end.
"Katara," Zuko sighed in relief, "thank Angi, you're awake! Are you alright? Do you want me to fetch the physician?"
The fifteen-year-old shook her head.
"No, I'm alright. I think I was just... a little overwhelmed by everything that's going on. I mean, first there was the thing with Aang, then the wedding, and then Mai broke up with you, and then we were planning to travel together, and now not only have our own future children fallen out of the sky, but they're telling me that... I'm pregnant? Seriously? This week has been, just, so... GAHHHH!"
"Wait until we tell her about the rebellion," Bumi muttered to his sister, who promptly elbowed him in the ribs.
"Shut up, Bumi," she growled under her breath.
"What rebellion?" Zuko demanded.
Bumi waved it off, "it won't happen for another three or four years, so it's fine. We'll explain it later."
"But right now, the important thing is that no matter what, you can't marry Aang, Mom!" Kya exclaimed, "You can't destroy everything the spirits have worked for!"
"What do the spirits have to do with it?" the elder Water bender pondered.
"Well, you see, this goes back eons ago. Long story short, your soul and Zuko's soul have been reincarnated many times, each time with the intent of you two meeting and falling in love and living happily ever after," Kya finished with a romantic sighed, after which Bumi elbowed her back. She frowned.
"Why would the spirits do that?"
"Because they owed you," Bumi explained to his mother.
"Well, sometimes you would meet, others you would not, but every time you would meet, one of you would already be married. So the spirits took extra care to see to it that the two of you met at a young age this time around. They guided you to each other in hopes that you would fall for each other. Unfortunately, Avatar Aang interfered, and the two of you were forever together, yet separated. Because of the rules that ever bent by the spirits' interference, certain conditions had to be met."
"Conditions like..," Zuko asked.
"Like how both of you had to sacrifice so much as children to be able to have a happy life as an adult. The loss of your mothers, your fathers' absences from your lives, your scars, physical and emotional. The pain you both went through to end the war, all of the mental trauma... everything was so that you would get rid of all of your bad karma at an early age so that the good karma was greater then the bad karma as you got older. Does that make sense? I can't think of another way to explain it," the little girl sighed.
"I think so. Basically our suffering as children will pay off the older we get. We are passed all of the traumatic events in our lives."
"Most of them. I mean, you've over come the biggest of them," Kya confirmed.
"Yeah, but there's still-"
"They don't need to know every detail about the future in our world, Bumi. Their futures and ours will not be the same," Kya interrupted.
"What does that mean?"
"It means, Dad, that while certain things are sure to happen, like us eventually being born, there are things that can and will change. For instance, in our time, our world really, we never came and visited our parents in their pasts. They made the mistakes we have warned you two against. Therefor, you will not be the exact same people who we knew as our parents. We have effectively created a parallel universe to the one that we were born into."
"And now, it seems we are indefinitely stuck here," Bumi groaned.
R&R please!