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I have started writing Prequels, here is a list of them:

A Second First Date; One month after Aang defeated Fire Lord Ozai

Nightmares; A One-Shot Prequel to Together Again. Aang saved the world, he faced Ozai on his own. Everyone kept saying that he was a great hero, that he was so brave. He wore a brave face and acted all the hero they thought he was. But at night in his sleep he was a scared boy, scared for his life as he tried to get away from a psycho Firebender. The Battle came back at night.

Anila's Story; This is another Prequel to Together Again. It's about a Young Female Airbender just starting out in life. She was ready to travel the world as soon as she turns 16. Little does she know, Destiny has a grand purpose for her first child.

I want to thank my beta readers for their help, advice, and contributions: Ms.K216

Chapter 16

Aang looked at himself in the mirror, he left his hair unshaven, it fell into his eyes now, and he also had on a headband to help hide his arrow. He had grown over a foot over in the last year. "I miss you so bad Katara." When he spoke he could tell his kid voice had finished turning into that of a man's.

Would she recognize him, he wondered?

He had to get back to the South Pole, just yesterday he saw in the news that her mourning period was almost up and the Chief has had put out the announcement to invite prospective suitors to the South Pole.

He couldn't let anyone else marry her. They were supposed to have gotten married over year ago. She was his true love, his one and only. Aang just knew she felt the same way about him, they'd proven that over the years they'd spent together.

He had to travel incognito. No one must know who he is, not until he wanted them to know. He wore a long black hooded cloak over long pants and boots, his shirt sleeves covered everything but the arrows on his hands. Song gave him black gloves to wear. He looked more like a bandit then The Avatar, he Aang smiled, this was exactly how he wanted to look.

He was now ready to leave. "Song, I'm sorry, I can't stay. I have to get back to her, I love her with all my heart, but you knew that, that's why you wouldn't tell me who I was. I forgive you, you just want someone to love you like I love Katara. You will always have a place in my heart, I do love you but not like I love Katara. When I couldn't remember who I was, all I could remember was things about her. I dreamed about her almost every night. Is it ok, if I come and visit you again?"

"Yes Avatar Aang you may come visit me again. You called to her in your sleep almost every night." A tear ran down her cheek. He hugged Song, she understood why he could not stay with her and gave him a kiss.

"I would give you an Ostrich horse but about 6 years ago We helped a young Young man with a burn scar on his left eye named Lee. Heand his fat tea-loving uncle Mushi stole ours. I forgive them, they must have needed it more than we did." Song said.

"Lee and Mushi sound a lot like Zuko and Iroh."

"No, they said their names were Lee and Mushi."

"Zuko and Iroh were banished form the Fire Nation and were traveling under the names Lee and Mushi... I'll talk to Zuko after the tournament, he will probably send you a whole herd of Ostrich Horses... Zuko is now Fire Lord Zuko." Aang explained to her.

"Really? The guy with the burn scar on his face is The Fire Lord now?!" Song was in shock.

"He probably forgot about what he did to survive. He is one of my closest friends now, he was my Firebending Master." Aang told her.

"I need to go now, Thank you again for taking care of me... I forgive you for not telling me who I was... You just want what Katara and I have... I've been in love with her from the moment I woke up in her arms after that 100 years in the frozen bubble, we have been together since I was 12." He told her.

"Avatar Aang?" she called as he turned to leave.

"Yeah?" He asked turning back to her.

She ran to him, hugged him, then to his surprise she kissed him again, but this one wasn't just a peck. She she kissed him with all the love she had for him, he did kiss her back, he did love her, but not like he did Katara. She pulled away, "Something for me to remember you by." She said then ran back into the hospital. She leaned against the door as her head spun and her heart pounded, he definitely was not new to kissing.

Aang traveled as quickly as he could with bursts of Airbending while running, he had to get back to HIS bride-to-be. She has been all he could think of since everything came back to him.

He often thought about how she was always so graceful and beautiful without even trying to be. She was also powerful, her waterbending skills were still so much greater than his own. She could take someone down before they even knew what happened to them. He missed her so bad. He needed to be back with her. Every night his thoughts and dreams were always filled with her, his heart ached so badly because he needed her.

After a few weeks of walking he came to a coastal village in the Earth Kingdom. Before leaving Song she had given him enough money to buy food and fare to go to the South Pole. Aang reached the shore and started asking around to find the next ship going to the South Pole. He found the only one headed there, unfortunately he didn't have enough money, The fare was higher than normal because of the Tournament tournament in the South Pole The captain of the ship was a light hearted man named Zane, he was willing to work with Aang, who was traveling under the name of Kuzon of the Fire Nation, and he even did a little Firebending to support his alias. The captain allowed Aang to work on the ship to pay his way.

They had to wait a couple of days for a few passengers to arrive that had pre-booked passage to the South Pole. Aang found out from the other crew members that this trip had more than half of the men entering into the Tournament "to win some sort of snow princess's hand in marriage." Which gave Aang a chance to spy on his competition, to size them up.

"I heard she is the most beautiful young woman in the world." One said.

Aang often listened to the men on the ship. They were all sitting at the dining table.

"I heard she was with the Avatar before he died." Another said.

"I heard she had a wild streak."

"I can tame her!" called another. Followed by raucous laughter.

"I've actually seen her, oh mama she is gorgeous."

"Yeah, I've seen her too, I'd love to see under that dress. She has some pretty big breasts."

"I'll love to bed her."

"I wonder if her wild streak would follow her to bed."

All the comments were starting to anger Aang. That last couple comments put him over the edge. He was going to be the only one to share her bed. Their comments were rude and uncalled for, he couldn't just listen to them talk like this about Katara, his true love. He slammed his fist into a bulkhead. "You shouldn't be talking that way about Katara, about the Princess of the Southern Water Tribe." He yelled.

"KATARA! That's her name, I had forgotten it." One man said.

"You are talking about her like she is just something to own, an animal to be tamed. SHE'S NOT, SHE IS MORE! SO MUCH MORE! She is compassionate, caring, graceful, a very powerful Waterbender, smart and funny..." Aang went on deck, found a quite secluded spot where nobody could see him. He wanted so badly to hurt those men, they would never love Katara like he did... hell they would probably never love her at all, they just wanted to own her. He knew he needed to calm down before he went into The Avatar State and did something he would regret, Katara was always able to calm him down, she kept him from doing things he otherwise would never do.

Aang started fidgeting and unintentionally did a bit of Waterbending. It was all he had left to feel close to her right now. Does she think about him still he wondered? Did she have anything to remember him by? Where were Appa and Momo? Did she still love him? Would she be happy when he wins the tournament? Would he be able to be close to her without revealing who he was? Had she moved on, thinking he was dead? There was just so much to think about, he thought of how he would reveal himself.

He had seen the men on the ship practicing for the tournament, some were actually pretty good, but they were still not as powerful as The Avatar. Aunt Wu predicted that Katara was going to marry a powerful bender. Power isn't just in bending skill, but in the way a bender holds themselves, and from what Aang's seen these men had no power at all.

Katara was holding her baby boy, she stared into his little face often, and every time she did she saw his daddy in him. She talked to him all the time, she told him stories, and sang to him. She hummed to him every time he nursed. She had decided that because he was an Airbender he would grow up as if his daddy was still here, Gyatso would be a vegetarian like his daddy. He deserved to know his lineage and live as those whom had come before him.

Katara had just put Gyatso to bed. She took out some sewing she had been working on. She was sewing a little Air Nomad outfit for her little boy, she was also working on a dress for herself, both in Air Nomad colors. She worked on the clothes at night so nobody would know she was making them. Her time was running short, her father had said when Gyatso was 9 months old the tournament would start. She was going to do what her Gran Gran did. After the tournament was completed she was going to run away on Appa that very same night. She was going to take Gyatso and live among the Air Acolytes in the Air Temples. Katara was determined not to marry, she would always be faithful to Aang, even in death she would never be with anyone else. She was going to raise their son alone. She had a secret stash of foods hidden under her bed and the one in the guest bedroom in her Igloo.

Gyatso would be 9 months old in just 6 weeks. She checked over her inventory, food, water, clothes, a tent, blankets, pillows. She was planning to go to the Southern Air Temple first, Aang had once told her that that's where Xing Ying was in charge. She had always gotten along well with Xing Ying. Katara hoped that she would be welcome there, with Aang gone she didn't know how she would be treated by them. Most of the Air Acolytes had been girls with huge crushes on Aang. Here she was going to show up out of nowhere with a Mini-Airbender, what would they think about her?

On the outside it looked as if she was doing what The Council wanted her to do, what her father wanted her to do... She still didn't understand why he wants to marry her off, if she stayed in the south pole South Pole he would be able to see his grandson every day.