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Chapter 42

They were nearing The Southern Air Temple when they heard an ancient Air Nomad Horn blow announcing their arrival. The Acolytes were gathering in the Square. Katara could see her two maidens hopping up and down excitedly. Appa landed and instantly Acolytes started unloading their belongings. Aang handed Gyatso down to Lilly, then helped Katara down... As soon as Katara turned there was a collective gasp.

He looked into Katara's eyes and she nodded. "Lady Katara and I have an announcement to make. Lady Katara is 3 months pregnant with twins!"

Everyone cheered. Xing Ying, Jasmine, and Lilly already knew about the pregnancy, but they didn't know that she was having twins.

"We will have a feast in honor of this wonderful news!" Ying Xing announced.

"Told you they would want to hold a feast." Aang said.

Lilly and Jasmine where hugging Katara they were so happy to see her. "Twins! How exciting." Jasmine said.

"Lilly, Jasmine, Katara bought gifts for you both." Aang told them.

"Gifts for us? But we are just her servants." They said.

"No you're not girls, I love you. You two are like little sisters to me." Katara told them both.

"We love you too, Katara, we missed you so dearly." Lilly said.

"I missed you two dearly, too." Katara told the girls and gave each of them hugs.

They all walked back to their apartment, where all their belongings from the trip had already been deposited in their front room for them to unpack. That was one of Jasmine and Lilly's duties.

"Sweetie, with twins I'm going to need more girls to help me. Near the end I won't really be able to do much." Katara told Aang.

"Ok, I'll find you 2 more girls." Aang said then kissed his wife.

"Excuse me, Avatar Aang, we have 2 friends that are 15, they are just go-for girls like we were before Katara made us her maidens."

"I'm so glad you dropped the formalities with my name." Katara said.

"Would you like us to run and get them right away?" They asked.

"Yes, tell them and whomever they are running for that their services are requested by, Avatar Aang and Lady Katara." Aang told them.

They took off running as fast as they could to find their two friends, Rose and Blossom.

"Your services are requested by Avatar Aang and Lady Katara." Jasmine told them.

The Acolyte that was using their assistance nodded to them. All 4 girls took off running as fast as they could. Katara once told the girls if they got in trouble for running they were to say they are on an urgent matter for Lady Katara. They didn't get into much trouble for running anymore, by now everyone knew they worked in the home of The Avatar and his wife.

When the 4 girls got back to the home of The Avatar and his wife, Katara was eating some seal jerky and bouncing Gyatso on her hip. The 2 new girls were surprised by the dried meat she was gnawing on.

"I'm not a vegetarian." She said to the new girls. She could see the surprise in their eyes.

"Your not but The Avatar is?" Blossom asked her.

"Yes, Aang and Gyatso are vegetarians."

"Did you know Lady Katara is a Master Waterbender?" Jasmine said to Blossom.

"No, nobody really knows that much about her." Rose said.

"Oh, she is really powerful." Lilly said.

"You know about her, you just don't know it was her!" Jasmine said.

"Do you know how The Avatar was found?" Lilly asked Rose and Blossom.

"Yeah, some water tribe girl and her brother found him frozen in a bubble."

"I just love being called 'some water tribe girl'." Katara said sarcastically

"Wow, what was the Avatar like when you found him Lady Katara?" Rose asked.

Katara swallowed a mouthful of dried meat. "He was"

She got cut off by her husband coming back into their home. "A goofy 12-year-old kid with a crush. OK My Love, your new fabric will be up here soon."

Katara saw Blossom and Rose's faces turn bright red. She started laughing hard. "Yeah, me too!" She said to the two new girls. This just made them redder because The Avatar's wife just caught them crush blushing at her husband. "What? He is a VERY handsome young man!" Katara said.

"Katara, I'll put Gyatso down for his nap so that Rose and Blossom can concentrate on you and not me." He laughed.

"OK girls, fan the redness away. We have asked you here for your assistance. Now that I'm pregnant again... with twins this time ... I'm going to need more than just Jasmine and Lilly. You two will also become my Maidens." Katara told them.

"You mean like Jasmine and Lilly!? With beautiful dresses and no more running, Lady Katara?" Rose asked.

"Yes, like Jasmine and Lilly. You will still run but only for myself and Aang. Please call me Katara, Jasmine and Lilly do... if you are not comfortable calling me just Katara you could call me Master Katara."

"You should see her waterbend... its graceful and beautiful... and scary deadly." Lilly said. "I never knew you could cut a tree in half with waterbending."

"Aang and I cut through metal beams with water." Katara said with another swallow of jerky.

At the mention of Aang the girls turned red again. "You will get used to him after a bit." Katara said.

"Katara is Avatar Aang's Waterbending Master." Jasmine said.

"She can still beat him when they waterbend." Lilly said.

"You should not say such things about The Avatar." Rose scolded.

"What's wrong with telling the truth." Aang said leaning aginst the door frame to Gyatso's room with ankles crossed and his arms crossed in front of his chest. "She can beat me almost every time we spar. She is a far better waterbender than I am." The girls had not realized he was there until he spoke.

"We've seen them practice." Jasmine and Lilly said together.

"Oh, Aang I want to go practice with you." Katara said.

"Uuummmm I'm sorry, My Love, I just don't think it would be a good idea to shoot ice daggers at my pregnant wife." He told her.

"Oh, yeah, you're right not a good idea. Get me a bowl of water so I can show them some stuff I can do." She showed them several tricks then her demeanor changed and she sliced the bowl in half then bent the water into a vase. The girls clapped.

"I'm going to go find out what time the feast is at, My Love, I'll be back soon." He kissed her goodbye then left.

"Aaawwwww, He is so romantic!" the 4 girls said together.

"Ok my girls, help me unpack... Jasmine, Lilly I got you head bands that I saw. Blossom and Rose, I don't have anything to give you yet, I didn't know I needed more girls until after we left Ba Sing Se." Katara told them.

Things were half unpack when Aang got back to their apartment.

"Aang where did that dried fruit go? I'm hungry." Katara asked as she searched their food boxes and baskets.

"You ate it all already, My Love. I can have more shipped but it might take a couple of weeks." He told her.

"Aaawwwww, it was so good, too." She pouted.

"The feast will be in 3 hours" he told her "I can see what's in the kitchen. Would you like fruits, cakes, or cookies?"

"Yeah, all those will be OK. I really want steak but I know there isn't any here, that's why I brought the seal jerky with me."

"I'll find you some tofu, which is full of proteins, My Love."

"And cakes please... and rice..."

"Okay, Okay! I'll be right back"

The 4 girls were busy unpacking all the boxes, bags, and baskets. They gossiped about going ons. They were giggling about 'how cute Avatar Aang and Lady Katara' were.

"We've been together since the war ended... almost 8 years now." Katara told them.

"La...Master Katara is it true that the Avatar was really killed... dead DEAD?"

"Yes."

"How is he alive now?"

"Special water from the spirit oasis... I brought him back." She had switched to a more somber tone. "I'm a Master Healer too."

When he got back he had a couple of Acolytes following with baskets of food too.

"Oh Sweetie, thank you." She sat down at the table and started eating. She ate for about half an hour. He had never seen anyone eat like that before.

She looked up at him "What? Oh I'm sorry I must look like a pig."

"You look like a woman eating for 3... A very beautiful woman eating for 3." he smiled. "I didn't get to be there for this part... Gyatso is up, I'll go get him."

He came out of the bedroom with Gyatso holding onto daddy's fingers for support taking little step walking to mommy.

"Hi Little One! Did you have a good nap?"

"Ma-ma-ma" he said quickening his steps.

She bent over and picked him up. "Want some cake?" She asked him as she gave him little bites of cake.

"Num-num-num"

"Aang could you make me some tea please. It's always the perfect temperature when you make it."

The girls stopped unpacking to watch him bend. He got out the teapot, with Airbending, he bought at the South Pole and put tea leafs into it. Next he put water in the pot with Waterbending. Then he heated up his hands and pressed them against the teapot until it started to steam with Firebending.

"Wow!" The girls said. "That's amazing"

"Want to see something cute?" Katara said.

Katara picked up a cherry blossom from the table, that had come in through their window. She held it in front of Gyatso "Do what Daddy showed you." He made it lift and hover for a minute by blowing on it.

"He truly is the son of The Avatar," Aang said, "he's bending early."

"That's amazing!"

"See, my baby boy is an airbender." Katara said grinning from ear to ear.

"It's almost time for the feast are you going to wear that beautiful yellow dress with the red cloak you made while we were gone?" Aang asked her.

"That is the only one that fits me properly now." Katara said.

When Katara came out of the bedroom everyone was staring... "What? Does it look funny?" She looked at herself, trying to see the back of the dress too.

Aang and the 4 girls all shook their heads "Lady Katara, you look like a Queen." Aang said. "My Queen!"

"So the dress is good?" She asked.

All 5 heads nodded.

"Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma"

"Gyatso thinks you are beautiful too!" Aang said.

They all walked down to the big feast hall near the kitchen. Aang and Katara were seated at the center of the head table. Katara's maidens on the other side of her. Xing Ying next to Aang and a few other Acolytes next to her. Katara had no clue what their names were.

Xing Ying stood up and everyone stopped talking. "This feast is to celebrate Lady Katara and Avatar Aang's wonderful news that Lady Katara is pregnant. Not only pregnant but pregnant with twins. We ask the spirits to touch her and bless her with healthy babies." When she sat back down everyone clapped. Trays of food were brought out and set down on the tables. Nobody moved.

Katara leaned over and whispered "What are they waiting for?"

He whispered "For you to eat something."

"Really, for me? Why?"

"Because the feast is in your honor."

Katara picked up some roasted potatoes and took a bite. As soon as she did they all clapped then started eating also.

Katara had eaten about 3 plates of food before the cakes were brought out. She ate about half a cake to herself.

Xing Ying stood up "Lady Katara has been touched by the spirits and will deliver 2 healthy babies." Everyone clapped again.

"Aang what does she mean by 'touched by the spirits'?"

"How much you ate... it's a sign that you will deliver a healthy baby, or in our case 2 healthy babies."

"You never told me about that before."

"Yeah, because little boys raised in a male only temple talk about feasts for pregnant women everyday." He said sarcastically.

"But you knew of the custom." Katara said.

"Yeah, why did you think I wanted to wait till we got back."

"You should have said something before everyone sat there staring at me." Katara said.

"It was cute." he said.

"Is that why you watch me eat? To see if I was 'touched by the spirits?" She asked.

"No, you are beautiful and you glow... not like I glow." He told her.

"Ok I'm ready to go home and go to bed." She yawned. "Girls, goodnight. I'll see you in the morning."

"Goodnight Lady Katara." They all went back to their shared rooms.