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Chapter 84
When Aang woke up Katara was still asleep, but she had her night gown back on so she must have gotten up in the middle of the night. He could hear Kya and Sapphire happily chittering to each other. He dressed himself for the day and went into their room. "Good morning My Beautiful Little Girls." He said to them. He received a chorus of "Dada's" from them both. He used Airbending to pick them both up and bring them to himself, they giggled as the air picked them up. He took them into the front room and put them into their play pen as he made tea and started cooking hot cereal.
Haru came out of his room. "Good morning Aang."
"Good morning, Haru. I have tea made, and hot cereal is cooking right now."
"Katara still asleep?" Haru asked.
"Yeah, I'm letting her sleep in for a bit."
"I heard her up about 2 1/2 hours ago, feeding the girls." Haru said. "Aang?"
"Yeah?"
"I am almost done with the necklace, Could you help me plan something special? You could have Katara ask Jade what type of things she likes to do, somehow find out what would be the most special way to ask her... I don't know... Oh I am so scared..."
Aang laughed "You both love each other, I don't see her turning you down."
There was a knock at the door then it opened. "Good Morning!" Jade called as she came in.
"Kitchen." Both Aang and Haru said at the same time.
Jade went into the kitchen and found Aang and Haru having tea while Aang was cooking breakfast. "Is Katara still asleep?"
"Yeah, I let her sleep in she needs a bit of rest." He said.
"Jade can you get Gyatso up and changed, Please? Breakfast is almost ready and I still need to change the girls' diapers."
"No problem Aang." She said as she walked to Gyatso's room.
Ten Minuets later babies were changed, breakfast was ready, and food was served. Haru and Jade feed Sapphire and Kya while Aang went into his bedroom to wake Katara up.
He sat down on the bed next to her, he pet her hair a couple times taking in how beautiful she is, he smiled as he watched a smile appear on her face.
"Good Morning Sweetie." She said to him.
"Good Morning My Love."
"Do you feel better about today's meeting?" She asked him, her eyes still closed.
"Yeah, I really do... You know just what to say and DO to make me feel better" He smirked. Oh she was good at making him feel better.
"It is my job to know, Sweetie." She smiled back at him.
"Breakfast is ready, I got Kya and Sapphire changed and dressed for the day, Jade took care of Gyatso. Jade and Haru are feeding Kya and Sapphire breakfast right now. Can I pick out your dress for today?" He asked her.
"You want to pick out my dress? Why?" She asked him.
"Because I want to... I also want you to look beautiful if I need you to come down to the meeting with me today." He smiled.
"Oh, you want the beauty of your wife to distract the other Leaders." She laughed. "My beauty won't impress The Southern Water Tribe representative though." She laughed at her own little joke.
"It's not your beauty I'm counting on, It's your Passion for your family, for my people... for OUR people." He said honestly. He chose the gown that she had picked out for their wedding, he loved the way it looked on her, he wanted her to stand out today.
After about 5 minuets She was dressed and they joined Jade and Haru in the dinning area, and took over feeding their daughters.
"I love that dress Katara." Jade said.
"Thank You Jade, Aang picked out for me to wear today." She did a little twirl, her dress poofing out as she did.
"Ok. My Love, The meeting will be starting soon, if I need you..." He had become nervous again. "I'll come get you."
She followed him out their front door. "I'll be here when you need me." Then she went up on her toes, he leaned down some, she kissed him passionately, coaxing out a little growl from him. She placed one last soft kiss on his lips then pulled away. "I love you."
All the leaders were coming out of their own apartments ready to walk down to the meeting also. "No, Oogieness in the halls!" Sokka said as he seen his little sister kissing her husband good luck and goodbye.
"Who are YOU to tell ME where I can and can't kiss my husband at OUR home?" She yelled at her brother.
Aang laughed, he lover her temper. "Come on Sokka, walk down with me. Goodbye My Love."
"Good bye Sweetie." And with that she went back into her home.
As Aang and Sokka walked down together Sokka noticed Aang fidgeting with his over robe and looked a bit nervous. "What's wrong Aang?" Sokka asked.
"I have to bring up something at the meeting today... Something that has been bothering me a bit... Ok more than a bit. It's been bothering me for a while now... A few years now to be honest." Aang said.
"It must really be bothering you, the last time you looked this conflicted was when you tried to find a way to deal with Ozai without killing him." Sakka told his brother-in-law.
"It's big, but I can't say anything about it until it is my turn to take the podium today." Aang said.
"I understand, it wouldn't be fair for me to know before everyone else." Sokka said. Sokka was actually really smart, a bit odd at times but smart. He also helps lighten the mood with his antics and jokes. Aang was one of his best friends, Sokka, Aang, and Zuko were really close friends.
When Katara came back into the apartment Jade and Haru were sitting on the couch playing with the twins while Gyatso sat on the floor trying his hardest to make an air marble like daddy showed him. He was only producing blasts of air.
"Why does Aang look stressed?" Haru asked.
"He has to bring up something at the meetings, something important to the Air Nomad culture, to his people." Katara said. They all knew that the Acolytes were part of that culture.
"Something for us?" Jade asked.
"Yeah, but I can't talk about it until after he has talked to the World Leaders about it." Katara said, praying to the spirits that everything goes well... She doesn't want him getting too upset, sometimes he slips into the Avatar state when he gets too emotional, not intending to.
It was Aang's turn to talk about some of his grievances. As he took the podium to address them, he was nervous and got a drink of water, took a few deep breaths then cleared his throat. "I have an issue that I bring to all of you today... I have been having a few problems with people... With our borders... I need you all to put out that The Air Nomads are back and I, we want our boarders back to how they are supposed to be." He paused for a few breaths then started again. "I'm not removing anyone, any colonies that already are there, I just want people to acknowledge that they are in Air Nomad lands." He pointed to each area on the world map on the stone table. "The Island that The Western Air Temple is on as well as the group of islands to the north of the Fire Nation, and west of the Earth Kingdom is Air Nomad territory. All the Islands North of The Southern Water Tribe land all the way up to Kyoshi Island, not the islands east of the area though, The large area Northwest of Ba Sing Se, the entire Island The Eastern Air Temple is on, east of Chameleon Bay and finally the lands that that The Yangchen Festival takes place, they are all scared to the Air Nomads. I am perfectly ok with sharing, I just want the people that are there to know it belongs to the Air Nomads." Aang finished his speech he had gone over in his head many times yesterday.
Fire Lord Zuko responded first "I lived at the Western Air Temple with you for a while Aang, the Lands are yours, I will let any colonies there know it belongs to the Air Nomads."
"Thank You Fire Lord Zuko." Aang said felling a bit revealed
Next Sokka spoke. "On behalf of the Southern Water tribe, and OUR father, Aang, The lands have always belonged to the Air Nomads, even with them thought to be extinct..." He gave a little chuckle. "We could never take The lands from Dad's Grand kids, and my nieces and nephew... With my sister's help the number of Airbenders had tripled."
"Thank You Sokka." Aang said.
King Bumi said that he will look into weather anyone from his kingdom was occupying the lands discussed, but the lands have always belonged to the nomads. The Yu Dao representative agreed to help in anyway he could, after what Aang had done to help them. Chief Arnook agreed to let anyone know that the areas belong to the Air Nomads, Aang had wiped out the entire Fire Navy Fleet, when they had tried to invade his kingdom.
Finally only Earth King Kuei was left. He sat quietly thinking to himself... "Avatar Aang, I believe there are many colonies on the Islands to the south of the Earth Kingdom, and the lands Northwest of Ba Sing Se... After all the help you gave with Ending the War, Helping with The Harmony Restoration movement and fighting and almost getting killed with The Azula Loyalists, I couldn't deny you what rightfully belongs to your people... It is yours. I will send out notices that the land's belong to the Air Nomads, but the people are not being asked to relocate."
"Thank You all so very much, I was worried that you would refuse my Legacy, My Children's Legacy." Aang was beaming.
"Your Children are all so Beautiful." Bumi said.
"Can you bring them down?" King Kuei asked.
"You all want to see my Children?" Aang asked, a little surprised.
"Yes, Aang we would love to see those adorable children of yours." Zuko said.
"Ok, Let me run to get them." Aang said, as soon as he got out the door Aang took off running back to his home as quickly as he could.
Katara was pacing nervously, ready to stand up for her Husband, for her children, for her new people.
Aang came into their home smiling. "They were all in agreement, the lands all belong to The Air Nomads..."
"Why do you look like you ran here?"
"They all want to see our family, You, Me, and our Children. They asked me to bring them down now." He told her.
Katara had already had everything packed and ready to go down to fight for what's theirs so they were able to go down to the Meeting Hall right away.
As Aang walked into the Meeting hall everyone's attention was turned to the 3 adorable babies.
"Such cute children."
"They are so precious"
"My nieces and nephew are the cutest, other than my Son." That one was Sokka.
"You are truly Radiant, Lady Katara." King Bumi said. "I still don't know how you got so lucky to marry such a gorgeous woman Aang."
"Thank You, King Bumi. He wasn't to hard to fall in love with." Katara laughed.
"I remember when she was only Princes Katara." King Keui said.
"Thank you all for agreeing with Aang. He was having a lot of turmoil over this."
"Avatar Aang has done so much for all of us, he ended the war, you deserves what is rightfully Yours." King Kuei said.
"Any other things you want to bring before us, Avatar Aang? Today is your day." King Bumi said.
"Nope that was all I had." Aang told them.
"Ok, then Meetings for today are adjourned... We have a full day for rest and relaxation, thanks to The Air Nomads." The Yu Dao Representative told them all.
Aang and Katara returned home after another hour of the World Leaders fawning over their 3 children, Gyatso showed off his Airbending skills and Kya and Sapphire smiled and laughed and cooed for everyone... The Girls had gotten fussy, they were ready to have lunch, nurse then lay down for a nap.
"Haru has finished carving a betrothal necklace for Jade." Aang said as they walked.
"What?!" Katara was in shock. "I had no idea he felt like that!"
"Yeah he talked to me about it a while ago, I promised I wouldn't say anything about it. Sorry."
"No, it's ok, you have never broken a promise and I wouldn't want you to." She comforted him.
"He told me to have you talk to Jade, without letting it slip, about what he could do to make it a perfect, special time to ask her... like things she really likes and stuff." He told her.
"Oh, I can do that it might take a few days to find out, I wouldn't want her to get suspicious of our intentions to help Haru set up the perfect activity." She beamed at her husband as they walked.
The family stopped at the kitchen to pick up a couple baskets of lunch on their way back to their apartment.
Jade set the table for them as soon as the got there. Lunch went quickly.