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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:

Chapter 116

Katara was sitting under a shade tree with her children, they were having a picnic lunch by the turtle duck pond, Jade and Li were having lunch with Katara and her children. '

Li was finally starting to open up more to Jade and Katara, they are always so kind and caring. Katara always wanted to make sure Li was ok. Katara had healed her physicaly, now she was healing psychalogicaly. Like the scars on her body that will never fully go away, she had mental scars that would never fully heal; She had no reason to worry about them any more, her father could never hurt her again, he could never forch her to do anything she didn't want to do again. She was now an Air Acolyte, and she felt like a totally different person, she felt so happy. Li and never been this happy since her mother passed away, Her father had been so obsessed with the spoiled prince that ruined him durring the War meeting, that he didn't even notice his wife had fallen sick and passed shortly after. Li was just barely thirteen when her mother passed away; leaving Li with almost all the duties of the Lady of the house. By sixteen she had been forced to take on ALL the duites of the Lady of the house.

Lady Katara and Avatar Aang rescued her from a job no woman should ever be forced to do. The gave her a home, a new life, a new family, their family. Jade and Lady Katara had given her some of their clothes, Li felt different wareing red and yellow, but different in a good way. Jade offten told Li about the magnificent Air Nomad Temples, about how they seemed to float on clouds... Li liked to close her eyes and imagin what it would look like, about not being afraid of her father anymore, he would never find her in the clouds. About how everyone was equal there, how there was no cost of living. The way Jade described it to her made her feel so good inside, she finally felt free of her father, free to be herself, free to do what she wanted to do. She owed it ALL to Lady Katara, and she would never forget that.

Aang came walking ourt of the palace, he had a huge smile on his face. He had been in Zuko's office when a message from a messanger hawk came in. "Guess what!" He said cheerfully.

"What Sweetie?" Katara asked.

"Toph and some of her students will be here in an hour or so." Aang smiled.

"That's wonderful! I know Zuko has many guards and such but I'm going to feel much better with Toph here!" Katara smiled.

Zuko, right after he recieved the bad news that the New Ozai Society would do anything to get their hands on Aang, had sent out for Sokka and his family to be brought from the house they were staying in durring the World Leader Ship Meetings, which had ended early because of Katara's kidnapping. Zuko already felt over stressed and blamed himself for all of this. 'If I had just sentenced him to death we wouldn't be dealing with all of this now!'

Zuko hated the thrown room, but his office was much to small for him to recieve Toph and her students. Zuko did not light the fire, he hated that stupid fire; it always reminded him of how crule and scary Fire Lord Azulon and Fire Lord Ozai were, Zuko did not want to be like either of them and the last thing he wanted was to scare any of Toph's students. He prepaired for their arival, by having chairs and a long table brought in so that everyone could be comfortable. He also had the Palace Kitchen prepairing tea and and snacks for them.

As he was checking everything over, making sure everything was perfect, he heard the sound of tiny feet walk into the thrown room. "Daddy!" He turned to find Urso wondering around on her own. He smiled and and picked her up. The two year old little girl hugged her Daddy as tight as she could then kissed his scar. "Hi beautiful!" He said to her. She ment everything to him, and stairing into her big golden eyes made him even more determined to find the New Ozai Society. His father would kill his daughter without a second thought and Zuko knew it. He would do everything in his power to protect her.

Saddly he wasn't surperized to find Ursa wondering around the palace on her own, he had found her on her own few times since he had sent the company to get Toph and her students a week ago. The worse things got with the New Ozai Society; the more moody, withdrawn, and distant Mai became. He tried talking to her about it but she wouldn't say anything, she would just sigh and walk away or yell at him to go back to his office and leave her alone. He had no clue what was wrong with her, why she was acting this way; it was now putting Ursa in harm's way, and he was deffinately NOT happy about that.

Zuko decided he would keep his daughter with him for a while, he hasn't really had much time to spend with her. This was the perfect opertunity to spend a little Daddy time with her.

He was chasing her arount the Thrownroom, she was giggling and squealing with delight. "I'm gunna get you!" He laughed as she darted in a different direction.

"No Daddy!" She giggled.

He caught up to her and picked her up, as he spun her around they both laughed.

A guard entered the Thrown Room, seeing the Fire Lord playing with his daughter, the guard stopped immediately and dropped down onto one knee. "Fire Lord, my appologies, but I came to inform you that the Air Ship is almost here."

"Okay, thank you!" He said as he put his daughter on his shoulders."Lets go meet the Airship!" He said to her.

On his way out he met up with Aang and his family on their way out to meet the airship. They all stood at the bottom of the plank waiting for Toph and her students to disembark. "I can carry my own stuff, let go of my bag!" The group began to laugh, Toph is still the same as she always was. Toph along with ten of her students came walking down the gang plank. :Why did you have to sent a stupid air ship for me? You know I hate flying! I need dirt beneath my feet."

"Great to see you too Toph." Aang said to his old earthbending master.

"Hey Twinkel-Toes! So great to not see you again!" Toph chuckeled at her own joke."These are some of my best Lilly livers... I never though to use my skills to protect anyone. This may be interesting." They all began to walk back inside the Palace. "So what's there todo that's fun around here?"

"Well... not much, really." Katara said, "Us girls usually just chat and sit by thje Turtle Duck pond. Mai used to sit with us too but I haven't seen her around much lately."

"Ok Lilly Livers this is Aang and Katara and that one," Toph opinted to Zuku, "Is Zuko. Firends, these are my lilly livers."

Toph's student's weren't quite sure how to address everyone. So they decided slight bows would be the proper thing too.

Later that afternoon, Aang found Toph and her students were in Zuko's stone courtyard precticing their bending exercises. "Hey lilly livers, you shoulda seen Aang when he first started to earthbend. He was a wuss, jumping out of the way when I threw bolders at him." Toph laughed. "He was so funny, he could never stand his ground."

"Hey now Toph, I got better... MUCH better!" Aang said from his seat on the steps.

"Let's go Twinkle-Toes, just you and me... For old times sake!" Toph chuckled, "I'll even go easy on you and use only earthbending, no specialties like metalbending. No Avatar State either"

Aang smiled, "You know I wouldn't use the Avatar state on you... Okay for old times sake." He said as he took his over robe and shirt robe off for better mobility. "Ready?"

That sparring began Aang took everything she threw at him, pillars of rock shoty up from the ground as they began to fight more intensely. Toph was actually surprised at how much better he had become.

In the midst of their little sparring match Zuko came out to see what all the comotion was about. His courtyard was totaly tore up. He stood, Ursa in his arms, shocked at the mess. After the shock wore off he yelled at them. "You better put my courtyard back EXACTLY how it was!"

Without even pausing they answered in unison "We will!" The sparring contenuied and everyone sat on the staires watching the sparring match.

Just when it looked like Toph had him he let go of all restraint, she obviously had already. Toph never even seen it coming, one, two, three bolders flying at her so fast she could only stop two and was blindsided by the third. She was sprawled out on the ground breathing heavy. Aang walked over to her and offered his hand. She pushed it away and stood herself back up. "Holy Shirt Twinkle-Toes you got better." Toph congradulated Aang with a hardy shoulder punch

"Like with all Avatar's before me, the student surpasses the master." Aang chuckled as he started returning the courtyard to it's origional state.

"So you finally surpassed all your masters." Toph said with a chuckle.

"Not all of them yet!" Katara called over to them from where she was seated on the stairs.

"I can't spar with you to get better." Aang responded.

"I'm not the only one that got me pregnant, you helped." Katara laughed.

"Seriously? Again?" Toph said as she shook her head and rolled her eyes, "Wow! I can't believe you two."

After the courtyard was returned to it's pristen condition everyone had gone inside to have a large lunch prepaired for them.

Zuko had Ursa on his lap as they ate. "Where's Mai?" Katara asked. "I haven't seen her all day, come to think of it I have barely seen her much at all in this last week.

Zuko didn't really know what was up with Mai lately so he let out a little lie. "She hasnt been feeling good lately."

One of Toph's students did as he had been trained and without hesatation said "That a lie."

Zuko's headwhipped around to look at the Student, "Excuse me!?" he started but was cut off by Toph.

"You called us here to protect you, Many of the students I brought with me have learned the ability I call 'Truth-seeing' or 'Truth-Seers' They are trained to inform everyone when someone has lied, I'm sorry Zuko but how can we protect you if we don't know who might be working to take you down from the inside."

"Okay, fine." Zuko said. "I don't know what is wrong with her and I haven't seen her much lately either... and not at all today, That's why I have had my little princess with me all day."

Toph was standing watch down the hall from Aang and Katara's suite.

"Hi!" Gyatso said as he walked up to Toph.

"What? Huh?" Toph said a bit startled, she hadn't felt any vibrations as the boy walked over to her. "Who? Where did you come from?" Toph asked

"Come on little one it's time for your nap." Aang said to his son.

"Wow... I didn't ever hear him walk over to me." Toph said.

"Yeah, he takes after me there." Aang said with a laugh.

"Bye bye." the little boy said to Toph as he and his father walked back to their Suite. "Nap tine"

It had been a long day and he still had work to do so Zuko sent a servent to go find Mai so that she could take Ursa.

After about half an hour the servent returned alone. She knelt down in front of Zuko waiting for him to address her. "Why did she not come with you?" He asked, irritated that Mai would just send the servent to bring Ursa to her.

"Fire Lord Zuko, sir... I... I'm sorry, I could find her anywhere, she is not at the palace. This... This was on the desk in her sitting room." The servant handed Zuko a sealed letter with the word "Zuko" on it.

He broke the wax seal and unrolled the paper in his hand.

Zuko,

I can't do this anymore! I can't take being torn in two. I have thought about this a lot durring the last week and I decided I needed to go back to my parent's.

Mai.

"What the hell! Zuko yelled. "No explanation! No Sorry! No I love you! No I love Ursa!" Zuko was extreamly angry. Ursa was sitting on the chair in his office, she had gotten scarred and began to cry. "Oh, I'm so sorry My little princess, I'm so so so sorry!" He picked her up and cuddled her to him as he swayed and shushed her Telling her over and over that he loved her. It was just him and her now; he was officially a single father.

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