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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 121

Aang was jolted awake by the sounds of an explosion. "Katara wake up!" He shook her.

She wined as she rolled a bit, with the next explosion she jumped out of bed and scrambled to dress herself. Aang had already redressed himself, "Go Protect our babies." he told her as he ran from the bedroom heading straight for Jade and Haru's room, he needed all the help he could get.

As soon as Katara had herself dressed she slung her water pouch over her shoulder and ran straight for her children. Both Jade and Li ran to the children also.

Aang came into the room moments later. "I love you. No matter what happends to me keep them safe." He said then he erected a thick wall in front of the door.

Katara screamed for him to stop, she pounded her fists on the earthen wall that seperated her from her true love. "YOU CAN'T LEAVE US! YOU PROMISED YOU WOULD NEVER LEAVE US!" She screamed.

Jade and Li drew her away from the wall, she had been pounding the wall so hard that her fists were bleeding. "Katara, Haru and Toph are out there too," Jade hugged her best friend, trying to comfort her. "They would never let anything happen to him. Everyone will come back to us." Jade was just as scared as Katara, but she needed to remain calm so that Katara could be calm. If someone broke through the thick wall Katara was their best protection.

Karara saw blood dripping on her nightgown, she had not realized her hands were bleeding. "I... I need my water." She said numbly.

Jade pulled out the stopper on Katara's water pouch, Katara watched as the water leaked onto the floor. After a moment she remembered her hands were bleeding and healed herself. Ofter a few more moments of numbness she realized her children were all crying. This brought her back to what Aang had told her. 'Protect our babies.' it played over and over in her mind as she went to them. They were still in their beds crying, her little ones were scared and they needed her. She Pulled Kya and Sapphire out of their cribs and sat on Gyatso's bed hugging her children aginst her. She began to sing to them doing her best to calm them. They all could hear explosions all around them.

"Mommy," Gyatso whimpered, "Where's Daddy?"

"Daddy is out there, keeping us safe." She told him.

As Aang and Haru emerged from their suite they saw all the mayhem going on around them. Toph was right by them, She had erected a stone wall between the attackers and Aang's suite. "GET BACK IN THERE!" Toph yelled at him.

"No, I have to protect my family!" Aang said as he threw a few fire punches around Toph's wall.

"How do we stop them if they get you?" She said as she stomped on the ground causing rock pillars beneath the attackers pinning them to the cealing. Her wall began to crack as firebenders sent berage after breage of fireballs at it. Haru punched chunks of rock at the people on the other side of the wall.

Zuko woke up th a really strange feeling in his stomach, he ran into his daughters room to find Mai standing over they two year old's bed, though the window moon light glinted off of a shiny matalic object in her hand. "What are you doing?" He yelled at her.

"I have to compleate my assignment, I have to kill both of you." Mai said in her usual drowl tone, compleately emotionless.

"Why? What did I ever do to you? I love you, we were happy... Everything was wonderful." Zuko said as he slowly crept around the parimiter of the small child's bedroom. He planned to put himself between her and their daughter. "Please, just tell me you loved us. We can put all this behind us. We can be happy... Like we where."

"We were happy? You think we where happy! I was miserable, I hated all of it! When you became Fire Lord my family was disgraced! They were left with nothing, no more title, no job, no money!" She said as if she were bored.

"You were, you are Lady Mai, Wife of the Fire Lord. You could have anything you wanted." Zuko said, he was only a few feet away from his daughter. "We love you! Don't you love us?" The small girl awoke as her father snached her out of bed protecting her.

"Mommy! I missed you! I Love you Mommy." The girl said with a giggle.

"How could I love an assignment? I was assigned to you." Mai said in discusst. "I never loved either of you. I hated you, do you have any idea what it feels like to let the person you hate slither over your body. To hate carrying a child you never wanted? To take care of the brat everyday... You want to know what I looked forward to? I looked forwart to slitting your throat in the middle of the night. Everytime I thought about her I closed my eyes and dreamed of stabbing her over and over."

"You think Azula is a monster! You are worse! How could you even imagin such a horrible act. I won't let you hurt her... You will never hurt her!" Zuko whispered into his daughters ear "Let's play hide and seek... find a good spot in Mommy and Daddy's room... Stay there until I find you... Now go!" he said as he set his daughter down. She let out a little giggle as she took off running out of the room.

Mai glared at him and with one quick movement she threw a knife at the little girl retreating from the room. Zuko jumped, to block it from hitting the little girl; it lodged its into his shoulder but his Baby Girl was safe at the moment. "You Bitch!" He yelled at her while holding his shoulder. "What is wrong with you?"

"She is just another piece of trash in Fire Lord Ozai's way to reclaiming his thrown." Mai said.

"I'd rather see Azula on the thrown then him." Zuko said staling, to give Ursa as much time as possible to hide herself.

As the wall began to crumble, Aang Toph and Haru caused the wall to topple over burying the attackers in a thousand pounds of rocks and boulders. The remaining attakers began to flee, the three chased them down, they made pillars to jut upwards, pinning more people to the celling. Toph metalbent their armour causing them to be immobile.

Everywhere they turned there was more fighting, Toph's student had come up with the same idea she had, people strewn all over the place, their armor disfigured, many of the people inside crying out in pain. Aang and his group contenuied to chase their group outside, there had to be at least thirty other people outside already, Aang went into the Avatar State and began to draw the elements all around him.

The three women were huddled together on Gyatso's bed with the children. The sounds of the fighting faded then all was silent again. "Hold the children, I'll go see if I can hear anything." She walked over to the wall, she placed her ear aginst it, near the blood spots she had pounded her fists. At first she heard nothing, then she heard footsteps walking towards her. A sence of releaf came over her, she felt happy, Aang was back to take down the wall. Right as she took a couple steps back it sounded like a bomb had gone off just on the other side. Then she heard a man's voice ordering people around "They are nowhere to be found! I think The Avatar sealed his whore and his bastered children behind that stone wall! Bring it down now men! That whore will be mine again! I will have her!"

The man had yelled so loud that Li heard the man's voice. "Oh Spirits, It's my father! He's going to kill us all." She cried.

Katara hated the man on the otherside of the wall, she was no longer tied up and starved, too weak to fight. She readied herself as another explosion hit the wall, then another, and another. A crack appeared in the center of the wall, fracrturing outwards in all directions. Katara knew what was about to happen, She looked back at her friends and her three beautiful children, "Hide please, I promised to protect my children... HIDE!" She yelled as chunks of the wall began to crash to the ground, just a few more hits and the wall would compleately fall.

Zuko left his daughters room running to the dule swords in the wall. He was a master of the dule swords but having a knife sticking out of his shoulder he could only use one. His blade crashed and clanged as he used it to block the tiny projectiles she was throwing at him.

"Ozai will never retake the thrown, I will kill you before even get close enough to her to harm her!" Zuko yelled.

Mai turned and ran into the bedroom she had once shared with him. Her tone turned from anger to the voice of a loving mother. "Sweetie, Mommy wants to play too! Where did you go? The tickel monster is gunna get you!"

Zuko came running into his room right behind Mai. "Baby Girl don't come out Daddy wants to find you!"

"You stupid jerk! Why prolong your suffering? The more you fight me the more pain I will cause you to have." Mai grawled then launched a few more projectile at him, Ursa watched her mother attack her Daddy, she watched as one of the wepons cut into Zuko's burn scar.

The tiny girl cried out. "Why you hurt Daddy?"

Mai turned to see where her daughter was. "Come on sweetie, Mommy wants to play with you, come to Mommy!" Mai said in a sweet tone.

"No! I scared!" The girl cried. "Please no hurt me!"

Mai heard movement behind her and spun around to face Zuko once again.

"I won't let you hurt her!" He yelled as he threw all his strength into one last swing, she blocked it with the knife she was going to use to kill them. There was a loud clang when the blades made contact. She smiled wickedly, "I will compleate my assignment, I will be honored by the New Ozai Society."

"Are you sure?" Zuko asked her as he watched the daggar blade crack and a huge shard broke off falling to the floor.

She yelled in outrage and ran at him getting ready to stab him in the chest with it. She stopped suddenly, blinked a few times then looked down at the blade sticking out of her stomach. "No! He said he would honor me." She said as numbness spread through her body.

Zuko grabbed his daughter and ran to his office, he was going to lock her in there where she would be he reached his office he unlocked it as quiclky as he could and closed the door and locking it behind himself.

"Okay, Baby Girl, you are so very brave! I need you to be brave for just a little bit longer. Can you do that?"

The scared little girl sniffeled and looked up into her Daddy's gold eyes, the two year old blinked away the tears glistening in her eyes "I try Daddy... I try!"

He was knealing in front of her, he kissed her head then pushed back her black hair. "Daddy loves you so much, you are such a brave little girl. I want you to stay in here, don't open the door for anyone... Nobody!"

"Okay, nobody." She repeated to him. She put her tiny hand on the side of his scar, when she pulled her fingers back they were coated in blood. "Daddy owie is owie." She told him.

"I know Baby Girl" he said as he went into the bathroom attached to his office to grab a hand towel.

Slowly all the attackers were retreating, not just from inside the palace but from the the entire estate. Most of the head men were either lying dead, retreating seriously wounded or bound and being brought together for a mass transport to a lifetime in prison. After Aang had gone into thew Avatar State everything was ending. Even five hundred of them could not withstand the power of The Avatar. Palace guards were dragging dead bodies into the courtyard.

Zuko came running into the courtyard to see the casualties, and check on the well being of everyone.

"I got it everything under control Zuko" Aang said

Zuko looked around making a mental note as he accounted for everyone. "Hey Aang... Where's Katara?"

"Katara! I almost forgot! I need toi release her and the other women as well as my children." Aang said as he turned and walked into the palace.

Katara scanned the room as quickly as she could, searching for any sorce of water she could tap into, to use as defence aginst the evil crule man just about to break through the stone wall. "Aang please help me!" She pleaded as the wall crumbled.

She wipped out her water and prepaired to give her life for her three children. The dust cleared and she was standing tall and confident, even though she felt like collapsing in front of them.

"Well what a nice surprise, how have you been whore?" The discusting old man said, he licked his lips and staired at her as if he could see right through her thin nightgown.

"You are a sick sad man! Do you get joy from hurting women? Does it make you feel stronger because you beat on women weeker than you?" Katara asked him as she readied to defend her children and her friends.

"I sure am going to when I get my hands on you. I'm going to tie you up... I bet you have a slender waist." He said.

"No really, not right now at least. I WILL PROTECT MY BABIES! ALL FOUR!" She yelled. She spun around changing the orb of water she had infrount of her in to a dozen ice daggers, launching them at all the man standing before her. She brought them back to her and repearted the action. She faught hard, jumping and spinning kicking and flipping, she was almost too fast for them to keep up with her.

She faught hand to hand with one man. It felt good to fight. He laughed as she brought the men down one by one. By the time she had all but Li's father down she had a huge smile on her face.

"Katara!" Li yelled as she came out of her hiding place. She threw herself in front of Katara just intime to catch her fathers blade in her side.

"That's what you get for running away Li" He laughed as he pulled his sword out of her and swung it around to strike her again. As his hand came down a strong hand caught his arm.

"You should NEVER hurt women." A thousand voices in one said the man dropped to his knees and began to cry as the tall glowing figure released his arm. "You will NEVER hurt another woman again."

Zuko came in with a few guards, "Tie him up and put him with the rest of the prisoners."

The light faded and Aang ran to Katara checking her over to make sure she was unharmed. "I'm fine but I need to help Li!" Blood spilled from her wound as Katara put pressure on it to slow the bleeding. "WATER! I NEED WATER NOW!" She yelled. "Li talk to me, stay with me! Tell me what you do do at the Air Temple." Aang and Zuko came in with bowls of water.

She began healing Li, "I want to cook..."Li gasped for air. "I always loved cooking... My mother... she showed me how to make all kinds of de..." Li caughed "Delicious cakes and cookied." Li's eyes began to slowly close as Katara worked on her as quickly as she could.

Clean-up on the Palace began, it went quite quickly thanks to all the Earthbenders that came with Toph.

Zuko was playing outside with Ursa, he chased her "I'm gunna get you!" He said as the girl laughed in delight. Aang was playing with Kya and Saphhire, he made a miniture snow storm in his hand for them, they both laughed. Water rose from the pond as Kya got excited and squeald. Sapphire smacked at the storm in her father's hand, she tried to take it from him.

Gyatso was playing with the fallen flower petals, he made them swirl around and around as he blew on them.

Katara was in the bathroom rincing out some bloody bandages, Jade was sitting in a chair laughing and talking with a very happy Li. Her father could never hurt her again. After Katara had finished saving Li she cleaned and healed the knife wound in Zuko's shoulder.

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