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I have written prequels to Together Again, they are part of what I call my TAU (Together Again Universe) here is a list of them along with its Summary
A Second First Date; Aang wants to take Katara out for the perfect date, their first date was so bad Aang want's this one to be perfect… Aang wants to take Katara out for the perfect date, their first date was so bad Aang want's this one to be perfect… You don't always get a second chance.
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; She was ready to travel the world the moment she turned 16. Little did she know, life never goes as expected and that a young Airbending Master just starting out on her own is no exception. Will the winds of change bring her happiness and fulfillment? Or will she only to bed led to sorrow and regret?
I have a new collection of One-shots called Dear Diary: They are Katara's thoughts that take place during the time they traveled the world before the Hundred Year War ended.
Other stories I am currently working on (Together Again Universe are marked as TAU)
A Warrior's Path: Suki wants to be the best warrior she can be and follow in her mother's footsteps. Life comes with so many choices to make, will she always make the right choice? Will life teach her to be the best leader she can be or is there something else in store for her?
Across the Wastelands: (TAU) Aang is sent on a journey by King Bumi… One that only he can take… To search for something very important, except Bumi wouldn't tell him what he needed to find! What will he find? (Completed, takes place during Chapter 132)
Embers: (TAU) This story is a spinoff from Together Again. After Mai's death Zuko took his daughter to Ba Sing Se for a vacation; he wanted to get as far from the Fire Nation as he could, leaving nightmares and bad memories behind. One day Zuko took his daughter to the Zoo that Aang had created and that is where he met the beautiful green-eyed, chocolate brown haired beauty Taryn.
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Chapter 140
"We'll be leaving soon." Katara told Jade at breakfast. "Aang wants to try to bet the Sky Bison Island before it gets dark."
"Haru and I figured we'd be leaving soon; with the wedding over, their Honeymoon will be starting and lingering her without them would be kind of awkward." Jade told Katara.
"Dyna never wants to leave." Katara told her. "But Azula has already began preparations for Taryn's family to be returned to Ba Sing Se."
"That woman… She hasn't changed a bit" Jade shook her head. "I feel bad that Taryn had to put up with her for so long."
"Taryn is a wonderful young woman." Katara said as she ate her breakfast. "I'm very happy for both her and Zuko… I still can't believe what… the traitor did. How could she have a child and not even love it? And I thought Azula was bad."
"My little ones are the most important thing in the world to me." Jade said. "Twins aren't easy, but at least I got some practice taking care of Kya and Sapphire."
"They grew so fast," Katara sighed.
"You're belly grew so fast." Jade said pointing out Katara's round belly.
"I know… She'll be here in a few months." Katara rubbed her baby bump. "I'm going back to the Suite, I need to get to packing."
"Does it ever bother you to always be traveling?" Jade asked, Jade was okay with it she chose the Air Nomad's way of life.
"Honestly… Not really. I've been following him since the day I found him." Katara smile. "He is everything to me, and our children are precious gifts he has given me."
"I think you two are adorable." Jade told her.
"I think you and Haru were meant to be together." Katara said as she left the dining room, and walked back to their suite.
"Hello, My Love!" Aang said as Katara entered the room. "I have almost all of our things packed and ready to go."
"You are always so fast at packing up." Katara smiled.
"It's the nomad blood." He grinned widely and tilted his head a little. "And the fact that I can move as fast as the wind."
"Show off!" Katara stuck her tongue out at him.
"You're just jealous!" He stuck his own out at her.
"Me? Jealous?" Katara rolled her eyes feigning shock and surprise.
"You two are so silly sometimes." Jade said as she entered the main living space of the shared suite.
"I wouldn't call myself silly…. More like…" Aang was cut off.
"Goofy!" Katara blurted out than began laughing. "I love my goofy husband!"
"He loved you first!" Aang said, folding his arms in front of his chest.
"I know, but in my defense, I loved you longer than you knew I did." Katara told him. "So I think that makes us even."
"I need to go get my own family ready to leave." Jade told then as she excused herself from the room.
"Hello Jade, I almost have everything ready, I just need you to make sure we have everything we need for the trip." Haru told her. "Aang told me that Zuko said we can pack what food we need from the Palace kitchen and storehouses."
"Oh good, Bo and Tyra, are hungry all the time." Jade told him. "I feel like I constantly have to eat to keep up with them… I now know why Katara eats so much food."
"I love you so much…" Haru told her. "I know I've tell you all the time but I really do and saying it out loud to you… It just makes it all the more wonderful."
"After we get back to the Southern Air Temple we need to go on a small vacation…" Jade said as she folded baby blankets and stacked them in a neat pile. "Go and Visit your parents. Your mother was very clear that she wanted grandchildren and now that we have them we should take them to your parents."
"I think that's a wonderful idea, but Pumpkin isn't going to be able to travel soon." Haru told her. "She got pregnant right about the same time you did."
"After I did," Jade laughed. "But I bet there's a sea captain out there somewhere that would like to see Bo and Tyra too."
"That's right, there is!" Haru had almost forgot that Jade's father, Zane ran goods to and from Katara home village.
"So it's decided, after we get back home I'll send a message to my father and go visit your parents." Jade told him as she finished going through the babies' stuff, making sure they had everything they needed.
"We're all packed up and ready to leave when you are." Jade said as she emerged from her room.
"Okay!" Katara said. "I was just about to call up some servants to help me get this all out to Appa and Pumpkin loaded up."
"Where's Aang?" Jade asked.
"He went down to the kitchen to have some food delivered to the stone courtyard where the bison are waiting to be loaded up." Katara told her. "This is the last trip we are going to be able to take for a while, Pumpkin is going to need to keep her strength up for when the calves arrive."
"They'll be arriving right about the same time as Anila." Jade told Katara.
"How long does it take them to be full grown?" Jade asked.
"Well… Appa was 6 when I found Aang… They imprinted when Aang was 6 and Appa was barely able to fly." Katara told Jade what Aang had once told her.
"Okay everybody!" Aang said as he entered the suite. "Time to get our stuff to the Sky Bison." He was followed in by a dozen of the palace's servants. "I left Zuko a letter thanking him for having us here and wishing him a happy marriage and a fun honeymoon."
"We need to go collect out little ones, Ursa is watching them right now," Katara told them. "Gyatso wouldn't leave until he got to see little Ursa one more time."
"They're probably going to end up getting married one day." Aang joked.
"I believe it and I'm not joking." Katara told him. "You should have seen them the day they met… Your son started showing off his ability bend air already."
"Yeah… I got to see his ability before you even knew I was at your village." Aang told her.
"What?! When?!" Katara looked up at him a surprised look on her face.
"I saw a blast of air come out of your igloo…" Aang confessed. "I just didn't realize he did that… I didn't even have any idea he even existed."
"Nobody but Suki and I knew about him… that is until Dad was going to throw a tournament for my hand… I kind of had to tell him." Katara told him.
"I am so proud of him." Aang said as they walked out to Ursa's Turtle Duck pond, where the children were playing.
"Come on Little Ones." Katara said as she walked over to her children. "It's time to go."
"I don't want to go!" Gyatso protested.
"I know you don't want to, but it's time to go." Aang told the little boy.
"But I like Ursa!" The tiny airbender told his parents.
"We know, but it's time to go now. We will see her again soon." Katara told him.
"Promise?" The boy pouted.
"We promise." His parents said in unison.
"It was nice seeing you two again." Zuko's mother told them. "I still remember that first day I meet you two… You both have grown up so much since then."
"It was nice seeing you again also." Katara said. "We did grow up a lot, and during that time we fell deeper and deeper in love."
"I can see, there is much love in your family." Ursa said gesturing towards the tiny airbender and the small Fire Nation Princess.
"Thank you!" Aang said then turned to his children. "Time to go, Appa is waiting."
"And Pumpkin!" Gyatso called as he ran for the stone courtyard.
"Goodbye Ursa." Katara told the older woman then picked up her little waterbender and followed the little boy.
"Goodbye, Lady Ursa." Aang collecting Sapphire and also followed the boy.
"Goodbye Avatar Aang." Ursa said.
"Bye bye!" Little Ursa said as she watched her friends get ready to leave.
Haru, Jade and their babies, along with Blossom to help with the babies, were all loaded up on Pumpkin and read to lead by the time Aang and his family got to the stone courtyard. Rose was already up in Appa's saddle getting everything situated and ready for the pregnant woman and three small children.
Aang handed the children up to Rose in the saddle than helped Katara us as well. He then hopped onto Appa's head. Aang looked around, making sure everything and everybody were all ready to leave. "Yip, Yip!" He called out and Appa lifted into the sky followed closely by Pumpkin. After pointing Appa in the correct direction he climbed into the saddle and sat with his family.
"Avatar Aang, you said we are going to find your family." Blossom said. "We thought that The Fire Nation whipped out the Air Nomads."
"A few months ago King Bumi sent me a message." Aang began. "It told me to go to a certain place… And of course being his best friend I went where he told me too… When I got there I found My sister… through my father."
"There's another airbender alive?!" Blossom asked in shock.
"Sadly no, she died before I left, but before she passed in her sleep she gave me a box." Aang told her.
"What was in it?" Blossom was hanging onto his every word.
"A Journal and some other things for me." Aang told her. "The Journal was my Mother's, every entry is addressed to me. She married a Firebender, and they had a family… We are going to where the census told me there was a Zakai… Zakai was the name of the firebender she married."
"Oh, it would be so amazing to meet family you didn't even know you had!" Blossom was truly excited. "Maybe there are Airbenders alive there!"
"That's what I was hoping for too." Aang chuckled.
After a few hours of flying Katara laid down and took a nap with the twins. Aang was teaching Gyatso small tricks that he was picking up quite quickly. He almost had the marble trick down and he's only almost four years old.
"Daddy." The boy said. "I wanna fly like you."
"You want to fly?" Aang asked him.
"Uh ha" The boy nodded.
"I can take you out on my glider. Would you like to do that?" Aang asked his son.
"Yeah!" The boy's grey eyes sparkled as he grinned.
"Ok, we will do a bit of gliding." Aang got his glider and the harness Katara made for them. After securing the harness onto himself Aang secured the boy to him. Aang stepped onto the edge of the saddle, spread his arms out wide than let himself free-fall, the boy laughed and squealed in delight as he and his father fell, getting closer and closer to the ground, at the last moment Aang opened his glider and whooshed back up into the air, powered only by the momentum of their fall. Up, up, up high into the sky, so high that just before falling again they floated weightless for a few moments. Aang did corkscrews and barrow rolls, laughing with his son. After about an hour of fun and play they landed softly in the saddle.
"Did you two have fun?" Katara asked, she had been awake for a little while watching the two airbenders have fun, being free as the wind itself.
"Yes Mommy it was so much fun!" Gyatso told her.
"Aang look!" Katara pointed at a heard of sky bison flying around a secluded, but not small island. "That's where we need to go right?"
"That's it… I need the Fire sages to give me the directions to get to where my mother and Zakai lived." Aang told her. Before they knew it Pumpkin and Appa were descending of their own free will. Their bison landed in the middle of the field. "You guys can stretch your legs for a bit while I find the head Sage.
"Excuse me," Aang addressed a sage that was checking over the herd. "I need to speak with the head Sage… I was told they could give me directions to a hidden homestead.
"There are no…" The sage said as her turned around. "Oh my! I am so sorry Avatar Aang! Please follow me, I'll take you to his office." Aang followed the man through the large building. They stopped at a large door and opened it with a set of keys. "The Sage you are looking for is me. I know exactly what… or I should say whom, you are looking for. It has been tasked that the head sage only ever teaches the next to take their place of the hidden Homestead of Anila… A wonderful woman from all the stories written about her… If I'm correct she was your mother."
"Yes, she was." Aang pulled her journal out from under his over robes and handed it to the sage. The sage scanned over it verifying it was actually one that Anila had written then pulled a book almost identical to it from a bookshelf and handed it to Aang. "This would be volume two, it has the location you seek in it."
"Thank you very much." Aang bowed to the sage then hurried back to his family. As soon as Aang got outside he opened the book and found a map inside it showing how to get to this "Home Zakai Built for her." It said.
Aang examined the map then took out his glider and lifted into the sky, looking for the land marks shown on the map. As soon as he found what he was looking for he went back to his family and took them over and through some places, then out of nowhere came a large homestead with lots of buildings, large fields full of grain and vegetables, and to his surprise people, a lot more than he expected. "I'm going to take my glider and go first we don't need to be scaring everyone."
"Good idea Sweetie." Katara said. "Be safe."
"I will… I love you." Then he spun open his glider and glided down near the woods, closing his glider he walked towards a group of children that were playing. "Excuse me I'm looking for some people, I'm not exactly who I'm looking for."
The group of children looked up at him for a few minutes with confused looks on their faces. A little grey eyed girl stepped forward. "You're… You're HIM!" The girl said than took off running, she entered the large house, Aang patiently waited outside of the house.
"You have finally come!" A man in his sixties said to Aang as he came outside. "You have her eyes. I knew her when I was small, great grandma Nila, we all called her."
"So you are who I am looking for?" Aang asked him.
"You look much younger than we all expected Aang. I am Zakai III… and I am very happy to meet you." The man told him.
"Can I go get the rest of my family?" Aang asked the man.
"Family?" The old man looked surprised. "You take after her more than I thought, with you being raised in an Air Temple. Family is always welcome here!"
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