One-shot VI: Turtle ducks.
Aang and Zuko had had a little picnic with their kids, they were in the wide palace garden that now there were fulfilled with flowers that Aang had grown since he moved into the palace. This was the first time that the children went to the turtle duck pond, their parents considered that they could already be close to the animals without anyone getting hurt.
They ate jam sandwiches with some green tea that the children tried to offer to the animals, looking this, Zuko sat down next to them to start cutting small pieces of bread and feed the baby turtle ducks that were swimming close to their mother. None of the adults noticed the complete fascination that the little ones felt for the curious animals and after the picnic they did not look after the kids too much near the pond, so one day, while the kids were running through the garden, they remembered the pond where the animals where.
Full of curiosity, they approached to the place where the pond was to see the turtle ducks swimming.
"Come here, come here" Izumi said bringing her hand to the animals, but they, after realizing that she had no food, moved away.
"I'd like to swim like them" Tenzin said, looking how they came and went through their little pond.
"I think we can be like them."
"I don't think so… we don't have fins."
"But mom said we can be whatever we want" Izumi continued very determined "we just have to make an effort"
"If we will be turtle ducks, we have to practice" Tenzin continued before kicking off his shoes because his mother would be angry if they entered the garden with wet shoes "we will swim"
Thus, the two children took off only their shoes which they left fairly placed by the pond and with their elegant royal outfits, they went swimming. Although, they were not even swimming, they were just pacing back and forth at the pond shore where they were only covered in water up to their navel. The turtle ducks did not get close to them, but they kept playing and splashing water thinking that they were getting closer and closer to achieving their goal. Until Aang came to take care of some of the flowers in the garden, at that moment he saw his twins splashing more and more as the turtle ducks came almost indignant out from the pond.
"What are you doing, kids?" the twins almost jumped in surprise, they were even a bit sorry because the tone with which their mother spoke to them was only used when he gave them gifts.
"Nothing."
"Why are you there?" at that question, the kids looked at each other without knowing what to say.
"We are turtle ducks."
"Kids, you can't swim there, also you have all your clothes wet."
"But we took off our shoes" Izumi said pointing to her shoes on the shore.
"Why can't we swim here? huh?" Tenzin wondered.
"First, that you have taken off their shoes doesn't matter, you will be wet and I don't want you to take off their clothes, but you can still get sick" Aang walked over to the pond and carried Izumi to take her out, then he approached to Tenzin to take him out too "in addition, this is the turtle ducks house, you can't just get inside like that"
Aang told them that now they should go back to take a bath, so not very excited they held their hands and followed their mother to their bedroom, although they had frustrated their curious plan, they would still try to swim in the bathtub during their bath.