A/N : Hello everyone sorry I'm a little late I had an exam the 15 may so I haven't wrote anything before I will do as promised from now on 1 chapter a week

I'm French, English is my third language so please be comprehensive in the reviews if you have suggestions I would love to read them but please be respectful

I don't own atla or Korra as much as I would love to, so a trial is unnecessary :)


It was sundown when Aang realized that he hadn't seen Katara since their talk a few hours before. But before choosing to go to see Katara he feeled a sudden urge that he couldn't explain: the urge to contact Roku. It was a first for him but he had done a lot of research in the big library of Ba Sing Se and he knew that if he had an urge to contact his past life it was because the latter had something really important to talk to him about so he decided that it was perhaps best if he went to see the old firebender before going to search for his girlfriend.


In the spirit world

"Hello Roku I assume that the need that I felt was your doing ?"

"Hello Aang it's good to see you again. Yes indeed it was my doing, I choose to contact you because I have 2 informations for you"

"I'm all ears but I hope it's good news and important news I was about to go see Katara to have a really important talk with her"

"It's good that you mention your girlfriend because I have a good news for you about her…" before the old firebender could even finish Aang responded with a lot of enthusiasm

"What, what is it ?!"

"Aang will you let me finish please"

"Sorry"

"As I was saying I have great news : you and your partner are connected spiritually in a really deep way. I can propose to you a spiritual bond. It is a technique that avatar Salai invented for him and his wife but it has never been done after no avatar was spiritually bonded to another person like Salai was. It was almost done with Kuruk but Ummi was taken by Koh before that."

Aang who was suddenly really interested asked : "And what is that supposed to be ? What do you mean when you talk about spiritual bond ?"

"The bond mean that you are two different people and the same one : it amplify your mutual feelings, it gave you strength in battle the strength of the other one, it connects your spirits literally with some training you can hear when you and the other person want each-other thoughts and without training you can feel the feelings and emotions of the other one"
Before continuing Roku took a deep breath

"There is a few catch : first if one of you is physically or mentally wounded the other one will feel all of it"

"Wait" Aang interrupted, "you mean that if I were to die… she would also die ?"

"No" Roku responded and before continuing he hear a sigh of relief "but she will be broke mentally and when you are hurt she will be to mentally"

"But" Aang interjected, "what about the physical part ?"

"Aang I Know it is an important subject but please let me finish before asking questions" Roku waited for Aang to nod before continuing "As I was saying physically she will feel your pain but without being hurt. If you want to do it you will have 3 conditions : first you will have to always be honest with her without hesitation"
Aang was about to talk but received a menacing glare from the firebender so he decided to let him continue

"Before you ask me, yes you can keep a surprise from her as long as it is not more than one week or as long as she accepts it deep within her.
The second condition is to have witnesses, at least 2 to help in case there is a problem you can take more but it has to be at least 2 near you and your girlfriend.
And the last condition is to talk to her about it when you go back and not wait because it could be dangerous to wait.
Do you have any questions?"

Aang thought before talking and said "just one : who do we do it ?"

Roku responded "simply by meditating together in a very spiritual place for the rest you or her will figure it out in due time"

Aang was about to leave but was stopped by a thought and asked the ancient avatar : "Roku, you said that you had several news, what are the other ones ?"

The firebender responded "Oh yes sorry I almost forgot there is a very powerful spirit after you his name is Sōjōbō he is not very ancient but he respond to a master a very old, very wise and very powerful spirit one that I don't know of I suggest you to be on your guard he is known to infect the mind and broke his victims mentally that is one of the reasons I talked to you about the spiritual bond with your young girlfriend it might be the key to beat him"

"What can you tell me about him ?" Aang asked a little bit frightened

"He is what you can call a tengu. They are minor spirits but really deceitful they are known to be really good warriors. There are 2 types: the daitengu and the kotengu, unfortunately for you the daitengu will be those that can attack you. One of them is at the top of the food chain, he is their king, he has the strength of thousands of them but he is not really old but he is really powerful and he has an army of tengu that can attack you physically or mentally."

"What can you recommend to me ?"

"The tengu and even Sōjōbō cannot attack you physically because you have the avatar spirit inside of you and she is one of the most ancient that's why they will attack you mentally and that is why you cannot wait to tell your girlfriend about the bond"

Aang sighed and began to ask Roku for advice : "The problem is that I don't want to do it know, I wanted to keep the surprise until I had finished her Katha"

"Her katha ?" Asked Roku confused

Aang responded awkwardly "oh yes sorry I forgot that you were not from the Air Nomads a katha is a really big scarf like a veil it is a symbol of love I decided to mix the water tribes traditions of a betrothal necklace with a katha but I haven't finished it yet"

"Your head is in the right place, but your heart is not : you want to respect the traditions of your girlfriend and yours. It is a good thing but you are afraid that she will not accept your demand if all is not following the traditions. If you want to have a better chance at beating Sōjōbō you have to ask her."

"But…" before Aang could continue, his older self interrupted him and began talking. "Aang I think you should talk about your katha with another airbender, perhaps Yangchen but I need to finish my story about Sōjōbō so that you can defeat him. He is as I was telling you the king of the tengu so you can be assured that he will not be the one to first attack you he can be scared of his master but he will not attack the avatar spirit on a whim he will first send his servants to do it."

"And how can I know when they are attacking me ? How can I know when they are close to me ? And what can they do to me if they cannot attack me physically and only Sōjōbō can ?" Aang asked a little frustrated because he wanted to go back at the subject of his marriage and his bond

Roku responded "I was going to talk about how you can recognise them and know when they are nearby. They are spirits that have a human form but they have some special features : they have a red face with a very long nose and bird wings in their back. They have 2 ways of coming into the mortal world and the 2 of them have a particularity you can hear or see when they come into this world : the first one is hear I tell you that because you leave near a forest the particularity of this technique is that you can hear a tree or a few trees falling like someone is cutting them down. The second technique is see : you can see at the rivers fire that seems like it is flying"

Aang sighed and began to talk : "That's a lot to process Roku. And what about their king ? Sojubu ?"

Roku corrected him before continuing "Sōjōbō, he has knowledge of the magics and powers of the spirits except the most powerful ones"

Aang asked, frightened : "Does he have the powers of Koh and his mother ?"

Roku replied : "I think he has Koh's power but not the mother of faces' for the powers of koh he cannot use it on you he is way too weak to steal the avatar's face but he can use it on your friends the same way Koh does it."

Aang, terrified and relieved, asked him his last question, of that he was sure he wanted to move to the subject of his love with Katara and talk to Yangchen : "And what does he look like physically ?"

"He looks like a daitengu except that his skin is white like the moon and not red. In case you have a doubt he has a fan made of seven feathers, he uses it to generate powerful winds, don't confuse it with airbending. He is the master of the wind, not air. He has a purpose that can be important for you to know: when he has no master he and his tengu train the most spiritual benders at the martial arts of the spirits so they are masters of martial arts." Roku replied searching in his mind for what Kuruk had told him

"Is there anything else before I talk to Yangchen ?" asked

"No there is nothing else but I offer you this advice Aang : be on your guard, you don't know what could happen and when. And about your marriage don't forget the wisdom I offered you long ago Aang it applies also in love and in marriage" and he said while disappearing "be decisive"

"Avatar Yangchen I need your help" Aang called to his former self

"Hello my young friend, how can I help you ?" Yangchen replied calmly

"Avatar Yangchen I want to ask my girlfriend to marry me but I am sure about it but I am also afraid that doing it I kill the Air Nomads' traditions if I remember correctly marriage is prohibited to the airbenders because it would be forming an attachment to this world and it is what we feared the most" Aang explained the former airbender avatar his problem with sadness at his confusion

"My young airbender I will tell you what Roku told you : "your head is in the right place but not your heart" I know for a fact that you love your girlfriend like none of us has ever loved someone we can all sense it you say that you are afraid to kill the last things that remains from the Air Nation but I tell you that a bond like yours is a really beautiful bond and powerful you cannot you don't have the right to ignore it if not for you at least for her. Follow your heart, trust in love that is the most important wisdom that I could tell you" she emphasized "the" to show that it was really important.

"Your idea with the katha is a beautiful idea it was meant in my time to show love I know that you used it more for good fortune but you see the silk that is used has a meaning the silk is durable but also smooth and delicate it is also luminous just like the true love it is a strong bond but it is also really smooth and delicate you can hurt your partner if you aren't careful and I don't mean physically but the real love is luminous like nothing else can ever be it is the first and most powerful source of light in the life of someone. Your katha was a beautiful idea to bond your traditions with the ones of your girlfriend. Don't ever forget your traditions I never said and don't let anyone ever tell you that you should put away your traditions don't ever forget your traditions and the love that you have for your country especially now that it is gone. But true love is the most important one of all, never forget that." Yangchen finished her wisdom looking at Aang to insist on what she was saying and she finished saying "Don't ever forget that you are before anything else a man, a human being, a very powerful one yes but a human being still. Love is the most beautiful thing that you can ever experience" She finished with a bright smile

"Thank you for your wisdom, I was afraid but I will go ask her as soon as I have finished my katha. By the way, have you ever done a katha of your own ?" Aang asked

"I did" The old airbender avatar responded simply but firmly

Aang wanted to ask for whom she had done it but he understood that it was a difficult subject so he chose to ask simply "Do you have any suggestion to finish my katha faster ?"

"I do indeed have a suggestion : use your airbending. I have seen you doing it without it and I understand why. But in my time doing it with airbending was really meaningful the purpose was to put yourself in the katha, your entire self and you are an airbender so you melt with the katha to become it, you have to think like you are what you are making, so that when you give it to the love of your life, to your true love, then she or he can sense your whole presence in it."

Aang was stunned at the description the older airbender did to him he took the katha because he knew how to use it and because it could bring him and Katara good luck after all a katha has always been used for good luck it could bring us good luck it's not like I have anything else I can't ask her to take away the last piece of her mom a katha will be good even if it's only for good luck, he thought. But hearing how a katha was used before him made him happy; he never knew it could have this much importance and it was entirely part of his traditions. Maybe it was part of the traditions for the airbenders that had more than eighteen years old, anyway he was really satisfied with the answer and he couldn't wait to finish his katha and offer it to Katara

"Thank you avatar Yangchen"

"Your welcome Aang and you can call me Yangchen only you know"

Aang replied with a bowing nod before making his way out of the spirit world to finish working on his katha with very precise but sharp airbending he marked into the silk symbols of his nation and her Nation and when he was satisfied he used waterbending to paint the katha in blue and yellow to the colors of both their nation.


He arrived at Katara who was a little distant and hesitant. He was expecting it. He knew he made a terrible mistake by saying that he wasn't sure he wanted to be with her and he knew he would have to tell her everything he had in his heart to make up for what he told her.

"Katara ?" he caught her attention and began talking but before everything he had to make sure she would not interrupt him it was easy and hard for him to confess his love to her so the first thing he said was a question : "I think I owe you some explanations I'll tell you everything I ask you only one thing don't interrupt me I will open my heart to you entirely and I need you to accept listening before saying anything are you okay with it ?"

Katara didn't really knew what to say so she only nodded and let him began :

"I'm sorry I made a mistake, before walking away give me another chance so that I can walk away from the shadows you put me in, my heart is sinking because the more I hurt you or drive you away the more I fall. How can I describe to you my feelings : experienced your gap as a torture. What do I think of you ? Beautiful was a word that was invented for you, when you snuggle against me the paradise open above me and I would die just to be close to you one last time. I would even give Koh my face if it only means that I could see you one last time. What do I think about others talking about our love ? They can take everything from me. I only need your love, they can try to pit me against you or against each other they will never succeed because if there is one thing in this world that I am sure about is my love for you. Their propriety ? I don't care, their politics ? I don't care, their opinion ? I don't care, let's love each other and tell them that we don't care because the only thing I care about is you. If they are jealous ? I don't care if it's too bad for them. I know love is hard but with you it is more simple, stay yourself because I won't ever regret having chosen you. Let me know if something is too hard because I will always take the hard part for both of us. I left my heart in your palm. I will never let you go, I took a long time to find you. You have always elevated yourself as a queen to me, you are everything to me. The truth is that I love you so much that I don't even remember all of it but I will do everything for you the impossible if you want. Tell me where and when to wait for you and if you don't come I will wait. It may be stupid but I'll wait for you full of hope. Because it's too cold without you out here, I will wait for you until my last breath. I LOVE YOU!" He finished his speech stating the last "I love you" the louder he could, falling to his knees making his way to Katara who was in tears realizing what he just told her, she couldn't even hold back her tears she was shocked and more happy than she ever was.

Aang didn't let her a chance to say anything and took her chin in his hand wiping back her tears and he continued "My love tell me what you think, My love do you remember us on our first date when I told you that I would always be with you I meant it" as he was saying that he took out his katha and made her look at him in the eyes as he continued

"I never want to be apart from I want you in my life until my dying breath" He took a deep breath before continuing Katara her began to understand what he was about to ask hold back her breath shocked of what he had just told her and not knowing if she could take more of it before assaulting his lips and kiss him like she was going to die right then and there

Aang who hadn't noticed the state of Katara hold his katha before him and said "I know it's not a betrothal necklace but a katha is a piece of the airbender who did it, it is a piece of me a piece of my love for you that i pass down to you aking you My Love, My Life : will you marry me and spend the rest of our lives together ?"

She was choking on her tears she was happy and shocked and her response was with no hesitation "Yes Aang yes I want to spend the rest of my life with you and love you with all my being for as long as I can" She threw herself on his arms she was sobbing of happiness she had never been so happy he had found his way to her heart more than ever before her love for him was stronger than ever.

After an hour, spending in each other's arms without speaking, just enjoying each other more than they ever had, Katara suddenly felt that he was holding something back so she asked him about it. She knew that she had nothing to fear as long as he was with her.

"My love, tell me what you think" she asked him with peace

Aang sighed and pulled her away from him to look her in the eye as he started to explain to her what Roku had told him : "I went on the spirit world before coming to see you and I talked to Roku I have 2 news and I don't really know how to talk to you about it."

"You know that you can tell me everything I am with you I can help you through whatever you have to affront" Katara replied to him peacefully

Aang sighed, gathered his courage, and began by the most simple but probably the most frightening one : "The first news is that I have a very old and powerful spirit that want to attack me" before he can continue he heard Katara gasp and he felt her tightening her grip on his hands

"He decided to sent after me a king spirit named Sōjōbō he is king of a species of spirits : the tengus they are the most common race of spirit but they are immeasurable"

He sensed Katara was beginning to tense more as she asked a little frightened of what could be the second news "And what about the second news ?"

"The second news is more complicated to put it simply Roku talked to me about a bond that you and I can share and before you start being happy about it I have to talk to you about the whole bond. So the bond would amplify our love for eachother, it would amplify our feelings and we would be able to identify each-other 's feelings and with training we could read each other's thoughts when the other one allows it to happen. But there are catches : if one of us is hurt physically the other one would be hurt as well, the other one would feel the pain without being harmed. If one of us is hurt mentally the other one will feel it too all the pain and the hard feelings. And to finish if one of us dies the other would be totally broken. I don't want to impose anything I…"

Before he could finish his sentence Katara brought her lips to smash onto his to shut him up and when they pulled away she was the first one to talk : "Where and when can we do it ?"

Aang, shocked, responded "Are you sure Katara ? I don't want to impose anything"

Before he could say anything she responded "Aang I have no doubt about it I want to share this bond with you I love you and if this bond can deepen our love I would be pleased about it"

Aang smiled widely at the thought and he began to talk to explain to her how to do it "We have to meditate together, we have to bind our hearts together, we have to be in a very spiritual place. We have to take 2 witnesses with us for security because it is a ritual that wasn't done in at least a thousand years"

Katara nodded and reached at him to kiss him just as they pulled apart Aang began to faint and his tattoos began to glow

Katara panicked called for her fiance with all her voice and heart she knew it wasn't natural


In the spirit world

"Hello avatar" a voice began to talk

Aang understood that he was pulled by force into the spirit world the only thought that he had right now was for Katara he was sad that he would frighten her and he was angry at the one who pulled him into the spirit world

"Who are you and what do you want from me ?"

"Oh avatar" the voice responded "even with all the clues and information your past self gave you you still haven't figured it out ? I presume you were too occupied with that little girlfriend of yours"

Aang immediately understood who he was dealing with so he decided to ask directly "Sōjōbō I presume what do you want with me ?"

"You will discover it soon enough" Sōjōbō responded

So here is chapter 2. I hope you liked it. Yes I know I haven't talked about Korra yet, but just to be clear I'm going to take my time before going into the crossover. A little exercise for you : choose the name of the first chapter. I named this one, I haven't decided yet if I'm going to name them all or let you name them. I don't take all credit for Aang's declaration lots of french songs helped me.

The usual questions or question in this case

Now that Sōjōbō has Aang in his grasp, what is he going to do with him ?