Book 4: Harmony; The Air Benders Return

History

Aang stared, impossible! Impossible! He grabbed Katara, desperately trying to hold on to her to keep himself from fainting. Azula’s jaw dropped. It was him, it was the man who helped her in the woods and he was an Air Bender. She was right!

Two air bending masters stood before them, their bizarre silver eyes gleaming from the dancing Azure flames. Aang extinguished the fire. Without a word, he handed a note to the two airbenders. The man who looked about 18, took the note and skimmed through it. He nodded his head towards the young Avatar. 

“My name is Ian and this is…”

“Min.”

Aang smiled.

“My name is Aang and this is Katara.”

Katara cleared her throat.

“My girlfriend Katara.”

“I’m Sokka and this is my wife…”

“Suki, I am Suki, it is so nice to see you, sorry for holding your girlfriend hostage.”

Ian and Min eyeballed each other and Min scooted away from Ian, her face scrunched up in disgust. Suki looked confused.

“We are siblings.” Ian warily replied.

“Ohhhh, so sorry.” Suki laughed nervously.

Azula stood at the back of the crowd, uninterested in the current conversation. She turned on her heels and headed back to camp. The only things that engrossed her was how they survived the genocide and how could they read in the dark. 

“And that is Azula, she uhhh well let’s say she is representing her

 brother Firelord Zuko.”

Azula whirled around, her jaw clenched.

“Excuse me, I am more then just a representative, I am a princess!”

Everyone took a step back. Sokka whispered to Suki,

“Who is worse, my sister or Azula?”

Suki shrugged.

Ian watched Azula, something about her seemed eerily familiar. His eyes enlarged. It was the girl he and his sister found in a ditch! She was a Fire Nation Princess? But how? She looked like she went through a mental break down. Ian bit his lip, maybe she tripped and hit her head.

“So where do you live?” 

Ian gyrated to the Avatar. 

“We live in what we call The Hidden Temple, you guys look like you need some light, come with us.”

Aang tilted his head towards his bison,

“He is sick with Bison’s Cough, we can’t go anywhere.”

“You are less then a mile from the Temple.”

Aang’s eyes lit up.

“Come on guys. Ian invited us to the Temple.”

Everyone immediately ran towards camp to pack up. Who knew what adventures would come in the forever forbidden Air Temple?

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As the Gaang packed, Ian gave a brief history on how the Air Nomads escaped

 their fate.

“When the young Avatar disappeared, there were search parties everywhere. Everyone was looking for him until a group from the Western Air Temple spotted something that bumped the Avatar down from the spot of absolute priority.”