"The clouds look so soft, like you could just jump right onto them," Katara said unable to take her eyes of the endlessly big altitude they covered flying on Appa.
"Maybe you should give it a try," Sokka said sarcastically raising an eyebrow.
"You're hilarious," Katara said scowling.
"I'll try it!" Aang snapped excitedly wrapping his glider and jumping from his bison's head.
The two siblings looked immediately under them watching Aang falling towards the cloud and disappearing in their whiteness. After a minute Aang came flying on his glider from behind. He landed on the saddle soaked in water.
"Turns out, clouds are made of water," He said and he brushed water off his clothes using air bending.
Something caught Katara's attention as she looked away and she said "Hey, what's that?" she pointed towards it. There was a burned area of the forest. But it mostly seemed like a wide scar. There would have been thousands of plants and growing greenery until someone just... burned it.
"It seems like a scar," Sokka remarked looking at the same direction the other two did.
Aang immediately landed Appa on that area. It was so quiet and everything was covered in ashes. Only some tree trunks had survived standing in the middle of the area.
"Listen, it's so quiet, there's no life anywhere" Sokka said.
"Aang, are you okay?" Katara asked worryingly.
Sokka looked around, trying to find any evidence on who could have caused that, until he finally caught a glimpse of footprints and Fire Nation helmets. "Fire Nation, those evil savages make me sick, they have no respect for-"
But before he was able to continued Katara cut him "Schuss!"
"What? Am I not allowed to be angry?" Sokka asked whispering.
Katara kept her attention at Aang. Aang collapsed to his knees taking a small pile of the ashes in his handful. He knew it was the Avatar's role to protect people but it meant also about protecting the greenery. Probably many other animals lived in that forest and now they were gone or dead. He didn't know how to be the Avatar, he only wished his sister to have the burden of the Avatar's role, he was sure that she would have done a lot more than him.
"Why would anyone do this?" He asked sorrow feeling his voice. "How could I let this happen?" he asked again.
"Aang, you didn't let this happen, it has nothing to do with you," Katara said making a step further.
Aang crossed his legs and he said "Yes it does, it's the Avatar's job to protect nature, but I don't know how to do my job. Iris would have been a better Avatar than I could ever be," he said disappointed.
"Yeah, no kidding," Sokka said only to receive a deadly look from his sister. But she ignored him and she turned again and looked at Aang.
"That's why we're going to the North Pole," Katara said "...to find you a teacher,"
"And your sister has done too much already. We have like two weeks to see the angry jerk," Sokka said.
"Yeah, but we're only going to find a water bending teacher, but there is no one who can teach me how to be the Avatar. Monk Gyatso said that Avatar Roku would help me," Aang said.
"The Avatar before you, he died over a hundred years ago, how are you supposed to talk to him?" Sokka asked.
"I don't know," Aang said desperate.
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When Hatred turned to Love (ATLA Zuko x OC)
Fanfiction***CURRENTLY UNDER EDITING*** Broken, filled with loss, pain, and anger of her people's death... she could only hope she had died with them. An Air Bender from the Western Air Temple never having the chance to find balance within. She never knew...
