Avatar: The Last Airbender: Reawakening

10

Half an hour later, Katara found herself hurrying to pack her bags for what she would need to go to Omashu. She swiftly folded up her clothes that she was not currently using and packed them as her heart pounded in her chest. Aang's rush to leave made her feel the need to get ready as fast as possible. He had gathered his stuff and hurried out the door before she had even reached their room. She guessed that he went to go get Appa ready but for whatever reason she had a bad feeling in her gut. Katara could feel that Aang was stressing and he also seemed a little confused about something. That made her uneasy. Aang always seemed to do something irrational when he was like this.

She closed up her bags as she finished packing and ran down the stairs to see that Sokka was already there waiting for her to go and her dad was standing next to him. Once Hakoda saw her come down he walked up to hug his daughter.

"I'll miss you," he said gently.

Katara hugged him a little tighter, "I'll miss you to. We shouldn't be gone long though."

Her father broke away and smiled at her, "If things are more chaotic then they seem, send me a message and I will get there as soon as I can."

Katara nodded but Sokka spoke up, "What about the city. You just can't leave it."

"The council can run it while I'm gone," Hakoda said, "that is what they are there for. Depending on what is taking place, the other nations might need to work together to solve this problem and I need to play my part if it gets that serious."

"Hopefully it's not as bad as we think," Katara cut in.

"It'll be fine," their father assured, "You two helped end the Hundred Year War and I know that you can help end this to. I just want you to know that I couldn't be more proud of you."

The siblings smiled and hugged their dad goodbye once more before making their way out of the house. They made their way out of the city and towards Appa's stable but to their surprise, Appa was no longer there.

Katara nearly felt her heart stop, oh no. She ran forward and began to look at the area around the stables with Sokka close behind her. However, Sokka stopped as something caught his eye.

"Katara over here," Sokka called out.

His sister quickly turned around and ran over to him to see what he was looking at. A trail of footprints were imprinted in the snow and by the looks of them, they were Appa's. Katara ran forward following the trail, praying to the spirits that Appa wasn't too far away.

Sokka began to run after her, "Wait up, just slow down a minute!"

Katara didn't listen though. She ran for another minute before she spotted Appa walking away from her in the distance and she stopped, breathing heavily.

"Finally," Sokka breathed as he caught up to her, spotting the bison in the distance, "See there he is. No big deal."

Once again though, Katara didn't seem to hear him, "Aang?" she said softly, sounding as if she couldn't believe what she was seeing. Before Sokka could stop her, she ran forward again, calling out Aang's name over and over desperately.

Sokka's eyes widened, finally figuring out what Katara had found out when they saw the empty stable. The young warrior quickly followed her towards the bison and to his relief, he saw Appa stop when his sister reached him.

Katara slowly walked around to Appa's head were she found Aang sitting, staring at his lap.

She looked up at him, "What were you doing?" she demanded.

Aang looked away from her ashamed and Katara's breath hitched as she realized that her suspicions were right.

"Were you trying to leave us!" Katara accused, raising her voice in disbelief.