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Unusual Circumstances	By : voyager Category: Avatar - The Last Airbender > Slash - Male/Male > Aang/Zuko Views: 5136 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 14
Aang Finds an Unusual Source of Wisdom
(Set During 'Sozin's Comet Pt.3')
Aang woke, feeling more than a little bit groggy. The last thing he could recall was falling asleep next to Zuko on the porch. He had felt so safe; the fire bender's form gave off warmth, greater than that of a normal person, so even with the cool air coming off the water; there had been no need for a blanket.
'Or perhaps,' Aang thought, 'It was the warm feelings the two have them had begun to develop for one another, which had contributed to that.' Now that safety was gone, as Aang looked around and realized he wasn't on the porch any more.
In fact, Aang was pretty sure he wasn't even on Ember Island, any more! That island had had rocky cliffs and forested hills, surrounded by white sand beaches. This place seemed more like a jungle. The eerie thing was, Aang had never heard of a jungle that was absolutely silent. He could hear no birds, no animals in the underbrush, not even the buzzing of insects.
"Where are we, Momo?" Aang asked, aloud, "Maybe we're in the spirit world. "But, no," he said to his pet, "you can still see and hear me." Aang then gathered his energies, and released a powerful blast of wind; "Besides, my bending works, as well."
Momo chirped, Aang answered him; I know you can't talk; it's just that pretending to hear you speak helps me to think. Momo chirruped again, "I am going to pretend I didn't pretend to hear you say that!" Aang said and made as if to walk away with his nose pointed upward at an insulted angle.
Aang made his way to the top of a tall hill, and looked around, to get his bearings. He was surprised to see that he was on an island; and what was even more surprising, the whole island seemed to be moving! Aang and Momo could still see the coast of the Fire-nation, but, it was gradually getting smaller as they moved farther away. 'This doesn't make any sense,' thought Aang; 'How can an island be moving?'
Aang rushed back down the hill to the water's edge and dove in; as the bubbles cleared he could make out the outline of enormous feet paddling in the surf below the 'island'. He came to the surface for air, and spotted Momo, now sitting on a branch hanging over the water. "It's amazing, Momo, it's the biggest animal I've ever seen! I've got to swim around and try to find its head." With a burst of water-bending, Aang shot himself around of the foremost part of the…whatever this thing was.
Soon, Aang found himself staring into an enormous and intimidating pair of yellow eyes, which strangely, reminded him of Zuko. 'I hope he's alright', Aang thought to himself. Abruptly, Aang found himself being pushed to the surface on a column of water rising on top of one of the titanic creature's gigantic forelimbs. "Welcome, Avatar Aang, I've been waiting a long time for your arrival," the gigantic creature, which Aang now recognized as a lion turtle, from parchments he'd seen in Won-shi-tong's library, seemed to say.
Aang did a double-take, "Did, you just…speak," he asked the creature. Again the softly rumbling voice spoke, directly into Aang's mind, it seemed; "I am the keeper of the knowledge of antiquity, I have seen all of the ages of your kind." Aang seemed to consider this, and then said, "If that's true, then you know of the hundred years of war." "Yes," the lion-turtle rumbled, sadly; "I also know that you have lost your connection to the energy of the universe."
"Know that you have not permanently lost that connection, you've just forgotten how to find the path." Aang was stunned to hear this, and asked, "How am I to find it again?"
"How did you find it the first time, Avatar Aang?" The lion-turtle asked. Aang replied, somewhat hesitantly, "Guru Patik told me that I had to let go of my worldly connections; to allow my spirit to be free, in order to enter the avatar state." "Very good, you are wise for one so young," the lion turtle telepathically communicated. "However, since you are not looking to discover that mystery; but, to rediscover it, you must find a different path."
Aang asked, "What is this other path, how will I know it?" "You already know it; you just may not realize it." Aang found himself completely baffled, at this point. "What does that mean?" he wanted to know. The lion-turtle replied, "Now, you must discover what your strongest connection to the world is, in order to properly serve the world."
Aang was uncertain what that meant, "How am I to know what that is?" "From what, or whom, do you draw solace and strength?"The lion-turtle turtle asked into his mind. Aang's thoughts turned to Katara, Sokka, and Toph and how much they had gone through over the last year. They were his family, and had been a source of great strength, and joy, to Aang. But now, there was one more face that came to his mind unbidden, and it was more prominent than the others. It was a face that Aang had once feared in his most terrifying nightmares, and which he now saw in his most intimate dreams; "Zuko," Aang whispered. "Yes," the lion-turtle softly rumbled into Aang's mind. "He is your source of inspiration and strength, just as you are his, focus on your affection for him; and his for you and you will always find strength."
"Will that be enough to defeat Ozai?" Aang asked the lion-turtle. The lion turtle touched Aang's forehead with a single massive claw, and Aang heard it rumble, "If your spirit is strong enough, young Avatar, you can achieve anything. The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. In the era before the avatar, we bent not the elements, but the energy inside us. But only the most indomitable spirit can force Ozai's black spirit to yield to purified light." As Aang listened to the lion-turtle, he saw images from the distant past; he saw people using the technique of spirit bending, and understood what he had to do.
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