Spirits
Zuko stared at the letter for the longest time. Everyone watching as he reread it over and over. Sokka was across from him, the southern warrior was to scared to touch him, or read the letter himself.
"I'm going to go get Aang." Katara said, standing from her seat. "I saw him down by the docks." Suki said, and Katara gave her a small nod before leaving, shutting the door silently behind her, as if it never opened.
The room fell back into silence, no one dared to speak or ask questions. Zuko was clearly still trying to process whatever it is the letter was, and it seemed important. Toph tapped her feet lightly on the blanket below her. She hated the South Pole, absolutely loathed it.
She couldn't see anything outside of the village. Sokka made some stone paths, and even then anything off the paths were complete mysteries to her. Tophs feet were rough and tough, but they were not used to how cold the south is. She hated having to wear shoes.
Her tapping stopped when Suki put a hand on her knee, a silent way of telling her to quit whatever it was she was doing. She heard the paper crumble and then get set down, she heard Zuko sigh and tap the table next to him once.
"Its my dad." He said, his eyes closed tight. Sokka was quick to get next to him, and put a hand on his shoulder. "Azula-she must've got out of the institution. She got him and left."
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Katara cursed under her breath as she walked through the snow. Aang was not at the docks. There was a path that seemed never ending she was following, her hand swishing back and forth as she moved the snow out of her way.
Adjusting her hood, she squinted her eyes and stared at the trail Aang left. She took a sharp turn, and saw a cave ahead, her mind started racing. Why didn't he just turn back? She started walking faster and Katara was certain that if she hadn't grown up here her legs would probably be completely numb.
The light glow in the cave was calling to her, her body ached to feel the warmth of the fire he lit. The waterbender jersey her arm out one last time, clearing the snow ahead. She saw Aang in front of the fire, in a meditation pose, why wouldn't he tell them? It must've been important.
Katara put her hood down and slipped the gloves off, setting them by the fire. The woman cringed when she sat on the cold stone, exhaling slowly. She started to rub her hands together quickly before putting them up to the fire. Katara laid her head onto Aangs shoulder, moving her legs to her chest and wrapping her arms around them she closed her eyes.
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Astrid rested her hands on Hiccups shoulders, digging her fingers lightly into them. He was staring at his book of dragons intensely, mumbling to himself. His eyes skimmed over the pages and be kept flipping through, this was probably his third time rereading it today.
"You okay, babe?" Astrid asked, and his head shot up, wiping some of the strands of his hair out the way of his eyes he hummed, asking her to repeat herself. The blonde beauty sighed and walked next to him, grabbing the book.
"What are you so worried about?" She questioned, and Hiccup put his arm out, trying to get the book back. "I need to find out what happened." He said, standing up and grabbing the book from her.
"We both know it wasn't a dragon." Hiccup scoffed and shook his head at her. Desperately trying to find the page he left off on. "In Thors name Hiccup! The moon is out!" She exclaimed, crossing her arms over her chest. Hiccup paused and looked back up at her.
"I'm sorry, Ast." He started, but her glare was still there, digging into him. "It could be a type we dont know about yet! We've discovered so many in the past few years I'm sure there's more." The viking before him stood silently, her brows furrowed in thought.
After a moment her eyes softened and her hand was back on his shoulder. "We'll look more tomorrow, just promise you'll get to bed?" Hiccup smiled and nodded, giving her a kiss on the cheek before grabbing the book and walking over to the shelf.
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"Out of all the places, this village?" Azula thought aloud as she sparked a fire. Ozai sat across from her silently, staring into the flame. "They don't use their dragons to spark fear into their enemies. They use it the way that Earth King uses his bear." Disgust rolled off the princesses tongue as she spoke, staring down onto Berk.
"Then we should keep moving." Ozai spoke up, looking to his daughter. She nodded in agreement. "In the stories there were people that hunted them, but they're clueless, we need to find someone that knows how to control them. Not someone who has them for fun."
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The igloo door shot open, revealing the avatar and the waterbending master behind it. Both their cheeks were bright red from the temperature outside, Aang was rubbing his hands together to get some semblance of warmth.
"Zuko! Azula and Ozai are gone!" Aang warned, breathing heavily. Everyone in the room stared up at the man, their expressions shows that this was known information. "I got a letter, I've ordered over half the guards to go out looking for them. I have to leave tonight."
Katara shook her head and took a few steps forwards, "You dont understand Zuko, theyre not here." Everyone went silent, except for Toph who let out a laugh. "You mean their dead? Be more specific sugar queen." Katara gave the earthbender a small smack on the arm, since she wouldn't have seen the deep glare.
"On my way back from the docks a spirit called for me, it lead me to a cave and it took me to the spirit world." Aang started, "Theres a spirit that took them somewhere, and we need to stop them before they destroy the balance there as well."
"What do you mean somewhere?" Suki asked with a hand on her hip. Aang quickly licked his lips "A place with dragons." He answered and Sokka scoffed. "We have dragons, bud."
"No! I mean millions of them! Different kinds too!" Zukos eye widened and he shook his head quickly. "I know what you're talking about." He said quietly, which sparked everyone's attention.
"My mom used to read Azula and I a story, there was a place with so many dragons. There were sky dragons and water dragons, dragons that could breathe fire and dragons that had spikes in their tail, some could go invisible, even a few that are as fast as Aang." The Fire Lord explained, "Azula always said they were army material."
"We need to stop them." Sokka nodded to his sisters statement "Aang how do we get to that spirit?"