Avatar The Last Airbender Fan Fiction ❯ Duty Versus Love ❯ Ammy's Secret ( Chapter 33 )
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By: Light-Eco-Sage 
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Non Anime: Avatar The Last Airbender Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai / Fantasy / Martial Arts / Romance / Supernatural / Angst | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 02.02.2013 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 730 | Status: Work In Progress
Avatar is owned by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, not me!
Non Anime: Avatar The Last Airbender Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Hentai / Fantasy / Martial Arts / Romance / Supernatural / Angst | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 02.02.2013 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.6K | Visits: 730 | Status: Work In Progress
Chapter XIIIL: Ammy’s Secret
It was a very late afternoon when the Avatar’s family arrived on Kyoshi Island where they would be having a reunion with all their old friends, many of them that they hadn’t seen in years.
It had been many years, but the residents of Kyoshi Island never quite knew what to make of the dozens of young Sky Bison descending from the sky. They were all familiar with Appa, of course, but seeing one gigantic flying Bison was nothing like seeing dozens.
Kya, Tenzin, and Neela rode with their parents on Appa’s back, but the other children had been bound to the second generation for some time, and each of Aang’s other children rode on their own Bison. The only exception was Ammy, who rode with Sho, who offered her his blanket to keep warm.
“Are you sure you’re warm enough?” Sho asked with concern.
Ammy laughed softly. “You don’t have to worry so much. It’s not like I’m the one being exerted.”
“You’re right… you’re right… I’m sorry.” Sho said, his gaze dropping.
“Don’t be sorry.” Ammy said. “I know you only are this protective because you care about me… more than any of our siblings.”
Sho did not reply.
On Appa’s back, Aang and Katara’s youngest was getting impatient. “Daddy!” She called from her mother’s lap to where her father sat steering Appa. “Are we there yet?”
Before Aang could respond to his daughter’s question, Tenzin snorted. “We haven’t landed yet, have we?”
“Ten!” Katara scolded, sighing heavily. Tenzin was their second son, but completely different from Anil. Anil had inherited his father’s laid-back personality, but Tenzin seemed to have his mother’s bull-headed, stubborn personality. Tenzin was their stereotypical difficult teenager. It was enough to drive his parents mad sometimes.
“Tenzin, be nice to your sister.” Aang scolded from the front, and then turned to smile at his daughter. “We’re almost there now.”
“Will Uncle Sokka and Aunt Suki be there?” Neela asked, looking up at her mother.
“Yes, they will.” Katara answered. “Aunt Toph, Uncle Zuko, Aunt Mai, Michiko, and Kazuki will be there too.”
“Yay!” Neela said, clapping her hands happily.
“Wait…” The family glanced around and saw another Sky Bison moving closer to them, steering the Bison was Aang’s oldest son: Anil. “Did you say that Michiko will be there?”
“She will.” Katara said, giving her eldest son quite a glare. “You WILL behave yourself this time, won’t you?”
“It wasn’t my fault!” Anil protested sharply. The last time he and Michiko got together was for her fifteenth birthday, which was when she became the legal age to drink in the Earth Kingdom. She demanded that, for his present, Anil take her out drinking, which he did to his deepest regret.
He learned that night that he could not hold his liquor. The whole drunken episode ended with Anil very nearly getting married. He had drunkenly proposed to some random girl, who was only too delighted to accept the Avatar’s son’s proposal. Thankfully, the Earth Kingdom required the consent of the parents to legalize a marriage, and Aang was able to put his foot down and drag his drunken son away. Michiko had spent the whole time laughing at him, not doing a thing to help him, and just preferring to sit back and watch the show.
The event became the thing of palace gossip for months.
“I remember that.” Tenzin piped up. “That was probably the first time I ever saw Dad really mad at you. He forced you to clean up after the Bison for a month.”
Anil blushed, his mind traveling back to that horrible punishment. All and all, he preferred the hangover that he had the next day.
“Ah. Good news.” Aang said, grinning. “Kyoshi Island is just up ahead!” Kya instantly crawled up to the front of the saddle behind her father, gazing at the island that was still some distance away.
“That was the birthplace of Avatar Kyoshi, right?” Kya asked.
“Yes, it was.” Aang said. “She also lived most of her life here. Some of her descendants still live here.”
“You mean there are more people who are related to Avatars?” Kya asked.
“Of course.” Aang said. “In fact, if you go back far enough in anyone’s family tree, they will probably be related to an Avatar in some way. Uncle Zuko’s great-grandfather was an Avatar, you know.”
Within minutes, the group of Sky Bison landed on the outskirts of Kyoshi Village. Back when they traveled with just Appa, Aang had always landed in the town square, but there was simply not enough room for half-a-dozen Bison to land there.
As soon as Aang jumped down from Appa’s head, a large boulder suddenly flew at him with the intent of striking him. Without hesitation, Aang thrust out his fists and crushed the boulder to dust with a single, powerful blow. Aang let the dust drop to the ground and he brushed off his hands. “Hello to you too, Toph.”
“Just keeping you on your toes, Twinkletoes.” Toph laughed as she walked up to the family, with her husband walking just behind her.
“Aunt Toph! Uncle Duke!” Neela said happily. The Duke rolled his eyes. He had given up the hope a long time ago that Aang’s younger offspring would ever call him “The Duke”.
As Aang and The Duke greeted each other, Michiko followed close behind, choosing to greet her cousin Anil first. “Hey there, Lover Boy!” She laughed happily.
“Don’t call me that.” Anil said half-heartedly.
“What’s it to you, Lover Boy? You left that poor girl quite broken hearted, you know.”
“I didn’t even know her name!” Anil protested.
While Michiko gave Anil a friendly punch of the shoulder, which she had learned from her Earthbending teacher, Toph; Sokka, Suki, Zuko, Mai, and Kazuki came walking up the lane towards the group, waving happily.
Sho picked up Ammy in his arms and gently Airbended themselves down to the ground. When he set her down, Ammy kissed him on the cheek. “Thank you.”
“No problem.” Sho said hastily.
Ammy began to walk forward to greet Toph and The Duke when a suddenly feeling of light-headedness swept over her. She stumbled slightly, her hand resting on her temple.
Toph noticed Ammy’s stumble. “Ammy, are you all right?” She asked, and the group turned their attention to the young girl, while Aang rushed to her side.
“I don’t…” Ammy trailed off, and suddenly swooned.
“Ammy!” Aang, Sho, and Anil all rushed forward to catch her, but Aang was the closest and caught her first. However, the second that Aang touched her, he also swooned.
“Don’t touch them!” Katara screamed, but it was too late. Sho had caught Ammy and Anil caught his father. However, neither of them seemed to be effected by whatever was affecting their sibling and father.
“What’s going on?” Toph asked with concern.
“They’re…” Katara trailed off, confused. But then the answer came to her when her husband’s tattoos began to glow. “Aang’s in the Spirit World!”
“Did Aang accidentally pull her into the Spirit World?” Sokka asked.
“Or… was it the other way around?” Katara wondered.
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Aang was more than used to the feeling of being pulled into the Spirit World. The only difference was that there was rarely an instance when he was pulled there. In fact, it had only happened twice in his life: when Hei Bai pulled him there on his first trip to the Spirit World, and when Avatar Roku had pulled him there to speak about Sozin’s Comet. Every other time he had gone in his life had been of his own free will. This time was not of his free will.
When he reached the Spirit World, Aang was shocked to find that Ammy was there with him, looking in much better health than she did in the physical world.
Ammy seemed to be just as shocked at her father’s appearance as he was by hers. “What are you doing here?” They both demanded each other at the same time.
Ammy immediately dropped her head. “What’s going on here? You’re not a vision.”
“Of course I’m not.” Aang said. “Ammy, what are you doing in the Spirit World?”
Ammy glanced around herself. “So this is the Spirit World?” She shrugged. “I’ve always been able to come here… ever since I was a little girl. Most of the time, I’m pulled here to have visions, but sometimes I just wander around. There are others here who protect me. This is a very unusual place. I don’t ever feel sick when I come here.”
“But… you can’t have been coming here for years!” Aang said. “Only the Avatar can travel back and forth without penalty. All others have to pay a toll before they are able to cross over.” Aang now knew the heavy price at the Spirits demanded for ordinary mortals to cross over into their realm. General Iroh had finally revealed to Aang what he had lost in order to gain access to the Spirit World. Iroh had told him that the Spirits demanded his birthright, but Iroh was desperate for the chance to find his son and gave away his right to the Fire Nation throne without a thought. But Iroh had been unable to find his son, and his brother Ozai had taken over the Fire Nation in his absence.
Iroh had said that he regretted it, for he felt that he could have helped end the war if he had become the Firelord instead of his younger brother.
Aang could not understand how Ammy could make so many trips. Even a single trip had cost Iroh his birthright. If Ammy made as many trips as she had said, then she should have lost her life by now.
“On your trips here… have the Spirits ever asked for you to pay some sort of toll?”
Ammy shook her head. “Never.”
Aang contemplated this for several moments before he realized what had happened. The Spirit Water. It seemed that Ammy’s ability to glow was not the only side-effect that she had. Being the daughter of the Avatar and having Avatar-made Spirit Water used on her seemed to have given her the ability that was rarer and more precious than Airbending: she shared her father’s ability to travel back and forth from the Spirit World without paying a toll.
“Ammy, what happens when you come here?”
“Most of the time, I have visions. The past, present… and maybe the future.” Ammy admitted.
“And why haven’t you told me about this before?”
“Because I was scared.” Ammy said. “Some of my brothers and sisters know, and they are scared of me. Only Anil and Sho are friendly with me. If they knew what I had seen in their futures…” She looked up at her father. “Dad, I’m scared. Sometimes the visions show me terrible things. I can’t help feeling every time I see these visions that something is going to tear our family apart. I just don’t want them to come true, so I try to ignore them.”
“Ammy, let me tell you a little secret about the future.” Aang said. “Those scary things that you see happening in the future… they don’t have to come true.”
“They don’t?”
“No. The future is not written in stone, and the greatest ability that humankind shares is the ability to influence their own destiny. Did you know that when I was twelve years old, I got my fortune told? Aunt Wu correctly predicted that I would be involved in a battle that would determine the fate of the entire world, but there was one part of her prediction that did not come true.”
“What?”
“She predicted that there was no love in my future.” Aang said. “But I was able to take charge of my own destiny and find love for myself, and now I have a loving wife and the best children I could ever ask for. It’s okay to be nervous about the future, but don’t let the fear overwhelm you. The only real way the future can hurt you is making you worry about it.”
“So… nothing will happen between you and Mom?” Ammy asked.
“No.” Aang said. “Katara and I love each other very much, and nothing will come between us. Now… let’s get out of here before we both attract some unwanted attention.” Aang offered her his hand. Ammy took it without complaint and he pulled them both out of the Spirit World.
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When Aang awoke, he found himself in his room in his Kyoshi Island house, with Katara sitting on the bed next to him, watching him with concern.
“Welcome back.” She said.
“Sorry for leaving.” Aang said, sitting up. “It’s been a long time since I took an unplanned trip to the Spirit World.” He looked around. “Is Ammy all right?”
“She’s fine.” Katara said. “Anil and Sho are with her now. Aang… what happened?”
The Avatar sighed and quickly explained what he had discovered about Ammy’s powers while in the Spirit World.
Katara stared at her husband in shock as he finished explaining his theory. “Is that even possible?” She asked, shocked.
“It’s not supposed to be possible.” Aang said. “But Spirit Water is unpredictable; you know that as much as any Waterbender.”
“I know.” Katara said. “But it’s kind of unnerving to think that you were able to pass on a trait to your daughter that only the Avatar should be able to do. Do you think it’s possible for other people to learn some of the traits that only the Avatar can learn?”
“You mean like being able to Bend more than one element?” Aang questioned. “No, it’s impossible. That ability comes from being the reincarnation of the Planet’s Spirit, and that is something that could never be passed on through the Avatar’s offspring.”
“She… she said that she could see the future as well.” Katara said. “And she was worried about us? What did she say?”
“She didn’t say what she saw.” Aang replied. “But it was probably just a false vision. Nothing will ever be able to tear us apart. We love each other too much.”
“Right.” Katara agreed, kissing him. “I love you so much.”
“I love you too.”
It was a very late afternoon when the Avatar’s family arrived on Kyoshi Island where they would be having a reunion with all their old friends, many of them that they hadn’t seen in years.
It had been many years, but the residents of Kyoshi Island never quite knew what to make of the dozens of young Sky Bison descending from the sky. They were all familiar with Appa, of course, but seeing one gigantic flying Bison was nothing like seeing dozens.
Kya, Tenzin, and Neela rode with their parents on Appa’s back, but the other children had been bound to the second generation for some time, and each of Aang’s other children rode on their own Bison. The only exception was Ammy, who rode with Sho, who offered her his blanket to keep warm.
“Are you sure you’re warm enough?” Sho asked with concern.
Ammy laughed softly. “You don’t have to worry so much. It’s not like I’m the one being exerted.”
“You’re right… you’re right… I’m sorry.” Sho said, his gaze dropping.
“Don’t be sorry.” Ammy said. “I know you only are this protective because you care about me… more than any of our siblings.”
Sho did not reply.
On Appa’s back, Aang and Katara’s youngest was getting impatient. “Daddy!” She called from her mother’s lap to where her father sat steering Appa. “Are we there yet?”
Before Aang could respond to his daughter’s question, Tenzin snorted. “We haven’t landed yet, have we?”
“Ten!” Katara scolded, sighing heavily. Tenzin was their second son, but completely different from Anil. Anil had inherited his father’s laid-back personality, but Tenzin seemed to have his mother’s bull-headed, stubborn personality. Tenzin was their stereotypical difficult teenager. It was enough to drive his parents mad sometimes.
“Tenzin, be nice to your sister.” Aang scolded from the front, and then turned to smile at his daughter. “We’re almost there now.”
“Will Uncle Sokka and Aunt Suki be there?” Neela asked, looking up at her mother.
“Yes, they will.” Katara answered. “Aunt Toph, Uncle Zuko, Aunt Mai, Michiko, and Kazuki will be there too.”
“Yay!” Neela said, clapping her hands happily.
“Wait…” The family glanced around and saw another Sky Bison moving closer to them, steering the Bison was Aang’s oldest son: Anil. “Did you say that Michiko will be there?”
“She will.” Katara said, giving her eldest son quite a glare. “You WILL behave yourself this time, won’t you?”
“It wasn’t my fault!” Anil protested sharply. The last time he and Michiko got together was for her fifteenth birthday, which was when she became the legal age to drink in the Earth Kingdom. She demanded that, for his present, Anil take her out drinking, which he did to his deepest regret.
He learned that night that he could not hold his liquor. The whole drunken episode ended with Anil very nearly getting married. He had drunkenly proposed to some random girl, who was only too delighted to accept the Avatar’s son’s proposal. Thankfully, the Earth Kingdom required the consent of the parents to legalize a marriage, and Aang was able to put his foot down and drag his drunken son away. Michiko had spent the whole time laughing at him, not doing a thing to help him, and just preferring to sit back and watch the show.
The event became the thing of palace gossip for months.
“I remember that.” Tenzin piped up. “That was probably the first time I ever saw Dad really mad at you. He forced you to clean up after the Bison for a month.”
Anil blushed, his mind traveling back to that horrible punishment. All and all, he preferred the hangover that he had the next day.
“Ah. Good news.” Aang said, grinning. “Kyoshi Island is just up ahead!” Kya instantly crawled up to the front of the saddle behind her father, gazing at the island that was still some distance away.
“That was the birthplace of Avatar Kyoshi, right?” Kya asked.
“Yes, it was.” Aang said. “She also lived most of her life here. Some of her descendants still live here.”
“You mean there are more people who are related to Avatars?” Kya asked.
“Of course.” Aang said. “In fact, if you go back far enough in anyone’s family tree, they will probably be related to an Avatar in some way. Uncle Zuko’s great-grandfather was an Avatar, you know.”
Within minutes, the group of Sky Bison landed on the outskirts of Kyoshi Village. Back when they traveled with just Appa, Aang had always landed in the town square, but there was simply not enough room for half-a-dozen Bison to land there.
As soon as Aang jumped down from Appa’s head, a large boulder suddenly flew at him with the intent of striking him. Without hesitation, Aang thrust out his fists and crushed the boulder to dust with a single, powerful blow. Aang let the dust drop to the ground and he brushed off his hands. “Hello to you too, Toph.”
“Just keeping you on your toes, Twinkletoes.” Toph laughed as she walked up to the family, with her husband walking just behind her.
“Aunt Toph! Uncle Duke!” Neela said happily. The Duke rolled his eyes. He had given up the hope a long time ago that Aang’s younger offspring would ever call him “The Duke”.
As Aang and The Duke greeted each other, Michiko followed close behind, choosing to greet her cousin Anil first. “Hey there, Lover Boy!” She laughed happily.
“Don’t call me that.” Anil said half-heartedly.
“What’s it to you, Lover Boy? You left that poor girl quite broken hearted, you know.”
“I didn’t even know her name!” Anil protested.
While Michiko gave Anil a friendly punch of the shoulder, which she had learned from her Earthbending teacher, Toph; Sokka, Suki, Zuko, Mai, and Kazuki came walking up the lane towards the group, waving happily.
Sho picked up Ammy in his arms and gently Airbended themselves down to the ground. When he set her down, Ammy kissed him on the cheek. “Thank you.”
“No problem.” Sho said hastily.
Ammy began to walk forward to greet Toph and The Duke when a suddenly feeling of light-headedness swept over her. She stumbled slightly, her hand resting on her temple.
Toph noticed Ammy’s stumble. “Ammy, are you all right?” She asked, and the group turned their attention to the young girl, while Aang rushed to her side.
“I don’t…” Ammy trailed off, and suddenly swooned.
“Ammy!” Aang, Sho, and Anil all rushed forward to catch her, but Aang was the closest and caught her first. However, the second that Aang touched her, he also swooned.
“Don’t touch them!” Katara screamed, but it was too late. Sho had caught Ammy and Anil caught his father. However, neither of them seemed to be effected by whatever was affecting their sibling and father.
“What’s going on?” Toph asked with concern.
“They’re…” Katara trailed off, confused. But then the answer came to her when her husband’s tattoos began to glow. “Aang’s in the Spirit World!”
“Did Aang accidentally pull her into the Spirit World?” Sokka asked.
“Or… was it the other way around?” Katara wondered.
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Aang was more than used to the feeling of being pulled into the Spirit World. The only difference was that there was rarely an instance when he was pulled there. In fact, it had only happened twice in his life: when Hei Bai pulled him there on his first trip to the Spirit World, and when Avatar Roku had pulled him there to speak about Sozin’s Comet. Every other time he had gone in his life had been of his own free will. This time was not of his free will.
When he reached the Spirit World, Aang was shocked to find that Ammy was there with him, looking in much better health than she did in the physical world.
Ammy seemed to be just as shocked at her father’s appearance as he was by hers. “What are you doing here?” They both demanded each other at the same time.
Ammy immediately dropped her head. “What’s going on here? You’re not a vision.”
“Of course I’m not.” Aang said. “Ammy, what are you doing in the Spirit World?”
Ammy glanced around herself. “So this is the Spirit World?” She shrugged. “I’ve always been able to come here… ever since I was a little girl. Most of the time, I’m pulled here to have visions, but sometimes I just wander around. There are others here who protect me. This is a very unusual place. I don’t ever feel sick when I come here.”
“But… you can’t have been coming here for years!” Aang said. “Only the Avatar can travel back and forth without penalty. All others have to pay a toll before they are able to cross over.” Aang now knew the heavy price at the Spirits demanded for ordinary mortals to cross over into their realm. General Iroh had finally revealed to Aang what he had lost in order to gain access to the Spirit World. Iroh had told him that the Spirits demanded his birthright, but Iroh was desperate for the chance to find his son and gave away his right to the Fire Nation throne without a thought. But Iroh had been unable to find his son, and his brother Ozai had taken over the Fire Nation in his absence.
Iroh had said that he regretted it, for he felt that he could have helped end the war if he had become the Firelord instead of his younger brother.
Aang could not understand how Ammy could make so many trips. Even a single trip had cost Iroh his birthright. If Ammy made as many trips as she had said, then she should have lost her life by now.
“On your trips here… have the Spirits ever asked for you to pay some sort of toll?”
Ammy shook her head. “Never.”
Aang contemplated this for several moments before he realized what had happened. The Spirit Water. It seemed that Ammy’s ability to glow was not the only side-effect that she had. Being the daughter of the Avatar and having Avatar-made Spirit Water used on her seemed to have given her the ability that was rarer and more precious than Airbending: she shared her father’s ability to travel back and forth from the Spirit World without paying a toll.
“Ammy, what happens when you come here?”
“Most of the time, I have visions. The past, present… and maybe the future.” Ammy admitted.
“And why haven’t you told me about this before?”
“Because I was scared.” Ammy said. “Some of my brothers and sisters know, and they are scared of me. Only Anil and Sho are friendly with me. If they knew what I had seen in their futures…” She looked up at her father. “Dad, I’m scared. Sometimes the visions show me terrible things. I can’t help feeling every time I see these visions that something is going to tear our family apart. I just don’t want them to come true, so I try to ignore them.”
“Ammy, let me tell you a little secret about the future.” Aang said. “Those scary things that you see happening in the future… they don’t have to come true.”
“They don’t?”
“No. The future is not written in stone, and the greatest ability that humankind shares is the ability to influence their own destiny. Did you know that when I was twelve years old, I got my fortune told? Aunt Wu correctly predicted that I would be involved in a battle that would determine the fate of the entire world, but there was one part of her prediction that did not come true.”
“What?”
“She predicted that there was no love in my future.” Aang said. “But I was able to take charge of my own destiny and find love for myself, and now I have a loving wife and the best children I could ever ask for. It’s okay to be nervous about the future, but don’t let the fear overwhelm you. The only real way the future can hurt you is making you worry about it.”
“So… nothing will happen between you and Mom?” Ammy asked.
“No.” Aang said. “Katara and I love each other very much, and nothing will come between us. Now… let’s get out of here before we both attract some unwanted attention.” Aang offered her his hand. Ammy took it without complaint and he pulled them both out of the Spirit World.
~~~~~~~~~~
When Aang awoke, he found himself in his room in his Kyoshi Island house, with Katara sitting on the bed next to him, watching him with concern.
“Welcome back.” She said.
“Sorry for leaving.” Aang said, sitting up. “It’s been a long time since I took an unplanned trip to the Spirit World.” He looked around. “Is Ammy all right?”
“She’s fine.” Katara said. “Anil and Sho are with her now. Aang… what happened?”
The Avatar sighed and quickly explained what he had discovered about Ammy’s powers while in the Spirit World.
Katara stared at her husband in shock as he finished explaining his theory. “Is that even possible?” She asked, shocked.
“It’s not supposed to be possible.” Aang said. “But Spirit Water is unpredictable; you know that as much as any Waterbender.”
“I know.” Katara said. “But it’s kind of unnerving to think that you were able to pass on a trait to your daughter that only the Avatar should be able to do. Do you think it’s possible for other people to learn some of the traits that only the Avatar can learn?”
“You mean like being able to Bend more than one element?” Aang questioned. “No, it’s impossible. That ability comes from being the reincarnation of the Planet’s Spirit, and that is something that could never be passed on through the Avatar’s offspring.”
“She… she said that she could see the future as well.” Katara said. “And she was worried about us? What did she say?”
“She didn’t say what she saw.” Aang replied. “But it was probably just a false vision. Nothing will ever be able to tear us apart. We love each other too much.”
“Right.” Katara agreed, kissing him. “I love you so much.”
“I love you too.”