Chapter 37.6- And so the Dragons Danced
Added 2024-12-25 20:00:37 +0000 UTCIt had peeved her back when she had felt like she competed against him to learn waterbending but now that she was a master in her own right and she could see just how useful his talents were. They needed to defeat the Fire Nation as quickly as possible, and the key to that was making sure the Avatar was ready to fight the Fire Lord and bring balance. To do that, he needed to know all elements. They didn’t have the decades that Aang said it had taken Roku and Kyoshi. They didn’t even have a tenth of the time, and they needed him to be just as strong as the other Avatars had been.
It was a lot to ask, She thought. She drew water from the very air, coalescing it into a bubble tea she boiled with an application of her will to remove whatever impurities might exist before cooling it down again and floating it over towards Aang’s mouth. He looked up at her in thanks and opened up for the water to float in. The entire procedure had taken her a minute and then some, she thought with a smile. Progress. Boiling water had been hard when Sokka had first theorized it but now it was getting easier and easier.
Maybe she’d even be able to use it in combat at some point, she thought.
“Have you heard from Bato and Sokka today?” He asked her after chewing on a biscuit that she passed him.
“Still the same- just talk about how we need more allies to join us to assault the capital but nothing about how to actually go about getting anyone other than the Water Tribes to pledge support.”
“And anything about the Fire Nation General?” While the Fire Nation had dozens of Generals, there was only one that the world had come to refer to as the General and nothing else.
“Last we heard, he was off assaulting Ba Sing Se” She said, and she saw the way he puffed up to speak.
“Yes, I agree with you that we should be helping them, but this is more important Aang. We could put an end to the war in one swoop”
“I still can’t fire bend Katara”, he sounded so tired when he spoke.
“Ending the war is still far away. But these are real people we could be helping right now” He said, and not for the first time she didn’t have a reply to what he said.
