Master of the Pielements [open]

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

The Person: Aang, the Avatar, master of all four elements, truly an individual to be reckoned with.

The Place: The Lounge. Right now, he was in the kitchen practicing his Airbending via the highly deadly art of--

Making fruit pies. What? It took some very precise Airbending to get the fruit fluff all fluffy on top. Good practice.

And eating the fruits of his labor was, uh...exercise for his jaw, yeah. And stomach.

Okay, so he was just hankering for cake after all that time with GLaDoS. It was still good Airbending practice, though.

And he brought the rest out to be served to whoever had a hankering for confectioneries.

"Hey, do you want a piece of fruit pie?"

Come and let me bake you the pie of my people.

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[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

A sigh.

"Okay. Well first of all, you need to know what I am. I'm what's called the Avatar, the spirit of my world in human form. I've lived more than a thousand lives, dying and being reborn into a different nation each time."

Got that?

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"Oh." That was a bombshell. She wondered if- no, questions could wait for later. "Alright."

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"I found out I was Avatar when I was young. They wanted me to start training right away and wanted me to leave the monk who had raised me," Aang explained.

"So I ran away, and got caught in a storm, and me and my flying bison nearly drowned but on reflex, I froze us in ice. I went a hundred years frozen in the iceburg, and eventually was freed by Katara and Sokka--you've probably seen them around the ship."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes, I've fought with Katara- I mean alongside." She quickly corrected.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

He smiled at that.

"One of the best things that ever happened to me was being found by them, being woken up from my sleep," he said, "but a hundred years had passed. I figured everyone I had known was gone or really old, but that my people--"

His voice broke.

"I thought that my people themselves would be still there. But what the monks had wanted me to train early for was the threat of the Fire Nation. The Fire Nation saw me as a threat."

How did he put genocide into words?

"There weren't any Airbenders left. The Fire Nation killed my people, hoping they were killing me as they did it. All of them."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

Sofia felt a chill go through her body. "Oh, oh Aang, I am so sorry." She put her hand on his shoulder, though she knew she couldn't do anything to take away his pain.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

He looked over at her, his expression half-happy, half-rueful.

"So to see somebody else Airbend..."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"You thought you weren't the only Airbender." She rubbed his back. "I know you have been here longer, so maybe you know more, but Stacy did say she brought our friends and family. My best friend was taken before she died, and others have their friends and family. There might be some of your people who are still in the pods."

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"Maybe," he said, "but that's not a whole people."

He refused to mope, though. Refused.

"I know you're not an Airbender, but I'm glad I met you, because I think--I think you may as well be one."

The similarities were...obvious. He could tell her compassion was genuine, her gentleness was obvious.

"Would you like to learn Airbending techniques sometime? Some of them you might know know--Airbenders have to create their own technique to become a master, so a lot of techniques that are passed around are original."

A pause.

"And I don't want them to be lost when I'm gone someday."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

If her heart could actually grow, she would swear it was doing so now. Sofia couldn't keep the smile, or the blush, from her face. "I would be honored."

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"Great!" he clapped his hands together. "We can start whenever you're ready."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"Give me some time to finish digesting your pie. It was very good, thank you for sharing." A brief pause. "There is someone else here who can airbend. My friend, Ava."

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"Really?! Do you think she'd want to learn too?"

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure she would!" And even if she didn't, Sofia would convince her.

[jesushasayak.livejournal.com]

"I'll have to find a good space to practice. There's always the Sensoriums, but it'd be nice if we could have a space in the city somewhere, too..."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"I don't know where we could practice. Ava might. I'm sure we can find a place."