A/N: I lied. Plain and simple. This did not take the amount of time I thought it would. SO freaking sorry.

Now that that's out of the way...

FINALLY! I FINISHED! WOOHOO! HAPPY!

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The Order arrived at around 1 in the afternoon, when everyone in Camp Avatar was fast asleep. Afternoon naps were the norm with the gAang,

Master Piandao, Master Pakku, and King Bumi began to set up camp not far from the Avatar's group while Iroh searched for Zuko. He was worried, as any good uncle should be, about welfare, or if his nephew even found the Avatar's group, or...

This train of thought stopped abruptly when he saw his nephew.

He was lying still on a sleeping mat. Bandages were wrapped around his both his arms, from his wrist to the elbow, and his right arm had another bandage near the shoulder. More were wrapped around his midsection, and more still were wrapped around a splinted leg. His left knee was wrapped as well, and some sort of orangey cloth was wrapped around his head.

"ZUKO!" Iroh yelled racing over to the mat.

Zuko sat up, awoken by the panicked yell. Wincing a little, he raised his arms to firebend before he recognized Iroh.

"Uncle!"

Iroh knelt and swept his nephew into a hug, and Zuko could feel the world go back to normal. Or at leasst as close to normal as he would ever get.

"...So we got out of the cave and escaped on Appa," Sokka finished the tale, told over the course of three hours. He did enjoy telling a good story, even if others didn't appreciate it.

"...Flesh-eating slugflowers?" asked Piandao.

"And a magical, flying moon-cow?" asked Iroh.

"That didn't make any sense," said Pakku.

"It made perfect sense!" Bumi cackled.

Toph whacked Sokka, "Now can we tell them what really happened?"

"Fine," muttered Sokka.

Katara told the story, with Toph giving details at certain points.

"We stopped in the woods one evening, and an old woman came out and told us that we shouldn't be in the woods, and that we should go into town. So we listened to her. She seemed nice..."

Time passed. The sun was setting when she reached the end.

"So Toph stays to free the villagers, and they find out Toph was an earthbender. They were pretty much okay with it, and they showed her where Zuko was. He was...very badly injured through bloodbending and regular waterbending. When I got there I healed him with waterbending and bloodbending-"

"Wha'chu talking' 'bout, foo?" Bumi interuppted, talking in a gangster accent.

"Well, um, you see..." Katara was having a hard time telling the truth while still being sensitive to Iroh's feelings.

Toph made it easier, "Hama twisted his veins around. Tied them in knots. Katara had to bloodbend them back to normal."

Iroh looked away. How could he not have been there for his nephew?

"Well, after he was healed, someone recognized Aang. As usual," continued Toph, "And then the villagers attacked, but the Order held them off long enough for us to get away on Appa."

It was quiet. Then Iroh spoke, "Thank, you, Miss Katara, for saving my nephew."

Katara smiled, "You're welcome."

The waves silently washed the shore as the sun set.

It's been two weeks since the invasion. It was close, but with Piandao, Bumi, Pakku, and Iroh(before the eclipse) fighting, and Zuko able to show us where Firelord Ozai was hiding, Aang did it. Ozai is dead. Zuko took the throne. Azula is still at large and will no doubt cause problems, but with a worldwide search, I don't think she'll get far. It's over. We won.

After the invasion, our group split up. We all had duties.

Aang is restoring the Air Temples, with the help of the Dai Li, the Order of the White Lotus, and pretty much anyone who needed a job. It was paid for by the Fire Nation, Water Tribes, and Earth Kingdom alike. He still feels guilty about killing the Loser Lord, but he knows it was for the best.

Katara returned to the South Pole to teach the skills she learned from Hama to the newest waterbenders in the Southern Tribe. However, she still refuses to teach the Northern techniques, in hope that a new Southern waterbending tradition will be born or something. Hopefully she'll be done soon and can get back to her precious Aang. From what I've heard, she's been acting even more bossy than usual.

Sokka and Suki live together on Kyoshi island. Yeah, I'd rather not get into the details on that.

Zuko is running the Fire Nation, rebuilding it piece by piece. Lots of damage was sustained to the Capitol, courtesy of us, so now he has to clean up the mess and deal with all the hate that's been created over the years. The dude has Iroh in his side, though, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Yeah, I just referred to one of the most important people in the world as, 'dude.' That's how great I am.

Me? Well, I guess I have to go back to see my parents eventually, but in case they decide to lock me up again, I'm seeing the world. Aang let me borrow Appa, though I don't think I mentioned that it was a six month trip. Yeah, he expected to have his bison back about a week and a half ago.

But now I'm at the one site I will never forget. It's a tombstone. Just a wordless, plain gray tombstone, with nothing but a name.

ばて

Bhat.

While on the run, Aang taught me how to write in the earth. I can put any word into any rock I want.

So that's what I'm going to do.

A year later, a tombstone stands in the forest. All that's written on it are three words.

A name.

ばて

Bhat.

Two words.

ありがとう

Thank you.

A/N Holy crapmuffins. It's done. I have done it. I ACTUALLY COMPLETED IT.

My favourite character to write is definitely Bumi, though it's hard to find places to put him. He's so crazy.

Another note: The characters I used in the last part are Japanese. ありがとう(Ar-ee-ga-to-oo(I think.)) means arigatou, or thank you. ばて(Bhat)directly translates to bate(Bah-tay). It was the closest I could get. I also recently discovered that the closest word to bate in Japanese is batei(Bah-tay-ee), which means, quite literally, Batman. I think that's awesome.