A/U [authors notes] : I don't OWN ANYTHING!

Fair warnings about this story…

1. There is very mature content. If you can't handle sexually explicit scenes, turn away now. [I give no other warning other than this one.]

*Looks around* Are they gone yet?

2. Okay…now…MAJOR and A LOT of character deaths. I mean come on, it's a story about Air Nomads…what would you expect?

If you don't want to read a tragedy, I suggest once more you go somewhere else.

3. VIOLENCE in this story. Quite a lot of it too.

4. Pairings! Mostly OC's. Slight Kataang and Maiko fluff.

*Peeks around*

Okay, those that are still here, enjoy. I present to you the story of Aang's parents…

Quick note:
If you see this: * , it simply means to represent time. It can mean a timeskip or that something is happening elsewhere at the same time. Mostly, it is safe to assume that it's a small timeskip gesture. If you see 3 *** it means the story switched from centuries past to the present time with the Gaang. Though once I post the other chapters it should start to flow in an obvious pattern.

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Fire Lord Zuko was reading more of the old scrolls in his study. His great-grandfather Sozin's diary was intriguing to read, as he discovered his own origins when his uncle sent him to the underground library. He was a descendant of Avatar Roku on his mother's side. It clearly showed in him being able to bring peace into the world a month ago helping Avatar Aang and his friends. He would never forget that battle with Azula and how she gave him the scar on his chest. As the Fire Lord, his very first order was to bring all troops home.

Reading through more files in what seemed to be a 'Fire Lord Sozin documentary' section of the library, a slip of folded paper fell out between two scrolls, "First Invasion…" He grew curious, peering inside and seeing sketches of Air Nomads, their gliders and detailed descriptions on how the gliders worked.

He thought of Aang and how he would like to see something like this. Something about his people. He owed it to him, being the very last of his kind.

He studied the date at the top, "This was before he wiped them out a hundred years ago." So he studied them closely first. He went on to read notes on the back of the paper, "The first monk to defy me directly." He had to do the math in his head. Aang was 112 years old, "So Sozin attacked the air temples in raids multiple times first, and must have kept losing. Otherwise…he wouldn't have needed so much detail on his enemies." He thought for a while, "The first monk to defy me directly…" He looked at the date and then a light bulb went off in his mind, "This is dated before Aang was born. Might be the same year."

Shifting through the papers and notes, he looked for a name of this Air Nomad, but couldn't find one. He studied the drawing carefully, "It looks like Aang…almost exactly. Well…what Aang should look like in a couple of years."

Mai entered the study, arms crossed, "Zuko you've been in here all day for kicks. Why don't you come out with me?"

Zuko looked to his wife, "I will in a moment. I found something interesting."

"It's all in the past."

"Yeah, but I think I found something the Avatar should know."

Mai sighed, "Fine. I'll write a letter for you and send it on a messenger hawk." She went to grab the utensils, "By the way, the resistance was finally caught."

Zuko quirked a brow, "The Phoenix King resistance group? Where?"

Mai nodded, "Right at our front door."

The Phoenix King Resistance group, a group of firebenders who didn't like an era of peace and were stubborn enough to still want the rule Fire Lord Ozai had run.

He turned away and patiently waited for Mai to come back with a scroll, ink, and brush; watching as she came back with it and sat next to him, "Dear Aang, I found information in my library that I want you to know about. Please come to the royal palace immediately; you will be welcomed as a noble guest. Sincerely Zuko." He looked through the notes in his hands about the Air Nomads.

Mai rose after setting the ink brush down. Whistling, servants came in and bowed to her, "I want you to get a messenger hawk and deliver this message to the Avatar immediately." She smiled as a servant took the scroll and went off with it. "I totally love being royalty."

Zuko stood up, gathering the scrolls and sheets with information on Air Nomads, keeping the folded paper at the very top.

*

"Your tea is great Mister Iroh sir!"

"Please, just Iroh is fine with me. As I'd rather call you by your name instead of Avatar all the time."

Aang nodded, placing his piece down, "Okay. Your move."

Iroh chuckled, "Who ever thought that I would own my own tea shop in Ba Sing Sei and sit in it drinking jasmine tea and playing Pai Sho with you. You play Pai Sho like a champion by the way."

Aang smiled, "Thanks. I haven't played a Pai Sho in a really long time."

Iroh smiled, "I'm glad you think Pai Sho is fun. Young people are usually bored of this game. They call it an old man's boardgame."

Aang sighed, "I used to play it all the time with my Master. Back then I got bored of it because we played it so much."

Sokka entered the tea shop with a basket of tea leaves yawning, "I got em for ya." He set the basket down.

Aang laughed, "Sokka you should play Pai Sho too."

"No way! That's an old man's boardgame! I'd rather get some sleep."

"But Sokka it's all about strategy! And who knows that better than you do?"

Sokka grinned widely, "Weeeeeell I guess I could sit down for a game as soon as yours ends." He dug in his pocket, flipping out the White Lotus piece given to him by Piandao.

Iroh sipped more of his tea, "Perhaps I should have a Pai Sho tournament. You boys could put up the fliers for me all over the city once I get them made."

"Katara knows a good place to get printings done." Aang watched as Iroh finished his turn.

Sokka yawned, "Speaking of which, here she comes with Toph."

Katara panted after rushing into the Jasmine Dragon, Toph following behind her with a messenger hawk on her shoulder.

Sokka smiled, "HAWKEE!?"

Katara blinked, "Um no Sokka. Hawkee doesn't wear little birdie palace robes. It's a message from Zuko."

Everyone perked up, Toph listening in.

"Dear Aang, I found information in my library that I want you to know about. Please come to my royal palace immediately; you will be welcomed as a noble guest. Sincerely Fire Lord Zuko." Katara blinked, "That's all it says."

Iroh nodded, "I'm not sure what my nephew could have found out, but it must be important seeing as he sent the fastest hawk he could get."

Toph smirked, "Oh geeze. He forgot to invite the rest of us. Just Aang gets to go?"

"No fair!" Sokka whined.

Aang stood up and bowed, "Sorry Iroh, we'll have to finish our game later." He finished his tea and set the cup down, "I know Zuko means for all of us to come."

Iroh nodded, "The pleasure was mine to play with you. I have more customers coming in anyway who want to see me. I might get an interview or portrait." He winked, "I did help save Ba Sing Sei from my own nation last month."

Aang smiled and turned around, "Alright guys. We're heading to the Fire Nation."

Toph added, "And we won't be attacked either!"

Sokka nodded, turning towards the door and sprinting, "Last one to Appa is a rotten egg!"

Katara, Aang, and Toph all ran out after him, Momo flying overhead.

Iroh got up from the Pai Sho game looking after them and simply smiling.

*

"So what do you think it is that Zuko found out about in the palace library?" Katara looked to Aang questioningly.

"I don't know. I don't think there's anything else about the war that I'd want to know about."

"Well Twinkletoes, if Zuko says it's important to you specifically, then I'd bet it was. Otherwise he wouldn't have sent his own Hawkee."

Sokka sighed, "I miss my Hawkee. Gran-Gran's been pilfering and using him up! He needs to come home. I even miss Hawkee fighting with Momo and me having to break them up."

Everyone laughed, thinking about it.

Appa roared pleasantly.

"We'll get to the Fire Nation in a couple of hours. Appa's feeling really good today."

Sokka cheered sarcastically, "Well good for Appa!"

*

Zuko slipped into the robe his servants held up for him, watching as they were fastened. He felt as if what he had to tell Aang was something he needed to know. Considering he wanted to know where his own mother was to restore her to the kingdom and her rightful glory and to let her know how much he loved her. He hadn't found her yet, but he knew that he would. She wasn't at the place his father said she went after her banishment.

Even so, there was no way Aang could do the same with his parents. He personally didn't know what monk life was like and never asked Aang about it. But he should at least put this to rest for the Avatar. If Sozin had notes on Aang's father before Aang was born, he believed that if his theory was right, Aang shouldn't even know who his father was at all. Not even what he looked like since he'd have died before Aang was born. Depending on if Aang lived with his mother and if she told him anything.

"My Lord! Your guests have arrived."

"Fetch some hay for their flying bison."

"Yes My Lord." The servants retreated.

He turned, exiting his room fully dressed in the traditional Fire Lord robes and gear. Making way to his throne room, where he'd talk with the group with Mai by his side.

Mai was already on the throne next to that of the Fire Lord, legs crossed, giving orders for snacks for everyone to munch on while they talked.

Zuko smiled at his wife, coming up to her and kissing her before taking his seat on the throne.

The main doors opened.

"So…liking the fancy life your highness?"

Zuko smirked at Sokka's sarcasm, though straightened up when Aang, Katara, and Toph came in afterwards with Momo on Katara's shoulder, "I'm glad you guys came."

Mai reclined in her royal seat, "I asked the servants to get everyone some snacks just in case you came in hungry."

"Oooh! I like snacks!"

"Sokka!"

"But Katara, free food!"

"We get free food everywhere we go Sokka. People know who we are."

"But it's free royal palace food!"

Aang chuckled, "Anyway, you called us here because you had something to tell me?"

Zuko nodded, rising from his throne, "Yeah. I found a lot of scrolls in my library about your people. But one caught my interest and I think it will catch yours." A servant handed him the folded paper, and he held it before his guests as he walked towards them.

Katara took the paper since she was the closest and blinked, looking at Aang, "I don't believe it!"

Everyone except Toph gathered around the paper.

Aang blinked, "It's an airbender. A Monk from the Southern Air Temple."

Sokka rubbed his chin, "I knew that Sozin would have to gather a ton of information on the Air Nomads before the comet came."

Zuko nodded, "Read the date and every note on that paper."

Sokka looked at the date, "Holy hippocow! How is this paper still even in existence!?"

"We have ways of preserving every bit of data we get, including things written 124 years ago."

Katara gasped, "Aang…the man in this drawing looks exactly like you!"

Sokka took the paper and held it up next to Aang from a distance, analyzing back and forth, "Yeah, you're right."

Zuko nodded, "Aang I think this is your father."

Sokka counted, "Aang is 112. The date on here should be the same year Aang was born."

Aang widened his eyes, "The date on this paper…is the day I was born…"

Everyone looked at Aang, "Are you serious!?"

Aang backed away from everyone, sitting on the floor, "I never knew my parents. All I had was Monk Gyatso.."

Zuko sighed, "There's more. Here's another paper of the same man dated 3 years after the first picture. But there's something fishy about the notes on this one. It says that the man from the first drawing came back from the dead."

Aang looked to the floor dejectedly, "Zuko, what section did you find these in? What part of your great-grandfather's life?"

Zuko closed his eyes for a moment, "The battles. His invasions of the Air Nomads before the comet came."

Katara looked at both drawings, "Maybe the first time he was healed somehow? I mean things we can't explain happen all the time, but Aang's father coming back from the dead to fight Sozin twice?"

Zuko nodded, "There's a major gap and I don't think we'd be able to fill it here. Sozin was astounded, shocked, and bewildered that Aang's father came 3 years later for a re-match even stronger than the first time. He couldn't believe how he fought in a completely different way and was evenly matched with him, like he was a completely different person. He was pretty sure and head on that he killed him the first time."

Toph wondered aloud, "How do you know all that?"

"Because I have my great-grandfather's diary in the library too."

Sokka shouted, "DIBS!"

The servants came out with the snacks.

Mai came down from her seat, "I'm bored, so I'll make the suggestion that my husband was going to. We think you guys can find out more in the Southern Air temple ruins than here. Reading the diary here won't do much good. There isn't even a name of the guy Sozin fought against. Just going on about how powerful he was for an airbender and how shocked he was to see him again. He defeated the airbender by attacking someone else to distract him and catch him off guard."

Katara nodded, "Aang I think we should check it out. We can find out about your parents!"

Aang dropped his head lower, "My father was this all powerful airbender who could have beaten Sozin over a hundred years ago had he not gotten distracted? I get that, but to me, my father is the monk who raised me. No one can replace Monk Gyatso."

Katara touched his shoulder, "Aang, just give it a chance. There's an explanation already. Sozin caught your father off guard. So maybe he was around to raise you until he fought Sozin. Maybe he wanted Monk Gyatso to take care of you and entrusted you to him. And maybe Sozin attacked your mother as the distraction."

Aang sighed, trying to take it in and then finally stood up, looking Katara in the eye, "Okay. We'll see what we can find at the Southern Air temple." He looked over to Zuko, "Thank you. I would have never really known why I never knew my parents if you didn't find these scrolls."

Toph reached for the servants' platter of snacks, "Alright. So we know your dad was an awesome guy. But seriously can this guy hold the snack plates any higher?"

Mai chuckled, "Leave the snacks here. You are dismissed."

The servants walked away, leaving the trays on a stand before them.

Toph snickered, "You must really like being royalty huh?"

Mai shrugged, "It has its perks."

Aang turned around, "We should pack the snacks. We're going to the Southern Air temple."

"ALRIGHT!" Sokka rolled up the scrolls and placed them in his shirt, dashing over to the snacks to wrap them up.

Mai sighed, "I'll stay here. These people wouldn't know what to do if there wasn't a single royal person here to boss them around. You go on ahead Zuko."

Zuko nodded, stepping up to wrap his arms around Mai and sweep her into a passionate kiss, whispering once they parted lips, "I'll be back soon."

"My feet so didn't need to see that." Toph bit into a melon and followed Aang, Katara, and Sokka as they were walking out.

*

Aang patted Appa, "We're going home to find some things out buddy."

Flying over the clouds, Sokka looked out and around through his telescope. Digging into his snack pouch and munching on sweets.

Zuko watched his mouth closely, then turning and grimacing, "Need to eat with your mouth open?"

Katara scooted over towards Aang, leaning over the saddle to peer at him, "Are you okay Aang?"

"I'm okay Katara."

She sighed, "It's just that you don't seem okay. I know this is really sudden and unexpected."

"It's just that it's hard to see anyone else as my parent other than who I've seen and always been with since I was little."

"It doesn't mean that your real parents didn't love you."

"I know what she looks like Katara."

"Your mother? How?"

"Avatar Roku gave me a lot of visions this year and I couldn't have done a lot without his help. When I learned about his life, the beginning of the war, and the Avatar cycle, I saw myself born. I saw the woman who gave birth to me. She looked really happy but exhausted."

"Then you can find out even more about her. And find out why you never got to know her. Aang I have the feeling that something happened to her."

"That's how it is. Something always happens to someone. Especially my people! They're just not here for anything else to happen to them ever again. "

"I know you don't mean that Aang."

He sighed, "You're right Katara. It's just that…it's just…"

"Aang. You've faced the unknown so many times I can't even count them anymore." She smiled gently, "I know you can do this."

He blushed at her hand on his cheek suddenly, turning around and rising himself towards her. Leaning his forehead against hers to give her a gentle kiss. Feeling her return it, he was glad beyond anything else. They'd been together since the day after he defeated Fire Lord Ozai and they were inseparable since.

Katara pulled away first whispering, "If your parents were anything like this, I'd say you already had it in you." She winked.

Sokka appeared before them crossing his arms, "Hey love birds! We're there! So stop smooching and land Appa already!"

Aang snickered, "He already knows where to go. Don't you buddy?"

Appa gave a short lasting roar of approval.

*

Getting off of Appa, the group ventured into the ruins of the Southern Air Temple, Toph in awe.

"There's so much here." Toph stepped around a carcass, "I mean…bodies from both sides; ruins for real all over. Aang you lived here when it had…people?"

"Yeah, this was my home. Me, Appa, and Momo's."

Zuko looked around, "Aang, where would there be a library? Any kind of documentations?" The last time he'd been here had been early on in his quest searching for the Avatar. His memory blurred as to any other detail about the premesis.

Sokka piped up, "CAN WE SEE YOUR OLD HOUSE!?" He quieted when Katara and Zuko turned to glare back at him, "What? We didn't see it last time we were here."

Aang thought back, "I had a room in the main temple. That's where I know of that I was raised anyway. Oh and a library…follow me everyone." He set off in a certain direction towards the main temple structure, "We had one that's a lot like the library in the Fire Nation. I just hope that it's still intact."

Rushing through the old halls, they followed Aang while looking around, Toph stopping, "Wait guys!"

They stopped and looked back.

"There's a big hollow area with a lot of shelves this way." She pointed in another direction, "I think there was more than one library, right Aang?"

He thought, "Yeah, we had a couple now that I remember."

Sokka boasted, "Shelves must mean still intact. Maybe we should split up and meet back here. Katara, Momo, you guys are with Aang. Toph, Zuko, you guys go to the other library."

"What about you Sokka?" Katara blinked.

"Well Aang. Your teacher had to have a study room right? I'm gonna go look and see what I can find from the study rooms of the monks."

Zuko shook his head, "How would you know that they had study rooms?"

"Aang told us a lot about his home just cause. A lot of it just stuck with me. Am I right Aang?"

"Yeah Zuko, he is. We'll meet up back here in three hours and we'll see what everyone finds. We're looking for anything that would have to do with Fire Nation attacks."

Katara giggled, "Maybe Momo should go with you for safe keeping Sokka."

He huffed at his sister and they all separated, "Momo c'mon least you get me."

*

"Aang…I'll bet this place was amazing when it was together huh?"

"Yeah it was. Looking through reminds me of…everything from my life before I found out I was the Avatar." Aang walked to a balcony, "Out there I used to play with the other kids. I remember they didn't want to play with me anymore after the monks announced I was the Avatar."

Katara followed, touching Aang's shoulder, "Think about the happier times. Now come on, we've gotta get to the library or Sokka's gonna throw a fit about it taking too long or not finding anything."

He smiled, "You're right." He took her hand, leading the way, "We actually had different libraries for different people living here. The head monks and nuns had separate libraries. But the nun libraries were more public to everyone else. And hardly anyone was allowed to see in a head monk's study. Except me of course but cause Monk Gyatso was a head monk here."

"Your teacher must have been a really great guy."

"I remember he had a really good cake recipe. But the cakes weren't for eating."

"Oh really? What were they for?"

"Airbending them onto people passing by." Aang laughed, "I got a lot of target practice that way."

Katara chuckled, "Good times huh?"

"I can remember people's faces. We'd have to practice the art of stealth afterwords so they didn't catch us. Good times."

"That's funny." She smiled, "Oh I see the library!" She rushed forwards, keeping Aang's hand in hers, "Now let's go find some clues about your parents."

Aang followed the girl he loved, wondering if anything really was left intact. The sight that beheld them was halfway expected.

Katara frowned, "I can't believe most of this library was burned up like this…" She'd stopped to analyze the damage, "I should have known. Darnit!"

Aang sighed, eying the scorched up library before hanging his head, spotting something out the corner of his eye, "Hold on Katara." He ran over to the object, picking up a scroll and opening it to read, "This is a letter from a monk named Jiao writing to his brother."

"What does it say?"

"Jigako, I'm writing this just to clear my head. There's something that I want to tell you but even when you get back from the Eastern Air Temple, I might not be able to. So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to see if your teacher, Monk Iagu, will get you to come home earlier."

"Well that was nice of him."

"It goes on to say: You aren't due back for five more days, but we just can't wait for you. We miss you too much. I hope that when you get back, you can forgive me when I tell you what I did, if I ever could bring myself to. Your brother, Jiao"

Katara thought, "Is there a date on that?"

"Yeah it's dated a year before I was born."

"We should take it back. It could be really important. Hey here's another scroll!" She picked it up and opened it, "This one is another letter. Monk Hata, you are needed at the Western Air temple right away. If you could please leave before the sun rises tomorrow, we will have escorts waiting for you in case you're attacked by firebenders again." She shook her head, "This has nothing to do with the first scroll but either way it seems important. It's dated quite a while before your birthday though."

"It's okay. Information is information. Do you see anything else?"

Katara looked around the ashes and blackness, trying to spot anything that could be covered in ash, though not seeing anything that wasn't broken and battered. She moved around the edges of the room, eying the floor for loose scrolls, "I don't see anything Aang."

No answer.

"Aang?" She turned around and spotted him holding a book, rushing over to him, "W-what is that? Where did you find that?"

"It's an entire diary. Covered in ashes but the pages are still intact." He rubbed the cover, "It's the diary of that guy from the letter. One of the brothers."

"Which one?"

"I think Jigako." He rubbed a page delicately, "There's no name in it, but I can tell." A paper slipped out and he caught it, unfolding it, "Yeah…this is Jigako's. This is a letter to his brother Jiao."

"We should definitely take that and see what else we can find."

Aang nodded, tucking the book under his left arm and scrounging through more piles of ash.

*

"So what did you guys find?" Sokka laid handfuls of scrolls and books on the floor.

"We found the diary of a monk named Jigako and some scrolls about invasions from the Fire Nation." Katara set scrolls down while Aang held closely onto the diary, sitting down with it.

Zuko nodded, "Toph and I found two diaries. One of them is really odd though."

Katara blinked, "Odd?"

Toph explained, "It was written by an earthbender living here a long time ago. Um Aang did you happen to know of any when you lived here?"

"No." He shook his head, "None that weren't in the earth kingdom."

Sokka thought aloud, "That doesn't make any sense. But what's the other diary?"

Zuko opened it up, "A woman's diary. A nun named Demoska."

Sokka nodded, "I found the diary of a guy named Jiao and a lot of things Aang's teacher wrote himself."

Aang piped up, "Hang on! You found Jiao's diary? Where? Jigako had a brother named Jiao. It's in his letters and diary."

"I found it in the study where I got all the papers from your teacher Aang."

Toph sat down, "So where do we begin? Which diary do you read first? Or do you look through the scrolls?"

Sokka thought, "I say the diaries. Which one's longest?"

"The earthbender's diary."

"Well I guess we'll find out why there was an earthbender living in the Southern Air Temple before Aang was born."

They sat around as Sokka took the diary and began to read from off the first page, "I was born different. I knew that from the very beginning. I never knew who my real parents were. And at first I couldn't understand why I was so different than the people at my home. I live in this grand Southern Air Temple but I feel so out of place despite having my best friend, friends, and adoptive family."

Zuko added, "So that's why there was an earthbender living here. That had to be awkward."

"Will you shush!?" Sokka waited for silence, "My mother told me when I was a child that she wasn't my real mother. But I refused to accept that reality. She was the one who raised me, even if she couldn't teach me my real elemental gift. No one could. My specialty was being able to manipulate earth. But everyone around me could do that with the air. I was the only one of my kind. I found out I could do this one day while having a temper tantrum about eating a weird tree looking vegetable."

Aang giggled, "Broccoli…"

"Ever since, I practiced and tested my limits to see what I could do. Even my name is different than that of any of the people here. It's Yai Ching.

My mother was a traveling monk. One day she found me abandoned with a name tag around my wrist. Taking me in, I was separated away from my native people of the Earth Kingdom. I wouldn't actually go there yet to find my roots. But I want to one day.

My best friend, Nun Demoska, and my friend Jiao always tell me they wanna go with me one day. The gesture is nice, but at least Jigako understands that I need to make my journey alone."

Katara piped, "So all these people knew each other. The brothers, Jigako and Jiao, this Nun Demoska, and the earthbender Yai Ching. They were all friends."

Toph smirked, "Now that's pretty cool."

Aang asked lowly, "But what does all this have to do with my parents?"

Zuko sighed, "We'll just have to read every diary and find out. Go ahead Sokka."

"That's it. That's the first entry." He turned the page, "Before I read the second entry, maybe someone else could read from another diary first."

Aang opened up Jigako's diary and read, "I know that writing in a book like this is usually a girl's thing to do, but I asked my friend Yai Ching about it and she said it works wonders for her mind. I want the kind of calmness she has, when she isn't being stubborn that is.

I'm writing in this because I think my friend is stalking me. Nun Demoska keeps following me around and trying to talk to me, but I keep turning away and going in another direction. Yai says that maybe she has a crush on me. I like her, but I'm way too shy to say or do anything. My brother Jiao would probably be better at that than I am.

Either way, I just wanted to express my confusion about her actions and think to myself about what to do. I should get her flowers or something to show that I really like her too. Yai should know her favorite flower." Aang turned the page, "That's the end of the first entry."

Zuko grabbed Jiao's diary, opening it up to the first page, "Yai is a copycat. She got the diary idea from me. But its okay, mine is better because I can write down all my clever schemes in here. I dumped some of the fountain water on a bunch of passerby today. Their faces were hysterical. I'm such a genius.

Hi diary. I'm Jiao, 10 years old and I'm gonna be the greatest airbender ever. I'm gonna beat Jigako at it. I don't care if he's older than me. I'm also gonna win the heart of the girl I like the most, the pretty talented girl Demoska. She may be 12 and older than me and Jigako, but it doesn't change how I feel about her."

Katara interrupted, "Surely the brothers can't mean the same girl?"

Zuko nodded, "I think they do. But I think they all started diaries at different times. I think this one is the oldest besides Yai's. What's the date in Jigako's on the first page?"

Aang read it.

Zuko nodded once more, "Just as I thought. Jiao's diary starts when he's 10. Jigako's diary starts when he's 11. I think Jiao and Jigako were either the same age, or a year or two apart. Clearly Jigako was older though."

Sokka added, "Yai Ching never says her age, but I think she's around the same age group. Jiao said she was a copy cat and the date confirms the same year these two diaries were started. Katara, can you start Demoska's diary for us?"

Katara cleared her throat, "I'm so excited to have a place to write down my thoughts now. My teacher said it would help me, and I plan to write in this every day. My name is Demoska and I am 13 years old. You, my safety thought book, are a gift from my teacher for being a prodigy."

Toph thought aloud, "So all these people tie in together. How do any of them tie in with Aang?"

Sokka flipped another page, "We're just gonna have to read and find out. But I know Jiao definitely has to do with Aang. His diary was in Monk Gyatso's personal stuff."

The group all looked around at each other and then to Aang.

"It's okay Twinkletoes. We'll get to the bottom of this."

"I'm not worried about that. I'm just curious about who these people are."

"Touché my good airbender." Sokka nodded, "alright, we'll read them in this order, Yai's, Demoska's , Jigako's, and then Jiao's."

Everyone nodded, Toph just listening in. And so they began putting the pieces together…

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A/U: I know you're tired of my extra comments already. Just a fair warning that after this point, the story goes right into OC's galore. I'll try to post each chapter in a scheduled manner. Probably a chapter every two days or so. The story is already completed, it's just me being non-lazy enough to post each part. I have to separate it and do a lot of editing on my part.

Oh and about this story, I actually got the idea from the first chapter of my other fic. I wrote that one first and really wanted to elaborate on the story of Aang's existance. In order to understand future events in this story better, I suggest you read chapter 1 of 'Avatar Plotholes'. It has spoilers for this story, yes, so you'll get a taste of what will happen. Other than that snippet, I'm not telling a thing. You'll have to read and wait to find out how it gets to that point and what happens after.

Okay I'm done rambling. Chao.