I do not own Avatar: the Last Airbender.

She's gone. He took her. I failed. Yangchen was right: I'm not fit to be the Avatar. I couldn't even stop Koh from taking Ummi.

Ummi...oh how I miss her. It took her death to make me realize how great my failure was.

Out of the corner of my eye I see her standing there, watching me. She has the same judgmental look she always seems to possess.

"Here to gloat?" I ask. "Don't waste your breath, I know I screwed up."

"As happy as it may make me to see you realize your own folly that's not why I'm here."

"Why would you be here if not to point out the error of my ways?" I yell, knocking down one of the snow walls. "This is your opportunity to show me how superior you are and yet you stand there and say nothing!"

"Kuruk, silence yourself!" she exclaims. "There was nothing you could have done to save her."

"Of course there was! There had to have been something."

"You need to accept the reality of what has happened and continue on."

"Why?" I cry. "Why should I move on?"

"You need to move on because you're the Avatar."

"Well maybe I shouldn't be!" I scream. "Maybe the world would be better off with no Avatar than it is with me."

"Calm yourself, Kuruk," she soothes, "you're letting your emotions get away from you. You may be able to control the Avatar State but that doesn't mean it can't leave your control."

"We can't all be like you, Yangchen! Believe it or not I'm only human."

"I'm aware of your limitations Kuruk, but they don't give you the right to act like a child."

"I don't have to deal with this. I can ignore you for the rest of my life if necessary."

"The Avatar should never cut himself off from his past lives."

"Then I guess I'm not the Avatar anymore. The world will have to get along without me for a while."

"You can't run from your destiny. You are the Avatar, you can't ignore it."

"I can certainly try," I answer as I walk away.

Now to find Koh...