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Fanning The Flames by GoldenHourglass
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
01 Jul 2026
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Left behind at the Misty Palms Oasis, Katara waits days for Aang, Sokka, and Toph to return. But when bounty hunters close in, her only chance at escape comes from the last people she ever thought she could trust: Zuko and Iroh. Now traveling under false names and bound by a fake marriage, Katara finds herself on the road to Ba Sing Se. At first, she barely trusts him, but somewhere along the way, she starts to realize Zuko isn't what she thought he was.
She keeps reminding herself it will end once they reach the city, but in a place crowded with millions of refugees and stuck in the Lower Ring, she doesn’t have much hope of finding her friends. With no leads and nowhere else to go, she resolves to wait for them to find her. But in their cramped apartment, the days turn into weeks, and the longer they stay, the harder it becomes to remember where the act ends and something real begins.
Book 2: Earth (Ch. 1–33) | Interim (Ch. 34–35) | Book 3: Fire (Ch. 36–?)
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- Part 1 of Fanning The Flames Series
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After Zuko fails to capture Aang in the Spirit Oasis, he takes the next best thing: Katara. He plans to use her as bait to lure the Avatar, but a raging blizzard forces them to take shelter in an ice cave. They’re alone, freezing, and cut off from the rest of the world.
Polar blizzards can last for days, and survival leaves Katara no room for pride, or distance. Sharing warmth is unavoidable, but what she doesn’t expect is how much she comes to crave it. Katara knows she shouldn’t want this, but that doesn’t stop her. And with every passing night, it becomes harder to pretend she doesn’t ache for him.
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The horizon was no longer empty. A ship cut through the mist—massive and black, with its metal sides slick with frost. Smoke bellowed upward from its smokestack, an oily smear against the pale sky. The ship slowed as it approached, shadow falling long and dark across their fragile ice floe.
The engines hissed, then went quiet. Then a head popped over the rail. An older man with silver hair peered down at them, his face kind, as he called out, “Hey, you kids need some help?”
Or, one act of mercy leads to another, until a cold, forgotten village begins to feel alive again…and a lonely boy with a scar might just find a home.
Written for Zutara Month, Day 1. Prompt: Zuko Banished Without A Quest
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Toph Breaks Through by GoldenHourglass
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
02 Aug 2025
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The Gaang finally makes it to Ba Sing Se…just in time for the Fire Nation to attack with a giant drill. Typical.
With Katara still missing, it’s up to Aang, Sokka, and Toph to stop the invasion from the inside. There’s just one problem: the drill is made entirely of metal, and Toph is blind in there. She can’t see and she can’t bend.
But when push comes to shove, and with the city’s fate hanging in the balance, she digs deep and does the impossible. Because when you’re the greatest earthbender in the world, you don’t wait for someone else to step up and save the day—you break through.
*Set between Chapter 8 and Chapter 9 of Fanning the Flames, this one-shot explores what Aang, Toph, and Sokka were going through off-screen, and how Katara’s absence changed everything.*
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- Part 3 of Fanning The Flames Series
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When Katara chose to stay behind at the Misty Palms Oasis, nobody was concerned…until the library sank and Appa was kidnapped. Now, the Gaang is stranded in the middle of a desert without their waterbender, and things are falling apart fast.
Aang is unraveling, Sokka is hallucinating, and Toph? She’s barefoot, blind, and pissed…but somehow still the most capable one here.
She didn’t vote herself team captain, but it’s not like anyone else was qualified.
*Set during Fanning the Flames, this one-shot explores what Aang, Toph, and Sokka were going through off-screen, and how Katara’s absence changed everything.*
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- Part 2 of Fanning The Flames Series
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Fanning The Flames Series by GoldenHourglass
Fandom Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
01 Jul 2026
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Left behind at the Misty Palms Oasis, Katara waits days for Aang, Sokka, and Toph to return. But when bounty hunters close in, her only chance at escape comes from the last people she ever thought she could trust: Zuko and Iroh. Now traveling under false names and bound by a fake marriage, Katara finds herself on the road to Ba Sing Se. At first, she barely trusts him, but somewhere along the way, she starts to realize Zuko isn't what she thought he was.
She keeps reminding herself it will end once they reach the city, but in a place crowded with millions of refugees and stuck in the Lower Ring, she doesn’t have much hope of finding her friends. With no leads and nowhere else to go, she resolves to wait for them to find her. But in their cramped apartment, the days turn into weeks, and the longer they stay, the harder it becomes to remember where the act ends and something real begins.
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Two years after the war, Katara trains in the Foggy Swamp.
Unbalanced, the swamp shows her the future she’s headed toward and the one she could have.Bookmarked by GoldenHourglass
29 Mar 2026
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The correspondence between Zuko, the Fire Lord, and Ty Lee, the Kyoshi Warrior, is awkward at first. But it's also rewarding over the years, and more cathartic than either of them could have ever imagined.
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19 Mar 2026
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Katara followed him out of suspicion.
It wasn’t that she was curious. It wasn’t that she cared what he did.
Or: Katara still hates Zuko. Really, she does.
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Bookmarked by GoldenHourglass
11 Feb 2026
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Suki was the first to tell her, after Katara agreed to that Summit proposal to marry Zuko all those months ago, that marriage wasn’t merely friendship.
She likes Zuko. She’s always liked him. The issue, then, isn’t whether she likes him; but when she started to like him like this.
Bookmarked by GoldenHourglass
05 Feb 2026
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After obliterating the Air Nomads, Fire Lord Sozin - in an attempt to locate the Avatar - leads an effort to colonize the South Pole.
100 years later, Katara and Sokka of the South Sozin Colony find him frozen in an iceberg.
Bookmarked by GoldenHourglass
29 Oct 2025