What if the Avatar wasn't Aang, but a female waterbender named Aimaye? Frozen for 100 years when she was 16, already having mastered waterbending and working on earthbending, knowing bits of airbending as well...and what if she wasn't thrilled to have Katara and Sokka there to find her?

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-Chapter One- Frozen Hearts-

"I told you to go away! Yes, I'm the Avatar, yes I've been frozen, yes I'm 16, yes I'm a waterbender now will you leave me alone?" The small girl hissed. She had a typical waterbender look- mocha skin, cerulean eyes, curvy yet slim figure. Her hair was long and black as coals, cascading down her back, and her sea eyes were glaring daggers at the waterbender girl and warrior boy standing in front of her. She wasn't tall but she wasn't shockingly short either, but her height did hinder her anger a bit.

"Well you should be kinda grateful you know, we just saved you." The boy pointed out. He was a bit scrawny and small, his hair pulled back atop his head, dressed in blue water tribe warrior attire. His name, he had said it was Sukko or Sokka or something like that.

"Saved me? Ha! If I'd wanted to be saved, you'd know." The girl cackled. "Trust me, I didn't."

"Well miss Avatar," The waterbender girl growled, "The world kind of needs your help!" The girl, Katana or Kitaya or Katara or something, was relatively tall and slim and curvy, dark mocha skin, long dark brown hair in a braid, with sky blue eyes.

"Why? Why can't the world survive for five minutes without the freaking avatar? UGH." The Avatar buried her face in her hands.

"One hundred years, Avatar." The boy pointed out.

"Sukko or whoever, that's not possible." She muttered.

"It's Sokka, and, Avatar, yes it is!" Sokka yelled.

"I have a name too, it's Aimaye." The Avatar glowered. "No, it's not possible. I only planned to be like that fro a few days, get some peace and quiet. I was sick of the Fire Nation chasing me! Ugh!"

"Well, it's gotten worse, and yes, it's been one hundred years." The amateur waterbending girl sighed, lightening up a bit, seeing how confused Aimaye was.

"There's...no way." Aimaye said, eye widening. "Kataya or whatever, you and Sokka are so just messing with me."

"Katara!" Katara snapped. "You were a water tribe girl! If we were kidding with you, wouldn't you know because you'd KNOW us?"

"...Well...yeah." Aimaye sighed, tensing up. "I would." She paused. "So they're all gone, everyone that I knew. And, and the Fire Nation...?"

"Got worse." Katara finished her sentence. The strong girl, the Avatar, suddenly seemed like a weak child.

"I'm sorry. I...have to go. I can;t just sit here, and..."

"Nah, we're coming." Sokka interrupted.

"No, you're not."

"Your bison-y thing can carry us." Yes, she did have a flying bison. She'd been training with the airbenders for a while and became friends with the bison, who she'd name Miko.

"Yes, he more than likely could, but that doesn't mean I'm going to let you come." Aimaye hissed throguh clenched teeth.

"You might need our help." Katara insisted.

"Whatever. If I needed your help I'd come and get it." Aimaye shot back, running ehr long fingers through her coal hair. "Trust me, I don't need it." And in one smooth movement, she leapt onto the bison's back, and they were up in the air.

"Think she'll be back?" Katara muttered.

"Oh yeah." Sokka said.

But Aimaye had no intentions of returning. She just kept going, urging Miko on for as long as they could. But both were tired, and hungry, and Miko dropped into the outaskirts of a town so Aimaye could go and get some food. Or something. They were starved. I mean really, you go and try to not eat for one hundred years.

She walked into the town, dressed in Water Tribe summer-ish clothes. It was a bit late in the year for that, but Aimaye didn't really give a care. She walked into a tea shop, relieved to see that they had other foods as well, and ordered Jasmine tea and some random fruit, and as soon as she got her food, chowed down like she hadn't eaten in years. ...Which, she hadn't.

She paused in her eating and leaned back in her chair, surveying the people. She wasn't sure where exactly she was, just some random town. As far as she could tell there weren't many benders...well, not that she could pick out. But...one person caught her eye.

He was lean and somewhat tall(well, taller than Aimaye). He was pale-skinned and had his hair pulled back. His eyes were liquid gold, and fierce, and there was a red flame-like scar over one of his eyes. Something about him...Aimaye couldn't tear her eyes away. Well, until she realised he was Fire Nation. But by then the boy had caught her looking.

"What do you want?" He challenged. Aimaye noted that he sounded cruel, but not naturally.

"Nothing. Can't a girl look at people?" Aimaye snapped back, tossing her hair.

"Not me you can't." The boy muttered. Moody.

"And why is that?"

"Because I said."

"Oh, and what are you, some big bad scary Prince, who I have to listen to?" She taunted.

"Yes." The boy replied, gravely serious. Oh.

"Really?" She questioned, suddenly curious.

"Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation." He snapped, the fire in his eyes glowing. He sounded as if he loathed the title. Looked as if he did, too. There was something about this cold-hearted boy...

"Oh. Hm. Well." Aimaye was suddenly nervous. Not only was she a waterbender, but the Avatar. And she wasn't sure if her name was known or not. Most Avatars were...she was known well by the Fire Nation 100 years ago..that was for sure.

"And you are?" The Prince's voice softened, it sounded more serious and less troubled now. She liked how his voice sounded when he wasn't harsh.

"Aimaye." She answered before thinking. Oops. She watched the Zuko's eyes widen and darken, turning into a flaming glare.

"You lie." He sneered. "You aren't the Avatar." Prince Zuko dropped his voice so he wouldn't gain attention. "The Avatar disappeared a hundred years ago. She was known for her waterbending skills, her beauty and her brain, and I highly doubt she would tell the Fire Nation Prince who she was."

"Yeah? Well you can shove it. One, I am the Avatar. Two, I am pretty. Three, I am smart. And four...catch me if you can little prince." She winked at him, blew a kissand leapt up, bolting out of the shop, leaving the Fire Nation Prince shocked.

On her way back to Miko she bought many fruits for him, feeding him quickly then hopping on his back.

"Come on, Miko...let's go!" She laughed, and the bison leapt into the air...just as the Fire Nation ships caught site of her.

So the frozen-hearted Prince believed her after all.

I bet I can thaw your heart. She thought.