Disclaimer: I own nothing except for my oc's Haley, Phil, and Jackie.
Haley: 16 years old, 5'6", hazel eyes, medium brown curly hair, aquarius (airbender)
Jackie: 16 years old, about 5'6 1/2 ", brown eyes, straight dirty blonde hair, Haley's best friend, taurus (earthbender)
Phil: 16 years old, about 6', blond hair, Haley's cousing, scorpio (waterbender)
The Surprise
"It's summer and I'm working. My life just couldn't get any better," I thought to myself as I scanned appliances through the scanner at the cashier counter. "Seventy-nine dollars and eighty cents," I say and smile at the guy with a white beard. He hands over eighty dollars. "Twenty cents is your change and have a nice day," I give him another smile.
He smiles and says "you too." I give him another smile as he leaves. "Man, I smile too much," I think to myself. For a moment no one is in my line so I spare a glance at my watch, it says it's 6:00. I sigh realizing that I am only halfway through my shift. "Well at least I only work part-time and am getting my paycheck this weekend." I think as someone comes into my lane. I smile again. This is my basic day: smiling and handling money for four hours. Oh joy.
Ten minutes later a bag person comes to my aisle. "Paper or plastic?" asks my best friend Jackie to the customer as I continue scanning items. After the customer leaves Jackie asks "So, how's it going?" she asks.
"Are you kidding, this is the best job ever," I reply sarcastically as I roll my eyes.
"So you want to go see a movie tonight," she questions.
"Just as long as it's not POTC 3 again," I say. I mean seriously I have seen that movie at least three times now. It's good and all but I could use a break from it. Jackie is such a Johnny Depp fan.
"Oh, alright, um what do you want to see?"
"Uh, how about "1408" or "License to Wed"," I reply.
"Alright, how about "License to Wed"? We could go to have supper first then go to the movies." Jackie suggests.
"Sound's great," I say happily for I get to actually see a movie I wish to see. Jackie leaves to go to help someone else with their bagging. I smile as a form of goodbye. "Man, I smile a lot. Okay, stop smiling now." I smile again as I see someone come into my lane. "Oh well." I finally finish with my shift. As I leave so does Jackie and my cousin Phil. We all work together so I guess this job isn't too bad.
"Hey Phil, we're going to go see "License to Wed" later, want to come with?" I ask even though we aren't very close but I'm trying to be nice.
"Sorry, but I'm busy," he replies.
"That's ok, I was just asking," I say as we start to get closer to the door. I whip out my cell from my purse (that has way too much stuff in it) to call the movie theater to see what time "License to Wed" plays. I walk outside and realize that it's pouring outside. As we step off the curb Jackie starts to slip. Phil and I both grab her so she doesn't fall. My other hand is holding up my cell as I try to balance myself. In that split second lightning comes toward us. It strikes us and everything starts to spin and go dark.
I wake up to the sound of birds chirping and grass underneath me. "What am I doing on grass?" I say to myself as I start to look around. "Ok great, I'm in the middle of a forest." I say quietly as I start to get up and I still have my purse. Then all of a sudden I hear rustling in a nearby bush.
"What the heck is going on?" I hear someone say. I stay motionless from fear. The person comes into the clearing where I am.
"Haley?" Phil asks as me as he scratches his head full of blond hair.
"Phil?" I question back as I tuck my brown curly hair behind my ear as I look up to Phil who's like four or five inches taller than me. I'm only 5'6".
"Haley, Phil?" says someone with straight dirty blonde hair who comes out from another bush. It takes me about a second to realize that it's Jackie who's like a half-inch taller than me.
"What the hell is going on?" Phil asks looking inquisitively around and then at me.
"How am I supposed to know?" I say a little bit unsure why for some obscure reason that he thinks I know.
"Well you're supposed to be smart," he retorts.
"Well, I have no idea," I say back, "maybe we should try to find a town."
"And are we suppose to walk around until we find a town?" Jackie asks somewhat sarcastic but somewhat sincere as well.
"Uh, oh Phil," I have an idea as I look at a tall tree, "climb that tree and see if you see anything."
"Why me?" he asks raising an eyebrow as I look at him.
Jackie chimes in, "because Haley's the smart one, I'm the actress, and you're the athletic one."
He grunts and I tell him to just do it. It takes him about ten minutes to get to the top. "See anything?" Jackie shouts.
"There's some smoke coming from that way," he says as he points straight ahead.
"Alright thanks," I say as Jackie and I start heading in that direction.
"Wait for me," Phil exclaims from the top of the tree.
"Well, hurry up," Jackie says as she and I smile. We wait as he quickly descends from the tree. We start heading in the direction Phil pointed.
After walking for a while Jackie gets bored and starts listening to her ipod nano. While she starts humming I keep my ears open for any sounds that escape this forest. "How far away was the smoke?" I ask Phil starting to get tired.
"It didn't seem that far away," he retorts as he shrugs. All of a sudden we hear a noise ahead of us. Jackie immediately turns off her ipod and we all walk quietly toward where the sound came from.
"… and some rock shaped rocks that might just be rocks," says a male voice as a rock is thrown toward us and hits Jackie on her head.
"Ow, that hurt," she says a little too loud.
"Who's there?" says a female voice.
Phil steps out from the trees first. I follow after him and Jackie follows me. "Oh my god, that's Sokka, Katara, and Aang." I think as I look up at Phil who knows the show too. Jackie doesn't watch "Avatar the Last Airbender" so she answers for us as Phil and I just stand there in utter shock.
"I'm Jackie, this is Haley and Phil," Jackie says as she introduces herself and then points to us respectively. I just give a small smile and Phil just continues to stare. "Who are you?" she asks the gaang.
"I'm Sokka," says Sokka as he puts on his macho act and looks at Jackie, "and this is Katara, my sister, and Aang.
"Are you guys traveling?" asks Aang as he uses his airbending to get up.
"Dude, you just flew," Jackie points out.
"Yeah, I'm an airbender," Aang says a matter- of- factly.
Before Jackie can ask I give her a look that tells her not to. Sokka then spots her ipod that is still in her hand. "What's that?" he asks.
"An ipod, duh," Jackie responds.
"What's it for?" Aang asks.
"Listening to music. What have you been living in a cave?" Jackie retorts.
"Never heard of it before, how does it work?" Katara chimes in.
"How have you never heard of an ipod before?" Jackie snaps back as Phil and I give her hand signs trying to make her stop.
"Um, will you excuse us for a minute?" I pronounce as I grab Jackie's arm and start moving away from the gaang's earshot and Phil follows me.
"Haley, what the heck is going on and how have they never heard of an ipod before." Jackie asks confusingly.
I look at Phil and he gives me the go ahead nod. "I don't know exactly how to put this but, I believe we are in an animated show."
"WHAT?" Jackie screams and starts freaking out and the gaang looks over at us. "How is that possible?" she asks quietly as she looks at Phil and me.
"Well, I think when lightning struck my cell, which by the way miraculously survived; we were somehow transported here." I answer.
"I still don't know how this is possible but, how does this show work," she asks.
"Well," Phil starts to explain, "in this world people can control fire, water, earth, and air. The fire nation started a war a hundred years ago because they wanted to take over the world. They killed all the airbenders but, Aang got trapped in an iceberg a hundred years ago and Katara used her waterbending to get him out when she found him. Now Aang has to master all the elements because he is the avatar and the only one that can do that. He has to master all the elements so he can take down Firelord Ozai before a major comet comes that the firelord can use to help take over the world easier. Aang can also go into the avatar state where he can use all the power and knowledge of the previous avatars. The only bad thing is if he gets killed during the avatar state the avatar cycle will be terminated and there will never be an avatar ever again. It's Aang's job as the avatar to save the world and Katara and Sokka just want to help him."
"Also there is the guy, Prince Zuko, who's fire nation and after Aang. He needs to capture the avatar because he was banished and is only allowed to go back if he captures Aang." I say. "There is some other stuff but, we can just explain it when you need to know."
"Well, that's confusing. Do you think Aang could send us back home?"
"You can ask but, I'll have to think about going back." I say.
"What?" Phil and Jackie say as they look at me.
"Well, think about it. Our world's crazier than theirs and I don't know… maybe helping someone save the world could be fun." I explain myself shyly.
"She's got a point; I mean I always wanted to go on an adventure." Phil says back.
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