Chapter 1

The Last Two Air Benders

In the southern water tribe there are two siblings that are out fishing. A teenage boy, Sokka, shaven headed except for a pony tail, stands in the canoe. The other occupant is a young girl.

"It's not getting away from me this time. Watch and learn, Katara. This is how you catch a fish." Sokka said watching the fish close to the surface.

"Sokka, look!" Katara says, bending a fish out of the water in a globe of water.

"Shhh. Katara, you're gonna scare it away. Mmmm... I can already smell it cookin'!" Sokka whispered to his sister.

"But Sokka! I caught one!" Katara said, trying to retain control of the globe of water.

When the water floats close to Sokka and he was about to strike the fish, he burst the bubble of water. The fish falls back into the sea and Sokka gets dranched.

"Hey!" Katara said.

"Ugh! Why is it that every time you play with magic water I get soaked?" Sokka says.

"It's not magic. It's waterbending, and it's."

"Yeah, yea, an ancient art unique to our culture, blah blah blah. Look, I'm just saying that if I had weird powers, I's keep my weirdness to myself." Sokka said to his sister.

"You're calling me weird? I'm not the one who makes muscles at myself every time I see my reflection in the water." Katara retorted back.

He then turns to Katara after making a muscle and looking at his reflection and gives her a look. Suddenly the boat is bumped. When they look up they see that they have entered an ice packed area. So they begin to work frantically to maneuver the canoe between the icebergs.

"Ahhh!"

"Watch out! Go left! Go left!" Katara shouted.

Well you can say they didn't get through. They had to jump of the canoe onto one of the icebergs.

"You call that left?" Katara said to her brother.

"You don't like my steering. Well, maybe you should have waterbended us out of the ice." Sokka said.

"So it's my fault?" she said.

"I knew I should have left you home. Leave it to a girl to screw things up." Sokka said.

Katara anger was boiling over.

"You are the most sexist, immature, nut brained..."

As she get more excited, the iceberg on which they are sitting begins to heave.

"ugh, I'm embarrassed to be related to you! Ever since Mom died I've been doing all the work around camp while you're been off playing soldier!" she yells.

Sokka then notices the creaking iceberg. "Uh...Katara?"

"I even wash all the clothes! Have you ever smelled your dirty socks? Let me tell you, NOT PLEASANT!" she yelled again.

"Katara! Settle down!" Sokka said.

"No, that's it. I'm done helping you. From now on, you're on your own!" she screamed. As she finished, the iceberg behind her splits open entirely. It disintegrates and the major pieces fall into the water, pushing their iceberg away.

"Okay, you gone from weird to freakish, Katara." Sokka said, looking at the iceberg.

"You mean I did that?" Katara said awed

"Yup. Congratulation." Sokka said.

As they both look over the edge of the iceberg raft there is a sudden glow of an incandescent blue. They move backwards on their raft as another, lighter coloured iceberg breaks the surface. After it had settled, Katara walks to the edge to get a better look. Deep in the ice, the figure of a boy in a meditation pose is seen. She gasped as his eyes glow and his arrow markings glow white.

"He's alive! We have to help." Katara said. She skips across a few icebergs with her brothers spear. Sokka follows. She begins to use the hockey stick to whack at the ice. After the ice cracks open a huge shaft of white blue light shoots straight into the heavens.

Zuko's POV

"Finally. Uncle do you realize what this means?" He said, turning to his uncle.

"I won't get to finish my game?" Iroh says.

"It's mean my search-it's about to come to an end."

Iroh groans.

"That light came from an incredibly powerful source. It has to be him!" Zuko said.

"Or it's just the calastial lights. We've been down this road before, Prince Zuko. I don't want you to get too excited over nothing. Please, sit. Why don't you enjoy a cup of calming jasmine tea?" Iroh said.

"I don't need any calming tea! I need the capture the Avatar. Helmsmen, head a course for the light!" Zuko shouted.

Back to Katara and Sokka.

Sokka was still shielding his sister from the blast that just dissipated. They look up to see the residual blue light still swirling around the top of what is left of the iceberg. Suddenly, the boy appears his eyes and arrow markings still aglow.

"Stop!" Sokka says raising his spear.

The glow and residual energy fades, which makes him pass out and slide down the side of the ruined iceberg to Sokka and Katara. Katara lunges forward and catches him as he falls. Sokka pokes him in the head with the blunt end of his weapon.

"Stop it!" Katara said. She turns the boy over so that he is lying on his back. He then begins to wake up. He slowly opens his eyes.

He then whispers in a weak voice. "I need to ask you something."

"What."

Still whispering. "Please... come closer."

"What is it?"

Then in a normal, even excited voice. "Will you go penguin sledding with me?" he said.

"Uh...sure. I guess." Katara said.

He then airbends himself to his feet, rubbing the back of his head.

"Ahh!" Sokka gasped.

"What's going on here?" he said.

"You tell us! How'd you get in the ice? (Poke him with his spear) And why aren't you frozen?" Sokka said.

"I'm not sure." He said batting the spear away, absently.

He then gasps as a low, animal like noise is heard. He begins to frantically climb back up the ruined iceberg, then jumps over the limp and lands on a huge furry animal.

"Appa! Are you all right? Wake up, buddy."

Katara and Sokka come around the corner and their mouths drop in shock as they see the monster, whose mouth opens and licks the boy trying to wake him up.

"Haha! You're okay!" the boy says.

He hugs Appa.

"What is that thing?" Sokka said.

"This is Appa, my flying bison."

"Right. This is Katara, my flying sister."

The boy was about to reply, but doesn't as Appa begins to sneeze. He ducks in time as Appa proceeds to sneeze all over Sokka.

"Ewww! Ashh!" Sokka groans.

Sokka then tries to get rid of it by rolling around on the ice and snow.

"Dont worry. It'll wash out." He said.

"Ugh!"

"So, do you guys live around here?" he asked them.

"Don't answer that! Did you see that crazy bolt of light? He was probably trying to signal the Fire Navy." Sokka said.

"Oh, yeah, I'm sure he's a spy for the Fire Navy. You can tell by that evil look in his eyes." Katara says. The boy then an innocent smile.

"The paranoid one is my brother Sokka. You never told us your name." Katara asked.

"I'm A... aaaahhhh... ahhhhhh... aaah aaah aaah AAAAAAACHOOOO!" he tries to say his name but sneezes which makes him zoom off the ground far into the air. He responds to her question after he lands.

"I'm Aang."

"You just sneezed... and flew ten feet in the air."

"Really? It felt higher than that." Aang said.

Katara gasped. "You're an airbender."

"Sure am." Aang answers.

"Giant light beams... flying bison... airbenders... I think I've got Midnight Sun Madness. I'm going home to where stuff makes sense." Sokka said, starting to walk away. But before Aang could answer him they all here a groan coming from above Appa.

"Oh no. I almost forgot." Aang said.

"What?" Katara said. As they watch Aang jump up onto Appa's saddle thing.

"Natsumi. Come on Natsumi, wake up." Aang says.

"What, you have someone else with you. Who?" Katara says, climbing up onto Appa.

"Yeah, my older sister. I guess she managed to stay on the saddle."

Katara looked down to see a girl at about 16 with long brown hair, wearing almost the same kind of clothes as Aang only more feminine.

"We should get her to the village." Katara said, just as Sokka climbed up beside her.

"Fine. They can come to the village." Sokka said, sitting down looking grumpy while Katara sat beside Natsumi, who was still asleep. Aang moved to Appa head.

"Okay. First time flyers, hold on tight! Appa, yip yip!" Aang said, shaking the reigns. He doesn't get too far, which is right into the water.

"Come on Appa. Yip yip."

"Wow. That was truly amazing."

"Appa's just tired. A little rest and he'll be soaring through the sky. You'll see."

Aang then turns to Katara with a smile on his face looking at her.

"Why are you smiling at me like that?" she said.

"Oh... I was smiling?"

"Uuuuugh." Sokka groaned, digusted.

Skip to back at the village. Your POV. (finally)

When I woke up, it was to see white all around me. I looked over to see my little brother Aang sleeping. I looked down at my hands. 'How did I survive?' Then it all came back to me, of what had happened that night. It was a storm, Aang and I were trying to keep a hold of Appa's saddle. We then penetrate the surface and enter the watery depths. We then come up briefly for air, Appa groans, but we are once again driven under the storm tossed waves. As we drift downward, I noticed Aang drop App's reigns and begins to lose consciousness while I still had a hold of the saddle. Then I had noticed Aangs markings glow white. He puts his hands together and he freezes us in a huge ball of ice.

I look up to see a girl in the door way.

"Oh, your awake, that's good to see." She said.

"Where am I, and who are you." I said.

"My names Katara. You're at the South Pole. My brother and I saved you and Aang yesterday from and iceberg." I looked at her. Then looked back at Aang.

"Are you hungry?" she asked me.

"Yes I am."

"Then follow me." She said.

I followed her outside to see a small group of kids and some women of various ages around.

"Hey Katara." I hear a boy call.

"Oh hey Sokka." She said and a boy around my age came running up.

"Oh so you're up." He said.

I looked at him and thought he was cute, but not my kind of cute.

"I guess I should thank you for helping me and my brother."

"Um yeah, you're welcome."

I then follow Katara to a fire where an old lady stood.

"Gran Gran. Can you make sure that she gets something to eat." She asked the lady, who I guess is her grandmother.

She left to go into the snow house where I was.

"Here you go." She said, handing me a bowl.

"Thank you." I said, taking the bowl.

"What is your name." She asked me.

"It's Natsumi."

"Whaaaa!" we hear behind us.

I turn to see Katara dragging my brother out.

I sat the bowl down which I had quickly eaten and walk over to my brother.

"Aang." I said and walked over to him.

"Sis!" he yelled jumping at me.

I caught myself before I could fall down.

"I didn't think you would wake up."

"Well as you can see, I'm better."

"Aang, Natsumi, this is the entire village. Entire village, Aang and Natsumi." Katara said, turning us to the whole village which wasn't much.

"Uh... why are they all looking at us like that? Did Appa sneeze on me?" Aang asked.

"Well, no one has seen an airbender in a hundred years. We thought they were extinct until my granddaughter and grandson found you two." Gran Gran said.

"Extinct" We both said with wide eyes.

"Aang, this is my grandmother." Katara said.

"Call me Gran Gran."

Sokka then came over and grabbed Aang's staff. "What is this, a weapon? You can't stab anything with this."

"It's not for stabbing. (he creates a jet of air that sucks the staff back into his hand.) "It's for airbending.

He then opens it into a glider with red wings.

"Magic trick! Do it again!" says a little girl.

"Not magic, airbending. It lets me control the air currents around my glider and fly."

"You know, last time I checked, humans can't fly." Sokka said.

"Check again." Aang said and launches himself into the air with his glider.

I groan. "Not again."

"Huh." Katara said looking at me.

"You'll see." I said watching my brother flying over the village.

"Whoa... it's flying... it's amazing." The villagers said.

While Aang had his eyes on Katara that he didn't look where he was going, right into Sokka's guard tower. He then pulls his head out of the tower and falls to the ground with his glider.

"Oof!" as he falls.

Sokka gasped. "My watchtower."

"That was amazing." Katara said.

"Oh woot!" I said.

Katara looked at me after helping Aang.

"What you think you can do better."

I looked at her and was about to answer her. But Aang stopped me.

"Umm, she kind of can. She's airbender prodigy. The top student at the air temple." Aang said.

"So what does that mean." She said to me.

"It means that I can fly without a glider, only with airbending." I said.

"Great. You're both airbenders, Katara's a waterbender, together you can just waste time all day long."

We turn to Katara.

"You're a waterbender!" Aang asked her.

"Well... sort of. Not yet."

"All right. No more playing. Come on, Katara, you have chores." Gran Gran said leading Katara away.

I stand there watching Aang with the children and he had his tongue frozen to his staff.

"Aang what do you think you're doing." I said walking over to him. He just laughs as a child grabs his staff and yanks.

I shake my head and go to sit against the wall to meditate.

As I start to really meditate I hear Aang shout penguin, so I had a good idea on where he was going.

Time skip (to after Aang and Katara setting of flare.)

At the village we all heard a flash. I woke up from my meditated state and stand up to see a flare in the distance. 'That's not good. If there are Fire nation ships around we are in trouble.

Zuko POV

"The last airbender. Quite agile for his old age. Wake my uncle! Tell him I found the Avatar... as well as his hiding place."