I don't own ATLA! Hope you all like my first fic! Obviously AU with the OOCness and age differences.
They say that The Elemental College of Bending was the best school for benders out there. It seemed like it was located in the center of all four nations. Even though my twin brother (yes we are identical twins, though most don't see our similarities) and I didn't go there for their bending, it was still a great school. For me, they had excellent history classes about each element and their backgrounds. You see, I want to become a history professor. Right now, I plan to go to The Elemental College of Bending to get started on my thesis on the Avatar, the master of all the elements. Also, since I'm a waterbender, I will be taking their healing classes as some of their required credits for benders. My brother, however, is not a bender and isn't required to take any bending classes. He wants to become a master swordsman and have his own dojo to teach the 'way of the sword'. That's how he puts it anyways. That's why this college is so great! They have everything here. I can tell I'm going to love it there.
I wanted to wear something that would show others that I was a waterbender. I wanted to stand out. I wanted to know other waterbenders. Where I came from, I was the only waterbender. This will hopefully be a change for the better.
"Katara! Stop daydreaming and drooling, we are here!" I was startled out of my college fantasies and glared at him.
"Sokka I do not drool!" I told him angrily. I soon got over it when campus came into view. We both pressed our faces against the windows to get a better look at the campus.
It was beautiful. The whole campus made a square shape. In the far back you could see four identical buildings, each with a different elemental symbol. That's where all the bending classes would take place, depending on what type of bender you were. To the left was a Social Science building and an Arts building. The Social Science building is where the history, math, and science classes were and the Arts building is where the art and theater classes were. To the right were the administrative offices and where book and supplies stores were. The cafeteria was also there. The opening where you walked into the square was a big parking lot. All around campus, dorm rooms were located by every building. In the middle was a very large grassy area with a pond and fountain. Probably for students during their study time. Our father, Hakoda, pulled into the parking lot and helped us start to get our luggage out.
"I can't believe this is it," I said quietly. Now that it was finally here, I couldn't believe it.
"I'm sure you'll do fine here, Katara," my dad told me. I looked up at him and saw he was teary-eyed. For his sake, I would be strong about this. Sokka and I gave him a big hug and said our good-byes. We waved at him as he pulled away.
"Love you dad!" I yelled, waving my arms around. I guess I overdid it though because I ended up smacking Sokka in the face.
"Ouch!"
"Sorry."
"It's fine, let's just head to the office," Sokka grumbled.
We grabbed our things and headed over to the administrative building. When we walked in the first thing I noticed was a map of the campus on a billboard. Apparently they had arenas in the far back of campus for specific things. They had a sports building and designated feilds for the sports. The also had an arena for every element. And they also had a swordfighting and warrior training arena.
When I looked around inside the admin office building, I seen it was a lot like what we seen outside. The elemenetal books were in the far back, the social science books were to the left, and these old looking ladies were seated in a front desk near the right. The billboard I seen was right in the middle next to their very large cafeteria. I guessed that they put important announcements on that billboard.
I'll have to pay attention to that.
My thoughts were put to a halt when the old ladies started speaking to Sokka and I. We walked up to them.
"Hello, what are your names?" they spoke in unison. It was very unsettling.
"Um. I'm Katara Mesyk and this is Sokka Mesyk," I told the unsettling, old ladies. They went to the back and rumaged through file drawer after file drawer until finally popping back up to us.
"Here are your schedules, book lists, dorm buildings, room numbers and keys, and cafeteria cards. Those cards are good for discounts on basically everything here, so don't lose them," they smiled at us. We thanked them and walked away.
"Is it just me or are theyyyy... uhhhh," Sokka slowly stopped walking and had the all-too-familiar love sick stare stuck to his face.
"Okay, who is it this time?" I rolled my eyes at him. He just kept staring and pointed.
I looked in the direction where he was pointing at and saw a very pretty girl with brownish-red hair. She seemed like the cheerleader type to me. She turned and looked at us.
"Oh no! She's coming this way! What do I do? What do I say? Oh no, oh no, oh no..." I slapped him.
"Knock it off she's almost here!" I glared at him. I quickly replaced it with a smile as the girl came closer to us.
"Hi! I'm Suki. Do you think one of you can help me?" Sokka was still speachless, so I guess it was up to me to help this girl.
"I'm Katara and this is Sokka," I pointed to a scared-shitless Sokka, "We'd love to help, but we're new here too so we might not be as much help."
"Maybe we could help each other then," she smiled sweetly at me. I couldn't help but really start to like this girl.
"What do you need help with?" I asked.
"I need to find a dorm building called Scholtte. Do you guys know where that is?" Suki asked. Sokka perked up.
"Hey, that's where I'm at! It's right here on the map, look." He went right up next to Suki and pushed the map up into her face.
"I guess that means you're a non-bender too?" Suki asked as she tried to get the map out of her face.
"They room people based on their bending ability?" I asked.
"Ya, they have like three dorm buildings for each elemental and non-bender."
"Well we should probably head over there and check it out. See ya later Katara!" Sokka said hurriedly. He grabbed Suki and his bags and made a run towards Scholtte. Suki looked back and gave me a silent look that said, "We'll talk later".
I sighed and looked for my dorm building.
Looks like I'm in Aguafer on the other side of campus in room 406. Well Katara, the best school around means a lot of students. I can probably get my supplies and books after I move in since we have a free day today.
I started walking towards my dorm, talking out my schedule.
Monday
TIME, CLASS, TEACHER, BUILDING, ROOM
8:00-8:50, Breakfast
9:00-10:10, Airbender History, Monk Gyatso, Soc. Sci., 167
10:20-11:30, Healing, Kana Touri, Water, 53
11:40-12:40, Lunch
12:50-2:00, Chemistry, Mr. Boots, Soc. Sci., 234
2:10-4:10, Study
4:20-5:30, Dinner
Tuesday
TIME, CLASS, TEACHER, BUILDING, ROOM
8:00-8:50, Breakfast
9:00-10:10, Waterbender History, Mr. Pakku, Soc. Sci., 183
10:20-11:30, Healing , Kana Touri, Water, 53
11:40-12:40, Lunch
12:50-2:00, Calculus, Mrs. Schulte, Soc. Sci., 265
2:10-4:10, Study
4:20-5:30, Dinner
Wednesday
TIME, CLASS, TEACHER, BUILDING, ROOM
8:00-8:50, Breakfast
9:00-10:10, Earthbender History, Sir Beifong, Soc. Sci., 172
10:20-11:30, Healing , Kana Touri, Water, 53
11:40-12:40, Lunch
12:50-2:00, Personal Wellness, Coach Beau, Gym, Gym
2:10-4:10, Study
4:20-5:30, Dinner
Thursday
TIME, CLASS, TEACHER, BUILDING, ROOM
8:00-8:50, Breakfast
9:00-10:10, Firebender History, Gen. Iroh, Soc. Sci., 149
10:20-11:30, Healing , Kana Touri, Water, 53
11:40-12:40, Lunch
12:50-2:00, Chemistry, Mr. Boots, Soc. Sci., 234
2:10-4:10, Study
4:20-5:30, Dinner
Friday
TIME, CLASS, TEACHER, BUILDING, ROOM
8:00-8:50, Breakfast
9:00-10:10, Elemental/Avatar History, Guru Pathik, Soc. Sci., 143
10:20-11:30, Healing, Kana Touri, Water, 53
11:40-12:40, Lunch
12:50-2:00, Calculus, Mrs. Schulte, Soc. Sci., 265
2:10-4:10, Study
4:20-5:30, Dinner
As I continued to evaluate my schedule, I didn't notice another person doing the exact same thing. Soon we collided with each other, bags falling to the ground.
"Oomph!" We both hit the ground hard. I looked up at the kid, who was currently sprawled out on the sidewalk. I saw that he was a boy. The first thing I noticed were his eyes. They were a beautiful silver. He was obviously an airbender. He had on a blue beanie, which was concealing a blue arrow underneath. He was also wearing a black hoodie and blue jeans. Even with the hoodie on you could tell he was lean, but muscular.
"Ouch," he heald his head in his hands. When he glanced up at me he gasped," Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry. My first day here and I'm already running people over," he stressed.
I said the first thing that came to my mind, "Aren't you a little young to have your arrows?"
"W-what do you mean?" he asked me, eyes wide, immediately deffensive. He reached up to yank his beanie over his arrow.
"Well by the looks of it, you're a Freshman and I know most airbenders don't get their arrows until they're at least out of college." By now we were standing, not realizing how close we were to each others faces.
"How would you, a little Water Tribe girl, know anything about my own culture and feel the need to lecture it to me?" His eyes narrowed. At first I was wondering how he knew I was water tribe, until I looked down at myself.
You wanted to stand out.
I sighed.
He is very observative. Almost as much as me. Still doesn't explain why he's so nervous. Wait a minute... No, he can't be... That's rediculous Katara, he can't be the Avatar. Well, I guess it wouldn't be that surprising since this is the best school for benders. Maybe he wants to keep it a secret.
"I plan on becoming a History teacher. I'm planning to learn all there is to know about each elements cultural backgorund. I'm also here to learn all there is about the Avatar," after hearing me say Avatar, his eyes got noticeably bigger," It's actually what my thesis is about," I told him smugly.
"Congradulations," he managed to sputter out.
Based on his reactions, he might be the Avatar... Lets see how far he lets this go.
"You wouldn't happen to know anything about the Avatar, would you?" I turned my back to him, asking him innocently.
When I turned back around he had pressed himself up against me. He was so close I could feel our breaths mix. I glanced up at his eyes to see him staring intensely at me. My heartbeat went up a few notches when I noticed that he was bringing his face down to my ear.
He whispered slowly, "Leave me alone."
As quickly as that happened, he was gone.
After a few minutes to get my heartbeat down, I smirked and whispered to myself, "That proves it. He's the Avatar. And I'm gonna get him to tell me."
Please tell me you liked it? Don't worry Aang won't be a bitch this whole time. He's just stressed with all that's going on. He wants to keep being the Avatar a secret and Katara might blow it for him. When they encounter next time will she be so kind to let him get away? Mhuahaha. I hope you all liked this and will be patient with me for the next update! R & R!