This is my orginial story. Its being reedited & reposted. A new chapter goes up when I get a few reviews. This begins between chapters 17 & 18 of book 1.
CONTINUOS DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN AVATAR!!!
Chp.1 Out of this World
"Tessa, you're going to be late," my mother yelled up the stairs.
"Coming!" I yelled, then went back to Nora on the phone, "Uh! I hate it when she calls me that, why can't she use my nickname like everyone else? Alright, gotta go, you going be at the game?"
"Sorry, can't, gotta clean my room or I'm grounded," Nora said with a laugh.
"Bummer, that's a fun way to spend your Saturday," I said, encouraging another laugh.
"Well, catch ya later, good luck!" she said, hanging up.
"Bye," I said out of habit before putting my phone down. I rolled off the bed & picked up my bag, checking to make sure I had everything I was going to need. I zipped the bag back up & threw it over my shoulder, bolting out the door & down the stairs. "Bye mom!"
"Have a good game, Tessa!" she called.
"Don't call me that!" I muttered angrily as I leaped onto my bike. I rolled down the driveway, up the street, took a left, another left & a right into the AYSO fields.
"Hey everybody!"
"Yo, Seabiscuit," the Dalton yelled as I leapt off my bike & dropped my bag.
"We were starting to get worried you wouldn't show," Lynx said, passing me the ball.
"Sorry guys, I was on the phone with Nora," I said sheepishly, taking a shot at the goal.
"Typical, girls talk too much," Lynx laughed.
"HEY!" I said, chucking the ball at him.
"Chill, would ya? Save it for the other team," Lynx said, passing it back to me.
"With pleasure," I snickered.
Suddenly I heard a yell behind me, "Hey Coach! They've got a girl on their team!"
I spun around in rage & opened my mouth, but the Dalton beat me to it, "Yeah we got a girl on our team, you got a problem with that?"
"Yeah I do, girls suck at soccer!" the obnoxious idiot yelled.
"EXCUSE ME!" I bellowed furiously, Lynx had the good sense to get between us.
"Girls can't play soccer, pure & simple, they're too weak & delicate," the idiot yelled.
"WHAT!" I screamed, I would have punched him right then & there if Lynx hadn't been in the way. "Do I look delicate to you?"
"As a matter of fact, yes!" he yelled.
"Do you have a death wish?" Lynx asked, trying to restrain me.
"What's the problem?" their coach asked as he came over.
"They've got a girl on their team!" his player responded.
"Oh," he turned to our coach who had just arrived, "Sir, I cannot allow you to play with a girl on your team, it's too much of a disadvantage."
"It's a what?" my coach asked, looking slightly angry.
"A disadvantage, she wouldn't stand a chance against my team & just be in the way of your real players. My older son can take her place, he hasn't played in awhile, but he'd be better than she would be," their coach replied, waving his son on the field without waiting for a response.
"What the crap! You can't just come out here & kick our players off the field!" the Dalton yelled.
"Be quiet Dalton, Seabiscuit will play," my coach said, looking at the Dalton then back at the other coach. "Sir, this young lady will be in the game, I have no doubt in her abilities."
"Well, I do, I'll tell the ref the game is off because you cannot meet standards, you forfeit," the other coach said, walking towards the ref.
"No wait!" my coach said, turning to me, "Seabiscuit, we need this game if we want to make it into the playoffs, can sit this one out?"
"Coach, how can you ask me that? You're going to let these sexist pigs drive one of your best players off the field!" I said furiously.
"I wish I didn't have to, but we need this game," coach said, pleading.
"Fine, if you're going to put up with this, you just lost your center midfield, PERMANTLY! Let's see how you do without me to feed the ball to Lynx!" I yelled, strutting off the field.
"Wait a second! Coach, you're kicking Seabiscuit out?" Lynx yelled.
"Sorry fellas, had to if we want to go to the playoffs," coach replied.
"Fine, Seabiscuit doesn't play, we don't either!" the Dalton yelled, he & Lynx following me.
"Come on, Biscuit," Lynx said, coming up beside me.
"Yeah, we're leaving, the Dalton's not going to play without one of his best friends," the Dalton said.
"I can't believe Coach!" I growled, picking up my bag & grabbing my bike.
"I can't either!" Lynx said, throwing his bag over one shoulder & sliding his skateboard in front of him, leaping onto it.
The Dalton pulled his bike up, throwing a leg over it, "The Dalton thinks we should go to the pond."
"Not a bad idea," Lynx said, "Whatcha think, Seabiscuit?"
"I think I rather go back & knock that idiot's teeth out!" I growled.
"Chill out, would ya? Come on, let's go to the pond," Lynx muttered, turning to the right, the direction of the pond as we left the fields.
I followed him, swearing under my breath. I am an extreme feminist & what that jerk said really pissed me off, although not as much as coach giving in! I wasn't paying much attention to what I was doing; we reached the pond without my noticing. I rode straight down the dock that reaches out about 30 feet into the pond, Lynx & the Dalton followed me, trying to figure out what I was doing. I realized where I was, seconds before going off the end of the dock!
"Seabiscuit!" I heard the Dalton yell & out of the corner of my eye, I saw him ride his bike over the edge to my left.
"Whoa!" Lynx yelped, I saw him fly off the dock on the other side. As I felt water close over my head, my bike dragging me down, I suddenly realized I had my mp3 player in my backpack. I let go of the bike, the boys would help me get it later. I kicked hard, pushing upward, a moment later I felt air on my face again. A glance at the shore quickly erased all thoughts of my mp3 player from my head, this wasn't the pond anymore!
"Biscuit help me!" the Dalton yelped, struggling with his bike.
"The Dalton, forget it! We have bigger problems at the moment!" I yelled, "Look at the shore!"
"Dude! This isn't the pond! What happened? It was the pond when I went under!" Lynx cried.
"I don't know! Head for the land!" I screamed, extremely freaked out. I pushed my hands in front of me in a strong breaststroke & was walking up the bank within a minute. To my surprise, I wasn't even wet, neither was the Dalton or Lynx. "Okay, where are we?" I muttered glancing around, I'd never seen anything like this place in my life.
"I don't know," the Dalton replied, his eyes darting back & forth as he scanned the landscape.
"Guys, we got company!" Lynx said, pointing at a bunch of scary looking men in red uniforms running towards us.
"Oh crud, they don't look friendly," I muttered.
"Get them! They're wearing blue, they must be Water Tribe soldiers!" one of them yelled. They fanned out, now I could see that there were only six of them. They stopped about three feet from us, with their fists up in a fighting position.
"Yeah, definitely not friendly," I yelled.
"Are we going to fight?" Lynx asked, it was kind of funny to hear him ask what we were going to do. He's the captain so he normally gives the orders.
"The Dalton thinks we don't have a choice," the Dalton said, "Didn't you take a lot of kung fu classes, Lynx?"
"Yeah, but it's been a while. The Dalton, how good are you with your fists? We don't have to worry about Seabiscuit," Lynx muttered.
"Why don't we have to worry about Seabiscuit?" I asked, my voice sounding unusually high.
Lynx started to answer but the Dalton cut him off, "Hey, third person is my thing!"
"Because you've won every fight I've ever seen you get in!" Lynx replied, ignoring the Dalton.
Just then they attacked us, one of them threw a fist at my face, I dodged it Matrix style. He was using some form of martial arts & I was having a rough time, especially when his friend joined in.
"Lynx, I'm a street fighter, this is karate or something!" I screamed, using my kicks to keep them away from me.
"The Dalton has a problem!" the Dalton yelled. I spun to see what was wrong, he was trapped in between one of their arms.
"Dude, this is not cool!" I screamed, trying to defend myself. If I had been against people like me, who street fight, I would have had a good chance of winning or at least not dying. As it was, I had as much of a chance as a snowman in June. Suddenly a boomerang came out of nowhere & hit one of the two guys attacking me in the head, he hit the ground with a loud thud.
A blue clad figure with a club leapt in front of me, "Take that!" He yelled, swinging the club at the men. Another blue clad figure stood by the water, making it rise in the air & shooting it at the men. For a second I thought I was seeing things, but then I noticed the third figure. He was wearing orange & yellow & he had an arrow on his head, swinging a stick around, not touching the men, but they still fell back. A minute later, the three strangers had taken all the soldiers out.
"Come on," one of the blue clad figures said, she was a girl, I could tell by her voice. She grabbed Lynx's hand & sprinted towards the woods we hadn't noticed before. The Dalton, the other two strangers & I followed as fast as we could. We reached a clearing with a huge white fluffy thing that looked like a cow/beaver with six legs.
"Thanks for saving us," Lynx said, pulling away from the girl, coming back to the Dalton & me.
"No problem, but you guys sure are clueless about fighting the Fire Nation," the blue clad boy said.
"The what nation?" I asked, pulling my backpack off. Judging by the looks on the strangers' faces, I'd just said something incredibly stupid.
"How do you not know about the Fire Nation?" the girl asked.
"We don't know even know where we are," Lynx said with a shrug.
"Whoa, hold on a second, you don't know where you are?" the guy with the arrow on his head asked.
"How about you tell us?" the Dalton asked, sarcasm heavy in his voice.
"Is the Earth Kingdom enough of a location?" the blue clad boy said, his sarcasm worse than the Dalton's.
"No," the boys & I said in unison, "What's the Earth Kingdom?"
"You all have no idea, do you?" the girl asked.
"Who are you?" the blue clad boy asked. "Is this just a trick to get at the Avatar?"
"The what-a-tar?" I asked, but Lynx cut me off.
"I'm Lynx, that's Seabiscuit, that's the Dalton. Who're ya'll?"
"That's Katara, this is Sokka, I'm Aang," the dude with the arrow on his head said.
"What kind of name is Seabiscuit?" Sokka laughed.
"One you better not make fun of if you like your teeth," I growled.
"Easy Seabiscuit, now where are we?" Lynx demanded.
"Where are you from?" Katara asked.
"The United States," the Dalton said dryly.
"The what?" Sokka asked.
"The USA," I tried.
"Never heard of it," Sokka said, "What is it?"
"A country," the Dalton said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"There's only four nations & one's dead, I've never heard of the USA" Katara said.
"Four? There's like 250," Lynx said skeptically.
"In our world," I said, interrupting their debate.
"What do you meanin our world?" the Dalton asked.
"It's like the Chronicles of Narnia or something; I think we're in another world." I said simply, waiting for the explosion.
"WHAT?" the Dalton & Lynx yelled.
"There's another world?" Aang asked, looking surprised.
"Apparently, since this is definitely not ours," I said with a shrug. "So explain to us what this world is, & what the crap is the big fluffy thing?"
"Oh, you mean Appa? He's a flying bison," Aang said.
"Are we sure we can trust these guys? They may be Fire Nation spies," Sokka said.
"What's the Fire Nation, the Dalton wants to know!" the Dalton said grumpily.
"Sokka, there are way too clueless, they have to be telling the truth!" Katara said testily.
Suddenly a loud, "AVATAR!" cut through the clearing. We all spun to look, it was a really really hot guy with a scar on his left eye. I didn't think he was so hot after he brought his hands up, when they came down a massive ball of fire headed straight for us! Double crud.
