Chapter 1: A Great Adventure begins

Authors note: This is my first Avatar fic. I love this show so i figured i would give it a shot. I welcome questions or constructively criticizing me.

Thanks for reading

This is Set about one week after the episode The Warriors of Kyoshi

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar or the World of Darkness that gave me the idea.

Hi my name it Kai and I am a member of the Uratha tribe on the southern edge of the Earth kingdom not far from Kyoshi island. This is my story of how i came to be part of the group that traveled with the Avatar during that fateful year. This is a story of friendship, struggle, triumph, and defeat but ultimately about love and truth. This is the story of are lives together and how, we even after all these years, are still together. Well enough about that lets get on with the story.

I was out hunting for my breakfast that fateful morning and I was on the trail of what i thought was a small ratsquirrel. I stocked forward slowly noticing it had a rather odd colored tail but my hunger was running my brain. So instead of stopping to see what i was about to pounce on i just leapt at it. Well i don't know how too describe the feeling of being midair and then thrown sideways but its a very disconcerting. I land on my side but quickly rolled to my feet. whipping around i saw the source of my pain.

It was a boy about 12 years old dressed in orange and yellow robes holding a staff in his hands. I was unsure of how he had managed to strike me as he was still over fifteen or so feet away. "Aang! What is it?" a voice from behind the boy said. Coming up behind him a where beautiful young girl and tall lanky young man. Now if you've ever been backed into a corner you know you can't get out of with out trouble, you'll know how i felt. "I've never seen a wolf that big before." said the boy with the funny arrow on his head. I growled at him, letting him know i was not play games here." Whoa, careful Aang it looks mighty peeved that you stole its breakfast." Replied the young man. Speaking of my afore mentioned meal, it had flow up and set itself on top of the shoulder of the boy with the arrow tattoo on his head." I think he's just hungry right?" He asked me. For a moment I thought about trying to answer but then remember my current shape. Oh yeah i haven't told you what Nahual real means yet have I, sorry my over site.

The Uratha tribe is a very unique group of people. My tribe never numbered very many more the maybe five hundred people, but there is a very good reason for that. You see even the name of my tribe means something. The word Uratha means" the wolf within". Yep you guessed it my people have gift for animals pretty much because we are half one. My people are shape shifters. I know I know that's weird well try growing up with a mom and a dad that turns into wolves. My whole tribe can do it. But your parents dictate what colors you might become. In the case of my family i got my dads color and my younger brother and sister, they got moms. But any way that's not the point. Now you know why I was hunting the way I was but enough family history, back to the more important stuff.

I bearded my fangs I was not going down with out a fight. The other boy that was there raised what looked like a sharp edged boomerang and set ready to throw it at even the slightest provocation. "Calm down Sokka. Its just hungry and frightened." Said the arrow headed boy. Frightened, FRIGHTENED, I haven't been scared of anything since my First Change and now some kid is telling me how, i feel i don't think so. So I did something that at the time seamed like a good idea being the major idiot that I can be, I changed into my war-form. Now, thinking back on it that wasn't probably the best idea but it was all that was running trough my anger and hunger idled mind. As my frame shifted and reformed into a man i heard gasps then screams then running. Now i was pretty proud or myself, I had show those kids a thing or two and I was happy as a clam. This was until I realized that i had just show complete strangers that I was not a normal wolf or for that mater a normal anything.

So after about twenty minutes of searching in wolf shape I found there camp. There was a massive air bison which I thought were extinct. The three were running around packing as fast as they could, so I figured I better make the first move. I walked slowly out off the bushes until I was easily visible to them. My white-grey coat is surprisingly hard to see in a forest. They all froze upon seeing me. I didn't move and they didn't move." What do you think it wants?" the girl asked to none in particular. "I think it came to eat us!" exclaimed the one called Sokka. I shook my head. That was a rather radical assumption to come to. "I don't think so, if it wanted to eat us it wouldn't be sitting there staring at us." The girl said." Katara's right Sokka, I think it wants to talk to us." arrow head said. I nod slowly so they understand. "Ok so what does it want?" Asks Sokka. I very slowly start to change. Now normal it takes about twenty second completely change but that can very for may different reasons. The foremost is that we can control the speed of the change. So over about a minute i change from large predatory wolf to average sized man. Now before any one asks, no I am not completely naked. My people long ago figured out that the change is not friendly to clothing. Meaning that what ever you're wearing is pretty much destroyed if you don't take it off. But one of the first things young ones are thought is how to shift the clothing with us when we change. This is helps avoid all those would be awkward situations. ill explain the how later. Anyway back to the important stuff.

As I stood in front of them they all just sat there staring at me. Not that I blame them, it not every day you watch a wolf become a man. Final the one named Aang spoke up. "What are you?" he asked. "I am a member of the Uratha tribe. My name is Kai." I replied. "How did you do that?" he asked. I smiled and said " Its a gift the my people have always had or so the legends say." They seamed to be mulling it over in there heads when the one named Sokka said "HEY WHAT A MINUTE, I've Never heard of Urnthura tribe before." I grimaced at the butchering he gave my tribal name but didn't hold it against him." Its Uratha, but the reason you've probably never heard of us is because we keep to are selves most of the time." I replied. "Look I am sorry I scared you back there in the woods but
I don't like being backed into a corner. Its a wolf thing." I said to them with a bow to show that I was sorry. "Um Ok but I should be the one apologizing I hit you first." said Aang. I smiled and said "True but I was trying to eat your pet... what is that by the way?" I ask. "This is Momo his a winged-lemur." replied Aang. "I'm sorry I tried to eat him I was just hungry." I replied, and then my stomach decided to remind me that I hadn't eaten any food yet this morning buy grumbling loudly. The three stared to laugh and I joined in after a moment. "Would you like to eat with us?" asked Katara. "I would love to, thank you." I replied. We sat down to eat and so the best thing that could have ever happened to me began that morning.