Moons: Hi there, I'm Moons-san. This is my first Avatar Fanfic, so wish me luck.

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: the Last Airbender in any way! The show and all the other characters belong to Mike & Brain! I created Tai Ming. Megan is my friend's OC Naruto charater based on me. Don't steal ether of them!

Megan: Tai is my name in Chinese. Ming means bright, light, brilliant, clear. Just what she got on a "Your name in Chinese" thing online.

Moons: Ah yeah, and as stated above Megan is my OC Naruto character my friend made. She will appear sometimes, before and after each chapter with me. Warning: She gets hyper, real easily. Anyhow, here's what you clicked for.

From a distance, it looked like a storm. Sand was flying everywhere. No sandbender in they're right mind would attempt to drive a sand sailor out in a storm like it. Ironically, the storm was a sandbender driving a sand sailor. "I got it… I got it." The girl on the scooter muttered in a panicked way.

Her sandy brown hair waved in the wind caused by the sands. She pushed it out of the way of her emerald eyes, causing the storm driving the sailor move more rapidly. "Crap it all!" She said as she flung her arms to her sides, hoping to slow it down without luck. The ship-like craft flew over another dune.

The driver's name was Tai Ming. She was somewhat tall for her fourteen year old age, but other than that she was just your average not-that-pretty person.

Tai Ming grew up alone in a small village hidden in the Si Wong Desert. The type that only sandbenders lived in. A couple of teenage jocks had claimed last spring that Avatar Aang had visited town- Ha! Like that was true. Anyhow, Tai Ming's parents had left a couple years ago. It was right after firebenders attacked the town, looking for some myth they heard would aid their nation. Her parents were both expert sandbenders and left with the other masters to Omashu to fight in the War.

The young girl was left to stay with her neighbors Sha-Mo and his teenage son, Ghashiun. Both grand sandbenders, they taught her the skills in bending that her parents couldn't yet complete. Sha-Mo had showed her the parts and machinery of a sand sailor, so she could drive one when she was old enough. But at her age wasn't the time.

Tai Ming was most likely the worst sandbender in all the desert. A normal sandbender wasn't even supposed to drive a sand sailor alone, yet her she was doing it poorly. Long story short: Bullies were making fun of her and her bending, so she ran off into the desert to escape when no one was looking.

"Big mistake…" Tai Ming mumbled to herself. She hadn't thought of much else to do at the time. Another thing she hated herself for. Her plain desert clothes; her dirty, long, and untamable hair; the fact that she had no friend or family anymore.

Sha-Mo was more of a teacher than family. Besides, he was always scolding her to stop rereading the few desert scrolls so much or to get her head out of the sky. Ghashiun was never around to comfort her. He was always riding with other sand benders, doing business with random traders or something like that. Everyone else always bullied her or didn't notice her.

Flicking her wrists into and outwards direction, she steadied the whirlwind under the sail. "Phew…" She sighed, "Now just over the dune…" Really Tai Ming had no idea where she was headed. She was hopelessly lost! She was hoping to find her way back home and not have someone find her all the way out here. Oh the shame and embarrassment that rescue would be.

The sand sailor made it to the top of the dune. Tai Ming moved her hands down to her sides and sighed deeply. The whirlwind stopped and sand sailor began to lean forward. "Oh sh-!" The sand sailor came down at full speed and swerved to the left throwing Tai Ming off and sending her rolling down the giant hill of sand. The sand sailor kept going and eventually crashed at the bottom. The fall was so strong it sent the sailor to it's side so it laid almost upside-down in the sand.

Tai Ming laid in the sand for a few minutes. She was hurt from the fall and it took a while to regain her strength. Her arms managed to move and she pushed herself up to one knee. She coughed a few times and rubbed her sore throat. On the bare arm she had coughed on, there were a few drops of blood. She figured that she hit her jaw hard at some point during the fall while her tongue was in between the teeth. This would have caused her to bit her tongue.

Come to think of it, her tongue was feeling kind of numb. She moved her finger into her mouth and felt her tongue. There appeared to be a large cut at the center of her tongue. She pulled the blood-tipped finger out and looked at her damaged vehicle. Not exactly damaged, but there was no way her lame excuse for bending was going to turn that massive thing over. There was nothing to do now but walk.

Three hours later…

Tai Ming's luck wasn't looking better at all. The sun had set, leaving her freezing. She had been stupid enough to not pack any supplies when she left. To top it all off, she was still hopelessly lost! More coughing came and more drops of blood came out. "Dammit" she muttered, continuing her long walk.

Her legs were getting sore after walking for three hours straight. She had to stop soon! Tai Ming clasped down into the sand. She laid down on it. Warm sand is comforting and soft. Cold sand is a completely different story. Not only is it ice-cold, but it feels like small sharp pieces of crushed ice. Tai Ming moaned and closed her eyes. She stayed that way for about five minutes before her eye's snapped open. There was something coming closer. It sounded like it was making a small whine.

"Get back!" She screamed flipping to look behind her and punching her arm out to make sand lash out and attack in a straight arrow-like path. She missed. The creature looked behind at the sand going past, and whined again as though thinking about what would have happened if that had hit it. It took a step and whined again.

Tai Ming examined the creature closely. It was a rare, brown fox. Some referred to them as Knowledge Seekers, because myth had it that they worked for the great Knowledge Spirit, Won Shi Tong. She glanced at it's front left leg. It seemed to be bent in an awkward position. "Can I see that?" She asked. With understanding, the fox lifted the leg up. "Don't move to much." She warned when she got a closer look. She moved her hand up and down the leg until she hit a spot that made the fox cry in pain.

"It's broken." She explained. The fox whined again and looked up at the sky. A shriek echoed in there ears that both knew well. "Buzzard-wasps!" Tai Ming whispered in terror. A group of three circled above their heads. Normally the buzzard-wasps avoided hunting food preferring to scavenge on the dead. They would only attack when they were really hungry or when the pray was weak. 'I'm seeming weak from lack of energy and food.' Tai Ming thought, 'Also I'm with a fox with a broken limb. Yes, we'll be a great meal!'

The fox knew the danger as well. It turned it's head in a direction of what Tai Ming believe to be west. "Alright, but not in that condition." She said, carefully lifting the fox up into her arms. The fox's form of shelter would be much better than the cold desert with buzzard-wasps buzzing over her head. Despite the extra weight she had put on, she continued to press forward into the desert.

One hour later…

The fox gave a small bark. "This it? This can't be it." They were still in the middle of a black empty wasteland. The fox barked to the ground in front of them. That's when Tai Ming realized they were standing in front of a perfect circle about a feet deep into the sand. "Hmm?" She said about to step in, "I still don't see where this is go- Ahhhh!" The first step she took into the circle the sand clasped beneath her. She fell forward into the pit off sand which pulled her down at least ten times quicker than average quicksand! After about ten or fifteen seconds of falling, there was air again. Tai Ming spit the sand out off her mouth and took the largest breath in her life.

The young sandbender looked down to see a stone floor very far below her. Clutching the fox she swung her free arm downwards to make sand cushion their fall. They landed in the sand. There was a loud crack and Tai Ming cried out in pain.

Megan: Dun, Dun, Duh!! The chapter is over.

Moons: Hope you enjoyed. Reviews will make me happy. I'll try and update soon.

Megan: Don't forget to bake cookies for special people.

Moons: Excuse me! You're just a lazy Genin who does nothing but drink pop! I have schoolwork, chores, a small social life, have to stay fit, have virtual pets to care for, school activities, anime episodes I have to watch, stories to update, and now I have to make cookies…

Megan: (makes blabber-mouth motion with hands)