Chapter One

A/N: So here is my newest story, thought of by my partner in crime, Deidra. Ignore all the mistakes, I didn't really go over it. I hope you enjoy it. (:

"I can't believe it, Lector, they're all gone," I said to my winged lemur as we trekked across the frozen tundra. It was true, I was the last air bender…well from what I knew anyway. I watched everyone get killed. The only one I had was Lector, and he didn't really do much.

We had passed out somewhere and had awoken in the middle of nowhere in this icy wasteland. Not a living thing in sight. Well, we were originally frozen in the ice, no clue how though. Last thing I saw was a tall man and then ice.

Being a 15 year old teenage girl who was pretty much a loner sucked really bad. My family was dead, I'm probably going to be hunted down if they found out an air bender was still alive, and I have no where to hide. Why couldn't life be normal for me?

I huddled closer into my fur coat while Lector tried to bury himself in my long brown hair.

*Crack*

"Lector, what was that?" I asked as I stopped in my place.

Lector looked down at the ice before hopping off my shoulder and started running.

"Come back!" I shouted and began running after him. That's when I realized it was the ice that was making the cracking noise. We had made it to a point where the ice was very thin.

Keep running or stop? Shit, how am I supposed to remember what to do! I thought to myself while I kept running.

Lector seemed like he knew where the thin parts were so I tried to follow his path as accurately as I could. The only problem was that he was a lot lighter than I was so this wasn't as easy as I had thought.

The sound of the ice cracking was making me run faster until it finally caught up to me.

"Lector!" I screamed as I fell into the icy cold water, my muscles immediately froze up and I could barely keep myself above the surface.

I could hear the screeching of my lemur and could see his outline above the surface. Then it was all black.

"Hey! She's breathing," a guy said from somewhere near me.

"Son, calm down. Young lady, are you okay?" A deeper voice asked from the other side of me.

I felt a soft paw on the side of my face and began coughing. I could feel the water gushing up from my lungs, "Lector," I coughed.

"So that's its' name," the younger voice grumbled.

Lector growled and I could feel him crawl onto my chest. Well I'm glad he was more loyal than I thought he was.

My eyes fluttered open and I stared up at two tan guys, one clearly the son of the other. And then Lector's hairy face appeared and he licked my nose.

I began sitting up and the younger boy helped me up, "Hi, I'm Niko. This is my father Geradi. Your little Lector here led us to you."

I smiled at Lector, "Thanks, boy. I'm Karlie. Thanks a lot for saving me."

"No problem," Geradi said, "Come with us. We have food and shelter back at our village. Maybe you can tell us a little about yourself."

"Sounds good," I followed behind the two and looked at Lector who was now on my shoulder and whispered, "I have to come up with something quick."

Lector nodded and buried himself in the hood of my soaking wet jacket. He shuddered and moved to a spot on top of my head.

"How did you get a winged lemur anyway?" Niko asked, "Are you an air bender?"

"No, they were all wiped out. I found him just wandering around, looking lonely and lost."

"Ah," he replied, "Yes, it is horrible all the air benders were wiped out. Those damn fire benders."

I laughed quietly, "Yeah, they have some serious issues," I mumbled remembering exactly how I ended up here.

"Everyone, we have a new family member. Please treat her kindly," Geradi said to the large village of mostly water benders.

I waved shyly, "Hi, I'm Karlie."

"This is my wife, Maarisa. My sixteen year old daughter, Deidra. I'm sure you two will become good friends. And this is Uria, my ten year old daughter."

"How'd you end up all the way up here?" Deidra asked with a bitter tone.

"Um…fire benders were chasing me?" I didn't mean for it to come out as a question, but it was still the truth.

"Why?"

"I don't remember. The fall in the ice and almost dying kind of messed up my brain," I lied.

"You're crazy, aren't you?"

"Umm no."

"Deidra, be nice. You two will be sharing a room," Geradi stated.

"I'm not sleeping with a nut job! She deserves to sleep outside with the penguins. She can probably speak to them. That's your power right? Talking to penguins?"

"Deidra! Stop it!" Maarisa shouted, "You will accept her into the family and not complain about sharing a room with her. Now be kind and show her to your room."

"Fine. It's bed time anyway," Deidra snapped, grabbed my hand and dragged me to our room.

"Okay so this is my bed. You stay away from it, okay? And you get to sleep on the floor, cause you're crazy and that's where crazy people sleep. Oh right, I have to get you a blanket and pillow," she grumbled and went off to find them.

"I think she's the crazy one," I whispered to Lector who nodding in agreement.

"Ha! So you do talk to animals!" Deidra shouted, "I knew it!"

I rolled my eyes, "I'm just used to talking to him cause he's the only one I've had. He can't talk back," I stated while sitting down on the blanket she laid out.

"Whatever, crazy. Good night," she grumbled.

"Night," I sighed, turned away from her and began petting Lector. I wasn't tired at all so this was definitely going to be a long night.

\A couple hours later I heard Deidra moving around in her bed, get out and tip toe around me towards the large window. I pretended to be asleep as she stared at me, "Crazy," she whispered before hopping out the window.

I stood up, walked over to the window and glared at her, "Wanna go on an adventure?" I asked Lector who had crawled up on my shoulder.

He nodded and I climbed out the window, "Let's see where she's off to."

I followed quietly after Deidra as she weaved around the village until she stopped outside of a small igloo, "Psst, it's Deidra. I'm ready."

A tall man came out of the igloo and led Deidra towards the artic wasteland of the North Pole. I looked around for somewhere to hide and I found a small igloo probably used for storage. I sat down and watched as the man started water bending.

"Good, good. Just like that," he said to Deidra as she mimicked him.

"Well isn't she just a rebel," I thought to myself with a small smirk. Girls weren't supposed to be able to water bend, just heal.

Deidra was really good at water bending, and I was beginning to wonder how long she had been practicing behind her family's back. Oh why did I care, she thought I was a crazy freak who can talk to animals.

"Tomorrow, same time," the guy stated and walked off.

Deidra began walking back to her house and I tried to hurry ahead so I could go and pretend to be asleep. I really didn't think this plan ahead.

"Who's there?" Deidra asked as she turned towards the little shop stand I had dove behind.

I began crawling hoping I could make it unseen to the igloo a couple feet ahead of me. Sadly, I wasn't so lucky. She launched a bunch of ice spikes at me causing me to immediately stand up and launch them away with my air bending skills.

"Ah! Who are you?" she asked.

I stepped out of the shadows, "The one you call crazy."

Deidra stepped back, "How'd you do that. That was like not humanely possible!"

I smirked and snapped causing a gust of air to trip her, "I'm not crazy, just a little special," I giggled, "Shall we head back?"

She stared at me but nodded and hurried next to me, "Well yeah, we better hurry before we start waking people up."

Lector curled up next to my head as I laid there staring up at the ceiling, "If you couldn't guess, I'm an air bender," I rolled over to look at Deidra who's face was clearly visible in the moonlight.

She smiled, "Well no duh. I could tell. You didn't have to trip me with the wind though."

I laughed, "Sorry, it's what you get for calling me crazy."

She giggled, "Good night, not crazy air bender."

"Night, secret water bender."