Chapter One
"Aang, every hundred years, the spirit world and physical world bridge the gap of time."
"What do you mean?"
"Temporal rifts open gateways between the present, future and past."
"So, does that mean that we can travel through time?"
"You can go forward and back through time, but you may never be able to return to the present."
"But why are you telling me this?"
"In the future, thousands of years from now, a war is brewing that would plunge the entire world into destruction. It is your destiny to end the war before it begins."
"But how do I get there?"
"That, you'll have to find out for yourself."
"But, Roku, I..."
Aang's eyes blasted open with sweat pouring down his face. He eyed the night sky as Katara piloted Appa through the clouds, leaving a small contrail as the ten tonne bison soared through the sky. All was quiet in the chilly night air. The stars above twinkled and glinted on the surface of the atmosphere, casting a small amount of light in conjunction with the moonlight.
Must be close to midnight, Aang thought in the back of his fatigued mind. He looked up as he saw some slightly larger clouds roll by, passing slowly in front of the moon. The avatar slowly sat up, moving lazily to the front of Appa's saddle.
"Can't sleep?" Katara asked as Aang collapsed onto a support. He yawned.
"No. Not really." He replied, shivering in the wind.
"Come on up here." Katara said, motioning for Aang to sit next to her. He did so without any hesitation. "So, what's up?"
"Weird dream," Aang mumbled. "Something about Roku and a rift. It's all a little fuzzy."
"Well, you'll figure it out eventually." Aang shivered again. "You okay?" Katara inquired as she wrapped her arm around the young airbender.
"Just a little cold." Aang, answered, somewhat savoring the moment of Katara embracing him.
"So, how are we going to do this?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well," Katara began. "The comet comes in six days, we should have some sort of plan."
"I know Katara. It's just, I don't know, I'm really not sure about this. Just, having to fight the firelord in general. I'm not ready. I've barely started to learn firebending. I haven't even gotten close to mastering earthbending yet. I've just got too far to go, and not enough time to go there."
"Aang, you were fine on the day of the eclipse. Take my advice now - don't worry about it."
"You just had to bring the invasion up, didn't you?" Aang complained.
"Sorry."
All was silent as the flying bison continued on into the night. Only the sound of the ocean and the low murmur of the jet stream could be heard. Everything was peaceful.
So peaceful, Aang whispered in his mind, now fading, quietly taking him into the deep unconsciousness of sleep.
The airbender thought back on the last time he looked up in the night sky and noticed how peaceful the universe was. It hadn't been all that good of a night though, especially seeing as the last time he even thought of it was on the night whence he disappeared. But, nonetheless, it was still peaceful and beautiful. He could clearly make out the major stars and constellations as his eyes began to shut tightly.
One hundred years. He recalled unexpectedly. Had it been that long? It had, indeed. It had been exactly one hundred years to the night that Aang had gone missing.
"Temporal rifts open gateways between the present, future and past."
Then, a revelation struck the avatar.
"Oh, this isn't good!" Katara yelled in shock as the wind threw Appa to one side. Everyone suddenly woke up, finding themselves clinging to anything fastened to the saddle.
"What's going on?" Toph screamed at the top of her lungs.
"I don't know!" Katara seemed to force out of her mouth.
The wind picked up even more force, and a dark cloud with a greenish hue formed rapidly nearby, strangely "pulling" the bison and everyone on it, in.
"This is going to be bad!" Aang realized, making sure that everyone heard and was aware that they were going somewhere no one had been before; the future.
