I don't own Avatar! This whole story is with the help of the anime/ cartoon.
Water, Earth, Fire, Air….
My Grandmother use to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace. When the Avatar kept balance between Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, Fire Nation, and Air Nomads. But that all changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop the ruthless Firebenders, but when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years have passed and the Fire Nation is nearing victory in the war. Two years ago, my father and the men of my tribe journeyed to the Earth Kingdom to help fight against the Fire Nation, leaving me and my brother to look after our tribe. Some people believe that the Avatar was never reborn into the Air nomads and that the cycle is broken. But my friend and I haven't lost hope. We still believe that somehow the Avatar will return to save the world.
Book one: Water
Chapter one: The Boy in the Iceberg
"It's not getting away from me this time." Sokka says. "Watch and learn Katara and Masami! This is how you catch a fish."
"Your form is all wrong Sokka." I say to him as I watch him try to catch a fish.
"Just leave me alone, Masami. I have been doing this for years." Sokka tells me as he tries to catch a fish with his spear.
"So have I." I say to him. My name is Masami Suzuki. I look 15 years old, but my real age is something I don't like to say. I moved here two years ago when the men of the village were leaving.
Sokka ignores me and goes back to staring at the fish. I sit back down on the little canoe and turn my head to look at Katara who is staring at a fish in the water. She then takes off her left glove and starts to move the water. Then a bubble of water comes out of the water and a fish is inside of it.
"Sokka Masami, look!" Katara says with excitement.
"Shh Katara. You're gonna scare him away!" Sokka says with a smile as he aims his spear. "MMM. I can already smell it cooking!"
"Really Sokka?" I say to him.
Katara is behind him moving the bubble of water over the boat. 'This is going to be funny.'
"But, Sokka, I caught one." Katara says while moving the bubble water, failing to have control of it.
Right when Katara gets the fish over Sokka, Sokka moves his spear back and pops the bubble without realizing it. The water then falls on Sokka and I.
"Why is it that every time you play with magic water, Masami and I get soaked?" Sokka says.
I sigh. 'Not again.' I think to myself.
"It's not magic, it's Waterbending." Katara says. "And it's-"
Sokka cuts her off. "Yeah, Yeah an ancient art unique to our culture, Blah, blah, blah. I hear that all the time from you and Masami here. Look I'm just saying that if I had weird powers, I'd keep my weirdness to myself." He then tugs on his small ponytail to pull the water out.
"You're calling her weird?" I say to him. "She's not the one who makes muscles at herself every time she sees her reflection in the water." I say as I see Sokka making muscles at himself.
He then looks back at us and was about to make a reply when our canoe hits ice.
"AAH!" we all yell. Sokka quickly turns around to face the front of the boat. Our canoe hits a stream of water that is moving much quicker than the rest and we are headed for a huge glacier. Sokka uses his paddle to try and turn us. 'This is bad; I will probably have to reveal my Waterbending abilities to them…' I think to myself as I hold on to the side of the boat.
"Watch out" Katara yells as we were about to hit a small glacier. "Go left!" Two small icebergs surround us hitting and destroying our canoe as we land on one of the ice rocks.
"AAH" we yell as the ice calms down again.
We sit down in the middle of the ice as Katara says, "You call that left?"
I couldn't help but laugh. I look around and see that we are stuck on one ice rock while there are a lot of other ice rocks around us floating on the water. Right in front of us there is a huge iceberg. 'How are we going to get ourselves out of this one?' I think to myself.
"You don't like my steering." Sokka says in annoyance. "Well, maybe you should have Waterbended us out of the ice." He says while doing a poor imitation of a waterbender.
"So it's my fault." Katara says as she stands up facing Sokka and her back facing the iceberg.
"I knew I should have left you home!" Sokka says. "At least Masami here is quiet. She is bothersome, but knows when to be quiet." He then sighs. "Leave it to a girl to screw things up."
"Excuse me?" I say to him. "I am bothersome? You are bothersome!" I then punch him on the head.
"Owe!" Sokka says as he rubs the spot where I hit him.
I look at Katara and see that she just got pist. With every word she says she throws her arms back causing water to cut into the iceberg behind her. "You are the most sexist, immature, Nutbrained! Ah! I'm embarrassed to be related to you!" Meanwhile Sokka is sitting there freaking out because she is cutting into the glacier. "Ever since mom died, I've been doing all the work around camp while you've been off playing soldier."
'This is getting interesting…' I think as I watch them two. I then sit down near Sokka.
"Ah…Katara…" Sokka says while putting his hands to his face in fright.
"I even wash all the clothes!" Katara says in anger ignoring what he is saying. "Have you ever smelled your dirty socks? Let me tell you. Not pleasant!" With that the Iceberg cracked.
"Katara! Settle down!" Sokka says in panic.
"No! That's it I'm done helping you." Katara yells back at him. "From now on you're on your own." She threw both her arms back sending the water to crack the iceberg all the way to the top causing the iceberg to break in half.
"You guys done it now." I say as I pull up the hood to cover my head.
The water then causes our ice to move. We quickly grab the edge of the ice and hold on with our lives. The water then calms down and we look up.
"Ok. You've gone from weird to freakish, Katara." Sokka tells her.
"You mean I did that?" Katara says.
"No, Sokka did…" I say sarcastically.
"Yep, congratulations." Sokka says.
Just then the water right under us begins to glow a really light blue and a giant circular iceberg comes out of the water right in front of us. The whole iceberg is glowing a light blue. Sokka, Katara, and I quickly stand up and stare at it. I take a step closer and I see inside the iceberg is a boy with a glowing arrow on his head and hands and some sort of creature is right above him. The boy then opens his eyes.
"He's alive! We have to help." Katara says, as she grabs Sokka's weapon. She then jumps on the small ice floating on the water toward the boy in the iceberg.
"Katara get back here!" Sokka says.
"Come on lets help him!" I say to him as I run after Katara. 'Could this really be him? The one I have been looking for all these years.' I think as I stare at the iceberg.
"But we don't know what that thing is!" Sokka says as he grabs his spear and runs after us.
Katara then starts to hit the iceberg with the weapon she took from Sokka. She hits the iceberg in a spot where all this snow just comes out of it. Then a giant crack appears in the iceberg causing the iceberg to break. When the iceberg broke open a giant blue light beam shot right into the sky.
'It is him.' I think to myself. 'Only someone with strong power can do that.'
We look up and see the boy climb to the top of the broken glacier.
"Stop!" Sokka says as he holds his spear up to him.
The boy then falls down and slides down in front of us. Katara goes and catches him. Sokka uses the other end of his spear to poke the boys head.
"Stop it." Katara says as she pushes the spear away.
"What are you doing, Sokka?" I ask him.
We all look down at the boy. He then says in a sick voice. "I need to ask you something."
"What?" Katara says.
He says in a sick voice, "Please come closer."
"What is it?" She asks.
"Will you go penguin-sailing with me?" He says in a happy voice.
"You idiot!" I say as I grab him by his shirt and shake him.
"Masami! Calm down let him go!" Katara tells me.
"Fine!" I then throw him on the ground as I glare at him.
He then floats into an upright position using the air. "What's going on here?" he asks. He then looks at me and is surprised to see me.
'Nice to know he still remembers me. Even though we only met about two times before he ran away.'
"You tell us!" Sokka says to him. "How did you get in the ice?" He says as he points at the ice. "And why aren't you frozen?" He says as he pokes the boy with his spear.
"I'm not sure" The boy says as he pushed the spear away.
We then here an animal growl. The boy then climbs to the other side of the glacier. I quickly follow him as Katara and Sokka walk around the snow wall.
"Appa, Are you all right?" The boy says as he jumps on the bison's head. "Wake up, Buddy." He says as he opens the bison's eye. He then goes to the front of the bison and opens its mouth. The bison then wakes up and licks the boy. "Ha! Ha! You're ok!"
"What is that thing?" Sokka asks.
"It's a flying bison." I say. "And his name is Appa, right?"
"Yup, yup!" the boy says.
"Right and this is Katara my flying sister." Sokka says sarcastically.
Just then the Appa sneezes on Sokka and Sokka is covered in snot.
"Ha. That is what you get Sokka." I say to him laughing.
Sokka then rubs himself on the ground while making weird sounds, trying to get the green snot off him.
"Don't worry it will wash out." The boy says.
Sokka then pulls off a long piece of snot off of his face.
"So, do you guys live around here?" The boy asks.
"Don't answer that!" Sokka says as he points his spear toward the boy. "Did you see that crazy bolt of light? He was probably trying to signal the Fire navy!" Sokka says as he stands up still pointing the spear at the boy.
"Oh, Yeah. I'm sure he's a spy for the Fire Nation." Katara says as she stands in front of the boy blocking Sokka's attack. "You could tell by that evil look in his eye." She says sarcastically.
The boy then does a funny smile.
"The paranoid one is my brother, Sokka. And the girl that attacked you is Masami." Katara says.
I give the boy a glare. He looks at me. I could tell by his eyes that he knows he has seen me before because he seems a little nervous about me.
"You never told us your name." Katara continues.
"I'm- Ah! Ah! Ah-Choo!" the boy sneezes and flies about ten feet into the air. He then falls right back down with ease and says, "I'm Aang."
"You just sneezed." Sokka says in surprise. "And flew 10 feet in the air." He says while pointing up.
"Really? It felt higher than that." Aang says while looking up.
"Oh! You're an Airbender." Katara says.
"Sure am." Aang says.
"Giant light beams, flying bison, Airbenders; I think I got midnight sun madness." Sokka says as he walks away. "I'm going home to where stuff makes sense."
"But the canoe is broken." I say to him. "How are you going to get home?"
"Well if you guys are stuck, Appa and I can give you a lift." Aang says.
"We'd love a ride thanks!" Katara says as she climbs on Appa's back.
"Oh No! I am not getting on that fluffy snot monster." Sokka says stubbornly.
"Are you hoping some other kind of monster will come along and give you a ride home?" Katara asks him. "You know, before you freeze to death. "
Sokka ended up going on Appa. Before Aang had the chance to jump on Appa I grabbed his shirt and pulled him next to me. "I know who you are Avatar. You remember me don't you?" I whisper in his ear. "I hope you have mastered firebending and Waterbending because I still have to train you. A lot of time has passed since you first ran away, but now that you are with me you are not leaving my sight. So I hope you are ready to take your responsibilities, Avatar." With that I let him go and climb up on Appa. Aang then jumps/flies up onto Appa's head. He is a little shaken up by what I said, but quickly brushes it off.
'I was a little hard on him, but I have to show him that he is not running again.' I think to myself as I watch him.
"Ok first time flyers, Hold on tight!" Aang says while he avoids my gaze. "Appa, Yip, Yip!"
Appa then jumps in the air, but lands right back into the water and starts to swim. "Come on Appa, Yip, yip."
"Wow that was truly amazing." Sokka says sarcastically.
"Appa's just tired. A little rest and he'll be soaring through the sky, you'll see." Aang tells Sokka as Aang makes a fly gesture with his hand.
Aang then continues to stare and smile at Katara all creepy about it.
"Why are you smiling at me like that?" Katara asks him.
"Oh. I was smiling?" Aang says.
"Argh." Sokka and I say as we throw our heads back.
Appa continues to swim toward the southern water tribe. Sokka is asleep and Katara is crawling over to Aang.
"I was wondering, your being an Airbender and all. If you had any idea what happened to the Avatar." Katara asks him.
Aang then looks at me and I give him another glare that said, 'I am not backing you up. You know the truth.'
"Uh…no. I didn't know him." Aang says as he avoids my glare.
'Yeah that is because you are the Avatar.' I think to myself.
"I mean, I knew people that knew him, but I didn't, sorry." Aang says.
"Ok. Just curious." Katara says. "Good night."
"Sleep tight." Aang says.
I wait till Katara is asleep before I go over to Aang.
"You know you can't lie to them." I say to him.
He then looks up and sees me sitting near him.
"I know." Aang says.
"You will have to tell them." I say to him.
"I know." Aang replies sadly.
"I hope you know what you are doing, Aang." I then go back to my stop and watch as Aang falls asleep.
We reached the southern water tribe and Aang is fast asleep. We had Sokka carry him into this little hut.
"Aang! Aang wake up!" I hear Katara say inside the hut. "It's ok. We're in the village now. Come on get ready. Everyone is waiting to meet you."
I watch as Katara pulls Aang in front of the villages and says, "Aang this is the entire village. Entire village, Aang."
Aang then does a slight bow. The women of the village grab the little ones a backup in fright.
"Why are they all looking at me like that?" Aang asks. "Did Appa sneeze on me?"
Then Gran-Gran walks forward and says, "Well, no one has seen an Airbender in a hundred years. We thought they were extinct. Until my granddaughter, grandson and their friend found you. "
"Extinct?" Aang says with worry. He then looks at me with a look that asked if it was true. I nod at him, saying yes.
"Aang this is my grandmother." Katara says.
"Call me Gran-Gran." Gran-Gran says.
"What is this, a weapon?" Sokka says as he grabs Aang's staff. "You can't stab anything with this."
"It's not for stabbing. It's for airbending." Aang says as he grabs the staff using his airbending. He then opens the staff showing it to be an orange glider.
"Magic trick! Do it again." says a small kid.
"Not magic, Airbending." Aang says. "It lets me control the air currents around my glider and fly."
"You know, last time I checked, humans can't fly!" Sokka says angrily.
"Check again!" Aang says as he grabs his glider and flies around the small village.
"He just treated you, Sokka." I say as I walk next to Sokka and punch him on the head.
Then Aang crashes into Sokka's watch tower.
I start to giggle as Sokka says in sadness, "Oh! My watchtower!"
"That was amazing." Katara says as she runs toward Aang.
Sokka then runs toward his watch tower to check it, and snow lands right on top of his head. I quickly burst out in laughter as I go and help him up.
"Hey this isn't funny!" Sokka says in anger.
"Oh. Yes it is." I reply to him. "I haven't had a laugh like this in years!" I hold out my hand to help him up.
"Great, you're an Airbender, Katara's a waterbender and together you can just waste time all day long." Sokka says as he grabs my hand and gets up.
"You're a Waterbender!" Aang says in excitement.
"Well sort of, not yet." Katara says.
"All right. No more playing. Come on Katara you have chores." Gran-Grans says.
"I will make sure this kid doesn't get into trouble, Gran-gran." I say as I grab the back of Aang's shirt.
When the villagers leave to do their chores I pull Aang to one of the walls and sit him down. I then sit next to him.
"Why don't you teach Katara water bending?" Aang asks me. "I know you are an excellent Waterbender."
"I don't know what you are talking about." I reply.
"You were supposed to teach me Waterbending remember?" Aang says as he looks at me. "You could have taught her."
"No." I say with a sigh. "My duty as a Devera is to teach only the Avatar. You are the Avatar and once you accept that, then I shall use my Waterbending and Firebending. You have been gone a long time Aang. People do not accept Firebenders anymore. They see us as threats. The world has changed."
Aang just looks at me then looks down without a response.
"But you don't look any different." He tells me.
"That is because I haven't age since the day you disappeared, Avatar. As a Devera, I am naturally a few years older than you. You have been frozen in time by being in the iceberg and I have been frozen since you didn't age. I know it is confusing, but do not worry, Aang. You will find out the answers." I say.
"But when will I find out the answers?" He asks me.
"You would have learned them sooner if you didn't leave." I reply to him.
He then stays quiet for a while, but then asks, "How long have you been living here?"
"About two years." I say. "When I got here the men of the village were leaving. I need a place to stay for a while and the tribe let me stay.
"Two years?" he says in surprise. "But we only saw each other a couple of days ago."
"What are you talking about?" I say to him. "Don't you know how long you were in that iceberg?"
"A few days, maybe." Aang tells me. "But anyway I got to go to the bath room." He then gets up and walks to the small bath room.
"Fine. Don't get into trouble, Avatar." I say to him. 'He is running from the truth again.' I think as I walk toward Sokka.
"Now, men, it's important that you show no fear when you face a firebender. In the water tribe, we fight till the last man's standing." Sokka says to six little boys. "For without courage, how can we call ourselves men?"
"Still trying to train them, Sokka?" I say to him. 'I still wonder how they would react if they found out I am a firebender and a waterbender.'
"Get out of here! This is warriors only!" Sokka says to me.
"I could be a warrior!" I say to him. "Besides there is no way they will be strong enough to fight a firebender."
"I gotta pee!" one of the boys says as he raises his hand interrupting Sokka and me.
"Listen! Until your fathers return from the war, they're counting on you to be he men of this tribe." Sokka tells them. "And that means no potty breaks!"
"But I really gotta go!" the same boys says.
"Oh come on Sokka. They're kids. They can't fight a firebender." I say to him. 'Trust me I would know.' I think to myself.
Sokka sighs in defeat and says in annoyance, "Ok. Who else has to go?"
With that all six boys raise their hands. I start to giggle. I turn and I see that Aang is letting the kids slide down the tail of Appa. Sokka starts yelling at him.
"Stop! Stop it right now!" Sokka yells. "What's wrong with you? We don't have time for fun and games. With a war going on!" Sokka says as he grabs his spear.
"What war?" Aang says as he jumps down from Appa.
"Uh oh… this is not going to be good." I say to myself. 'Well he is going to have to face the truth sooner or later.' I think to myself.
"What are you talking about?" Aang says.
"You kidding right?" Sokka says.
"Penguin!" Aang says as he runs after a penguin.
"He's kidding right?" Sokka tells Katara and I.
"No he isn't." I say as I run after him. "Aang! Get back here!"
I run after Aang and stop while trying to catch my breath. I watch as Aang runs around trying to catch a penguin.
"Aang." I yell out. I then see Katara walk next to me.
"Ha! Ha! Hey, come on little guy." Aang says while trying to catch a penguin. "Wanna go sledding?"
I watch as Katara walks near him.
"I have a way with animals." He tells her. He then imitates a penguin and says, "Yack! Yack! Yack!"
Katara then giggles. "Aang, I'll help you catch a penguin if you teach me Waterbending."
I then walk next to Katara.
"You got a deal!" Aang says as he lets go of the penguin's tail. "Just one little problem. I'm an Airbender not a waterbender. Isn't there someone in your tribe who can teach you?" He says while taking a quick look at me.
I give him a hard glare. My look basically told him not to mention that I am a waterbender.
He quickly looks back at Katara as she says, "No. you're looking at the only waterbender in the whole south pole."
"This isn't right. A waterbender needs to master water. What about the north pole?" Aang says. "There's another water tribe up there, right? Maybe they have waterbenders who could teach you."
"Maybe, but we haven't had contact with our sister tribe in a long time. It's not exactly turn right at the second glarier, it's on the other side of the world." Katara tells him.
"But you forget. I have a flying bison." Aang tells her. "Appa and I can personally fly you to the north pole. Katara, we're gonna find you a master!"
'What is he thinking?' I think to myself. 'He has to learn Waterbending not take someone else to learn it.'
"That's-I mean I don't know. I've never left home before." Katara says.
"Well, you think about it, but in the meantime." Aang says. "Can you teach me to catch one of these penguins?"
"Ok. Listen closely my young pupil." Katara says with an older voice.
'If she only knew how old he was.' I think as I chuckle to myself.
"Catching penguins is an ancient and sacred art." She says with a slight bow. "Observe." She then holds out a fish and throws it and Aang.
Aang catches the fish and a lot of penguins start to come all around him. She then hands me a fish and I catch my penguin. We each get a penguin and begin to start riding them down the glaciers.
"AAH!" we scream out as we jump up from a glacier and land on the snow, the penguin speed increasing as we go down the glacier.
Aang then jumps above us and lands in front of us with his penguin.
"I haven't done this since I was a kid!" I say in laughter.
"You still are a kid." Aang tells me.
The three of us continue to race down the slope of snow. Eventually we slow down and the penguins stand up making the three of us fall to the ground laughing.
"Whoa! What is that?" Aang says as he walks toward a Fire Navy ship.
I look up toward the ship knowing exactly what he is thinking.
"A Fire Navy Ship." Katara says. "And a very bad memory for my people."
I stand up and walk next to them. Aang then starts to walk to toward the ship.
"Aang, stop!" Katara tells him. "We're no allowed to go near it. The ship could be booby-trapped."
"If you want to be a bender, you have to let go of fear. That is what my teacher told me once." Aang says with a smile as he looks at me.
'Nice to see you listened to something I said back then.' I think with an approving smile.
I look at Katara and see that she is worried. "I will stay out here and keep guard ok."
She gives me a worried look and walks in behind Aang. I watch as they both climb into the Fire Navy Ship. I go and sit down on the snow waiting to see them come out. 'Knowing Aang, he is going to get caught in a trap.' Soon I hear some commotion going on in the ship and a huge flair comes out of the top of the ship. 'Shit! He got in a booby trap.' I quickly stand up and I see Aang holding Katara as he jumps off the ship and lands next to me.
"Let's hurry up and get back." Katara tells me.
"Aang what did you do!" I say to him.
"It was an accident!" Aang tells me.
"Whatever happened we have to get back to the village now. The Fire Nation could get here at any moment if there are any around." I say as I run toward the village with Aang and Katara following close behind.
I see Aang and Katara with worried looks. 'Aang this isn't like your life a hundred years ago. Firebenders are not friends anymore.' I think as I continue to run.
Too be continued…