A/N: I don't Avatar but I do own my own characters, so please no stealing! I've changed this up cause I wanted to change the story, hope you like it!!

CH: 1
WHAT?!:

"Sessa", his was calling her, like a whisper on the wind, so quiet she wasn't even sure she had actually heard him speak, or if her mind was so freaked out that she had imagined it. Staring at the shadowed figure; fear and hate rippled through her. She knew she should leave, she knew she had to get away...she just couldn't get her feet to cooperate.

"Sessa," He repeated as he slowly walked toward her; for every step he took forward she took two back. She was desperate for a way out, but she was unwilling to take her eyes off of him for even a moment to find one.
He was completely surrounded by shadows, a result of the fire that danced along the walls behind him, his face completely hidden from her. But she didn't need to see his face to know who he was or that he watching her.
'He's playing with me' she thought angrily to herself as she kept moving back to keep the distance between them.
She was stopped suddenly by a wall pressing against her back, panic and surprise swept through her, "Shit" she breathed, 'I'm trapped'.

Looking around for a way out, she felt her hope die; he was blocking the only exit. Glancing back at him to measure the distance between them, her heart raced when she saw that he was no longer across the room; he was right in front of her. She was sure her heart had stopped beating. Holding her breath for fear of making the slightest sound, she stared helplessly into raging pools of gold she knew were his eyes.

"Tsk. Tsk. Sessa". She couldn't see his face as he said her name, even though he was right in front of her, but she was sure he was smiling. Something in his voice told her he was enjoying this game he was playing. She leveled her gaze at him and glared all her anger and hatred at him; and raising her chin in defiance, showed him no fear...even though she was sure he could hear her heart beating madly in her chest.

He let his eyes tell her he was smiling as his right hand grasped her neck and little by little he applied pressure until he was choking her. Sessa felt her panic rise but refused to give into it until she saw him raise his left hand, her eyes widened and instant before fire erupted forward and engulfed her.

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Screaming, Sessa flew off her pillow; raising a shaking hand to her face she took in a raspy breath and shivered. She was drenched in sweat, her heart was still thundering in her chest and the fear she felt in her dream was still gripping at her.

"Just a dream, Sessa; just a really bad dream".

Calming herself just a little bit, she frowned and came to the conclusion that binging on junk food and one to many thrillers last night had led to this freak out.
Running a hand through her tousled hair she sighed and took in the room around her. Early morning light was beginning to come through her huge bay window lighting up the pale blue and white room she called her own. White and yellow striped sheets were twisted around her legs, and a pillow had landed on the floor at some point during the night. In fact her sheets and the lone pillow were the only sign of her troubles during the night, everything else was calm and serene; just the way she liked it. Relaxing, she decided to go back to sleep before getting up for school; unfortunately for her, at the exact moment she began to drift into sleep, her alarm clock sounded off; resulting in a shrill beeping filling the once quiet room.

Yelling and bounding out of bed from surprise, she tripped and fell to the floor from the twisted sheets.
"OW!" growling at her bed, she looked around to see what had scared her. Settling her eyes on the culprit she glared at her now evil penguin clock and threw the fallen pillow at it, resulting in a dull thud as it hit her wooden floor.

"Stupid clock! Jeez I think my heart stopped, again. Ugh! Can we PLEASE stop with the surprises for today?!" she pleaded to her ceiling.

Untangling herself from her sheets, she righted herself and, glaring again at the clock she went to it and turned it off. Gathering some clothes she walked across the hall to her best friend's room and banged on the door.

"AMY! MEI! YUKI! Get up! We have to get to class...ON TIME FOR ONCE!"

Unable to help herself she smiled at the thought; she and her best friends (who just happened to be her roommates) Amy, Mei, and Yuki had never
once been on time to anything in their entire lives. They had known each other since the fourth grade and now, seven years later they were as close as real sisters and even called themselves sisters, but they still had a horrible sense of time.

Flashback:

Sessa watched nervously while her mom spoke with the principal of her new school, she didn't want to go to this school, she liked her old one... the one where she knew people, had friends and had fun. Her father however, thrilled at receiving a huge promotion, would do anything it took to make his bosses happy and make more money to provide for his family; even if it meant moving to another country and breaking his daughter's heart.
Her mother bent down and gently smoothed Sessa's hair away from her face.

"Be a good girl for mommy Ses, and try to make new friends today okay?"

She smiled a reassuring smile at her daughter before giving her a tight hug and kiss, then she stood up and let the principal take her away. Sessa stared at the floor as the principle led her to her new classroom, her eyes were burning from the tears she wanted to cry, but she kept them in. She still didn't understand why she had to leave, after all her best friend Sarah had told her that she and her family would take her in. Unfortunately her father had refused saying that families stayed together. Closing her eyes, she focused on the floor and only looked up when they stopped; in front of them was a white and green door. Laughter and screaming were coming from the other side; starting to get more nervous by the second, Sessa gulped as her new teacher opened the door and brought her inside. The principle winked and smiled at Sessa before she turned and began walking away back down the hallway, and walking with her were Sessa's hopes of going home and hiding under the blankets. Letting out a slow breath, Sessa looked up at her new teacher, the one who was watching her with a patient smile and warm eyes.

"Hello Sessa," her new teacher smiled, she had green eyes, dark brown hair and a nice voice. 'Wow. She's so pretty' thought Sessa.
"My name is Ms. Miko, it's very nice to meet you."
Sessa let a small smile show before she bowed and quietly whispered the proper greeting her mother had taught her,
"It's nice to meet you too Ms. Miko".
Smiling still Ms. Miko led her to the front of the class and quickly got their attention.
"Class, this is Sessa, she's a new student from California in the Unites States of America. So please, make her feel welcome and help her get used to her new school, okay?"

The class cheered their "okay" and when Ms. Miko showed her to her seat in the middle of the classroom the girls nearest to her turned to talk with her. The girl sitting to her left beamed a brilliant smile at her, stuck out her hand and after shaking Sessa's, began to talk, the girl to her right was the first to speak:

"HI! I'm Mei," Mei had rich hazel eyes and short chestnut brown hair, "and the girl on your left is my cousin Yuki! She's super cool; and she's also the best fighter in our grade so if anyone gives you any trouble Yuki will take care of it!"
"Eh.." scrambling for words, Sessa could only nod as Mei finished her introduction.

Yuki, the girl on her left, let a relaxed smile play across her face and nodded to Sessa.
"Especially if they're boys, any boys give you a problem let me know and I'll take care of it! They'll run home crying!"
Sessa's eyes widened and tried not to laugh as Mei smacked her hand to her forehead while she mumbled something about violent people watching too many movies.
Like Mei, Yuki had rich chestnut hair, only hers was longer; but what caught Sessa's attention was that Yuki had the palest blue eyes she had ever seen, and for a Japanese girl the color was rare.
Yuki having noticed that Sessa was staring at her eyes, grinned at her, "One of my ancestors was an Englishwoman, I get them from her."
Sessa blushed at being caught staring, and was about to apologize, but before she could say anything Yuki cut her off with a wink, "Don't worry about it, your new, you're allowed to stare."

"And I'm Amy," the girl sitting in front of her had turned around and was patiently waiting for a moment to speak. She had wavy black hair down to her back and hazel eyes. "I can help you if you have trouble in any class ok? There isn't a class we've had that I can't crack, so if you need a study partner or a tutor let me know!"

Mei grabbed Sessa's arm and smiled at her, "So then, want to be friends with us?"

Sessa let a huge smile spread across her face and nodded her enthusiastic ok. Mei laughed and Yuki handed Sessa a piece of gum.

"Okay! It's settled then, we're your new best friends!" Amy grinned before turning back around and facing the front of the class to listen to Ms. Miko talk.

End of Flashback.

And so it had started, from that day on they were attached at each others sides and always late for something, in fact she couldn't remember a single time when any of them had ever been on time for anything. At school they were always pardoned for being late, Amy was the principal's niece and everyone knew they were habitually late, but the four of them had the best grades in school and they were great at sports so they got off easy.

Reminding herself she had to get ready, she walked into the bathroom and began her shower. Stepping in and setting the water to the right temperature, she let the hot water caress her and relax away her nightmare. She smiled "Ah that's so much better! Water fixes everything! Well that and chocolate fudge ice cream and seeing Yuki chase Kato around with a baseball bat." Sessa laughed as she remembered watching her cheating ex boyfriend run from her sister. Sessa had come home in tears, and when she had explained she caught Kato with another girl, Yuki had gone for the bat before she went hunting for Kato's head.

"Ugh the jerk!" glaring at the floor she was snapped out of her thoughts when she heard someone call her name. After a moment passed without hearing it again, she returned to her shower.
"Sessa" a woman's soft voice whispered against her ear.

Sessa dropped the soap and spun around in her small shower. Smacking her left knee into the bath faucet she silently cursed her mind for playing tricks on her.

"Right.." she muttered, "'cause there are other people in the shower who can whisper in my ear". Ignoring the feeling she was being watched, she finished her shower.
"The sooner I'm clean the sooner I can go be with other people. Other non-hearing-voices-in-their-shower people".

Like Amy she though. Amy was the logical sensible one; the one who could always be counted upon to take in everything before coming to a conclusion. Where as Mei was the cute adorable one, with an outgoing personality and a friendly smile to anyone she met; and Yuki, well Yuki was the "I will kick your ass if you hurt my friends" one.
"And I," smiled Sessa, "well, I guess I'm the one who has a little bit of everyone's personality"; and even though she was oldest, the others were fiercely protective of her and she had never figured out why. The only reasons she could come up with were that one: she was from America and the others had taken to protecting her, or that two: as Yuki had put it once, "You're as innocent as a baby rabbit". She really hoped it was the former.

Rinsing off again, she stepped out and grabbed her fluffy towel before walking quickly into her room. Shutting the door behind her she toweled off and opened her closet doors. Ditching the clothes she'd had before, she rummaged through her closet before deciding on her outfit; granted it was her high school uniform, but she could at least pretend she got to pick what she wore.
Humming quietly to herself she finished getting ready and turned to look for her book bag, the one she always misplaced even though she was sure she always left it on the desk by her bed.

"Hello Sessa" said the young woman sitting on her bed.

Sessa jumped and dropped the hair brush she'd been holding at being surprised, 'Again!' she thought, she raised a shaking hand to cover her eyes to keep from laughing in frustration.
'At this rate, I'll die of cardiac arrest before 18!' She frowned at the floor lost in her own thoughts.

"You make three. THREE!! Three times my heart has stopped or come close to stopping today. That is not a nice thing. Sheesh, a girl can't take much more of this! I mean - OH MY GOD! You...you can't be real! You're a cartoon! Oh god. Oh god, I'm dreaming. I HAVE to be dreaming. That or I smacked my head harder than I though on the floor this morning and now I'm hallucinating!"

Her white hair flowing down around her in waves and her eyes alight with amusement, the woman sitting on the bed merely smiled at the young woman muttering to herself in front of her.

Sessa stopped pacing and stared at her "Yue... you, you can't be real".
Yue merely widened her smile. "Sessa, I'm as real as the air you're breathing. That's not the point though, I've come to talk to you; Roku and I need your help. My world needs your help."

Sessa stared at her for a second with wide eyes, then shook her head, "You need my help. The cartoon Moon Goddess from one of my favorite T.V. shows need my help...oh yea sure, I'm hallucinating. I mean after all cartoon people pop into my life all the time. But for argument's sake, why not? Mei is always telling me to go with the flow and let life happen."

Yue just stared at her.
"Er..sorry, I'm rambling..Okay. So you need my help? MY help...o-kay. Want to explain that to me? My brain's had a rough day and it's not even 8 o-clock in the morning. Almost 8-oclock?! Oh damn we're late...AGAIN." Sessa grumbled and sighed before she sat down onto the pillow that was on her floor to listen to her hallucination.

Yue visibly relaxed, and smiling again, began to explain.

--

"I have to WHAT?!"

Yue winced, the girl was angry, and she had a right to be, what she and Roku were asking for was impossible, but if this was the girl then she hoped Sessa would agree to help. Or at least listen to Roku before she said no.

Sessa stared at Yue incredulously, "No, really, I'm serious! You want me to what?"

"Time will pass slowly here; a year in our time will only be three months here, you won't even know the difference."
"I think I'd notice three months Yue, and that's just at the very least!"

Yue sighed, the girl had a point, but there were other things to talk about right now.

"If you agree, at the end of this if you like...you can choose to return home and I can ease the memory of your journey so that it will only be like a dream to you; and you can move one with your life. Or, if you like you can stay in our world, or return home with your memory intact, but you don't have to decide that now. We can go over that at the end if you like."

Sessa nodded her understanding to Yue.
"Fine, but IF I do this, and I mean IF, then we have to tell my sisters what will be going on so they don't panic. They have a right to know."
"Sessa, I -" Yue's words were cut off by the fierce look Sessa shot her.
"No. My sisters must be told what's going on or the deal's off and you find another girl."

Yue paused and thought about what the girl was asking. She knew that Sessa was the girl, but she didn't like having to tell others what was going on; however finding no alternative she nodded solemnly and walked with Sessa out into the hall to find and tell her sisters what was going to happen. She just hoped they weren't as quick to anger as Sessa was, otherwise she was in for a long morning.