Fire and Air

On Ji x Aang

I do not own Avatar: the Last Airbender. All rights go to Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. This is my first story I have published on FanFiction, but I have been reading stuff here for years, I just never written anything like this before. Oh and by the way flame me if you dare.

Chapter 1 Kuzon

Kuzon. The mysterious boy from the colonies who changed my life. One person can really change your life, I thought. The whole thing started when a boy showed up to class at the Fire Nation school I attended. The boy who introduced himself as Kuzon seemed like a total airhead and out of touch of reality. He really is cute, I realized while staring at Kuzon. He turned around and asked me if I felt sick as my face was very red.

"By the way, I never introduced myself have I" I asked Kuzon as we stood outside after school.

"No you didn't, but who cares as you can do that right now."

"On Ji."

After that we talked for a while until Hide, the arrogant jerk arrived and warned Kuzon to stay away from me as I was according to Hide, "off limits". Kuzon gave Hide a questioning glance. Then Hide just attacks Kuzon, I'm just standing there right next to Kuzon dodging everything Hide is throwing at him. It was unbelievable watching Kuzon move like that. After Kuzon had Hide tripping over himself without doing absolutely anything, I asked him how he did that. Kuzon said that it just came natural to him and then he held my hand and said he'll tell me later. I walked home with my face as red as the outfit I wore. When I came home my parents asked about school and I just said that nothing interesting had happened as usual.

The next day at school, Kuzon told me and my friends that he was going to throw a dance party in one of the caves on the island. It sounded fun and I spent the rest of the day wondering how I was supposed to go to a dance party but not knowing how to dance. However, first I had to leave my house undetected. For this I had to do the one logical thing: sneak out after my parents went to bed. After I heard my parents go to bed, I opened my bedroom window a little and slid down the roof onto the side path that went around the house and then climb the low wall and then after all that, finally go the dance party. A little over intensive I know, but as my mom was very overprotective of me and Dad just went along with it, I took no chances.

When I got to the cave, it looked really cool with streamers and music and about half the school present. Kuzon showed us some classical Fire Nation dances and then after that he danced with me. Yes that's right, me! When he finished showing us a dance called the "The Phoenix Flight", he landed right in front of me. My friends pushed me forward and Kuzon grabbed my hand and lead me out onto the dance floor. It was an amazing experience as I moved around taping my feet as we went along. Kuzon told me I was a very good dancer and I immediately flushed bright red. I am getting a little annoyed that I always turn red whenever Kuzon talks to me.

However, I should have known that it would not last forever as soon Hide and his minions along with the Headmaster appeared into the cave. Everybody panicked as we realized we were caught in the act of an illegal dance party. Kuzon just simply ran deeper into the cave. I ran after him and as soon as I got to him I saw a wall of earth rise up behind me sealing us off from the rest of the cave. So Kuzon is an earthbender, not a firebender like I was.

I was absolutely shocked when Kuzon walked out onto the beach and jumped onto a giant mound of white fur. He motioned me to get onto the flying bison with a few other people all looking around my age. "Wait get onto what?" I asked a confused Kuzon. When he said to climb the flat beaver tail of an actual flying bison, I started laughing but got on anyway. I heard him yell "Appa, yip yip! You're going to love this."

And we were flying, yes flying over the beach and the Fire Nation. I immediately asked him what was going on and he just turned around and looked at me.

"You are probably going to ask how this is possible but I'm not going to tell you, I'm going to show you. You asked me why I always wore a headband. And this is why." Kuzon said dramatically. Taking off his famous headband, I was just staring at the blue arrow on his head in absolute shock. I was not looking at Kuzon from the colonies; I was looking at Kuzon the Airbender and Avatar.

The Avatar! Eek! I back away very fast from Aang in total fear. In the Fire Nation, we learned that the Avatar was this all-powerful being who would destroy the Fire Nation's empire. The Fire Lord is viewed as an all knowing god. I back into a firebending stance to defend myself. The boy with the boomerang suddenly swings it at me and I shoot a fire stream at it and then darkness…

I open my eyes and I hear voices, "…Ha knew we shouldn't trust her. She's Fire Nation." A boy with blue eyes and short hair is arguing with Kuzon over me for some reason. However, all I can hear is trust, Fire Nation, evil, spy, friendship, connection... It seems that the blue eyed boy doesn't seem to like the Fire Nation for some reason.

Angry at being ignored and talked about like I'm not here, "Hey I can hear you idiots, can I actually speak for myself." Turning to the boy with blue eyes I ask, "What's your problem with me, why don't you like me, hmm."

"Your Fire Nation, that's all you need to know." The way he said Fire Nation implied that he wasn't from here and that for some reason he hated anyone from the Fire Nation or Firebenders.

"By the way, where are we flying to anyway?" I asked Kuzon.

"Yea, Twinkle Toes where are we going?" said Toph, girl who had Earth Kingdom green eyes. I decided to look around at the people flying with me. Besides Toph from the Earth Kingdom, there were Katara and her brother Sokka (Who attacked me when I panicked) from the Southern Water Tribe, judging from their blue eyes. Then there was me from the Fire Nation with brown eyes and Kuzon actually Aang with the grey eyes of the Air Nomads. This was a really cool group and very interesting as we represented all four nations, Fire Nation, Earth Kingdom, Water Tribe, and Air Nomads.

We continued to travel the island archipelago of the Fire Nation. It was an adventure of a lifetime, as I had never left my small outer island before. I have had dreams of traveling the world and visiting Ember Island and Ba Sing Se and all those places I have only read about in books.