My name's Sora, I look like my twin brother except for the fact that I don't have arrows yet and I have waist long black hair. My twin brother? He's the avatar and the day Aang told me he was the avatar was one of the most surprising days of my life. It was an ordinary day, until Aang decided he wanted to talk to me during my airbending practice. At that moment, I was a bit disgruntled because I needed as much practice as possible to get my mastery tattoos, whereas his airbending came easily to him. Sometimes I did envy him for being the youngest air bending master ever to get the tattoos, but I'm really proud of him.
The conversation started out with him looking serious, which was very unlike the free spirited brother I knew so obviously there was something big happening. "Aang what's wrong?" I asked him placing one of my hands on his shoulder, "You can tell me anything! I'm your twin sister!"
He started to grin a bit, but it was forced, "I know Sora, there's just really big news." I, being the impatient person I am, demanded to know what was going on. "I-I-I'm the Avatar." He said hesitantly, while I stared at him with shocked eyes.
"Woah," was all I could say, and he nodded at my response. Then I gave him a hug for reassurance.
Instead of envy that someone might suspect I would have, I felt relief at the news about him being the Avatar. It's because for a short time, I thought I was the avatar. On the other most surprising day of my life, I discovered I could earthbend. It was the day that Aang got his tattoos, and I was just brooding about how unfair air bending came to him when suddenly the earth shook. I wobbled a bit, moving my hands a bit to steady myself, then I felt an odd feeling and saw that with a push of my hand, the earth moved. From that day on, I secretly practiced my earth bending and I found how easily it came to me. Nobody knows I can earthbend though, not even Aang. I keep it a secret because dualbenders aren't heard of—especially one who's the twin to the avatar.
The day Aang ran away I had an instinct to follow him, not knowing why. So I followed Aang into the stables and quietly prepared my bison Oya, while he prepared Appa. He flew ahead of me, and didn't look back to notice I was behind him. Since it was raining it, was difficult to know where we were going, but I just kept following Aang. Soon I got tired of just following him and I wanted to know where he was going so I made Oya fly faster when we were next to Aang and Appa I shouted, "AANG! Where are you going?"
This was not a smart move considering that Aang looked startled to see me and steered Appa into the water. I gasped, "Aang are you okay?" As I saw Aang drowning, I quickly tried to slowly lower Oya on top of the water but we soon fell in and sunk like Aang and Appa were. I suppose this is how I'm going to end because I blacked out.
No One's POV
When they were submerged underwater and drowning, Aang's eyes glowed and with his Avatar powers he created a big bubble around himself, the twin bisons and his twin sister.
One hundred years later another pair of siblings went out on a fishing trip. The boy was intently looking at the water raising his spear, while his sister used waterbending to create a little water bubble that held a fish. "Sokka look!" She said excitedly, and then moved the bubble over him. He poked the end of the bubble with his spear and got wet.
"Why is it that every time you play with magic water, I get soaked." Sokka complained. "It's not magic it's waterbending and its-"
"Yeah yeah, an ancient art, unique to our culture. Blah blah blah. Look, I'm just saying that if I had weird powers I would keep my weirdness to myself. " Sokka interrupted.
"Your calling me weird?" Katara said crossing her arms, "I'm not the one who makes muscles at myself when I see my reflection in the water." Sokka at that moment was doing just that so he stopped and glared at her. But before he could say anything, they hit ice with their canoe and they both cried out in surprise. They began to try to maneuver through the ice but failed and crash onto a piece of ice. Katara got angry after her brother blamed her for the incident. So she failed to notice that her movements were unintentionally cracking the large iceberg behind her.
The collapse of the Ice berg made a big splash which caused the ice the two fell on to be pushed back along with the wave. Soon afterwards the iceberg that Aang and Sora were in appeared from the underneath the water and was glowing blue, and after a few bashes of the ice with her brother's weapon, the ice cracked and it shot a light up to the sky while a young boy stood up with his eyes glowing.
He collapsed in Katara's arms looking very weak and tired. Sokka poked him with his spear before Katara told him to stop. As Aang's eyes opened he softly said, "I need to ask you something."
"What?" She replied. "Please come closer," As she complied to his request she questioned what he wanted. Suddenly his eyes open wide with excitement, "Will you go penguin sledding with me?"
She was shocked at his sudden change of attitude, "Uh, Sure. I guess. "
Aang stood up quickly using his bending, which scared Sokka, and he asked "What's going on here?"
"You tell us," Sokka demanded, "How did you get in the ice? And why aren't you frozen?" "I'm not sure," Aang said as he gasped and remembered his about sister.
"SORA! Get up Sora!" He quickly ran back over the wall of the Iceberg and shook his sister. She slowly woke up groggily, "Are we dead? Where are we?" Aang laughed and hugged her.
"Oya!", Sora said as she heard the bisons groan. She got out of Aang's embrace and ran to check on her bison, while Aang did the same for Appa. The two water tribe siblings stood there dumb fouled by sight, "What are those things?" Sokka questioned pointing to Appa and Oya.
"This is Appa, my flying bison," Aang said with a large grin.
"And this is my flying bison Oya." Sora snuggled into her bison's fur.
"Right, and this is Katara, my flying sister." Sokka replied as he pointed to his sister, and then Appa and Oya simultaneously sneezed onto Sokka. He panicked and tried to get the disgusting boogers off of him as quickly as he could.
"Don't worry it'll wash off!" Sora laughed at the sight.
"So do you guys live around here?" Aang asked.
"Don't answer that, did you see that crazy bolt of light? He was probably trying to signal the fire navy." Sokka
Katara pushed Sokka away, "Oh yeah, I'm sure they're spies from the fire navy, you can tell by that evil look in their eyes." Sora and Aang then gave cute innocent grins. "The paranoid one is my brother Sokka, You never told us your names."
"I'm A-A-Achoo!" Aang sneezed and flew up about 20 feet in the air then slipped down the wall of the Iceberg, "I'm Aang! And this is my flying sister Sora…that is when she actually learns too." Aang gave a little giggle.
Sora glared at her brother, "Shut up Aang just because you're an airbending master doesn't mean I'm slow, you're just some prodigy at it."
Katara and Sokka remained shocked at the sight once more, "You just sneezed and flew 10 feet up in the air!" Sokka asked disbelievingly.
Sora shook her head, "Of course he didn't!," Sokka relaxed a little and gave a little sigh of relief before she continued, "He flew 20 feet up in the air!"
Sokka gapped at her while Katara gasped in realization, "You're an airbender!"
"Er duh, don't you see his arrows? He's a master "Sora said mockingly. "He's also the A-" Sora didn't get to finish that statement as Aang covered his mouth and shook his head quickly. She gave him an odd look but shrugged, " Never mind."
"Giant Light beams, flying bisons, airbenders, I think I got the midnight sun madness. I'm going home to where stuff makes sense," Sokka said as he turned and realized there wasn't any way back.
"Well if you guys are stuck, we can give you a lift, "Aang offered.
"We'd love a ride, Thanks!" Katara said gratefully as she went to climb Appa.
"Oh no, I am not fluffy snot monster." Sokka refused.
"Are you hoping some other kind of monster will come along and give you a ride home? You know before you freeze to death?" Katara said. Sokka grudgingly went along with them and both rode on Appa with Aang while Sora was next to them on Oya. Though, Oya and Appa weren't in the air because they were too tired from their long rest. So they just swam in the water.
Aang smiled for no apparent reason in Katara's direction. Sora saw it and smirked knowingly, while Katara questioned him for smiling. She later asked, "So I was wondering, you guys are airbenders and all, do you know the avatar?"
Sora gave a mischievous grin while Aang answered quickly, "I know him yeah, but I don't know him that well…"
Sora jumped in, "Oh I personally know him really well. In fact I've known him for a long time; Aang here just doesn't want to admit he knows the avatar personally either."
Katara grinned, "Can you tell us some stories about him?"
"OF course I can tell you some stories about him. I've known the avatar for a long time, you can even say since birth perhaps. I remember when we were really young and he hadn't quite gained control of his airbending skills and he had to cut the cheese, but basically he fartbended in front of the entire class. It was hilarious because he accidently spilled his crushes ink over her paper and she got mad with him so he tried to apologize by wiping it up with his clothes but it just made it a lot worse. He got ink all over himself, and was covered in black ink the rest of the day! There was another time when we were at a pond and-"
"Sora!" Aang interrupted, with his whole face tinted pink, " I don't think the Avatar would like you to tell his embarrassing stories to everyone, but I don't think he'd mind me telling about your embarrassing stories in return."
Sora raised her eyebrow at her brother, "Fine. I won't tell anymore stories, but tell the avatar that I have a lot of dirt on him and if he'd like to challenge me about embarrassing things, he should feel welcome to."
Aang rolled his eyes at his sister, "I'm pretty sure the avatar won't mind If I share just the same amount of embarrassing stories about you sister dear."
"I'm sorry to stop your interesting sibling swabble, But I was wondering if you guys knew what happened to the avatar?" Katara said.
"Aang is-" Sora was interrupted by Aang who gave her a look to silence her. "Aang and I don't know what happened to him sorry." She gave a sheepish look. "Night!" She waved from her saddle on Oya and the others just repeated her.
Sora's POV
When I woke up, I saw Katara's face peep through the flap of the tent, "Oh good you're awake! Come on, let's go wake your brother and I'll introduce you to my village." We went into where Aang was sleeping, in the tent beside mine, and I saw him having a nightmare. Aang rarely got nightmares, this isn't good at all. I gently called his name and suddenly he sat straight up.
"Aang, Katara wants us to meet her Village." He nodded and quickly put on his clothes. And I heard Katara gasp at his tattoos.
When we got outside there was a group of 20 some people, full of women and children. "Aang, Sora this is the entire village, Village meet Aang and Sora." Aang and I gave simultaneous bows and when we stood up again the children and women looked fearfully at us.
"Err..why is everybody looking at us like that? Did Appa and Oya sneeze on us?" Aang said. In any other situation I would giggle at my brother's comment but I was wondering the same thing.
The oldest woman spoke, "Well no one has seen an airbender in 100 thought they were extinct, until our granddaughter and grandson found you two." I looked at Aang with disbelief, and he reflected my emotion.
"Aang, Sora this is my Gran Gan."Katara introduced.
Sokka walked up to Aang and took his glider out of his hands. "What is this a weapon? You can't stab anything with this!" Doesn't he know that air nomads are peaceful and don't have any desire to hurt or kill. How uneducated is he?
Aang used his airbending to suck it back into his hands, "It's not for stabbing. It's for airbending!" He then made his glider appear from the staff and I mimicked him. I guess we're doing a demonstration. "We use air currents around these and fly!"
"Fly? Last time I checked humans can't fly!" Sokka said rolling his eyes. Seriously, he doesn't know ANYTHING.
"Wanna bet?" I raised my eyebrow and told Aang, "Flying Lemur 3 or 5?"
"5, definitely," Aang replied with a big grin.
Flying Lemur was basically our name for a bunch of flying sequences by brother and I created together. We have about 10 of them, but 3 and 5 are our favorites. 3 was my favorite because it has multiple loopdeloops and fast turns. 5 more of Aang's favorite because of the speed and diving we do.
I nod and we both take off in different directions, I turn to the right and he turns to the left. We began to run and jumped into the air using our gliders to fly. We then flew towards each other and met up in the middle, and then we went in a circle. After that we were supposed to fly in the same direction where we started and then dive down in the opposite direction, but Aang got distracted by smiling at Katara and didn't see the Snow in front of him. So he crashed into the snow and got his head stuck in it so when he pulled himself out he basically destroyed Sokka's watch tower.
I sighed and had to skip the dive because Katara and the kids were running towards Aang. I can't risk diving into someone, especially not when Aang just destroyed some snow tower. "Aang! We almost got to the best part!" I complained and he smiled a sorry. I rolled my eyes, honestly if we did Flying Lemur 3 he wouldn't have crashed because he wouldn't have a chance to look at Katara because of all the spinning and loopdeloops.
After we discovered Katara was a waterbender she was whisked away to do chores. I suppose because I was a guest I didn't have to help. And the fact I was trapped in an iceberg for who knows how long, probably got me out of chores too. So Aang and I just watched Sokka's little warrior class and I was laughing at him because of how ridiculous it was. He was trying to teach these little boys on how to be men, and then they have to go on a potty break. Of course after their break was over, Aang let the boys use Appa's tail as a slide.
"Stop! Stop it right now! What's wrong with you? We don't have time for fun and games with a war going on." War? What war? As Aang voiced my thoughts, Sokka looked at us in disbelief and asked if we were kidding.
"PENGUIN!" Aang shouted as he hurried over to where the penguin was.
I rolled my eyes and grinned, "Come on Katara, Sokka are you coming?" Sokka wasn't coming, because he had some idiotic hunch about Aang and I being from the Fire Nation and bringing them here.
"Do you know how to catch a penguin?" Aang asked Katara, who nodded.
"I'll tell you if you'll teach me waterbending."
Aang got off the ground and sat up, "You got a deal. Just one problem, I'm an airbender not a waterbender. Isn't there someone in your tribe that can teach you?"
I coughed and mumbled underneath my breath, "Can't waterbender yet." But agreed that there should be someone in the tribe that could teach her, but apparently not since she sorrowfully said that she was the only waterbender in the south pole. That's really odd, there are supposed to be a lot of them here.
"What about the North Pole? There's another water tribe up there, right? Maybe they have waterbenders that can teach you!" Aang suggested.
I scoffed, and he needs to learn it too. But no, he's trying to ignore the fact that he's the avatar or something. He needs to learn it someday, and Katara coming along will probably encourage him to learn it, considering his major crush on her. Maybe since I can earthbend, I can waterbend too? I know I can't firebend because that experiment left me with scorched clothing and me having to explain to the monks that my robe sleeve accidently caught on fire by me getting too close to a candle. I was close to the candle, but I was trying to see if I could manipulate the flame. Thankfully I used air to just stop it, otherwise there'd probably be a lot more than just my sleeve burned.
"We can take you to the north pole using our flying bisons! Katara, we're going to find you a master!" Aang offered.
Katara hesitated, "I don't know, I never left home before."
"In the meantime, while you think about it, can you teach us how to catch these penguins?" Aang asked eagerly.
Katara agreed to teach and soon we were sliding the Penguins quickly down the hill. Then we went off of many snow cliffs and used them to jump high up in the air. We raced through an icy snow tunnel and it was so much fun. None of us could've stop laughing and cheering when we got off a cliff.
"I haven't done this since I was a kid!" Katara yelled out.
Aang and I simultaneously shouted, "You still are a kid!"
Soon we reached a mysterious sight, some kind of boat stuck up on ice. "Whoa what's that?" Aang asked, as mystified as I am.
"A fire navy ship, and a very bad memory for my people."
I looked at her in shock, "fire nation? What? Why would they be attacking?"
Aang grinned a little, "Let's go explore!" He went up and I just followed him.
I looked over my shoulder and asked, "Are you coming Katara?" She looked a bit apprehensive about going in and said there might be bobby traps and that we weren't allowed to go near it. But she followed us after Aang told her something about being a bender she had to let go of fear.
As we went in the old cold metal ship, all you could hear were our footsteps and the occasional rat passing by. It was very creepy and mysterious. Once we entered a room that looked to have weapons Katara spoke, "This ship has haunted my tribe since gran gran was a little girl. It was part of the firenation's first attacks."
I scrunched my eye brows together in confusion while Aang spoke, "Hold on, back up. We have friends all over the world and we haven't seen any war."
"How long were you two in that iceberg?" I shurged, "I don't know, a few days? Years?"
"I think it was more like a 100 years." I scoffed and Aang said in disbelief, "100 years? No way, do we look 112 to you?"
"Think about it, the war is a century old. You don't know about it because somehow you were in there the whole time. It's the only explanation"
One. Hundred. Years? How is this possible? I missed so much then! Most, if not all my friends are probably gone! Aang sat down in shock while I froze.
"A hundred years, I can't believe it." He said sorrowfully, probably having the same thoughts I have.
"I'm sorry Aang and Sora, maybe there's a bright side to all this."
"I did get to meet you," Aang said cheerfully. Wow, smooth Aang very suave of you. And he said it innocently too, ha I am so going to tease him about this later.
"Come on," Katara smiled and helped him up, "let's get out of here."
Aang then stepped on a bobby trapped wire which made us stuck inside the ship because the door was shut. "what's that you said about booby traps?" Everything went haywire and started to move and jiggle and then a flame signal went off as we looked out the window.
"Uh oh," Aang and I said simultaneously. We looked around and luckily there was a whole in the ceiling and Aang took Katara out of the whole while I followed.
When we walked back, the whole children cheered at our return while the women stared solemnly at us.
Sokka stepped forward accusing us, "I knew it. You signaled the fire navy with that flare! Your leading them straight to us aren't you?"
"They didn't do anything wrong." Katara defended us.
"Yeah, there was this booby trap on the ship and well we booby right into it." I had to resist the urge to smack my forehead; sometimes my brother doesn't think what about what he's saying.
"Katara, you shouldn't have gone on that ship now we could all be in danger." The old lady said.
"Don't blame Katara, it's not her fault. We went in there first. It's our fault not hers." I said.
"Ha, the traitor confesses. Warriors, away from your enemy." Sokka said. What warriors? Oh right, the little kids.
"The Foreigners are banished from the village." Banished? Isn't that a bit harsh?
"Sokka your making a mistake," Katara tried to smooth things over.
"No, I'm keeping my promise to dad," And apparently Sokka's not buying it, "I'm protecting you from threats like them."
Threats? Seriously? We're Air Nomads, we like peace. And Aang's the avatar; he's supposed to protect people. "They are not our enemy. Don't you see? They brought us something we haven't had in a long time. Fun." Katara said and I mentally laughed a bit. They haven't had fun in a long time? They need to relax then.
"Fun! We Can't fight firebenders with fun." Sokka argued. Wanna bet? I kno-knew a lot of top notch champion manly firebenders who would give up to play with their kids.
"You should try it sometime!" Aang said and I agreed, "Yeah All Work and No fun isn't good."
"Get out of our village now." He demanded and Katara tried to plead with her grandmother but with no avail. "Fine. Then I'll go with them! Come on you two lets go," She dragged both of our arms towards our bisons.
"Where do you think you're going?" Sokka demanded and Katara replied, "To find a waterbender. They're going to take me to the north pole."
"Katara," Sokka called, "Would you really choose him over your tribe? Your own family?"
"Katara, We don't want to come between you and your family." Aang said and we walked away.
"So you're leaving? This is goodbye?" She said softly and I sadly nodded as I grew to like Katara's companionship. "Thanks for penguin sledding with us."
"Where will you go?" I shrugged and looked at Aang.
"Guess we'll go back home and look for the airbenders," He said, "Wow I haven't cleaned my room in a hundred years. Not looking forward to that."
I rolled my eyes at him, "Then just don't clean it like I do." Aang shook his head and we both got on our bisons.
"Nice meeting you!" I waved. "Yeah, It was nice meeting everyone"
"Let's see your bisons fly now airbenders," Sokka said. Well obviously they are still tired but Aang tried to get Appa to fly anyways.
"Aang, Sora don't go I'll miss you!" A little girl ran up to us in tears.
"We'll miss you too." I smiled sadly. "Come on Sora, let's go." I followed Aang and we left the Village.
So we left them and we once a good distance away from there we stopped and took a rest. I used it as an opportunity to question Aang, "Why didn't you want them to know you're the Avatar?"
Aang turned away from me and said, "Because I never asked to be."
I grabbed his chin and made him look at me, "I know you didn't but you are. You're just worried that they'll treat you differently like the air nomad kids did."
Aang gave me a diminished look, "Why can't I be normal kid? Like you?"
Oh, I'm not a normal kid Aang. I'm even more weird then you! Avatars are known and respected. I'm not only first ever twin to an Avatar, but I'm also a dualbender and might even be able to bend water too. So not normal.
I looked over his shoulder and saw a ship heading towards the village then I gasped, "The Village! Aang we got to go help!" Aang agreed and we left Appa and Oya alone while we used penguins to slide there quickly. We got there in the nick of time, because the fire nation dude with a scar was threatening the village and asked where the Avatar was. We sledded down and Aang went underneath the dude and made him fall down. We then got off the penguins and greeted everyone. "Hi Katara, Hey Sokka!" Aang waved.
"Hi Aang, Sora. Thanks for coming," Sokka said in a defeated monotone voice.
The fire nation men then spread out around Aang and I while the village stood behind us. I looked at Aang and nodded, we got into a fighting stance. As the men got closer to us, we used our staffs to blow snow on our sides, and then together we simultaneously blew snow in front.
Aang stood up defiantly while I stood beside him and he spoke, "Looking for me?"
"You're airbenders. Which one of you is the Avatar?" The scar faced boy demanded
"Weren't you paying attention?" I scoffed.
"I'm the Avatar." Aang said standing tall.
The village was shocked behind us and I could her mummers of disbelief. "I spent years waiting for this encounter, training, meditating. You're just a child." He spat and Aang rebutted with an innocent, "Well you're just a teenager." Then they began to fight and Aang kept spinning his staff to prevent the fire from hitting the villagers. I was behind him giving them more protection.
Then he glanced at everyone, and he had that look in his eye. I hate that look. I can't believe he's going to do that! He's going to give himself up! I glared at him and shook my head protesting. But his mind was already made up.
"If I go with you will you promise to leave everyone alone?" Aang offered. I gritted my teeth, logically it was the best way to handle things and Aang probably can get out but I don't want to risk losing him. The teenager Aang was fighting agreed, and soon the fire nation men grabbed Aang and put him on the ship. They were about to grab me too, but Aang shouted out before they could touch me, "I said EVERYONE. INCLUDING HER." They backed away from me.
"No, Aang don't do this!" Katara shouted out.
"Don't worry Katara, It'll be okay. Sora, it'll just be like old times with Bumi."
I gave a small sigh of relief when he said that, because I remembered the games we played with Bumi. There was one game we liked to play called cops and robbers, and Aang was really good at not getting caught. So I knew that he just said that to assure me that he'll be okay. It's not my fault I worry; he's the only person I have left now.
"Head a course to the fire nation," the scarred boy said. "I'm going home." Then the ship closed up, and Aang left leaving me alone with the Village.
A/N This is my first ATLA Story so please tell me what you think :) I don't own anything but Sora. And I wrote this a while ago but I never got around to continue it, but I'll do it now...hopefully. And I know you probably get this often but please review :)