Hay!! This is my first fanfic ever (Even though it has been sitting in my computer forever and the storyline has not been leaving me alone lately so I thought I may as well put it online) so be nice but not too nice…just tell me what you think and if I should carry on…Enjoy!!

Disclaimer: You guys are so mean for making me say this but…I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender…I'm gonna go cry now…Thanks a lot!!!

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"Another one?" A young girl whispered to herself. She ripped a piece of paper off a notice board and pulled her hood back to get a better look at it.

'Hah, they actually got a good picture of me' She thought "…And they upped the price to 5,000 gold pieces' She snickered as she screwed up the piece of paper and put it in her pocket. She grabbed her hood and pulled it over her face and was about to walk off when she heard rustling from the bushes behind her…

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"I know you're tired boy but we'll stop soon okay?" A shaggy, brown haired kid asked his furry white beast he was riding. The beast gave a low growl in return.

"I know we've been flying for two days straight, but we have to get to the North Pole to find me a teacher and we have to do it fast!" The beast growled louder and started to shake his head around making the boy grab the reins so he doesn't plummet to his death.

"Okay, okay! I get it!" He exclaimed frustrated. "Look! I think there's a clearing over there" He said pointing straight ahead. The furry mammal saw this and accelerated faster to get there. "Oh so now you go faster" The boy grumbled to himself as he sat back and crossed his arms in a huff trying desperately to blow the annoying bits of hair out of his eyes.

The boy sat up and looked curiously at the clearing. "Is that fog?" he asked unsure so he squinted to get a better look. "Fire Nation!" He grabbed his staff from behind him and stood looking ready to fight.

"What small town village are the burning down now?" He asked as the ventured closer and closer to the black and grey wall.

His serious face started to light up as an idea crossed his mind. He kneeled down and patted his friends head. "How about a subtle approach boy?" With a load roar and a powerful swish of its tail they ascended high into the clouds above the clearing…

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The young girl pivoted on the spot with one hand reaching towards her water skin and extracted some water out of it. She widened her stance and prepared herself for what was coming. "Whe…" Upon feeling something sharp in the middle of her back she scoffed and carried on. "Hm, you've gotten smarter, I'm impressed" She calmly and slowly put her water back into her water skin and stood out of her fighting stance and upright.

"No you're just getting sloppy" An icy voice dripped through her ears making her shiver unnoticeably to her captors. The person made his way to face her as the girl lowered her head, he dug in the inner pocket of his armor and pulled out a piece of paper and put it next to her face. He grabbed her hood and ripped it back to reveal her.

When she didn't react to his movement he placed two fingers under her chin to lift her head up and face him but she, unsurprisingly, shook him off. Feeling frustrated, he grabbed her chin with more force and lifted her hatred filled eyes to his smug golden eyes. He looked at her and back at the paper for a little while until a smirk crossed his face.

"I knew it was you at my campsite" He said accusingly.

"I don't know what you're talking about Captain Tzu" She replied coolly

He tightened his grip on her bottom jaw and raised his voice slightly. "Don't toy with me you waterbender peasant!" He glared at her but found it hard to keep it up as her face was showing nothing but hatred. He let her go and turned away.

"Even if you're not the one I'm looking for…" He looked at the piece of paper in his hands then quickly glanced back at her. "…I'll still get paid my weight in gold for your capture." He informed her smirking. "Let's go men!" He commanded his troops.

The spear that's lightly pointed in her back prodded her to move forward but she wasn't going silently. "Move!" The owner of the spear spoke up and prodded her again.

"And if I don't?" She asked dangerously.

"I'll make you!"

The young waterbender snickered while grabbing her hood and pulling it back on and over her eyes. Once it was on securely she relaxed her arms by her sides and spoke: "I highly doubt that" Before the spearman had time to react she reached back and grasped the spear and spun so she was facing the soldier and using her other hand in one swift movement she hit the top of the weapon with an open palm, causing it to hit him under his chin and snap his head back which made him fly and fall flat on his back with a loud thud. One of the other men saw her do this and shot a fireball at her which she easily dodged with the spear in hand but ignited in the grass causing a fire.

The girl proving to be more powerful than she looks broke the spear in half and threw the remains away. The rest of the men except Captain Tzu, who watched carefully from the outside of the half circle, surrounded her with either flames or weapons occupying their hands. The smoke from the fire in the background it started to obscure their vision of everyone.

"6 men against 1 girl? Doesn't seem fair for you" She said smugly as she sank into her stance with water at the ready.

She was prepared to fight when she heard something growl and a huge gust of wind ripped at her jacket. She instinctively grabbed her hood in place and looked up curiously and spoke to herself. "What was that?" But that one distraction was enough to leave her open for an attack…

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While ascending the boy looked down and saw someone surrounded by fire nation soldiers but they were all looking up at him except for two. One lying flat on their back looking to be unconscious and the other firing a fireball at the one in the middle.

"I think we'll work on the whole subtle thing another time boy" He said to his furry companion. "Okay buddy! You know what to do!" The boy exclaimed excitedly as he grabbed his staff. The beast swished his tail powerfully and did a big back flip making the boy fall off and plummet head first towards earth…

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"You really like your cheap shots don't you Captain?" She asked through gritted teeth while she clutched her burnt upper arm.

"Get her men!" He commanded.

They started to close the distance with spears pointing dangerously close. The girl dropped her hand from her injury and extracted more water out of her water skin to defend herself but, all of a sudden a huge gust of air hit the ground right in front of the soldiers making them fall back onto their backs. The girl stared at them incredulously on the ground.

"What the heck?" She put her water back into her water skin and tried to look behind her through the thick smoke but didn't see anyone. It took her a little while to realize that the fire was out and all that was left was scorched grass as the only evidence of there being a fire. She looked around but again to no avail she saw no one. She stared at the blackened grass in disbelief. "How did that happen?" She asked herself.

Her thinking was cut short as a spearman started to charge her. Again she lowered in her stance with her water available and with her other hand she tugged her hood lower…

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As the boy was falling he shook his staff a little and out came wings on the top and bottom and either sides of his staff. He grabbed on to the top with his hands and hooked his feet on another part at the other end; he then managed to pull up a bit.

As he got closer he saw a girl clutching her arm, he also heard a man yell: "Get her men!" The boy knew he had to act fast so he unhooked his feet and grabbed the staff firmly in his hands and with his tongue sticking out in concentration he gave a powerful swing in a full 360. The blast pushed the men back and extinguished the flame.

He then barrel rolled in the air and opened the wings to his staff again and glided to the nearest tree to watch the girl fight. While watching the fight he quietly criticized to himself.

He watched closely and saw that one firebender was still standing and in pure spur of the moment he found himself at top speed, gliding inches off the ground heading directly for them…

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She was breathing a little heavier as unconscious fire nation bodies were lying around her and their Captain. Both fighters watching the other closely, waiting for their opportune moment to attack. The girl was about to attack when, in the distance something approached at a high speed.

"What is that?" She asked as she pointed behind Captain Tzu. He, on the other hand, thought it was a trick.

"You really think I'm that stupid?" He asked as he was about to throw fire at her when the thing took his legs out from under him and made him land on his head which instantly knocked him out.

"Yeah actually I do" She replied triumphantly standing over his body.

She turned around and peered out from under her hood to look for the person or thing that was responsible for helping her. To her disappointment she didn't see anything. "Did I imagine all of that?" She asked herself puzzled.

"Nope!" The girl yelped, turned and subconsciously extracted water from her water skin preparing to fight.

"Woah, easy!" A boy said putting his hands up in a placating gesture.

"What are you doing sneaking up on people like that?!" She asked flustered.

"I didn't sneak up on you! I just landed in front of you but you turned around before you saw me!" He said defensively.

She raised her eyebrow at him and queried: "Did you just say 'landed?'"

"Yeah" He said looking at her like she was stupid.

She was going to ask more but didn't like the look he gave her so she turned and started to walk away. "Whatever".

"Wait! What's your name?" He asked and jogged to follow her.

"What's it to ya?" She asked sourly.

"Well, my name's Aang and I just wanted to know if you travel by yourself." He asked curiously

"Yeah, I do" She answered simply.

"Why?"

"'cos I like being by myself"

"Why?"

The girl rounded on Aang feeling annoyed. "What's with the 20 questions?!" She asked through clenched teeth.

"It wasn't 20…" He began and counted on his fingers to annoy her more and held up four. "…It was only 4 questions!"

"Ugh!! You're just a kid!" She said exasperatedly.

"Hey! I'm 15! I would say that you're only…" He looked at her up and down. He noticed that she likes to keep herself hidden under her hood. Her startling blue eyes boring into him and her dark hair flows freely from her hood and frames what he can see of her face. 'Wow, she's pretty' He thought. Realizing that he's taking longer than he should to look at her he carried on. "…16. Not much difference!"

"UGH!" She groaned and carried on walking away but at a faster pace.

"Why were those people attacking you?" Aang asked following her again.

"I don't know, maybe because I'm not fire nation" She replied sarcastically.

"But you had to have done something wrong to provoke them like that" He pointed out.

"Maybe I did, Maybe I didn't, who cares." She shrugged and automatically pulled her hood down further. She turned around to face Aang but carried on walking backwards carelessly. "I think the question here is: did you help me out back there, with those firebenders?"

He rubbed the back of his neck feeling embarrassed. "Umm, yeah"

"How? I mean I didn't even see or hear you!"

"I used airbending to knock those soldiers back and to extinguish the flames. And this…" He said raising his free hand to show the girl that airbending opens the wings to his staff. "…Is my glider. This allows me to control the air currents around me, making me fly."

"Wait, you're an Airbender?" She asked in disbelief.

He smiled and nodded proudly in reply.

"Haven't seen one of your kind in a while." She said recklessly while turning around to walk forward.

"Yeah, neither have I" He replied sadly.

The girl felt a pang of guilt hit her for speaking without thinking. "S- -"

"Don't be sorry" Aang said anticipating it. "You couldn't do anything to help"

They carried on walking in silence until Aang broke it. "Where are you heading?"

"The North Pole" She informed him. "I know the basics to waterbending but I need to perfect my technique" She explained simply.

"Well that makes two of us"

She stopped and rounded on him curiously. "You? Why is an Airbender going to the North Pole?"

"Because I…umm have…family there" Aang replied tugging on his collar nervously.

"You're such a bad liar." She said smirking a little. "But whatever business you have there is none of mine."

He smiled sheepishly at her and an idea crossed his mind. "Why don't we travel together?"

"I've come this far by myself, I don't need any help" She said pulling her hood down to conceal her eyes even more.

"But the North Pole City is surrounded by water. How are you going to get there?"

She stopped in her tracks; she hadn't thought that far ahead. At least with the South Pole there was a snowy track to follow. "You know, I have no idea but, I'll think of something. How are you getting there?"

"On Appa"

"On whatta?" She asked confused.

"No Appa, my flying Bison which I should probably call him over now" Aang said while fishing around his various pockets. After a while of incoherent mumbling he pulled out a funny shaped whistle and blew on it.

She raised her eyebrow at him because she didn't hear anything but; Aang just smiled cheekily at her and pointed up to the sky. She looked up in the sky waiting for something to show up. When nothing did she looked expectantly at Aang again who held up a finger, gesturing for her to be patient.

He smiled and started to count down. "5…4…3…"

Her ear started to register something big coming.

"…2…"

She then saw in the distance a big white furry beast and grabbed her hood to secure it on her head.

"…1"

It landed with a ground shaking thud and the girl looked amazed at it. Aang walked over to him and patted him.

"This is my Sky Bison: Appa. Appa this is…uh…the person we helped."

She made her way cautiously towards the Bison and slowly lifted he hand to pat him. She smiled as her hand made contact with his surprisingly soft fur. "Hi Appa"

Appa growled nicely and licked her. "Hey!" She giggled "Gross!"

"I think he likes you" Aang pointed out amused.

"Just as long as he doesn't like the taste and tries to eat me later on" She mumbled to herself.

"So what do you say?" She turned her attention to Aang. "Come with us, that way you'll be able to get to the North Pole quicker and I'll be able to talk to someone." Aang bargained with her. Appa growled a little at Aang. "Not that I don't like talking to you" He said reassuringly to Appa.

The girl smiled a little at the relationship of boy and Sky Bison. "You wanna?" He asked hopeful. She looked at him and knew it was a good idea.

She nodded. "Okay"

"Great!" Aang said excitedly. He went over to her and hooked his arm around her waist. "Hey! What're you- -" She started to protest but was interrupted.

"Hold on!" With a blast of wind he got himself and the girl onto Appa's saddle.

"That was…exciting!" She said stumbling and a little out of breath.

Aang smiled cheekily at her then unhooked his arm from her waist, jumped on Appa's head and grabbed the reins. "First time flyer, hold on to something" He said excitedly. "Yip yip!" The girl grabbed her hood and held onto it securely.

She waited expectantly to fly through the sky, but all she got was Appa's grunts in protest.

"Come one boy, yip yip" Aang desperately said while tugging at the reins.

Another grunt emitted from Appa's mouth. Aang turned around to look at the girl smiling sheepishly at her while rubbing the back of his neck embarrassed. "Okay, first time flyer. Appa is a bit tired and I told him we'll stop but we ended up helping you instead so, we're off tomorrow!"

She shrugged and stood up to get off. "Okay and by the way Aang…" She began.

"Hm?"

"…My name is Katara" She said to him then turned to walk off of Appa's tail.

He gently smiled at her retreating form and whispered to himself. "Katara…"

Well, there you go, my first chapter!! WOO!!! Please R&R I need feedback for my writing.

Thanks for reading:D