Chapter 1. A New Friend

Meng the bird tugged gently at Katara's silky brown hair, flapping her ruffled brown wings to keep herself up. When Katara didn't respond, she and Lee, another bird, pulled harder at her hair loopies, and managed to give Katara a hair cut. The boisterous snapping sound woke up the deep sleeper (finally) and she shrieked a horrific siren, and the mirror she was examining her half- a- loopy cracked.

Katara slapped her forehead, leaving a bright pink mark upon her brown face, and cried, "That's seven more years to add to my bad luck! Why did you wake me up anyways?" Katara checked her sundial, "It's not even noon yet, when I need to start my chores for Azula." Katara shuddered.

Aang, a tall skinny mouse, crawled up the bed post, and started squeaking to Katara, "Ty Lee trapped one of my brethren again, or should I say sistren. She plans on keeping her as a pet, and practicing her art of disabling on the poor mouse."

Katara rubbed her eyes, and collapsed onto her pillow, mumbling, "It's just a mouse, not important." Her eyes drooped, and suddenly she fast asleep.

Aang twirled his hands around a spiral of air hit Katara smack dab in the face, but Katara still wouldn't wake up. Aang became infuriated; his button black eyes began to glow along with his bald patches, shaped strangely like arrows that twirled around his body. His little mouse self began to float up in an air ball that spun around his body. His arms, blurry inside his air ball moved like a wave and water magically sprung from nowhere, splashing onto Katara's face.
Katara quickly sat up, as Aang slowly floated down to the ground. "Great, you're awake," Aang cried, "now you can go save my sistren!"

Katara stood up, her brown parka swinging around her legs. "Show me to the needy mouse," she said, rubbing her eyes. Aang ran in front of her, showing her the way. He sped down the steps, and at the bottom, a metal container.

"How do you know a mouse is in there?" Katara said, glaring at the metal box, "I can't see anything inside."

"I just have this feeling," Aang said, hopping up and down, "The cage was speaking to me."

Katara looked around for the key, "I can't find it anywhere."

The ground shook, and the metal box exploded. From the mist came a chubby, black mouse, cracking her knuckles, and said, "Wow. I never knew I-"

Aang jumped in, "Hi, my name is Aang! Did you just metalbend?"

The mouse shrugged, "I'm an earthbender, not a metalbender. I could feel the earth in the metal, and-"
Aang interrupted again, "You're an earthbender! I'm also an earthbender, but I'm the Avatar. Katara, give her a name!"

Katara examined the mouse. "She looks like a Toph."

"Toph," Toph scoffed, "what kind of name is that?"

"It's better than Aang."