Chapter One: Catfish Gators Ain't the Avatar

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"I have bad news sir," spoke the young chief of the Southern Water Tribe. He was facing the last living member of the legendary group with the late Avatar Aang and didn't know how to break it to him.

"Yes, Kahn?" replied the old man.

"None of the newborn infants in the Southern Water Tribe are the reincarnation of Avatar Aang."

The old man sighed. Years of outliving his friends -and his love- put a heavy toll on him.

"What about the Northern Water Tribe?" he asked.

The chief shook his head.

"Not there either."

"Well, the reincarnation has to be SOMEHWHERE!" he croaked angrily.

The young chief backed off.

"What do you suppose we do about it, General Sokka?"

As a retired general, Sokka began to think. Where else could Waterbenders be? He had to remember from his journeys with Aang…

"Chief Kahn?"

"Yes?"

"Get my ship. I'm going to visit the swamp," Sokka replied.

"Ain't he the best? Got his ma's eyes and my hair. If only his ma was here," A brown-gray haired man held a newborn infant swaddled in leaves.

"What you gonna name 'im, Klum?" Klum's friend, Loz, asked.

"After his ma Leera. I shall name him Leeroy," Klum stated.

"Nice, nice. Y'know, my son is named Looey, after...well…I dunno, it seemed nice," Loz said.

"Klum! Klum! Yer gator is having a baby!" one of the men, Jum, ran to Klum. Jum was known as the village idiot.

"No way, Jum. Let me see!" Klum, with Leeroy, went over to his catfish gator in labor.

"But I thought Dru was a male," Klum said, surprised.

"Well, it's a fee- male and- oh here it comes!"

After a gruel, intense and rather nauseating labor, Dru the catfish gator was asleep and her baby snuggled up next to her.

"Huh. So Dru was a ma. Well, I love Dru so I'm a gonna keep the baby," Klum bent down to see the baby.

Just about when Jum and Loz were going to celebrate the two births, a yell shot through the swamp.

"What in the name of- who was that?" Klum demanded.

"Waaah!" Leeroy started to cry and Klum needed to know who woke his son up.

Out of the vines, tree roots and trees, stumbled a wrinkly old man wearing blue yelling,

"Been eighty years since I've been here and it still is annoying! Darn trees!" Sokka yelled.

Klum, Loz and Jum immediately looked at Sokka.

"Hey, what's the big idea, barging in on us like that. Look, now you woke my baby boy up," Klum said, angrily.

Sokka got up and squinted his eyes.

"You must be the swamp people! Waterbenders! I remember when I first came here eighty years ago with Aang, oh boy did we see-,"

"Swamp people? We like to be called them Waterbenders too, you know!" Klum corrected Sokka.

Loz stopped Sokka's rambling and blabbering and exclaimed,

"You knew Avatar Aang? Wow!"

Sokka nodded.

"Now…youngsters, you must have some babies around here? Infants? Squirming, drooling newborns?" Sokka looked around.

"Why?" Jum asked stupidly. Loz elbowed his gut.

"Avatar Aang passed away, and we need to find his reincarnation soon."

Silence was all he got from the three men.

Sokka slid his wrinkled hand down his old, craggy face.

"Avatar dead. New Avatar is baby," Sokka shortened his sentence.

Klum laughed.

"Why didn't ya just say so? Here's my son, Leeroy. Loz, get Looey."

"I'll get the catfish gator baby!" Jum's stupidity earned him another elbow in the gut.

"You dumb poop smelling lizard, catfish gators ain't gonna be the Avatar!" Klum told him.

Jum looked down in shame and put the catfish gator baby back with Dru.

Looey and Leeroy were put in front of Sokka. Luckily, behind Sokka, was the wheelbarrow load of toys, carried by Chief Kahn.

"I'm about to witness finding the reincarnation of the new Avatar. Maybe then I'll go peacefully," hoped the old, retired general. He placed the toys in front of Looey and Leeroy and waited.

"Now," Sokka faced towards Klum, Jum and Loz. "You can't tell him that he's the Avatar until he's sixteen. Try to avoid all questions about the Avatar, and-,"

Sokka turned around and stopped to look at the baby who picked the same toys as the previous Avatars.

It was Leeroy.

"Mmm, Avatar Leeroy has a nice…ring to it, huh Loz?" Klum bragged to Loz and Jum.

"Yup. Avatar Leeroy," chimed Loz.

Yes, I meant to spell words wrong. I give credit to the LJ community capslock-atla, because without them, Leeroy would have never been born. And it would be that catfish gator who would be the Avatar!