AN: Whassup ya'll who are actually reading this story I did not update it because no one was reading it so…yeah. Then this one person followed this story so than you crowlaps for taking me off of my arse and making me realize that I have work to do and a story to publish. Also my spelling… I am from Jamaica and that means that we were once a colony of Britain so I spell colour with a u and Americans spell colour without a u so I may 'Incorrectly spell a word' but just thank Noah Webster for the opportunity to spell your words easier, at least in my opinion. Thank you for actually reading the AN and… Happy Reading!

Chapter 2

In a canoe on the waters of the South Pole just outside the water tribe are two teenagers, both warmly clad in parkas. The boy fishing and the girl looking bored. Suddenly the boy speaks

"It's not getting away from me this time. Watch and learn, Katara. This is how you catch a fish."

The girl, Katara leans over the edge of the canoe to see a fish. Hesitantly, she removes her left glove. She takes a deep breather and with a look of trepidation begins to motion with her exposed hand. Suddenly a small globe of water containing the fish burst from the water.

"Sokka look!" Exclaimed Katara

"Shhh. Katara you're gonna scare it away. Mmmm… I can already smell it cooking

At this point Katara was losing control of the globe of water and fast.

"But Sokka I caught one!" said Katara

She continues to struggle with the blob of water and it float closer to Sokka despite her efforts to make it stay still. Sokka continues to ignore her and raises his spear the blunt end piercing it and causing the water to fall on him. The lucky fish however fell back into the water.

"Hey!" said Katara

"Ugh! Why is it that every time you play with magic water I get soaked?" complained Sokka

"It's not magic it's waterbending, and it's…" started Katara

"Yeah , yeah an ancient art unique to our culture blah blah blah. Look, I'm just saying that If I had weird magical powers I'd keep my weirdness to myself." Said Sokka exasperated

"You're calling me weird, I'm not the one who makes muscles at myself every time I see my reflection in the water" Said Katara looking at Sokka who was doing the very thing she was talking about.

Suddenly the boat is bumped, they look up to see they have entered an Ice-packed area. They try to manoeuvre the canoe between the ice floes.

Katara screams to her brother "Watch out! Go left! Go left!

The ice floes were moving closer together in front of the boat, narrowing their path. The boat manages to stay clear of some of the icebergs, but it veers to the right with the current and becomes pinned by three large chunks of ice. As the canoe is completely crushed by the ice, Katara and Sokka throw themselves from the canoe and onto one of the floes; Katara nearly slides off the other side into the water, but comes to a halt at the floe's very edge. As she raises her head, looking around, and seeing they are floating on one floe among dozens. Katara, shuffling on her hands and knees, moves away from the rim toward the middle of the floe, sitting next to her brother. His spear is embedded point-first in the ice just behind him.

"You call that left?" said Katara a touch of bitterness in her tone.

"You don't like my steering?" said Sokka "Well, maybe you should've waterbended us out of the ice." He waves his hands, mockingly imitating waterbending as he spoke.

"So it's my fault?" asked Katara almost shouting, and shooting off the floe in anger.

"I knew I should've left you home! Leave it to a girl to screw things up!" said Sokka finally starting to get annoyed.

"You are the most sexist, immature, nut brained ... Ugh! I'm embarrassed to be related to you! Ever since mom died, I've been doing all the work around camp while you've been off playing soldier!" ranted Katara

"Uh ... Katara ..." said Sokka seeing what the enraged waterbender was unintentionally doing.

"I even wash all the clothes! Have you ever smelled your dirty socks? Let me tell you, not pleasant!" continued Katara continuing to split the iceberg.

"Katara, settle down!" screeched Sokka

"No that's it! I'm done helping you! From now on, you're on your own!" screamed Katara

Her last movement is her most agitated and it creates a huge wave which, when it impacts the iceberg, sends a number of fissures to snake their way up the iceberg; one of them reaches the top of the iceberg, splitting it completely in half. Petrified, Sokka gasps for air, and it is only now that Katara turns to look behind her. She gasps as the two halves begin to fall away from each other and the siblings can be seen through the widening space between them. A gargantuan wave larger than any Katara has ever created pushes their ice floe back.

"Okay, you've gone from "weird" to "freakish", Katara." Said Sokka

"You mean I did that?" said Katara

"Yep, Congratulations" said Sokka, his words dripping with sarcasm.

Several small bubbles appear on the surface of the water directly in front of them and a small spot of water begins to glow with a bright bluish hue. The two siblings scramble back in renewed terror from the edge, just as a large, roughly spherical iceberg breaks the surface of the water.

An iceberg rises above the surface, revealing its massive form to be the source of the glow. The crashing waves generated by the iceberg's rising push the floe backward as the berg itself rocks to one side, before coming to rest with its rounded dome exposed above the water. Mesmerized by the iceberg, Katara strays closer and stares at the iceberg; behind her, Sokka halfheartedly stretches out his hand, as if to hold her back. The 2 human figures, perched in lotus position, has glowing arrows on their heads and hands. Katara raises an eyebrow in confusion. The figures in the ice, their features accentuated by reflected light, revealing them to be a boy and a girl. Suddenly, the boy opens his eyes, the same brilliant light emanating from them, eliciting shocked gasps from both of the siblings. Soon thereafter the girl did the same."

"They're alive! We have to help!" said Katara.

Before Sokka can grab it, Katara grabs Sokka's club out of its sheath on his back and pulls her hood over her head, heading in the direction of the strange kids sealed in the iceberg. Sokka again reaches out his hand in an attempt to hold Katara back, though she is already running across the ice. Katara hops across the short distance between her floe and the iceberg on five tiny chinks of ice; Sokka, close behind her, does the same. Reaching the iceberg first, Katara repeatedly strikes the iceberg with Sokka's club. On her fifth strike, the club breaks through the surface and a great gust of wind, which escapes from within the iceberg, throws her and her brother back from the side of the dome. Fissures quickly snake their way over the whole iceberg and, in a massive outward explosion, the entire orb of ice destroys itself. A beam of light bursts from the core of the iceberg and rockets into the sky emitting ripples of light underwater. In the distance a group of tiger seals, erect themselves to growl at the beam of light.

A few nautical miles away on a heavy metal ship's deck is a Teenage boy and an old man.

"Finally! Uncle, do you realize what this means?!" said the teenager.

The man is playing some sort of card game. He answers calmly while looking over the tile he's holding toward his nephew.

"I won't get to finish my game?" said the Uncle

Turning around again to face the light Zuko said "It means my search is about to come to an end."

The uncle sighs uninterestedly and places his tile on the table.

The scarred boy is gesturing toward the pillar of light while facing his uncle.

"That light came from an incredibly powerful source it has to be him!" said the brooding teenager.

"Or it's just the celestial lights. We've been down this road before, Prince Zuko." He looks at the tile in his hand, depicting the symbol of airbending. "I don't want you to get too excited over nothing." He places it on a tile carrying the symbol of firebending and gestures toward the open place at the other side of the table while continuing in a relaxed voice. "Please, sit. Why don't you enjoy a cup of calming Jasmine tea?"

"I don't need any calming tea! I need to capture the Avatar!" he said to Iroh. To the helmsman he says "Helmsman, head a course for the light!"

Iroh calmly continues with his game, placing another tile bearing the airbending symbol on the previous one. As he does, a gust of wind washes over him, shaking his tiles.

Back at the iceberg the gale has begun to settle. Sokka had protectively clutched Katara, but he now releases her as he looks around. Light still encircles the remains of the former mountain of ice, now reduced to a hollowed-out crater. Sokka looks at his sister and they both get to their feet, Katara holding onto her brother. He points his spear at the crater, ready to defend them, though lowers it in shock as a figure emerges slowly from the depression in the iceberg.

Sokka, brandishing is machete once again tells the figure to stop. Now standing atop the crater, the figure slowly erects himself and looks down at them, and the two siblings stare back in wonder and fear. The circles of light finally dissipate as the boy stops glowing. The figure is revealed to be nothing more than a young boy, who gives a moan of exhaustion and suddenly faints. Katara gasps and runs forward to catch him before he hits the ground and Sokka begins to poke at the boy's head with the blunt end of his spear.

"Stop it!" said Katara annoyed

Katara places the boy gently against the base of the crater. The boy slowly opens his gray eyes. He gasps in awe as he beholds the Southern Water Tribe girl, who stares at him, in relief, with deep blue eyes. Her hair loopies sway in the wind.

"I need to ask you something ..." said the boy

"What?" asked Katara

"Please come closer." said the boy

"What is it?" said Katara

"Will you go penguin sledding with me?" said the boy

"Uh, sure… I guess" said Katara

Suddenly a feminine voice piped up from the iceberg.

"Who is going penguin sledding without me?" said the voice

"Maya!" said the boy running up the side of the iceberg.

"Aang! That you? Called the girl, Maya

"No! I'm some other…" started Aang but he was soon cut off by a threat

"Finish that sentence you may have to construct another whole to breathe through!" said the girl, clearly annoyed

"Sorry, sorry gees'!" said Aang rolling his eyes.

Aang leapt to the floor of the iceberg and saw Maya curled up on the ground against Appa for warmth.

A low, gruff noise suddenly fills the air, coming from within the crater of the iceberg. Aang happily jumps on the head of a large, furry creature that has the same arrow-shaped marking on his forehead as the boy.

"Appa! Are you all right? Wake up, buddy." Said Aang

He opens an eyelid that immediately closes again once it is released. He jumps down to the front of the bison and tries to lift its enormous head. Sokka and Katara appear around the corner as Appa finally starts to react to Aang, opening his mouth and licking Aang with his giant tongue. Sokka's jaw drops upon seeing the beast.

"Ha, ha! You're okay!" Aang said laughing cheerfully.

Aang hugs the bison's nose. The creature stands up on his six legs and stretches itself. Then Aang resumes petting the bison's nose.

"What is that thing?" Asked Sokka

"This is Appa, my flying bison." Said Aang

"Right, and this is Katara, my flying sister." said Sokka

Aang looks questioningly at Sokka for a moment, but his attention is diverted back toward his bison when Appa starts to inhale deeply. Aang and Maya caught each other's gaze realizing what is about to happen, Aang ducks before Appa sneezes, sending a large blast of green flying directly onto Sokka, who becomes completely covered in it. He squeals in disgust and begins to frantically try clean it off, rubbing his face in the snow under the amused gaze of his sister.

Maya starts laughing from her place behind a convenient mini ice wall. "Don't worry, it'll wash out, Aang has first-hand experience of that."

"It was only one time!" exclaimed Aang before pouting.

"So do you guys live around here?" said Aang recovering from his embarrassment

"Don't answer that! Did you see that crazy bolt of light?! They were probably trying to signal the Fire Navy!" said Sokka pointing his spear at the younger pair

"The fire what now?" asked Maya Aang shrugged in response

"Oh yeah, I'm sure they're spies for the Fire Navy. You can tell by that evil look in their eyes." Said Katara sarcastically "The paranoid one is my brother, Sokka. You never told us your names." she continued.

"I'm A ... a-a-a-Achoo!" said Aang sneezing and creating an air blast that sends him soaring into the air. He lands on the ground, unharmed. "I'm Aang, this is Maya" gesturing to the girl beside him.

"Sup?" was all the girl said

"You just sneezed ... and flew ten feet in the air!" exclaimed Sokka

"Really, ten feet Aang, I thought you could do better than that." Said Maya

"Well sorry Miss 30-feet-high-sneeze, I thought it was higher" said Aang

"You're airbenders!" exclaimed Katara

"No duh! What made that obvious? said Maya

Katara was about to try and respond by saying the clothes and arrows but Maya stopped her.

"Katara… right?" Katara nodded in response "Whenever something is said sarcastically, especially a question you are not supposed to answer, got it?" Said Maya dragging out her words as if talking to a toddler.

"Got it." Said Katara

"Giant light beams, flying bison, airbenders ...I think I got midnight sun madness. I'm going home to where stuff makes sense." Said Sokka, he realizes, however, that he is stranded in the middle of the ocean with no way home.

"Well, if you guys are stuck, we can give you a lift." Said Aang

"We'd love a ride!" said Katara sprinting to the side of Appa

"Oh no! I'm not getting on that fluffy snot monster!" said Sokka, or the paranoid one whichever you prefer.

"Said fluffy snot monster has a name, genius." Said Amaya annoyed at Sokka's intelligence, or lack thereof

"Are you hoping some other kind of monster will come along and give you a ride home? You know, before you freeze to death?" said Katara

Sokka opens his mouth in defiance and points at Katara, ready to retaliate, but he cannot think of anything.

"Sokka I dare you to retaliate, just get on the dang bison!" said Maya gusts of wind protruding from her form.

He sighs and bows his head in consent and defeat.

"Okay, first time flyers, hold on tight! Appa, yip-yip!" said Aang his going on

Aang whips the reins and Appa growls in response. He moves his tail up and down and takes a huge jump into the air. He soars through the air for mere few seconds, making it appear as though he would fly, before belly-flopping into the water with a splash. The bison begins trudging through the water slowly. Katara crawls to the front of the saddle while Aang tries to get Appa flying, whipping the reins again.

"Appa? You good buddy?" said Maya looking a bit confused "Are you tired or something?"

Appa growls in response

Maya was actually talking to Appa through her spirit bond with animals and spirits as the Deva however they didn't need to let the siblings know.

I'm tired Maya" bellowed a deep voice in Maya's subconscious

"I know Appa, can you swim for a few miles?" asked Maya

"I think so." Said Appa.

"Appa's just a little tired. A little rest and he'll be soaring through the sky. You'll see." Said Maya after breaking the link between her and the bison.

Sokka throws his head back and sticks his tongue out in disgust while groaning loudly. Katara glares at him while Appa continues to make his way through the icy sea, flapping his tail in the water.

Some nautical miles away is Prince Zuko staring into the vast oceans of the Southern Water Tribe.

"I'm going to bed now. Yep, a man needs his rest." Said Iroh

After a short pause, he abandons his try at a veiled suggestion and delivers his request more clearly, his tone tired.

"Prince Zuko, you need some sleep. Even if you're right, and the Avatar is alive, you won't find him. Your father, grandfather and great-grandfather all tried and failed."

"Because their honour didn't hinge on the Avatar's capture. Mine does. This coward's hundred years in hiding are over." Said Zuko

Aang now lies lazily on his back, his arms tucked under his head. Katara crawls to the front of the saddle again to have a better look at the boy. She leans on the front of the saddle and rests her head on her arm.

"Hey." Said Katara

"Hey. What'cha thinkin' about?" said Aang

"I guess I was wondering, your being an airbender and all, if you had any idea what happened to the Avatar?" said Katara

"Oh, no. I didn't know him. I mean, I knew people that knew him, but I didn't. Sorry." said Aang weakly

"Okay. Just curious. Good night" said Katara

"Sleep tight." said Aang

Aang uncomfortably turns around and a look of guilt crosses his face.

AANG'S DREAM

Aang and Maya are sleeping on Appa's saddle while clouds build around and ahead of them. Lightning splits the sky and the rumble of the following thunder awakens him. He shoots up and looks around Maya is still sleeping and Aang is sitting on Appa's head again, holding the reigns and screaming at the top of his lungs in terror while they go down. Maya finally wakes up and is dazed before screaming in terror Appa, Maya and Aang splash into the waters of the ocean. Appa resurfaces again, growls, but is quickly subdued anew by another wave. Aang, Maya and Appa sink unconscious into the water. As Aang releases the reigns and drifts off, his eyes and tattoos suddenly start to glow brightly. He slams his fists together, creating a bluish-white sphere that encases Appa and himself along with Maya. As the air sphere slowly solidifies into an icy globe, Maya's tattoos glow and speed up the process.

SOUTHERN WATER TRIBE

"Aang? Aang! Wake up." Aang shot up gasping for air

"It's okay, we're in the village now! Come on, get ready." Said Katara

"Where's Maya?"' said Aang shivering slightly

"She's in the other room. Come on everyone's waiting to meet you."

Aang happily gets out of bed and starts to dress himself while Katara takes a step toward the door. Before she exits, however, she glances back at Aang and gasps, staring in wonder at the blue, arrow-shaped tattoos that trace his arms and legs and reach up his back and to his head. Before Aang is able to get up, Katara pulls him along by his arm to meet the rest of the village. Aang is dragged out the tent toward a small congregation of villagers. He passes Sokka, who is sitting at the side of the tent, sharpening his boomerang. He is then placed beside Maya.

"Aang, Maya this is the entire village, entire village meet Aang and Maya"

"Uh, why are they all looking at me like that? Did Appa sneeze on me?" said Aang uncomfortably

"Well, no one has seen an airbender in a hundred years. We thought they were extinct, until my granddaughter and grandson found you." Said an old voice

Maya turned and saw an old woman in a purple parka.

"Aang, this is my grandmother." Said Katara

"Call me Gran-Gran." Said Gran-Gran

"Sokka walks toward Maya and abruptly snatches her staff out of his hands and starts to examine it."

"What is this a weapon! You can't stab anything with this!"

"Hmm… maybe it's not for stabbing Genius." Said Maya using an air current to snatch her glider back

"It's for airbending." Said Aang. He opens his staff into a glider, making Sokka gasp in fright and cover his head with his hands.

"Magic trick, do it again!" said a village girl.

"Not magic, airbending." Said Maya she moves her glider about, visually demonstrating what she is talking about. "It lets me control the air currents around my glider and fly." Maya finished

"Ya know, last time I checked, humans can't fly!" said Sokka

"Well then, I guess we're not human!" said Maya running and taking off without Aang.

Aang grabs hold of his glider and pushes himself off the ground, leaving Katara and Sokka to cover their faces against the sudden wind. The village stares in awe as Aang and Maya makes some loops and turns in the sky.

Aang's shadow passes over Katara, who is smiling broadly at him. Aang, intending to further impress the villagers, flies sideways and closes his eyes while grinning broadly. He promptly flies head-on into the village's watchtower, causing his head to be stuck in its side. Katara covers her mouth as she watches Aang struggle to extricate his head from the icy watchtower. Succeeding, he tumbles downward onto a pile of snow at the base of the tower that crumbled from the building. Katara immediately rushes to his side while Sokka stares in shock at the damage inflicted on his watchtower. Maya finally noticing the accident stops zigzagging and airbends the snow off of Aang.

"My watchtower!" said Sokka

"You okay…" said Maya to Aang before she was interrupted by Katara

"That was amazing!" said Katara

"Great. You're an airbender, Katara's a waterbender. Together you can just waste time all day long." Said Sokka clearly annoyed.

"You're a waterbender?" said Aang

"Well, sort of, not yet." Said Katara

"All right, no more playing. Come on, Katara, you have chores." Said Kanna

"I told you, he's the real thing Gran-Gran! I finally found a bender to teach me!" said Katara excitedly

"Katara, try not to put all your hopes in this boy. You would have better luck with that girl, she is so level headed and mature, unlike that boy."

"I don't think so Gran-Gran she is kinda mean and I doubt she is even that good, but Aang is special I can tell, I can sense he's filled with much wisdom."

Katara glances back toward Aang, who is surrounded by a bunch of kids. He smiles while his tongue is stuck to his staff. Much to Aang's discomfort, one of the smaller village boys starts to yank his staff, pulling Aang along with every movement. The village kids laugh and applaud Aang as his tongue remains stuck to his staff.

At the Fire Navy ship

Zuko is facing two soldiers dressed in the uniforms of a firebending Fire Nation soldier. Iroh is sitting on a small chair next to them.

"Again." said Iroh

Zuko opens the fight by spreading his arms in the direction of the two firebenders, showering them with flames. His adversaries block Zuko's attack with ease. Zuko shifts his weight to duck under a retaliation blast of the firebender to his left. The firebender to his right jumps forward to aim a blast at Zuko's feet. The prince propels himself out of the way. He twists around in mid-air and directs another fire blast with his hand to the firebender that retaliated first, and another with his foot to the firebender that aimed for his feet. Both soldiers jump out of the way of Zuko's flames. Zuko lands and stretches his fists out toward his adversaries, ready to face another attack.

"NO! Power in firebending comes form the breath the not the muscle. The breath becomes energy in the body. The energy extends past your limbs and becomes: fire! Get it right this time." said Iroh strictly

"Enough! I've been drilling this sequence all day. Teach me the next set! I'm more than ready!" said Zuko getting angry.

"No, you are impatient." He sits down again on his chair. "You have yet to master your basics." He yells his order. "Drill it again!"

Zuko clenches his teeth in anger. He turns around and suddenly directs a power fire kick toward one of the soldiers. The firebender attempts to stop the fire blast, but he is unable to and is thrown on his back by its power.

"The sages tell us that the Avatar is the last airbender. He must be over a hundred years old by now. He's had a century to master the four elements! I'll need more than basic firebending to defeat him. You will teach me the advanced set!"

"Very well." said Iroh. His expression changes completely to one of delight as he picks something up from the ground. "But first, I must finish my roast duck." He quickly munches down the roast duck, much to the dismay of Zuko.

SOUTHERN WATER TRIBE

Now men, it's important that you show no fear when you face a firebender. He brings out his club and holds it proudly. In the Water Tribe, we fight to the last man standing! For without courage, how can we call ourselves men? He clutches his fist to emphasize the word "men" as he stares down the people in front of him.

Maya was walking through the village and saw Sokka talking to six uninterested little boys.

"Hey Sokka." she said bluntly "Sup Kids."

"Maya! I'm trying to teach a class"

"You mean with 'trying' being the operative word, Tell you what, how about I help you?"

"How?" asked Sokka wary of where this was going

"A spar of course." said Maya like it was the most obvious thing in the whole world

Sokka considered his options, well she was a girl and she had no strong build, but she could still airbend"

"Hey, If you want I won't bend" said Maya

"Ok, let's do this" said Sokka confident in his chances

"No. not know, the Kids gotta pee, I've gotta stretch, you've gotta get ready to nurse your bruised ego when I beat you." Said Maya smugly

"Okay, who else has to go?" said Sokka

Every child immediately raises his hand. Sokka is surprised for a second, before facepalming in frustration.

"Okay kids but hurry up, when you come you'll see your resident warrior get beat up by a girl." Said Maya coaxingly

Katara runs up to Sokka as the children leave. In a worried tone she asks "Have you seen Aang? Gran-Gran said he disappeared over an hour ago."

Aang appears from an outhouse igloo, pulling his pants up a bit higher. "Wow, everything freezes in there!" He points toward the bathroom with a smile on his face. Sokka's "soldiers" halt beside Aang and laugh with him.

"Ugh! Katara, get him out of here! This lesson is for warriors only!" said Sokka

During all of this confusion Maya was doing some complicated stretches.

But she snapped out of it when she heard Aang shout "Penguin!"

The animal is startled by Aang's outburst and quickly waddles off. Aang gives chase, racing past Katara and Sokka, enhancing his speed with his airbending. He leaves a deep trail in the snow as he dashes after the penguin.

"He's kidding right?" said Sokka then turned around to see Maya doing a handstand, may not seem impressive but she was balancing on her index and thumbs

"By Tui and La! Maya, What are you doing?!" asked Sokka

Maya was getting red in the face but stayed still for 5 seconds longer until she finally righted herself.

"Stretching came the reply after she recovered from her panting fit.

"You ready?" asked Maya

"No, I need my weapons." Said Sokka

"Why don't you have them on you" asked Maya

"Because their heavy!" complained Sokka which caused Maya to roll her eyes.

Soon enough Maya and Sokka were engaged in combat.

Sokka tries to overpower Maya sending blow after blow on the 12 year old but she manoeuvred around the Water Tribe warrior with ease soon she poked him on his side. A pressure point that wold not cause him to move around very easily soon she got him in his other side and was completely unable to move his abdominal region. Sokka soon began to tire and this is when Amaya jumped into the air and somersaulted over his head and did a low sweep with her leg. Literally sweeping Sokka off of his feet. The pressure joints come into play now because he fell on his back, he would have to use his abdominal muscles to get up or even roll over but as of right now his abs were jelly.

"Do you concede?" said Maya "Or do you need another butt whooping, Genius"

Groaning Sokka finally accepted Maya's helping hand after looking at it in distaste.

"I was going easy on you." said Sokka haughtily

"Even if you were, which you weren't, next time, don't" said Maya smug and happy that she beat Sokka also a bit disappointed that it was that easy, she wanted more of a work out.

A few minutes later after a meal Maya was walking around the village. She felt a pang of anxiety.

"What is Aang doing!" said Maya, suddenly, a flare is fired and explodes high in the sky.

Maya then takes off as the anxiety in her chest turned to fear. Soon another emotion popped up, more fear, this time it is her own. When Maya reaches the hut she bursts in exclaiming loudly

"Sokka! Gran Gran! I think Aang and Katara are in trouble!"

"Then we are not letting you out there." says Sokka. His blue eyes steeling. "But Sokka… They probably need help… Did you not see the flare that was in the sky?!"

"Yes… I did. Maya you are not going out there." Says Gran Gran finality evident in her voice.