Korra's Point of View

"For the love of waterbending," I groaned loudly. I was lying on the ground… ground? It had walls… I was on a sky-bison saddle! I sighed, Tenzin had probably saved me; I was going to get a big ole' lecture on my irresponsibility. I closed my eyes. Maybe he hadn't heard me. Then I felt step coming towards my miserable corner, and I sighed again. "Tenzin, I feel like a rock, please don't make me get up. I don't want to meditate or whatever torturistic activity you have planned." I was whining, but Tenzin would get over it.

"I'm not Tenzin." A deep, gruff voice responded; my eyes flashed open to take in the hostile scene. There was a sixteen-ish boy standing right above me, attempting to loom over my poor, unprotected body. He was failing. He was also holding a sharp weapon-like thing in one hand, it had a blunt blue stone set in it, and he was glaring at me like no tomorrow. Dressed warmly, and in blue, he looked like a waterbender. His oceanic eyes narrowed when he saw mine open. I gave him a quick, sarcastic smile, then I launched into action. My leg flew through the air, swung at just the right angle to knock the weapon out of his hand, and force his body to stagger to the right.

"Don't threaten me." I stood up to my full height, and looked around. A waterbender girl was in the corner, blue eyes wide, and an airbender kid had turned around from driving the bison. I didn't recognize him. "Where are you from? The Northern Compound?" I glared at them all, but none of them showed any intention of answering. I whirled to face the girl, she was frightened, but unhesitating. "Who are you people?" The question stung my tongue, and I felt tears welling up in my eyes. Where was I? Whose bison was this? Who are these weirdos? Why am I here? Where is Tenzin? "Where am I?" I whispered, and none of them made any response. "Where am I?" I said, stronger and louder.

The airbender's face went from confused and hostile to slightly sympathetic. "You… you fell from the sky," the girl spoke in a strong and powerful voice. It was just slightly familiar. I must have looked extremely confused, but she made no move to explain further. "My name is Katara." My eyes flew open wide. Katara?

"Katara!" The waterbender guy called out, his low voice cracking and going high. "Don't tell the enemy your name!"

"That idiot over there is Sokka." She smiled.

"And I'm…" Don't say it… Don't say it… Don't say 'Aang', or I am going to die. How is this possible? "Aang." I noticed the kid had airbending master tattoos. I struggled to stay calm but it only took a matter of seconds for darkness to claim me again.

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I woke up in the saddle again, but this time made no vicious attack. Katara was standing over me, a worried expression on her face. "Are you okay?" She inquired, and I groaned again as I sat up.

"I just had the weirdest dream…" Then I realized it was Katara. "Holy mother of earthbending!" I screeched, and jumped back a foot, ramming my back into the side of the saddle and my feet drew up to my chest. "This isn't happening…" I moaned. "This isn't happening…" I was rocking now, and shaking like a leaf. Then I stopped, looked up, and glared. "Tenzin put you all up to this didn't he?"

"Tenzin? Who is he?" The waterbender guy, 'Sokka', looked at me funny. If it weren't for the look of genuine curiosity on his and Katara's face, I would have slapped him. If this was all really happening… If it was true… And I was with Avatar Aang back in his time… Then when I tried to bend that shield… "My bending!" I stood straight up and tried to feel the tug of the ocean beneath me. It was strangely empty, there was no feeling. Yue and La, the Moon and the Ocean, they had abandoned my. I looked up towards the sun, and didn't feel the tug toward Agni's fiery depths, either. Even though there was no earth anywhere near here, I knew I wouldn't be able to find the Rock Spirit Yan. "No. This can't be happening, it isn't possible." I muttered under my breath. I turned towards the head of the bison, looking at Katara and Sokka, and Aang, all of whom had turned to look at me. Katara opened her mouth to ask a question, but I never let her get to it. "Where are we going?"

Aang answered. "Well, I need to go to the Fire Nation, to the Fire Temple, and contact Avatar Roku at the winter solstice. I'm… I'm kind of the Avatar." I gulped. Then it was true.

"Don't let me stop you, in fact, I'm going with you." I stated firmly. "I have a bone to pick with Avatar Roku." Aang's confusion was evident on his face. "Don't ask." I sighed. "Sorry if I was rude. I… I don't know, well, anything." I paused for a moment, attempting to let it all sink in. "My name is Korra." I smiled.

"You are a bender? A waterbender from the Northern Tribe?" Katara's face had lit up.

"Um… I can't really…" I broke off. "My bending won't work." I finished, looking at the ground, and I felt a salty tear I hadn't noticed leak out of my eye drip into my mouth.

"Why?" She asked, her brown eyebrows scrunching together.

"I… I don't know." I sighed again. This was going to be a long trip.

Aang's Point of View

"Roku. Roku!" I called, asking for my predecessor.

"I'm here, Aang." The voice was from behind me, and I turned to see Roku on a small hill in the spirit world behind me. "Aang, there is much you need to know." He gave me a wry smile, and I tried to respond. "There is a comet coming, Aang, the very same comet that Fire Lord Sozin used one hundred years ago to wipe out the air nomads." He stopped and let it sink in. A comet? "The comet gives firebenders the power of one hundred suns, and it is quite a day." He smiled. "The past Avatars are worried Fire Lord Ozai will attempt to destroy another nation, perhaps take Ba Sing Se, we have no idea. What we do know, is that you must try to defeat him before the comet comes. And you must master the elements before that time." My face must have showed my extreme astonishment.

"Aang, you can do this. This is why Korra is here."

"Korra? She said she had a bone to pick with you."

Roku laughed. "I imagine she does. We, as Avatars, plucked her out of her home and all that is comfortable, and shoved her into a new and unfamiliar situation without her bending." I gulped, and looked at him.

"You took away Korra's bending?"

"Yes. You see, Korra isn't from this time. Korra is the next Avatar of the cycle, and she has no grasp of the spiritual side of bending, only the physical bending and fighting. She can help you learn, and you must help her gain her bending back, one element at a time." Not from our time? Korra is the Avatar?

"We are supposed to work together?" I asked.

"Yes, Aang, my time here grows short. Trust Korra, she will help you. Goodbye, Aang." I watched Roku drift away, and the elements of the physical world came back into play, Roku's statue, the empty room I was in. The official solstice was over. And I had to learn waterbending. With the help of Korra. The next Avatar in the cycle. Who wasn't in her own time. Who couldn't actually bend. What is the world coming to? I ran towards the doors, but stopped as I heard grunts from the outside.

"Well, well, Prince Zuko. It seems you have led me to a might prize, a banished prince and traitor, along with the Avatar." It was Zhao. I gulped. And Zuko. He probably had Katara and the others chained up somewhere. I shook my shoulders, and prepared myself for a dramatic entrance.

"Aang… As a parting gift." I felt Roku enter my body… then I could see. Really see. Everything was in perfect clarity and shining, crystal like. Roku controlled my body, which was taller and stronger now. He opened the doors.

Zhao had Zuko cuffed behind the back, and Zuko had Katara and Sokka chained to a post. Korra was nowhere to be seen. Roku began bending, sending the Fire Sages on their knees, then flying through the air like a broken doll. Zhao's eyes were wide and fearful, but he was still strong in commanding his men to exit. Roku felt the lava deep below the Temple, and called it forth, mixing it with a form of earthbending that was shattering the Temple from the inside out. Zuko had escaped out the window, and Zhao was leaving. Korra dropped from the ceiling and cut Katara's and Sokka's chains with a knife, then motioned towards the window. 'Get out' she mouthed, and Roku pulled forth the lava again. Katara reached out towards me and Roku, refusing to leave. She should leave, she can't stay, not when Roku is pulling the place down. Roku finished. The lava was called forth and nothing was stopping it now. I was me again, and Katara and Korra rushed forward, grabbing me and holding me up. I was falling down, there was no strength left in my limbs. Korra shook her head, then reached down and picked my body off the ground, to Sokka and Katara's wide eyes. Then she ran… ran… she was running out the window… Katara was screaming something… and Korra let out a high-pitched whistle. A bison call. Of course she knew a bison call. They felt the tower tipping, and they jumped onto hard land that was actually just a ledge… they ran over the ground… then they were flying, the jump turned my head and I couldn't see anything but Korra's brown hair until I felt a thud and Korra dumped me on Appa's saddle. She said something and Appa started to fly. I blacked out.

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"He was delirious, that can't be healthy." Katara was muttering.

"Don't worry, he'll be fine. Look, he opened his eyes." Korra spoke that time.

"Korra. You…" I winced as the words tingled my parched throat, Katara rushed over to give me some water. I drank greedily, the cool water trickling down my throat in delightful streams until the skin was empty. "Roku told me about you." She froze, and turned.

"And what did Roku tell you?" Her eyes narrowed, like she expected some hostility.

"He told me he took away your bending. And that you needed to help me learn."

"Anything else?" She wasn't as worried now, and she took a deep breath.

"He told me you are going to be the Avatar." She winced, and looked at me.

"Look, Aang."

"No. I understand. It's not your fault. But you have to help me." I stopped, and let that sink in. "Roku took you out of your own time to help me, and to help you. You are supposed to relearn the elements and their spiritual side with me. Before the comet comes." She nodded.

"That I can do. When can we start?"

"As soon as I can get up." I tried to stand, and winced. For all the airbenders, my muscles hurt!

DISCLAIMER: I always forget this. I own nothing. Not even the computer I am typing this on.