Yay for my first ever fanfiction! As this is my first attempt, please don't flame me. If the characters are a little OOC, don't blame me, I tried.
Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar. I wish I owned Avatar.
CHAPTER 2: A new friend?
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Aang was asleep. Despite his best attempts to stay awake and keep watch over his friends, he had fallen asleep. Well, at least he had stayed up until 4 AM. The fire nation was asleep by then. So he had stopped being so alert, and eventually, sleep had claimed him. And he was dreaming again. Katara. She had slid her way into his dreams again, and his impulsive side began to take over. Again.
---DREAM---
He was older. So was she. That much was for certain. He looked down to see what he was wearing this time. A ceremonial robe? But people only wore those when they were about to get… Oh God. I'm about to get married to Katara! Wonder how she looks in that dress…
He opened his eyes. And then he looked down. She was wearing a beautiful white gown with blue accents at the ends, in shapes suggesting that it was water. Her hair was let down, and fell in a cascade over her shoulders and back.
Whoa, she looks beautiful. Wait a minute, what am I THINKING?! His responsible side again. This has got to STOP and it has got to stop NOW.
He forced himself out of the dream world, and into the real one.
---REAL LIFE---
"HI!"
Aang's eyes were open, but he wasn't believing what he was seeing. There was a boy, about a year older than he was, looking at him with his face no more than an inch away. All Aang could see was the boy's eyes, two round orbs of turquoise with a small circle of black in the middle.
"GU---" Aang was cut off by the intruder, who had smacked his hand into Aang's mouth. "SHH, you'll wake the others. I need to talk to you alone." And with that, he picked him up, (With no apparent effort) and carried him out of the cave.
Aang was plopped down on a rock about the size of a bed. "Now, first things first. My name is Yin, what's yours?" The intruder looked at him quizzically. Aang managed to blurt out, "Aang. My name's Aang." Yin's eyes widened in shock. "Wait, Aang… I've heard that name before! But where…" Aang finally saw an opportunity to show his superiority, and said with glee, "I'm the Avatar, the one, and only, Avatar."
Yin's eyes narrowed into slits. "Yes, that's where I've heard of you, but DON'T go thinking that you are the only Avatar." Aang was surprised beyond belief, and obviously very confused. "What is that supposed to mean? I am the only Avatar, aren't I? I'm the only one who can master the four elements and stop the Fire Nation, right?" Yin seemed to become only angrier. "NO! You aren't the only one capable of mastering all four elements! Now just shut up!" Aang shut up. But not for long. He blurted out a few seconds later, "but that's impossible! How could anyone else learn them?"
Yin looked at Aang for a long time, for what seemed like hours, but was actually only about a minute. "Fine. I'll tell you the story. It's a long one, though, so make yourself comfortable." Aang complied by bringing his foot down on the rock to make it into two separate chair-shaped rocks. Aang sat in his, and waited for the story to begin patiently. Yin sighed before continuing, "You have been gone for 100 years, Aang. In that time, much has changed. The Fire nation has spread, destroying everything in its path. The Water tribes have gone into hiding and seclusion, the Air nomads are all but eliminated, and only the Earth Kingdom holds onto its former glory. But they know that it cannot last. So the Earth Kingdom began to… experiment. About trying to make the Avatar appear again. The first attempts were… failures, to say the least. Holding more than one bending style in their minds made most subjects go insane. It even outright killed a couple. About 50 years ago, though, there was a breakthrough. What about interbreeding from more than one bending style? An earthbender wife with a firebender husband, for instance. The result would be a possibility of a child being able to earthbend and firebend. Add in another 2 generations, and there you go! One ready to serve Avatar. The only problem was, there were now no Air Nomads left. But somehow, they managed to find one. A crippled old man, but still an Air Nomad. And so, I was born. After I was born, the Nomad died, and I was the new, artificially created Avatar. But then, YOU revealed yourself, and they told me that 'my services were no longer required'. They threw me out. Even my own mother threw me out. I was alone. Completely alone. So now I travel around, in search of answers about you. Lucky of me to find you, wasn't it?"
Aang was awestruck. To think, the Earth Kingdom would do such a cruel thing… "I don't believe you. I don't believe that would be done by the Earth Kingdom. There's just no way…"
Yin was on his feet now, not a little miffed. "So, you think you know more about it than me, huh? Then how about a little demonstration?" Yin went into a bending stance, recognizable as earthbending.
If it's a fight he wants, it's a fight he'll get. Aang spread into a bending stance as well, an Airbending one.
Ooh, things get a little heated already? Is this boy really an artificial Avatar? Or is he just screwing with Aang? Next chapter: Another Avatar?