Chapter 2: The Dragon

"So, What now?"

"I think we should find a way to get out of here."Zuko scratched his hair. He knew this. First get out of this place, then find a way to get out of this time, in whichever time they are. But that didn't really mattered right now."Yeah, I know that, but how on Earth are we going to get off this place without your flying Appa thing?" Zuko complained.

"Its Appa," Aang reminded him. "And I'm not really sure, maybe-"Aang wanted to finish his sentence, but something huge from afar suddenly appeared and got both Aang's and Zuko's first it looked like a small red blurry thing and it flew right at them. It was then a few seconds later that Aang and Zuko realized it wasn't just red blur, eyes widened as they saw it coming closer.It was a dragon.

It wasn't just a dragon, Aang realized. 'Didn't I saw this dragon before?' He asked himself as he watched the dragon get's closer to thought the dragon was going to attack them, as he watched the dragon getting closer and closer and flying at high speed. He turned to Aang. "We need to do something! It's flying right at us!" He cried at Aang who just stared at the dragon.

"Aang?" Zuko said, trying to get his attention.

It seemed like he was wrong. The dragon stopped before them and landed on the ground, bowing head a little and keeping himself quiet as he looked at Aang.

Aang's eyes widened. "Wait a minute, I know who you are."

"You know?" Zuko asked in confusing, also not understanding the reason why the dragon didn't attacked them.

Aang approached the dragon and touched it. "You're Fang, Roku's animal guide and friend." He said while smiling at the dragon who growled softly.

"Avatar Roku's.. dragon?" Zuko murmured as he too approached the dragon and stroked it softly. "But.. how?" he asked.

Aang turned to Zuko and looked a bit worried. "I think we're in the time period of my past life, avatar Roku."

Zuko gasped. "Are you serious?"

"I mean, do you even know who lives in this world right now?"

"You mean Roku? Or Sozin?" Aang asked himself as he frowned a little.

Zuko gulped. They were both alive now, both his grandparents. Fire lord Sozin from his father's side, and Avatar Roku from his mother's side. Aang was aware of Zuko being Fire Lord Sozin his great-grandson, but never learned about his connection to Avatar Roku.

'I think I should keep this a secret for a while though' he thought.

"Zuko, you're there? You're spacing a little."

"What? I'm fine.." he smiled weakly.

Fang growled softly again, trying to tell them something.

Aang blinked and stroked Avatar Roku's dragon. "Zuko, I think he wants us to jump on his back." He stated and touched the dragon gently with both his hand, and jumped carefully on his back. The dragon still kept still.

"Come on Zuko." Aang smiled at him. "This is so exciting! I've never ride a dragon before! Except for the time in the spirit world.. but that doesn't count." He grinned.

Zuko nodded and sat carefully behind Aang. "So that's why you knew it was Roku's dragon." He said.

"Yeah, that's right."

Team Zuko and Aang flew above the clouds for a couple of hours, wondering where they would go.

"Just wondering, but where are we going." Zuko said while his hair was blown backwards due to the sat up straighter, trying look below at the city. "Hm, I think Fang is bringing us to Avatar Roku since Fang actually should be with him," something just popped into his mind while saying that. "I wonder why Fang left Roku and came to us."

The first sentence Aang said got Zuko. He was appalled with Aang's statement. Not only would they go to the Fire Nation, but he would also get to see his Great-grandfather, who probably didn't even knew they were related.

After flying for hours, Zuko and Aang finally made it to the ground as Fang, Roku's dragon softly landed on the ground and lowered his head to the ground so that they could jump off."Seems like we arrived," Aang said as he looked around. He remembered the place from the invasion during the Day of the Black Sun. "Thanks Fang." He said.

"We're in the Fire Nation Capital," Zuko said as he stared at the many people who live their daily lives. His eyes then pointed at the direction of the big volcano where Caldera City lies. "My home, or at least it used to be.." Zuko said as he recalled his memories of his youth.

"Fang, there you are."

The two teens blinked and turned to the voice, and both squeaked as they saw who it was.

"You're Avatar Roku!" Aang said pointing at his past life. His finger wasn't clearly pointed at Roku, he couldn't held his arm still in nervousness.

Roku raised his eyebrow then turned to the two teens and smiled slightly. "Ah, yes that's me," he noticed the clothes Aang was wearing. "An air bender? What are you doing in the Fire Nation?"

Aang gasped a little and looked at Zuko for answers but he just stared at the man who seemed to be in his late 40. Aang recognized his staring contest and sighed in loss. "Fang brought us here." He admitted.

Roku looked up in astonishment, not understanding that while he was out, his dragon decided to sneak out. "Why would he do that?" he said as he stroked his dragon.

"I'm not sure," Aang responded as he glanced behind his back, trying to break eye contact. "You're probably not going to believe it."

"You can tell,I've faced far worse things." Roku laughed.

Aang blinked and took a deep breath. "Me and my friend are from the future, we just found ourselves into this time and right then it was your dragon who carried us to this place." Aang confessed.

Roku's eyes widened as he heard those words, not sure what to believe anymore.

That's chapter 2! Thank you for reading this story. I'm actually not even sure how this story will works out, I guess we'll just see. I just went to Wiki to search on how the Fire Nation actually looked like, and it seemed like I have become wiser, haha. Please review, it gives me hope~ :) –begs in shame–