Chapter One: The Boy In the Giant Snow Cone

Part Two

A/N: I do not own Avatar; I'm just another crazy fangirl.

After the cuddleuppet commercial from hell, Aang fell asleep and found himself in his flashback dream.

He had been flying on Appa when a storm started. He lost control of his bison and plunged into the water with a frightened scream.

As he sank into the water, he went into the Avatar state. Once he was all glowy, he airbent a sphere of air around him.

I'm such a genius. The Avatar thought to himself, smugly, until the air sphere started to freeze over.

"Aang? Aang, wake up!"

Aang gasped and sat up straight, screaming like a little girl. He then saw Katara and quickly regained his composure.

"Come on, get ready." Katara said, showing no indication that she had noticed Aang's frightened little girl scream "Everyone's so excited to meet a real, live alien."

"Airbender." Aang corrected her, but she wasn't listening. Sighing, Aang grabbed his poncho thing and pulled it over his head. Katara gasped, because it seemed she was just noticing that, despite the fact that he was twelve years old and looked rather cuddly, he had arrow tattoos covering his body.

Aang whirled around and said "Are you looking at my arrows?"

"Why are you covered in tattoos? Is that an alien thing?"

"No, I got these tattoos to be gangsta' and rebellious." he said, rolling his eyes.

Katara's eyes widened and she stepped back, wondering whether she was going to have to break out the pepper spray again.

Aang grinned a bit nervously and said "I'm just kidding. I got them because I'm an airbending master–"

But Katara wasn't listening again; she dragged Aang by his wrist outside the tent and led him to the villagers, who were in a small, huddled crowd.

"Aang, this is the entire village. Entire village, Aang."

One of the women pointed to Aang and said "Is he the reason Sokka didn't bring back any meat yesterday?"

"Well, I wouldn't say that, but–" Sokka started

"Yeah, it's because he's bad at hunting." Katara piped in.

"What I meant to say was that it was entirely Aang's fault. If it weren't for him, I would have caught this huge shark."

Katara gave Sokka her meanest look as the entire village turned to Aang. "I guess we'll have to eat the alien instead." said one, and the others nodded in agreement.

"Wait!" said Katara. She stepped in between Aang and the villagers.

"I bet he's stealing all our food!" yelled a small boy

"No I'm not!" said Aang "All you guys eat is meat, and I'm a vegetarian." Just then, Aang's stomach growled. "Speaking of food, it felt like I haven't eaten in a hundred years. . ."

"A vegetarian?" asked a villager "Good, not enough of them grow here."

Katara knew then that it was time to change the subject. She spotted Aang's glider and said "I bet this magical alien stick will bring us food."

"It's not a 'magical alien stick', it's a glider." said Aang. He used airbending to open the staff, revealing the red wings.

Everyone stepped back, their eyes wide. "He must be using dark magic." one whispered.

"It's not dark magic, it's airbending." said Aang, consolingly.

"You mean 'alien magic.'" said Katara

Aang had really had enough of being mistaken for an alien. "Okay, fine. Have it your way. I'm an alien, and this uses really advanced and complicated alien technology that none of you will understand."

He then tried to fly away on his glider while simultaneously flipping the bird at them. He was so busy taunting the villagers that he didn't notice he was about to fly straight into a watchtower.

"My watchtower!" Sokka yelled, his voice cracking. He had spent several hours perfecting the work of architectural wonder, thank you very much, and he was not pleased in the least that it had toppled over. "Katara! Get him out of here! Before he wrecks my snow fort–"

He was interrupted by a muffled crash as Aang crashed into the snow fort.

"You're not very good at this, are you?" asked a little girl.

Sokka sighed, and decided to start fixing his watchtower. "Great, you're an alien and Katara's a waterbender. Together you can just waste time all day long."

"You're a waterbender?" asked Aang

"Yeah," said Katara, grinning "Wanna see?"

"Nah, everyone knows that air's the superior element." said Aang, still a bit miffed about the alien thing.

"Oh," Katara's face fell.

"I'm just kidding; I'd love to see you waterbending."

Katara grinned and was about to show him when Gran Gran walked up to them.

"Alright, that's enough fooling around." said Gran Gran "Katara, you still haven't finished your chores."

"But Gran Gran." Katara whined.

"Do your chores, slave!" Sokka called from the watchtower. Fuming, Katara waterbent the remains of the watchtower down and buried Sokka. They heard muffled cursing from the pile of snow.

"I told you, Gran Gran, he's the real thing!" Katara said, beaming again. "A real live alien! I bet he can teach me waterbending."

Katara actually wasn't sure whether he'd be an effective teacher, him being an alien and all, but he was about the closest thing to a bender she'd ever met.

"Katara," said Gran Gran "I know you want to learn waterbending–"

"More than anything in the world!"

"–but if you run off doing crazy things like waterbending, well, who's going to do the chores around here?"

"I'm sure you can, Gran Gran. And lessons won't take too long. . ."

"I'm too old! Why do you think I had your mother? I needed to pass on the workload!"

"But Gran Gran!" Katara protested "I sense he is filled with much wisdom."

Meanwhile, Aang was busy getting his tongue stuck to his own staff. Gran Gran tsked and started to walk away, and Katara said "Well, we all have off days. . ."

Fire Prince Zuko stared down his sparing opponents, in a defensive stance. He narrowed his eyes at them as Iroh said "Again."

Zuko ran through the drill, dodging his enemies attacks and shooting fireballs at them. He was pretty sure he got everything down, but then he slipped on a rubber chicken.

"You get an F." said Iroh.

"For 'fantastic'?"

"No for total and complete failure." Iroh sipped his tea.

"Hey, I think I was doing alright!"

"Hey, who's the master here? I've told you over and over, firebending comes from the breath, not the muscles. You can't be all muscles, you've got to have some skill, too. Haven't you ever heard the saying 'brains over brawn'? That's not just what the nerds say to make themselves feel better."

"Yeah, yeah." Zuko said, waving him off. "You already told me this."

"Well, you don't seem to be listening." Iroh sighed.

Zuko probably should have just let it go, but he decided he wasn't going to let his uncle off the hook yet. "Look, the sages tell us the Avatar is over a hundred years old. He's going to have, like, arthritis or something. I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to overpower him. Besides, you're always saying that you old codgers are wise or something."

Iroh punched Zuko in the shoulder. Zuko whined and stomped his foot like a schoolgirl "Why did you do that?"

"Never say us 'old codgers' are weak ever again." he turned to the soldiers. "Drill him again."

Zuko sighed and ran through the drill again, only to trip over that rubber chicken again.

Iroh sighed. This was going to be a long training session.

Sokka paced back and forth in front of a group of little kids. "Now, men, it's important that you show no fear in front of a firebender–"

Katara approached them, cutting off Sokka's speech. "Sokka, what makes you think firebenders are going to attack us? And why are you entrusting little kids with weapons anyway?"

"Katara, you saw that beam of light! The alien's probably with the Fire Nation, and he tried to signal them."

Katara rolled her eyes. "You're crazy. Do you honestly think that Aang's smart enough to be a spy? I mean, he got his tongue stuck to his staff earlier."

"That's just what he wants you to think!"

The kids got up and ran away, sensing the siblings were about to fight.

"Aw, look what you did now, Katara!" Sokka complained. "I'm trying to train the warriors."

"Warriors, right." Katara glanced over to a bunch of kids sliding down on Appa's tail. Appa roared in protest, because such a majestic creature like him was not a children's slide.

Aang was also on the bison, and Sokka ran up to him. "Stop it! We can't afford to goof off with a war going on!"

Aang blinked, then jumped off Appa. "What war?"

Sokka cursed under breath, then said "You know, the war against the Fire Nation? That we've been fighting for a hundred years. I mean, you'd have to be living under a rock not to know about it!"

Then Sokka blinked and said "Wait a minute. . ." but before he could finish his thought, Aang spotted a penguin seal.

He screamed "PENGUIN!" at the top of his lungs and began to run after it.

Sokka and Katara turned to each other in bewilderment. Then Sokka said "Ten copper pieces says he has ADD."

To Be Continued. . .

A/N: Please don't forget to review! They really are great motivators. . .