Avatar Traya

Ch. 2: The Children From Another World and the Boy in the Iceberg

After escaping the abandoned Fire Nation warship and currently running to return to the village, Kenneth spots the flare in the air and says to the others "This is starting to not look like my day!"

They arrive to the village, only to find some of their fellow brethren from back home and a lot of angry faces greeting them.

Daisuke says, "We're in major trouble."

The village children run to Aang, excited to see him back.

Namiko pushes the others forward, "Your call, guys."

Sokka takes out his spear and has Kenneth run right into the point of it—

"AAAKK!" gasps Kenneth before he falls to his knees clutching his side.

"You runt," scoffs Namiko, coming up to his side "it cannot be that bad—" then she finds red blood in her palm, afterwards she exclaims, "BLOOD!"

Namiko rushes up to Kenneth's side to check his wound, Kenneth grunts out "Please don't!"

Too late… his transmuted clothes of red are exposed.

Keith gasps 'Kenneth's in Fire Nation garb?' He pulls Namiko in closer and asks in a whisper "Do you think that that would mean we've treated him so harshly that he may become a monster like them?" "I saw him Firebend in a sneeze on that warship," gulps Namiko nervously "I was also responsible for the dust having falling onto him."

"Bind him!" calls out Sokka, pulling out some rope. He ties Kenneth's arms down, frowning and declaring "Fire Nation spy."

Kenneth uses his feet to push himself to slide on the snowy ground, away from Sokka, giving his would-be jailer a face full of snow. Kenneth tries to defend himself, "I didn't want to be like what I am; how I came to be just happened!"

Aang helps Kenneth with his small wound and asks, "Why did you attack him? He didn't do anything." "The flare was an accident on all our parts" grunts Kenneth, getting back to his feet.

Sokka still accuses the foreigners, "You both signaled to the Fire Navy with that flare! Leading them straight to us!"

Katara may be feeling a bit torn apart about Kenneth; the Fire Nation are monsters in the village's eyes for starting the war, but after seeing how innocent Kenneth truly is, which is completely different from how she would remember the Fire Nation. But she always sees something in Aang still since they've met, so she also defends the younger boy "Aang didn't do anything, it was an accident!"

Aang speaks up "Yeah, we were on the ship and there was this booby trap and well… we 'boobied' right into it."

"Katara and Sakura," scolds Gran Gran "you shouldn't have gone on that ship! Now we could all be in danger!"

Namiko says, "I did tell them to not go, ma'am, but the kid and the runt were insane."

"Don't blame, Katara nor Sakura" pleads Aang, defending the girls "it was me who brought them into it, the others followed and got lost trying to stop us from getting caught. It's my fault."

"No Aang," sighs Kenneth hurtfully, after bandaging his wound "it's our fault; we went on that forbidden shipwreck and set off the trap."

"Ah-ha!" exclaims Sokka "The traitors confess! Warriors away from the enemy; the foreigners are banished from our village!"

The children sadly depart from the outsiders. Emma mentally sighs 'And we got to know each other well too.'

Katara frowns at her brother, "I'm mad at Kenneth for not talking much about him too but you're making a mistake, Sokka!" "No!" says Sokka, remaining adamant "I'm keeping my promise to dad; I'm protecting you from threats like them!"

"Which 'them'? Counting Max, there's like 10 of us outsiders" says Daisuke. Sokka frowns "Don't distract me, boy!"

Katara frowns as she defends them "Aang is not our enemy, neither are the rest of them! Don't any of you see? Aang and the other newcomers have brought us something we haven't had in a long time; fun." "Fun?" frowns Sokka "We can't fight off Firebenders with fun!" Aang speaks up, "You should try it some time." "Get out of our village, NOW!" declares Sokka.

"Go ahead and banish us all if it makes you feel big, Socks!" growls Namiko. "Socks?" shrieks Sokka. Emma answers, "A nickname she has for you, Sokka."

Katara pleads, "Grandmother, please! Don't let Sokka do this." The village elder doesn't concede, "Katara, you knew going on that ship is forbidden. Sokka is right. I think it's best if the Airbenders leave, along with the young dragon owner."

Katara is outraged, "FINE! Then I'm banished too!" She turns to pull Aang with her, "Come on, Aang, let's go!" Sokka exclaims "Where do you think you're going?" "To find a Waterbender," answers Katara "Aang is taking me to the North Pole." "I am?" blinks a surprised Aang, then he immediately agrees "Right."

"Katara!" calls out Sokka "Would you really choose him over your tribe; your own family?"

Min says, "I would." "So would I" follows Daisuke. "Likewise" stoically nods Solomon. Emma follows "Me too."

Katara doesn't answer, she is unsure of herself.

Aang says to her, "Katara, I don't want to come in between you or your family." Then he heads for Appa. She asks the bald Airbender, "So you're leaving the South Pole, with everyone else? This is goodbye?"

Aang says to her, "Thanks for Penguin Sledding with me." "Where will you go?" asks Katara. "Guess I'll go back home with Min and Daisuke," shrugs Aang.

Hearing Min's name, everyone looks at her. She takes off her mittens and her headband, revealing elaborately-designed blue arrow tattoos like Aang's. This is another big surprise for everyone.

"Together we could look for the other Airbenders" says Aang, hopefully. Then he remembers "Wow! I haven't cleaned my room in a hundred years; not looking forward to that." Daisuke shrugs jokingly "Who wouldn't?"

As Aang and Daisuke climb onto the Bison, the only Airbender originating from this world turns his head toward them "It was nice meeting everyone." "Let's see those Bison fly now, Air Boy" scoffs an angry and skeptic Sokka.

But the furry giants could not still, just walk. "Yeah," huffs Sokka "I thought so!"

Sokka then kicks the bound Kenneth toward the designated outsiders, "Take this Fire Nation trash with you." Kenneth's fragile world shattered in his view when Sokka did and said that.

BOOM! A small explosion catches them by surprise; Kenneth broke from the Sokka's rope using extremely basic Firebending in his book.

Sokka charges at Kenneth, shouting "Don't let him escape!" only for him to miss entirely and plop onto the snowy ground next to Kenneth.

"Since you wouldn't listen to me," sadly says Kenneth, "I'll leave and possibly drown myself."

Most of the other world residents gasp in shock, Katara also gasps as she notice the despair in his eyes.

Even Gran Gran notices but keeps to herself, 'Now this is odd; he isn't like the other Fire Nation people I've encountered. How could someone be so dismal and insecure?'

Kenneth bows his head shamefully, breaking out into tears "It's like back home…" Earning everyone's inquisitive stares, "I don't belong there… I don't belong here… I don't belong anywhere."

Katara blinks and gasps 'He's an outcast? Was he telling the truth that he would be rebelling against the Fire Nation for being befouled?' 'Whoa!' mentally gasps Aang, 'he's really different from the other people in the Fire Nation when I was around!'

Kenneth turns around and shamefully cries, "It's just like back home; I don't belong anywhere." Then he walks off into the distance. Mioha walks after him, wanting to stay with him.

Keith blinks and looks at Kenneth carefully, 'Tears? He's hurting worse than that? I didn't think it would affect him that badly. I mean I knew the spear piercing made him bleed, but having him treated like Naruto in the beginning was wholly worse for him?'

"Come on," sighs Solomon "we clearly don't belong here either." Emma goes for her stuff, sighing "So much for finding friends here." Sokka gasps at the actions of the designated newcomer Earth Kingdom and Water Tribe allies, they're leaving after Kenneth.

Sakura had earlier gone to collect her belongings that came with her group and is seen chasing after Kenneth. Noticing this, Katara goes to the Other World girl and asks her "Sakura, where are you going?" The girl says "With Kenneth." Hearing what Sakura said to his sister, Sokka interjects "But he's a member of the Fire Nation! He's an enemy! You've seen his clothes: red and fire-like!"

Min says "It wasn't his choice when he came here or even to be born as one. Your distrust of outsiders and strangers is similar to that which drove him away from society. What exactly has he or Aang done that was evil since they came to your village?" After a moment of silence, nobody answers. "I thought so," nods a frowning Min "We outsiders shall be doing you all a favor by leaving your little village." She then pulls out a giant Chinese fan with silk rope handles and fans it out, before flying away using it.

Emma catches up with Min and says to her "Wow, you're an Airbender here." Her friend in college says to her, "I am, it's just that I'm hoping they could change their minds. I even invent my own version of an Airbending glider."

Turning to Sokka, Keith sighs sadly "Goodbye, Sokka. You've been a good friend; just lay off the sexism and try to be more understanding." He and his dog, Max, then run off after Kenneth. Sokka shakes his head in disbelief, after their short time together, Keith considers him a friend… and now he's leaving.

Catching up with Kenneth, his fellow Other Worlders attempt to encourage him before he runs away from them further. Aang watches Kenneth with worried eyes, although different from how he experienced things before becoming encased in ice, he sees Kenneth is deeply troubled as he is.

One of the little girls from the village runs up to Aang and begs, "Aang! Don't go, please! I'll miss you and the others!" Aang sighs, "I'll miss you too."

As soon as the outsiders leave, the same little girl walks back home crying her eyes out.

Gran Gran walks up next to Katara and speaks to her "Katara, you'll feel better when—"

"Are you happy now?" snaps a frustrated Katara, "There goes my one chance of becoming a Waterbender as well as one sign of hope that there's one shred of goodness, even amongst our enemies, and you banish them all!" Then she storms off.

Gran Gran sighs, feeling a little disappointed, even saddened by the fact that her granddaughter is right.

Sokka recovers and gives orders over the tiny boys and gets ready for the Fire Navy's arrival to their village.

Meanwhile, the next morning, with the other world people…

Kenneth is sitting along on a self-made iceberg, feeling horrible. Mioha stays with him, feeling sorry for him. Sakura sat on the icy bank looking at him, wondering if there was anything he could do to make him feel better while Keith was hunting for breakfast.

Daisuke and Min sit with Aang close to Appa and Anna on an ice formation, Emma stays closer with Aang. She knows the young Airbender of this universe is still feeling blue about leaving Katara.

Namiko is grumbling; sitting on her own ice formation and griping how things didn't go as smoothly as anyone would've hoped as well as missing home.

Keith shows up next to Solomon, dragging a fresh Tiger Seal carcass while smirking semi-confidently "And that… is how you hunt Tiger Seals." "I presume Sokka taught you," says Emma. "Yeah," sighs Keith "I know he's not the best hunter in his world, but I know he means well."

Solomon bluntly says, "The fool has no sense of construction or engineering."

Namiko groans, "Oh, those Water Tribeswomen's homes are better than camping!"

"Can't you see that Kenneth's in pain?" asks Keith. Namiko asks "Which kind of pain?" "A deep-seated kind of pain" answers Keith. "Since when were you concerned for others?" "I always was, I'm just a little overconfident." "Ha! The day you're truly a good-hearted man is the day you look about as hot as Dan!"

"Dan, Dan, Dan…" growls Emma "that's all you ever think about! From what I've heard about him, he's not the type of boy you should think about! There are other men to be attracted to, so you should grow up, brat." Namiko gulps 'Darn! She's as scary as my grandmother whenever she got mad at me.'

"Look!" says Daisuke, "I know it's ridiculous, but how do you expect to survive this if you can get hurt, Namiko? From a speculated fact that Daniel Harvey would not if he were here too" "I don't know, ask the writer to get us out of this mess?" sarcastically remarks Namiko.

Back with Aang, he hears Appa grunting a bit. His young human friend and master replies "Yeah, Appa… I liked her too."

Then everybody smells an almost strong scent of smoke in the distance, they turn to the direction to find a Fire Naval ship heading towards the village!

Aang, Emma, Daisuke, Min, and Sakura exclaim "The village!"

"If Socks can stab Kenneth and tie him up, he can do well against a Firebender or two" shrugs Namiko cockily.

Solomon states "Unfortunately, his inexperience and brashness will have little effect towards one shipload of Firebenders who are probably more experienced in close combat with no need for Firebending. Also Katara is the only Waterbender in the entire village and yet she is still in fact a tyro. It is only logical that the only ones able to combat them are myself, Min, Emma, Aang, Keith, Max, Sakura, Daisuke, and Kenneth."

"In other words;" translates Keith "Sokka's going to get killed, Katara's Waterbending won't cut it, and we're the only hope the village has got."

"Fine!" huffs Namiko "We'll go!" then she mutters to herself, while stomping back toward the village "Damn idiots don't even realize that Sakura and I are only beginning to bend too, the only more able Airbender is Arrowhead, and there's very little earth to bend on the surface."

Before leaving, Aang says to his dozing Bison "Appa, stay here with Anna and Mioha!"

When everyone, save for Kenneth, leave to save the village… he feels upset.

Kenneth has overheared everything earlier, then his eyebrows arch into a frown in determination "I may not belong anywhere… but I still won't innocents die!"

On his ship, Zuko prepares himself for the rapidly approaching encounter.

Donning a traditional Fire Nation soldier's uniform with red-and-black armor plates and helmet.

At the same moment in the village… Sokka is also preparing himself for the rapidly approaching encounter.

He readies his weapons and dons fingerless black gloves and a blue tunic with white-feathered shoulders before applying black, grey, and white warpaint to his face.

Namiko runs into the village, surprising Katara.

"What are you doing back here?" asks Katara. Namiko replies "Like I had any other choice; we could try to stop them too."

Keith, Max, and Sakura show up.

Katara asks "What about them and the others?" "Aang, Min, Daisuke, and Kenneth are staying behind" answers Sakura, "The rest are hiding behind the walls opposite to the sea, please don't tell Sokka." "I won't" nods Katara.

Sokka comes out and gasps "Keith! You've come back!" "And I'm only here for the Firebenders" nods Keith. "Don some warpaint and hurry!" says Sokka.

Waiting at the top of the wall, Keith now with a painted face calls to the villagers "Brace yourselves, they're coming even closer… I can smell the heat rising."

The villagers below take cover. The other worlders hiding prepare themselves for the battle in case those two aren't enough.

Zuko's ship quickly arrives at the Water Tribe village, unfortunately its mere approaching collapses Sokka's makeshift walls and towers.

"Oh man!" groans Sokka.

Still the two teenage warriors on the wall stand bravely, only to balk at the sight of the huge ship coming in.

"Oh man…" balks Sokka.

Keith gulps "Oh, this is gonna hurt."

The ship breaks the ice before it upon its intrusion into the village. The cracks reach inside the village. Katara, Namiko, and Sakura rush to hide the women and children, as well as pluck any straggling bystanders out of the dangers.

Katara turns to the two, screaming "Sokka, Keith, get out of the way!"

Keith jumps to Sokka and pushes him out of the way in order for them to avoid the front bow of the ship. Steam is released from the front, dropping the ramp in front against the avalanche from the wall it caused.

Seeing the igloo that Solomon built still intact, Sokka quickly growls out loud "Oh! Curse you, Sol, for building better constructs out of snow than me!" groans Sokka. Keith says, "He's like that all the time with almost everything."

Keith and Sokka are shoved by the blast of steam and force of the ramp hitting the ground!

Prince Zuko quickly descends down the ramp, accompanied by only a very small number of soldiers and a mysterious man in a crimson cloak.

Watching this, Emma blinks "Who is that cloaked figure?" "He's new to me too" replies Min.

Sokka charges at Zuko, but the more experienced young man requires only his bare hands to counter Sokka's primitive weaponry and is almost dismissive of his presence.

He eyes the villagers, looking for someone, then he impatiently asks "Where are you hiding him?"

Sakura asks, "Who are you talking about?"

The cloaked figure answers politely, "My lord Zuko is seeking the Avatar and he believes that the legendary master of the four elements is most likely in your village."

Min says, "That cloaked man's voice sounds really familiar." "I'll take him," says Emma "let's hope some of you can take the prince." Some of the others nod off, "Roger."

Zuko grabs the hood of Katara and Sokka's grandmother threateningly and says, "If you don't know what he looks like, he'd be about this age and is a master of all elements." When nobody replies, he lets her go and pushes her back with the others, Katara catches her to brace her fall.

Zuko lets out a burst of flame before the villagers, scaring them "I know you're hiding him!"

Sakura screams out "Sokka probably banished him!"

Zuko's eyes widen before roaring in self-discouragement and annoyance "BANISHED HIM? YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHO HE WAS AND YOU BANISHED HIM?"

Katara looks at Sakura, feeling sorry for her. Namiko, however, curses her for being an honest girl.

"Who may this Sokka be?" asks the cloaked figure.

Namiko remarks "The lone warrior that your leader before us is kicking his butt easily."

Sokka gets up and goes for his club before charging at Zuko once more, only to be flipped over and land on his butt. Not giving up, Sokka throws his boomerang at Zuko, only for it to miss.

One of the village boy children encourages Sokka, tossing a spear to him "Show no fear!"

Sokka charges once more with his spear, only for Zuko to break the spearhead off and use the staff to poke Sokka in the head—

BOINK! BOINK! BOINK!

With Sokka on his butt and rubbing his sore forehead, the scarred prince roars out his next demand "Where did he go when you banished him?"

BANG!

Sokka's only lucky hit comes from his boomerang in its unexpected return, banging against the back of Zuko's helmet like it was a bell!

Zuko is angered further, preparing to use Firebending on the unfortunate villagers.

BAM! "OOF!"

The grunt of pain from one of Zuko's soldiers behind him gets his attention; he turns to find Keith going all out, brawler/football style.

"Sic 'em, Max!" barks Keith to his dog. The dog barks and bites one of the Fire Nation soldiers in the butt—

"OOOWWW!" screams the soldier bitten.

"GO!" calls Emma.

Sokka looks around him, the Earth Kingdom friends have returned and are kicking butt.

Zuko calls for more soldiers, since it's becoming more difficult!

Seeing how little difficulty Min, Emma, Keith, and Solomon have in fighting the Fire Nation soldiers, a shocked Sokka then gives out an amazed "Awww… man! This can't be right."

"ENOUGH!" calls the cloaked man.

Emma starts the words of confrontation toward the stranger, "Show yourself, mister!"

The mysterious man in a crimson cloak unveils himself; he is someone who resembles Kenneth Blue greatly save for the greater height and a scar cut in the shape of a Chinese character for 'world' over his eye.

"I knew it! You, Kenneth Blue, are a member of the Fire Nation!" frowns Sokka. Katara speaks up, "Sokka, I remember him being shorter and without the scar." "And less cool-looking," adds Namiko.

"Huh?" blink the surrounding villagers and other worlders.

The Kenneth Blue look-alike smirks, "So it is true; the missing half of the original me is here in your world."

Sokka's frown is immediately replaced with a look of total confusion, "The original… you?"

Emma also gets worried, "What?"

Aang comes sliding in on the scene on the back of an Otter-Penguin, arriving in the nick of time and knocks Zuko off his feet, with his helmet landing on his butt!

"My lord!" gasps Kenzoku.

The children cheer for Aang's return.

Aang slips off, letting the animal waddle away, and greet his friends "Hey, Katara! Hey, Sokka!"

Sokka groans but greets sarcastically "Hi, Aang. Thanks for coming."

Before the unveiled stranger, Kenzoku, could speak, Zuko gets up on his feet and confronts Aang. He is shocked to see the difference in the other Air Nomad-like beings, but the answer is most clear to him who Aang is, which shocks him far more.

Aang blasts snow in the face of the soldiers left standing, leaving a steamed Zuko melting the snow off of his self.

"Are you looking for me?" bravely inquires Aang.

"You're the only Airbender of our world? You're the Avatar?" exclaims Zuko in shock.

Min shows up, gasping "Only one of their world? How does he…?"

"Aang?" gasps Katara in surprise. Sokka follows, "No way."

"The only one?" blinks Aang in confusion.

"Also," speaks up Solomon, asking the formerly cloaked giant double of Kenneth, "tell us about what you meant by 'other you'."

"Such uninformed cultures," growls Zuko, before explaining "the other young man with red hair and the other Airbenders you've seen are residents from another world, another planet Earth by the alias known as the Other World, transformed and adapted by cosmic energies to seem like residents of our own, sometimes such beings possess vital knowledge and/or given other powers and equipment beyond our comprehension; in short they're Other World residents."

Namiko asks, "How do you know this… sir? Aside from the facts you've given us? I am an Other World resident myself and I've been looking forward to going home sooner rather than later for nearly a week and a half now. So far I've just recently discovered I could Waterbend."

The Water Tribe looks at Namiko in shock of this revelation. Those mysterious newcomers were Other World residents.

The other Other World residents raise their hands shyly or bluntly revealing "We're Other World residents too."

The bigger Kenneth Blue look-alike says, "One of our people was the cause of our transportation here years ago, Namiko Akimura." Startled, Namiko slowly gasps "How… do you… know… my name?" "I have always seen into the miserable life of my missing half."

Showing up with a frown, Emma asks the intruders "Who is that Other World resident who started the phenomenon exactly?" "You'll find out soon enough," say the Fire Nation soldiers.

Zuko regains his focus quickly and confronts Aang, wasting no time the two of them circle in their ring "I've spent years preparing for this encounter, training, meditating… you're just a child!" Aang politely counters, "Well you're just a teenager."

Zuko launches fire blasts at Aang, who defends himself with a spinning staff form of Airbending.

Back with the double—

Keith growls, "What's your name and goal, daplegonger?" "I believe the word is 'doppelganger', you fool" says the redhead look-alike "as for my name, I'm given the names of Kenzoku Bluenight for my connection to my missing half, Kenneth Blue II, and for my connection and services to the Fire Nation. My goal is to become Kenneth Blue II himself."

"No way!" says Namiko "why would you wanna be that loser when you seem so perfect?"

"Huh?" exclaim everyone in confusion at Namiko.

Keith barks out "Yeah, no world is big enough for two Kenneth Blue's!"

"Exactly," frowns Kenzoku "so one of us must go… by the other's hand."

Everyone, outside of the invading Fire Nation ship's entire crew, gasps in shock and horror! In order for Kenzoku or Kenneth Blue to become a whole Kenneth Blue again, one of them has to kill the other?

Keith gulps "Not cool."

Kenzoku then grabs Namiko and throws her to the ground behind him, unleashing whips of fire around her!

"NAMIKO!" scream everyone.

Kenzoku stops his Firebending, revealing yard-deep trenches in the icy ground forming a pentacle melted into the ground around Namiko!

"This symbol! It's a Wiccan mark for enhancing one's abilities! Where'd you learn it?" gasps Namiko, instantly recognizing the drawing pattern. Kenzoku coldly answers, "By seeing through the life of Kenneth Blue, you scarred and tattooed shrew."

FLASH! A towering pillar of aqua or sky blue light erupts from the symbol, with Namiko caught in the center of it. She screams as if she has someone intruding into her mind, when to her is actually Kenzoku forcing her inherited spiritual abilities open and showing her truth behind Kenneth's eyes.

When the light ends, she falls to her hands and knees weeping.

"What did you do to her?" asks Sakura. Kenzoku answers stoically, "I've forced open her mind and her dormant nature magic powers to a much higher level, as well as show her everything Kenneth and I have been through."

Everyone of the Other World residents look at poor Namiko, crying her eyes out for becoming a bitch toward Kenneth with no good reason and in pain from the forceful opening of her ancestral Wiccan powers.

Sokka asks with awe, "Was that a form of bending?" "No," says Emma stoically "it's magic, on a very high level and with a very strong energy push."

Kenzoku lifts Namiko's tear-soaked face to stare into his eyes, "Where is Kenneth Blue?"

"Here" growls a familiar male voice.

A blast of flames engulfs Kenzoku from behind, pushing him forward and over Namiko.

The giver of the blast is an angry Kenneth, who says "Sokka may banish me all he wants, but I won't stand by and let people who need help die!"

Sokka cannot believe his eyes or ears, "Even when transformed into a Firebender, he's a good guy?" "I did try to tell you," says Min.

As Kenzoku gets up, Kenneth gets a clean look of his face.

"Whoa!" gasps a surprised Kenneth "except for your size and the scar, you look just like me." "And I wish to be you, but now's not the day we fight to the death for wholeness again" frowns Kenzoku. "Wholeness?" blinks Kenneth in confusion.

"The Fire Nation knows about people from another world like us!" says Emma "That guy says that you and he are each only half of the original Kenneth Blue and you both can only be whole again one of you by killing the other!"

Horrified, Kenneth says, "That other guy is insane! Even I wouldn't agree to something like that!"

Within his duel with Zuko, Aang nods "Yes, even if you two are the missing halves of the same person, killing the other won't solve anything!"

Kenneth asks, "If I decide to come with you, will you leave the innocents alone?" "That is for Prince Zuko to decide" replies Kenzoku.

Hearing what the two redheads said and realizing that Zuko's attacks would inevitably strike the village children he has befriended, Aang surrenders "If I go with you, will you promise to leave everyone alone?"

Zuko places down his hands and nods off in agreement.

"It is done," stoically speaks Kenzoku "as you pleaded, I too shall not bring harm or terror to them. I give you my word and the spirit of the promise."

Kenzoku then grabs his shorter half by the shoulder and pulls him onto the ship. One of the soldiers grabbing the Avatar asks, "Uh, Master Kenzoku? What about the others?" "Solar President Beckett and I need only Kenneth Blue for me, the rest are to be left alone," states Kenzoku.

'Solar President Beckett?' mentally gasp Emma and Solomon.

As Aang is being pushed onto the ship, Katara calls for him "No, Aang! Don't do this!"

"Don't worry, Katara; it'll be okay," calls back Aang.

"If it makes you feel any better, Katara" says Namiko downheartedly "Aang is from your world." "Thank you" sighs a still saddened Katara.

"Take care of Appa and the others for us until Kenneth and I get back" continues Aang.

"Set a course for the Fire Nation!" orders Prince Zuko, coming aboard "I'm going home!"

The ramp slowly rises, with everyone looking sadly at the two taken prisoner of the Fire Nation.

Katara and Sakura are the only ones looking sadder at the two looking back before the ramp is completely closed.

Then the ship sets off for the Fire Nation.

Later… while the villagers try to fix the damages done to their homes…

Katara and Sakura look out to sea, concerned for the two.

Katara boldly says, "We have to go after that ship, Sokka; Aang and Kenneth saved our tribe and now we have to save them!" Sakura nods "Yes."

Namiko, recovering from the magic flash and cold realization, nods "Yeah, I have to apologize for being part of the jerk crowd to Kenneth." "You're not the only one, Vest" speaks up Keith, carrying a large bag "I've always seen some strength within him and yet I've been too rough on the guy."

"Katara, I—" speaks up Sokka, only to be interrupted by his sister—

"Sokka, why can't you realize he's on our side?" says Katara, not wanting to hear more sarcasm from him "if we don't help him, no one will! I know you don't like them but we all owe them both and—"

"KATARA!" shouts Sokka "Are you going to talk all day or are you coming with us?" he holds out a hand showing several canoes in the process of getting ready. Min is holding onto a rope connecting to one of the canoes, presenting them like an advertising model.

Katara smiles "Sokka!" and then she hugs her brother, glad that he cares and acknowledges Aang as the Avatar and Kenneth as an innocent too.

Keith pats Sokka's shoulder, "Let's save those two, pound us some evil Firebenders, and save your world!" Sokka raises a fist in agreement, "Yeah!"

Then he and Namiko exclaim in unison "Let's go and save your boyfriends!"

Katara frowns "Aang's not my—" "Whatever!" shrugs Sokka.

Sakura gasps before fainting, Namiko cringes "Okay, enough with the teasing."

"What do all of you think you're doing?" asks the stern voice of Gran Gran.

They turn to find her, each have different reactions—

The old woman's grandchildren feign innocence.

The Other World residents with the siblings try to explain themselves.

Then Gran Gran smiles, "You'll need these" handing out a blue-and-white cloth roll to her grandkids, "you have a long journey ahead of you."

The siblings realize that she's encouraging them.

Min shows up, with similar rolls "Yeah, it'll be warmer where we're going."

Gran Gran speaks to Katara "It's been so long since I've had hope, but you brought it back to life, my little Waterbender" then they hug.

Turning to Sokka, Gran Gran says "And you, my brave warrior… be nice to your sister." Then she hugs him. Sokka sighs "Yeah… okay, Gran."

Turning to the Other World residents going with her grandchildren, she gives her farewells to them—

"Keith… thank you for being friends with my grandson." Keith bows, "You're welcome, ma'am."

"Young Namiko… please be more like my granddaughter and less like my grandson." Namiko gulps, "I'll try my best, madam."

"Min, you and Emma are the ones capable of bringing everyone from your world through safely, do your best." "I always do, madam."

"Solomon… please come out of blending with the scenery too often." Popping out of nowhere again, Solomon nods "Acknowledged, madam."

"Aang is the Avatar," continues Gran Gran "he is the world's only chance, my grandchildren found him for a reason. Just as there's a reason why you're transported from your world to ours. If it is possible and Kenneth's mother disappeared in a similar fashion as you and is still alive, he'll be more alive in his heart too. All your support in him will save us all. Now your destinies are intertwined with Aang's."

The siblings realize their chance of catching the larger, faster Fire Nation ship; Katara sighs "There's no way we're gonna catch a warship with a canoe, not even with a small fleet of them."

"You're right," says Keith, tying his shaggy hair in a makeshift wolf tail "even Max and I can't swim that fast." "Also," speaks up Solomon "with a lack of materials, it would take me and a few hands of others a month and a half to construct a better vessel."

"Where's Daisuke?" asks Katara. Keith gasps, "He was right here!"

Then they see Mioha the violet dragon and the two Flying Bison named Appa and Anna walking their way. Daisuke is riding on Anna, leading the larger animals!

Keith gasps in realization, "That's it!"

Emma says "Vesta's driving Mioha!"

"Driving?" asks a confused Sokka and Katara. Daisuke answers "An expression from our world." "Oh!" exclaim the Water Tribe siblings.

"Sokka and I will ride Appa!" cheers Katara. Sokka groans "You just love taking me out of my comfort zone, don't ya?" "My comfort zone has changed entirely when we first came here," sighs Namiko.

Back on the Fire Nation warship…

Kenneth is sitting on his knees to Iroh, who observes him with strong curiosity and Aang, while Zuko is taking in Aang's glider staff.

"This staff will make an excellent gift for my father," says Zuko, turning to Aang "I suppose you wouldn't know of fathers, being raised by monks." "Kenneth wouldn't know of his father, since the poor man died just minutes after naming his own son" speaks Kenzoku.

Kenneth asks "Since you're the other half of the original me, do you know how my father died? Because I sure as heck do not." "It wouldn't matter now," says Kenzoku, shaking his head.

"Take the Avatar and Kenneth Blue to the prison hold," order Zuko to the guards holding the prisoners. Kenzoku nods, "Good, Beckett would be really upset if we rejoined through one of our deaths too soon." Zuko entrusts the staff to Iroh, "Take this to my quarters!"

As his nephew and the taller double of Kenneth left… Iroh, true to his nature, immediately and casually passes the job on to the nearest guard, "Hey! You mind taking this to his quarters for me?"

Aang look on, hoping to retrieve his glider staff upon his planned escape, before being taken below with Kenneth.

While being taken to the prison hold, Aang says to his escort group "So… I guess you've never faced an Airbender before, I bet I can take you both with my hands tied behind my back." "Silence" calmly replies the soldier in front of him.

Kenneth holds his tongue but still checks his surroundings, 'Keep stalling them, Aang. I can't let them know yet.'

"Who should be placed in the cell first?" asks the guard behind Aang and Kenneth.

Kenneth raises his hands, "I'll go in first, thank you."

Noticing the rope that had his hands tied together is broken; the surprised Fire Nation soldier gasps "Hey! You broke the ropes that tied your hands together!" "That's because I'm a whole lot stronger than I look, admittedly" smirks Kenneth.

Aang then inhales, giving Kenneth the sign to duck, and finally releases a very strong gust of wind against the guard before them and knocking the one behind them silly!

Kenneth states, "Seeing how part of this mess if caused by someone originally from my universe, we have to work together to stop both whoever this Beckett is and the Fire Lord." "Good idea" nods Aang. Then Kenneth says, "Now let's get your staff and get the heck out of here!" "Right!" nods Aang.

Running up on deck, Aang launches a spinning kick that shoots a blast of air at the door that Zuko went into earlier, unlocking it and opening it. The two run into the door.

One of the soldiers the two knocked down recovers and gets up, alerting another up on the bridge "The Avatar and Kenneth Blue have escaped!" The Fire Nation soldier above runs to alert the others!

Back with the two bison and dragon… the giant beasts of burden and travel are still swimming slowly. Katara and her brother are riding Appa; Daisuke, Emma, Min, Solomon, Keith, and Max are riding on Anna; and Namiko and Sakura are riding Mioha.

"Go…" sarcastically groans Sokka, still not believing the two Flying Bison can fly "fly… soar…"

"Please, Appa!" pleads Katara to the male bison "we need your help! Aang needs your help!"

"Up… ascend… elevate" continues Sokka.

"Hurry, Mioha!" urges Namiko "Fly! Up! Ascend! Elevate! Anything! I'm sorry for insulting you before, but please fly!"

"Please fly," follows Sakura "Kenneth needs you as much as we do."

The violet dragon starts swimming faster, leaving the two bison trailing behind.

"Sokka doesn't believe you or Anna could fly," pleads Katara "but I do. Come on, don't you want to save Aang?"

Appa picks up some speed through the water.

"Faster, Anna!" calls Daisuke "We're losing them!"

Anna swims faster.

"What was it that kid said?" asks Sokka, trying to remember the command Aang tried before "Yeehaw? Hup-hup? Wahoo?" then he recalls "Uh… yip-yip?"

Feeling a rumbling beneath him, Sokka turns to see Appa's tail waving up before slamming downward and finally having him take off into the air!

Katara cheers, "You did it, Sokka!"

Daisuke follows, "Okay! Anna, yip-yip!"

Anna also quickly launches into the sky.

"HOORAY!" cheer out the other riders on the other bison.

With a big smile on his face, Sokka has lost his cynical behavior and grumpy attitude and exclaims in a fit of excitement "HE'S FLYING! SHE'S FLYING! THEY'RE FLYING! KATARA, THE BISON ARE—" He stopped upon seeing the amused and sly look on his sister's face, having him realize that she's just seen his rare behavior. "I mean," calmly says Sokka "big deal, they're flying."

"What about Namiko and Sakura?" asks Min, "They haven't taken off yet."

Worried that she'll be left behind, Namiko struggles to remember too, "What's that phrase that Kenneth used again? Yip-Yip? Takeoff? Giddy yap?" Then her eyes widen in remembrance, asking herself "Austrat?"

Finally she sees the wings flap before she shoots off into the air, catching up with the bison!

"Hey!" smiles Sakura, "You did it, Namiko!"

Namiko smiles brightly, "I did it! I've got Mioha to fly! She's beautiful! She's—"

Namiko notices everyone noticing the embarrassing similarities in personalities between her and Sokka, she gulps and tugs on her collar "Uh… where did Kenneth get that word?" Emma answers, "It's come from the D&D book under dragons, in their tongue it means 'fly'."

"If by some miracle that we do go home, remind me to have everyone go to the role-playing game conventions," sighs Keith. Emma and Solomon nod off "Deal."

Namiko shrugs and points off to the direction the ship is heading, "Okay, onto the Fire warship! Let's go!"

Back in the hallways of the ship, Aang and Kenneth are still running to find the younger boy's staff.

They run into three soldiers armed with swords, Aang asks them "You haven't seen my staff around, have you?"

In response, the soldiers try to lay a blade at the two, only to have Aang use enhanced speed to run in spirals around the walls and ceilings and floors of the hallways to avoid danger, "Thanks anyway!"

Kenneth, with his phenomenally superior brawn, plows right through the soldiers "Excuse me, coming through!"

Running into a guard attempting to use Firebending, Aang cuts his bonds on the guard's helmet while bringing him down. Kenneth still plows through

Door after door; the two boys look for the one to Zuko's personal quarters so they could reclaim Aang's glider staff. So far they've found the arsenal, then the engine room, the barracks, even Iroh's personal quarters—

The old man in question, is currently sleeping when they find it.

Closing it quietly, not to be detected or to disturb his sleep, the two whisper "Sorry."

Running around, Kenneth grabs onto Aang's shoulders, skidding them to a full halt in front of an open door. Inside the room they've stopped by is young Aang's staff!

Kenneth frowns, "This is too easy." "I still need my staff!" says Aang, running into the room, only to have it close behind him!

Inside the room, Aang gulps "I should've listened to Kenneth."

"Quite" replies Zuko's voice.

Aang turns to find the scarred prince of the Fire Nation looking at him. He was waiting for Aang to try to pull something like escaping off and he has cut off the young boy's escape route.

"Looks like I have underestimated you and that young man," frowns Zuko.

Aang asks, "What about Kenneth? He's not even in here!"

Outside Zuko's quarters, Kenneth hears Aang through the metal door and calls to him "He didn't need to; Kenzoku was waiting for me outside."

Kenzoku stands before Kenneth, ready for a battle between themselves.

Zuko launches a number of Firebending attacks in hopes of incapacitating Aang, but the Airbender easily avoids them with Airbending, agility, and a few tricks. After wrapping Zuko up in a banner from the wall, Aang retrieves his staff and readies himself as Zuko explodes free from the banner.

Aang shivers, then with Airbending he launches a few short but powerful gusts to slam Zuko's futon against Zuko against the room's walls and ceiling, stunning him briefly.

Meanwhile, Kenneth is having a swordfight with Kenzoku.

He was having trouble at first, but quickly gets better before things resorted to Firebending, sending both of them impacting against opposite walls. Aang shows up, helping Kenneth escape.

They go through a hatch that leads to the helm room and head outside of the ship and prepare to make an escape in the air.

However, Kenneth remembers something important—

"Oh!" gasps Kenneth "I forgot; no glider!"

"Kenneth!" gasps Aang in mid-flight.

Zuko shows up leaps after the Airbender and grab his ankle. Not able to compensate for the extra weight or to break free of Zuko's grip, Aang is unable to stay aloft, resulting in the two to crash clumsily onto the deck after Kenneth.

Kenneth groans, "Ow! And I thought high school was bad when people bully you and chase you to the roof."

Then he sees Aang and Zuko face off again, finding the sword he hand stuck into the deck and Kenzoku dropping his sword, wanting him and Kenneth to do the same.

"Don't you ever take a break?" groans Kenneth, getting to his feet. "I have underestimated your skill, Kenneth" frowns Kenzoku "just like everyone from the Other World did." Kenneth says, "I don't like showing off what I do, so I fake weakness to give everyone a fair game! Plus admittedly I'm shy as heck!"

Hearing familiar bellows and a roar off in the distance, Aang and Kenneth turn to find the Flying Bison and Mioha, with their friends riding them, flying in to the rescue!

"A violet dragon?" gasps Kenzoku. Zuko gasps, "What are those other things?"

Aang smiles, "Appa!" "Mioha and the others!" follows Kenneth.

Aang realizes he just lost focus on Zuko, pressing him back toward the side of the ship and knocking his staff away with Firebending.

Kenneth tries to save Aang, but Kenzoku, who shouts at him "This fight belongs to them, yours belongs with us", tackles him to the deck.

After a few more quick blasts of flame from Zuko, Aang is knocked overboard into the frigid sea below.

Kenneth cries out "NO!"

Katara cries out Aang's name in dismay.

However, under the water when he seems unconscious, Aang's eyes soon open before they and his tattoos glow a brilliant white and his expression becomes stern. He's gone into the Avatar State.

Everyone then witness him Waterbending the sea around him, pushing himself into the air on a whirling column of water. Everyone is either awed or shocked by this immense display of bending power. Aang deposits himself on the deck of the ship before bending his liquid platform into a spinning wall of water that sends Zuko and all of his guards currently on deck flying, Zuko himself going overboard. Kenzoku barely leaps out of the way, knocking him away from Kenneth, who uses the sword stuck into the deck as an anchor to stay on deck.

"Did you see what he just did?" gasps a surprised Katara. An equally amazed Sokka responds, "Now that was some Waterbending!"

Dazed after the massive display of his power, Aang collapses while the three huge animals land on the deck. Before anyone come close to Aang or Kenneth, Kenzoku struggles to punch the lights out of the almost unconscious Kenneth—

Suddenly, Kenneth's eyes also glow a brilliant white and his expression stern, he moves away from Kenzoku, shocking him at the newest event.

All of the flames snake out from the ship and into Kenneth's hands and then disappear.

Keith's mouth gapes at the sight, "Awesome Firebending…" "Totally awesome!" follows Daisuke.

Then Kenneth whirls around, a miniature tornado forms above him before sucking Kenzoku up and into the wall of the warship.

"Okay, did Kenneth Blue just Airbend?" asks Namiko. Min asks, "Does that mean he is the Avatar of our world?" "I guess," shrugs an equally amazed Emma "I mean I've always known he was destined for greatness but very few people get chances like that!"

Kenneth falls to his knees, slightly dazed, he turns with his eyes no longer glowing "What happened?"

Sakura rushes to Kenneth's aid first, while Sokka and Katara come to Aang's.

"Aang!" cries Katara, holding him "Are you okay?"

"Hey, Katara" grunts Aang, "Hey, Sokka… thanks for coming."

Sokka shrugs, "Well I couldn't let you have all the glory."

"Kenneth," says Solomon says to blue-eyed redhead, "you displayed an unanticipated power; the ability to conjure up a tornado of air instead of fire like that, which speculates that you are the Avatar of our home universe." "Are you serious?" blinks Kenneth, trying to regain his stamina.

"I dropped my staff" grunts Aang. Sokka runs after the staff, "Got it!"

As soon as Sokka reaches the staff, he also finds Zuko climbing back onto the deck. But Sokka quickly takes advantage of Zuko's position, he strikes the prince on the forehead a number of times, sending him overboard again. Zuko is then only barely able to cling to an anchor's chain halfway down the ship's hull.

Sokka laughs, "That's from the Water Tribe!"

Seeing a stunned Kenzoku in a humiliating and most advantageous position, Namiko zooms over to him and socks him across the face, making the wall he's stuck into break and fall onto the floor inside.

Namiko smirks, "That's for forcing my Wicca and Ainu abilities open! That hurt like hell, you jerk!"

Everyone gets to work on escaping. Katara sees some of the soldiers recover and approaching them, she calls to the others "Here comes company!" Keith and Max jump next to her, getting ready to fight "Some more fun!"

Namiko rushes in, saying "Let's send these men overboard too!"

Katara nods, then makes some movements with her arms, making the water remaining on deck to move. Namiko and Sakura follow her, the water follows the three's will.

But due to their combined inexperience, when they each try to unleash a surge of water at the soldiers, instead they freeze Sokka's feet to the deck far behind Katara, bind Namiko's upper arms and legs in two donut-shaped blocks of ice, and get Keith locked in ice save for his head!

"Katara!" shrieks Sokka, immediate knowing who froze his feet yet still calling for help.

"Why me?" asks Namiko, "Why me with Sokka too?"

"Sorry, Keith!" nervously exclaims Sakura. Keith shivers, "No biggie, Sakura…"

Seeing the soldiers advancing again, the three Waterbenders try their luck once more, only this time with Katara turning around, Sakura turning to the right, and Namiko closing her eyes.

The three of them are successful in locking the soldiers in ice, and surprisingly moving the ice from Namiko's top and Keith's body onto the soldiers.

Keith says "We really need to get some lessons for you, Namiko." "No kidding," grunts Namiko.

Most of everyone return to the two Flying Bison and violet dragon, Keith stays behind punching away at Namiko's ice on her legs while Sokka is trying to free himself from his ice.

"Hurry up, Sokka!" calls Katara. Emma calls, "Namiko, come on!"

"I'm just a guy with a boomerang!" bemoans Sokka as he chips himself out of his ice with his boomerang "I didn't ask for this flying, or Airbending, or magic!" "You think you've got problems?" groans Namiko "I'm just a girl with unwanted features on my body save for my hair dye! I didn't ask for interdimensional traveling, or power and weapon bestowal, or being involved in what could turn into a interdimensional war!" "You should tell me what that word means," suggests Sokka "you know, once we're out of this mess."

Once the two were freed, they run onto the huge animals and cry out "Yip-yip!" and "Austrat!", having taking off into the air again!

Iroh had come out, hearing commotion everywhere for some reason earlier, he has seen everything that happened.

Then he helps his nephew back onboard again and then they quickly get Kenzoku out of his indent.

"Kenzoku!" calls Zuko, "Are you alright?" Kenzoku says in his shock, "He's also an Avatar… and nobody knew… not even Beckett." "Yes," nods Iroh "that is quite a surprise."

Not willing to lose the Avatar, Zuko commands "Shoot them down!" He, his uncle, and Kenzoku perform a synchronized form unleashing a powerful unified blast of fire!

Aang recovers from his dazed state just in time to turn this attack against the Firebenders, using a blast of wind to redirect the fireball into one of the immense walls of ice on one side of the ship. While Kenneth, at the same time, also recovers enough to unleash a mighty jet of fire from his mouth against on the ice wall on the opposite side of the ship. Both of which result in an avalanche burying the front half of Zuko's ship in ice and snow, stopping it cold. The three huge beasts fly off into the distance, their passengers laughing happily.

"Good news for the Fire Lord and Solar President Beckett;" says a tranquil Iroh "the Fire Nation's greatest threat is just a little kid and the missing half of Kenzoku."

"That kid and Kenzoku's half, Uncle, just did this," frowns Zuko, clearly angered that the Avatar escaped his grasp.

Kenzoku falls to his knees, feeling extremely troubled "How could something like this happen? This couldn't be happening!"

Both vow in unison "I won't underestimate him again."

Zuko barks an order "Dig the ship out and follow them!"

Getting to his feet quickly, Kenzoku says "Even if we do, they'll still be miles away from us before then. Besides, we have to reignite the coals and thaw the crew out." He shows behind him that the majority of the ship's crew is either frozen solid or helping thaw other crewmembers.

Zuko groans, "As soon as you're done with that."

As the two Flying Bison and the violet dragon fly into the sunset…

Keith exclaims in surprise "You're the Avatar of the Other World? What 'Other World', back home?" Daisuke says "Sometimes unexpected things happen."

"Hey, people back home would've killed for such powers as Aang has," says Kenneth, "I don't like showing off, plus I never wanted such responsibilities in the first place. Plus for my physical capabilities, I made it look like I was a runt so I wouldn't cause severe feelings of inadequacy in others and so I could give people in contests I'm pushed into a fair chance of competing instead of having to win by default. It could've been anyone back home if anything here were there for real!" Then he calms down, saying "Maybe I am special even before coming here to realize such a possibility. Now I'm responsible in looking after you guys."

Aang says, "At least you and I understand each other more."

Katara excitedly asks Aang, "How did you do that? …with the water? It was the most amazing thing I have ever seen!"

"I don't know," says Aang "I just sort of… did it." "Yeah, me too" says Kenneth, earning everyone's stares "With the air, I mean."

Katara asks everyone, "Why didn't you tell us you were the Avatar, Aang? And why didn't you tell us you were from another universe entirely?"

Emma speaks up, "We didn't want to cause any problems, we know pretty much some of the future of this world, but we were worried that it would create something called a paradox; a situation that combines contradictory features and qualities to the most unstable and likely worst events possible."

Aang says, "I never told you I was the Avatar because… I never wanted to be."

Sokka speaks up, "Kenneth!" "Yes?" replies the redheaded Avatar. The young man from the South Pole says, "I'm sorry for stabbing you like that." Namiko shrugs, "Hey, it's also my fault for pushing him into it without knowing you'd have a weapon, so I'm also sorry." "I already forgave you both when you came to our rescue" says Kenneth.

Solomon asks, "There seems to be something on your mind, Kenneth. Would you care to share your troubles with us?"

Kenneth sighs, "Now that we know that I'm the Avatar of the Other World, as it should be called now, what should I do? There could be hundreds of innocents from back home trapped here… lost, scared, and confused. They would want to go home as much as Namiko does. But what would happen if it were to happen? What if we make like a cosmic U-turn and end up in another universe we previously remembered as a story in ours? What if we accidentally bring the powers and abilities to our world? What if the Fire Nation will cross over into the Other World? What if nature will fall out of balance if we return?"

"What if both worlds' skies turn to earth and your hair falls out?" asks Solomon. Sokka gasps and covers his head in response.

Min says, "Showing concerns for others and both worlds is a great thing, it means you've got the potential to be a great Avatar from back home. Who knows? You could be the legendary Dalai Lama back home and the monks from back home haven't found you yet."

"And I thought my teenaged years would be the school of hard knocks," says Kenneth, shaking his head. Sokka asks, "There's a school that teaches you how to hit hard?" "Forget it!" exclaim the more serious Other World residents.

"More to the point, Aang, your world needs you;" says Kenneth, "they've been waiting for its Avatar to return and finally put an end to this war. I don't know what my role is myself, but I'm sure it has to do with us coming here and stopping whoever this Solar President Beckett is."

"But how am I going to save my world?" asks Aang.

"According to legend," says Katara "You need to first master water, then earth, and then fire. Right?" "That's what the monks told me" says Aang.

"Okay, so I've got to learn proper Firebending before mastering it and then moving onto Airbending, then Waterbending, and finally Earthbending" nods Kenneth. Then he asks "How on this world am I going to perfect it before moving onto the other three elements?"

Emma pulls out a scroll, "This was in your things upon arrival, Kenneth; it's a training scroll for Firebending." "Now I can fight fire with fire!" nods Kenneth with a confident smile. Sokka smiles, "I think I like the sound of that proverb."

Daisuke says, "Min and I can learn Airbending from Aang alongside Kenneth."

"Also," says Katara "if we go to the North Pole, Aang could master Waterbending."

Aang smiles, "We can all learn it together!"

"And Sokka," says Katara "I'm sure you'll get to knock some Firebender heads on the way with Keith and Max." "I'd like that," smiles Sokka "I'd really like that."

Katara declares, "Then we're in this together!"

"Together!" cheer the eight Other World residents in unison.

"Alright," says Aang, before pulling out a map scroll "but before I teach anybody Airbending or go north, we've got some serious business to attend to." He points allover the map, explaining "Over here, we'll ride the hopping llamas, and then way over here we surf on the backs of giant koi fish, then back over here we'll ride the hog monkeys; they don't like people riding them, but that what makes it fun!"

Keith and Namiko slap their hands to their faces, "The Avatar of this world is totally a kid."

And so their impossible yet incredible adventures together begin…

To be continued…