A/N: I hope you enjoyed my first two chapters. You probably already guessed who the voice was so… Well I hope this title won't give it away before you read if you didn't.

Chapter 3: Aang

Everybody turned to the direction where the voice came from. A young boy around the age of twelve was sitting with his legs crossed on top of the iceberg that Katara and Sokka were at before carving the heart. Except now it was completely out of the water and cracked open. The boy had a grin on his face with happy grey eyes. He was bald and instead of hair there was a blue arrow tattooed on his head.

Sokka held out his spear towards the boy and yelled "You're another Fire Nation? Good, then get out of here and take them with you!"

The boy laughed and jumped off the iceberg. "I'm not Fire Nation, but I'll give them a ride to the Fire Nation." He turned to the Fire Nation men. "You guys won't mind flying would you?"

The men looked dumbstruck. Katara didn't blame them. The boy just said flying!

The young Fire Nation man spoke to the boy in out rage "Flying!? What are you talking about? And who are you any way?"

The boy looked at them all and answered. "I'm Aang. And what I mean by flying is on my flying bison Appa."

The Fire Nation Uncle replied "Ahh, you must be an air bender. Where did you come from?"

The boy named Aang answered " I sure am. I originally cam from the Southern Air Temple. But right now I was just trapped in that iceberg. Something broke it open and here I am."

Katara knew it must have been the ship that broke it open. Everyone was too busy to notice. But how could you survive being inside an iceberg? The old man asked the question for her.

Aang answered "I don't know, but I did and so did Appa. He's sitting in the middle there right now."

The youngest Fire Nation man spoke " How long were you in there?"

"I don't know, a few days maybe."

Sokka and Katara stood aside listening.

The scarred-man answered back " A few days? There are still air benders out there? I thought they were all extinct years ago."

That's what Katara and Sokka were taught growing up. Air benders were supposedly long gone.

"Extinct?" The young air bender looked scared "O-Of course not. Anyway what are your names?"

" Oh how rude of us! I'm so sorry my name is Iroh. This is my nephew, Zuko. And this is who is left of our crew. Jee, … etc."

"It's nice to meet you all." Aang said .

The old man Iroh smiled politely. But his nephew Zuko wanted more information by the looks of it. He had his arms folded across his chest while he scowled at his uncle and Aang, talking. Aang then turned to Katara and Sokka.

" So you guys are from the Water Tribe then?" He asked.

They both nodded. "What are your names then?"

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Hah! This was it! Zuko was finally going to learn her name. More importantly, this boy might know the Avatar. If they stayed on friendly terms with this boy, he might just take them to the Avatar. And Zuko would have a chance to restore his honor.

The girl spoke first. "I'm Katara."

Then the guy. "Sokka."

The boy named Aang said "It's nice to meet you guys."

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You too." Katara (Zuko loved that name.) answered for both her and the peasant named Sokka.

Iroh offered words to the young sir bender. "That is so kind of you, Aang. We would love to accept your offer but there is a slight problem."

Zuko knew what his uncle was going to say. He didn't know why he didn't think of this before, but right now it seemed pretty obvious.

His uncle continued "You see, around two years ago, Zuko here, was banished from the Fire Nation. The rest of us can go back, but he can't."

Zuko felt himself go rid in the face of embarrassment.

The boy Aang agreed. "That is a problem."

"Well, maybe…" Katara started but she was cut off.

"Katara!" Sokka warned "Don't even."

Zuko wondered what he meant.

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Katara glared at her brother and decided to ignore his warning.

She went on "Maybe all of you," she pointed at Iroh and the rest of the crew, "could go with Aang, and you," she pointed at the young man Zuko " could stay here. Undercover that is, so no one will know you are Fire Nation."

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That sounded like a good plan to Aang. He liked this girl, Katara. But he couldn't understand why all of them were being such racists. It seemed like him and Iroh were the only ones that it didn't matter to. It seemed like it really mattered to the guy Sokka. 'Fire Nation scum' did he call them? Aang had no idea why. But they didn't seem to take much notice in it. Aang looked at the Fire Nation men. He figured Appa would manage. Maybe he could make a short visit to see Kuzon while he was there, too.

Well what did you guys think? This one was a bit longer than the first and second chapters. There is a lot of dialog in this chapter. Sorry about when Iroh is like asking Aang if he is an air bender and the things he was saying because that sounded kind of weird or something. I don't know, it didn't sound right to me but I couldn't figure out how to fix it. Reviews are appreciated.

Thanks requim17, you are my only reviewer so far.