Ok now we are beginning to get into the show. I do apologizes for any small errors i tend to type after i get off work at six in the a.m. so i'm pretty beat. This chapter is the only one in the story that has the original name from the show. Now you got an idea of how the future is messed up and really bad. He has lost good people and he still keeps fighting. i hope you keep reading this. please review =) Thank you Milstead 1988
Chapter two
The Boy in the Iceberg
Two thousand years ago in the south pole of the four nations a canoe drifted through and ice flow. Two people sat in it. A young man and a young woman sat in the canoe. The young man held a spear in his hand. He wore a bluish grey parka with a white rimmed hood and had his hair back into a wolf's tail. His pants were a dark blue color. He held the spear tightly as he followed a fish.
"I can smell it cooking" he said as he followed the fish.
"Sokka…I caught a fish" the girl said.
"Not now" he said as he brought the spear back suddenly he was showered in water. He looked as a fish flopped back into the water. He looked at the girl. The girl wore the same style of clothes. Her hair had two loops going up on each side of her face. She had a braded pony tail going down to the middle of her back. She was a water bender. She smiled slightly and shrugged her shoulders.
"Can't you water bend some place else like not over my head, Katara" Sokka said.
"Sorry I was just trying to help" she said.
The wind changed and started blowing harder across their boat. They looked to see four different winds coming to a point to create a tornado like funnel. Lighting streaked threw it and inside there was a human form. Slowly the weird weather changed and a man stood there. It clearly was a man. He looked around and saw he was surrounded by snow and ice. They watched as he removed an all black glove to revile a silver arm. He tapped at his arm. He had on a dusty brown coat that went to his ankles and a weird brimmed hat. The could see he had on blue pants and weird pointed boots. They could only see the left side of his face. He had four large bags on his back as well as something's that looked like weapons.
"What or who do you think he is?" Katara asked Sokka.
"I'm not sure but he looks like trouble" Sokka said.
The man looked in their direction. They froze. He stood there for a few seconds. They ducked down.
"Hey I could use y'alls help" the man said.
They looked at him. Sokka picked up his spear and pointed it at him.
"Stay here" he said to Katara.
He got out and walked towards the man. He looked at the man and held the spear pointed at him. As he got closer he could see the man's face. There was a scar that went down the right side of his face came across the bridge of his nose and stopped on his cheek. His right eye was a slit pupil. He stood ten yards away from the man with his spear pointed at him.
"Are you a man or a demon?" Sokka asked.
"A bit of both I guess it would take a long time to explain what I am. But I do mean you no harm" The man said looking at him.
"Who are you?" Sokka asked.
"Clayton Milstead. I'm from another time. 2011 to be exact" the man said.
"Really expect me to believe you are from the future and not an evil sprit" Sokka said.
"How can I prove I am a man and from the future?" Clayton asked.
"Show me something from the future" Sokka demanded.
Clayton nodded. He reached to his side and took out his side arm. He looked at Sokka and looked at the water. He saw a fish come to the surface. He quickly snapped up his side arm and fired off a shot. The round struck the fish killing it instantly. He walked over and took the fish and handed it to Sokka.
Sokka looked at it and looked at the hole that went through the head of the fish. He looked back at Clayton.
"Ok I'm convinced" He said looking at Clayton.
Clayton looked as Katara joined them. Sokka looked at her. "I thought I told you to stay in the canoe" Sokka said looking at her.
"Well I wasn't sure if you were just going to leave him here" Katara said looking at him.
"So what are you's twos names?" Clayton asked.
"I'm Sokka and this is my annoying sister Katara" Sokka said.
"Annoying?" she said looking at him.
"Yes because I told you to stay with the canoe…" Sokka started then he saw the canoe flowing away.
Clayton looked as it drifted away. He looked at Sokka and Katara. Sokka turned and looked at Katara.
"I knew I shouldn't have brought you leave it to a girl to mess things up" Sokka said.
This infuriated Katara. "You are the most sexist, immature, nut brain…I'm embarrassed to call you my sibling" Katara started on a rant. She swung her arms and as she did water and ice began to sway back and forth. At first it wasn't much just small splashes then they got bigger. The motions went up the side of an iceberg. Clayton realized Katara was a water bender.
"Uh Katara" Sokka started seeing what was going on behind her.
"No ever since mom died I have been doing your laundry while you are out playing solider. Have you ever smelled your socks not pretty" Katara yelled as she swung her arms. The iceberg behind her shattered and the ice fell into the water causing waves. It caused the ice sheet the three of them were on to shift. The three of them looked at what she just did.
"I did that?" Katara asked.
"Yeah you've gone from weird to freakish Katara" Sokka said looking at her.
"You are a water bender?" Clayton asked looking at Katara.
"Yeah why?" she said looking at him.
Clayton looked at her. He began to move his hands and she watched to see as a second ice sheet began to move around to the point it began to swirl around then shot up into the air. Before it hit the water Clayton managed to stop it. He slowly let it fall to the water. He looked back at her again. Her mouth was open.
"I rely more on my guns" Clayton sad patting two of his guns.
She looked at him. She was about to say something when the three of them were cut off by a bright blue light. It shone bright through the water. Suddenly another larger, round, blue glowing iceberg surfaced. They looked at it and saw it had two forms in it. One was a large form. They could tell it was an animal. The second was human. It sat crossed legged. It had both of its fist together. It had arrows going across its hands and one down its head and they were all glowing. The human opened its eyes and they were glowing too.
"He's alive" Katara said as she took a club out of a leather holder off of Sokka's back. He hopped across ice sheets towards the glowing iceberg. Sokka and Clayton followed her to the iceberg. She began to hit the ice with the club. It seemed to have little affect on the ice. She brought it back for another hit the club was stopped by a black hand. She looked back to see Clayton standing there looking at her.
He lightly moved her behind him. He took off the glove from his right hand. He handed it to Sokka. He tapped a few buttons on his silver arm. Sokka and Katara heard a few beeping sounds come from his arm. Then they heard a whirling sound begin to emanate from his hand. He looked at it. He reached to his side and took out a five hundred pistol round. He removed his silver hand. Sokka and Katara watched in astonishment as he did this.
Clayton placed his removed hand under his armpit. He placed the round into a hole for it. He placed his hand back onto his wrist. He tapped anther button. Then he closed his hand into a fist and he could see the tip of the round coming out in between his metal knuckles. It was ready. He took three deep breathes then with lighting speed he brought his fist into the side of the iceberg. There was a muffled explosion. Then a long crack went up the side of the iceberg. There was the sound of escaping gas.
A bright blue light lit up the sky. There was a chorus of animal calls spreading around the three of them. Clayton even felt the raptor join in with the animals around them. They looked up at the sky to see the light reach into the sky. Out of what was left of the iceberg a young man walked up and looked at them. Sokka raised his spear. "Stop" he demanded.
The boy stopped glowing and fell down the ice towards them. Katara ran up to catch him. They gathered around the boy. Slowly his eyes opened.
"Will you go penguin sledding with me?" he asked looking at them.
"Sure" Katara and Clayton said looking at him.
The boy got up and looked at the three people looking at him. The boy wore yellow pants and shirt as well as brown boots and an orange cape like cloth. He was bald with the light blue arrows tattooed across his arms and over his head. He was slender and as tall as short compared to the other three. He looked at them.
"Who are you and what was that light?" Sokka asked him.
"I…I'm…" the boy started and he sneezed and flew ten feet into the air. He landed back in front of them . "I'm Aang."
"You're an air bender" Katara said.
"Yeah" the boy said looking at them.
"Great you're an air bender and those two are water benders together you can have loads of fun together" Sokka said with a grimiest.
There was a slight growling sound coming from behind a wall of ice. They looked back. Aang ran around the side to the sound Sokka, Katara, and Clayton walked around the side to see a large animal looking back at them.
"What is that?" Sokka asked.
"This is Appa he's a sky bison" Aang said stroking the large animal. It had a brown arrow running from its head to its large flat tail. He had two long horns on the side of his head. The fur of the animal was a bright light. Suddenly it sneezed like Aang did. A large amount of animal snot hit Sokka. He looked at himself.
"Eww" he screamed and began rubbing his face in the snow cleaning himself off.
"We need to get back to the village" Katara said.
"Yeah how do you plan on doing that you let the canoe drift away" Sokka said looking at her.
Sokka and Katara looked at Clayton. He looked at them. "What?" he asked looking at them.
"Do you have any thing to help us?" Katara asked looking at him.
"No I don't I brought a lot except a boat" Clayton said looking at her.
"That's ok we can fly back" Aang said looking at them.
"Fly?" Sokka asked looking at him.
"Yeah Appa can fly us to your village" Aang said looking at them.
Clayton shrugged his shoulders and in one sleek motion jumped up in to Appa's saddle. Katara climbed up next to him. Aang jumped up to take the reigns. They looked at Sokka who still stood on the ice. Sokka looked up at them.
"No way I'm taking a ride on a ten ton magical monster" Sokka said looking at them.
"Would you rather another monster come and offer you a ride?" Katara said looking at him.
He raised his finger to say something. Instead he looked at them. He climbed up into the saddle. They looked at Aang as he snapped his wrist. "Yip Yip" Aang called. Appa made a loud call. He raised his tail and the slapped it down on to the ice. Appa jumped into the air and splashed down in to the water.
"Wow its so amazing" Sokka said looking at Aang.
"Appa's just tired soon enough we'll be flying" Aang said looking at him.
Clayton shook his head and looked at his arm. He tapped a few buttons. He felt the hand unhook from the wrist. He took It off. He placed the metal hand on to the seat. He reached into the wrist and pulled out the cartridge. He sniffed it and took in the scent of the burned gun powder. He loved that smell. He threw the spent shell into the water and tapped another button and placed his hand back onto his wrist. A whirling sound came from his wrist to reconnect his hand to the rest of his metal arm. He looked up to see Aang, Sokka, and Katara watching him.
"Ok what's up with your arm?" Sokka asked looking at him.
Clayton looked at them. He looked back down at his hand as he slid on his glove. "Well when I was in a battle in the Human-Dino war my arm was cut off…well ripped off is more the word. We had the technology to fuse a machine to organic life forms. I was the first human…well monster to get it. They managed to fuse the wires to my nerves so I can control it and is responds to the natural motions of my hand and wrist" Clayton said as he demonstrated the movements of his wrist it moved naturally just like his left and normal hand. He moved his left hand up the side of his right arm to show where the wires were connected to his nerves.
"Monster? You look like a normal human I mean except for you eye" Katara said looking at him.
"I'm a slayer. Half human half dinosaur. I was made during the Human-Dino war. Before that war I was human working to survive in a world where the last free land was. The rest of the world was controlled by the fire nation.
"The dinosaurs were created as weapons to try to fight the fire nation. But some how they got out and started killing everyone. My friends and I started our own army to fight them. Little did we know it was going to be our biggest moment in time. From the Human-Dino war a new breed of soldiers arose. Not just the slayers but other teams and fighters. We had our own fleet of war ships with hundreds of fighter jets and choppers.
"We lost a lot of people. Friends, family, and good men. It lasted three years hundreds of thousands of people died. At the end of the war it was just me and four friends I had left four of us were slayers Tyler was still a human. He was the fleet commander and was drafted into the navy to bring his fleet to aid the army. Five month later the fire nation tried to attack a battered and bruised country. We won that battle but at the cost of two slayers. That left John and I. He is half T-rex a really big dinosaur and I'm half raptor the dinosaur that took Amy the love of my life. I still had my task force called the 'Raptor Busters'. The love of my life had been captured by raptors on the last day of the Human-Dino war. They disappeared just compactly disappeared off the face of the earth. Turns out there are here in this time period.
"But my mission isn't to kill them. Although I'm going to search for them. My mission is to end the war with the fire nation in the future now before it ends in the four nations. I'm here to find the Avatar. The last air bender and help him finish the war." Clayton explained. He felt a tear role down the side of his face. He looked up at them. He reached into his coat and took out a pack of smokes. He put one in and lit it up. He breathed in the smoke.
"Wow I can't believe you went through all of that and yet you are still alive to bear it all" Katara said looking at him.
"Yeah I sometimes wonder why I survived" Clayton said looking at them.
"But the avatar well he disappeared a hundred years ago around the time the war started" Katara said looking at him.
"Well I've got to find him" Clayton said looking at them.
They rode on Appa back to Sokka's and Katara's village. It was a small village full of woman, elderly, and children. They looked at the new comers Clayton and Aang introduced themselves to the whole village. Clayton walked over to a small mound of snow and water bended it into a small hut. He walked in and built a small fire he opened up the provisions duffle bag. He reached in and took out three pictures One was of the slayer and raptor buster team. It was the same one he had as his computer background. He looked at the second picture of him and Amy. They were smiling and in each others arms. He looked at his last picture it was of his and his family before they died.
He began to take off his weapons. He placed his custom M-16 and raptor buster against the wall of the hut. He looked at his sawed off shotgun as he placed it next to them. He took off his sword and side arms. He water bended a small ice table up and set the smaller weapons on it. He took off his hat and his trench coat. He handled the claw necklace. He looked next to the killing claw of the raptor to see the small gold trinket and his dog tags. He took off his shirt and picked up a blanket out of his bag. He Pulled the blanket around himself. He got close to the fire and held the pictures as he slept.
"Clayton…Clayton" a voice said. It was Katara's. She shook his shoulder. Suddenly he sat up with blinding speed and had a bowie knife held to her throat. He looked into her eyes. He came to his senses.
"I'm sorry I hope I didn't hurt you" Clayton said looking at her.
"No I'm ok" she said looking at her. "Its ok by the way would you mind giving Sokka a hand building some walls. Its nice to finally have another water bender in this village" she said looking at him as he sat up. She could see his chest. His chest had three long scars going down his chest.
Clayton brought his metal hand over his face to help wake his self up. He looked at her. "What do you mean?" Clayton said still looking at her.
"Well I'm the only water bender left in the south pole" Katara said looking at him.
"What happened to them?" Clayton said looking at her.
"The fire nation took them along time ago" Katara said looking at him.
Clayton stood up. He set the pictures into his bag and picked up his shirt and started to put it on. Katara stared in shock and aw at the pink scars that covered his back. Some were clearly massive claw and teeth marks like the three on his chest. Others were burn scars and some were small round scars. She watched as he got dressed and turned to look at her starring at him.
"How did you survive all of those?" She asked looking at him.
"Slayers have incredibly strong bones and as well as super fast healing abilities we were the best for a reason" Clayton said looking at her with a smile. He followed her out to the courtyard of the village. They looked as people started to look at them.
Sokka and Aang walked up to join them. Suddenly the falling snow turned black. Sokka and Katara looked at each other they knew what it was.
"What is it?" Clayton said looking at them.
"it's a fire nation raid" Sokka said looking at him.
"Wait I've got friends all over the world even the fire nation there wasn't ever a war" Aang said looking at them.
"How long were you in that iceberg?" Katara asked looking at him.
"I don't know a few weeks" Aang said looking at her.
"I think its more like a hundred years" she said looking at him.
"What do I look like a hundred and sixteen year old man" Aang said looking at her.
Suddenly a massive war ship crashed through a snow wall. The bow of the ship opened up and troops in armor came running out. Some were armed with trident like spears and others with swords. Some came out with no weapons they had metal mask connected to their helmets. These troops used fire bending instead of other weapons. They stood ready for a young man the same age as Clayton walk down the path way he had armor on. His head was bald except for a pony tail that came out of the back of his head. He had a pink scar on his face that went over his left eye. It was a burn scar.
"I'm Zuko crown prince of the fire nation and I demand to know where you are keeping him" the young man yelled.
Clayton moved Aang behind him. He looked at Zuko. Then it came back to him he knew not to try to kill Zuko. He knew he would be on his side at sometime. He would have to remember to tell Zuko to thank Amy for saving his life. He looked to see Zuko pull an older woman to his side. "He would be about this age. Master of the elements. The avatar that's who I want" Zuko said.
Suddenly Clayton felt a breeze. Aang flew over him and landed in front of Zuko. "looking for me?"
"I finally found you" Zuko said looking at him.
"If I go with you peacefully will you leave these people alone?" Aang asked him.
"Yes" he said looking at him.
Aang followed him onto the ship. The troops followed him onto the ship. The bow closed up and it backed away and began to motor away. Katara looked at Clayton.
"I thought he was your mission" she asked him.
"He is but I'm not going to try to kill Zuko" He said looking at her.
"He just took the worlds last hope for peace" she said looking at him.
Clayton walked back to the makeshift hut. He came out with his bags and weapons. He walked past her and launched himself up onto Appa's saddle. He cocked his M-16 and looked back as Katara and Sokka walked up. He looked at them.
"We're coming with you" Sokka said looking at him.
Clayton nodded as they climbed up.
"So what was the words Aang said to try to get Appa to fly?" Clayton asked.
"Yip Yip" Katara said.
Suddenly Appa raised his massive tail and brought it down this time he flew into the air. He was flying. Clayton cheered as they took off. They flew through the air. Clayton looked back at Sokka and Katara. "so how old are ya'll?"
"I'll be nineteen next week" Katara said looking at him.
"And I'm twenty" Sokka said looking at him.
"How old are you?" Katara asked Clayton.
"Twenty two" he answered.
Katara looked at him. "And you have a machine arm and all those scars and went through all that you have and are only twenty two?" she asked in shock looking at him.
He nodded and looked back out over the water to see the ship he pointed at it to see Aang running on the deck of the ship. He looked down as the fire benders chased him. Clayton saw something in Appa's saddle. He pulled it out and looked at it he realized it was Aang's staff. He remembered stories of air benders using them to fly with. He looked down as Aang got thrown into the water.
"AANG" Katara screamed.
"NO" Clayton yelled.
Suddenly the water exploded and Aang flew up surrounded by a vortex of water. He was glowing again. He was in the avatar state. He began to water bend the water around throwing men around. Then still glowing he launched himself up onto Appa and stopped glowing. He collapsed and opened his eyes and looked at Sokka, Katara, and Clayton as they looked at him.
"Why didn't you tell us you were the Avatar?" Katara asked him.
"Because I didn't want to be the Avatar" Aang said looking at them.
Clayton switched seats with Aang. He looked at Aang.
"You are my mission and I won't let you die I need to save my future" Clayton said looking into his eyes.
"Well we will have to do what we can to make sure your future doesn't happen" he said.
Clayton sat down. "I swear I will find you Amy" he said to his self and looked at them as they flew towards the southern air temples. He knew this war was going to end but he had no idea how long it would take. He also knew he would have to find Amy along the way he looked at them.
"I know you need to learn water, earth, and fire we need to get to the north pole to get you a master" Clayton said looking at him.
"Yeah good idea and while we are there we can find you and Katara one" Aang said looking at him.
"For her not me I don't need one I am a master of water bending but I use guns more" Clayton said looking at him.
"Cant you train us?" he asked him.
"No I'm not a good teacher of water bending if you want to learn how to shoot then ask me for that trust me" Clayton said looking back at him.
"Well we should get some sleep as we are flying to the southern air temple" Aang said to them.
The small group of young adults all slept. Clayton was the last one to fall asleep. He looked at Aang, Sokka, and Katara. He knew it would be his new family and he would protect them all even if it meant his life he wouldn't let them die the future depended on it. He also knew that the Human-Dino war just might have carried over to the past but he wasn't sure how Draco and Scarface would react to him being in that same time period. He knew that was another problem for another day he just knew that now they had to dodge Zuko and the rest of the fire nation on the way to the north pole. He closed his eyes and dreamed a dreamless sleep.