"Alright class, turn on your learning pads and go to lesson C3. Today's lesson is a continuation of yesterday's of a brief history of the war of 2646. Now, can anyone tell me what year the war of 2452 took place in?" Miss Wu asked the class. No body raised their hands.

"No? Well I guess no one is paying attention then." As the teacher said that, she took out a black sonic sound projector from the inside of her desk and flipped it on. The class burst out into a chorus of startled shrieks as a terrible high pitched noise rang through the room. After a few seconds of watching her students struggling, Miss Wu turned off the device. Everyone let out a large sigh of relief.

"Well, now that I have your attention, what year did the war of 2646 take place in?" The class gave her an odd look and then a student from the back of the class gingerly raised his hand and answered, "um. . . 2646?"

"Of course, that's why it's called the War of 2646! Now that we've clarified that, let's move on with our lesson." Though Miss Wu just made a point of making her class understand, some students around me had already begun to space out or doodle on their learning pads with a pen stylus. I, on the other hand, had my eyes glued on her lips and listened to every solitary word coming out of her mouth. Normally, I don't pay attention in social studies, but the war of 2646 is a very important subject to me.

"Now, lets go over what we learned yesterday," Miss Wu said. "Now, who can list some causes of the war?" I raised my hand. "Yes, Katara?"

"The beginning conflict between benders and non benders began when the majority of world leaders were benders. These rulers were claimed to be biased towards the Bending population of the world and placed extremely unfair laws against the non-bending population. Sozin, the leader of the Fire Nation, was a non-bender and felt the oppression of his race first hand. He began a movement called the 'equalist' movement in 2645. This movement fought against bigotry towards non-benders. The movement stirred up conflict, and over time, the conflicts between non-benders and benders grew worse, beginning the war in 2646. Sozin sided with other non-bending world leaders, and as the world civil war raged on, they were strategizing a way to completely annihilate the benders. The devised a plan to create a weapon which would put benders to a disadvantage, and then make a move on their opponents from there. They created multiple weapons specializing in the destruction of benders, then coordinated a series of attacks on major bending civilizations leaders. After a short amount of time, the non-benders won the war." I told her. The class stared at me in awe with their mouths open like I had just done triple back-flips.

"That was. . . an excellent answer," Miss Wu responded. "Now, what were the Bender's attitudes in the war, and how did that affect them? And. . . can someone other than Katara answer?" A few students raised their hands. The teacher pointed to Toph, who was sitting right next to me that day.

"Benders were overly confident, and that costed them. They weren't immediate enough in their actions, and didn't protect or fortify themselves enough."

"Very good. I guess more people have been paying attention than I've thought. Today, we'll be reading about the affects of the war. Now, look at your lesson in front of you and go to page 3. That is U.G.A law # 30. Now, can anyone tell me what the U.G.A stands for? Kanto, do you know?" She called in the front of the class

"The U.G.A is the United Government Association."

"Good. As you all probably already know, the United Governments Association is a political group consisting of every nation in the world. The purpose of the U.G.A is for the nations to live in peace and to create laws in which every citizen of the world must adhere to. The group was formed in 2617, only 29 years before the war. Once the war began, the association briefly split up, then reformed a mere week after the war ended.

"At the first U.G.A meeting of 2676, new non-bending leaders were assigned their political roles in the world. At the next meeting, which took place the next day, the nation names were changed. Before the war, the four main countries of the world were the Fire Nation, Water Tribes, Earth Kingdom, and the Air Nation. The names were changed to non-elemental related titles, which is why we live in Terra, and not in the Earth Kingdom. The only nation whose name did not change was the Air Nation, only because every Air Nomad was an Airbender, and therefore the decision was made to end that race of people because of their dangerous nature.

"During the third meeting, U.G.A law # 30 was placed, which outlawed the existence of benders. Their reasoning behind the law was that benders were evil, untrustworthy people who would just cause more trouble in the world and needed to be exterminated. Their reasoning was very correct, as for the fact that there have been no war or conflicts since the law was passed." After she said this, there were some quiet agreeing glances shared between students and nods of approval happening all throughout the room. It infuriated me.

"Today, we'll be looking over each individual section of the law." This was followed by not-so-approving groans. I stopped paying attention at this point.

I couldn't believe that my own teacher thought this. . . and that the other students did too. Benders are normal people. . . they don't deserve to be killed just for being born. So many of them are peaceful, innocent people. Yes, just any other group of people, there are some bad, murdering benders, but there are also murdering non-benders! It's not fair to them.

It's not fair to me. It it was most certainly not fair to my mother. She didn't deserve what happened. . . and I didn't deserve it either. The Anti-bender police had word of a female in my household who possessed waterbending abilities. My mother admitted she was the bender and they killed her on the spot.

In reality, I'm the bender. She said that to protect me.

And I hate the U.G.A for it. They made me live in secrets and fear my whole life, and they took away my mother.

I also can't do anything about it, because if I do, they will catch me and kill me.

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The day was over finally. Social Studies with Miss Wu put me into a bad mood. In fact, the whole day put me into a bad mood, but she was just the epitome of my distress. Professor Piandao issued the class a new tech-science project, and we had to carry around with us heavy technological equipment. In my anthropology class, we were given extremely old books from the 21st century to examine and take notes on, and that was not fun to add to your pile of already-heavy-enough-items, and then I was assigned four other projects in other classes, so I most certainly would not be able to relax that night. And to top it all off, I wasn't even able to vent to and cool my circuits off with my friends at any time during the day because I was too busy getting started on the projects. By this point, I just wanted to get home.

I walked out the hall and towards the buses, when Toph and Suki came up to me and started complaining about their projects too. For some reason, it was somehow comforting to know that I wasn't alone in my academic suffering.

We went aboard the bus together, and Toph and Suki decided to take a seat together, since they never do, and I said it was okay. I went to go sit next to Sokka, but he was already sitting next to Zuko.

That only left one person.

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I noticed, as I was sitting alone, that Katara had no place to sit, so I tapped her shoulder from behind and asked, "Hey, do you need a place to sit?"

"Yeah, thank you." She said, then smiled in a grateful way. I was grateful myself that with in the first two days of school I've had the opportunity to get to even be around someone so kind and beautiful as Katara."How are you liking this school so far?" She asked

"It's alright. I got a really large amount of homework in my classes though, and I'm kind of stressed out." She rolled her eyes and laughed. I then noted. . . she has a beautiful, tinkling laugh.

"I know, me too. I'm freaking out! We've never gotten this many assignments from all of our teachers before. I don't know what's going on! You came at the worst time to this school."

"That's so comforting. Thanks Katara."

"No problem." We both laughed and continued talking and getting to know each other for a while. It was really nice. . . until some guy turned around from the seat ahead and started teasing us. . . well, more of Katara.

"Hey Katara. So, this is your boyfriend," he said. "Nice to meet you, Katara's boyfriend, my name is Sokka. I'm looking forward to having you as a brother in law."

"Sokka, shut the hell up." Katara scolded. I noticed she was blushing. . . just like me.

"You know it's true."

"I hate you." Katara then looked over to me and smiled, then proceeded to give a better introduction to Sokka.

"Aang, this is my brother."

"Ah, that explains the bickering," I said.

"Yes. That, and he's and idiot and I can't stand him sometimes and it's hard to not bicker with him."

"Oh, he can't be that bad. . ."

"Yes he is~" "Yes I am~" They both said simultaneously.

"What's going on here?" Another boy sitting next to Sokka said as he turned around to face both me and Katara. When I first saw him, I had to resist the temptation to gasp at his unfortunate face. He was obviously once a very good looking guy, with defined featured and long black hair, but he had a horrible, painful looking scar on the left side of his face from his cheek to his eyebrow.

"I'm talking to Katara's new boyfriend." Sokka said. "Oh, and by the way Katara's boyfriend, this is my buddy Zuko."

"Katara has a boyfriend?" Zuko gasped, completely ignoring Sokka's last comment, then turned towards me."

"No, I'm not Katara's boyfriend. Sokka just likes to say that to annoy Katara."

"Is it working?" Zuko asked Katara.

"If I say yes, that would be giving Sokka the power."

"So, yes, he's annoying you."

"Of course!" She laughed. Sokka brought his fist up in a "yes" motion, then continued to ask me a few questions about where he came from. Eventually, the bus stopped in front of Sokka and Katara's place, so they stepped off and waved to me and Zuko as the ride kept moving on. I smiled. "I like these people a lot. . ." I thought. "I hope we'll we good friends." Then it dawned on me,

I probably won't have them for friends for very long either.

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"Gran Gran, we're home!" Yelled as we came through the door. There was no answer. I wasn't too worried, though. She was probably asleep or something. I went to the fridge and grabbed a sizzle pop for both me and Sokka, then tried to gain her attention again.

"Hey Gran Gran, we're home!" I walked through the hallway into Grandma's den where she usually is where we get home. "Gran Gran, we're ho-" I gasped, then dropped my drink and spilled it all over the floor. I didn't care though. Neither did Gran Gran.

She was sitting there on her couch, like always, but this time it was different. She had a different smile than normal and happier than I have seen her in a while. That was not the only thing that was different though. This time, she was not alone. There, next to her, was a tall, muscular man with deep blue eyes and dark skin, who also beamed at me.

"Dad."

FINALLY did another chapter! Andin one day too! Sweetness. :3 I'm going to try to write another one this week, but no promises that I'll have it up soon. This week is finals week. I'm so scared! Once the finals are over, I'll put one up as soon as possible.

I didn't really edit this very much. . . so sorry if there are some errors or if it is not very good.