Alright this is a collab between me and EvilFuzzy9, here on FF. So, credit also goes to him.

Disclaimer to Avatar the Last Airbender and their creators: Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko

Katara opened her eyes with a jolt, feeling in the bottom of her stomach as though she had just hit the ground after falling a great distance. She was sweating and shivering, and her skin was pale. Her heart was racing, and it was all she could do to keep the trembling of her hands in check as she picked herself up off of the floor.

"Are you okay?" she heard Sokka ask, and under other circumstances she would have perhaps been a little pleased to hear the concern in his voice.

But right now, she was too shaken up.

"It's... I think so..." she murmured softly. " I just... wow... I never realized how awful it must have been... I was so young... So many of my people were slaughtered on that day..." she said, and while speaking these last two sentences, her voice sounded distant. Remote it was, almost, and the manner of her speech seemed odd.

Except, to Katara's ears it did not sound like her voice. She was not the one speaking.

It was the voice of an old man, old before his time, aged sooner than he should have by hardship and grief.

"Katara?" said Sokka, and she became aware that his hands were gripping her by the shoulders.

"I'm okay..." she said, she whispered, her voice weak and croaking but hers once more. "I made contact..." she mumbled, her words slightly stronger now. "I definitely made contact," she repeated, affirmed. "I saw... well, I think I must have been seeing the Sack of the Western Air Temple... It was surreal. I could feel emotions that weren't my own; my thoughts weren't my thoughts..."

"You communed with Grandfather Aang, then?" came a voice, feminine and even, cool and calculated.

"What?" came another voice, vaguely similar to the first, sounding from out in the hall, coming through the door. "Don't tell me I missed my chance to talk to Grandpa!"'

And then the door flew open, and a young woman, maybe a year or two older than Katara, with a slender, athletic figure dressed in Air Nomad clothes, burst into the room. She had arrow tattoos, indicating a mastery of airbending. Somewhat strangely, though, her hair was not shorn or shaven the way Air Nomads traditionally did. They could see the point of the arrow on her forehead, and the smaller arrows on her arms, but her hair was held up in buns, and not shaven the way Katara had seen in the pictures back home.

This girl was shortly followed by a pale, curvy young woman with black hair and pale skin. This one's eyes were the color of cloudy jade.

"Hot Stuff!" squealed the first, spinning through the air to come landing immediately right between Sokka and Katara.

The Avatar frowned darkly when she saw the way the airbender was eyeing her bodyguard and crush. Gray eyes twinkled and gleamed as they bored into Sokka's deep sea blue, and Katara noted that this girl did not seem to have any concept of personal space.

The second girl had a wide grin on her face as well, grinning predatorily in Sokka's direction.

"Finally," Katara heard her say, "something to do around here."

She did not like the way the girl licked her lips to punctuate that remark.

And then she noticed a third girl - probably the first one she had heard speaking. This one was also an airbender, from appearances, and she bore a remarkable resemblance to the first - though Katara noticed that she seemed to have a slightly curvier figure. This girl was also eyeing her brother, and Katara glowered darkly.

Great. More competition.

The Next Day

Sokka was standing with his lady, Katara, ready for action should the need arise. He did not like where they were currently. They were standing in the open in a practice circle with the Earth Bending teacher. She had introduced herself as Toph of Gaoling and had even accidentally caught Sokka in her bosom after an Earth Bending accident. Sokka had to admit the 17 year old's bosom was rather soft. She stood at 5 foot 9 which was a couple inches shorter than Sokka. Toph was a very attractive girl along with Masters Ikki and Jinora.

Visiting with the sisters were two other Air Nomads from the Northern Air Temple. The Northern Air Temple Sokka had heard was a unique group. After the Century Comet Massacre, the Northern Air temple lost all of its Guardian Monks to the dragon raids. The survivors trained in a new system, 12 monks known as the Zodiac would rule over all the males and female air nomads. They would split them into groups of 12 just like the Zodiac monks. If an enemy was captured by a group called a Zoa then it took a unanimous vote to kill the enemy.

Sokka did not trust people who would not kill to protect their skin. So, these air nomads were more his style. There was a girl that was a representative that did not have the air nomad tattoos of mastery. But was still revered highly by her friend who was there. He was a bald 20 year old with steel grey eyes and a brown mustache. He had the air nomad tattoos signalling him to be a master. His name was Ran while the girl's name was Statci.

Toph was instucting Katara to do push ups and earth stomp building her muscles. Toph walked around behind Sokka as she then patted his butt. Sokka made a yelp as Katara glared at her and stomped. Toph stomped in turn as two earth bending attacks hit.

Ikki made a cat call shouting, "Whooo! Fighting for hot stuff. Hey hot stuff why don't you show your boomerang already?"

Sokka grabbed his boomerang in question with a quirked eye brow as Ikki then smiled shaking her head, "Nope the other one!"

Katara growled as she water bent the two basins at Ikki.

Without missing a beat, Ikki jumped over the jets of water which shot at her from the basins. She spun in midair, the air swirling around her feet to push away and scatter the water.

A good portion of it was sent right back at Sokka and Katara, and Sokka had to duck aside as the Avatar caught the water with her bending, pulling it back together and forming it into a whip.

Katara pushed her hands forward, and the water froze and shattered, shaping into dozens of icy flechettes that she shot angrily at Ikki in a wide dispersal. The bubble, energetic airbender easily slipped between and blew aside all of the frozen darts, but in doing so she inadvertently sent several of them flying wide, shooting towards the others.

Toph swore when she felt some of the ice pelt her skin, the pointed bits tearing at her clothes a little, cutting up her blouse in some very interesting places. And Jinora, on the opposite end of the training field from Toph, only barely looked up from her book in time to conjure a defense sphere of spinning air around her body.

She still got scratched on the cheek by one of the ice shards, though.

Toph, snarling, stomped down hard on the earth training ground, and it felt like the whole house shook and trembled under the force of the resultant tremors, ripples of force traveling through the floor in the shape of cracking, curling waves of earth.

Sokka was nearly tripped by one of these waves, and he was hard pressed to evade the rest. Especially since Jinora, having been seemingly enraged by her sister's carelessness, was swinging her arms in furious swinging, spiraling arcs, setting powerful, focused winds to blow this way and that.

One of Jinora's gusts caught Katara off-guard, hitting the Avatar like an invisible slap in the face. The young tribeswoman, angered even further by this than she already was, hit the broken, shattered ground with her foot, causing several good sized rocks to fly up into the air.

Toph, were she in a less frustrated, irritated, sex-starved mood, might have been impressed by how well Katara was earthbending right now, perhaps unconsciously tapping a little bit into the memories and experience of past lives as she swung out her arms and shattered the rocks, sending the resultant earth shrapnel flying outwards in nearly every direction.

Sokka hit the deck, narrowly avoiding getting brained right in the temple. He still got pelted a good deal on the back, though. And Statci, he noticed, was next to him, though she seemed to somehow have completely avoided getting caught in the crossfire, so far.

Ikki, for her part, danced in between the shards of stone with a preternatural grace, and Sokka, from his low vantage point, could see a bit of light jiggling beneath the girl's robes as she moved. Jinora, in contrast, appeared to prefer a comparatively more brute force defense, once more compressing the swirling winds into a vertiginous shell of air, which turned aside and shattered any missile that attempted to penetrate it.

Toph merely sank into the ground, completely avoiding the hail of shooting gravel, before quite suddenly shooting up out of the ground behind Katara on a swiftly rising stone pillar.

The Avatar just narrowly managed the evade in time when Toph then kicked the pillar, snapping it out of the ground and sending it straight at Katara with a fearsome speed.

The pillar collided with the opposite wall in a great, mighty CRASH, and it seemed like things were only going to get worse, when

Fire spiraled into the sky like a cyclone as people stopped to look. There on a cliff in the back yard that led to the outside of town was Azula. She then let the fire roar die down as she then leaped down with fire kicks running her way down. She landed with Ty Lee and Mai behind her to her sides. They were her friends, guards and trainers. While she was a master fire bender she believed that even the fire bending arts could be taken down by two skilled non benders.

Azula then said to the group that was all gathered, "Are we teenage women with no brains? Or are we teachers and the avatar?"

The girls looked down in shame as Azula then said to Tae and Kagura who were watching, "You two, take the bodyguard that started all this with his looks. Keep him out of sight."

Tae and Kagura were very excited as Midori aided them. They took him inside the house as Statci then went off to the side. Azula then said to the group, "Alright, now. Let's pick up with practice. Shall we?"