Katara was suspicious of these strange people.
"What are you talking about? Where do you come from? What do you need to see me for? How do you even know me?"
The other water tribe girl replied, "We are from Republic City, we come in peace."
"Korra," interrupted the tall, pale boy, "If she's this young, there's no way she could have heard of Republic City."
"I'm standing right here you know, so stop talking in third person." snapped Katara. "I will stay in this very spot until you tell me everything about who you are and where you're from. You will not receive any help until you can prove that you are not a threat."
"Sigh." The other stocky boy rubbed his forehead dejectedly for a long moment, then word spewed out of his mouth at a ridiculously fast rate. "My name is Bolin and that is my bother (sorry, brother) Mako and that is Korra the avatar and that's Eska and Desna, the children of the Chief of the Northern water Tribe who turned evil and bonded with the dark spirit of the world, Vaatu, in order to defeat the light spirit of the world, Rava, who is incidentally whitish blue and inside the Avatar and makes the avatar all glowy (*breath*) and Raava got ripped out of Korra and died and we were in the spirit world and got trapped in the tree of time which probably took us in the past and destroyed our future and it exploded and we woke up and some of us lost our bending and we ended up here."
Katara blinked twice while her brain tried to function."Okay...so you guys are from the future. Does that mean the air nation avatar died during the genocide? Since the Avatar moved on to the water tribe? And did the Fire Nation call the (coughdirtbagcough) mayor of the Northern Water Tribe 'chiefs' in the future or something? And if those two are the Northern Water Tribe colonies' future leaders, why do they look so...water tribe? Did the mayors intermarry like the do in the Earth colonies or something?"
Mako looked perplexed for a moment, then slapped his forehead. "RIGHT. Forgot about the war." then he glanced back at her, confused again, "But the war should have been over by now!"
She stared at him incredulously and rubbed her temple. "Okay, okay, you guys are probably not spies." she muttered, "Not that there's anything worthwhile in our village to spy on anyways. The Fire Nation didn't even bother trying to colonize us."
Then she turned to them and said, "I have a pretty big canoe near the collapsed cliff right there. Let's go to the village and you can tell me about yourselves there."
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By the time they reached the cliff, Katara's canoe was frozen into the icy bank. "Blubbery buffalo yaks," she swore as she took out a club and started to chip away the ice. For some reason, this caused huge vibrations, and the water seemed to boil beneath them.
Suddenly, an enormous gleaming ball of ice shot out from under the water, cracking and shifting the ice all around them and smashing the canoe to tiny pieces. The ragtag group clung on for dear life as a small blizzard seemed to rage around them. Then as soon as it started, it stopped. Katara stood up and dusted herself off.
"Look," drawled Eska, gesturing towards the ice, "There appears to be a phosphorescent creature inside."
Katara turned and saw a creature, or person? or both? with glowing eyes and arrows sitting in lotus position within a round iceberg.
"What is that?" She wondered.
"Spirits above," breathed Korra, "It's Aang."
a/n: IT LIVES!