I don't own Avatar.

When Atka woke up, his friends were outside the door, pounding away. He opened the door and both fell into the door.

"Why were you banging on the door? I was sleeping." He said laughing at his friends.

"We were banging on the door for two hours. It's dark outside." Daisuke yelled.

"I was having a good dream, or I think it was awkward." Atka said, before he saw a monk walk by the door, "It wasn't a dream."

The Avatar ran out the door, and to the stern of the ship. There he saw was the guy from his dream, just older; twenty years older and with more hair.

"Avatar Aang?" Atka asked, standing behind the monk.

He turned with a smile, "You must be mistaken; I'm not the Avatar."

"That's right." Atka looked at the ground, before asking another question, "What are you going to do now?"

Aang thought about it for a moment, and then answered, "I'm thinking that the Avatar needs an airbending teacher, if I'm not mistaken, but I'd like to see some old friends of mine first."

Atka looked at the airbender's right hand. He was holding something white with a little brown arrow and two horns. He didn't know what it was until Aang brought it to his lips and blew. Atka covered his ears, but heard nothing.

"What kind of whistle is that? It doesn't work." Atka yelled with a bit of anger from having to cover his ears.

"You'll see. I know he's coming." The biggest grin was on his face.

Aang backed up, and then started running and airbended himself into the air, before being caught by a large shadow. Atka knew that it was Appa. He stayed there to watch the duo fly off towards the Fire Nation.

"Who was that?" Mei Ling asked, while gasping for air after running.

"An old friend that will teach me airbending." Atka answered, and then walked his friends to their rooms to go to bed.

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Zuko woke up from the rude sound of Appa landing. He tried to go back to sleep, but his wife was already up and questioning the motive of their grumpy earthbending friend.

"I'll go yell at Toph for waking us." She said, giving him a kiss on the cheek.

"Good, because I was going to throw her out of the Fire Nation if I had to get up."

Katara shook her head and headed towards the stables. Appa was being led into the stables at that time, and she thought that a servant was doing that job for Toph, but Toph also walked out from her room.

"Hey, what's going on with Appa, because I swear that Aang is leading him in? But that must be my mind going crazy." Toph said, rubbing her eyes and yawning.

"I think that it is Aang." Katara said and took off running.

"I told you to be quiet. I was going to sneak into the palace undetected, but now I think you ruined it." Aang punished his old friend.

Appa just groaned before munching down on some hay. Aang sighed, and turned when he heard his name called. Aang smiled and walked towards the voice.

"It is him." Toph cried out.

Aang got the longest hug ever, but then the most questions ever. He knew that the next day was going to be busy with lots of questions to answer, but he was happy to know that he could have the chance to answer them.

"Katara, you know the last evil thing your brother did?" Aang asked.

"And what's that?"

"He forgot to tell me that I had a painted face still on me." And he continued on the story until he went to his new room.

Aang was going to appreciate this second chance at life, and he smiled the entire night.

--

Sokka was tapping his fingers on his wooden chair, while getting yelled at by every Avatar possible. He even yawned once, and got yelled at for that.

"What's your point? So his spot is going to be open for a few more years. He'll die and take that spot as he would have if he wasn't killing in my realm." Sokka yawned again.

"That might break up the cycle and cause chaos." One Avatar yelled.

"I'll tell you what causes chaos; seeing a hundred warriors fighting to the death to take the spot as the next Hunter. That's chaos. This is a slight gap in the Avatar cycle." Sokka smiled.

"All of you Hunters are the same with your cocky 'don't give a care' attitude about the Avatars. You could cause lot of unspeakable chaos to the world and the Spirit World." Another Avatar screamed.

"Chaos is my business." Sokka laughed in their faces, "And I don't live in the Spirit World."

He got up and retired to his room, leaving the Avatars to yell at each other on their way out to the window. Attu locked the window as ordered and went back to waiting for more work.

I had planned this story to be longer, but I found out that when I try and plan stories to be long, they don't turn out that way. Heh.