a/n: if you recognize any stuff from the show, it probably doesn't belong to me. Yah.

The last think Aang remembered was a storm, jagged flashed white, salty water burning his lungs, swirling and pulling him deeper. Next thing he knew, he was falling through dry air and...not drowned? What? Is this the spirit world?

He heard a soft whump as he landed in someone's arms, and murmuring in the background. Hhhmm, this person is wearing thick clothes. It's cold and smells salty. Am I in the Water tribe? He felt a poking on his bald, shiny head and heard and indignant "Stop it!" Aand cracked open his eyes and saw a young woman with a fur lined coat, profound blue eyes against chestnut skin, and little hair loopies. Yup. Definitely Water Tribe. Oooooo! I've never been to the Water Tribe! But Bumi told me about all sorts of fun stuff to do here...

"I need to ask you something," He said to the water tribe lady with false feebleness.

"What?" asked the girl gently

"Please," he rasped, "Come closer"

She leaned in. "What is it?"

Aang suddenly snapped his eyes wide open. "Will you go penguin sledding with me?" he asked eagerly.

"Um...sure, I guess." replied the hair loopy girl with an odd look at the other water tribe girl.

"Aaaahh..." murmured another water tribe girl with a wolftail, "Should've known this would happen."

"Why? What's going on here?" asked Aang, scratching his bald shiny head.

A goofy looking buff kid with thick eyedbrows opened his mounth, looking like he was about to spill all the beans, but was interrupted by a low, groaning noise from the other side of the iceberg. Aang gasped and scrambled over the lip of the icy crater while the other people followed more slowly. Everyone's jaw dropped at the sight of him hugging the shaggy arrow on the head of a ten ton, six legged bison. (Except for Korra who just rolled her eyes again.)

"Haha! You're okay!" He said cheerfully.

"Woah," said Hairy Eyebrow Dude, "It's The Avatar. FROM THE PAST!" He cried, doing a dramatic little dance of excitement before hopped up to Aang and enthusiasctically shaking his hand.

Aang looked stupefied."I...I'm not the avatar. I don't even know the Avatar. I know people that know the Avatar but I didn't. Sorry." He looked at the little crowd before him curiously, then back at his bison, who was pulling a strange face. Suddenly, he pulled down the hairy eyebrow dude, "DUCK!" yelled Aang as his sky bison projectile sneezed all over the tall, pale kid in the back.

"Uuuuuuggg! Aaagh!"

"Don't worry, It'll wash out!" Aang grinned at him, seemingly oblivious to the strings of ochre mucus, starting to steam on his red, infuriated face. "So, what are your names? Do you live around here?"

The girl with the wolftail said, "I'm Korra, this is Katara, the poker-faced twins are Eska and Desna, the guy next to you is Bolin, and the tall cranky guy is called Mako."

Katara turned to Aang "What was your name again?"

"Oh, I'm A-Aa-a-AAACHOOOOOOOOO!" he sneezed with a resounding echo as he rocketed high into the clear arctic sky. On the way down, he slid smoothly down the walls of the icy crater and skidded to a halt in from of Katara. "I'm Aang!" He replied and proceeded to sniffle and rub his nose.

Katara gaped at him and made an incredulous noise at the back of her throat. "You just sneezed and flew ten feet in the air!"

"Really? It felt higher than that."

"You're an Airbender!"

"Sure am!"

"Then you need master the elements and stop the Fire Nation now!"

"Wait, what's wrong with the Fire Nation? How do all you guys seem to know who I am? And why do you people have wierd fancy clothes? And if you're stuck, Appa and I can give you a lift."

"We'd love a ride, thanks! We can clarify some stuff with each other on the way to the village."

"Okay, okay, we've all met each other, we've got the Avatar, and a flying bison, now can we go so I can wash this disgusting sludge off my face?"

a/n: Yay! 12 reviews so far! BTW, this will probably turn into a long epic tale that will take me like a year to finish writing, so just be prepared.