War of the Avatars: The Last Airbender Book 1:Chapter 1-The Boy In The Iceberg, an avatar: last airbender fanfic

Author's Note: Okay folks, here it is the first real chapter to this story. Also I forgot to mention I do not own the Avatar series…just The Dark Avatar and a few OCs here and there.

Oh another thing, this one is going to be long, but I hope we won't be getting a long one like this until we reach the end of book 1…I hope, but it should hold you guys up until I get the next one ready.

P.S more info on the idea of this story will be at the end of this chapter.

BOOK ONE:

WATER.

CHAPTER ONE:

THE BOY IN THE ICEBERG

Among some of the victims of this long war with the Fire Nation, the people of the Southern Water Tribe have suffered. Once it was a grand nation, nearly equal to its sister tribe in the north. Sadly, other than the gift of Water Bending that is where their similarities end.

Thanks to continuing invasion from the Fire Nation, the Southern Tribe lost many of their loved ones. Their people scattered to smaller parts around the South Pole, and one day after another attack what remained of their leaders asked for aid from the Earth Kingdom.

They accepted, but in exchange for protection of what little Water Benders they had left every able warrior of the tribe must join with the Earth Kingdom military when called upon.

Sokka wanted to come but he was told by his farther that there must be someone to stay and protect what remains of the village and the family.

Ever since their farther left Sokka did his best as the only warrior left to train not just himself but the next fighters of their tribe, which sadly still leaves him as the only warrior avalible.

Other than that Sokka served the village by hunting and gathering food and he was not alone in this; though his farther is far away and their mother gone, he still had his sister Katara.

Together along with their Grandmother they have kept the village whole.

Though that hasn't stopped Sokka from wanting to join his father in battle.

"Sokka?"

Sokka snapped out of his thoughts as he turned to Katara sitting on the other side of the canoe.

"Were you making muscles at your reflection again?" Katara said while raising an eyebrow.

"No I wasn't. Not anymore," he said whispering that last sentience, "And besides at least I'm not messing with more water magic, Katara."

"It's not magic, Sokka," Katara said annoyed, "It's Water Bending and it's im-"

"It's important for you to learn it for the sake of our people's culture. I know, I know," Sokka rolled his eyes every time she talks about her Water Bending. "Now less talking, more fishing. The village is not going to feed itself you know."

Katara rolled her eyes and started looking for any signs of fish. Ever since their mom died, Katara had to grow up fast and mainly due to all the things her mother had done in their home. Then when their farther left to fight she worked alongside Sokka to aid the village. If she had enough time for herself she would spend the rest of the day practicing her Water Bending.

She discovered she could do it at a young age, but sadly she was the only one of her village that had this ability and when the few remaining Water Benders where taken away by the Earth Kingdom to a safer location her farther thought best to keep her abilities secret as to not take her away form the family.

And like her brother Katara wanted to help in the fight, which is another reason why she wants to practice her Water Bending.

And it looks like she might have her chance to practice while hunting.

Katara spotted a large fish swimming close by the canoe. Carefully she took her left glove off and started to focus on the location of the fish. Slowly, she moved her hand up and down gently.

As this was going on Sokka noticed that up ahead the water was moving a little fast, meaning that there might be closed to rapids.

Katara continued what she was doing and received a shock when a ball of water came up in mid air and within it the fish. Acting fast she started using her other hand and moved both arms in a waving motion. The ball of water started waving back and forth through the motions of her arms.

"Sokka," Katara said keeping her eyes on her action.

"Not know, Katara," Sokka kept searching for the signs of the rapids.

"But, Sokka I've caught one!" Katara started moving her arms to put the fish within the war to their basket.

Sokka managed to spot a small sign of the rapids and raised his spear to push against some ice to move them away. Just as he raised his spear it hit the water ball causing the water to splash all over him and releasing the fish back into the water.

"Hey!" Katara said, her work now a waste.

"Katara!" Sokka said wiping some water away from his face, "What did I tell you about using your stupid bending while we're hunting?"

"It's not stupid, Sokka!" Katara said, "And I would've had the fish if you hadn't-"

But before another word could be said, a sudden shake from the canoe alerted them that they have just entered the rapids. Acting quickly, Sokka grabbed a paddle and started trying to safely ride through the rapids and avoid any large ice blocks ahead.

"Go left!" Katara shouted as she saw larger Ice coming towards them.

But it was to late; just as Sokka turned right a huge block of ice pushed the canoe left, followed by another block of ice to push them in the center. At once two large blocks of ice rammed into them and destroyed the boat, but thankfully Katara and Sokka landed safely on the larger ice blocks.

"Great," Sokka sighed, "Way to go Katara!"

"You think this was my fault?" Katara glared.

"Well if you hadn't distracted me with your little bending tricks I would have had us avoid the rapids."

"I was trying to catch a fish with my Water bending," Katara argued.

"Well maybe you should have used your bending to get us out of those rapids if you think you're so great!" Sokka said.

"I was only trying to help!" Katara shouted. As she did a little wave came up and slowly pushed against the ice block they where on.

"Why couldn't they leave some of the men here?" Sokka said, not noticing the slight push against the block. "I can't believe the fate of the village is up to me and my baby sister who messes everything up with her and her weird bending."

Katara glared at her brother as for after a long time has finally lost her patience with him.

"Now you listen to me you sexist, immature, sealpig-headed…I can't believe we're related!" As Katara shouts, more waves started to appear and started pushing/breaking the rest of the ice.

"You know ever since mom died and dad left I have been trying my best to help out with the village. And helping you out most of all while you spend half those times playing solider!"

Sokka knew the routine with his sister; he lets her vent out her anger and he says he sorry and would respect her contribution. Suddenly, he noticed the waves pushing against the rest of the ice, and the waves were getting bigger.

"Uh, Katara?"

"NO I AM NOT DONE!" She shouted.

A big wave rose and slammed down on a far-off ice chunk, causing Sokka to flinch. He realized the connection between the waves and his sister's rage.

"I even have to help out in washing all the villager's clothes! And have you even smelled your dirty socks? Well let me tell you it's not pleasant!"

Sokka started to get worried, the angrier Katara is getting the bigger the waves are.

"Listen Katara-"

"If you don't want my help anymore then fine!" Katara shouted, "YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN!"

With that final shout a wave instantly pushed the ice that they were on. Katara almost fell off from the push and the surprise, but Sokka managed to grab ahold of her and quickly stabbed the ice with his spear, holding her tight as the ice kept moving until it slowed down with the dying waves.

The two raised their heads as they noticed everything settle, and also that the large ice block they were on was now half its size.

"Just when I think I'm used to your weird things you manage to go from that, to freakish," Sokka said getting his spear out from the ice.

Katara's eyes widened in surprise.

"You mean I did all that?"

"Yep."

Sokka managed to pull his spear out, then sighed as he noticed the tip had been broken off.

"And another thing Katara; just so you know I-why has it suddenly gone a bit dark?"

Katara and Sokka noticed that they had just entered an ice cavern. "Wow, how come we-"

But Sokka covered Katara's mouth before she could continue. Katara was about to remove his hand when she saw him pointing up. Katara looked up and was shocked to see a large multitude of icicles.

Both knew that the slightest sound from their mouths could cause anyone of them to fall, and any one of them could kill them both.

Then the Ice block stopped. They carefully and quietly got off and started searching for a way out of the cavern. As they traveled onward, Katara was in awe over the sparkled ice walls while Sokka was more concerned with the extra row of sharp icicles above them.

As Katara continued to marvel the cavern wall she looked down and let out a sharp gasp. Sokka covered her mouth again as the icicles started to shake a bit, but they remained. He turned to his sister to remind her to keep quite but he saw her look of horror, Sokka looked down and shared his sister's look.

The floor was all red.

After learning to hunt by his farther, Sokka knew what this was; Blood.

Judging from the way the ice looked the blood wasn't recent. It had in fact been here for a long time. But just incase, Sokka stood in front and held his spear up as they slowly continued on the way.

Katara's appreciation for the caverns was now replaced with a slight nervousness. The sight of the frozen blood remind her of stories involving deadly creatures and sprits that play with humans only to kill them in the end, as well as the tale of the-

Katara bumped into Sokka, wondering why her brother stopped. She looked over his shoulder, shocked at the sight of a frozen corpse.

From the look of the body it was an old woman nearly around the same age as their grandmother, her outfit was slightly torn and some additional parts of it similar to that of the Southern Water Tribe.

The body's hair was loose and covered her whole face, her finger nails where sharp, almost talon-like. Five bottles surround the seated dead body.

Sokka carefully crept towards the corpse and started poking it with the other side of his spear.

"Sokka!" Katara hissed quietly.

"I'm just checking if she's faking," He argued quietly, "You never know, it might be the witch."

"I thought you didn't believe in those kinds of stories?" Katara whispered.

"Well it doesn't hurt to check you know."

Katara shook her head and started looking further into the cave, carefully avoiding the body. She noticed the blood on the ice started from the body and there was too much of it to be hers.

Perhaps the blood came from those bottles, Katara thought. What ugly idea.

Katara stooped shortly as she reached a dead end. Katara was about to tell Sokka but then something caught her eye. She saw a form in ice at the end. She looked up and saw a larger image, but it was hard to make out. The image below it however, was somewhat easier to make see.

It was human in appearance and in a lotus position.

Was it another dead body? Katara thought as she took a closer look.

She squinted her eyes, trying to study the body. She noticed the body appears to look young and…

"Breathing?" Katara said softly.

"Huh?" Sokka said, flinching as an icicle fell. Thankfully, it landed nowhere near them.

"There's someone alive in there," Katara ran to Sokka and pulled out his club and ran to the end.

"Katara quiet," Sokka said looking up as the icicles above them started to shake.

But Katara was more focused on trying to save who was in the ice. She didn't know how this person was alive or how they got there, but she was determined to save them; whoever or whatever it is.

Katara raised the club and stated striking the wall. As she hit the sounds it made echoed in the carven, shaking the icicles above.

"Katara stop!" Sokka shouted adding to sounds, but Katara kept hitting the ice.

Sokka ran to stop her as the icicles above them started to fall. Katara hit the ice a fifth time and finally created a hole. Suddenly, a gust of wind shot out.

The force of the air managed to knock both Katara and Sokka down, oddly blowing all the icicles away and even the dead body was tossed away.

Katara and Sokka looked back at the wall and saw it staring to crack and to even add to their amazement the wall started to glow a bright white and blue light and then suddenly the light shined even brighter and the cavern wall exploded and a beam of light was shot into the sky.

The beam of light started sending blue vibrations that formed, extended and faded at the same time, almost like a beacon.

Meanwhile in an unknown location, in a dark candlelit room, four blacked cloaked figures stood in front of a black chest, their have been many before them who have watched over the chest, waiting for the day, waiting for the time they and those before them have.

Suddenly the chest started to shake and small beams of red light started to escape through the cracks, then a red and black glow started shining out the open door of the room and a scream echoed through the halls.

What kind of scream? Was it of fear, pain, sorrow, it was hard to tell but for the moment the four figures could not care they mainly focused on the chest.

One of them walked to the chest and opened it, once then a beam of red light shot out from it and the figure pulled the source and content out.

A single mask, dark in color with jagged red lines around the face, besides the lines it was uttlerly featureless with the exceptions of two eyeholes.

All four knew what this means, at long last the moment they have waited and prepared for, for a hundred years has come.

Across all the four nations, at every temple it was the same but with both glows appearing on sacred paintings, artifacts, and statues, in every sacred places from the abandoned air temples to the Fire Temple of Crescent Island all showed the same two glows.

One of the fire sages ran out of the room to turn to his fellow sage.

"Send word to the Fire Lord immediately! The Avatars have returned!"

At this moment a lone Fire Nation cruiser sails across the waters of the South Pole, on the decks stands a witness to the beam of light stretching towards the sky. This was a sign for him, a sign that he had waited for a long time.

For this was Zuko, better know to most as Prince Zuko or to those who would dare say it in his presence, the banished prince. Ever since his banishment by his farther the fire lord, and act that has been shown by the burned mark on the side of his face, Zuko's mission in life is to regain his honor and today he has found the way.

"Finally," he said, his voice filled with determination, "Uncle, can you believe this?"

"No I can't." Zuko turned to see his Uncle's eyes still on the game he was playing with his bodyguard.

"This is the fourth time I have won, I thought you played Pai Sho before?" said Uncle Iroh, once the most famous general of the Fire Nation.

Sitting across from the table a girl wrapped in warm clothing, only showing her hands and face. She had two strands of long black hair on each side of her shoulder while the rest was wrapped up and two tiny bobs was seen on the sides of her head, this Zuko's bodyguard Mai.

Mai took a sip of her tear and stared blankly at Iroh, "The game gets boring after a while," she said plainly and taking another sip.

"No!" shouted Zuko, "Look!" Both Mai and Iroh looked to where Zuko was pointing at the light, "Well at least there something to look at instead of all this ice," Mai replied as she took another sip.

"This means my search is nearing to its end," Zuko said his eyes still on the pillar of light until it started die down.

"That light came from a very powerful source, it must be one of them!"

"Here we go again," Mai sighed.

"Prince Zuko, we have been down this road before," Iroh stated, "It could have been one of the celestial lights. Now why don't you sit down with us and have a cup of delicious Jasmine Tea."

"I DON'T NEED ANY TEA!" shouted Zuko and bust of flame appeared briefly from his hands, "I need to capture the Avatar, both Avatars!"

As Zuko ordered his men to follow the location of the light, Iroh looked to where the light once shined and wondered if this really was a sign.

"How much you want to bet this is going to be another wild Pigeon Goose chase?" Mai asked, taking another sip.

As the light started to die down, Katara and Sokka opened their eyes to a shock. The Ice cavern was nearly gone. What once been there was a ceiling filled with icicles now instead they are back out in the open and the dead end was now a crater-like ice form where the light once shout out from and now only the glow remains.

Before either of them could figure out what had happened, a sound from in front made them turn to it.

Climbing out of the crater was a lone figure, its eyes and head glowing in the same light, Sokka raised his spear and shielded Katara incase the figure attacked, then at last the remains of the light stopped and the figurers true form was shown.

Katara immediately recognized it was the boy in the ice she saw. When the light faded from him, the boy started to fall and despite her brother trying to stop her, Katara managed to catch him form hitting the solid icy ground.

Katara gently laid him against what was left of the ice wall to get a better look at him, Katara placed her head on his chest and was surprise to hear a heartbeat as she went to look at his face she heard a groan coming from him.

Shock, surprise, panic, terror, those where the feelings he last felt before he entered a cold and calming sleep. He remembered the rain and he remembered the waves as it slammed against them. Now he felt very cold but thanks to his training he managed to not let it bother him, he started to open his eyes for what seemed like a long time ago and what he saw was a figure clouded in black shadow-like substance with jagged rocks sprouting form its side and the face was hard and a mix of red and black markings but what he noticed more was the red eyes on it. Red eyes filled with hate and the urge to kill him.

He let out a quick scream and jumped only for him to hit his head on something cold and hard.

"Are you okay?"

As he rubbed his head, the boy opened his eyes again but instead to the scary thing now he saw two people in water tribe get up. The girl looked at him with concern ' and pretty eyes' while the one beside her held a spear and looked at him with caution.

"I think so?" The boy looked around his new surroundings. Judging from those two and the ice all around them, it seems they are either in the North or South Pole.

Then he remembered the scary thing, "Uh, have you guys seen anything strange around here?"

"What you mean besides you?"

"Sokka!"

"Katara, don't tell me we are just going to ignore the fact that we were in an ice cavern and when you hit the wall and all that air just blew it all away and then he came out unfrozen-WHY ARE YOU NOT FORZEN?"

Before an answer could be said, another groan was heard this time nearly loud and over the remains of the wall, the boy looked changed from confused to realization and then to joy as he quickly climbed up the ice and over the crater and laughed.

"Appa! How you doing buddy?" The boy's voice echoed from the crater causing Katara and Sokka to look confused and so letting curiosity getting the better of them they walked around the ice and found an entrance and what they saw both surprised and shock them.

They saw the boy hugging the top of the head of a large, horned, six-legged animal.

"What the heck is that thing!" Sokka shouted his spear at the ready.

The boy smiled down, "Don't worry he's not going to hurt you, this is Appa, my flying Bison."

Sokka raised an eyebrow, "Your what?"

Then another groan was heard, "Oh, what's making this one now?" Sokka said getting wanting another surprise.

The sound came from the saddle that was on Appa's back, the boy turned to see someone standing up while holding his head.

"Kuzon!" he said happily while the other looked less then that.

"I. Am. FREEZZING!"

The person who the boy called Kuzon seems to Katara, slightly the same age if a little older then Sokka with a small sign of a mustache growing on his upper lip, he had short black hair and his clothing seems to be a mash up of clothing from different parts of the four nations, like someone stitched up bits of pieces of clothing they could find to make a new shirt or pants and his physical appearance seemed plain not a lot of muscles but not skinny almost somewhere in between.

"Where are we anyway?" Kuzon whined as he tried to warm himself up.

"Well I think we could be either in the North or South Pole but I really don't kn-"

"WHAT!" Kuzon grabbed the boy in dismay.

"Tell me you're joking! Please, please tell me you are joking," But finally getting a good look at their surroundings Kuzon knew it was true, he grabbed his own head and fell on his back moaning and shivering.

"I can't believe it, no wonder why it's so cold!"

"Hey!" The two looked down from Appa, "I'm not done talking to you!" Sokka shouted while Katara rolled her eyes at him.

"Sorry," The boy said then to the two bellows amazement, the boy jumped off from Appa and slowly and gently landed on his feet safely to the ground.

"So what are we talking about again?" The boy said curiously.

"How did you-you just," Sokka could not put what he just saw into words but Katara figured it out.

"You must be an Airbender."

"Really, an Airbender," Kuzon said sarcastically as he started climbing down from Appa while still shaking from the cold, "I couldn't tell and all this time I thought he was from the Earth Kingdom."

"Don't mind him, he gets cranky when he gets upset," said the Airbender.

"So does my brother," Katara said, "My name is Katara, you've already met Sokka."

"Hey," Sokka said putting his spear up non-threating but kept his eyes on the two strangers.

"Nice to meet you both, my names Aang and this is my best friends, well other then Appa, Kuzon."

"Yeah, yeah nice to meet you both and now if you don't mind we are leaving now," Kuzon grabbed Aang's hand and started walking back to the Bison.

"We are?" Aang said, "But we just got here."

"Yeah and I'm freezing my butt off here."

"Were are you going?" Sokka said with suspicion.

"Somewhere where I can get something warm to wear or drink or anything that is not going to get me sick and die," Kuzon said bluntly.

"We can take you to our village," Katara offered causing Sokka to drop his spear, "We have lost of warm cloths to wear."

Aang smiled, "Really? We would-" But Kuzon quickly covered Aang's mouth and Sokka grabbed Katara's shoulders.

"Could you excuse us for minute?" Sokka and Kuzon said simultaneously, causing them both to look at each other suspiciously before moving an earshot away from each other while taking their respective companion.

"Katara are you crazy?" Sokka hissed

"Aang are you crazy?" Kuzon hissed.

"I don't see what the problem is, Sokka," Katara said.

"They are just being nice, Kuzon," Aang said.

"The problem? The problem is that these guys are strange, Katara and besides what if they are Fire Nation spies?" Sokka said.

"Aang, one of them has a spear and ready to use it also didn't the monks tell you not to talk to strangers?" Kuzon said.

"Sokka, they don't look like spies to me," she said not convinced of her brother's suspicion.

"But the Monks taught me that if someone offers you something nice it would be rude not to take them up on their offer," Aang said.

"Spies never do, Katara that's why their spies!" Sokka said quietly.

"Yeah but do they say the same when one of them looks like they could throw a spear at your face!" Kuzon said quietly.

"Besides they could help us out," Katara said.

"With what?" Sokka asked.

"Well without our canoe we can't get back to the village and they might offer us a lift home," Katara added, unless you have any bright ideas on how to get home without transportation."

"Come on, Kuzon they are offering you something warm for you to wear," Aang said.

"Yeah well I can find something warm at the Earth Kingdom as soon as we leave," Kuzon said.

"Please, Kuzon," Aang bagged as he gave Kuzon his sad Polar Bear Puppy Cub Dog eyes, "This the first time I actually met anyone from the Water Tribes or been to them, please we don't have to stay long."

Both Sokka and Kuzon slapped their faces in defeat knowing full well that they have lost this battle.

They both turned and walked to each other. "Okay if you guys can give us a lift to our village then I guess we can give you some warm cloths or something," Sokka grumbled.

"Thanks and we will both be happy to see your village for a little while before we go," Kuzon grumbled as well.

"Okay so lets all get on Appa, he'll fly us there," smiled Aang.

"Thanks we'll be happy to," Katara said walking next to Aang.

"Right, 'flying' there," Sokka said air quoting, at that moment Appa took a sharp breath suddenly.

"What's wrong, buddy?" Aang said concerned. Appa raised his head slightly as his nose was shaking.

"Oh boy," Kuzon said moving away from the Bison just as Appa let out a powerful sneeze.

Aang, Kuzon, and Katara dodged the snout that rocketed from Appa.

Sokka…not so much luck.

"EWWW! YUCK!" Sokka shouted as he tried wiping his entire snout covered body by his hand or from some snow.

"Sorry about that," Aang apologized on behalf of Appa, "But don't worry it will wash off."

"Yeah but just so you know the smell tends to linger a bit," Kuzon chuckled.

After a lot of snout removal, Sokka and Katara both sat on the saddle along with Kuzon sitting at the head of the saddle while Aang sat on Appa's head as he held on to the reins that are tied to his horns.

"Okay everyone ready?" Aang asked his passengers, Katara showed she was excited to see this while Sokka looked bored, "Aang, just get on with it I'll be blue before we take off!" Kuzon exclaimed.

"Okay, first time flyers hang on tight!" Aang smiled as he shook the reins, "Appa, yip yip!

Appa responded by letting a small noise and as he raised his tail he jumped into the air.

And belly flopped in the water and started swimming.

"Wow, we're flying," Sokka said sarcastically, "I'm so amazed."

"Hey what's wrong with the Furball, why aren't we flying?" Kuzon complained.

"Oh, Appa's just tired," Aang said as he looked at Katara, "Once he's ready we'll be soring threw the sky."

Katara chuckled a bit at the thought and she was about turn when she noticed Aang smiling at her.

"Eh, why are you smiling at me like that?" Aang blushed a bit at that, "Oh I was um well I-"

"Oh it's nothing," Kuzon grinned, "He's just never seen a girl before."

"Kuzon I have seen girls before!" Aang shouted.

"Oh no you haven't you always thought they where make believe and that babies where brought in by Stoke Turkeys," Kuzon chuckled.

"I do not!" Aang's face was all red with embarrassment as Katara chuckled, "From the way you two act, you sound like brothers."

"Nope," Aang's face return to his regular color, "But we've have been friends for a long time and he is like the brother I never had."

"Yeah and Aang's the little brother I always wanted," Kuzon leaned to whisper to Katara, "My real brother is a nightmare, but I'm guessing you can understand that." Kuzon pointed at Sokka, nearly causing Katara to laugh at that.

Sokka frowned, hearing the conversation. He was about to say something when he saw a medium sized bag and it seemed to filled, he was about to check when Kuzon quickly took it away from.

"Hey hands off the stuff, Pony tail," Kuzon snapped.

"What you got in there anyway?" Sokka asked feeling paranoid.

"Noun of your business," Kuzon said.

"It's just some of his junk," Aang answered causing Kuzon to glare at him, it looked he was about to say something but he sighed in defeat.

"Just where is this village of yours anyway?" Kuzon asked Katara.

"Well if Appa keeps going straight will be there in no time."

"Well if this overgrown full ball was flying we would be there now," Kuzon groaned.

"Oh please, like this thing can really fly," Sokka said.

Then Appa raised his tail and slammed it down hard, causing a lot of water to fall on Sokka and Kuzon.

"I think Appa heard you," Aang laughed as a fish was flopping on Kuzon's head while Sokka was trying to get out of a pile of fish that stacked on him.

"Well at least we got enough food for the village," Katara laughed as Appa continued on.

"Again."

Zuko thrust both arms out, unleashing a torrent of flames from both fists upon two of his Fire Nation Soldiers only for them to dodged them and one on Zuko's left send a quick burst of flame at the prince, Zuko ducked and jumped as the other one fired at him but with his quick agility the fire missed Zuko and he responded by swinging his right arm, releasing a wave of fire at the two only for them to dodge the attack.

Zuko stood ready for the next attack when his uncle intervened in the training.

"No, remember, Prince Zuko the power of Firebending comes from the breath and not the muscles," Iroh stands from his sitting stool to demonstrate.

"The breath becomes the energy for the body and then extends past your limbs and becomes fire!" Iroh released a short bust of fire from his fist, nearly reaching Zuko. As the flame died it brought up a short memory to Zuko, which he quickly ignored and frustrated him more.

"Enough of this," he sneered, "I have been drilling this sequence as well as the others I have already done. I am ready to begin the next set, teach me."

"No, you are not ready yet," Iroh spoke, "You are impatient and have yet to complete all of the basics. Now drill it again!"

Enraged Zuko turned to his men and did a strong kick and releasing a powerful burst of fire from it that managed to knock down one of them. Zuko ignored them and return his attention to Iroh.

"The sages tell us that the Light Avatar is the last Airbender, he must be at least a hundred years old and has more then enough time to master all four elements. I'll need more then the basics of Firebending to capture him and much more when I come across the Dark Avatar. You will teach me the advance set, NOW!'

Iroh gave his nephew and student a hard stare, with Zuko returning it with his own filled with fury and impatience.

"Very well." Iroh he sat back down on his stool, his gaze still on Zuko, "But on one condition."

Steamed started coming from Zuko's clenched fists, "What?"

Iroh smiled "I want you to try and win a training battle against our dear Mai."

"WHAT!" Zuko shouted.

"Hmm?" Mai answered looking away from the side of the ship to them.

"Uncle you have to be joking," Zuko argued, "What does this have to do with the Avatars?"

"If you can prove to me that you can defeat Mai with what you have learned now, then I will teach you the advance set," Iroh explained. "But if you can't then you will keep practicing until you complete your training."

"I don't suppose I get a say in this?" Mai asked her tone still bored as her expression.

"Not unless you like being bored all day," Iroh said as he pulled out his bowl of roast duck. Mai thought for a moment then shrugged her shoulders and walked to face Zuko. Zuko did not understand what his Uncle was trying to achieve with this but if it means he will learn the advance methods then so be it.

Zuko stood in his battle ready position while Mai just stands. "Begin," Iroh started, and Zuko strike first with a fire blast from his fist at her, but Mai quickly dodged and unleashed from the holster on her wrist, four arrow-like stilettos and threw them at Zuko. Quickly Zuko dodged them with one barely scratching his left cheek, then just as he was about to attack again his eyes met Mai's. While he was distracted from the smaller projectiles, Mai ran up towards him and as he stares into his bodyguards face he could feel her knife gently pressing on his neck.

"Being an Airbender, the Light Avatar can move just as fast, if not faster then Mai can," Iroh said before he ate another roast duck. "As I said, more practice."

Zuko glared at Mai and she smirked a little at him. She pulled her knife back in her outfit and walked past the defeated prince.

"Where are you going, we are not done yet!" Zuko shouted, wanting to try again.

"I'm thirsty," Mai answered as she entered the ship, "Will do it later."

Zuko looked away from her and checked his neck if she left a cut on it, while Iroh gave him a sly expression.

"You know she could make an excellent bride for you."

"Uncle!"

"Everyone I think we're here!" Aang altered everyone as they neared Katara and Sokka's village, as Appa got out of the water, the two told them that they should tell the village about them first before they enter. After waiting for a minute, Katara motioned them to enter.

As they entered, Kuzon and Aang noticed that the whole village was small, even for a small village. It had an almost poorly made wall made out of snow, they had eight tents and one large igloo and a short watchtower, also made out of snow.

Katara presented Aang and Kuzon to the village. With not countering her and Sokka, numbered 19 residence, 9 women, 10 children, and one old pet wolf.

"Aang and Kuzon, this is the entire village," Katara said, "Entire village, these are Aang and Kuzon."

Everyone just stared at them, Kuzon leaned to Aang's ear, "This is a village?"

"Kuzon, be nice," Aang whispered. Aange bowed to the villagers as a sign of hospitality, but the village continued to look at them with a mixture of surprise, worry, and confusion.

"Why is everyone looking at us like that?" Aang asked, he looked at Kuzon, "Do you have a fish sticking out of your pants, Kuzon."

Kuzon raised his eyebrow at him, "Aang, I would know if there was a fish in my pants."

"It's just no one has seen an Airbender in ages," said an elder woman, stepping out of the short crowd.

"In fact before my Granddaughter and Grandson brought you here, we thought all Airbenders where extinct over a hundred years ago."

"Extinct?" Aang looked surprised and worried at hearing that, but Kuzon rolled his eyes.

"Extinct, right," Kuzon said then he whispered to Aang again, "I don't think these people get out much."

"Guys, this is my Grandmother Kanna," said Katara.

Aang bowed to the elder woman, "A pleaser to meet you, mam."

"You can call me Gran Gran."

While this was going on Sokka sat near his tent, sharping his spears as he watched the newcomers carefully. Despite Katara,he still didn't trust them. What could he be hiding in that bag Sokka thought, and that so called Airbend-wait what is that he's holding?

Sokka stood up and walked towards Aang, eyeing the stick-like object in his hand, "What is this thing a weapon?"

Kuzon grabbed it from Sokka, "Yes, we use this to wacke nosey nobodies on the head, why don't I demonstrate." But Aang quickly took it from him before he could do anything.

"Actually this is my Airbending staff," Aang explained, "I use this for Airbending."

Aang tapped it on the ground gently and in an instant, four fan-like wings appeared on the sides of the staff, two large ones on the upper parts of the staff and two small ones near the end. The villagers 'but more so the children' where amazed at the sight.

"This allows me to control the air currents around it and lets me fly."

"But perhaps a little demonstration is in order," Kuzon nodded to Aang, the young Airbender smiled as he grabbed a hold of the two leading spars of the lift wings and couched down slightly and gave a big jump in the air.

Everyone watched in awe as Aang started gliding above their heads in the air, he did multiple tricks such as doing circles above them and then doing twirling upwards and downwards. Aang smiled at how the children where amazed at Aang's gliding, he himself smiled when he saw Katara watching him with amazement too, he enjoyed it so much that he forgot to look where he was going…and then he hit the watchtower.

Luckily, since it was made of snow, it did not hurt and Aang was only stuck head first in it and his staff stuck with him.

"I got him," Kuzon said to everyone, he walked up to Aang and shook his head, "This is what you get when you don't look where you're gliding." Kuzon grabbed Aang's legs and pulled and managed to get him out, but not without breaking parts of the tower and covering both of them in snow.

"My watchtower!" Sokka cried while Katara ran to them in concern.

"Are you two alright?" Aang shook off some snow off his head as Kuzon popped his head from the snow and glared at him.

"How is it that something like this happens to me every time I help you?"

Aang shugged, as he bushed the snow off him unitl Katara pulled him up. "That was amazing," she said, while Sokka checked his tower for any more sign of damage. He got his answer when another piece of it dropped on him and Kuzon.

Sokka finally managed to poked his head out from the snow, "Great, my Sister is a Waterbender and you can Airbend."

As Sokka managed to pull himself out of the snow just as Kuzon poked his head out from the snow again, "So what can you do?" Sokka asked.

" At the moment freezing," Kuzon said, "Which reminds me…CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE GET ME SOMETHING WRAM TO WHERE!"

As few of the villagers helped Kuzon up, Aang turned to Katara, "You're a Waterbender? That's so cool I never met a Waterbender before!"

Katara smiled at the praise, "Well not yet actually. But I'm learning."

"Alright, playtime is over," Gran Gran said, "Katara it's time to do your chores."

"See you later," Aang waved to Katara as she walked with her Gran Gran.

"See, Gran Gran, I told you he's a real Airbender," Katara said, "You know I remember hearing that Airbenders have a few knowledge of other benders, maybe even Waterbending, I can-"

"Katara," Gran Gran turned to Katara, "I don't think you should put too much of your hope into this one boy."

"But there is something special about him, Gran Gran I can feel it," Katara explained, "I don't know how but I can sense this deep wisdom from him."

"DANG IT AANG!"

Katara turned seeing Kuzon, now wearing one of their fur coats and trying to pull Aang's frozen tongue off his own staff.

"Why did you do this?"

"I gust whantad to sshow tham that it can shtick to myh tounge," Aang managed to say.

Through out the day, Aang has been having fun with the children and their laughter echoed in the village. Hearing the laughter gave brighten a few of the adults, it had been a long time since their children had anything to laugh about. Some would see this as a day to relax. Well unless you're Sokka.

"Now remember men, you must show no fear when you are up against a Firebender, for in the Water Tribe, we are fierce warriors and we fight till the last man standing."

"What are you doing?" Sokka turned to Kuzon, "Do you mind, I'm trying to train the next warriors of our village here!"

Kuzon looked at the next generation of warriors. Six little kids barley tall enough to reach his knee.

"You're playing games with them?" Kuzon asked.

"No, I'm training them to be warriors like me," Sokka boasted. Kuzon blinked and looked at him.

"You're a warrior?" Kuzon then looked at the whole village and let out a short whistle, "Well this explains a whole lot." Sokka was about to argue with him but one of the trannies raised a little hand.

"I gotta pee!"

"Seriously!" Sokka shouted, "I told you to go before we started!"

"I did, but I gotta go again," the boy wiggled, Sokka groaned, "Fine, anybody else?"

All the boys raised their hands and left while Sokka grabbed his face in frustration.

"Well I can see the village is in safe hands."

Before Sokka could get the chance to strangle Kuzon, Katara walked up to them, "Kuzon have you seen Aang? Gran Gran said he disappeared an hour ago."

Then more sounds of laughter where heard around Sokka's traning camp, which was just near the watchtower. They looked around it to see Aang and the kids sliding off on Appa's tail and over a bar holding Sokka's spear and landing in a pile of snow.

"My guess probably with the other 'warriors' and kids," Kuzon grinned and Katara laughed at the fun while Sokka was not having it.

"STOP! Stop this right now!" Sokka shouted causing the kids to move their fun away from him while Aang flouted down from Appa.

"What is wrong with you, we can't play stupid games with the war going on!"

"War?" Aang asked puzzled, "What war?"

Katara and Sokka looked at him in surprise, "You're kidding right?" asked Sokka.

Kuzon stood next to Aang, "Actually I got some question about-oh nuts."

The reason Kuzon said that last phrase was because of what he saw and what Aang saw as well.

"PENGUIN!"

Not to far off of the village stood a single Otter Penguin, the animal knew it had been spotted and quickly left the area.

"Aang don't you even-" but Kuzon was to late, thanks to Airbending Aang ran fast after the animal and disappeared into the distance.

"You know I knew this was going to happen, I just knew it," Kuzon complained.

"You're names Katara right?" Katara nodded, "Could you do me a big favor and make sure he doesn't get eaten by anything."

"Does that happen a lot?" Katara asked with a hint of worry in her voice.

"He's an animal lover," Kuzon said, "So, sometimes there have been close calls."

"And what are you going to do?" Sokka asked, glancing at Kuzon's bag.

Kuzon spotted it and grabbed it, "I'm going to make sure me and Aang have enough supplies to head off, when he gets back will be going." Kuzon then climbed up on Appa.

"Well at least there's one good thing today," Sokka said while Katara was already heading to the direction that Aang ran to.

After following some tracks, Katara finally found Aang among the huddle of Otter Penguins. She saw Aang moving like them and making noises like them, watching this silly act made her laugh, "Aang what are you doing?"

Aang stooped what he was doing as he tried and failed to catch one of the animals.

"I'm trying to get these guys to sled with me but no luck, and I'm suppose to be good with animals,"Aang said, "Have you ever tried Penguin sledding?"

"Yes, when I was little," Katara said thinking back to that old memory.

"Great!" Aang exclaimed, "Then you can help me catch a Penguin and we can sled together."

Katara nodded, "Okay but only if you tell me everything you know about Waterbending."

"Uh, that's going to be a problem," Aang said, "I'm an Airbender and I don't really know much about bending water. Isn't there anyone in your village that can teach, maybe your Gran Gran?"

Katara sighed, "No, I'm afraid you're looking at the only Waterbender in the entire South Pole."

Aang was surprised at that. Shouldn't there be Waterbenders in the South Pole? What happened? But looking at Katara's expression he could tell it's best to ask that question another time.

"Well what about the North Pole?" Aang suggested, "Maybe someone there can teach you."

"It's a nice idea, Aang, but our sister tribe has shut itself out from us and the rest of the world for a long time, I doubt they would send someone here and besides its at the other side of the world, not like I can just walk there," Katara said.

"Well good thing you've meet me then," Aang smiled, "We can take you to there and with Appa flying us there we'll be in the North Pole in no time and you'll find a Waterbending teacher."

"You'll do that?" Katara couldn't believe this finally she'll be able to be genuine Waterbender. But then she remembered the promise she and Sokka made to their farther.

"But-I mean I never left home before and I promised my dad to help Sokka protect the village," Katara felt conflicted, if she left she could finally be a real Waterbender but she didn't want to break her promise either.

Aang could feel the conflict that Katara was feeling and decided to change the subject.

"Well don't worry about it for now," Aang said, "In the mean time, can you please teach me how to catch a Penguin?"

Katara pushed her thoughts back and smiled at Aang, "Okay, it is a very simple thing to do. The art of acquiring a Penguin is an ancient and traditional method, observe, young pupil."

Katara pulled from her coat pocket a small fish and tossed it to Aang, as soon as he caught the fish all the Otter Penguins started surrounding him. He laughed as all the Otter Penguins started covering him hopping to get the fish.

And soon enough both Aang and Katara, each with an Otter Penguin slide down the ice, due to the tasty fish the animals did not mind the two ridding on their backs as they slid down the icy mountain.

Aang laughed at the fun he was having along with Katara, this was the first time he had ever did Penguin sledding and was happy that he had this moment to share it with, while Katara who once forgotten how much fun this was, started reliving those childhood moments again, all thanks to this boy she found in an Iceberg.

After a couple of fast sliding through more hills and in an ice cave the Penguins grew tired and stopped causing their riders to fall off and in the snow, despite that Aang and Katara continued to laugh.

"That was so much fun!" Katara shouted, "I hadn't had this much fun since I was a kid."

"But, Katara you are a kid," The two laughed again till they finally stopped and stared at the clouds passing by.

"Aang," Katara asked softly.

"Yeah?" Aang looked at Katara, her face still looking up.

"Thank you."

"For what?" Katara turned to Aang and gave him a warm smile.

"For the fun."

Aang felt his cheek blush when he looked at her eyes, they almost to him seemed to sparkle, "You're welcome."

"Aang can I ask you something?" Katara asked not notching the blush on Aang.

"What?"

"Well, I was just wondering, since you're an Airbender, do you know what happened to the Avatar?"

Aang finally snapped out of his daze as soon as she asked that question, "Uh, the Avatar? Which one?"

"The Light Avatar," said Katara, "I know he was suppose to be an Airbender but no one has seen him, do you know what happened?"

Aang stood up, looking nervous, "Well uh, I didn't knew him. That is I knew people who did-I mean-wow what's that?"

Katara stood up as soon as she saw what Aang was looking at, they were near the ocean on the ice and in between them was a form of ice holding/entrapping a Fire Navy ship.

"It's a bad memory for my people," Katara said, remembering a dark time in her life involving a ship like that, but she stopped thinking about it when she noticed Aang walking towards a hole on the side of the ship.

"Aang, what are you doing? We're not suppose to go near that thing," Katara warned, "It could have booby traps."

Aang turned to Katara, "The first thing the Monks taught me about being a bender is that you have to let go of fear, and besides I never been inside of a ship before."

Hearing this, Katara took a deep breath and kept thinking to be brave, after all if Aang is not showing fear then why should she?

As they entered the ship, they are meet with a feeling of cold, not in the traditional sense but more of a presence. They past multiple rooms in the ship, each showing snow that was let in and the multiple items left behind by the ships previous owners such as weapons and armor.

They where just about near the command deck when Aang stopped, "So how did it end up like this?"

"I don't know, Gran Gran never likes to bring it up," Katara said, "All I know is that she was around my age when it happened, it was part of the Fire Nations many attacks."

As Aang listened, he remembered Sokka mention a war, "Katara how long has this war been going on?"

Katara looked at him, surprisingly, "The War has been going for a hundred years."

"A hundred years? Okay back up," Aang tried to put to words with this new info.

"That can't be right, I have friends nearly all over the world and I even been to the Fire Nation before and I have never even heard of a war and Kuzon would have know too since he's from there."

"Wait, Kuzon is a Firebender?" Katara said in shock.

"No he can't firebend," Aang said, "He's been traveling all over the world and he would have known about this war."

Katara decided to ignore this new info about Kuzon for second and focused on Aang's confusion about the war.

"Aang how long did you think you where in that Iceberg?"

"I don't know…a week?"

The pieces started fitting together in Katara's mind, "Aang I think it was more like a Hundred years."

Aang's eyes widened in shock, "What?"

"It makes sense," Katara explained, "The war has been over a century old and the reason you've never heard about it is because it didn't happened yet."

All of this was a lot for the poor Airbender to take, as he tired to process this new information he didn't see that as he took a step back, he entered the command deck and his foot touched a trip wire.

As soon as Katara ran in to catch him, a gate fell from the doorway and sounds of metal started coming from the walls.

"What's happening?" Katara looked around the room seeing pipes shaking.

"I think I found one of those booby traps you've mentioned," Aang said, ignoring for now the realization of being frozen for a Hundred Years.

Soon the vibrating stopped and a new sound was heard, a sound of something being shoot. The sound came from a hole on top of the deck. Aang and Katara looked up through the hole and saw a flare was fired.

A signal flare.

"What do you think that means, Katara?" Aang asked.

"I don't know," Katara said with worry in her voice.

"Well we better head back," Aang then grabbed Katara and carried her bridal style, "Hold on tight," he said quickly as he jumped threw the hole and out of the ship and using his agility he jumped carefully holding onto Katara as he landed and jumped again from ship to ice and then finally on the ground and the two quickly headed for the village.

Unaware that they have already been seen.

"At last, I found you Airbender," Zuko said though the ships spy scope.

"So I guess we're done training then?" Mai said checking her knifes and her holsters.

Zuko turned to one of the crewmembers, "Tell my Uncle I found the Light Avatar!" Then he looked back at the spy scope and looked at the direction the Airbender was going.

"And tell him I've found his hiding place."

Kuzon stared up at the flare as if it starts to burn out.

"So is that how you talk to other tribes because I've been told it was smoke sig-HEY!" When Kuzon turned he was meet with the sharp end of Sokka's spear. "Watch where you're pointing that thing!"

"I knew it, that flare came from a Fire Nation navy ship," Sokka kept his weapon near Kuzon's neck, "You're trying to signal a navy ship!"

Kuzon raised his hands, "Now why would I do that?"

"Oh I don't know maybe its because you're a spy!" Sokka said.

"I'm not a spy!" Kuzon stated, then Aang and Katara arrived just as the rest of the villagers gathered.

"What's going on?" Aang asked.

"Good, Aang tell them I did not have anything to do with that thing in the sky," Kuzon said.

"He's right."

"Right!" Kuzon smiled, knowing Aang would defend him and not make things worse.

"It was my fault."

"There see it was-what?"

"I took Katara to explore that old navy ship," Aang explained, "She warned me about bobby traps and well, I kinda boobyed right into it."

"Aang, I needed that like I need a spear at my neck!" Kuzon snapped, "And I already got one thanks to this clown."

"Just as I thought." With his free hand Sokka picked up Kuzon's bag off the ground, " I bet you Fire Nation spies have a lot of weapons in here or more to signal the Fire nation!"

Kuzon growled in frustration, "Read my lips! We. Are. Not. Spies! And why would the Fire Nation need spies? Its not like there is a war going on?"

"Actually, Kuzon," Kuzon turned to Aang, the young Airbender was rubbing the back of his neck.

"Really? Since when?" Kuzon asked.

"A hundred years."

Kuzon raised and eyebrow, "Aang, you know I was born in the Fire Nation and I would know of a hundred year war."

"Ah ha!" Sokka stated, "So you admit you-"

"Will you shut up!" Kuzon yelled at Sokka, the shout causing him to drop his spear but he held onto the bag.

Kuzon turned back to Aang, "Now you were saying?"

"Well it seems we where frozen for over a hundred years," Aang finished. Kuzon looked at Aang, he knew Aang long enough to tell if he was joking or not. Short answer he was not.

Kuzon looked at Katara who nodded, then Kuzon thought back to all that has happened since waking up. Airebenders extinct, no men in the tribe in sight except for Sokka, and him training those kids, and everyone looking at them suspiciously…

"A hundred years?" Kuzon said softly, "A hundred years….A HUNDRED YEARS!"

Kuzon fell to his knees as he covered his face and groan, "I knew something bad was going to happen to me one day but I never expected this to happen. A Hundred Years, why oh why oh why."

Sokka ignored him and went to check the bag for any signs of Firenation gear, but when he opened the bag he only found- "Junk?" he said pulling out an old looking stick.

"It's not junk!" Kuzon said immediately back to his old self as he grabbed the stick and his bag from Sokka.

"This is high quality goods," Kuzon stated, "And this is a special fishing rod carved from the oak of a mighty tree that is said to have grown in the driest deserts."

"Why would a Firebender need all that?" Sokka said, causing Kuzon to roll his eyes in annoyance.

"First off I am not a bender, I am a salesmen." That caused everyone except Aang to give a surprised expression.

"He's a salesmen?" Katara asked Aang. He nodded and whispered to her, "Yeah but he's not that very good at it."

"Well spies or not, because of you two, our village is in danger!" Sokka stated, "The Foreigners are banished from our village!"

"Oh no," Kuzon plead sarcastically, "Not that, please not that. We love this village soooo much. Come on Aang lets get out of this dump." Kuzon grabbed Aang's arm and they walked to Appa.

"No!" Katara pleaded, "You can't do that!"

"Katara, your knew about going to that ship," Gran Gran said, "Sokka's right, it is best that they go."

Katara glared at her family, "Fine then!" She turned around and followed Aang and Kuzon.

"Katara where are you going?" Sokka said.

"I'm going with them," She stated, "They are taking me to the North Pole to find a Waterbending Master to teach me."

Kuzon turned sharply at her, "Wait we are? Since when?" Then he looked at Aang, Aang smiled weakly at Kuzon's glare.

"Katara, you can't do that!" Sokka said, "What about our promise to Dad?"

Katara stopped. In front of her is her chance to finally be what she always wanted to be and behind, her family. If she stays, her dream dies and if she goes she might never see them again and also break her promise.

This was not fair, and Aang could see it in her eyes.

"Katara," Aang walked up to her, "Stay, the last thing that I want is to come between family. Thank you for Penguin sledding with me and I'm sorry I couldn't keep my promise."

"A promise that you shouldn't have made in the first place!" Kuzon said, already on Appa's back, "Now lets go!"

Aang waved at Katara and jumped onto Appa's head, "Where will you go?" Katara asked.

Kuzon said, not giving Aang the chance to say, "Where we go and what we do is noun of your business but our own, and Aang don't you utter a Yip, these guys don't deserve to see a flying Bison."

Aang looked sadly at Katara before telling Appa to go. The Air Bison stood up and walked away from the village, Katara watched them leave until they where out of sight, she could hear the villagers leaving and carrying their crying children who already are starting to miss Aang. Katara could already tell that Sokka and Gran Gran where walking up to her.

"Katara where you really serious about going with them?" Katara silence said everything to him, "I can't believe that you were going to chose them over your tribe your own family?"

"We've made a promise, Katara, to protect our village and-"

"OPEN YOUR EYES, SOKKA!"

Sokka took a step back after Katara shouted, her angry eyes with tears threatened to fall from her.

"Aang gave us something that we had not had for a long time. Laughter, joy, fun."

Sokka stood his ground, "Fun is not going to help us with the war, Katara, it's up to us to-"

"Sokka, just get a gook look at our village just look at it!," Katara pointed, "Our village is less then what it used to be, many of the other tribes have either moved to the center of the South Pole or gone to the Earth Kingdom for safety."

"Our people are the only ones staying and all we have to protect us is you!"

"At least I'm willing to stay," Sokka argued, "You would rather leave us so you could learn more stupid bending tricks!"

"That is enough, both of you!" Gran Gran stood between them before the two could say anything that they could never take back. Katara walked back to village but not before saying one thing.

"By leaving to master Waterbending I would be more useful to my village and maybe the rest of the world. Don't tell me you wouldn't want to help fight in the war too."

As Katara left, Sokka was going to say something back. But he couldn't, he knew deep down that Katara was right. He did want to do more then protect the village, he wanted to help in the war.

Gran Gran knew this as well.

Sokka shook his head and ran to the village, "Everyone ready our defenses! The Fire Nation could be hear at any moment and I do not want to hear another word about potty breaks!"

"Okay lets see, here maybe we should go-no wait I'm not allowed to set foot in that town anymore," When they left the village Appa took a rest by some Icebergs and while they wait for him to finally take off, Kuzon looked over his map for their next destination, "Then again since we've been frozen for a hundred years they probably forgotten all about me."

Kuzon shivered less from the cold and more on the accepting on what had just happened to them, "Don't think I'll ever get use to that notion."

"And you know I think they might be exaggerating over the whole Airbenders extinct thing. What do you think Aang?"

Kuzon noticed that Aang still hasn't been his usually cheery self. He just sits on Appa's back looking at the water, gloomy.

"Aang?" Kuzon sat next to him, "Let me guess, thinking about that Water Tribe girl huh?"

Aang nodded and Appa let out a low growl, "Yeah, I liked her too."

Kuzon rolled his eyes, "Oh boy, don't worry about her or that village they'll be fine, now if you excuse me," Kuzon pulled the fishing rod out of his bag and climbed off of Appa, "I'm going to catch food, apparently I forgot to pack that."

"Kuzon, I'm a vegetarian," Aang said.

"And I told you fish aren't meat," Kuzon replied, "There-uh-uh well I think about what they are when I catch them."

As soon as Kuzon was out of sight, Aang happened to catch something in the distance in the water and to his shock it was a Fire Navy ship just like the one he and Katara found in the ice, and from the way it was going it seemed to be heading towards the village.

This was his fault, Aang knew that and he also knew what he had to do.

"Appa, wait here and what ever you do don't tell Kuzon!"

Aang jumped off of Appa and headed back to the village and just five minutes after he left, Kuzon came back…with a broken fishing rod.

"Ok looks like we won't be having fish and I don't want you to-" Kuzon stopped as he noticed Aang was no longer there.

"Aang?" Kuzon looked around Appa and the area, till finally he saw the navy ship and realization hit him.

"Oh no, he wouldn't. What am I saying of course he would," he groaned "Appa, if I find Aang before those guys do, I'm going to kill him!" he said headed back to the village, while Appa continued to rest.

An uneasy silence crept over the village, the people waiting in fear for the coming arrival of the Fire Nation. Many hoped that their ships where long gone from here, many hope it wont be like the many times they came here in the past, as they hope, one is ready for them.

Sokka stepped out of his hut, wearing traditional warrior clothing and his face covered in war paint he walked head high and eyes forward to the top of the wall and stood watch. If they are coming he will be ready.

As Sokka stood a fog rolled in covering everything and showing only a bit of the light from the sun as if near to twilight, so far nothing.

Then a sound echoed, it was the sound of ice breaking.

The wall started to crack like the ice outside the village, the ground shook, as the women quickly gathered the children, Sokka pulled out his club ready for anything, and as Katara came out of her hut to check if anyone was hurt, her eyes widened along with Sokka of the large black object coming out of the fog and straight towards them.

"Sokka get out of the way!" Katara screamed, but Sokka was frozen still at the sight of the approaching ship.

Suddenly multiple memories came to Sokka, the first time he saw a Fire Nation solider, the first time he was trained by his farther, the first time he saw his farther kill a solider, his mother's burned body, and what Katara said to him not to long ago. Then he heard Katara again to move and instantly following that action Sokka jumped off the wall just as the ship rammed into it.

As Sokka picked himself up he noticed the ship stopped, the front of it completely destroyed his watchtower. The villagers all stood behind Katara as they observed the ship, then steamed came out of the front and opened up like someone laying down a sword. Sokka held tight to his club as six figures started coming out of the ship.

The first to come out was Zuko wearing similar armor like the eight soldier's who followed behind him, and behind them was Mai in her coat, she paused a moment to look at the village.

"They call this a village?" Mai said with boredom and followed the rest.

Letting out a battle cry, Sokka charged to attack but before he could have the chance to strike as he neared Zuko, the prince kicked the weapon out of Sokka's hands and with the same leg kicked him into the snow on the side and continued down the ramp.

The villagers huddled together as Zuko stepped forward, the eight soldiers standing a few feet behind him except for Mai who stood on his left side.

Zuko watched them, he eyed their expressions and each of them all showed a mix of fear and a hint of hate in their eyes, the children held on tight to their mother's legs watching him.

"Listen up, all of you," Zuko said as he walked to Katara and Gran Gran. "I'm looking for someone."

Then Zuko grabbed onto Gran Gran and pulled her to him but only holding onto her hood, "The man I am looking for would be about this age."

"Let go of her!" Zuko turned seeing Sokka his war paint gone from his face and his club back in his hand running towards him, as Sokka jumped to strike his foe Zuko let go of the woman and ducked instantly causing Sokka to jump over him.

The miss attack caused Sokka to drop his club, but acting quickly he tossed his boomerang but Zuko ducked and he retaliated by sending a blast of fire at Sokka.

"Show no fear!" shouted one of the children, who tossed a spear to Sokka. He charged at Zuko but suddenly Mai stepped in between them with two sharp knives in both hands and managed to cut the spear in two with one hand and pointed it other and Sokka's neck making him stop.

Katara covered her mouth in fear and Sokka eyed the dagger at his neck and then Mai moved and knocked him over with her a swift swipe of her leg, he was about to get up, only for Mai to toss her knife in between his legs carefully missing any vital areas.

"If I where you I stay down," Mai said walking back to Zuko's side, and ducked just as the Boomerang came back and hit him on the back of the head.

"Be glad you're wearing a helmet," Mai said, but Zuko was not frilled, he let out a wave of fire from his hand making the villagers moved back in fear.

"I will say this once," he hissed, "I know you're hiding him, bring him to me or I will make all of you suffer! Starting with him."

Zuko glared at Sokka as flames came out of both hands. But suddenly a quick blur came and knocked Zuko off his feet, he got up quickly and to see Aang coming off of an Otter Penguin and standing between him and the villagers.

"Hi Katara, Hi Sokka," Aang smiled. Sokka simply waved at him, surprised that he came to help. Aang looked back just as Zuko stood up and the solider started surrounding him, while Mai watched curiously.

Aang raised his staff defensively and quickly he used his staff along with Airbending to push the snow up and knock all the soldiers down except Zuko who melted the snow off with his heat.

"I hear you're looking for me," Aang said to Zuko. The prince observed the interloper, his cloths, the way he moved the snow and the tattoos, it was impossible and yet…

"You?" Zuko questioned, "You're the Light Avatar?"

"Did not see that coming," Mai cleaning her knife and barley watching the scene.

"No way," Sokka said, it was hard to believe that he was an Airbender and first but the Light Avatar too?

Katara shared her brother's shock, "Aang?"

Aang ignored them for a moment and raised his staff as he and Zuko circled each other, waiting for one of them to make the first move.

"Who would have thought?" Zuko started, "My farther, my grandfather, and my great grandfather. All searched for you and failed, but now I found you, all my training has prepared me for this moment."

"I'm almost disappointed that you turned out to be a child."

Aang raised an eyebrow, "So? Your just a teenager."

Aang was caught by surprise as Zuko attacked first by sending out flames from one fist at a time, Aang reacted by whirling his staff to take out the flames but Zuko kept it up. The continued attack caused Aang to move back, it wasn't until a stronger bust of flames that Aang noticed that everyone was close behind him and ducked from the flames.

Once again he was putting them in danger, Aang knew he had to end this.

"Stop!" Aang planted his staff on the ground causing Zuko to pause his attack.

"If I go with you, you must promise to leave these people and their village alone."

There was a still-ness in the area, Zuko stared at Aang, seeing any signs of a trick or making a plan, but there was noun. Zuko got out of his battle stance and agreed to it. Aang allowed two of the soldiers to take him to the ship with one holding his staff.

"Finally, this trip is over," Mai said as she picked up her other knife, ignoring Sokka and returning to the ship.

"No, Aang don't do this!" Katara cried but her Gran Gran held her back.

"Don't worry I'll be fine,"Aang said looking back, "See you guys later." As Aang finally entered the ship he watched sadly as the ramp started closing up and the last thing he saw outside was the tears ready to fall from Katara's eyes.

As it finally closed the ship moved back and vanished back into the fog and out of sight.

"UNCLE!"

Iroh yawned as he exited from his cabin, "What is it, Prince Zuko? I was having a lovely nap."

Iroh looked to see his nephew, Mai and two soldiers holding onto the shoulders of a boy.

"I found him, Uncle," Zuko said, "I found the Light Avatar."

Iroh looked and Aang smiled and waved at him, Iroh returned the gesture and looked back at Zuko.

"Are you sure?" he asked, "This looks more like a child then a hundred year old Avatar."

"That's what I thought," Mai stated.

"We saw him Airbend, Uncle," Zuko said, "That action proves he is the Light Avatar."

Iroh rubbed his beard in thought and looked at Aang again, observing his outfit and the tattoos on his head and hands.

"Perhaps he is an Airbender," Iroh stated, "But we need to make certain that he is the Light Avatar? Thankfully I have a test for such an occasion."

"Uncle we don't have time for this!" Zuko growled.

"Now Prince Zuko," Iroh said calmly, "It doesn't hurt to make certain and besides it won't take long, now everyone in my cabin. Now where did I put those things?"

The Village was silent as the people repaired what they could with what they had, and all returned to the familiar feeling of sadness, but this time it was for Aang who they exiled from their village and who gave himself up for there sake.

The feeling they felt was of guilt, and Sokka knew that more then anyone. Aang was able to handle himself against the soldiers, he could barley handle one of them and the other beat him at knifepoint and as a warrior he felt ashamed.

He spotted Katara looking out in the direction where the Navy ship left, it was out of sight now but she kept looking, it was similar to when they watched their farther left.

Finally the silence was interrupted by the sounds of heavy breathing, Sokka and Katara turned, seeing Kuzon running towards them. The two meet up with him making Kuzon stop as he took deep breaths no doubt from running a long way.

"Where. Is. Aang?" Kuzon said, taking a breath with each word.

The sad looks where all the answers Kuzon needed, "They took him didn't they?" Kuzon groaned and grabbed his face.

"He gave himself up to save our village," Katara explained, "I'm so sorry, Kuzon."

Kuzon groaned, "Helping people out, once just once I wish he was a little selfish like me!" Kuzon sighed, "Which way did the ship go?"

"You're going after them?" Sokka said surprised.

"Yeah and when I save Aang I'm going to kill him for putting me through this," Kuzon grumbled he was about to leave when Katara grabbed his shoulder.

"We're coming with you."

"Oh no," Kuzon said, "I think you guys did enough already."

"Please let us help you," Katara begged, "We know he's the Light Avatar."

Kuzon's eyes widen "What how did you-wait he told you?"

"It doesn't matter," Katara continued, "What does is letting us help you rescue him. We owe it to him."

Sokka then stood between them, "Wait, Katara I-"

"Sokka how can you still think he's not on our side!" Katara interrupted, "I know you don't like him but the world needs him and-"

"I was going to say the canoe is going to a tight fit if the three of us are going."

Sokka pointed to a canoe by a small river leading to the ocean, "Now are you going to talk or are you guys going to come with me?"

Katara smiled and hugged Sokka while Kuzon looked skeptical at this, he was about to speak when Gran Gran walked to them.

"Where do you think you're going?" All three looked at the old woman holding a rolled up sack, "You'll need these for the long journey ahead."

Katara and Sokka where confused by this.

"It has been a long time since I felt hope, and thanks to you my little waterbender, you brought it back," Gran Gran hugged Katara and then hugged Sokka "And you, every day I see a bit of your farther in you. On your journey I want you keep protecting your sister and be nice to her as well."

Sokka ended the hug gave a concerned expression, "But we promised to protect-"

"I know and you've both done very well," Gran Gran said, "But now the time has come to move on. I will take everyone to the center of the pole where the other remaining villagers are, it is a safe route."

Aang is the Avatar of Light, he is the worlds only chance now, you both found him for a reason and now your destines are intertwined with his."

"Excuse me," Kuzon said, "I hate to interrupt this warm family moment but this thing is not going to catch up with a warship."

Then growl echoed and out from over the ice, Appa appeared coming towards them. "AH HA! Just the thing we need!" Kuzon said running to Appa, "Come on then if your coming!"

"So you're lettings us come then?" Sokka asked.

Kuzon sighed "I hate to admit it but I think I need all the help I can get, now come on!"

Katara and Sokka gave one last hug to their Gran Gran and followed Kuzon up on Appa.

"Ok Appa, Fly!" Kuzon shouted, but Appa didn't move an inch. "ARE YOU SERIOUSE?"

"Will you hurry up already?" Sokka said, "If we don't hurry we might lose them."

"Well we would be going now if this overgrown fur ball would just fly already!" Kuzon shook the reins but Appa did not move.

"Come on Appa, Aang needs your help," Katara pleaded, "Come on don't you want to save Aang?"

"I know Aang says something to make him fly, but what was it?" Kuzon thought hard on the word. He knew Aang used it a lot but what was it.

"Maybe it's yee ha?" Sokka guessed, "Woohoo? yip yip?"

Finally Appa started running towards the water, everyone on board held on tight as Appa neared the edge and what was thought to be diving in was instead Appa taking a short jump and flying up in the sky.

"Finally!" Kuzon shouted as the villagers below watched in amazement at the Flying Bison.

"You did it Sokka!" Katara cheered.

"He's flying!" Sokka shouted amazed, "He's flying, guys he's-" Sokka looked at Katara and Kuzon's smugged face.

"What so he's flying big deal," Sokka said calmly but still felt amazed by what was happening.

Gran Gran watched as her Grandchildren flew off to rescue to hope of the world, with tears in her eyes.

"Good luck."

"Across the four nations there have been many test to determine the identity of the Light Avatar and this has been the most used by the Fire Nation. These three have been used many times and always has been a success and it is with these we will be sure."

"Uncle," Zuko nearly ready to lose it, "Those are just a rock, a candle, and a cup of water."

It was true. In Iroh's hands he carried a tray holding a lite candle, an old cup filled with water, and a hand sized rock. Iroh placed the tray in front of Aang his hands still tied up and sitting on one of his stools with two soldiers watching him carefully.

"Patience, Prince Zuko and observe," Iroh stated as he watched the objects carefully.

Soon all eyes even Aang, Mai and even Zuko watched the objects and then something started to happen. The flame on the candle started rising upward almost as if it tired to reach Aang, then the water in the cup started to make ripples flowing in Aang's direction and finally the rock started shaking until it lift it self up and leaned towards Aang.

All object pointed to Aang, the test was complete. Iroh stood up and bowed to Aang, "It is an honor to be in your presence, Young Avatar."

"Uh, thanks?" Aang replied to his current situation.

"Take him to the prison hold," Zuko ordered the guards as they took Aang out the room, but before he left Aang noticed Zuko ordering one of the guards to take his staff to Zuko's quarters. Now all Aang has to do is get ready for a quick escape he just had to wait for the right moment.

Finally Aang was taken to the lower decks as the two guards led him down the halls, if there was anytime to make his move it would be now, Aang thought to himself.

"So you guys never dealt with an Airbender before right?" Aang asked, "I don't want to brag or nothing but I think I can take you both out."

"Silence," said one of the guards, with the helmets covering their faces Aang could not tell which one said it.

"It would be easy too," Aang continued, "With my hands tied behind my back. Which they are." They ignored him as the one in front of him stopped, meaning they reached the cell.

Aang watched him pull a key out then he took a deep breath and just as the guard put the key in Aang released the air from his mouth and added with Airbending he pushed the guard in front of him to the door knocking him out and pushing the guard behind him back with him until they hit the stairs.

Thanks to the now knocked out guard cushioned hit, Aang leaped up the stairs to the upper deck and after opening the upper level door with an airbending kick he entered in to find his staff.

He had to look fast, it was only a matter of time before one of those guards come to and alert everyone that he out, but first things first, Aang had to find his staff, then get his arms free, escape and reunite with Appa and Kuzon and get as far away from these guys as possible.

This would be easy, he said to himself, but as he ran around the corner, Aang found himself facing Mai. The two looked at each other for a moment.

"You haven't seen my staff have you?" Aang asked, her response was pulling out her knifes, "Guess not!" Acting quickly, Aang ran loops around past her and straight on with Mai in hot pursuit.

Aang looked back seeing his pursuer not far behind him, in fact he was surprised at how fast she was running. She could almost run as fast as an Airbender. Well almost as fast. It wasn't unit Aang reached a ladder where a knife hit the wall nearly cutting his cheek.

"Careful someone could get hurt with those!" But it was for nothing as Mai launched another one at him, prepared for this Aang flipped, allowing the thrown knife to cut the ropes off him and just as Mai launched four knifes, Aang pushed his now free arms straight towards her, thus launching a burst of air pushing her and knifes far until they hit the wall allowing Aang to head up the ladder.

Mai would follow him but when she hit the wall all four of her thrown knifes pinned her to the wall with two holding her arms and the other two holding her legs, thankfully the knifes did not pierced her skin just her cloths.

"Well this is just great."

Mai then saw four guards coming towards her, "What are you staring at? Get me down and go after the Avatar, he's escaped!"

Aang looked in every door carefully just in case there was guard or anymore nasty surprises it wasn't until he passed an open door he finally found his staff.

"My staff!" Without even looking inside, Aang ran inside and was about to grab his staff the door closed and right behind him stood Zuko.

"I figured you would come for that." Aang turned around just as Zuko made the first strike. Zuko thrust his left arm letting out a burst of fire but Aang quickly dodged it only for Zuko to do it again with the other arm. Each time he let out more fire, Aang dodged each one but he could not dodge forever it was only time until Zuko finally hits him.

So when Zuko unleashed another attack, Aang ducked and quickly grabbed his staff and swiped at him unleashing a wave of air that knocked Zuko to the wall allowing Aang to open the door and escape.

But after all this time of searching for him, Zuko was not going to give up easy.

To get as far away from them as he could, Aang needed a high place to glide from, so he managed to get to the bridge of the ship, he ran out the open door before the helmsmen could do anything, then Aang released the wings of his glider and started to glide away.

He was ready to flee but Zuko caught up with him and managed to grab ahold of Aang's leg and thus prevented him from going any further out. Aang tried to shake him off but the prince held on tight and his weight dragged them down and the wind caused them both to fall onto the ship.

Both of them got up at the same time and stood in a battle stance, Zuko ready to finish this, while Aang was running out of options. He worried until he heard a familiar roar behind him.

Aang smiled seeing Appa flying towards them. "Appa!"

Ignoring the flying creature for the moment Zuko launched as much fire as he could at Aang. Caught by surprise Aang dropped his staff on the deck and dodged the attack but fire kept on coming until he reached the sides of the ship and when Zuko fired one more time, Aang tried using Airbending to push it aside but it was to late and he was knocked off the ship and into the cold water bellow.

"AANG!" shouted Kuzon witnessing the horrible scene along with Sokka and Katara,

"NO!" Katara screamed.

Tired and exhausted from his escape and defending himself and added the coldness of the water, Aang was about to slip into darkness and yet as he was about to loose consciousness he could somehow hear Katara's voice.

"Aang!"

"AANG!"

And the next thing he saw was a light.

Zuko was about to jump into the water and calm his victory but when he looked down he saw a familiar glow in the water and then erupting from the water a twister made of water was seen raising up on the side of the ship and on top of this wonder is Aang with both eyes and tattoo glowing a blue white light.

Everyone on ship or Appa was stun at the sight of this as well as what was coming next.

Aang started circling his arms and water from the middle of the water twister and launched them at the large glaciers at the right side of the ship, instantly causing an avalanche that stopped the ship instantly and if that was not enough, Aang landed back on the ship and using the water from the twister he knocked Zuko down to the ground and froze his body except for his head.

"Wow," Kuzon said, "I mean I know he's the Avatar but I did not know he could do that."

"Now that's what I call Waterbending," Sokka said and Katara for once agreed with him on that. Appa managed to land on the ship just as the glow faded from Aang and he fainted to the ground. Katara ran to him first, she checked his pulse and was relieved that Aang's still alive.

"Good now lets get him on and get out of here!" Kuzon exclaimed, Sokka ran to get Aang's staff and before he joined the others he couldn't help himself as he walked to the frozen prince and poked him on the head with the staff.

"Ha! That is what you get for messing with the Water Tribe!'

Zuko growled and the ice started to slowly melt. Seeing this Sokka quickly ran back to Appa but stopped as three guards came out with weapons ready.

Katara saw the water on the floor left behind from Aang's attack and decided to try her luck. Using what she knows she started bending the water around her causing the guards to stop. Katara ready to freeze then with the water, Katara launched her attack but sadly instead of freezing them she managed to freeze Sokka's feet behind her.

"Katara!" Sokka cried, the guards started to charge at them and quickly Katara tried it again, this time she successfully froze them at the spot except one who went straight for Sokka.

"Sokka, look out!" despite his sister's warning Sokka was trying to get himself out when the guard was ready to-

"Hi-yah!"

Sokka was dumfounded when Kuzon ran to the guard and gave him a swift kick to his back and knocking him towards the now freed Zuko and brining them both down.

"How did you do that?" Sokka asked as Kuzon took his boomerang and started breaking the ice on Sokka's feet. "I thought you where a salesman?"

"What can I say, I get a lot of bad customers," Kuzon said, finally he freed him and the two quickly ran when Zuko started getting back up.

"HURRY APPA! YIP YIP ALREADY!" Kuzon shouted and as soon as they where all on Appa, the flying Bison took off, Zuko fired a fireball at them.

Zuko watched them fly away until they where out of sight.

"What happened here?" Iroh said coming out to observe the scene and with Mai behind him. Mai walked up to Zuko and at the direction he was looking.

"Well, at least we know that the Fire Nation's greatest threat is a kid."

"That kid just did all this," Zuko pointed to their icy predicament, "Make no mistake, I won't underestimate him again."

Iroh rubbed his beard, "You know on the positive side we are all still alive. I doubt we will get the same luxury if we inevitable cross paths with the Dark Avatar."

Zuko did not care now. He was so close to his goal and the next time he will make sure that it is permanent.

"Hmm," Aang opened his eyes, seeing Katara, Sokka, and Kuzon looking down at him.

"Hey guys," Aang smiled as he slowly sat up.

"You alright buddy?" Kuzon asked.

"Yes."

"You sure?"

"Yep."

"Good"

Then Kuzon wacked the back of Aang's head, "OW!"

"Never do that again!" Kuzon shouted as Aang rubbed the sore on the back of his head he looked at Katara and Sokka, "Thank you guys for coming to rescue me."

"Well like Katara said, we owe you one," Sokka smiled.

"That was amazing Waterbending you did Aang," Katara said, "How did you do that?"

"I don't know," Aang said trying to remember what happened, "I just did it I guess."

There was a silence for a moment until Katara asked the important question that Aang wished to avoid.

"Why didn't you tell us you where the Light Avatar?"

Aang looked away from them, almost ashamed, "Because I never wanted to be."

"So you knew about it?" Sokka asked Kuzon.

"Of course I knew about it," he replied, "Just wasn't my secret to tell."

"But Aang the world has been waiting for the return of the Light Avatar," Katara said, "Hoping that you will end the war."

"Wait a second we don't want any part of this war," Kuzon stated.

"Not like you have a choice," Sokka said, "The Fire Nation is looking for him and they are never going to stop."

"But how am I going to end this war?" Aang asked.

"Well isn't the Avatar suppose know all four elements?" Katara said.

"Yes," Aang said, trying to guess what Katara is heading.

"Well then all we have to do is go to the North Pole and find a Waterbending master to teach you and-"

"Hold it what is this we? You two aren't coming with us." Kuzon interrupted.

"Look I'm grateful that you two helped me save Aang but now that he's safe we can part as unlikely acquaintances."

"But we can be useful," Katara said.

"Really?" Kuzon questioned, "Because I fail to see what a poor excuse for a Waterbender and a poor excuse for a warrior is going to be useful to us."

"Hey!" Sokka shouted.

"Come on, Kuzon let them come with us," Aang pleaded, "If it wasn't for them we would still be frozen for the next hundred years or more."

Aang was right about that but Kuzon was not convinced and he made the mistake of looking at Aang as he once again gave him the dreaded Polar puppy cub eyes again.

Kuzon groaned and rubbed his face with both hands, "Fine you two can come with us. But so help me if you two give us more trouble then your worth then you two can just walk to the North Pole."

"Great!" Katara smiled, "And Sokka, you will get the chance to fight some more Fire Nation soldiers along the way."

Sokka grined, "I would like that a lot."

"Good then we are all in this together."

"Okay, but before we go there we have to do something very important," Aang said pulling out a map from Kuzon's bag.

"What?" Katara asked as she and Sokka looked at the map of the four nations.

Aang pointed at each part of the map, "Well here we are going to ride the hopping Lamas, and here we'll surf on the backs of giant koi fish, Oh and here…"

As Aang continued the two siblings stared at him oddly and then looked at Kuzon who gave the two a sly grin.

"Welcome to my world."

Neither all four of them know it but this was the beginning of an adventure that they would remember for the rest of their lives.

"As you can see Great Ones, she has escaped."

The fully armored solider in black bowed before the four cloaked figures observed a giant hole in the wall, revealing the outside and a forest, "I will send our best to bring her back and-"

"There will be no need."

The armored man, his mask featureless looked at them as they all turned to face him and all four of their faces where covered by a mask each one baring a symbol of the four nations.

"Her training is complete," The one who spoke before, the one wearing the masked symbol of the Earth Kingdom said with a voice of a calm man.

"She know goes to face her destiny," said the one wearing the masked symbol of the Water Tribes with the voice of an elderly woman.

"Now we wait for her to call upon us if she ever has need of us," said the one wearing the masked symbol of the Air Nomads with the voice a young woman, perhaps mid 20s.

"Now clean up this hole and do not bother us again," said the one wearing the masked symbol of the Fire Nation, his voice an old man with great authority in it.

"As you wish, oh great Dark Monks," The solider left them as the Dark Monks turned to look out the hole again. They watched knowing she is out there, knowing that the light is out there, knowing that sooner or latter the two would meet and the world will once again bare witness to what had not come for Hundreds of Years.

The War of the Avatars will soon start again.

Author's Note: Well that was a long one! Well I hope you all like this so far, it is a story that I always hoped to do ever since the idea came to me from Book 2 of Legends of Korra.

Now you are all probably wondering where the inspiration of this story got more popular in my mind, well it started from a fan bored, we did a what if game and I asked what if there where two Avatars one good and one bad.

The people who did my challenge came up with wonderful ideas which I incorporated into my story, I think one of them is on this site and if they are I will give them a big thanks for inspiring this story.

I hope that I will do justice to the characters on this story and I will gladly accept help and ideas from fans of both Last airbender and Legends of Korra for future parts of this story.

Now of course the next chapter will be when the gang head to the Southern Air Temple.