Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar, the Last Airbender, or any of its characters, except for the kids I made up. I own them, for sure.

Skya: You're not doing a very good job at owning us, I'm hungry.

Til: Yeah, and I have a really bad head ache!

Me: Whatever. You guys eat too much anyway.

Chapter 2: Dragons

Skya stretched out, looking at the anxious Katara. "Are you really sure you want to meet her?"

"Yeah...is there something wrong?" Katara furrowed her eye brows and waited.

Skya sighed. "Nothing is wrong with her..." she began, putting the sentences together in her head. "She's just...different..."

Katara smiled. "Well...then I really would like to meet her. Where is she?"

Skya sighed slightly again and started walking. "Follow me," she called to Katara over her shoulder.

The walked for about 5 minutes, going in the direction of the near river until they came to a large boulder over looking the water.

Katara furrowed her eye brows and looked at Skya, who's face was washed with worry.

"She's behind that boulder," Skya said nervously, her ears flattening. "I'd go with you...but...I'm sorta...in a fight with her currently. She'll be glad to see you," Skya began. Before she left Katara she muttered out an "I hope."

Katara, though scared, was determined. Maybe this girl was a master bender, maybe...maybe she could help Aang, and help her...

No! No! No! Katara shook the selfish thought from her head. How could she? No, she wouldn't ask. No matter how much she wanted to learn more about Water Bending, Aang needed to learn it more. Nervously she walked to the boulder.

She peered over the edge, biting her lower lip, hoping that the girl wouldn't mind her company. When she saw nothing she moved over the edge closer, her feet touching the waves, until she saw a figure...

Katara moved into full view on the white sand, seeing what she had been expecting and even stranger.

Instead of cat ears and tails, this girl seemed more like a reptile, with pointed, hair-less, and jagged ears that went well abover her head. Katara could not see a tail, or pointed teeth, but the ears had scared her enough. The girl's hair matched the color of her ears, a shimmering white color. The girl peered at her, innocently, expecting the worse...

"Hi," Katara said. "I'm Katara. Your sister told me you were a Water Bender."

The girl furrowed her eye brows and looked at Katara. "Skya?"

Katara nodded.

"OK...Yeah...I am a Water Bender...Oh!" The girl got up and smiled, scratching the back of her head. "Sorry, I didn't notice your clothes. You must be of the southern Water Tribe, right?"

Katara was tranced. Behind the girl, something was out reaching, 2 white and scaled wings, spaning a full 4 feet from tip to tip as they stretched further from the girl. "Yeah...yes...I am..."

"Well then, it's nice to meet you. My name is Mika--" She stopped and turned to face her wings. Instantly they retracted and flattened down to her back. "My name is Mika," she said again, holding out her hand.

Katara smiled faintly and took the Mika's hand. "It's nice to meet you too," she said weakly, still weary of the wings.

"What brings you to Tenkay?" Mika asked quikly, disregarding Katara's stare and trying to flatten her wings more against her back.

"I'm with my friend, Aang. He's the Avatar. We're planning to go to the North Pole, to get a Water Bending teacher for him. He still hasn't mastered any of the other elements..."

Mika's ears flattened against her head. "Really?"

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Yeah, that's got to be the corniest cliff hanger every, and I'm sorry. But I need reviews! Review PEOPLE!