The Misfit World
By Fluff in the Clouds
Notice: Although this is third person, bits of it may become partly one of the character's POV, as it shows their feelings. I don't know exactly how most of the pairings are going to end up, but I know for sure its Aang x Katara, as that's just about my favorite pairing ever!
Aang's Dream:
A teenaged fire-bender boy is sitting with his back against a wall in an air temple. He's wearing a bandanna, black shorts, and a cape. A few feet away from him is a teenaged air-bender girl is writing some kind of spell on the floor in a pink liquid. She's wearing a yellow and orange dress and has hair down to about her mid-back. A young water-bender boy, no older then 10, is sleeping curled up in the corner. The pink liquid starts to glow, and the water-bender wakes up. Someone walks into the room, and the girl pulls the other 2 up into the air. It turned out to be one of the monks, and he says "Aang, we have to talk to you." Aang is being pulled by his arm out of the temple, and he looks back to see his friends have landed and are looking at him sadly. The water-tribe boy starts to cry.
Aang wakes up from his nightmare and gasps for breath. He hadn't dreamed about the misfits before now, and it made him want to cry. When the other air-bender boys had stopped playing with him because of the avatar thing, Meimei had found him and befriended him. She was the girl from the dream, and her and the other misfits had to hide because they really didn't fit in. Girls where never at the boy's temples, and the other 2 are from other nations. On top of that, all of them had a side power. Like him and the avatar thing. He had known all of them for 3 months, but he had only learned Fang, the fire-bender's power near the end. All of their powers had seemed so wonderful at first, but now he could see what horrible things they did to his friends. Before he could think any deeper on this, Katara comes over to where he was sleeping, having heard him cry out in his sleep. "Aang, are you OK?" She whispers, so that Sokka wouldn't wake up. She was very close to him, and Aang felt the blood come to his face and his heart beat a bit faster. "I'm fine, I just had a dream about the mis- some of my old friends" He said sadly, not wanting to talk about the misfits right now. Katara gave him a quick hug, and then whispered "I'm here if you need me.", Then walks back over to where she was sleeping. Aang sighed happily; shocked that his heart didn't give out when she hugged him. He liked Katara more and more all the time. It was only fitting she would be the one to cheer him up this time as well.
Far away, in the middle of a forest near the southern air temple, a pink inscription on a polished marble slab starts to glow. A bubble of the pink liquid Meimei was using in Aang's dream comes up through the ground; inside of it are the misfits, all seeming to be about a year or so older then they where in Aang's dream about the day of the storm. The bubble bursts, and the benders inside gasp for breath. The fire-bender says a long string of swears under his breath then looks over at Meimei. "I am NEVER cough cough going in one of those bubbles AGAIN! cough cough" He says, gasping for breath. "I know, Fang, I cough know." She responded, gasping a little bit less. The water tribe boy is having a coughing fit next to them, and Meimei brings him some water from a near-by stream. "Here you go Kiko" She says to him as he drinks the water. "Thank you" He says, hoarsely. Fang, who finally has his normal breathing pattern back, says "We didn't just spend 100 years in a tiny concealed in a tiny part of the spirit world so that we could sit here, lets go find Aang." Meimei smiled at him, and he felt himself blush.
While Aang ate an apple for breakfast, Katara and Sokka ate a large fish that Sokka actually caught! Katara looks worriedly at Aang, knowing that he was still thinking about something deep. She assumed it was the dream, but she was wrong. Aang was right at the moment thinking through all of his memories with Katara, trying to find any proof that she truly liked him. The best thing he had was the kiss after he gave her back her necklace. He had almost died of happiness that day! "Aang, you said you dreamed about your old friends last night. Who are they?" Katara asked him cautiously. Aang is snapped out of his thoughts by Katara's voice, and shifts uncomfortably. He knew they where nearly defiantly dead, he didn't need to keep the secret, but it still didn't exactly calm him down to discuss it. "Well, after the other boys stopped playing with me, an air-bender girl who had snuck in with her friends was really nice to me, and we became a little group of friends. We all had… Unusual powers. Mei could channel spirits." Aang said, feeling sad again. "Who's Mei?" Sokka asked. "The air-bender who was nice to me. She was 14 the last time I saw her. The others where boys, Fang the fire-bender and Kiko of the water tribes. Kiko's powers where to see into the future, and I don't want to talk about Fang's powers. It's really sad." Aang says, thinking about the oldest misfit. Fang read peoples minds, and because he can't control it, he almost always gets the bad thoughts. The worries, the fears, the horrors. The stuff on the top of people's minds. And it had really changed him. He had been quiet, sad, and bitter. Mei was the only one who could snap him out of it for even a few minutes. Katara saw the pain in Aang's eyes, and gave him another hug. Aang was truly scared his heart would stop beating, it was going so fast. Katara let go, to Aang's disappointment, and looked at him with concern in her eyes. "I always forget the kind of pain you must go through everyday." She says quietly.
OK, Fluff here, That's the end of the first chapter. What do you think? I know, its not very good, but please don't kill me! Because I didn't say it at the top, I don't own Avatar. Oh, and by the way, my name came from my obsession with Aang and Katara's coupling, its really fluffy, so my friend nick-named me fluff, and I'm an Air Bender, So I'm Fluff in the Clouds!