It had all started out as such a normal day you know, I was sitting with my friends in the living room during a huge thunderstorm that had just struck our town. There was Tina, Kyle, Josh, and of course me, Alex.

We were also bored out of our minds. There was nothing on TV and the storm made it dangerous to operate any electronic devices.

Tina sighed and looked up at the large TV that hung from the wall. "Should we see if there's anything on?"

I looked up from what I was writing (that's what I do, I'm a writer) and shook my head, "We really shouldn't…"

Kylegroaned, "oh come on, like there's anything better to do, go on, turn it on."

Tinaturned the knob on the TV. The screen came to life, and to my utter surprise I saw that what was playing was none other than a commercial that proclaimed, Coming up next: Avatar.

Tina, a huge fanatic just like me, squealed in delight. Josh, who actually knew what it was, rolled his eyes and started to absently strum his guitar again.

Kylehowever, had no idea what Avatar was. "What's on next?" he asked.

No one ever got a chance to answer him, for just as the opening scenes came into view I looked up and saw a large drop of water slowly make its way towards the television.

Just a moment too late I shouted out, "Watch out!"

But I was much too late.

The water hit the device and electric shocks made their way through the room.

That was the last we would see of each other for awhile.


Sixteenyear old Alex opened her eyes to gaze at her surroundings. She was lying on the ground in a sprawled position. As she sat up something about her surroundings seemed all to familiar. No, not familiar at least, but comforting.

She rubbed her head and stopped. Slowly, she pulled a strand of hair from her face into her eyesight. She discovered her normally dark red hair had turned pitch black.

It took her awhile, but suddenly, realization became all too real. In horror she crawled to the small stream close to where she had fallen and looked down at her reflection.

Her hair was indeed black. But that was not the only thing that had changed. Her brown eyes had turned a startling shade of amber, and her face was completely clear and free of blemishes.

Her clothing had also changed. She was wearing a dark red tank top with a low scooped neck. Her black pants ended with a pair of high black boots that ended near her knees.

Her hair was wavy and hung around her shoulders. She stared at herself in the water before she willed herself to stand up.

"Ok, this can not be happening," she told herself over and over, "There is no possible way I'm in the Avatar world."

She looked in one direction, "You know what, I bet that if I walk in that direction, I'll find a nice, quite town where everything makes sense and proves that I am in some weird world other than what I think I'm in."

Hours later Alex was running through the trees in a panicked state. It was pouring rain and she was soaked through. She had been running for what seemed like an eternity and still she had yet to spot someone.

She collapsed against a tree trunk, breathing heavily from the pain of running for so long. She had now given up all hope of finding anyone.

Leaning her back against the tree she forced herself to admit that she was in this world, and tried to think of where the others were.

She assumed she was in the fire nation, but where the others were she had no idea. She pondered about why she was here when it hit her. She had been born in a month where the ruling element was fire. That meant…

She gasped and hit her head against the tree with a groan. Of all the rotten luck. If she was right that meant that Tina and Josh were in the Earth Kingdom, and Kyle was in the water tribe. One of them at least.

But the awful thing was, if she was still correct that meant that the only person who was near the avatar and could somehow convince him to find them, well, he didn't even know what this place was! As far as she knew Kyle had no clue whatsoever where he was or what was happening.

A twig snapped in the distance and Alex tensed, opening her eyes to see a tall boy of seventeen looking down at her questionably.

"Are you all right?" he asked, coming closer. She could see he was fire nation, confirming her suspicions of where she was.

She shook her head, "No not really, unless it's natural to be soaking wet in the middle of nowhere." She laughed to herself.

He laughed also and helped her to her feet, why don't you come with me? I'm sure my parents won't mind."

Alex was too wet and too exhausted to argue. After all, was she really going to start judging people this early?