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"Aang are you sure about this as we really need to find you an earthbending teacher" Katara asked.

"Yeah as Bumi told me that I need to find someone that wait and listens" Aang told her.

"What about that guy we ran into sometime back as he was amazing earthbender" Sokka suggested.

"What you do not mean that Yu guy do you? He seem more interested in listen to the sound of coins in his pocket then any else" Aang replied.

"Recall how he offend to bump Aang up to the next belt by simply paying for a whole year in advance" Katara stated

"However can you really find someone that fit strict requirement in time though. You have to find two more teachers soon and if we are have trouble with a earthbending teacher then ummm…well you know" Katara said suddenly remembering how firebending was sore spot for Aang.

"I am not that worried as we find them eventually as your are the Avatar so maybe you will just draw your next teacher to you. That how you got Katara after all the world kind of directed her to you" Sokka said.

"What do you me the world directed me to Aang? Last time I checked it was your brilliant steering that got into the rip current in the first place" his sister said.

"My steering you were in the canoe as well and it was your fault too" Sokka replied back.

Once again Katara began yell angrily over her brother's inconsiderate behavior, gesturing emphatically as did so. However just like the first time they had this argument she involuntarily use her water bending…again. Only this time rather then manage to free Aang from a iceberg he trapped himself in while involuntarily entering the avatar state. He was washed away by sudden wave that Katara had summoned as the three of them were taking a break by river.

Her involuntarily waterbending and the speed of the current with was far fast then they could have guess from just looking at it. As a result Aang was washed downriver at alarming rate. In fact the two Water Tribe sibling were unaware of what even happened until Appa alerted them of what had happened. Forgetting the bickering for now the two of them hopped on the sky bison and flew after Aang who washed away into underground cave. The entrance to Aang did himself as he enter the Avatar State for a moment to bust through the rock rather smashed up again them.

"Why did not the Avatar State do that instead bring him to safety" Katara thought out loud.

"Why did the Avatar State freeze him in iceberg rather then do that a hundred years ago. It just some strange Avatar logic we probably not suppose to understand" Sokka countered.

In the underground cave Aang made his own door into. The young avatar was busy trying to waterbend his clothes dry. The hole he had made was rather large one and he could only guess the reason he was able to see thanks to the light shining through that hole and the cave was not flood because he apparently created a new underground lakebed while still in the Avatar State.

Looking up he could tell he was not getting out the way he came in and really could not leave this spot mostly because he did not have able to see in the dark. Just then someone hit the monk on the head and he noticed it was inside out waterskin. One that contained spark rocks, a branch, and a note.

'Use these to find an exit out the cave somehow
Sokka'

Aang was amazed that Sokka had managed to think ensure Aang could still use the stuff after thrown down the new manmade waterfall.

Lighting the branch Aang began looking around to see that this cave there was something unnatural to it now that he could get a better look at it. The wall of this cave tunnel was rather smooth as there were grooves in the wall countless ones that seem like they were craved from a hand clawing the wall. Also when he notice the cave just big enough to so that he fit in it comfortable as Katara or Sokka would not fit within this space well.

Walking around he had a feeling that this cave was not really a cave originally. It seem similar to what he learned about badgermole back when he still lived with Gyasto. No matter how far he walked it was just a straight line, he did not bother venturing into other pathways(not want to get lost…even more). One thing he noticed beyond this being a tunnel that was created was the tunnel itself. The size tunnel and the hands that created did not seem like badgermole claws. At first he thought only ones that could do this would be the original earthbenders themselves yet strangely these hand seem humanoid. Also another reason he did not venture too far away from his entrance was sound of nearby. Fearing it was something not human nor animal he went back to his entrance.

The sound of burrowing around him out louder got and louder until there was nothing. Taking a stance as he wanted prepared for whatever came at him. Then when a earth wave came at him one which he tried to dodge out the wave but caught him as its double back to strike him the back. Would have gotten soak again as he was sent flying to the newly fitting lake if he did not use air scooter to sit on top of the water. What shocked him more was his attacker that surface from the ground.

They were a girl probably no older then himself covered in dirt to the point where you could not even tell what was dirt and what was her own skin. She was wearing complete rag as it was amazing whatever the clothes had once been were even still intact at this point. Long black hair matted with rocks, dirt, and various other things when down her back and bangs completely cover her eyes. She looked around and sniffing the air as she was on all fours. Walking around her head perked up as she heard the sound of something other then running water. Walking over to the edge of the water the girl looked around trying discover the source of this sounds.

Growling she was angry but jumped back as waited for moment. Aang was wondering what this girl was doing as she stood there on all fours not moving. She lashed out with hand causing a large earth hand to come from the ground under swapping Aang back onto the ground. The animalistic girl pinned him to the ground almost instance before he could even move. Jumping onto him staring him in the eyes at least that what it looked like she was doing. For from this distance he could see that girl's eyes behind her bangs which did not seem to able to see nor hold much awareness beyond primal way she was acting.

She then snapped at him apparently Aang realized this girl thought he was a threat after having invaded her territory. Aang could not even respond as whatever he did this girl just seem to counter it. Though he made one move that was so sudden the two of them bashed their head against the other and both their eyes seem to glow for second. When that moment passed Aang noticed there was something different about the girl. Before she did not seem like she would even understand him if tried talking to her. From the look in her sightless eyes that she did not have to ability to comprehend but now things were different.

"Can you get off me?" Aang tried.

The girl then shook her head and then jerked to behind them where the lake he created.

"You made all this?" he asked amazed to which she just nodded in respond.

After some more explaining Aang think he managed to get the basics of what this girl was so angry over. Apparently his entry into her space and the creation of new underground lake destroyed her network of tunnels she had spent a long time working on. Just how Aang was able to interrupt all that from her was possible similar to how he and Appa communicated with each other. They just had a connection with each other and now Aang seem to have one with this girl.

Then he recalled his own vision in the swamp where they met the swampbenders. Since in his vision he did not see someone he loved (like Sokka did with Yue and Katara saw her mom) it took awhile for him to realize it was this girl. Although it also did not help in his own swamp vision she was humanoid badgermole girl that kept running away from him. However she sat before him glaring at him mad he messed up her tunnels, while not a hybrid humanoid. She was still even after what happened when they bashed heads seem still very animalistic.