Oi oi oi. Sup my main men, how you all doing? Rhetorical question; you're all awesome. Time for chapter 2 of my first real multi-chapter story thing. Kind of exciting. Let me know how it turns out.

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender nor does anyone on this sight.

It was hot. REALLY hot. They had been walking for hours now through the sweltering heat and it was wearing them down. The sun scorched the ground beneath their feet and Omashu was just a hazy blur in the distance, distorted by the intense heat. Katara wiped the sweat off of her forehead and reached for her water only to find that there was but a drop left.

"We're out" she complained, exhausted causing Aang to groan.

"We really need to find somewhere to sto- hey what's that!" he said in excitement rushing over to what looked like nothing.

"Um Aang? What are you doing?" she asked looking at him quizzically.

He looked at her in disbelief "Water!" he cried, excitedly attempting to drink the 'water'. Upon realisation that said 'water' was dirt he spat it out disgusted. Katara stifled a giggle watching him get rid of the soil in his mouth.

"How about we try and find some real water?" she offered smirking bringing him away from his imaginary oasis.

"Yeah. That would be good" he conceded embarrassed as they carried on walking along the rough path. Eventually they found a small river which they wasted no time making use of.

"Was water always this sweet?" she wondered in relief as she hurriedly drained the river. When she didn't get a response she looked around to see that Aang had disappeared.

Then behind her she heard a big splash and saw Aang surface from the water grinning widely, eliciting a laugh from Katara.

"Come in! The water's great!"

"You know I think I'm fine on- AHHH" she screamed as Aang grabbed her leg pulling her in. After taking a moment to take in the situation she smirked at him evilly "Oh you're in for it now." What was meant to be a light splash instead became a tidal wave. "Aang!" she cried as he disappeared under the water. She swam over to where he had been worriedly searching for him. He crawled out of the water onto bank a couple meters away coughing out water "Spirits, Aang I'm so sorry! I- I- I don't even know what I did. I just wanted to- I am so sorry!" she apologised in a panic. To her surprise he started laughing.

"You're a waterbender" he stated smiling. The cogs started to turn in Katara's mind as she made the connections.

"I'm… a waterbender" she muttered slowly having trouble registering it. Perhaps the most surprising thing was that it didn't seem to faze her. It was almost as if she knew it all along. Suddenly memories came flooding back to her. Memories of her controlling water in ways she didn't even know were possible. "I am a waterbender! I- I was really good at it too! Aang, I can remember!" she exclaimed excitedly.

"Katara that's great!" he congratulated enthusiastically "Can you do it?"

"Do what?" she asked confused.

"Waterbend. You said you remember waterbending, so can you do it? Can you waterbend?"

"I don't know Aang… I mean remembering those thing's happening is one thing, actually doing them is another" she said twisting her hair nervously.

"Sure you can! Try" he encouraged motioning for her to give it a go.

She sighed "Alright, but don't expect this to work" she faced the river and took a deep breath. Then to her amazement she started to move the water through the air gracefully. It swiftly flowed around her, weaving around trees and freezing into a smooth plate of ice. She stared shocked as the ice melted into a pool of water surrounding her.

"Wow…" Behind her Aang was watching in awe, just as surprised by the incredible display of bending "Katara, that was amazing."

She found herself blushing at his comment but couldn't shake her astonishment at what she had done. It was as if it came naturally to her, like she had done it a million times over. "How.. how did I just do that?" she wondered baffled.

"This is great, we're gonna be back to our normal selves in no time!" Aang said confidently.

Katara paused in thought "Well if I can waterbend then maybe you should try and airbend. You already proved that you can do it, why not try and do it on purpose?" she proposed.

Aang stood up, turning away from Katara facing the open. He focused and just followed his instincts. He thrust his arms forward and a great wind rushed through past him into the trees, flinging twigs and pebbles.

He turned around and grinning at Katara "I did it!" he said proudly.

"I told you, you could do it" she congratulated smiling back.

"A waterbender and an airbender. Huh. We must have made quite a team" Aang thought.

"I'll bet. Anyway, who says were not a good team right now?" she asked jokingly.

"True."

Meanwhile…

Above, way up on one of the earth kingdom's many mountains a hooded figure observed the young monk and waterbender as they tested their abilities. His cloak billowed in the wind whilst he kept his eyes trained on the two below.

"He doesn't know yet" a voice from behind spoke calmly.

"Would you rather he did?" the figure retorted.

"No. But he'll figure it out. Sooner than you think" the voice responded coolly.

Rather than replying the hooded figure simply continued to stare down at Aang and Katara by the river as they started to carry on their trek to Omashu "We move at sundown."

Oooohh, mystery. The plot thickens. Who are they? What do they want? Do they have something to do with their apparent amnesia? So many questions and so few tidy answers. Sorry, I couldn't resist. Anyway, hope you enjoyed this chapter of the story. Little bit worried that I might get caught up in the story and forget the big ROMANCE category at the top of the page but I'm sure I'll manage. This is Dinorider signing off.

Good day.