Author's note: Yesss! Take that! I am smarter then the average bear! I figured out how to submit chapters and not the whole story! Hopefully none of y'all saw the spoilers... Anyway, I really liked this chapter. I thought it was really hard to keep up with the original A.T.L.A.B. character's personalities... Hopefully i didn't get too out of hand with them. Yeah...my poor mind wrote two more chapters and now i'm going to go try to think up ideas by sleeping. I might update sunday or monday... I'm really forgetful so don't expect it to be up at a certain time... Enjoy! I know i did : )

Chapter II:

A small smile rose to his face as he punched me softly and bounded down the stairs. Grinning I jumped off the roof and bended the water to catch me, as I always did and landed softly on the ground in front of Jiro. And as always, Jiro watched me with awe. I call myself a water bending master but Jiro was a firebending genus. Together we'd practiced and helped each other with new moves for years. He'd offer to teach me how to fire bend better, but as I said before, fire bending is boring and hard. I'd rather be flowing and gliding with water. We both took our stances and stared into each other's eyes waiting for the other to attack. Slowly and sneakily, with one finger I bended a tendril of water forward and willed it to wrap around his leg. Surprise flitted against his face as I bended the water to ice and raced forward. A quick display of firebending through his feet and he was free and moving to the left. Using the water from the river, I created a ice platform on which I skated on in mid air, chasing after Jiro and dodging his fire blasts. Adrenaline pulsed through my veins as I stopped the ice from coming and flew over his head and landed right in front of him. He obviously wasn't expecting that and ran right into me, knocking us down. Laughing, we rolled down the hill and into the pond that was sitting at the bottom of the hill. Sputtering and untangling himself from me, Jiro said, "Maybe landing exactly in front of me wasn't a good idea, Tara."

"Ha! I just miscalculated. It would've been better if you didn't move so fast." I retorted jokingly.

"Maybe you just move too slow." He said bringing his face closer to mine. My head swam as I tried to keep from fainting. I could honestly say that the only thing screaming in my mind was he's going to kiss me! He's going to kiss me!!!

His lips were only a fraction of an inch away when I heard a girl's voice yell "Get away from that water bender!"

And with that Jiro was jerked away by a huge wave. Dazed, I just stared at the girl in a blue dress slowly incasing Jiro in ice. I only snapped out of it when Jiro yelled in pain. She was hurting him. Acting fast I melted Jiro's ice coffin and swept water at the girl and froze the water in one wave of my hand.

"Don't you touch him!" I yelled at her advancing.

Giving me a quizzical look the girl melted the ice and stared at me.

"Wasn't he attacking you?" she asked, confused.

"Of course not," I replied forcefully, "We were practicing."

"Oh." She replied.

Only when it seemed that she wasn't going to attack anymore, did I slide out of my offensive stance and walked over to Jiro sitting in the pond.

"Are you alright?" I asked looking for injuries.

Shocked, Jiro stared at the other girl.

"Another water bender…" was all he said.

Warily, I turn on the girl.

"Who are you?" I asked roughly.

She seemed embarrassed and she shuffled her feet nervously.

"I'm Katara. I'm from the southern water tribe. And I'm sorry for attacking. I didn't know." She said as she looked anywhere but the boy.

Sighing in annoyance I replied, "I'm Tara and this is Jiro. We live in the village on the other side of those trees." I said as I was pulling Jiro to his feet.

Looking at Katara in slight awe, Jiro said "You're a long way from home. How did you get here?"

Again, Katara looked like she was hiding something. That's when I heard the yelling.

"Kataaarraaaaaaa!" a boy's voice called. How many were there?

That's when a fuzzy black haired kid with strange blue arrow tattoos and an orange and yellow outfit came bounding into the clearing, across the pond. He literally flew over the pond and landed neatly in front of Katara.

"Katara?" he was hopping up and down, not noticing Jiro and I. "Where have you been? Sokka and I've been looking for you everywhere! We said we were going to meet at the shack hours ago! Toph is already there!"

"Aang," Katara said nervously

"What?" he said, oblivious.

"There are some people I want you to meet." She said sweetly.

"Where?!" he said as he finally turned around.

All I could do was stare open mouthed at him.

"Oh! Hello there! I'm Aang!" when I didn't answer him he asked "What's your name?"

"I…You….You're an air bender!" was all I could think of to say to him.

Looking nervously around, Aang shushed me and said "Hey! Could you keep that quiet? There's a fire nation village over there and someone could hear you!"

"I'm from that village…" I stated lamely

"Oh, well then aren't you going to run away and tell the soldiers?" he asked good naturedly.

"Of course I'm not!" I said

"Aang?" Katara said, "Tara is another water bender."

Aang's eyes flickered to Katara worriedly and away. I looked at Jiro to see how he was taking this. His face however looked like Christmas came early.

"And who is this?" Aang said curiously, looking at Jiro.

"I'm Jiro…" he said

"Hey" The strange arrow headed boy said.

"Are you the avatar?" Jiro asked hurriedly.

"Yeah I am." Aang said. And as he said that I couldn't help but to question his sanity. He looks like he's 12 and acts like it too. He couldn't be. Could he?

"You're not just kidding around?" I asked doubtfully.

Aang demonstrated by first flying into the air then water bending his landing and then making a chair for himself with rocks. For the second time in that day, I stared stupidly at Aang with my mouth wide open.