I was in a rush, so I didn't spell check this chapter. If you see any mistakes or something that just flat out doesn't make sense, please please please please PLEASE tell me in a private message. Thanks!

Tiana was never quite able to place how she felt about her dreams. They came at really inconvenient times, and she never really knew what to do with them. It always circumvented around the same lady, an elderly woman who Tiana always felt like she knew from somewhere else. But whenever she woke up, she would always forget just enough about the woman's features as to never be able to find at least a picture of her in real life.

Tonight's dream started exactly how they all did. Tiana awoke by the side of a river and found the elderly woman practicing in the flowing water. Tiana would always go join her, and they would always go through the same cycles. A bit of small talk from the woman, a bit of waterbending training, and then some cryptic message for the future that Tiana never felt quite smart enough to figure out until it already happened. These dreams had been happening her whole life, and after fifteen years, she was finally fed up with it.

Other children around Republic City thought Tiana was a freak. Due to her nightly training sessions, Tiana was a scarily good healer. When Tiana was younger she tried warning people about her messages of the future, which caused everyone to think she was insane. And when the things actually started happening like she had said they would, people didn't look at her with admiration, they looked at her with disgust. At some point, she simply began hiding her gift. Now she wanted to know why the woman was around at all.

Tiana splashed through the swallow riverbed right over to the woman, whom she found lightly smiling at Tiana's behavior. "Well, go on and ask," the woman said lightly, looking up at Tiana with her deep blue eyes.

"Who are you? How come you know everything about me, but I don't even know your name?" Tiana questioned.

The woman's smile broadened, and she went around the question, "How is the healing going, Tiana?"

"Good, everybody forgot that I'm a loser already."

The woman began to make gentle whirlpools in the water, "As waterbenders, we're built for frequent change and adaption, taking the shape of our environment just as water takes the shape of its container. I just hope that with all this change, you haven't lost your identity along the way."

"And whose fault would that be?" Tiana snapped back. She almost apologized, because she had never been so rude to another person in her life. The woman, however, seemed to just chuckle.

"You have great talent, Tiana. You'll be achieving mastery soon, and you deserve to be praised for it. Once you become a master, you won't be needing my help anymore, I'm afraid." The woman finally turned her full attention to Tiana. "So I suppose now would be a good time to tell you about myself."

The woman walked over to the side of the crystal clear river to take a seat, and Tiana followed suit. Then, the woman continued to speak. "My name is Katara. Unfortunately, I am not among the living anymore. I was and still am married to Avatar Aang, I helped end the war and have been a known waterbending master for quite some time. However, my job isn't quite over yet."

Tiana skipped rocks across the water while she processed this information. "Are you related to me?" she finally asked

Katara shook her head, "No, but I'd love to be."

"So, then, why… why me?" Tiana asked, "Why am I the one you chose to make dream master?"

Katara chuckled once more, "Dream master… You're destined for great things, Tiana. Things that will be happening sooner rather than later. You're going to be a part of something big, something that needs a strong healer like you to glue it all together. When my blood comes to you, I need you to help her."

Tiana stood up out of frustration, "What things?! What girl?! How come you never tell me anything directly?!"

But Tiana never got her answer to that question. She woke up to the sounds of her window being smashed and her ten year old brother screaming.

Tiana's eyes flew open and she noticed another person in the room, and the sounds of a frantic female voice trying to calm him down.

"Kid, hush! Shh! Okay, um, what does your family bend?"

Tiana wished for a moment that her parents hadn't gone on vacation and left her in charge, but she pushed those thoughts aside and concentrated on the vase of flowers across the room. Tiana was on the top bunk, so she couldn't quite see where her brother or the assailant was, but she had a pretty good idea. Tiana drew quietly drew all of the water out of the vase, solidified it into ice daggers, and waited for more confirmation as to where the intruder was located. She tried to listen for the sound of the voice over her little brother's screaming.

"Water? You guys bend water? This whole room is blue, so I'm right, aren't I, buddy? Guess what? My aunt and my grandma are-slash-were waterbending masters! And I live on a boat! Wait…. Oh. Anyway, what's your name? My name is Katara, because I was named after my grandmother! Please stop crying!"

Tiana gasped and dropped her hold on the ice daggers. She kicked off her sheets and jumped over the side of the bunk, landing on the girl below. Pinning the girl down, Tiana once again took control of the daggers, poising them all around the girl's neck as a threat.

"Whoa, chill," the girl said, but Tiana was far from doing that.

"Why are you here, who sent you, and what do you want from us?" Tiana demanded shakily. This was really the first time she had ever even attempted to take control of a situation in real life.

The girl, Katara, laughed and reached up to nudge one of the closest daggers away. "Well, see, here's the thing; I didn't actually try to get here. I was kinda… trying to land in that parking lot next to your apartment, but I didn't expect city air temperatures to be the way they are and… yeah. Now I'm in your room…"

Tiana processed this and then realized that this girl must be an airbender. Which means she must've been related to Avatar Aang, and thus…

"Tell me more about your name." Tiana demanded, and Katara lightly pushed Tiana off of her body.

"Well," the airbender said, "My dad wanted his children to all have names like his. And since I was a girl and he couldn't really do that, he just kinda named me after his mom, the waterbender. And then I had everyone call me Tara instead, because Katara is too…. silly. Speaking of waterbenders, are you a healer?" The girl asked, "Because, I kinda got hit by lightning earlier." To prove this, the girl lifted up her pant-leg to show Tiana a heavily bleeding wound.

Tiana took the girl into the living room and told her brother to go back to sleep. While healing Tara, Tiana thought about all the things that Katara had told her in her dream. This girl was related to the woman who had been her trainer all her life, that couldn't have been a coincidence. Tiana wanted answers. "Where did you say you were going?" she asked the aribender.

"Hmm? Oh, Republic City. I kinda… miscalculated distance. I was landing in order to ask for directions, but, you know…"

"I healed what I could, but you need to rest this for a while." Tiana told the girl. It was a lie, Tiana could have completely fixed it if she wanted to. But she wanted answers about herself. So she only healed as much as a city medic would have been able to do for Tara, in order to keep the girl around. "My parents won't be home for a few months, so why don't you stay here? Then after you're better, I can take you to Republic City." Tiana offered.

Tara seemed to hesitate, but then finally smiled. "I'd love that, thanks."