Taran groaned and slowly opened his eyes. As he leaned up he felt a sharp object at his throat. Looking up he saw a spear made of bone pointed directly at him, ready to skewer him at any moment. The man who had the weapon were clothes of the Water Tribe. He was wearing Water Tribe Wolf Armor, the same he had seen when he was with Water Tribe Soldiers, his helmet in the shape of a wolf, except his helmet was painted dark brown to show he was the leader. His chest armor had three moons on it, the full moon in the center and two crescent moons pointing in opposite directions. Right now he didn't look very pleased.
"Who are you?" he said. Taran slowly got to his feet, still looking at the warrior, and put his hands up to show he meant no harm.
"My name's Taran Cyneran of the Earth Kingdom," said Taran and showing him his hands under the gloves. The warrior lowered his spear, but not all the way. Other warriors began to run towards him from the distance, including for some strange reason five boys, and two girls.
"How'd you get here? When I looked up it seemed like you came from the sky, but we all know Earthbenders can't fly," said the man.
"How did you know I was an Earthbender?" said Taran.
"The trench you made when you tried to cushion your landing was pretty obvious," said the man, pointing to the sand trench.
"Who are you?" said Taran.
"I'm Chief Hakoda of the Southern Water Tribe," said the man. Taran turned his head to the side like he remebered the name, which he did but he couldn't figure out what the man did. At that moment the group that was running towards them stopped behind Hakoda. Taran could now see them better.
There was a boy, about twelve or thirteen, with blue arrow tattoos on his head and arms. A teenage Water Tribe boy, about Taran's age. A Water Tribe girl around fourteen, a girl from the Earth Kingdom who Taran was shocked to see was blind. Another Earth Kingdom teenager along with a small boy who looked like he was eight, and a big guy who looked like he could snap Taran into a toothpick.
"Dad, who is he?" said the teenage Water Tribe boy.
"He says his name is Taran and he's from the Earth Kingdom," said Hakoda.
"You all seem very familiar, do I know you?" said Taran.
"He could be a Fire Nation spy," said the teenage boy.
"Woh, you're at war with the Fire Nation?!" said Taran.
"What, you never knew this?" said the boy. Taran had to choose his words carefully because he didn't want to tell them events in the future. But he also knew he had to tell them sooner or later. His eyes hovered on the boy with the tattos. From the grey eyes he looked like an Air Nomad, but he was way to young to have the tattos already. Yet, Taran felt like he had seen or knew this boy before.
"You, Airbender, what's your name?" said Taran.
"My name is Aang," said the boy. Taran's eyes widened as he stared at his past life. He knew this was none other then Avatar Aang.
"As in Avatar Aang?" said Taran, just to be sure.
"Yes," said Aang.
"Okay, this is going to sound really weird and you probaly won't believe me, but I'm not from here," said Taran.
"We can already see that," said the Water Tribe boy.
"Sokka, let him speak," said the Water Tribe girl.
"I'm from the future," said Taran. At first no one said anything, but then everyone busted out laughing, except for the blind girl.
"Guys, he's telling the truth," she said.
"You mean to say that he's telling the truth about being from the future. He must be crazy," said Sokka.
"No, I'm seroius, I'm from the future. What year is it?" said Taran.
"3988," said the Water Tribe girl. Taran had to think about it because he knew they probably didn't know about the Republic yet and were using the Elementia calendar. Then the answer came to his head. He had been sent 5000 years into the future!
"What are your names?" said Taran.
"I'm Katara, that's my brother Sokka, this is Toph, this is my father Hakoda, and this is Haru, the Duke, and Pipsqueak," said the girl. Taran had to hold down his excitement as he knew who these guys were. This was Team Avatar, the people who changed the course of his planet's history.
"Okay, this is going to sound even stranger, but I'm the Avatar in the future," said Taran.
"How do we know you're the Avatar?" said Sokka. Without even looking Taran caused the surf on the beach to swell, made fire appear in his hands, sent a gust of air into the sky, and shifted the sand under everyone's feet. Everyone looked at him with shock as they realized he was telling the truth.
"Wow Aang, talk about a visit from your future life," said Sokka.
"If you are the new Avatar, then why are you here?" said Aanag.
"I got sucked into a time portal 5000 years into the future while trying to stop a guy named Dooku from killing my ancestor so that I won't be born," said Taran.
"Wow, that sounds like a lot to take in," said Katara.
"So who is this ancestor you were sent to protect?" said Hakoda.
"I don't know yet, but first you haven't seen anyone else come from the sky did you? It was me and about twenty others" said Taran.
"No, you're the only one," said Hakoda. At that moment two soldiers, one from the Earth Kingdom and another from the Water Tribe came up.
"Hakoda, the men said they're ready to depart, what's the matter?" said the Water Tribe soldier looking to see Taran.
"Bato, we have something to take care of. Tell everyone we'll meet them in a few minutes," said Hakoda. Bato nodded and he and the other soldier left.
"What are you guys doing?" said Taran.
"We're preparing for an invasion of the Fire Nation," said the boy named Haru. Taran knew what he meant, but he knew he couldn't tell them that it was going to fail.
"Anyway, who's this ancestor you're looking for," said Toph. Taran took out his tracker, but everybody flinched as if he had took out a weapon.
"It's not a weapon, it allows me to show who my ancestor is," said Taran. The tracker started going off when he turned it on and it pointed in one direction. Taran looked to see it was pointing to Haru.
"You're my ancestor," said Taran. Haru didn't know whether to faint, be proud, or scared. It's not everyday a guy walks up to you and says 'Hey, you're my ancestor.' Taran also couldn't believe that his ancestor was part of Team Avatar either. Score one for family tree day.
"My mission right now is to make sure you're not killed in any way," said Taran.
"So who else came in the time portal with you?" said Katara.
"Me, Ahsoka, Obi-Wan, Anakin, and about twenty droids with Bane and Dooku," said Taran.
"Is that you're friends over there?" said Toph. She pointed to a ridge right behind them. Taran looked around, but was shocked to see five commando droids lookig down at them. Their sights were focused on Haru.
"You guys move away," said Taran, quiet enough for the group to hear. He slipped his gloves back on as he continued to look at the commando droids. Once everryone backed off he focused on the ridge, and then brought it down with his Earthbending. The ridge collapsed and the droids fell down. Taran immediately sprang towards the rubble, activating his lightsaber. The others looked at the weapon in awe, never before seeing something like this before.
Inspecting the rubble Taran saw that the droids were dead.
"If they're here, that means that everyone else is somewhere on the island," he thought.
"Look out!" yelled Aang, Taran turned around to see a commando droid run towards him, vibrosword in hand. The droid brough it down towards his head, which he deflected easily and chopped the droid in half from the waist up.
"What was that?" said Sokka, now really creeped out.
"That was a commando droid. About twelve got, so now there's seven left," said Taran.
"And what is that weapon you're holding?" said Haru.
"It's called a lightsaber," said Taran.
"What kind of weapon is called a lifesaver? It kills!" said Sokka.
"Not a lifesaver, a lightsaber," said Taran. He turned it off and hooked it back onto his belt.
"So if you're my descendent, what does that mean?" said Haru.
"What do you mean?" said Taran.
"I mean, what happens in the future, like with us," he said.
"I can't tell you that, you have to do what you can do with your future," said Taran. It was true. He knew if he told them what they would do, then they would think that everything was predestined for them, and that was something he wasn't going to allow.
"Taran, Master, Master Kenobi, anybody?" said a voice some distance away that Taran knew was Ahsoka.
"Ahsoka, is that you?" said Taran. Her form appeared at the ridge he just demolished. Everyone in the group sucked in a breath when they saw for the first time an alien species, including Toph since she can feel through the earth. Ahsoka went down towards Taran and hugged him.
"Who is that?!" said Sokka.
"This is my friend Ahsoka," said Taran.
"But she has...and...the..," said Sokka seeing Ahsoka's orange-red skin, lekku, and budding montrals.
"Yes, she's an alien," said Taran. "And she happens to be trying to save my existence."
"Who are they?" said Ahsoka.
"This is Avatar Aaang, Katara, Sokka, Hakoda, Haru, the Duke, and Pipsqueak," said Taran.
"Hi there red lady," said Pipsqueak.
"Haru's my ancestor and Aang is the Avatar in this time period," said Taran.
"He's your past life?" said Ahsoka. Taran nodded.
"Where's everyone else?" she said.
"I don't know. Those droids found me," said Taran motioning to the remains of the commando droids.
"Wait a minute, this is all a lot to take in. You two are from the future, you're my past life, she's an alien, Haru's your ancestor, and some guy callled Dooku is trying to kill him to kill you?" said Aang.
"Pretty much," said Taran and Ahsoka.
"This is so confusing," said Aang. Everyone heard what appeared to be the sound of blaster fire and the whirling of lightsabers. They all rushed up the dismantled ridge to see a plain in front of them. There they saw Anakin and Obi-Wan fending off the remaining droids along with Bane and Dooku attacking them.
"Is that Dooku?" said the Duke pointing to the old mad with the red lightsaber.
"I'm afraid so," said Taran. "We need to help them."
"We can help you," said Aang.
"No, we can't risk anything happening to you guys, it can alter the future," said Taran. He and Ahsoka activated their lightsabers and ran to help Anakin and Obi-Wan.
"I'm not sure about that last statement. Would you say it was an order?" said Sokka.
Hakoda caught the meaning. "I'd say it was a polite request," he said.