Thank you so much for your reviews! It really does mean a lot to me when I get feedback suggesting that I actually did write a good chapter! And yes, the Gaang will feature in the story later on down the road, but not right now. Just a warning, this chapter's a little short.

Little bit of back ground info:

-Aang was born about 6 years sooner in this universe, so he was 18 when the monks told him he was the Avatar. After they tell him that he would have to give up his attachment to Gyatsu, he ran away, and we all know the story after that.

Ages for all characters are:

18 - Aang and Suki

17 - Sokka and Zuko

15 - Katara and Toph (just so she isn't so many years younger then everyone else)

In the last chapter...

Katara and Zuko arrived at the palace, one of the young maid's condition upset Katara when she realized that she had been taken advantage of.

Things are starting to warm up, now! Now introducing the real story plot-twists!

Bumi and Kya!

Chapter Eight

Katara knew that Zuko would have a difficult time dealing with the nobles that morning, buts she hadn't expected it to be THIS bad.

Zuko had much work to do as the Fire Lord, but after fighting with those bafoons for the better part of the day, he had found himself seeking out Katara for a much-needed sparring match in the royal gardens.

Katara had graciously excepted, walking with the Fire bender to the one place in the palace she had yet to explore that was not under strict guardianship, where two man-servants quickly removed his outer robes one by one until all he had left on were his deep maroon pants and his pointy shoes. Katara, too, removed her outer robes, and though normally she would strip down to her underthings, she left on the bottom-most layer, a yukata of the palest blue with slightly darker matching trousers, because with every piece of clothing she took off, the noble women standing at the edges of the garden waiting to see the match looked as if they were ready to faint from outrage.

"You ready to get your butt kicked, Fire Lord?" Katara asked, crouching into a bending stance.

Zuko smirked arrogantly, doing the same.

"As if I'd loose to you, Peasant."

"That's Princess to you, Sparky."

And with that, the fight was on.

[I'm sucky at action-scenes, so imagine some kick-ass action sequence which ends with both parties being thrown to opposite ends of the garden by an awesome-ass colorful explosion]

"Fire Lord Zuko!" one of the attendants called out.

"I'm fine!" he coughed, standing up from his position at the base of what had been one of the oldest trees in the garden, "Katara, you alright?"

"Yeah, I think so," she said as she pulled the pond water out of her clothes as the dust began to clear and they could see each other.

"What was that? I don't think it was anything we did," Zuko pondered.

"I don't know, but my bending feels weird. Like when I first got it back at the North Pole after Yue became the Moon Spirit."

"Yeah, I know what you mean. It's like after the eclipse, only-"

"That was awesome!" a young boy, who looked to be eight, maybe that, if not seven, said as he dropped down out of the tree Zuko had been knocked into.

"Mom, did you see that!" the boy called as he walked up to Katara, looking expectantly up at her.

Mom?

"Bumi, you idiot! We're not in our time, remember? She's not our mom yet, Dumb-dumb!" a girl who seemed to be the same age said as she dropped from the same tree as the boy.

Not their mom... yet? What was the girl talking about? Were they... from the future? Where she was their mother?

The girl was the spitting image of Katara, only much lankier that she herself had been at the girl's age. Katara had been chubby and rounded. Her skin tone matched Katara's perfectly, as did her eyes. The only feature that was different then Katara's was her darker-colored hair, which was pulled up into a high ponytail with two loopies, much like Katara's.

The boy, on the other hand, he was much lighter complected, but not completely pale. His figure was much like his sister's and his hair was his mother's dark chocolate brown color. There was one telling feature on his face, though.

His eyes. His bright, honey-golden eyes which he must have gotten from his father.

Something told her, his father's name wasn't Tom-Tom.

So, what do you all think about this plot twist? I know I'm going to get reviewers who don't like what I did with Kya and Bumi, but this was the only way I could fit them into the relationship with Katara and Zuko without her seeming like a hoe. And yes, Tenzin is going to make an appearance, just keep your horses in the pin for a chapter!