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Three months. It had been exactly three months when I found myself dreaming of the Avatar, of Aang. I saw him inside the ice berg, saw the bright glow of the avatar state.

Only, in my dream it didn't look like the cartoon had. He looked more real. Like a person.

It shifted, to only the boy and I sitting on a bison in the middle of the ocean. He didn't look at all surprised when he noticed me, instead offering me a grin.

"Hey Aang," I greeted without thinking much about it, which was when his expression twisted to one of shock. I couldn't help but smile in amusement at the dream Aang.

"How do you know my name?" he asked after a moment, and I shrugged with a small smile.

"Secret," I announced after a moment, the smile not leaving my face. This was a bit disorientating. This dream was being completely controlled by me, something that never had happened to me before. It was at that moment that it slowly seemed to be broken up as I found myself waking up, another day in the south pole.

After waking up, I didn't think much of it to be honest, though now I was starting to think that I should have taken the dream more seriously. A lot more seriously.

The sound of the bellow echoing made me cringe slightly, my body frozen in place as I stared at the creature that made the sound.

Definitely should've taken it seriously.

Appa was standing in front of me. The large bison didn't seem to care at all about the fact that I felt completely uncomfortable. I wasn't even sure if the animal was aware of that fact actually. So if Appa was here, that would mean that Aang would have arrived with Sokka and Katara last night… perhaps that was the reason I had the dream. Something to warn me of what would happen today. I felt like I was about to throw up.

If Aang was here, that meant that soon the travels would begin…

I knew theoretically I would be able to stay here, stay in the village, but I knew that I wouldn't be able to live with the guilt. Somehow I had wished that maybe, just maybe, it would continue on as normal. That none of the events would happen. Or at least that the events would wait until a time that I felt ready to take them on.

Neither of those things were going my way. And with Aang here, it wouldn't be too long until Zuko followed.

I was definitely dead, that was the conclusion that I came to. I couldn't fight. I supposed, theoretically there would be opportunities along the way to possibly learn. Despite his faults, it couldn't be denied that Sokka was actually a fairly good fighter. And the basics would be better than nothing at all in this world.

"Kenzi!" I heard Katara's voice, bringing me out of my thoughts as my eyes stayed stuck on the massive animal.

"What in the world is that?" I half-screeched in response, pointing at Appa. I was more than aware of the answer of course, but seeing Appa in real life was terrifying.

"It's a flying bison," she answered as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"It doesn't fly though," Sokka deadpanned, coming up behind his sister.

If I didn't know better I probably would've agreed with Sokka. I didn't understand how the thing could possibly fly. It was probably the least aerodynamic, heavy thing that I've ever seen. Physically it should've been impossible for the bison to fly. But I supposed that perhaps our rules didn't exactly apply here.

I blinked for a moment, looking between the siblings and then looking back at the bison. I could feel my mouth open, before closing again as I wasn't even sure what to respond with or how to ask. Knowing that this would eventually happen really hadn't prepared me for it well enough. Or at all.

"How did it get here?" I finally asked, trying my hardest not to swear.

"You know how we went fishing yesterday?" Katara asked excitedly. I nodded mutely, focussing back at the bison that seemed to have moved slightly closer to me. "Well we found an Airbender named Aang, he and his flying bison were stuck in an ice berg!" after the short summary, she continued on and on and on about everything that had led up to that point.

I found myself barely listening to her as I looked at the bison. Might as well get friendly with it before I have to, I thought looking at it carefully as I edged forward slowly reaching up and carefully touching what would be a cheek I suppose.

"It's getting later Katara, shouldn't you check on your new guest?" a new voice announced, and I turned seeing gran-gran standing behind me. Very quickly her gaze shifted from her granddaughter, to her grandson and myself. "And Kenzi and Sokka, why don't you join the rest of the village in waiting to meet the airbender, and then you both have chores to do."

I smiled in agreement, walking around the bison and back into the village with Katara, Sokka trailing behind moping, head down and grumbling to himself. When we got to the village centre again, Sokka dropped himself onto the ground outside of the tent, while Katara went in to wake Aang up. I laughed at Sokka's reaction, before sitting myself down beside him.

Only a few moments later Katara dragged the bold kid out of the tent, giving him a general introduction to the village.

It didn't take long for Sokka to get to his feet, I rolled my eyes as he snatched the glider out of Aang's hands, demanding an explanation.

"Last time I checked, humans can't fly," Sokka spat out, and rolling my eyes I pushed myself to my feet moving towards them in order to try to stop Sokka from going further. I didn't get far before Aang retorted.

"Check again," he announced grinning, launching himself into the air. Like the kids giggling and watching in amazement, my eyes were glued to him.

The cartoon hadn't done it justice.

The ease at which this human was gliding through the air, the controlled movements, the way that by will he could go up and down. It was beautiful. Entrancing. I loved that. I wanted that. Unfortunately, I knew that it would never happen.

Thankfully the moment was also ruined as I came to that conclusion, by the young airbender smacking straight into Sokka's watchtower. I couldn't help but giggle at the sight.

"My watchtower!" he cried out, as Katara and I ran forward to check that the boy was alright. I froze for a moment, turning to glare at him for a moment.

'Be nice,' I mouthed, he averted his eyes, running to his watchtower in order to assess the damage. It made me think it damn well served him right when the snow landed on top of him. I did try to warn him.

"Great you're an airbender, Katara's a waterbender, together you can just waste time all day long," he muttered sarcastically. Immediately afterwards he stormed off. Seeing that Aang and Katara were anyway busy talking with one another, I followed after Katara's brother instead of involving myself in the conversation.

"You alright Sokka?" I asked softly as I approached him. He's dropped himself to the ground, leaning his back against the ice wall surrounding the small village.

"I'm fine, just perfect, why wouldn't I be?" he asked sarcastically, not even looking at me. Sighing quietly I ran a hand through my hair.

I'd finished off my chores, and found myself sitting down for a break when Aang found me. And by found me, I mean seemed to pop up in front of me out of no where. I yelped, my body jerking backwards when I noticed him.

"Hello," he grinned, sitting himself in front of me and laughing slightly at my reaction. "You're the girl from my dream," he added quickly as I was still catching my bearings. "You have really cool eyes by the way."

"Uh…" my response was less than stellar. While I would've liked to think that I could always be witty and intelligent, in that moment both of those things failed me. I was in his dream? I thought that that was only my dream. "You mean that happened?"

"You didn't know?" he asked innocently, looking at me in confusion.

"I thought that I was just having a weird dream…" I trailed off, biting my lip as I thought about things.

"Monk Gyatso told me that if two people dream about one another they can share a dream."

"But we didn't know each other," I retorted, cocking my head to the side as I spoke. He also looked deep in thought for all of a moment. It really didn't last long until he looked up at me with a large smile and shrugged.

"Maybe we didn't need to, maybe you naturally walk through dreams. I met another dream walker when I was in the Fire Nation and spent time with Kuzon. From what I knew he had a tendency to walk in peoples dreams to help them understand themselves-" he rambled on about that for a while, while I struggled to process what he was on about.

"Yeah I don't think that's the case," I finally interrupted. "But… It's good to have some kind of idea of what it might be," I added after seeing his face drop.

"So…" he dragged out his first word, the grin back on his face. "I heard that you're from the Earth Kingdom, what brought you out here?"

"It's a long story, but let's not worry about that right now. Aren't you and Katara going penguin sledding?" I asked, tilting my head to the side with a grin to try to distract him from my lie. I was thankful that the distraction worked as he went running off to the water tribe girl.

Ultimately Sokka alerted everyone to the flare that went off. Although, I had a feeling that all of us had seen it before he took any decisive action on what to do. All of the village had gathered, waiting for Aang and Katara to return. Waiting for any other signs of trouble.

Even in the orange tone of the sunset the flare was painfully obvious.

And knowing what was to come I couldn't help but feel sick.

They walked down together, slowly. The children greeted them, mainly Aang, with cheers once they finally got closer. I knew Sokka wasn't thinking, or acting, rationally. With that in mind I grabbed onto his arm, giving him a look before lowering my voice to whisper, "Don't be too harsh on him."

"What would you know? You aren't even from this village, not even from the water tribe!" he muttered, shrugging my arm off as he started approaching his sister, and the avatar. Not that he was aware of the latter's status quite yet. I knew that by tomorrow he would though. Taking a few small breaths to calm myself I kept my eyes down, slowly moving away from the others and into the small tent that had served as my home since arriving.

This was the way that it was meant to happen, I reminded myself. Don't worry yet… Don't worry yet… the thought repeated in my mind as I felt myself fall into unconsciousness.

My dream started as nothing, but soon enough I found myself sitting across from the young avatar, looking exhausted and upset.

"Aang?" I called out, seeing him jump in his dream and smiling sadly at me.

"Kensi…" he answered sullenly. Raising my eyebrow at him I shook my head, pulling the boy into a soft hug.

"I don't know how to control this, or how long this lasts so just know that this was meant to happen. You may not believe me… but… things happen for a reason… and I want you to keep Katara and Sokka close, they'll help you throughout everything," I whispered, not relaxing my hold.

"But I was just banished…" he murmured in response. A small chuckle escaped my lips.

"Things have a way of working out, young avatar," I shouldn't know. But I revealed that I did. I heard him gasp in shock at the last word, pushing me backwards slightly. I just hoped that that was all the motivation he needed to keep on going with this. I had to hope that he did.

A/N: So there's another chapter up, and finally has gotten us into the events of the series. This means that hopefully soon I'll start exploring other things. If you like it, or have constructive criticism feel free to review!

Also thank you to those that have already read this story, and the people who followed.

Kuronique Misaki: I'm really glad you enjoyed the first chapter, I hope that you also enjoyed this!