A/N: This is only my first fan-fiction on here. I will try to update frequently but if I don't, please don't get mad at me. I will try the best I can to make this as accurate as possible. Please review! I need to know if I need to improve anything. Also, Aang and Kanoko are twins and the soul of the Avatar is split between them. I think it's a nice twist on the story.
Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar.
Kataras POV.
"It's not getting away from me this time," Sokka said, grinning confidently. He looked at me over his shoulder. "Watch and learn Katara. This is how you catch a fish."
I turned back to my side of the canoe. A surprised look crossed my face as I caught sight of a fish swimming beside the canoe. I shot a quick glance at Sokka, who was busy with fishing. I removed my left mitten and stretched my arm out towards the fish. I took a deep breath and began moving my wrist in a wavy motion moving my hand up and down. The water began to ripple as a bubble began to rise, trapping the fish.
I gasped. "Sokka, look!"
"Shh Katara. You're going to scare it away," Sokka whispered. "Mmm I can already smell you cooking."
It was taking all my concentration to keep the bubble of water suspended and I began making circular movements with my arms.
"But Sokka! I caught one!"
The bubble drifted over Sokka's head, with him still oblivious. As the bubble hovered over his head, Sokka raised his spear and popped the bubble of water with the dull end him getting soaked.
"Hey!" I exclaimed, indignantly. He let out a gasp of discomfort as the fish tumbled through the air
"Why is it that whenever you play with your magic water, I get soaked?" he asked, wringing out his parka.
"It's not magic, it's waterbending! And it's…"
"Yeah yeah, 'it's an ancient art unique to our culture', blah blah blah. Look, I'm just saying," he grabbed his warriors knot with his left hand as he turned away from me, wringing the water out of it. I crossed my arms as he continued, "that if I had weird powers, I'd keep my weirdness to myself."
I raised an eyebrow, skeptically, "you're calling me weird? I'm not the one who makes muscles at myself every time I see my reflection in the water!"
He was looking at himself in the water with a confident smile on his face. Upon hearing my comment, however, the smile dropped off his face and he turned to me slowly. Before he could say anything the canoe suddenly shuddered. As we both kept from falling over, Sokka whirled around toward his side of the canoe, a frantic look on my face. The canoe is trapped in a strong current that is taking it farther and farther away from where they were previously.
"Watch out! Go left! Go left!" I yelled.
I looked ahead of us and saw ice pieces moving closer together, narrowing our path. We managed to avoid some of the icebergs, but the canoe veered to the right with the current and became pinned by three large chunks of ice. As the canoe got completely crushed by the ice, Sokka and I threw ourselves from it and onto one of the ice chunks; I nearly slid off the other side into the water but came to a halt at the chunks very edge. I raised my head and looked around. I shuffled on my hands and knees, moving away from the edge toward the middle of the piece of ice.
"You call that left?" I said, bitterly.
"You don't like my steering? Well maybe you should have waterbended us out of the ice."
"So its my fault?" I said, indignantly.
"I knew I should have left you at home!" he responded, "leave it to a girl to screw things up!"
"You are the most sexist," I flung my hands behind me, not noticing the waves I was causing as I continued, "immature," I flung my hands behind me again, "nut brained," I flung my hands again, causing more and more waves that reached the huge iceberg behind me, "I'm embarrassed," I flung a hand upward causing the water to go upward with the movements of my hands, "to be related to you!"
I swung my hands behind me again forcefully.
"Ever since mom died," I pointed myself, "I've been doing all the work around camp, while you've been off playing soldier!"
I emphasised the last word with a strong swing of my arm, deepening the crack in the icebergs behind me. Sokka looked truly terrified now.
"Uh… Katara…"
I pointed at Sokka's face, "I even wash all the clothes! Have you ever smelled your dirty socks? Let me tell you, not pleasant!"
As I yelled out that last word, I unconsciously waterbends again causing two more cracks in the iceberg.
"Katara, settle down!"
"No that's it! I'm done helping you! From now on, hour on your own!" with that last word, the iceberg broke completely in half. I turned and gasped as the two halves of the iceberg tumble into the water, causing a bigger wave than I ever could make.
"Okay, you've gone from weird to freakish, Katara.
"You mean, I did that?" I asked, astonished.
He smirked at me. "Yep," he nudged me, "congratulations."
I noticed several small bubbles appear on the surface of the water directly in front of us. A small spot of water begins to glow with a bright bluish hue. We scrambled back from the edge in terror just as a large, roughly spherical iceberg breaks the surface of the water. It bobbed for a bit before settling down and I discovered that the source of the vow was the iceberg. Memorized by it, I strayed closer and stared at it; behind me, Sokka halfheartedly stretched out his hand, as if to hold me back. I gasped as I saw two people inside the iceberg. One of them, the girl, had her long dark brown hair in braids. Both had glowing arrows on their heads and hands and I saw them open their eyes, which were also glowing.
"They're alive! We've gotta help!"
Before Sokka could grab it, I grabbed his club and began to run to the strange boy and possibly girl in there.
"Katara get back here!" Sokka yelled, grabbing his spear and running to me. "We don't know what that thing is!"
I jumped across five tiny chunks of ice; Sokka, close behind me, does the same. I reached the iceberg first, and began hitting it. On my fifth strike, the club breaks through the surface and a great gust of wind, which escaped from within the iceberg, threw Sokka and I back from the side of the dome. Fissures quickly snaked their way over the whole iceberg and, in a massive outward explosion, the entire dome destroyed itself. A beam of light burst from the core of the iceberg and rocketed into the sky.
Sokka brandished his spear in defense. "Stop!"
The figure, now on top of the ice, emerged and stood, shortly tumbling down the side with a groan of exhaustion. I gasped and ran up to catch him before he hit the ground. Sokka began to poke at him with the blunt end of his spear. I waved it off, annoyed.
"Stop it!"
I placed the boy gently against the base of the crater. He slowly opened his gray eyes and gasped. I looked at him in relief.
"I need to tell you something," he said, in a weak voice.
"What?"
"Please come closer."
I did. "What is it?"
"Will you go penguin sledding with me?" he asked, suddenly energetic.
"Um… sure I-I guess," I replied awkwardly. A sudden thought occurred to me. "Where's that other person that was in the ice with you?"
He furrowed his brows in confusion. "I haven't seen her."
Kanoko's P.O.V.
I heard voices but I didn't want to get up. I had seen a bright light but I still didn't get up. It was only when I heard Aang's voice when I decided I would. I groaned but got up and walked to the edge of the crater I was in. I jumped up and over it landing beside Aang.
"Hi! I'm Kanoko," I said, raising my hand. Katara shook it.
"Katara," she replied. It was then that Aang decided to give me a huge bear hug.
"We weren't in the ice that long, were we?" I asked as we separated
"I don't think so," Aang replied, relief showing clearly on his face. Then he seemed to remember something.
"Appa!" he called out ascending the edge quickly, me following closely in pursuit. As soon as Aang was over the edge, he leaped onto Appa's arrow when I got there. I saw Katara and Sokka taking the shorter and duller path. I jumped in after Aang as he was tugging up on his mouth. It took a moment for Appa to react, but when he did Aang laughed.
"Buddy you're okay," he said happily. I smiled as the two water tribe siblings gaped.
"What is that thing?" Sokka asked.
"This is Appa, my flying bison," Aang replied.
"Right, and this is Katara, my flying sister," Sokka said sarcastically. I snorted, and Aang glanced at me before Appa began to inhale deeply. He and I knew what would happen next and we ducked before Appa sneezed, causing the snot to fling onto Sokka. He squealed in disgust and began to try frantically to wash it off, wiping his face on the ground, under the amused face of his sister. I laughed loudly.
"Don't worry," Aang said cheerfully, "it'll wash out."
Green slime hung from Sokka's face to his glove, dripping down as he retracted his hand. Katara covered her mouth in disgust.
"So, you guys live around here?" I asked. Sokka pointed his spear accusingly at me.
"Don't answer that! Did you see that crazy bolt of light?! They were probably trying to signal the Fire Navy!" he shouted.
"Please," I scoffed, "if we were working with the Fire Navy, they would be here or be close to here already."
"She makes a good point, Sokka," Katara said, thoughtfully.
Sokka ignored her. I sighed.
"You'll never believe us, will you?" I asked.
"Maybe."
I sighed again, muttering nonsense under my breath.
Katara turned to Aang, "you never told us your name."
"I'm," his nose started to itch and he sneezed, flying into the air. He came back down, unharmed and continued, "I'm Aang."
Sokka stared at him in disbelief, "you just sneezed and flew ten feet into the air."
Aang looked questionably at the sky, "really? It felt higher than that."
Katara gasped. "You're an airbender!"
"Sure am," he replied.
"Does anyone else feel left out of this conversation?" I asked. "And if you're wondering, I'm an airbender too."
"Giant light beams, flying bison, airbender," Sokka said, beginning to walk away, "I think I got midnight sun madness. I'm going home to where stuff makes sense."
He realized, however, that he is stranded in the middle of the ocean with no way home.
"Well if you guys are stuck, Kanoko, Appa, and I can give you a lift."
He airbended himself onto Appa, me following after.
"We'd love a ride! Thanks!" Katara said.
"Oh no. I am not getting on that fluffy snot monster!"
"Are you hoping that someone other kind of monster will come along and give you a ride home? You know, before you freeze to death?" Katara said. Sokka opened his mouth to protest, but closed it again with a sigh. Soon the siblings were seated, Katara looked excited, Sokka, not so much. I sat up next to Aang
"Okay, first time flyers, hold on tight! Appa, yip yip!" Aang said, as he whipped the reins, and Appa growled before leaping into the air for a few seconds. He then bellyflopped into the ocean.
"Come on Appa. Yip yip!" I said, Aang whipping the reins.
"Wow. That was truly amazing..." Sokka said sarcastically. Katara shot him an angry look.
"Appa's just a little tired. A little bit of rest and he'll be soaring through the sky. You'll see," Aang said and Katara smiled at him. He smiled back. As Katara moved to go back, she noticed that Aang was still smiling at her.
"Why are you smiling at me like that?" She asked.
"Oh, I was smiling?" Aang replied. Katara smiled back. Sokka groaned and leaned back, sticking his tongue out. Katara glared at him as Appa made his way back to Katara's village. I was lost in thought, and decided to try something. I mean, Aang and I are the Avatar so shouldn't we be able to talk mentally with each other?
Hey Aang. I thought to him. He looked at me in surprise, letting me know it worked.
"How did you do that?"
"Well, together we're the Avatar so I thought that maybe we could talk to each other telepathically."
Good thing Katara wasn't paying attention, right. Seeing how we, or at least you, don't want to be the Avatar. I thought to Aang.
"Yeah, good thing."
"Hey," Katara said.
"Hey," Aang and I responded.
"What'cha thinkin' about?" I continued.
"I guess I was wondering, with you two being airbenders and all, if you had any idea what happened to the Avatar?"
Both of us stiffened at that.
"I did hear that this time, the soul of the Avatar was split into two people. But we didn't know them. I'm sorry," I said.
"Okay. Just curious. Goodnight," she said.
"Sleep tight," Aang and I said, turning away from the saddle.
That night, Aang and I had the same dream, one that was covered in gray. We were sleeping on Appa's saddle while clouds built ahead of us. Lightning split the sky and the rumble of the following thunder woke us up. We both shot up, sharing a look. Aang leaped to Appa's head, grabbing the reins. I tried to airbend, but the wind was too strong. We were going down into the water, with no way to stop it. Appa resurfaced for a little bit, growled, and sunk back under the waves. All three of us fell unconscious. Aang released the reins and started to drift off, along with me before our eyes and tattoos started to glow brightly. We slammed our fists together, working in harmony, creating a bluish-white sphere that encased all three of us. As the air sphere slowly solidified into an icy globe, a voice permeated the dream.
"Aang, Kanoko? Aang, Kanoko! Wake up!" Katara said. I shot up, seeing Aang do the same as we both gasped for breath. "It's okay, we're in the village now! Come on get ready," she pointed to the door of the tent, "everyone's waiting to meet you."
We happily got out of bed, starting to get dressed. I put on a few pieces of my dress-like outfit (which looked a lot like Aang's outfit and I was wearing most of the outfit). Katara stared in wonder at Aang's tattoos. Before Aang or I could get up, Katara pulled us along by our arms for us to meet the whole village. We passed Sokka on the way, sharpening his boomerang.
"Aang, Kanoko, this is the entire village," she gestured to the line of villagers, "entire village, Aang, and Kanoko."
We bowed respectively toward them, but they cowered away in fear, bringing a surprised look to Katara's and our faces.
"Why are they looking at us like that. Did Appa sneeze on us?" he asked. We checked our clothing as an elderly woman stepped out from the line of villagers.
"Well, no one has seen an airbender in a hundred years. We thought they were extinct, until my granddaughter and grandson found you two," she said.
"Extinct?" Aang and I said together.
"Aang, Kanoko, this is my grandmother.
"Call me Gran Gran," the woman said. Sokka walked up and snatched the staff from Aang, starting to examine it.
"What is this, a weapon? You can't stab anything with this!" he said. Aang grabbed his staff back with a current of air.
"It's not for stabbing! It's for airbending," he said, opening his staff into a glider, myself doing the same, as Sokka gasped in fright, covering his head.
"Magic trick! Do it again!" a small village girl said in excitement.
"Not magic, airbending," he responded, moving his glider around him to demonstrate what he was talking about. I scoffed.
"Sure. Show them the boring way," I said, grabbing my glider and launching into the air. I began to fly around the village, as Sokka stared in disbelief.
"She's flying!" the village girl exclaimed. Aang joined me as we did loops around the village. Aang looked down and saw Katara smiling at him. I looked up and flew up, out of the way of the watchtower while Aang ran into it, his head getting stuck. I laughed landing on the ground and spinning my staff to close it. Aang got unstuck and fell to the ground in a pile of snow. Katara immediately ran to Aang.
"My watchtower!" a shocked Sokka said, rushing to it to try to save it. Snow from the watch tower almost immediately fell on him and I laughed.
"Great. You're an Airbender. Katara's a waterbender. Together you can just waste time all day long," Sokka said, freeing himself from the snow.
"You're a waterbender?" Aang asked, looking at her in awe. I looked between the two.
"Isn't it obvious? I knew it from the beginning," I said.
"How?" Katara asked, looking at me in confusion. I shrugged.
"It's hard to explain."
She looked me up and down, a new found interest in her eyes. I smiled.
"All right. No more playing. Come on, Katara, you have chores," Gran Gran said, leading Katara away.
