Greetings my fellow FanFiction readers and writers! I'm doing something new here that I have never attempted before: I am taking a plunge into the deep-end and I'm going to try my hand at writing my very own and very first ATLA FanFic. But before I get started with this new story: I have a few things to say first.

1st off: I mean no disrespect by what I'm about to say, but this is not a Kataang story. I repeat this is NOT a Kataang story!

2nd thing: I would really love it if you guys who read this story would be so kind as to right down your thoughts and maybe give me a little bit of feedback after each new chapter is posted. Depending on how well this first chapter turns out, I may or may not need some ideas for future chapters as the story progresses.

And lastly, the 3rd thing I have to say is: I hope you guys have fun and enjoy reading this new story that I'm writing. Let's see what my crazy dreams have got me into this time lol. Anyways, with all of that out of the way, I hope you enjoy reading this story. Now, without further ado, let's take flight.

oOo

The school day had just ended and Aang was trying to slip out quietly without being noticed. The Avatar in disguise looked down at Momo in his jacket.

"We made it through the day, Momo... and it was pretty fun." Aang told his little furry friend as the lemur peeked his head out of the boy's tunic.

"Don't let the headmaster catch you with that monkey." Came a sudden voice from behind him.

The Avatar in disguise froze and his eyes grew wide. He spun around quickly and gave the newcomer standing behind him a nervous grin.

"What monkey?" He asked a bit too quickly, chuckling awkwardly and rubbing the back of his neck with a sheepish smile forming on his face.

The brown-haired girl chuckled at that and gave Aang a reassuring smile. "Don't worry, I'm not a tattletale." She told him confidently. Upon hearing those words, the airbender could immediately tell through her vibrations that she was telling him the truth.

The girl's smile seemed to grow even wider as she continued speaking. "My name's On Ji." She introduced herself to Aang, who could only nod his head in response. "I like your headband, by the way."

Aang had just opened his mouth to start saying something when he was not-so-nicely shoved aside by an older and sorta tallish-looking boy.

If Aang were to guess how old the other boy was just based on appearance alone, he would say that the boy in question looked to be about a year or two older than both himself and On Ji.

He scowled slightly at Aang while casually draping one arm over the brunette's shoulders. "On Ji, you don't have to baby-sit the new kid."

"Wow," Aang said, bowing like On Ji had showed him earlier. "You must be one of those popular kids I've been hearing about."

He smirked rudely. "That's right. Now listen friend: I know you're from the colonies so I'll say this slowly. On Ji. Is. My Girlfriend. Don't forget it."

Momo moved around in Aang's jacket and he gave the Avatar a weird look. Aang smiled awkwardly and laughed it off. He just hoped to the spirits that he didn't see Momo.

Aang wasn't sure if it was just his eyes playing tricks on him or something like that, but when he looked over at On Ji, he caught a flash of something pass over her face as she begrudgingly let her boyfriend drape one of his larger arms over her shoulders.

After a few more moments of tense silence, the older boy said one last thing to Aang before walking away with On Ji. "You'd better stay away from my girlfriend, do you hear what I'm saying, colony trash?" He scowled darkly and snarled the last part while pointing an accusatory finger at the 12-year-old airbender.

Aang just nodded his head slowly in response while crossing his arms over his chest. "Yeah sure, I'll do whatever you say, Mr. Snarky Pants." He bowed mockingly and gave the older boy a cheeky grin as he and On Ji walked away.

"Huh? Well okay then! I guess that just happened," the young monk sighed softly to himself before preparing to leave the school courtyard. But his plans were once again halted when another kid came trotting up to him with an impressed look on his face.

"Wow! I can't believe it! He didn't even try to fight you even once. Now that's impressive!" His green eyes were glinting with amazement and the way he spoke made Aang feel like what had just happened wasn't a normal kind of thing.

Aang just chuckled nervously and smiled while giving the other boy a small shrug of his shoulders. "I guess I just got lucky." Was all he said in response.

Neither of the two boys said anything for a short while before the green-eyed boy cleared his throat and started speaking again. "Yeah I guess you did. Anyway, we were on our way to go play hide-and-explode! You wanna come and join us, Kuzon?"

The other boy's green eyes were gleaming with kindness and it silently made Aang think of his hard-headed and strict but kind-hearted earthbending teacher and best friend, Toph.

When Aang said nothing in response to his question, the kid blinked a few times and waved one of his hands in front of the Avatar's face. "Hey Kuzon, you there? Hello? Earth to Kuzon!"

He was abruptly knocked off of the thinking train once his mind registered the hand in front of his face and a quick and frantic call of his name that came out of the other kid's mouth.

Shaking his head to clear his thoughts away, Aang smiled sheepishly and stared down at his feet.

"Huh? What? I-I uh, yeah, yeah of course I'll come! I'd love to play hide-and-explode! It sounds like a lot of fun!" He gave the green-eyed boy and his friends what he hoped was a reassuring smile as he awaited to see what would happen next.

"My name's Shoji by the way! It's nice to meet you, Kuzon." The now named Shoji introduced himself to Aang while holding a hand out for him to shake.

Aang smiled back in return and shook Shoji's hand with far less force put into it. "It's nice to meet you too, Shoji."

After the introductions had been made, both Aang and Shoji ran off to play "Hide-and-explode" with another group of kids. Once the teams had been decided and everything else was sorted out, the game was officially started and things went about as crazy as one might have managed a game in the Fire Nation would be.