Avatar: Through the looking glass

On a silent ocean, scattered with icebergs and void of life, there sits a small kayak, it is plain brown with bone like front at back with a wooden interior, the occupants a nineteen year old man, and an eighteen year old girl, both wearing similar outfits. Thick blue fur coats and leather boots, with white fur lining, the man had his hair styled back, his sides shaved and the top and back grown long and tied back in a short pony tail. The girl had her hair long, but tied back into a longer pony tail and tucked down the back of her coat, she also had parts of the front of her hair in loop like bangs.

The boy is leaning over the edge of the kayak with a spear in hand, the end looks to be made out of a jaw bone or some kind of stone. He's slowly watching a fish just under the surface of the water taking his time to aim.

"It's not getting away from me this time." He says full of confidence with a grin he looked back to the girl for a second, "Watch and learn, Katara. This is how you catch a fish."

The girl, Katara, rolls her eyes at the man's words and lets her eyes wonder water in another direction. Her eyes widen slightly spotting a second fish a bit further away, she glances at the boy for a second and then back to the fish before slowly reaching for her left glove and removing it slowly.

Straightening up she takes a deep breath as she reaches her hand forward in the direction of the fish, moving her hand in a wave like movement. The water around the fish moves slightly, slowly but surely a portion of the water surrounding the fish lifts out and begins to float. The girl looks on in shock as she resorts to using both of her hands as the bubble like form of water lifts up with the fish inside.

"Sokka, look!" Katara calls to her male companion.

But she is ignored "Shhh~ Katara, you're gonna scare it away." The newly named Sokka says not taking his eye off his pray, "Mmmm, I can already smell it cookin'!"

"But Sokka! I caught one!" Katara says excitedly as she brought the bubble of water and fish above the boat to put the fish into the container they have in the middle of the boat. But as she does so, Sokka drew his spear back and up into the air ready to throw at his target. But as he pulls back, the blunt end spears the water above his head, making the fish in it panic and push out bursting the water and making Katara lose focus and the water drop onto Sokka below.

"Hey!" Katara says disappointed as she watched her fish swim away.

"Ugh!" Sokka says as the cold water hits him, he shakes himself to get the water off him as he sets his spear down, "Why is it that every time you play with magic water, I get soaked?"

"Ah~" Katara sighs, "It's not magic. It's water bending, and it's…." Katara was about to continue when Sokka interrupted her.

"Yeah, yeah, an ancient art unique to our culture, blah-blah-blah. Look, I'm just saying that if I had weird powers, I'd keep my weirdness to myself." He whines as he squeezes his pony tail dry.

Katara raises and eyebrow, "You're calling me weird? I'm not the one who makes muscles at myself every time I see my reflection in the water." She finishes with a smirk.

Sokka was about to retort but suddenly they both were both shaken as their boat was pulled, their small boat had been caught in a current and was being pulled towards a maze of moving smaller icebergs. The deeper in they go the less options they have to move

"Watch out! Go left! Go left!" Katara yells trying to help but Sokka was too slow as two icebergs trap their boat between them, the two jump for it as their boat is crushed by the ice.

The two land on one of the wider icebergs Katara slides nearly off the edge but stops just in time and pulls herself back to beside Sokka, both panting from their near crushing experience.

Katara looks at Sokka, "You call that left?" she complains unimpressed at their current predicament.

Sokka sticks his spear into the iceberg as he crosses his arms, "You don't like my steering. Well, maybe you should have water bended us out of the ice." He suggest sarcastically before waving his arms in a funny manor to exaggerate more.

Katara stands up, "So it's my fault?" she says getting angry.

"I knew I should have left you home. Leave it to a girl to screw things up." Sokka says in an, I-knew-this-would-happen way.

Ok Katara had had enough, "You are the most sexist, immature, nut brained, ugh. I'm embarrassed to be related to you! Ever since Mom died I've been doing all the work around camp while you've been off playing soldier!"

As Katara had been yelling she had been throwing her arms back in anger, not noticing the water behind her move and thrash violently, as she continued it only grew and with another yell the iceberg behind her cracked and Sokka heard it and looked in shock. And gulped, "Uh Katara?"

But she didn't listen, she was venting and she was getting it all out, "I even wash all the clothes! Have you ever smelled your dirty socks? Let me tell you, not pleasant!!" she yelled again as the massive fifty foot iceberg cracked again dangerously

"Katara! Settle down!" Sokka yelled in fear.

She just thought he was being an idiot and yelled back, "No, that's it. I'm done helping you. From now on, you're on your own!" she yelled in anger sending a finally crack up the iceberg and it made a loud noise finally getting her attention, she turned just as it fell apart and collapses into the water.

The result of the iceberg going under caused a large ring of water to wave out pushing the iceberg the two of them were on to be pushed back making them both fall on their fronts as they were forced back until colliding with another iceberg bringing them to a stop.

"Okay, you've gone from weird to freakish, Katara." Sokka said angrily and still a little frightened

"You mean I did that?" Katara asked completely shocked at the fact

"Yup. Congratulations." Sokka remarked sarcastically.

But no sooner had Sokka said that, a bright light started shinning from beneath the water, as the water started moving like something was coming up. And something did, a glowing bright blue iceberg burst from the water. Sokka and Katara quickly stood up as the ice moved and they kept their footing. Slowly the glowing berg came to a gentle stop and steadied off.

Katara took a step forward looking at it curiously, Sokka went to stop her but stopped when they both saw what was inside.

Two shapes, one looked to be a beast of some kind while the other was a boy in a meditative state, he had glowing arrow marks on his body. His knuckles were together in fists, his eyes closed.

Both Sokka and Katara looked closer at the boy but both gasped in shock when his eyes opened glowing the same as his arrows.

"He's alive! We have to help him." Katara said in shock pulling Sokkas' club from his back and rushing to the berg.

"Katara!" Sokka yelled chasing her, "Get back here! We don't know what that thing is!" he kept calling as they hopped across smaller chunks of ice over to the glowing berg.

Katara drew back the club and swung at the large chunk of ice, once, twice, and then finally on the third time it cracked and a large gust of air burst from it and knocked both of them on their backs. They both looked to the iceberg as a massive crack shot up it and more air escaped, before finally the entire top part of the ice shattered and broke, releasing a stream of bright blue energy up into the sky illuminating the entire area.

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A great distance away from that spot there was a large black metal ship steaming through the icy waters.

At the hull stood a man his left eye squinting the area around it and side of his face scorched so badly he's lucky to still have the eye. His hair shaved all except for a patch on his head that has grown long, that he has bound into a tall pony tail. He wore a thick set of armour plates with spiked shoulder pads and boots with red tinted and rims.

His right eye widened as dose his left seeing the burst of blue light shoot into the sky, but the look of shock turns to a glair. "Finally." He says in a cores voice before turning to the man sitting on the deck a bit further away. "Uncle, do you realize what this means?"

The man who was sitting was much older than him, his hair grey and long with a portion in a top not, and side burns, with a small beard, his face wrinkled with age but still well kept, he wore a lighter version of what the first was wearing, and was currently sitting cross legged at a small table with a pot of warm steaming tea placing tiled cards down. He didn't even look up to answer. "I won't get to finish my game?" the man said with a sigh.

The first turned and looked towards the still streaming light, "It means my search. It's about to come to an end." The older man sighed making the first turn to the older man and point at the light, "That light came from an incredibly powerful source. It has to be him!"

"Or it's just the celestial lights." Said the older man waving his hands indicating to the sky, "We've been down this road before, Prince Zuko. I don't want you to get too excited over nothing." He said placing another one of his tiles down, "Please, sit. Why don't you enjoy a cup of calming jasmine tea?"

"I don't need any calming tea!" the newly names Prince Zuko yelled, snapping at the man he called uncle, "I need to capture the Avatar." He then looked up to the control deck and yelled up, "Helmsman, head a course for the light!"

The man's uncle shook his head at his nephews' actions as he set down another tile as a cold wind blew shaking them for a moment.

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The light finally faded revealing Sokka covering Katara as the two knelt down covering themselves from the elements and whatever just happened.

Sokka looked to Katara as the both of them rose up both still weary from the experience, Sokka held up the spear pointing it at the remains of the berg. But lowered it as both he and Katara looked onto see someone coming over the ice.

It was the one who had been trapped, he was young looking maybe only sixteen, with a shaved head and a glowing blue arrow on his forehead and glowing blue eyes, wearing what looked to be a yellow and red thin attire of some sort of nomad.

As the teenage reached to the top of the berg, Sokka got a hold of himself again and raised his spear holding Katara close as he did so. "Stop!" he yelled

But no sooner had he yelled than the glowing eyes and arrows stopped and he fell down the slope of ice, Katara broke from Sokkas grasp and rushed to the teenager catching him before he hurt himself.

She started looking the teen over for any injuries, but as she did so, Sokkas came up to them and with the blunt end he stupidly started poking the teen like you would an animal you weren't sure was dead.

"Stop it!" Katara said angrily pushing the pole away. Slowly she leaned the bald teen against the ice gently, as she felt him stir.

Slowly he opened his eyes with a groan, his grey eyes meeting her blue, slowly he began to speak, "I need to ask you something." He said his voice week

"What?" Katara asked gently?

"Please come closer." He said his voice still week as she let in

"What is it?" she asked gently

Slowly the teen closed his eyes before they burst open and his voice and strength were completely restored, "Will you go penguin sledding with me?" he asked excitedly

"Uh sure." Katara replied not sure how else to respond. "I guess."

Getting his response the teen looked around and in a quick movement hovered to his feet and stood up getting Sokka to jump and point his spear at the teen, while Katara glared at Sokkas actions though he didn't catch it.

"What's going on here?" asked the teen as he looked around at where he was while rubbing the back of his head.

"You tell us!" Sokka deadpanned, "How'd you get in the ice?" he asked pointing over the teens head at the iceberg, who just looked at him like he was crazy, "And why aren't you frozen?" he asked again while poking the teen with his spear gently.

"I'm not sure." The teen replied lazily as he pushed the spear away, and looked around, but their conversation was interrupted by a low grumbling from the remains of the iceberg.

The teen heard it and quickly started climbing up the ice and seeing what he saw he saw he quickly slid down the icy slop and landed on a soft head. "Appa!" yelled the teen

The head he was on top of was huge, white and furry, with two sharp horns on either side with ropes attached to like reigns, the body that belonged to the head was huger and furry with six legs and a long tail, he had an arrow like design from the tip of his tail to the front of his head in grey with the rest of his fur white, a wide grey face and a blue nose, it looked like some sort of bison.

The teen climbed down to the bison's eye and pulled it open "Are you all right? Wake up, buddy." When the bison didn't respond the teen dropped to the ground and tried to lift the bison's head viva its top lip, after a few seconds Sokka and Katara came around the corner to see the sight in front of them with shocked faces, even more so when the bison's mouth opened and its tongue came out licking the bald teen playfully.

"Ha-ha! You're okay!" the teen yelled happy before hugging the bison with a smile

Katara and Sokka approached cautiously, "What is that thing?" Sokka asked spear at the ready.

"This is Appa, my flying bison." The teen said with a smile

"Right." Sokka said sarcastically while rolling his eyes "And this is Katara, my flying sister." He said only to get an elbow in the side from said sister

Then suddenly Appa started twitching before rearing its head back and sneezing sending a big pile of snot out and hitting Sokka covering him in the green slime. Sokka blinked for a second before dropping his spear and himself to the ground and desperately trying to clean the stuff off with the snow, while his sister watched on amused at her brothers karma.

"Don't worry. It'll wash out." The teen said with a smile as Sokka reached for the slime on his face only to pull it away in a green mix nearly making Katara blow chunks at the sight.

The bald teen giggled and then his eyes widened and he looked around, "Hey wait a minute, Ty, Ty where are ya buddy!" he called

The siblings looked at him for a moment confused at who he was calling for when a hand raised up from the seating area on top of the bison's back

"Hmmmmm, up here loud mouth, not so loud, I feel like I've been sat on by Appa here, next time I'm driving, no offence Appa" said the voice as the person it belonged to started to get up.

He was tall about five foot eleven, with salt and pepper hair, tanned skin, his hair was messy at the front but the long back was braided into a warriors brain to the base of his back, he wore a grey vest shirt showing off his chiselled chest and white baggy pants with a rope holding them up. On his hip looked to be a gourd of some description with a cork in its head with a red cloth rapped around its centre attaching it to the boys rope belt. He was currently holding his head groaning in displeasure as he stood up.

The bald teen chuckled rubbing the back of his head, "Yea sorry about that, you alright?"

The teen nodded, finally taking his hand away from his eyes showing their deep green shade as he blinked adjusting to the light, "Yea I'll be fine, just give me a second to get my...…CRAP IT'S COLD!" the teen yelled his arms going to his chest and rubbing furiously before he dived for the blanket in the saddle. "I hate the cold, why is it so cold?" he asked his teeth chattering.

"Um you're kind of at the south pole" Katara answered his open question.

The salt and pepper teen blinked at her and then looked to his friend as his eye twitched in annoyance, "Baldy why are we at the South Pole? I thought I said to head north east to where its warm, but no~ you had to head south east instead, just perfect, I'm freezing my butt off here" he said trying to sound pissed but was a little difficult with his teeth still chattering and him wrapped in a blanket.

"He-he-he sorry, Ty." the bald teen chuckled nervously at his friends words before turning to the siblings. "So, do you guys live around here?"

"Don't answer that!" Sokka snapped as he pointed his spear at the bald teen, "Did you see that crazy bolt of light? They were probably trying to signal the Fire Navy."

But no sooner had Sokka raised his spear they heard a pop coming from the saddle area and then in a flash of movement Sokka was on the ground with a knee on his chest and his spear away from his grip, when the nineteen year old opened his eyes he gulped nervously as the sight in front of him.

The boy who had been in the saddle moments before was now on top of him with a knee on his chest and a glass spiked blade coming from his elbow and just pricking Sokkas neck, and the teen was glaring at Sokka with a cold anger in his eyes, "point a weapon at my friend again and it will be the last thing you ever do got it" he said in an angry voice filled with rage making the older teen nod slightly knowing this guy meant every word.

"Ty, it's alright buddy, he didn't hurt me, come on there's no need for violence we're all just talking here, put the glass away" the bald teen said trying to calm his friend down.

Slowly his friend nodded and took his knee off Sokkas chest and stood up, the glass shattered and started swirling around the teen turning into granules of sand and filtered into the gourd on his hip before the teen replaced the cork, and nodded, "fair enough" he replied and reached out his hand to help Sokka up, he took it as the teen pulled him up.

Katara approached him slowly, "I'm sorry about that, the paranoid one is my brother, Sokka." She then looked back to the bald teens, "You never told us your names."

The bald one started to speak but then "I'm A, I'm A, I'm Achooooooooo!" in a burst of air from his nose shot him high into the air, before coming down and using the slope of ice to land on his feet, "I'm Aang." He finished rubbing his nose

Sokka blinked, "You just sneezed and flew ten feet in the air." He said completely not believing what he just saw.

"Really? It felt higher than that." Aang said looking up

Salt and pepper chuckled wrapping the blanket around himself again, "Yep more like thirty I'd say, names Tiberius, but just call me Ty."

Katara completely ignored him and rushed to Aang, "Wow, you're an air bender!"

"Sure am." Aang grinned

Ty went into a slump with a little cloud over his head, "Sure just ignore me" he pouted

"Sorry." Katara said feeling a little bad but then blinked, "hey wait you're a bender to right"

Ty smirked "yep, I'm and earth bender by birth, but I tend to stick to sand, I find it more fluent than large clunks of earth, more finesse and style than just crushing stuff"

"But that bending you used before" Katara said pointing to Sokka who was rubbing his neck remembering.

"glass, it's a technique that was taught me by the elder of the tribe that took me in when I was a child, when I want to I can pull it all together to create glass shapes, weapons mostly for self-defence or of defence of my friends, the glass is unrefined but hard as stone meaning I can break it after I'm done and return it to my gourd" Ty explained patting his gourd.

"Wow that's amazing" Katara said in shock meeting two other benders at the one time

"Giant light beams, flying bison, earth/sand/glass benders, air benders I think I've got Midnight Sun Madness." Sokka said turning around to walk off, "I'm going home to where stuff makes sense." But before he could Ty was in front of him, shivering.

"I just have one question. Is it warm?" He asked, teeth chattering

"Hm yea" Sokka nodded with a raised eyebrow

Ty leaned his head past Sokka and looked to Aang, "Good I like it already lets go there." He said pointing to Sokka, but then he looked around to see they were trapped on the berg. "Crap!"

Aang chuckled rubbing his head, "Well, if you guys are stuck Appa and I can give you a lift."

"We'd love a ride! Thanks!" Katara said with a smile

"Oh, no I am not getting on that fluffy snot monster." Sokka said in protest

"Are you hoping some other kind of monster will come along and give you a ride home? You know before you freeze to death?" Katara said as Aang helped her up

Sokka was about to argue a point but realized it was pointless and just sighed, "Okay."

Ty walked over to Appa, "Yo Aang, pop my other gourd" he called

Aang nodded and walked over to the larger gourd on the saddle area pulling the cork off as the sand burst from it and circled Ty before forming a platform and Ty stepped on before it lifted him up to stepping level with the saddle, he stepped off and the sand floated back to the gourd.

Katara looked on amazed at the sight, "wow that was amazing, you didn't even move it just did it itself, how?"

Ty smiled, "I've been practicing my bending for a long time, when it comes to sand the parts are so small commanding them with your hands is a bit tedious, so I use my mind, it saves energy and looks cool at the same time"

"Wow, how many years have you been training like that" Katara asked shocked as Sokka climbed up by himself struggling.

"My whole life, I grew up in the desserts of the earth kingdom, living in such an environment makes you strong, by the age of thirteen I was already skilled with my bending, so I left to travel, though I tend to stick to warm climates" he explained putting emphasis on the warm climates part making Aang chuckle and Katara giggle

"I can see why, from growing up in the desert heat, to coming to this must not be pleasant" she said

Ty nodded, wrapping his blanket around him more tightly, "Cold….so cold, why would the spirits make a place so cold"

The other three just sweat dropped as Aang took the reins, "Alright then, First time flyers, hold on tight! Appa, yip-yip!"

Aang cracked the reigns and Appa stood up lifting his tail and with a mighty slam he threw himself high into the air, before coming crashing back down into the water with a splash and then started to swim

"Come on, Appa. Yip-yip." Aang tried again as he pulled on the reigns, Katara moved to the front of the saddle area as Ty huddled in his blanket and Sokka just crossed his arms speaking in a sarcastic tone.

"Wow. That was truly amazing." He said getting another glare from Katara

"Appa's just tired. A little rest and he'll be soaring through the sky. You'll see." Aang said grinning but then didn't stop

"Why are you smiling at me like that?" Katara asked a little weirded out

"Oh I was smiling?" Aang said turning his head hiding his small blush

Ty smiled to himself at his friends actions but a cold breeze caught him and he started shivering, "Cold so cold, baldy, I'm going to kick you bald butt for this when we're finally some place warm"

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Back on the ship on the top deck, Prince Zuko stands looking out across the area as they sail, now dressed in only robes instead of his armour.

His Uncle comes out of the ship his hands tucked in his sleeves looking at his nephew, he yawns and then stretches, "I'm going to bed now. Yep. A man needs his rest. Prince Zuko, you need some sleep. Even if you're right and the Avatar is alive, you won't find him. Your father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all tried and failed." He said his voice filled with sympathy.

Zuko didn't turn, "Because their honour didn't hinge on the Avatar's capture. Mine does. This coward's hundred years in hiding are over." he said keeping front facing the entire time, as his uncle returned into the ship.

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After an hour or so of swimming, Aang was lying on Appas head, Ty was curled up with the blanket trying to sleep the cold away and Katara was crawling over to the form of the saddle.

She peered over the edge and looked down to Aang "Hey."

"Hey." Aang said in response, "Whatcha thinkin' about?"

"I guess I was wondering your being an air bender and all if you had any idea what happened to the Avatar." Katara asked curious

Ty opened one of his eyes hearing that and listened to Aangs response.

"Uhh no. I didn't know him I mean, I knew people that knew him, but I didn't. Sorry." Aang said sadly

"Okay. Just curious." Katara said a little disappointed "Goodnight."

"Sleep tight." Aang called back

Ty closed his eye again, 'you'll work it out little buddy, and I'll help ya that's what friends are for'

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"Aang! Aang, wake up! It's okay." Katara said as she woke him from his sleep, "We're in the village now. Come on, get ready. Everyone's waiting to meet you two" she said with a smile

Ty just grabbed the blankets and wrapped himself up more and spoke through the wrapped up covers, "nope not happening, to cold I'm nice and warm in here"

"Oh get up all ready" Katara said as she grabbed the cover and pulled dragging him out of the tent with Aang behind them

"Hey let me go crazy woman" Ty complained as Katara dragged him out and then dropped him wrapped in his blanket cocoon he stood up sticking his head out looking like a shivering caterpillar, Katara just grinned

"Aang, Ty, this is the entire village. Entire village, Aang and Ty" Katara smiled introducing them

Aang was polite and bowed with his staff in hand, Ty just did a bow still wrapped up in his cocoon, as they did some of the villagers flinched from them, this didn't go un noticed as Ty scanned the crowd.

'Only old women and children, and no boys over twelve years old, what's going on here?'

"Uh why are they all looking at me like that? Did Appa sneeze on me?" Aang asked checking himself

As he did an elderly woman came out of the crowd and spoke, "Well, no one has seen an air bender in a hundred years. We thought they were extinct until my granddaughter and grandson found you.

"Extinct'?" spoke Aang in shock as he looked to Ty

Ty shrugged, "That seems pretty strange, I know they're nomads but a hundred years seems a little strange"

"Aang, Ty this is my grandmother." Katara introduced them

"Call me Gran-Gran." The old woman said in a very un-special way

As the two of them smirked Sokka came up beside Aang and took the staff to look at is, "What is this, a weapon? You can't stab anything with this."

"It's not for stabbing. It's for air bending." Aang said putting air into it and spreading its wings

Ty chuckled dropping the blanket and popping his hip gourd as the sand formed around his hand and then turned to glass claws, "you should know by now Sokka, stabbing is my game" he grinned running his claws off each other making the older teen chuckle nervously

The children of the village had seen both little displays and started cheering, "Magic trick! Do it again!"

"Not magic, air and earth bending. Mine lets me control the air currents around my glider and fly" Aang said with a smile

"You know, last time I checked, humans can't fly." Sokka said sarcastically

"Check again!" Aang said before gripping the glider and kicking up into the air and soring high into the air much to the amazement of the people below

"Whoa it's flying its amazing!" some of the people said seeing him go

"Now it's my turn to show off" Ty said as he crossed his arms and all the glass on his hands shattered and more sand poured out of his hip gourd and flowed around him Ty breathed in concentrating and the sand began to swirl in a mini tornado at his side before growing up and up to be the same height as him, before compacting revealing a life size glass replica of himself, but then the real fun began , when Ty turned his head and the sculpture mimicked it as he moved it moved.

"That's incredible how are you making it move" Katara asked

"The glass is still part sand on some level, so I'm just moving the sand, here watch" Ty said as he held out his hand and the glass sculpture took it and the statue broke apart into sand again swirling around him the majority of it going back into the gourd but the rest formed into a long glass sword in Ty's hand, he spun it and it changed into a spear, he did it again and it turned into a shield, "see, under my complete control" he did is again and it changed into a smaller sculpture of a small girl dancing around Katara and then into a swirl of sand again returning to its gourd

"Waaaa!" everyone looked up just in time to see Aang crash into the tower and then pulling himself out leaving a gaping hole

"Oh, my watchtower!" said Sokka in the most pathetic tone ever

Ty just burst out laughing, "Nice one baldy, way to stick the landing there, show off"

Katara gave Ty an elbow in the side, which he barely registered, before running over to Aang, "That was amazing."

As Katara helped Aang up, Sokka walked over to check on the situation of his watch tower only to get a pile of snow dropped on him, "Great. You're an air bender, Ty's an earth bender, Katara's a water bender. Together you can just waste time all day long."

Ty's eye twitched at that comment and walked over his gourd popped making Sokka gulp as the sand formed into the long bladed katana from before and Ty held it to Sokkas chin with a very sadistic smile, "what was that about bending being a waste of time" he said

"n-n-not a thing" Sokka said with a gulp

Ty smiled as the sword turned back to sand from the tip and flowed back into gourd, "good, that's what I thought I heard"

Ty turned to find Katara standing with her arms crossed, "could you please stop pointing your glass at my brother"

Ty shrugged, "I will, when he stops acting like a stupid know it all." he then walked past her and lifted the blanket again wrapping it around him and walked back to the tent, "if anyone needs me I'm going back to the tent where its warm, Baldy, let me know when we're done here" he waved back entering the tent and going to sleep.

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On the deck of the fire nation ship in the waters a fair distance still away, prince Zuko stood facing down two guards in a training session as the princes uncle sat on a small stool observing.

"Again." The elderly man said irritated that they'd been at it so long and his nephew refused to listen to his words.

Prince Zuko fires two bursts of fire from his hands at the guards who deflected the blasts and returned their own, the first Zuko ducked under and then leaped into a mid-air spin to avoid the second aimed for his feet, and sending his seconds attack as he spun, the guard jumped back dogging the attack as his counterpart spun out of the wat from a second fire blast from the princes foot, Zuko landed in his stance, legs wide and arms out front, fists balled ready to attack again.

The uncle got up, "No! Power in fire bending comes from the breath." Said the old man taking in a deep breath, "Not the muscles." He said making a fist, "The breath becomes energy in the body." He said as he brought his hands up his body in a path, "The energy extends past your limbs and becomes fire." He said firing off a burst of short fire as a demonstration, "Get it right this time." He said as he put his hands behind his back.

"Enough." The prince snapped walking up to the old man, "I've been drilling this sequence all day. Teach me the next set. I'm more than ready." He said as he squared up to his uncle.

"No, you are impatient. You have yet to master your basics." The man said sitting down, "Drill it again!" he commanded

Only for Zuko to send out a kick that send a blast of fire at one of the guards who took it full force but spread it out so as not to burn himself but the impact send him on his ass several feet backwards. Zuko turned to his uncle glaring at him, which his uncle returned in kind.

"The sages tell us that the Avatar is the last air bender. He must be over a hundred years old by now. He's had a century to master the four elements. I'll need more than basic fire bending to defeat him. You will teach me the advanced set!" the prince demanded in a yell

"Very well." His uncle said in a serious voice but then turned to his right picking up a bowl, "But first I must finish my roast duck." He said tucking in making Zuko look at him with a look that said WTF!

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Ty had taken to snoozing on the saddle on top of Appa and was enjoying his snooze until a certain loud mouth woke him up.

"Stop! Stop it right now!" yelled Sokka walking over in the bison's direction, because of the kids using Appa as a slip and slide to land in snow

"What's wrong with you? We don't have time for fun and games with a war going on." Sokka yelled again but before Aang could reply Ty spoke

"The next person to yell is getting a sharp glass boot up their ass, some people are trying to sleep here!" he yelled making them sweat drop, but then Aang remembered what he was going to ask.

"What war? What are you talking about?" he asked all confused and Ty just curled up again and tried to get back to sleep that was until Aang saw the.

"PENGUIN!"

Ty sat bolt upright at the yell eyes wide in anger, "what did I say!!"

Aang gulped and took off at break neck speeds, Ty reached and grabbed his larger Gourd strapping it to his back as the top flew off and the sand poured out creating a large mass that Ty jumped on, "Oh no you don't get back here you bald bastard!" Ty yelled as he took off after Aang on the flying sand, leaving Katara and Sokka just standing there blinking thinking what the hell just happened.

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After a few minutes of chasing, Ty just gives up and decided to go exploring the vast artic figuring he can just find his own way back. Flying over the vast arctic tundra on his body of sand he spots something off in the distance, a darker structure that any other icebergs around and looking closer it looked man made.

Flying in close he heard the sound of someone screaming with excitement he looked down to see both Katara and Aang coming down the slope on two penguins and finally come to a stop nearing the structure. He flies in low coming close to them and the structure which he can now see is a ship trapped in ice in an odd way like the ice rose up from beneath in freezing it on the spot.

As he came down he heard Aang ask "Whoa what is that?"

Ty landed just a bit behind them, "wondering that myself"

Both turned to see him land and the sand return to his gourd, before turning back to the ship.

"It's a Fire Navy ship, and a very bad memory for my people." Katara said sadly

Both Aang and Ty shared a look and nodded before walking towards the wreck

"Aang, Ty, stop! We're not allowed to go near it." Katara warned, "The ship could be booby trapped."

"If you wanna be a bender, you have to let go of fear." Aang said sound all wise

Ty smirked, "beside with three benders, what could stop us? We're packing three of the four elements here, we'll be fine"

Reluctantly Katara nodded and follows them onto the ship.

Slowly the three of them made their way through the bowls of the ling abandoned ship, until they came to the armoury.

Ty smiled looking at all the weapons, he grinned seeing something that caught his eye a long bisento, it had a solid body and a heavy hilt made of silver, the blade was completely rusted through but he grinned as he replaced it using his sand bending to form a solid glass blade with a grin, "papa found himself a new toy"

Aang just raised his eye at it, "couldn't you have just made yourself one out of all glass?"

Ty shrugged, "I could have but I like this better, plus now we both have a staff to carry around" he grinned

Aang grinned and went back to looking at the weapons.

Katara ran her hand over a few of them. "This ship has haunted my tribe since Gran-Gran was a little girl. It was part of the Fire Nation's first attacks."

Ty looked to Katara confused now, "what are you talking about?"

Katara was about to answer when Aang spoke.

"Okay, back up. Ty and I have friends all over the world, even in the Fire Nation. We've never seen any war." Aang tried to reason,

"My exact thoughts, just what the hell is going on here?" Ty asked trying to work out the same

Katara looked at the both of them, "how long were you two in that iceberg?"

"I don't know a few days, maybe?" Aang answered looking to Ty who just shrugged he was the same.

"I think it was more like a hundred years!" Katara said in shock

"What? That's impossible. Do we look like a hundred-sixteen year old men to you?" Aang said looking at Katara like she's crazy

Ty walked up to Katara and put his hands on her shoulders acting serious, "ok Katara I need you to answer me truthfully, what have you been smoking and where can I get some?"

She pushed him off "Think about it. The war is a century old. You two don't know about it because somehow, you were in there that whole time. It's the only explanation."

"A hundred years! I can't believe it." Aang said as he dropped on his butt

Ty hit the wall with his back and sloped down it, "one hundred years....damn guess we missed dinner Hm?"

Aang had a sad smile on his face at his friend's words as Katara knelt down to him, "I'm sorry, Aang. Maybe somehow there's a bright side to all this." She said trying to cheer him up like Ty

"I did get to meet you." Aang said with a smile

Ty pulled himself to his feet with his bisento and sighed, "well at least we're not alone in this buddy, come on let's get out of here, it's starting to give me the creeps"

Slowly the three made their way through the ship and found themselves at the top deck control room. The three of them entered.

"Aang, Ty? Let's head back. This place is creepy." Katara asked

Ty nodded, "I second that motion, this place is ten tons of creepy that is giving me Goosebumps, or maybe that's just the cold"

But before they could Aang placed one foot too many forward and pulled a wire that tripped the trap, as a metal cage door fell down blocking the entrance. As the three of them ran to get out.

"What's that you said about booby traps?" Aang said as they were trapped,

Ty face palmed, "and everything had been going so well."

Suddenly the next part of the trap fired off, a chain was pulled by a weight, which pulled a leaver which released some pressure gauges which in turn caused a massive increase in pressure which fired something off screeching into the sky as the three of the looked out the window. The saw the flair fly high into the sky.

Ty just crossed his arms, "that's it, they set up that big elaborate booby trap just for a single flair, I'm disappointed they could have made it a bit more flashy I mean a group of flairs, a few fireworks, hell even some fire crackers would have been more exciting that a single flair, talk about no flair for the dramatic"

Both Katara and Aang sweat dropped at Ty's rant, and then Aang spotted the hole in the roof and he and Katara got under it, "Hold on tight!" he says holding Katara as the two of them shot out of the hole Ty following behind on his sand.

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Watching from a distance after having seen the flair, prince Zuko watches as Aang shot out of the hole and bounded down the ship with Katara, and Ty came out after on his sand landing beside them, as they got on the sand and he took off in the direction of the village

"The last air bender." Said Zuko glairing, "Quite agile for his old age." He said watching, "and it appears he has allies still. Wake my uncle! Tell him I found the Avatar as well as his hiding place."