Book 1: Episode 2: The Avatar Returns

The trio of Aang, Katara and Ty headed back to the village, to find the entirety of the village at the entrance waiting for them, the mass of sand landed and lowered them to the ground as it returned to the gourd as the children of the village rushed out to them

"Yay! Aang and Ty are back!" they cheered as they crowded round the two of them getting a smirk form Ty as he pats their heads, but the moment is soon gone when Sokka steps out with an angry look on his face.

"I knew it! You both signalled the Fire Navy with that flare! You're leading them straight to us, aren't you?" he accused with his spear in hand

"Aang and Ty didn't do anything. It was an accident." Katara defended them

"Yeh, we were on the ship and there was this booby trap and well we boobied right into it." Aang admitted

"That's what booby traps are meant for. And what do you mean "we"? You were the one who did the boobieing, if that's even a word" Ty said with a sigh

"Katara, you shouldn't have gone on that ship. Now we could all be in danger!" Katara grandmother said in anger and disappointment

"Don't blame Katara! I brought her there. It's my fault." Aang defended

"We brought her there, share the blame buddy, I was there right with you both" Ty said putting his hand on Aangs shoulder

"Aha! The traitors confess! Warriors, away from the enemy! The foreigners are banned from our village!" Sokka yells gripping his spear tighter glaring at both of them

Slowly the children moved away from Ty and Aang, and Ty settled a glare on Sokka the elder teen was pissing him off something bad.

"Sokka, you're making a mistake." Katara argued against her elder brother.

"No! I'm keeping my promise to Dad. I'm protecting you from threats like them!" Sokka argued as he lifted his spear to his shoulder.

"They are not our enemy! Don't you see? They've brought us something we haven't had in a long time. Fun." Katara said with a bit of happiness in her voice.

Ty smiled slightly at that but it faded with Sokkas next words

"Fun? We can't fight fire benders with fun!" Sokka yelled

"You should try it sometime." Aang said chipper

"Get out of our village. Now!" Sokka yelled holding his spear ready

"Grandmother, please, don't let Sokka do this." Katara tried to get her to help

She only shook her head, "Katara, you knew going on that ship was forbidden. Sokka is right. I think it best if the air bender and his friend leaves."

"Fine! Then I'm banished too! C'mon, Aang, Ty, let's go!" Katara said as she turned to walk away.

"Where do you think you're going?" Sokka called not impressed

"To find a water bender! Aang is taking me to the North Pole!" Katara spat

"I am? Great!" Aang smiled

"Katara!" Sokka said as he caught up with her and gripped her shoulder, "You're not going anywhere I promised dad I would protect you, and I will even if you fight me"

Ty scoffed hearing that, "yea right, like you could protect anything"

"What did you say" Sokka snapped at Tys words

"You heard me, you can't protect anything, sure you may be older and stronger, but look at you, you've never seen the outside world you have no idea of what's out there, otherwise you'd never being making such a statement, you couldn't protect her from anything, you're not a bender she is." Ty said his voice cold and hard

Sokka shook in anger at the teen's words and then hearing his last word he snapped and ran at the younger teen with his spear in anger.

That shocked everyone there, the spear went for Tys gut who just stood there with his eyes closed as it came at him, but before it broke skin, Ty moved to the left and knocked the spear off course missing him and bringing Sokka in close, where Ty brought his knee into his gut, making Sokka double over in pain, but Ty didn't stop, spinning the body of the bisento he caught the back of Sokkas legs and in a hard whack pulled them out from under the older teen sending him into the air for a moment. Only for the butt of the poll arm to catch him in the gut and slam him to the ground. Sokka hit the ground with a thud but still conscious, and Ty brought his weapon into another spin before bringing it down on Sokka, getting gasps of shock from the villagers, Ty had stopped his weapon, it's blade just a millimetre off Sokkas throat, while shooting him an angry glare.

"Dead" Ty stated taking his weapon away, "you are untrained, undisciplined, quick tempered, impatient, reckless and a complete fool, it's a miracle this village, if you can even call it that, has lasted so long with you being the only "warrior" here, and I use that term lightly, because you are no warrior, you are just a child in a man's body playing war, I beat you without my bending simply, had I actually uses it I would have crushed you like a worm beneath my boot, pick your fights and control your anger or next time you decide to attack a bender they might show as much restraint as me, and if it's a fire bender, you will not escaped with your life", Ty said before turning as his sand came out of his gourd and he lifted into the air taking him off into the distance, he didn't look back.

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Ty was lying on a bed of sand with a dome above and around him blocking the sun's rays, as he slept, suddenly there was a knock on the walls of the dome casing Ty to stir from his sleep.

Rubbing his eyes he walked forward and passed through the thin layer of sand coming face to face with Aang, "what is it and how did you find me?"

"I just want to talk, and it's kind of hard not to find you there aren't many other sand igloos around here" Aang said with a shrug

Ty sighed as the sand retuned to the gourd and Ty crossed his arms, "what's on your mind?"

Aang frowned, "Why did you do that back at the village, Sokka was just trying to…"

Ty cut him off mid-sentence, "he was being an idiot, he's a non-bender trying to fight on equal ground with benders, that's called being a fool there's nothing brave about it, he's like a child with a stick, attacking a fully grown and trained man with a sword, he will get himself killed, I just gave him a wakeup call that he desperately needed" Ty said in a cold tone stating his reasons

Aang sighed, "But did you have to do it so harshly?"

Ty frowned, "the world is a harsh place Aang, we both know this better than most, myself more than you, and if this war is true, then the world has grown even harsher. You forget I grew up in the desert where it was every man for himself, and if you couldn't pull your weight, you were left behind or died, that's why there aren't non benders in the desert because they can't survive, I have nothing against them, but trying to fight someone like us when your aren't even trained, that's just suicide by bender"

Aang frowned, "you never were one to suffer fools"

"Damn straight, now let's…" Ty started but stopped when he heard something and looked over to see something moving in the fog across the water, squinting his eyes he could make out a rather large ship in the water with a fire nation flag on it, "oh shit"

Aang looked in the same direction and saw the ship also but then he plotted its course, "it's heading for the village, we have to help them"

Ty nodded, "right" he said grabbing his large gourd and bisento as the sand flowed under his feet and lifted him up as Aang took off with his glider, "Let's go!"

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A thick mist covered the area around the village and the ocean, as atop the ten foot wall of ice and snow that surrounded the small village stood Sokka, in his southern water tribe armour and war paint, he was on one knee with his club by his side looking out over the fogged areas, events from the day still fresh in his mind how he had been so easily beaten by someone younger than him and made a fool of, sure the guy was a bender but that didn't count sense he hadn't even used any bending when he put him on his ass and had a blade to his throat for the third time since they'd met, the guy had skill for someone so young, and Sokka wasn't ashamed to say he was weaker than him, and would have died had Ty wanted him dead.

But he was brought out of his thoughts by the sound of thrashing water, which caught his attention and then the unmistakable shaking, as parts of the wall started to fall away, but as the rumbling continued Sokka looked over and watched as his poorly made watch tower crumbled away making him mentally sigh 'Oh man!'

Seeing that the villagers started to run to their tents and shelters for cover, Katara was one of them she looked to her brother on the wall as from her point she could see the shape of the massive ship coming through the mist and she was very afraid.

Sokka of course saw it too as he got to his feet and threw himself off the wall and landed on the ground as the ship came in, the wall collapses and he jumped out of the way only to look up at the sheer size of the ship in front of him "Ohhh, man!" he said to himself as the ship came to a halt

He watched as pressure was released from both of the side of the ships front and the large spiked front fell with a crash showing it was a boarding bridge or gang way into the ships inside, they all looked up to see figures in the ships gut, one was a man a year older than Sokka with part of his face burnt, the rest all wore similar armour and face masks, they were all obviously fire nation as they started to walk down the bridge, Sokka glared at them and spun his club in his hand before sprinting at them and up the bridge.

He knew he was out numbered and knew he stood no chance but he wouldn't allow the fire nation into his village, he drew back his club to swing for the one with the burned face, but he had simple stepped back as the swing went wide, before driving his armoured knee into Sokkas gut and kicking the club out of Sokkas hand to the left followed by and other kick this time to Sokkas face sending him to the right and into the snow before the group continued on like nothing happened.

Prince Zuko now stood in front of the villagers looking through them all looking for his prize, not seeing him he finally spoke. "Where are you hiding him?" he asked in a harsh tone, after a few seconds of not getting his answer he reached forward and grabbed Kataras grandmother and pulled her to him, using her as an example, "He'd be about this age? Master of all elements?" still no answer he pushed the old lady back to the crowd before firing a wave of fire from his fist over all their heads, "I know you're hiding him!" Zuko roared in anger

At that moment Sokka chose to strike, he grabbed the club that had been knocked from his grip, taking it in both hands he sprinted at the fire bender from behind as swung for him, Zuko tilted his body as Sokkas swing missed and he was forced over him, landing on the ground just barely enough time to move before he dodged a blast of fire from Zukos fist.

Sokka rolled pulling out his boomerang and threw it at Zukos head who only just managed to dodge it as it zips past his head, Zuko glares at Sokka who is giving the same glare.

One of the younger boys of the tribe tossed Sokka his spear "Show no fear!" the boy called as Sokka grabbed the spear and spun it before charging at Zuko.

Zuko dodge the first two slashes at him and then as Sokka tried to pierce him with is he used his arm guards like a pair of scissor bladed and snapped the end of the spear shocking Sokka at his weapon being destroyed, only to receive a boot to the gut and then a knee to the face sending him backwards onto the ground in pain.

Zuko looked down on him with a glare, only to be hit on the back of the helmet by the boomerang from before. After steadying himself, Zukos glare was now even more ferocious as his fists tightened and fire daggers came out of them burning brightly making Sokka gulp, while trying to stop the bleeding from his busted nose after its meeting with Zukos knee.

Zuko was just about to strike when suddenly an orange blur riding a penguin came sledding in meeting the back of Zukos legs and sending him head over heels and landing him face down but up in the snow, with the man's helmet landing on his but in a rather suggestive manor.

The blur slowed showing it to be Aang as he did a drifting break spraying snow on the cheering children, who just resumed cheering and laughing. As the penguin came to a stop it stood up dropping Aang off and started to waddle off.

Aang just chuckled, "Hey Katara. Hey Sokka." He said with a smile

"Hi Aang. Thanks for comin', where's…." Sokka tried to ask but then there was an intense feeling of heat as suddenly a massive wall of fire shot at them from Zuko in his anger.

They all reared back to try and not get burned but suddenly the heat dissipated as sand and fire met and the fire was extinguished, everyone watched as the sand swirled around like a snake before flying off and returning to Ty who was hovering above them all on his pile of sand as he stood above them all.

"I'm right here Sokka" Ty said as he jumped from the sand as it returned to the gourd and Ty landed on the ground with a thud his gourd beside him and his pole arm in his hand, he looked to Sokka, and saw his bust nose and sighed, "idiots never listen" he said and looked towards the fire benders. As Aang came to his side.

Zuko stood up and the soldiers began to spread out on his gestures, Aang saw this and uses his air bending and his staff to force them back, before staring down Zuko "Looking for me?"

"You're the air bender? You're the Avatar?" Zuko said in shock and disbelief looking at him

"Aang?" Katara said in shock

"No way." Sokka joins her

Ty face palms, 'great now everyone knows'

Zuko takes up a stance "I've spent years preparing for this encounter. Training. Meditating. You're just a teenager!"

"Says the one with half a face" Ty says with a smirk

Zuko took that insult bad and fired off a blast of fire at Ty, who spun his spear as the glass at the end changed and turned to sand blocking the flames before returning to its blade. "Temper-temper hot head" Ty smirked

Zuko was shocked to see an earth bending so far south, "What business dose an earth bender have at the south pole" Zuko snapped

"Traveling seeing the world, and I could say the same thing to you fire bender, leave now or I am going to put you in a world of pain" Ty threatens as the sand pours out of his gourd and starts to swirl around him

"Do you think you have enough sand to take on all of us" Zuko said as the others with him started to spread out around them again, "you're at a disadvantage"

Ty grinned a sadistic grin, "let's find out"

Before they could even move the sand shot up high into the air making them all look at it, but in that instance, Ty took his pole arm swinging it around and cracking the glass head which had changed into a hammer into the first opponent, before using the fool as he fell forward as a stepping stone throwing himself up as one came at him from the side with a pole arm of his own, only to be met by Tys kick before joining his friend on the ground and Ty threw himself into a mid-air summersault and smacked the hammer into the back of a third soldier sending him to the ground.

At this point Zuko joined in with a series of fire blast but Ty dodged them and got in close and caught Zukos right leg and through him backwards as the last two pole arm users came at him, only for him to used his pole arm to pole-vault over them as he smacked their heads together with his feet on the way over before he landed and stabbed his pole arm into the ground and held his hands up as the sand came down before he spread his fingers making the sand form into long glass spikes that fell onto the pile of guards trapping them on the spot so they couldn't move.

Ty grabbed his pole arm again and changed its head into a thick one sided blade and pointed it at Zuko, "I think I have more than enough"

Zuko flared the flames coming from his hands getting into a stance as the two of them circled. "Why are you defending them? They aren't even your people." Zuko growled

Ty glared at him, "they're non benders, they can't fight you themselves so someone has to, and you want to know the funny thing, I don't even have to use my bending to beat you"

"shut up" Zuko yelled firing a blast of fire at him but he slams his pole arm to the ground sand from his gourd came to his aid and formed a dome protecting him from the blaze, but the flames go over him towards the villagers, Aang quickly got involved and uses his staff to break the flames apart before anyone got burned

"Enough!" Aang says as he set his staff in front of him to deflect again

The sand dome broke apart and circle around Ty as he stood up looking back at Aang

"If I go with you, will you promise to leave everyone alone?" Aang asked

"What are you talking about Aang I can beat this cyclops easy" Ty said looking at his friend wondering what's going on.

"But others might get caught in the crossfire, fighting isn't the answer" Aang answered as he is cuffed by one of the soldered

Ty sighs, "Fine, but you aren't going without me" he says as he stabs his pole arm into the ground, "I'm coming with, you got a problem with that scar face"

Zuko scowls at Tys nicknames for him, "take him to the cells!" Zuko yells as the soldiers restrain Ty and take his weapon

"No, Aang, Ty! Don't do this!" Katara yells as she goes to stop them

"Don't worry, Katara, it'll be okay." Aang says reassuring her

"Yea like these match sticks could do anything to us" Ty chuckles watching the guy who has his weapon, and no one notices the thin line of sand following him and trailing up under his trousers.

"Take care of Appa for me until I get back." Aang calls as they lead them both up the steps as it lifts up

"Head a course to the Fire Nation. I'm going home." Yells Zuko as he walks aboard and the front closes up.

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Ty was being lead down the bowls of the ship to the prisoner area, coming to the cages the door was open and Ty was tossed in on his face his hands tied. He landed with a grunt as the door was slammed shut.

Getting to his knees he just had to make a quip, "well the service at this hotel sucks, there's no mint on my pillow, hell there's not even a pillow at all" he said getting up.

He walked to the cage and peered around the corners to see if there was anyone there, the guards had already walked off.

Smirking Ty closes his eyes as the sand he had snuck on with him flowed out and around his wrist and into his hands before forming into a knife shape and turning to glass as he cut his bonds.

Flexing his wrists he looked at what he had to work with, about a kilo of sand was all he had time to slip on him, Ty sighed, "guess this will have to do"

He looked to the lock on the door and smirked as he flowed his sand inside it, before it shattered as stone spikes impaled it from the inside.

Ty swung the door open and stepped out as the sand flowed to his hand and turned into a nine inch glass combat knife that he gripped before looking at, "this will do just fine" he said before walking towards the door, peeking through the key hole he grinned as he saw two guards coming and in-between them was Aang.

He got into a stance and got ready to attack the second they came through the door but it never happened, Ty felt a breeze go through the cracks of the door followed by a thud of metal door meeting armour, making Ty sigh, "well there goes my rescue idea" he said looking through the key hole again to see two passed out soldiers one at each end of the passage.

Ty quickly stabbed his knife into the hole the glass changing into sand and then in a twist the door opened and he ran out and down the hall way just in time to kick the soldier who was at the end regaining consciousness, putting him back to sleep before he grabbed the top of the passage and pulled himself out quicker throwing himself into a summersault and landed in a crouch glass knife at the ready, expecting to be attacked any moment, but none came.

Ty looked to the tower of the ship and saw the door was open and sprinted inside, he ran down three passages before finally catching up to Aang, or rather just in time to see him run around the passage evading three men with swords while heading up another passage.

The three with swords looked back to see Ty standing there with his knife and a grin on his face, "goody fun time for me" he said running at them.

The first soldier came at him but he easily side stepped his downwards slash before Ty brought his knee into the man's gut, followed by stabbing his knife into the man's arm through the split in his armour severing his arms tendons making the arm fall to the man's side useless, the man hissed in pain only for Ty to round house kicked him into the wall.

Retrieving his knife, Ty quickly brought it up to deflect another sword that came at him and then morphed it into two pairs of glass knuckles and slugged the second guy in the face while dodging a second sword thrust at him from the third soldier.

Dodging the swing, Ty dropped low and planted a sweeping kicking the man in the lower leg making it bend in a rather disturbing direction as a sickening pop and crack was heard from the man's knee joint as he began screaming in pain only for Ty to deliver a knee to his face knocking him out and shutting him up.

With one left Ty just had time to jump backwards dodging a vertical slash from the last soldier, he quickly made up the ground by pushing forwards again as he dodged a horizontal slash, as he went low before coming back up with glass knuckle assisted uppercut to the man's chin laying him out flat as a few of the man's teeth came out from the impact.

Ty then turned and sprinted after Aang pulling himself up the passage way he went up, just in time to see Aang sprinting off leaving an armoured fire bended getting up as he spotted Ty.

Grinning again Ty ran at the fire bender who quickly rose to his feet and fired a blast of fire at Ty, Ty dropped as his glass knuckles turned to sand and flowed down his wrists to his elbows before changing to glass blades on each of his elbows as Ty dropped to his knees slinging between the fire benders legs, his elbows out slashing at the fire benders lower leg muscle tendons through the cloth protection.

The fire bender dropped to his knees and tuned only to receive a glass spiked foot trough his mask sending him to the wall before Ty pulled it back the class covered in blood, he thrust it as the blood splattered off it and the glass turned to sand and then returned to his hand and changed to his knife again as he ran leaving the fire bender for dead.

Coming around the corner he saw Aang going room to room and he quickly chases and caught up with him just as he closes a door quietly.

"Hey baldy where have you been," he said as he came up behind him making Aang jump

"Ty, don't scare me like that" Aang said getting back his breath

"Hey I've been on your ass for the past ten minutes Mr pacifist, I had to take out the guys you evaded" Ty said shaking his head

Aang looked at him shocked, "Ty you didn't..."

Ty cut him off, "no I didn't kill them Aang, just severed tendon and maybe a fractured skull, and a few missing teeth, but no fatalities, well that fire bender maybe if he doesn't get medical treatment but it's his own fault he attacked first"

Aang looked at his friend sad, "you shouldn't..."

Again Ty cut him off, "shouldn't what!? Defend myself, they picked those fights, I ended them simple, if you throw a punch you had better be ready to take a life or lose your own, that's why I never start fights, you may be a pacifist Aang but you need to realize something, this isn't the same world we grew up in, this is war, people have been dying for a hundred years, and millennia before that, death happened deal with it, you're the avatar it's your job to find the balance in that, now come on we've got our stuff to find and then get the hell out of this tin can" he said before pushing past Aang who was looking deep in though and sadness at his friends words, but followed any way.

Both Ty and Aang ran down the hallway passed an open door, Aang stepped back and saw his staff inside with Tys' bisento "My staff!" Aang called making Ty turn to see Aang go inside

But no sooner had he dot to the door it slammed shut just as he heard someone speak

"Looks like I underestimated you."

Ty cursed as he tried to get in by pounding on the door with his glass knuckles but nothing happened, he then looked at the hinges of the door an smirked, as he turned his glass to sand and started turning it like a buzz saw and cut through the metal hinges before planting his foot through the door sending it across the room as he jumped in just in time to see Zuko burn the cloth he was wrapped up in to ash

Ty looked to Aang who tossed him his pole arm. Ty caught it and now both he and Aang were pointing with staff weapons at Zuko who was glaring at both of them.

Ty was about to attack when Aang twirled, catching the mattress at the side of Zuko and slammed Zuko into the wall, Ty blinked at the move before Aang did it again and this time slamming the prince into the ceiling and then falling to the floor making the earth bender laugh before getting pulled out the door by Aang as they ran.

"You see you can fight, just not lethally" Ty said with a smirk, "and that was funny as shit"

Aang chuckled at his friends' words as they raced to the top of the ship as saw the top deck, and they ran outside, Aang looked to Ty worried, and Ty smiled back

"Get going I'll catch up" he yelled jumping off the top of the ship and landing with a thud on deck.

Ty looked up to see Aang starting to Glide only for Zuko to jump up after him pulling him down, Ty cursed under his breath and ran to help his friend only for an elderly man to stand in his way.

Ty scowled at the old man as he pointed his pole arm at him, "if you want to fight you had best be prepared to take my life, for I will take yours old man"

The old man scowled at him, "for someone so young to say something so dark, you must have lead a hard life"

Ty gripped his pole arm and sighed, "I did, over a hundred years ago, this world is different but one thing stays constant, the never ending violence"

The old man widened his eyes hearing that and his gaze became one of sadness as his stance loosened, "that is the sad fact of life, it is sad also that someone so young must see it"

Ty was about to reply when both he and the old man heard a splash and then Katara call down from above, "Aang!!"

Tys eyes widened as he rushed over to the side to see the spot where Aang went in, Ty felt his heart stop, he was about to dive in after him when a bright glow filled the water and Aang burst from it on a living pillar of water his eyes and arrows glowing.

Ty and everyone else looked at him in shock as he landed on deck pulling the water with him before sending it out in a burst catching all on deck except for Ty who ducked to avoid it and sent the rest to the ships railing, and send Zuko over it.

"Did you see what he just did?" Katara said in amazement

"Now that was some water bending!" Sokka chuckled

Ty got up just in time to see Aang stop glowing and start to fall, Ty quickly rushed to him and caught him as he did, Ty then looked up to see Appa, Sokka and Katara coming in and landing on the ship

"Aang! Are you okay?" Katara called as she and Sokka rushed over to them

"Hey Katara. Hey Sokka. Thanks for coming." Aang said as Ty lifted him up on his shoulder as support, Katara quickly took his other side

"Well, I couldn't let you have all the glory." Sokka said with a smirk, before getting a slap to the back of the head from Ty

"Make yourself useful, stop cracking jokes and go get his staff" Ty said in a bark

"Got it!" Sokka said rushing over to get Aangs staff

As he reached for it another hand grabbed it from the break in the railing it was Zuko who was trying to climb back on the ship, "Crap!" Sokka yelled getting Tys attention who left Aang to Katara and rushed over to help just as Sokka pulled to staff free of Zukos grip and pushed him off the ship. Zuko grabbed the chain of the anchor to keep from falling in the water, but as he did Ty came to the edge with his pole arm and grinned down at the prince making him gulp, and the head of Ty's pole arm became longer and he spun it and in a slash cut the metal chain of the anchor and Zuko plunged into the icy water.

Grinning the pair ran back to Appa only to be caught by water from Katara direction that froze them to the deck

""Katara!"" both of them yelled not impressed with her screw up, Ty quickly spun his pole arm shattering their restraints as Katara froze three non-bending guards coming at her by firing backwards.

They quickly climbed aboard Appa who top off just as Zuko was being helped back aboard by his uncle.

"Shoot them down!" he yelled as he and his uncle got into their stance and fired a combined fire ball at them as they flew way.

Aang was about to bat off when, Ty jumped off Appa and started free falling towards the fire ball

"Ty!!" Aang called as he watched his best friend fall into the flames as the large gourd on Appa popped and the sand flew towards him.

The sand scattered the fire ball on contact and flew under Ty lifting him up as more sand flew out of the gourd emptying it, as the mass of large sand swirled around him Ty held up his pole arm as all the sand except for that keeping him afloat went to it and formed a larger blade of glass as he spun it and ascended higher.

Everyone watched in awe as the sand became a thirty foot long blade held by the teen who was high in the sky. suddenly the teen spun the blade faster than he had and in a mightily slash the glass blade slashed at the iceberg as he flew up cutting off its face as he flew back to Appa on his sand, as the part of the iceberg crashed into Zukos ship stopping them dead in their tracks.

As he stepped back onto the saddle the glass blade returned to sand and flew back to its gourd before Ty returned to his spot with the other three looking at him in awe, he looked to them.

"What, Aang can pull off a big ass move and I can't, come on I can't let him have all the fun" Ty grinned.

Sokka blinked, "hey didn't you slap me for saying something like that"

Ty grinned, "yep but when I say it at least I look good"

Katara and Aang just couldn't help chuckling at Ty putting Sokka down, who now was just huffing in the corner of the saddle as they flew away.

Time skip

"How did you do that? With the water? It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen." Katara asked Aang in shock

"I don't know. I just sort of did it." Aang said not sure how to explain it

"Why didn't you tell us you were the Avatar? Did you know Ty?" Katara asked

"Of course I did" Ty said as he leaned back not really caring.

"They why didn't you tell us?" Katara asked more heatedly

Aang quickly cut in, "Because I never wanted to be."

"But Aang, the world's been waiting for the Avatar to return and finally put an end to this war." Katara said sadly

"And how am I going to do that?" asked Aang depressed

"According to legend, you need to first master water, then earth, then fire, right?" Katara said with a slight smile

Ty rolled his eyes, "sure that sounds easy enough" he said in a sarcastic tone making Katara glare at him slightly.

"That's what the monks told me." Aang said in a more happy tone

"Well we need to find you a water bending teacher first then, one who an actually water bend without freezing her brother and friends feet" Ty said making Katara pout

"Well, if we go to the North Pole you can master water bending." Katara reasoned

"We can learn it together!" Aang said with a smile

"And Sokka, I'm sure you'll get to knock some fire bender heads on the way." Katara grinned

"I'd like that. I'd really like that." Sokka smiled twirling his boomerang

Then Ty sat bold upright, "wait north pole…..great more ice, snow and cold winds, why can you water benders be somewhere mild, at least so I'm not freezing my butt off"

"It won't be that bad we can stop in some warm places on the way there" Katara assured him.

"All right, fine, but before Aang can learn water bending we have some serious business to attend to." Ty said and looked to Aang who nodded taking out a map and pointing "here, here, and here."

"What's there?" asked Sokka seriously.

"Here we'll ride the hopping llamas. Then waaaay over here we'll surf on the backs of giant koi fish. Then back over here we'll ride the hog-monkeys. They don't like people riding them, but that's what makes it fun!"

Both Sokka and Katara sweat dropped at his idea of serious business, but Ty just rubbed his hands together, "I'm going to ride the hell out of those hog monkeys" he said with a rather sinister grin on his face making Katara and Sokka shuffle away from the teen.