I was on my glider on a perfect day. It felt right, happy, and peaceful.

I looked to the side to see Aang, on Appa, Sokka on Aang's glider, he was actually enjoying it, and Katara on giant Momo, she seemed to be just as happy.

"We need you, Gyawa." Aang said, with a light smile.

"I need you too." I replied, just then I turned my head to see a storm approaching.

"Be careful, guys. Guys?" I asked, as they turned from happy to distant.

"You're not from here." Aang muttered, like it broke him.

"Foreigner!" Sokka shouted, I closed my eye and flew my glider as fast as I could.

When I opened them again I saw Nun Yongten, sitting in mid air. "Yongten?" I asked, as I was now on Wandak

"Why did you disappear?" She asked, looking me dead in the eyes with sorrow.

"I didn't mean too." I replied, with a little girl dread of what I did.

I reached out to touch her, when I put a hand on her, she turned to ash and faded in the wind.

"We need you Gyawa." I heard her say.

I looked under me to see Wandak was gone and I was falling. I landed on piles and piles of bones and half rotted corpses all in air nomad uniform. I gasped and ran out as fast as I could, I looked up to see Air Nomads in the sky, all chanting "We need you Gyawa." I ran as I covered my ears, the fear and dread was becoming too strong.

I opened them again to feel even more fear. Aang screaming as we were in the storm and diving into the ocean. I almost let go, almost gave into the despair.

                                            ~*~

I gasped one more time before opening my eyes to see I was back at our camp.

As I sat up Momo got scared and ran threw Katara and Sokka as they were asleep. "Aw what's going on? Did we get captured again?" Sokka asked, half asleep holding out his boomerang.

"It's nothing. Go back to sleep." I replied, still thinking about the dream. Why was I so scared?

"Don't have to tell me twice." Sokka mumbled, going back to sleep.

I noticed Aang was awake already, he seemed to be deep in thought.

"Are you alright Gyawa?" Katara asked.

"I'm fine." I said laying back down.

"You seem to be having a lot of nightmares lately, you want to tell me about it?" She asked, seeming concerned, I couldn't shake the thought of how they'd see me if they knew I was from a different world.

"I'm fine." I said again, and maybe a little harsh but I needed Katara off my back.

"You guys want to hear about my dream?" Sokka asked, sitting back up. We all looked at him with tired faces, even Momo. "That's okay I didn't want to talk about it anyway." Sokka said, clearly disappointed as he laid back down.

                                            ~*~

"Look at those clear skies buddy. Should be some smooth flying." Aang said, to Appa as we were packing to leave.

"Well we better smoothly fly ourselves to a market, because we're out of food." Katara warned, walking on Appa.

"Guys, wait this was in my dream! We shouldn't go to the market." Sokka said, with such a serious concern.

"What happened in your dream?" Was he a prophet?

"Food eats people!" As Sokka said this, I couldn't help but laugh at it, I think I could even hear the weird space noise.

"Also Momo could talk, you said some very unkind things." Momo crawled into a cute ball after Sokka's put down.

                                            ~*~

"Oh it's good, it's perfect! I'm telling you!" The market woman shouted at Katara as we waited for her to hurry up.

"I don't know if I like the sound of that squishing." Katara replied, as she shook the what ever it was.

"Swishing means it's ripe. It's the ripe juices swishing around huh?!" The market lady kept pushing in a mad tone.

"I think it's true Katara, swishing means it's ripe."

Katara then looked over at me after Aang's nieve suggestion. I shock my head telling no.

"I just realized we're out of money anyway." Katara smiled, putting it back down. The market Lady sighed before hitting Sokka with the empty basket.

"Out of food and out of money. Now what are we suppose to do?" Sokka asked, petting his soft spot that she just hit.

"You could get a job smart guy." Katara replied.

"We shouldn't go out there. Please, the fish can wait. There's going to be a terrible storm!" A old woman told her husband as he got in their boat.

"Aw you're crazy! It's a nice day. No clouds, no wind, no nothing. So quit your nagging, woman." He shouted back.

"Maybe we should find some shelter?" Aang suggested, uneasy.

"Are you kidding, shelter from what?" Sokka remarked.

"My bones say there's going to be a storm. A bad one!" The old woman said.

"Well it's your bones, against my brain." The man replied with his cranky voice.

"I hope your brain can find someone else to haul all that fish because I ain't coming."

"Then I'll find a fish hauler and pay him double what you get! How you like that?" They yaped at each other.

"I'll go." Sokka said, putting his hand up.

"You're hired." The old man man quickly said back.

The rest of us clearly didn't approve. "What? You said get a job. and his paying double."

"Double?! Who told you that nonsense."

                                            ~*~

"Sokka, maybe this isn't such a good idea. Look at the sky." Aang flustered, as Sokka was helping the fisherman pack the boat. Dark clouds were started to come up and rather fast.

"I said I was going to do this job. I can't back out just because of some bad weather." Sokka replied.

"The boy with the tattoos has some sense, you should listen to him." The old woman said, to the fisherman.

"Boy with tattoos? Airbender tattoos. Well I'll be a hog monkey's uncle. You're the Avatar, ain't ya?!" He asked Aang.

He gave a smile then I waved with a grin that he thought Aang was the Avatar.

"No that's me." I said.

"Well don't be so smiley about it! The Avatar disappeared for a hundred years! You turned your back on the world." He shouted, pointing at me.

Normally I wouldn't care, and thankfully — unlike the last times I didn't feel emotions that weren't mine.

"Don't yell at her. Gyawa would never turn her back on any one." Katara defended, standing in front of me.

"Oh she wouldn't huh? Than I guess I must have imagined the last hundred years of war and suffering." The old man remarked, throwing his hand in the air.

I looked over to see Aang wasn't taking all this too well, even though I was the Avatar he looked like he felt guilty.

"Gyawa is the bravest person I know! She has done nothing but help people and save lives since I've met her. It's not her fault she disappeared. Right Aang?" Katara asked, turning to him "Aang what's wrong?" She asked, see how he was taking it, But he just got on his glider and flew off.

"Aang?!" I shouted, as I got on mine and went off to find him.

                                            ~*~

I followed him to a cave, while it started raining, with dark clouds.

"What's wrong?" I asked, sitting next to him.

He just turned a little to the side. "Aang, I'm the Avatar, he was talking about me. Not you." I put a hand on his small shoulder.

"But it's my fault you disappeared. If I hadn't got us in that storm you would have been there for our people. Our people needed you and you weren't there! The World needed you and you weren't there! Because of me." Aang didn't raise his voice till the end of the sentence, clenching his fists.

"Aang... what happened was my responsibly, not yours." I replied, a low voice.

"You don't get it... it is!" He rose his voice.

Katara walked in with Appa as it started to storm outside.

"I'm sorry for running away." Aang said, holding his legs but not looking at Katara.

"It's okay, that fisherman was way out of line." Katara replied, sitting across from us.

"Actually he wasn't really." Aang almost whispered.

"What do you mean?" Katara asked.

"Well what Aang is trying to say is he thinks it's his fault, we got in the iceberg." I answered.

"How did you get in the iceberg?"

"Well it's kind of a long story." I replied, Appa groaned, fitting his head in the cave.

"I'm going to try and get a little fire going." Katara said, looking around the dark cold cave. OMG Katara is a firebender!

"I won't forget when they told me I was the Avatar."

                                            ~Flash Back~

It was on my birthday, I was having a great time. All my friends were there, I had everything I wanted.

I had just got my tattoos, just mastered Airbending. I felt so proud of myself, everything was looking up. I had my hair shaved in the middle just were you could put the tattoos.

When everyone was eating, the nuns came up with a different look about them.

"What's wrong? Did something happen?" My friend Gytla asked.

"No, we are here to announce the next Avatar." We all took a deep breath, I stood among a lot of people. "It is my honor to announce you, Avatar Gyawa." The nun bowed along with the rest of them. All my friends stood in shock along with me. Before I knew it everyone in the room was bowing.

That night after I got so much attention, Yongten told me the head superiors needed to speak with me. I went to the waterfalls where they all stood.

"Masters." I said, bowing to them as I walked up.

"Gyawa, we asked you here to speak about the state of the world." The head superior said, with her hands in her sleeves.

"There are troubling signs, storm clouds are gathering." Yongten said, I walked to the waterfall and touched the water, a sudden dread hit my chest.

"We know it's your birthday but I fear that war may be upon us, young Avatar." The head novice Yeshe said, standing beside me.

"We need you Gyawa." Yongten added, putting a hand on my shoulder.

I was afraid but determined, I now knew my destiny. I was to learn the four elements and stop a war from ever happening. Or so I could think.

                                            ~end of flash back~

I wanted it to stop it, remembering emotions and memories that weren't mine. It was becoming more and more strong.

"So you were excited about it?" Katara asked, as we sat around the fire.

"Sorta, I was unsure, yet I knew what I had to do. What the world asked of me. But I hated the fact that everyone treated me differently after that."

                                            ~*~

"Hey what you up to?" I asked, as I walked up to my friends.

"Oh nothing, aren't you supposed to be training?" Gytla asked, as they were about to go gliding.

"I've been practicing! All day, can I come?" I asked, and they all stopped in their tracks.

"Well... I mean you're the Avatar and all. It's kind of unfair, you'll win no matter what." My other friend replied looking down at her staff. "

"But I haven't changed, I'm the same girl you all know. Are y'all serious?!" I practically shouted, at them as I clenched my glider tight.

They didn't respond but I saw it in the way they looked at the ground. I slowly walked away, "Sorry gyawa." I could hear Gytla say.

Sometime later as I laid on Wandak pouting, till Yongten walked up.

"Gyawa, the superiors decided it would be best if we went to the Southern Air Temple together." She said, with a friendly voice.

"Really? When do we leave?" I asked, sitting up.

"Tomorrow." She replied, with a smile.

When we got there, I met Monk Gyasto, and Aang. Aang didn't treat me any different, he was just fun to be around with. Time went by and I was about to leave for the North Pole and learn Waterbending.

"Hey Gyawa, I was thinking. Since you're going to leave to the North Pole next Friday, shouldn't we take Appa out for a spin?" Aang asked, with a grin, leaning on Appa.

"Sure! Lead the way." I chuckled as we hopped on, without telling anyone where we were going. Big mistake in one way.

We flew for a long time doing fancy tricks and racing on our gliders, till we realized how far out we were.

So we started heading back, only it was too late. *I never saw Yongten again.* A terrible storm caught us and Aang tried hard to get us out of there, but it was too strong.

As we fell in the water I went in the Avatar State for the first time, and Waterbended us into an iceberg.

                                            ~end of flash back~

"It was an accident." Katara stated.

"And then the Fire Nation attacked our temple, it's my fault this war is going on!" Aang said, raising his voice.

"You're being too hard on yourself. I think it was meant to be. Gyawa and you might have been killed along with all the other Airbenders." Katara replied, and I couldn't agree more.

"You don't know that." Aang said, looking down at the fire.

"I know it's meant to be this way." Katara said, I got up and looked out at the storm getting stronger.

"The world needs you now, Gyawa. You give people hope." Katara told me as I had my back to them, but I knew she was right. Somewhere out in that storm was a boy who's honor hinged on my capture.

                                            ~*~

"Help oh please help!" The old woman from the village shouted as she ran in the cave, completely taking me out of my daze.

"It's okay you're safe." Katara replied.

"But my husband isn't." The woman shivered from the rain.

"What do you mean? Where's Sokka?" Katara asked, as the old lady sat next to the fire.

"They haven't returned, they should have been back by now. And this storm is becoming worse. They're caught out at sea!"

"I'm going to find them." I said, picking up with my staff.

"I'm going with you." Katara stood up.

"I'm going two." Aang added.

"I'm staying here." The old lady said, holding her legs.

"We'll be back soon." I said, before we hopped on Appa and went out in the storm.

                                            ~*~

We looked and looked as far as we could through the constant rain. "Where are they?" Katara shouted, through the loud rain.

"Come on Appa!" Aang said, noticing Appa was hesitant in this weather. Lighting and thunder raged around us, when I heard Aang shout; "The boat! there!"

We quickly went down, I jumped down in the boat and saw that Sokka and the old man were hanging on for dear life. I saw that a rope was attached to a crate. And told Sokka and the old man to hang on, while I lifted it to Appa.

We got off just in time, I looked back to see the boat went under with a huge wave. "Let's go!" I shouted at Aang. He was about to pull us out of there till a massive wave shadowed us.

I looked up at it, before it swept us into the ocean. Along with the others, I didn't do anything, till the Avatar State took hold of me.

I grabbed Appa's leash and Waterbended us out there. I flew straight to the eye of the storm. And started flying to the top, with a clear sky, but before we were almost there.

I looked back down to see Zuko's ship. I almost even saw Zuko, he saw me but couldn't chase me. I almost felt bad, how much he went everywhere to capture me just for his father's approval. But I shook my head before going into the clear sky.

                                            ~*~

"Aw you're alive. You owe this girl an apology!" The old woman said, hugging her husband as we went back to the cave.

"He doesn't have to apologize." I smiled sluggishly.

"What if instead of any apology, I-huh give her a free fish and we call it even." Te old man suggested.

"Actually we don't eat meat." Aang said, grabbing my shoulder.

"Yup, no meat." I remarked with a scoff.

"Fish aren't meat." He almost shouted at us.

"Seriously, you're still going to pay me right?" Sokka asked holding out his hand. Then he gasped in horror to see the man put a fish in his hand instead of money.

"Katara I think you were right before. I'm done dwelling on the past." Aang said to her, as the sky started to clear.

"Really?" She replied.

"I can't make guesses about how things would've turned out if we hadn't disappeared. We're here now and I'm going to help Gyawa." Aang looked back at me.

"That's good to know, Aang." I said, putting a hand on his shoulder with a warm smile.

"If you weren't here now, we'll I guess I wouldn't be either. Thank you for saving my life Avatar." The old man said kind of stuttering.

'Do you hear that? It stopped raining." Sokka said, side hugging me out of nowhere.

I immediately started blushing and panicked, why would Sokka do that? Just then when Sokka was looking out at the sunset Appa started shaking off the rain. I used the opportunity to get away from Sokka.

"Appa!" Everyone sighed but Sokka sounded more annoyed then anyone.