Chapter 1: Who is He? Part 1

Location: Los Angeles, California

It was a beautiful morning in Los Angeles; the sunrise over the ocean makes it more beautiful almost every day, except when it comes to a nasty dry season that mostly happens on the middle of June. A young boy, that is around the age of 16, with dark brown hair and brown eyes. His skin is a mix of white and hint of tan. The boy walks down from his room and enters the kitchen.

Since the end of the school year, he made some friends that lived just around the corner. His first friends were two girls Elsa and her younger sister, Anna Rainelle. Anna is an orange-red head girl, who is very athletic and loves to make friends; Elsa, on the other hand, was extremely shy and never had a lot of friends like her sister. She has pure blonde hair and aquatic eyes that shine by the sunlight. At first, he was scared when they first moved in since he was five, a few weeks later, he liked being around girls that are near his age.

His second friend was Johnny Aragon; he was seven years old Cherokee when he was in second grade. Johnny was always a prankster and always gets in trouble when one of his pranks goes wrong (all the time). The four became friends very quickly, and they started to hang out during weekends or when school is canceled/is over. Since the Rainelle's went to Colorado to go see their relatives and Johnny is at Summer School, The young boy has nothing to do.

He found a note hanging on the fridge and he begins to read it.

Dear Ricky,

Mom decides to take me and Nikki to San Fransisco because of some stupid business thing she has and we'll be back for three days. I'm sorry for not telling you, but I didn't want to wake you up and I know you need your space. Again, I'm sorry and here's the grocery list and the money for you and we'll be back in three days.

Love, Susan

The boy sighs in annoyance that his mom ALWAYS takes the girls anywhere to do some business. He found the list and the money on the counter as he went to the garage and begin his trek towards Wal-Mart on the new bike his dad gave to him last Christmas.

"Boy, this is going to be a LONG summer." he murmured to himself.

Twenty minutes later, Ricky finally made it to Wal-Mart and begins to walk towards the door with the cool breeze from the air conditioner blowing through his hair. It took a few about five minutes to get the things he got from the list. The store wasn't packed till it's around seven; he had enough time to get home before he gets crowded by the people.

"Morning Ricky, how are you doing today?"

"Good Ms. Benchy, just the usual," he said.

Ms. Benchy is an African American in her thirties and lives in the same apartment where Ricky lives.

She scans Ricky's groceries and gives him a receipt to him. "That'll be thirty dollars," she said.

Ricky gave her enough change to her, leaving about fifteen dollars left. Before he got the chance to leave ASAP, Ms. Benchy called out to him.

"Hey Ricky, How is your family doing?"

Ricky turns around and gives her a shrug. "The usual Ms. Benchy, nothing much is going to happen."

She giggles at the boy. "Okay, well just be careful out there okay hun?"

Ricky nodded his head, "Okay Ms. Benchy, thank you."

A few minutes later, Ricky reaches the crosswalk, feeling already sweaty since the sun is now up. From the corner of his eye, he thought he saw Dexter "Scorpio" Paxton, the biggest jerk in high school alongside with his two sidekicks; an over-weight kid, Pete Johnson, and the skinny kid, Isaac Jeremy. The kids call him Scorpio since he's the top athlete in their school, he used to be Elsa's boyfriend in freshman year but broke up when she discovered that he and his gang members were picking on Ricky and her sister.

"Hey, Ricky, I want to talk to you"

Ricky turns around and saw Dexter and his gang walking towards him. He knew whatever Dexter wants, it's never good. He began to peddle his bike trying to get away from them as far as possible.

"Aw come on Ricky, what's the matter, afraid that the Ice Queen isn't here to protect you?"

Ricky cringed his teeth when heard that word, Dexter has been calling Elsa that since they broke up. His mind was in a massive hurricane that he forgot that he was leading them to the cliff, where he and his friends hang out almost every day. The bike flipped over with the groceries when he hit a rock when he wasn't looking, head-first causing him to ache really bad.

'Dang it, not now!"

Dexter and his gang finally cornered Ricky while he is still clenching onto his head.

"Finally, you stop you little pr*ck. Pick him up" Dexter commanded.

The two kids picked him up on to his shirt, while Ricky's eyes were locked onto Dexter.

"What do you want Dexter?"

"Isn't it obvious, I want you to stop hanging around my Elsa and I probably will spare you and your pathetic friends."

Ricky looked at the bully with disgust.

"I thought you hated her, and keep calling her the Ice Queen?"

Dexter glares at Ricky with hatred and starts punching him in the guts so hard, that he begins to spit blood out of his mouth.

"Now, I want you to stop dating her", in mid-sentence, he pulled out a gun pointing at his left shoulder, "Or else."

"Um, Dexter, i-is it o-ok to use the g-gun now, the cops are s-still looking for us?"

"SHUT UP PETE!" Dexter shouted at the over-weighted teen.

"He needs to know who's the Alpha dog in school."

He begins to pull the trigger slowly but wasn't fast enough when Ricky kicked Dexter's shin and the gun away from him. The two teens were shocked when he saw a puny sixteen-year-old took down their leader. Ricky quickly releases himself and punches the over-weighted kid in the huts and the head-butted Isaac in the head. They all were unconscious except for Dexter, groaning in pain and anger trying to grab the gun that was five feet away from him. Ricky was still panicking, backing away from the group not knowing that he's at the very edge of the cliff. He slipped on the edge, trying to keep his balance until...

BANG!

A gunshot was heard from the other side of the cliff; it was Dexter who pulled the trigger and shot at Ricky's chest, with an insane-look on his face. Fading into blackness, he felled towards the bay. The last thing he could hear was a police siren coming towards the cliff, and sinking into the water. But what makes this strange, that he saw a ball of light swallowing him inside the ocean and his final image was a boy a bison coming towards impact to the ocean.

Location: South Pole, Southern Water Tribe

Katara was upset with Sokka blaming her for getting him wet because of her waterbending when he was trying to catch a fish.

"Dang it Katara, can't you use water magic on the other side!" he yelled.

"It's called 'waterbending' Sokka, you know that", Katara scolded her brother.

"Yeah; yeah, whatever", He waved his hand.

Ever since their mother has passed away and their dad joining the war to stop the Fire Nation, Sokka was left in charge to protect the small village of the Southern Water Tribe and Katara was left to do all the work.

"If I had crazy powers, I would keep my 'weirdness' to myself", Sokka mumbled to himself.

Before Katara could ever retort, the water started to get riled making the canoe shaking. Sokka was in panicking mode, trying to keep it from crashing into any icebergs while Katara is giving directions.

"Turn to the left Sokka! The LEFT!" Katara screamed at his brother.

"I'M TRYING!" he yelled back.

Unfortunately, the boat was crushed between two icebergs, making the Water Tribe kids fall onto the iceberg.

"Oh great Katara, just great. Now how are we're going to get back home?"

"Well, it's not my fault for steering the canoe into the iceberg".

They were silent for a few moments until Sokka broke the silence.

"Way to go for letting girls ruin everything Sokka", he murmured.

Katara's eye began to twitch when she heard him said that.

"You are the most sexist, immature… I just cannot even believe I'm related to you!?"

Her waterbending, caused by her anger, made a gigantic crack in the iceberg behind them (Only Sokka was the only one to see the massive crack in the iceberg).

"Ever since mom died, I do all the hard work in the village!" She kept yelling, not knowing the iceberg is falling apart.

"Um, Katara…"

"I even wash your dirty socks!? Do you even smell them", she ignored her older brother.

"Katara…" he said again, only with a more scared tone.

"No, I am tired of being blame by you all the time! From now on, you are now. On. Your. OWN!"

Her rage made the water cut the iceberg in half causing it to collapse on them.

"KATARA", Sokka finally yelled, pointing right behind her.

Katara finally turned around to see what Sokka was pointing at; the iceberg began to fall down towards them. The iceberg began to sink towards the bottom of the ocean, leaving the two kids shocked and scared.

"Congratulations Katara, you have gone from weird to freaky."

"Did I do that?" she asked.

"Yep, way to go", he said with a hint of sarcastically.

Before she can ever retort back, a glow started to emerge from the water and rise towards the surface. The two teens saw a giant sphere-like glacier rising from the ocean. Katara looked closely at the glacier, revealing a boy and a giant bison inside. Katara gasped in shock at what she has been seeing. Before long, the boy's eyes open making her gasp in shock.

"Sokka, he's alive! We have to help him out!" She said.

She grabbed Sokka's club to release on whoever was inside.

"Katara wait! we don't know what's in there." He hollered at her sister, but she ignored him.

She begins pounding on the iceberg, trying to get the boy out of the iceberg. When she struck it the third time, the ice begins to crack, releasing a huge column of light straight towards the sky.

About fifty miles away from the iceberg; a Fire Nation ship was sailing searching for the long lost Avatar led by Prince Zuko, a Fire Nation prince with a burn scar on his left his eye. "Uncle over there, Do you know what this means", he asked anxiously to Uncle Iroh.

"Does this mean I won't finish my game?" he asked while playing his card game.

"NO!" he screamed.

"It means my search for the Avatar is finally over."

He pointed towards the light that suddenly disappeared.

"I finally found him", he said to himself.

"OR, it could just be a celestial light that we encountered a while back", the uncle said logically.

The last time Zuko thought the celestial beam of light was the Avatar, was at the Southern part of the Earth Kingdom during a nasty storm. Turned out, it was a massive lightning strike that Zuko thought it was the Avatar (which Zuko never want to talk about it).

"Please Zuko, sit down. Have some tea with me", he told his nephew.

Zuko turned around with a fit of anger look on his face.

"I DON'T want any tea. I WANT the AVATAR. Helmsman, take our destination towards that beam of light", Zuko demanded the soldier.

The soldier saluted at him and left Zuko and General Iroh. Iroh felt that something wasn't right; he put his card with the symbol of Air.

After Katara finally made a crack in the iceberg, a massive wind was release and blew both teens back a few feet away, just close enough towards the edge near the water. They finally got up and saw the boy getting up, showing no expressions. Sokka raised his spear pointing at the boy, fearing for the worst. The boy's eyes stopped glowing and fell towards them. Katara caught him holding him like a baby. Sokka however, kept poking him with the blunt side of his spear. Katara got annoyed by that.

"Stop that!"

She pushed his spear away from the unconscious boy. He slowly opens his eyes looking at her.

"I have a question to ask you," he whispered quietly.

"Yes what is it," she asked.

"Come closer…"

Katara moved closer to hear what he has to say, but what he said was kind of weird.

"Would you like to go penguin sledding with me?" he asked cheerfully.

"Uh, yeah," Katara said, unsure what just happened.

The boy got quickly from the girl's grasp. Looking around his surroundings, wondering where he is.

"Um, where am I," he asked.

"You tell us, kid," Sokka demanded, "How come you were in that iceberg?"

"Um, I have no idea," the boy answered bluntly.

That's when they heard a low bellowing growl coming from behind.

"Appa!"

The boy climbs over the mounted snow and looked over to see a giant bison with an arrow just like the boy.

"Appa, are you, ok buddy," the boy asked worryingly.

Luckily, the bison woke up with a low roar.

"I miss you too pal," he said while laughing.

The two Water Tribes walked around to see what was going on. They were shocked to see the giant bison.

"What the heck is that thing?" Sokka asked.

"This is Appa, my flying bison", the boy said.

"Right, and this is Katara, my flying sister", he said sarcastically.

The giant bison began to sneeze a giant snot ball towards Sokka, causing to panic when it hit him. Katara and the boy laughed at Sokka's screaming.

"Don't worry, it'll wash off", he said causing Sokka to frown.

Katara, still laughing, caught something from the corner of her eye; there was a hand lying right behind the giant bison.

"Hey, who's that behind your bison", she asked.

Then the arrowhead kid turned around on what she was talking about. To his surprise, there was someone behind Appa. He ran towards the body and what he saw struck him like a brick fell on top of his head. There was a boy around the age of sixteen, with dark brown hair, a mix of white and tan skin. But what stuck out of him, was his clothing; he was wearing what looks like a long sleeve light jacket with a hood, the color was grey and blue. But what caught him the most was that there was a hole on his right shoulder, bleeding to death.

"Hey guys, this kid is bleeding!"

The two ran towards the unconscious kid getting a better look at him. They both were confused and shocked at seeing what just happen. The only thing that Katara saw on the boy was a necklace that looked like a small spiral. The only thing she could think was one thing: Who is he?