Okay, so this is new. I've decided to have two stories going at once. We'll see how that works out and probably find out which one I favor in the future. But anyway welcome to my Avatar fic. As you can see from the title of this story it is going to be broken up like the show is by three books with each chapter focusing on one episode at a time unless I deem otherwise. So let's get into this! I don't own anything, Avatar the Last Airbender belongs to Nick?...Bryke?...one of those two. Enjoy!

The Boy in the Iceberg

Sitting in a canoe for hours wasn't the most exciting thing. But Celina was content, happy to spend some quality time with her siblings away from the rest of the village. Even if watching her younger brother try to catch a fish was a bit hopeless.

"It's not getting away from me this time. Watch and learn, girls. This is how you catch a fish," Sokka announced confident. Celina let out a small, quiet chuckle. Her younger sister responded with looking over the edge of the canoe and into the water, finding a fish. She looked over to Celina for some encouragement, which the older girl quickly gave with a nod, before taking off her glove. With a deep breath, she began to move her hand, causing a globe of water containing the fish to burst out of the water. An ecstatic look graced the bender's face as she successfully bended the water. Celina smiled, proud of her little sister.

"Celina, Sokka, look!" Katara cried out about her accomplishment.

"Shhh. Katara, you're gonna scare it away," Sokka whispered, trying not to scare away the fish he was practically drooling over already. "Mmmm…I can already smell it cookin'!"

"Sokka, can you just take a minute to look at what Katara's trying to show you?" Celina asked as she watched Katara struggle to try and keep the blob of water floating. Unfortunately, Sokka didn't get a chance to see the fish that she caught as Sokka raised his spear, accidentally bursting the bubble of water on top of him and sending the fish jumping back into the water.

"Hey!" Katara protested.

"Ugh! Why is it that every time you play with magic water I get soaked?" Sokka asked exasperated.

"It's not magic. It's waterbending," Katara corrected.

"Yeah, yeah, an ancient art unique to our culture, blah, blah, blah," Sokka repeated, having heard Katara's speech multiple times before.

"Which is why you should respect Katara trying to learn it," Celina pointed out.

"Look, I'm just saying that if I had weird powers, I'd keep my weirdness to myself," Sokka said. Celina couldn't help but wince at his words though Katara didn't seem as bothered.

"You're calling me weird? I'm not the one who makes muscles at myself every time I see my reflection in the water," Katara shot back. Celina couldn't help but roll her eyes when she saw Sokka display what Katara was talking about. What grabbed her attention though was when the boat bumped into ice. Looking up she gasped to see that they had floated into a packed area.

"Guys, trouble ahead!" Celina shouted and grabbed a paddle. The other siblings quickly followed her actions as they frantically tried to maneuver the canoe between in ice. The trio tried their best to try and dodge all the ice that was seeming targeting them, with Celina and Sokka rowing and Katara shouted out which way to steer. In the end, they weren't swift enough as ice collided, crushing the canoe and sending the siblings sprawled out onto floating ice.

"You call that left?" Katara angrily mocked, directing all of her aggression towards Sokka.

"You don't like my steering. Well, maybe you should have waterbended us out of the ice. Besides, Celina was helping me steer too," Sokka shot back.

"So it's our fault?" Katara asked pissed off.

"Alright guys, try to calm down," Celina interjected, knowing that a fight was brewing.

"I knew I should have left you home. Leave it to a girl to screw things up," Sokka commented. Celina closed her eyes in exasperation, knowing that there was no way she could save Sokka from Katara's rage now.

"You are the most sexist, immature, nut-brained…Ugh! I'm embarrassed to be related to you!" Katara ranted, getting more worked up. Celina had to admit, some of the things Katara was saying were true, Sokka was a bit of a sexist. A crack ran through the iceberg alerting Celina as to what Katara was doing. "Ever since Mom died I've been doing all the work around camp while you've been off playing soldier!"

It was the second crack that grabbed Sokka's attention. "Uh…Katara?" he piped up.

"I even wash all the clothes! Have you ever smelled your dirty socks? Let me tell you, NOT PLEASANT!" Katara continued ranting.

"Katara, please, calm down," Celina tried.

"No. I'm done helping him!" she shouted. That seemed to break the iceberg as it sent on last damaged crack into it before it fell apart, creating waves which sent the ice they were on floating back.

"Okay, you've gone from weird to freakish, Katara," Sokka sassed.

"You mean I did that?" Katara asked amazed.

"Yup. Congratulations," Sokka replied sarcastically.

"This is why you should be encouraging her to practice," Celina commented. A bright glow from under the water sent the siblings moving back on the ice. They watched as an even bigger iceberg made its way to the surface, floating right in front of them. The girls peered closure to it, confused by the rippled image of a small and large figure within the ice. All of them gasped as the smaller figures eyes and what looked to be arrow markings glow white.

"He's alive! We have to help!" Katara exclaimed before grabbing Sokka's boomerang and headed closer towards the iceberg. Celina followed by grabbing Sokka's spear and headed with Katara towards the iceberg. If that person in the ice really was alive then she was going to help get them out.

Sokka, however, protested as his sisters took both of his weapons. "Katara! Celina! Get back here! We don't know what that thing is!" The girls ignored him as they made their way over to the iceberg and began to whack the ice with their weapons, trying to get the person out. It was only after a few good whacks that it cracked from top to bottom, exploding open in a burst of light. Sokka had made it over to them and tried to shield both of his sisters. He managed to get Katara but Celina was too tall, though she herself was capable enough to shield her eyes from the beaming light. As the light stopped Celina, Sokka, and Katara looked up watched as a bald boy walked out of the iceberg before fainting. Katara was the first to react, catching the boy before he hit the ground. A groan later and his eyes opened as he looked up at Katara.

"I need to ask you something?" the boy said.

"What?" Katara asked. "What is it?"

"Will you go penguin sledding with me?" he asked, sounding normal if not excited like nothing had happened.

"Um…sure. I guess," Katara responded, confused. The boy quickly jumped up to his feet.

"What's going on here?" the boy asked confused.

"You tell us! How'd you get in the ice? And why aren't you frozen?" Sokka questioned.

"I'm not sure," the boy admitted. Celina noted the different clothing that the boy wore compared to them. His clothes were composed of orange and yellows, seemingly made of lighter materials, compared to the blue heavy overcoats that her and her siblings dawned. Not to mention the strange blue arrow tattoos that the boy had. A deep, low toned animal noise sounded from behind the broken iceberg. This caused the younger boy to remember something as he ran off towards the sound. "Appa!"

Celina, Sokka, and Katara all looked at each other, extremely confused as to what was going on. Walking around to the other side of the iceberg the three gasped in shocked to see the large hairy monster in front of them, licking the boy. He himself was happy, hugged the creature. Celina was amazed by the creature.

"What is that thing?" Sokka asked.

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

"Right. And this is Katara, my flying sister," Sokka mocked sarcastically, earning glares from both Katara and Celina.

"He's amazing," Celina admitted out loud. The flying bison, Appa, let out a noise of thanks for her compliment, causing Celina to smile.

"So, do you guys live around here?" the boy asked.

Celina was going to answer when Sokka interrupted. "Don't answer that! Did you see that crazy bolt of light? He was probably trying to signal the Fire Navy," Sokka ordered.

"Are you kidding me?" Celina asked bluntly, not believing that her brother could be this paranoid.

"Oh, yeah, I'm sure he's a spy for the Fire Navy. You can tell by that evil look in his eye," Katara replied to Sokka sarcastically. Sokka looked over at the mystery boy as Aang just smiled at him. "The paranoid one is my brother and this is our older sister Celina. You never told us your name."

The boy was about to answer when a sneeze came along, sending him straight up into the air. Everyone was shocked and stared at him when he landed back down. "I'm Aang," he answered like nothing happened.

"You just sneezed…and flew ten feet in the air," Sokka stated shocked.

"Really? It felt higher than that," Aang admitted.

Katara gasped. "You're an airbender!" It all made sense now that Katara had said it. Celina should have guessed it earlier from the color of clothing that he was wearing.

"Sure am," Aang confirmed.

"Giant light beams…flying bison…airbenders…I think I've got Midnight Sun Madness. I'm going home to where stuff makes sense," Sokka listed exasperated.

"Yeah, good luck with that without a boat," Celina sassed causing Sokka to stop short.

"Well, if you guys are stuck Appa and I can give you a lift," Aang offered as he airbended himself on top of Appa's head. A large smiled painted Celina's face. She always loved animals - more so than she cared about people at times - and getting a ride on a flying bison excited her beyond belief.

"Yes, please!" Celina replied, hurriedly climbing up into the saddle.

"We'd love a ride!" Katara seconded.

"Oh, no…I am not getting on that fluffy monster," Sokka protested immaturely as Katara began to climb up.

"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 sassed. Sokka tried to argue back but gave up getting on Appa like the rest of them. Aang took the reins as Celina, Sokka, and Katara sat in the saddle. Celina and Katara were excited while Sokka looked miserable.

"Okay. First time flyers, hold on tight! Appa, yip yip!" Aang said. Appa gave out a low rumble and launched himself into the air. The aspect of flying ended when Appa landed in the water and began to swim. Aang seemed a tiny bit frustrated that Appa hadn't flown like he expected him to. "Come on, Appa. Yip yip."

"Wow. That was truly amazing," Sokka mocked.

"Appa's just tired. A little rest and he'll be soaring through the sky. You'll see," Aang explained.

"Yeah Sokka, wouldn't you be tired after being unfrozen?" Celina shot back at her brother. Sokka glared at her in response but Celina didn't care. Flying or not she was still enjoying her time with the flying bison.

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They had been traveling for a while, enough for Celina to fall asleep after a long eventful day. She was instantly sent into a strange dream, watching as Aang came out of the iceberg. He fainted but instead of Katara being there to catch him like she was that day, he fell straight into the water. Looking down into the waves Celina tried to find Aang beneath the icy waters. For a few seconds she didn't see anything but then the glowing light appeared. From beneath the water, Aang rose up to the surface and then into the sky, all from a water tornado that extended from the ocean. Both his eyes and his arrow tattoos were glowing. From up in the air the young airbender looked menacing and powerful. Celina gasped frightened as to what was going on and what Aang was going to do. Her gasping alerted Aang as he looked down at her with his glowing eyes. The glowing of his eyes expanded taking up all of Celina's vision. Celina awoke breathing heavily, frightened from her dream. It defiantly wasn't the worst dream she ever had, she wouldn't even consider it a nightmare, but it did shock her enough to wake her up. As her breathing calmed down Celina looked around, Appa was close to arriving back to the village as she saw the tents coming up in the distance. She turned over and shook Sokka's shoulder, waking him up much to his annoyance.

"What?" he groaned. Seeing that Celina was the one waking him up Sokka instantly shot up, wondering what was wrong.

"We're almost back to the village," Celina stated, pointing to it. Sokka looked and nodded before returning his attention back to his sister.

"Are you okay? Was it the nightmare?" Sokka asked concerned.

"No, no, just a dream that freaked me out a bit. Nothing to worry about," Celina assured. Sokka nodded but continued to look at Celina, making sure that she was actually okay and not just saying she was. Celina went over to Katara and woke her up. Blinking a few times Katara looked up at her oldest sibling.

"We're almost back home," she told her.

"Alright," Katara yawned. "I'll go wake Aang."

"Let him sleep, he must be tired. Who knows how long he's been frozen in there," Celina told her.

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Arriving back to the village drew a big crowd as swimming in on a flying bison wasn't the most nonchalant thing. Everyone stared at Appa in awe as he got out of the water and walked them further inland before laying down for Celina, Sokka, Katara, and Aang to get off. Celina picked up Aang and carried him off Appa, heading towards her, Sokka, and Katara's tent.

"Celina, what's going on?" Gran Gran asked her confused when she saw the sleeping boy in her granddaughter's arms.

"We found him and his bison frozen in an iceberg," Celina explained.

"Is he alright?" Gran Gran asked worried.

"He's fine, just sleeping. I'm just gonna get him inside so that he can continue to rest," Celina answered. "We can do introductions later." Gran Gran nodded and let Celina continue on. Once inside Celina laid Aang down on a sleeping mat before heading back outside where she met up with Sokka and Katara. "You can probably wake him up in a few minutes so we can explain where he is and everything that's going on."

"Okay," Katara nodded. Celina walked back over to Appa who was surrounded by the tribe's children, intrigued by the large creature. As soon as they saw Celina approaching they ran towards their mothers, hiding behind their coats while peering out at Appa. Celina frowned. She would never be used to that.

Sighing she turned her attention back to Appa. "Hey there boy, I took Aang inside to rest. Thanks for the ride." Appa let out a rumble in reply causing her to smile. Celina stroked his fur, having fallen in love with this creature. It would be sad to see him go when Aang would leave. She spent more time with Appa before seeing Katara pull Aang out of the tent.

"Aang, this is the entire village. Entire village, Aang," Katara introduced. Celina couldn't help but snicker. With the number of people still left in the Southern Water Tribe Celina barely considered it a village anymore.

"Uh…why are they all looking at me like that?" Aang asked feeling a bit uncomfortable with all eyes on him.

"Well, no one has seen an airbender in a hundred years. We thought they were extinct until my grandson and granddaughters found you," Gran Gran explained.

"Extinct?" Aang questioned worried. This drew Celina's attention. How could Aang not know that all the airbenders had been wiped out? There was something up with Aang that she couldn't understand just yet. Sokka went up and grabbed Aang's staff, examining it.

"What is this, a weapon? You can't stab anything with this," Sokka commented.

"It's not for stabbing. It's for airbending," Aang clarified, taking it back and opening it up. The children were amazed by him. "It lets me control the air currents around my glider and fly."

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

"Check again!" Aang said. The airbender launched himself into the air and soared through the sky with his glider. Everyone was amazed except for Sokka who just looked peeved off. It was when Aang got distracted that he forgot to look where he was flying and slammed into Sokka's guard tower. Sokka ran over to his precious watch tower as Aang dislodged himself from it.

"My watchtower!" Sokka shouted. He was examining the damage to the tower when Aang closed his glider, sending a large snow back falling onto him. "Great. You're an airbender, Katara's a waterbender, together you can just waste time all day long."

"You're a waterbender!?" Aang asked excited.

"Well…sort of. Not yet," Katara admitted.

"All right. No more playing. Come on, Katara you have chores," Gran Gran interrupted.

Celina sighed. "Looks like I have to get going Appa," she told the bison before heading over and grabbing a woven basket from her hut. Having got the basket Celina walked out of the village and walked along the coastline, wanting to get far away from the village as possible.

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Celina set the basket down as soon as she decided that she was far enough from the village. Staring out at the icy ocean she took a deep breath to enjoy a moment alone and away from the judging eyes that stared at her. A rustling in the snow, however, said to her that that wasn't correct. Turning around Celina smiled, seeing a familiar trio of creatures. The largest one had always reminded her of a young polar bear dog but with strange red markings around his eyes and sandy colored fur. Then there was a black fox with bright blue eyes and two tails alongside a turquoise flying bunny.

"Hello you three, come to watch me practice?" Celina asked. The three creatures nodded happily, excited to see what Celina was going to do this time. Chuckling she turned back to the water and began. As always Celina warmed up with simple pushing and pulling of the waves, it calmed her down and helped prepare her for when she wanted to try more complicated moves. Yes, Katara wasn't the only waterbender in the Southern Water Tribe. Celina also contained the ability but decided to keep quiet about it. The whole village knew her as a freak already because of her snowy white skin and because they thought she talked to the thin air. There was no way Celina was telling them about her waterbending only for them to add it to the list of things they mocked her for. But she didn't bother thinking about those negatives things out here away from the village. Out here she was able to be herself.

Gracefully, Celina brought her arms up, bringing a large globe of water up into the air. She separated the globe into two smaller ones and began to practice, moving the orbs of water to her will. At first, it started off very serious with practicing offensive and defensive moves before Celina's movements became more playful and transformed into something resembling dancing. The trio of creatures was mesmerized as Celina manipulated the water. Unlike Katara, Celina had much more control over her element thanks to the practice she got in. No one in the village really cared that much when Celina disappeared for a while, especially when she brought back food with her. Sometimes Celina would feel bad that she wasn't offering Katara more advice on waterbending and helping her learn but that would involve revealing that she could waterbend as well. She hoped that she made up for it by encouraging Katara to waterbend whenever she could. It put a smile on her face when Katara practiced her waterbending and succeeded, getting just as excited as Celina did when she first started practicing.

Celina continued on for an hour until she brought the two water orbs together and froze the large globe of water that she created. Concentrating Celina moved her hands apart in a certain fashion which caused the frozen globe to explode into falling snow. It was a perfect finish to a day of waterbending practice as the trio of creatures made respective sounds of applause. Celina smiled at them while she tried to catch her breath.

"Thanks, guys, I hoped you liked the show," Celina said walking over to them. The foxy rubbed against her legs while the flying bunny nuzzled its head against her cheek. The polar bear dog decided to lick her hand. All of their affection caused Celina to giggle. "Okay, that's enough. I still need to gather some fish to take back."

Looking back at the empty basket Celina sighed. "I know catching fish helps me practice my waterbending but over the years it's felt more and more like a chore. Oh well, it keeps the village from asking questions and gives us something to eat. And at least I have you guys to keep me company," Celina said to herself. The trio sat down next to the water's edge as they watched Celina catch fish. Katara did have an idea earlier about who to catch fish by waterbending, though it wasn't fully fleshed out. Watching the water for any movement Celina would bend a globe of water whenever she caught sight of a fish. What she did instead of Katara was move the globe of water over the top of the basket and removed as much water from the globe as possible before freezing the fish and dropping it into the basket. It was a method that Celina had developed over the years through trial and error. It didn't take long for her to fill it up halfway, a point at which she stopped. The basket wasn't full enough to raise suspicion, nor was it too heavy for her to carry back. Ritualistically Celina took two fish from the basket and set one of them down in front of the fox and then handed the other on to the polar bear dog who took it in its mouth.

The two happily munched on their snack while Celina dipped into her pocket. "Don't worry, I didn't forget about you," she said to the bunny. Pulling out some dried seaweed she held out her hand and let the flying bunny take it. The waterbender smiled as she watched her companions eat their treats. "Well, I best get going. Thanks for keeping me company…" She didn't get time to finish her sentence as she was interrupted by a bright flare exploding into the sky. The trio of creatures stopped eating and ran away, further inland to go and hide. Celina, on the other hand, was frozen in panic. That flare had to come from the forbidden Fire Navy ship.

"Spirits," Celina cursed. Picking up the basket of fish Celina sprinted back to the village. The flare no doubt signaled the Fire Navy who was most likely heading straight towards the village which would only bring about disaster.

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