ANOTHER AVATAR

Water, Earth, Fire, Air.

Long ago, the four Nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements, could stop them. But, when the world needed him most, he vanished.

A hundred years have passed and the Avatar has been found……

………but nobody knew that there were two.

She was watching from atop an icy mountain in the South Pole. She didn't quite know how she got there. Her name was Kitaah. Kitaah had been watching a Fire Nation ship. It was Prince Zukos' ship. They had captured the Avatar called Aang. They were now on their way back to the Fire Nation when Kitaah saw Aang jump out of the lower part of the ship. He then ran through the hall into the next floor of the ship where his staff was being stored.

Being an Airbender, he uses his staff to control the air currents around him. Well, after Aang went into the next floor, a Firebender ran up from the floor that Aang was just on and yelled, "The Avatar has escaped!"

Other Firebenders ran through the hall that Aang was running through. A little while later flames shot out of Prince Zuko's room. He was fighting Aang. The flames stopped. A little while later, Aang came running out of the hallway at the top floor. Prince Zuko was close behind. Aang had retrieved his staff. He opened it up into a kite-like thing, jumped off of the top floor and grabbed hold. He was almost safe but Prince Zuko had jumped, reached out, and grabbed hold of Aang's foot. Taken by surprise, Aang crashed of the deck of the ship. He was a couple of feet away from Prince Zuko. He was already standing. Aang scrambled onto his feet and headed for his staff. Zuko saw what he was going to do and did a firebending move to prevent it. Aang jumped away. Zuko did another and another. By now, from dodging the fire, Aang was on the edge of the ship.

Aang's friends had arrived. They were Katara, a fourteen-year-old Waterbender girl, and her older brother, Sokka, a sixteen-year-old warrior. They were riding on Aang's flying bison called Appa. By the way, Aang is a twelve-year-old Airbender (who is the Avatar, too) and had been frozen with his flying bison in an iceberg for a hundred years.

Prince Zuko did one more firebending move that made Aang lose his balance and fall into the freezing water below. Katara shouted, "Aang! No!" The next thing that happened was that all of a sudden, Aang was waterbending. His eyes and the arrows on his head and hands had turned a ghostly whitish-blue. He had waterbended back onto the ship and was fighting Prince Zuko and several other Firebenders. He used an amazing move that knocked Prince Zuko and the other Firebenders off of the ship and into the water. Kitaah thought, No!

Aang's friends had landed on the deck and Aang had turned back to normal. Three Firebenders were still on board and were heading towards Katara. She mimicked the waterbending move that Aang had done but at a much smaller size and way less powerful. The first time she did it, the water went backwards and froze over her brothers' feet. Annoyed, Sokka shouts, "Katara!" and goes to chip away the ice with his boomerang. Katara turns around so that she is facing the opposite direction from last time and does the waterbending move again. Yet again, the water goes backwards but at the three Firebenders covering and freezing them. Katara turns around after she does the waterbending move and discovers that they were almost at arm length away from her.

After Sokka freed himself from the ice that covered his feet, he went to go get Aang's staff. He bent down and grabbed hold when all of a sudden, another hand grabbed hold of the other end! It was Prince Zuko! He hadn't fallen all of the way off and had climbed back up. He wasn't all of the way up onto the ship ,though. Sokka hit Prince Zuko on the head with the end of the staff three times which made Prince Zuko let go and fall again. Luckily, he grabbed hold of part of the ship and started climbing up again.

Sokka shouted, "Hey Aang! You forgot something!" "Thanks, Sokka!" Aang replies. They then got onto the flying bison and took off. Prince Zuko had finally gotten back on the ship and his uncle (who is also his firebending teacher) had awoken from his nap. Before Aang, Katara, and Sokka were safe, Prince Zuko shouted, "Bring him down!" His uncle and Zuko sent a fireball at Aang and his friends. It hurtled towards them. Aang jumped up and sent an airbending move that redirected the fireball to go towards the snowy mountain that Kitaah was on. The fireball hit, the snow fell on the front of the ship and the path it was going to take, and nobody saw or knew that the snow had engulfed Kitaah.

Aang had gotten away. Prince Zuko's uncle says, "This is good news for the Fire Lord. The Fire Nations greatest threat is just a kid." Prince Zuko replies, "That 'kid' just did this." Reminding his uncle of the stuck ship. "I underestimated him, I won't do that again." Prince Zuko turned around. "Dig this ship out!" he ordered his crew. Then, seeing that most of the crew was trying to free the three Firebenders that Katara had frozen in water, said, "Uhhh, after you finish that."

About halfway through the snow, after the Firebenders had started digging the ship out, a guard found Kitaah. She had fainted. The guard was too shocked to speak. After a couple of minutes, she regained consciousness. She looked up and saw the guard staring at her. She stared back, frightened. Still shocked, the guard shouted, "Prince Zuko! Come here!" Other crewmembers started to crowd around. Trying to get a glimpse of the newly discovered treasure. Kitaah was still sitting in the snow. She couldn't escape. Tons of snow was behind her and Firebenders in front. Not only that, but she was far too weak. Prince Zuko had been talking with his uncle about where to search for the Avatar next when the guard had called for him. Annoyed, Prince Zuko walks over with his uncle. "What is it? I am far too busy to deal with your problems." Prince Zuko pushed the Firebenders out of the way to get to where the guard was talking. His uncle was close behind. The Firebender guard said, "But, sir, it's a girl…"