Alright, if you're reading this then that means you have decided to actually give this story a chance. YAY! I think you will enjoy it. I randomly had the idea and thought it would be fun. An OC from our world popping up in the avatar world has been done before, but I'm pretty sure it's never been done like this.(at least I hope not otherwise I'm gonna feel really unoriginal).

The first few chapters are short, but they get longer pretty quickly. I suggest you try getting through the end of chapter 4 before completely shooting down this story.

"Ok, you've gone from weird to freakish Katara."

Katara stared in disbelief at where a tall iceberg had one been. "You mean I did that?"

"Yep! Congratulations." Sokka said sarcastically.

The water below them suddenly bubbled as if it were boiling. The two stood up and back away just as a giant ice berg, ten times bigger than that previous one, popped out of the ocean. They stared in wonder at the oddly shaped iceberg. It was round and the texture made it look almost as if it had been carved. But what has inside of it was even more amazing. Two forms, and large one and a small one lay dormant within the ice. Katara swore that one was human. And that it had just opened it's eyes.

"He's alive! We have to help!"

Grabbing Sokka's club Katara iceberg hopped over the trapped boy.

"Katara wait!" cried Sokka as he followed frantically after her. "You don't know what that thing is!"

Whether she had heard him or not Katara didn't show. She lifted the club and hit the ice as hard as she could. She hit it again. Compared to the size of the iceberg her blows seemed to get them nowhere, but on her fourth strike the ice broke and a loud hiss of air quickly flowed out of the ice berg.

Meanwhile a certain banished Prince was standing passively on the deck of his metal ship. He had been searching the South Pole for days. It was cold and it was boring and there was no sign of the avatar!

"Zuko, you've been standing there staring at the ice for hours now," commented his Uncle. He motion at his little table cluttered with his game of Pai Sho and hot tea. "Please sit. Why don't you enjoy a nice cup of calming Jasmine tea?"

"I DON'T NEED ANY CALMING TEA!" Zuko shouted. "I need to capture the avatar!"

I know, Iroh thought to himself. You only remind me of that five times a day.

He sighed and looked up at the sky. Why must his nephew be so uptight? He should really just sit back and relax every now and then. It would probably do wonders for his angry scrunched up eyebrows.

Iroh's eyes widened.

"Prince Zuko."

"What?" Zuko cried, turning back to his uncle. This had better not be another offer for calming tea.

But Iroh didn't offer him tea. His gaze stayed fixated on the sky as he pointed upwards.

"Look…."

Zuko glanced up just as a blue beam of light descended from the sky. It came down and ended in the water not fifty yards from his ship.

What could it be? He thought. I'm pretty sure the southern lights aren't supposed to look like that.

Just then Zuko spotted something in the beam of light. It was so high up that it just looked like a small black dot. But it was falling rapidly.

"Uncle!"

"I see it," Iroh had noticed it too.

As it approached quickly Zuko realized that this falling object was much more than just an object. It was a person! The person was dropping headfirst. It's eyes were wide open and glowing brightly. Zuko saw those glowing eyes for no more than two seconds before it hit the water. There was a loud splash and the beam of light disintegrated, disappearing as quickly as it had come.

Another splash came from the side of the ship.

"Prince Zuko!" Iroh ran to the edge and looked for his nephew. Had he gone crazy? "What are you doing?"

Zuko ignored him, instead focusing on swimming as quickly as possible towards the spot where the person had fallen. The last of the ripples were flowing away when he reached it. Zuko tooked a deep breath and submerged himself in the frigid water.

Underwater he opened his eyes and spotted the person immediately. It wasn't very hard, considering their eyes were still wide open and glowing. Zuko could swear that they were staring straight at him.

Despite the open eyes the form was sinking like a rock. It wasn't moving at all. The Prince swam frantically before it got too deep to rescue, wrapped one arm around it's waist, and used the other to push them up to the surface.

Back at the ship Iroh had taken action too. He'd called up all the surrounding men, ordering them to find the rope and toss one end of it down to the water. Not long later there was a sharp tug on the rope and they quickly pulled it up to find a waterlogged banished Prince carrying…a GIRL?

No, Iroh was not going crazy. The person who had just fallen out of the sky through a beam of light was a young teenage girl! And he'd thought that he had seen it all.

Zuko dropped the girl on the deck and allowed his men to pull a dry towel around his shoulders. He blew some firey breaths into his hands to warm him up and clutched tightly at the towel. His wet ponytail stuck to the back of his head and his body involuntarily shivered. But that didn't stop him from instantly giving orders.

"Men, take this girl to the prison cells," he barked. "Make sure to give her some dry blankets. We can't have her freezing to death."

The soldiers looked down uncertainly at the unconscious girl. Her eyes had stopped glowing somewhere between the drowning and the boat. She was just a kid, and Zuko wanted her put in a prison cell? But when they glanced back up at their captain/prince the look on his face told them that this was by no means a joke and that they had better obey him if they didn't want to take a dip in the South Pole's freezing waters. They nodded their heads dutifully. One quickly came forward and picked the girl up bridal style, carrying her away to the cells.

Iroh placed his hand on his nephew's shoulder.

"Prince Zuko is this really necessary?" he asked.

Zuko stared hard at his uncle. Iroh knew what he was thinking.

"You can't possibly? You can't possibly think that she's the avatar?"

"That is exactly what I think Uncle."

"But the avatar is supposed to be a hundred years old and an airbender. She couldn't be a day over sixteen! And her clothes resemble nothing of that of the airbenders."

"You saw that light Uncle!" shouted the prince. "You saw her drop from the sky and her eyes glow! What else could she possibly be? I wouldn't believe it either if I hadn't just witnessed it with my own two eyes!"

"But-" Iroh still felt that something was amiss here.

Zuko took a deep breath and spoke calmly. "Look Uncle. I've been searching for the avatar for years now to restore my honor. And now the avatar has fallen out of the sky and landed merely a few yards away from my ship. It is my destiny to capture avatar and take him—or her—back to the Firelord."

How was that for a first chapter? I promise she won't wake up and make Zuko instantly fall for her or anything like that. I avoid Mary Sues like the plague.

The next one should come out today or tomorrow, so no worries! Please review if you like this. I'm got a lot of fanfics and priority goes to the ones with the most reviews, so if you want chapters. Gotta give reviews! It's a nice little cycle I like to get going here in my stories!