Book 1: Fresh Water [Video]

[savedtheworld]

[Aang is peering into the journal so his face takes up almost the entire screen. He begins shouting into the book as abruptly as his image appears]

Hey! What am I doing here? I'm Aang! I'm an Airbender. Does anyone know what's going on here? I can't find my friends, my clothes or any of my stuff! I thought I was on my sky bison with everyone else going to see the Earth King. Now I'm here. Have anyone of you book people seen anyone I know?

[Aang has pulled away from the journal but continues talking as he sits in a patch of grass.]

This is a really weird place. But kinda peaceful. Definitely not weird enough to be the Spirit World. What is going on here?? And... have I always had these wings?

[Aang lifts up the book with one hand, squinting and examining it like some foreign object. This results in the picture showing his quizzical face from a skewed angle.]

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[markofthewise]

[Wow. That voice. It's... is it really Aang? After this long?]

Aang? Buddy?

[burningdownfate]

[This? This could get real awkward real fast, completely depending on what Aang last remembers back home. He's really not sure he should answer, but. Hey. It's the Avatar and what has his life been but hunting him down, right? Whether for good or ill...

... Yeah, this could be disastrous.]

Hey. [Pause.] Zuko here. [Like Aang wouldn't know him by sight or voice anytime. Idiot. Moron. Idiot.]

[Voice]

[endgames]

[Why are people so loud lately, why.]

Do you remember having wings before?

[savedtheworld]

[A familiar voice, even if a not completely familiar face, already?]

Sokka? Is that you?

[markofthewise]

Yeah- I mean, yeah. That's me. [It's been so long it's almost like meeting him for the first time again. Jeez.] What about you? Everything okay? Wings in working order?

/sob, placeholder

[markofthebrave]

[This - this was the last voice Katara expected to hear when she opened up the journal. She'd very nearly forgotten what that voice sounded like, to the point where just a few weeks ago she'd been going back through the journal to refresh her memory.

The last time he left nearly broke her.

It's been two years.]

...Aang?

[There's still that hope, that sense of so wanting to see someone you care deeply for - but it's muted now by dread of loss and guarded, a bit, by disappointment.]

[savedtheworld]

[Oh, that Zuko doesn't even know how awkward this can be. Oh hey it's that guy he was recently on the verge of killing. Aang tries to put some words together.]

Hey, Zuko.

What are you doing here?

[savedtheworld]

Not really. But I never look at my back... and maybe that's why I'm so good at Airbending!

By the way, who are you?

[savedtheworld]

Sweetie! You're here!

[savedtheworld]

You look kinda... different. And there's something on your chin.

My wings? They were aching before but they're fine. Really cool too. Don't know where I'd be without them!

[markofthewise]

[Technically you'd be dead, Aang, but let's not get to that part yet.]

Oh, er, well yeah. I've, you know, been here awhile. It's kind of a long story.

[savedtheworld]

What? But I was just with you! We were all on our way to meet with the Earth King...

[markofthewise]

[Of course Sokka's first thought is: He's from Season Two back in Ba Sing Se!?]

Yeah, uh, I'm kind of past all that. We met the Earth King. And then we exposed Long Jerkface, and... other stuff happened.

[endgames]

[Pfft, this guy.]

My name's Shikamaru--

[Aaand it's as he's saying this, that he catches that reply to Katara.

Somewhere, there's a record scratch.]

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[skaterbrain]

[Have a beanie wearing kid answering your cheerful video thing, Aang.]

Yo! Welcome to Luceti, Arrows!

[savedtheworld]

Yeah! That was when we met Bosco and I tried to open my chakras and then Azula- [he abruptly stops and goes silent for a moment.]

But that was over a year ago. What does that have to do with the problem with the colonies? Jerkface isn't loose again, right?

[savedtheworld]

Thanks... guy! What's your name and what does Luceti mean?

[markofthewise]

[There is a pause as Sokka tries to process this. How can Aang be- why would he- year ago- how is that-

Sokka takes a deep breath and forges ahead.]

... when you say a year ago, you mean a full twelfth months? Like, Sozin's comet has come and gone, peace is restored, Zuko gets a fancy thing to put in his hair, and why is there problems with the colonies?

[skaterbrain]

Name's Beat! Luceti's this place, yo. Yanno, the one you stuck in. Ain't so bad. It got decals so I ain't gonna fade or nothin'. Pretty sweet deal.

[Voice]

[bigsiskonagi]

Hello, Aang! My name's Yui Kōnagi and you're currently in Luceti. Welcome! [Hi, have someone who fails to mentions details.]

What's an Airbender? If I may ask.

[savedtheworld]

Right! Can't you remember? If you're old, then how come you don't remember what happened? Sokka, did you just forget everything that happened in the colonies with Zuko? Shouldn't you know the future?

[savedtheworld]

Nice to meet you, Beat! You seem like a pretty cool guy, whatever it is you're saying!

[markofthewise]

[Usually he does! He's always been ahead of everyone! Now he's being usurped from his position of knowingness.]

... I've been here since the war ended. Which was over two years ago for me. So I don't know much... future stuff at all.

[skaterbrain]

Ch'yeah, I'm the coolest. But I'm speakin' plain, yo. [Plain and confusing.]

But you a newb, so I put it down easy - you ask a Q and Beat give you the A you need, aight?

[Voice]

[savedtheworld]

Hi Yui, nice to meet you! What kind of place is this? I still don't really get it.

You don't know what an Airbender is? I... we're people who can use and master the element of air. We can glide and everything! It's a lot of fun!