Hello everyone out there in internet land! Here's my second ever Avatar: the Last Airbender fanfiction!
I really hope you all will enjoy this one! It's actually relatively fact based; I did actually have this Alice in Wonderland type dream involving Aang and his gang. (Although there was a definite lack of smoking caterpillars.)
Anyway, Enjoy!
Ps: I do NOT own Avatar: the Last Airbender. Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko and Nickelodeon are the ones to thank.
I knew from the second I opened my eyes that something was very very…well not right…
First of all, I was outside.
That's weird, I thought. I definitely went to sleep in my bed last night. "Don't tell me I've started sleep walking." That's a stress induced condition right?
The sky was bright blue with fluffy white clouds swimming slowly in its depths. I sat up and looked around. It seemed that I was in a road of some sort, the earth beneath me soft from being walked upon. There were fields on either side of me, though I couldn't tell what was growing in them.
I ran a hand through my hair; oddly, it was its usual length, landing along my neck, just skirting my shoulders. Usually in my dreams it was long again. I rubbed my hand over my eyes; no glasses I thought. That was a bit more normal for my dreams. I either had contacts or 20/20 vision in my dream world.
I looked down, expecting to see the Wolf Pack tee shirt and grey work out pants that I had gone to bed in. Instead, I was met with the sight of a brown tunic over a green long sleeved shirt and green pants. I cocked my head; that was a new outfit for dream land, but it was nice so didn't complain. Could have been worse.
As I sat contemplating, I heard a voice ring out across the field to my left; I looked to see a flying lemur zooming toward me, followed closely by a young boy. "Momo! Come back!" The boy laughed as he chased what I assumed was his pet.
This is familiar, I thought, watching the boy come into view. He wasn't very tall, maybe five foot two, but he was young and would probably get taller once he hit puberty. He wore strange yellow pants tucked into brown books. His outfit from the waist up was strange; like a long sleeved yellow shirt with a high collar, and a weird orange shoulder wrap thing. Around his wrists and waist were bands of orange, matching the thing on his shoulders.
The oddest thing about the boy was his head; he couldn't be older than fourteen, but he was completely bald and had a large blue arrow painted on his head. When I looked closer, I noticed that the boy had arrows on the backs of his hands as well.
The white lemur landed beside me in the road; his owner came up to the edge of the road. He looked at me, his grey eyes curious. "Um, hello," he said, waving to me gently. "Are you alright?"
Realization hit me like a bolt of lightning to the forehead. "Oh…my…fraking…GOD!"
The young boy jumped back slightly as I jumped to my feet, my hands over my mouth. "You're…you're…Aang the Avatar!"
Aang cocked his head to the side, looking at me as if I were crazy. "Uh…yeah. Nice to meet you..? You are?"
I shook my head slightly, trying to calm down. You're dreaming girl, no need to flip your shit. "Kate," I said softly.
Aang came closer to me, picking up Momo on the way. "Well, Kate, where are you headed?"
"Um…" That was also new in dream land. No one ever asked me things as if I belonged to the world we were in. "I don't know."
Aang shrugged. "Well, why don't you come back to my camp? You look pretty hungry, and I'm pretty sure it's not a good idea for you to be sitting in the middle of the road."
I nodded, taking a step after him as he turned to walk away; it was the first time I noticed that I had shoes on my feet. "Y-yeah…okay."
And so, I followed Avatar Aang, one of my favorite cartoon characters EVER to his camp. For some strange reason, this dream felt very different from any others I had ever had.