001 § Accidental Video § Arrival

[aangin_loose]

[When the feed comes on, there's part of a face filling the screen... A big, white, furry face. Appa sniffs at the PCD and noses it aside. He wants the grass, not weird smelling things. He keeps nosing it aside as he goes.

A sleepy voice comes from a bit away. Aang had been asleep in Appa's saddle.] Are we there already?

[Appa makes a noise. It's a little uncertain and he noses the PCD again. After a moment, the camera shifts as it's picked up. Aang's face comes into view... upside down.] What'd you find? [He looks around. Surely, whatever this thing is belongs to someone who's probably still around.] Appa... where are we?

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[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Sure. Why not?

[Video]

[aangin-loose.livejournal.com]

Cool! [Where to start, where to start...] Well, there's four Nations in my world, one for each element. Only, I'm sort of all that's left of the Air Nomads. There's been a war for the last hundred years that's over now and I'm helping rebuild.

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

So Katara, Zuko and you are from different Nations then? ...Meaning your people used to fight themselves for the last hundred years?

[Video]

[aangin-loose.livejournal.com]

Well, the Fire Nation was sort of trying to take over the world.

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Really? Does it mean that firebenders are usually more powerful than other benders?

[Video]

[aangin-loose.livejournal.com]

No, not really. They're just more aggressive. When they started the war, it was the year Sozin's comet came around and it made them really, really powerful. [And he still feels a bit guilty about disappearing when he was needed.] There wasn't anyone around who could stop them.

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Yet you said that the war ended, right?

[Video]

[aangin-loose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it did. My friends and I stopped it. [Yeah, he stopped Ozai, but there had still been Azula and the Fire Nation army to stop. He hadn't done it alone.]

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

You're a great fighter then, Aang?

[Video]

[aangin-loose.livejournal.com]

[He shrugs.] I don't like fighting. I do it when I have to, but I really try to avoid it.

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

What happened to the people of your own Nation?

[Video]

[aangin-loose.livejournal.com]

Sozin knew the Avatar would be born into the Air Nomads. So when the comet came, he invaded and wiped out all the Airbenders. I'm the last one.

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Oh. I'm really sorry, Aang.

...What's an Avatar?

[Video]

[aangin-loose.livejournal.com]

It's alright. If there's still one, there can still be more.

Um... the Avatar can control all four elements. The Avatar is connected with the spirit of the world and it's protector. An Avatar can call on the power and wisdom of all the Avatars before, so the Avatar is really powerful.

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Hmm. True enough.

And since your the last airbender, that Avatar... it'd be you?

[Video]

[aangin-loose.livejournal.com]

Oh, heh, yeah, that's me. [Bug sheepish grin.] I don't really like to play the Avatar card though. You know, when you're the one who's supposed to save everyone, it's nice to just get to know people before they find that out.

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about it. You're not the first one I meet here whose fate is to save his home world, so...

[Video]

[aangin-loose.livejournal.com]

Are you another one?

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

No, I'm... [Quite the opposite.] I'm not.

[Video]

[aangin-loose.livejournal.com]

Well, that's okay! None of my best friends are, either! [Big, dorky grin.]

[Video] Rofl! That icon... XD

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

[A smirk.] Well I hope that's not the only criterium you use to choose them.

[Video] XD It's the dorkiest grin I have for him XD

[aangin-loose.livejournal.com]

Oh, no. I think anyone can become a friend, even someone who was an enemy once. [A pause.] Well, maybe not Ozai. I think his hated of me runs too deep, but I'd be willing if he was.

[Video] It fits :D

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

[Usagi... Get out of that body. No seriously.]

I know a girl here who thinks just like you. Her name's Usagi. Have you already met her?

[Video]

[aangin-loose.livejournal.com]

Yeah! I've met her! She's really nice! I like her.

[Video] fhzdhgrjks Aang has so many amazing icons, I don't even XD

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

It would have surprised me greatly if you didn't. [She manages to say that both matter-of-factly and sarcastically.]