Louise sat on the side of her bed, staring at the strange boy passed out on the floor. She impatiently tapped her wand against her knee and glared at the sleeping figure.

"WAKE UP!" Her wand sharply rapped the boy between the eyes.

"YEOWWWW!" The boy bolted upright, looking around wondering where he was.

"Where am I? Where'd Appa go? Is this a palace. What is…?"

"QUIET!" Louise waved he wand about in an attempt to cast a silence spell. A sudden explosion signaled another failure as smoke filled the room. Several small objects went flying across the room, and one of Louise's shoes bounced off the boy's head.

"Owww… Why do things keep hitting my head?"

Louise stared in shock.

"I can understand you? I could have sworn that was a silence spell…"

"Hey you're making sense now! Well, sort of… Anyway, I'm Aang! Who are you?"

"I am Louise de La Vallière, third daughter of the Vallière family. And you are my familiar."

Aang scratched his head in puzzlement.

"Familiar? What's that?"

He suddenly looked around, searching for something.

"Hey, where's Appa?"

Louise thought for a moment then replied, "If you're talking about that beast you were riding, its in the stables around…"

"Stables! Got it!" Aang suddenly bolted to the window, and before Louise could stop him, he jumped out.

"What are you…!" Louise stopped in surprise as Aand floated to the ground on a ball of air, "So he can do magic."

By the time Louise caught up to Aang, he had already reached the stables and had his arms wrapped around the head of the big furry beast. The creature was so large his arms didn't even reach halfway around.

"What is that thing?" Louise stared in puzzlement at the massive animal, once more thinking how unusual it looked.

"This is Appa. He's a sky bison!"

Louise looked closer at the creature. "Why do you call it a sky bison"

"Because he flies." Aang lead the beast out of the stable and began to adjust the saddle straps.

Louise glanced at the friendly faced boy, then looked back at the beast, which looked about as aerodynamic as a wardrobe.

"Look, I'll show you! Appa, YIP YIP!" Aang sprang onto the creature's back and grabbed the reins tied to its horns.

The sky bison looked at Aang, let out a bellow as loud as a dragon, then jumped into the air, slapping its thick and wide tale on the ground. To Louise's surprise, instead of landing with a thud, it remained hovering in the air a dragon's length above the ground.

After circling twice, the massive bison slowly returned to the ground. It touched down, then ambled towards a sheltered corner of the wall.

"Sorry Appa's still tired. We were in this terrible storm… Hey that reminds me! Where is this place?"

"So the country of Tristain on the continent of Halkeginia. And this is the Tristain Academy of Magic, where nobles learn magic. Hmmm… Yeah, still confused!"

Louise had already tried explaining three times, yet it seemed that Aang lacked even basic knowledge about the world. She gritted her teeth in frustration.

"You must know something! You're a wind mage after all, right?"

"A what?" Aang looked baffled. "I'm an Airbender! One of the Air Nomads."

"Airbender? I've never heard of anything like that."

Aang looked thoughtful. "Well it seems I am far from home. After all, I've never heard of an Explosionbender."

"Hey! Explosions isn't all I can do!"

"Anyway, I'm going to turn in for the night." Aang hopped up onto Appa's saddle.

"You're going to sleep there?"

"Yeah, that castle seems too stuffy. I like sleeping out under the stars! Speaking of which, why are there two moons?"

Louise, too tired to care, waved off the question. "Well, goodnight."