Hey yay my first NEW chapter...if you don't know what I mean, I changed the story, what the prevous people may go into the story later,but for now. Just forget it.

Changes within the story of ATLAB:

Toph finds Aang within the earth, near earth rumble six.

Just because there is a cycle, doesn't mean Aang needs to follow it, who knows maybe breaking it will be a good thing?

Katara and Sokka are still going to be within the story,

Finally the Pairings...

Taang...Aang and Toph, I believe in opposites attract.

Zukara...Katara and Zuko, that will be later but will be happening

Sokka and Suki...One of the only things Sokka loves besides meat is Suki. As of right now I don't know how Sokka will meet her but he will.

So as of now the book will be earth...the cycle breaks (boo ho for any really hardcore fans who don't agree with this)

BREAK!

CRASH!!! BOOM!! A storm is furiously going though the earth kingdom, its the worst that the earth kingdom has seen in a many life times. The winds are hollowing, its strong enough to give even the most powerful of firebenders a hard time just to make fire. The rain in the clouds were a mixture of water and thin slits of ice.

"Appa, I don't think we will make it Omashu. I can't see that much of whats on the ground. We're lost!" Aang tried to yell over to Appa over the storm.

BOOM! Lightening hits Appa on of his foots, Appa is scared, hurt and now unable to fly. Appa then starts to plummet fastly towards the ground.

"NOOO!!! HANG ON THERE BUDDY!!!!" Aang screams to Appa.

Even in the dense rain, Aang can start to see the ground. He's panicking, Appa can't do anything about the falling, he doesn't want to lose Appa cause he jumped off to save himself. Suddenly his mind starts to cloud up, he slowly loosing his vision. The last thing he could see was the glowing coming from his hands.

BREAK!

Toph had never once been though the maelstrom forest. Now given its name, most kids , even all of the sane adults, never went thought there. The stories about it were spine chilling.

After the most powerful storm seen from many life times, a forest appeared. Out of the blue, where once was a death ridden waste land, became a lively forest. Depending on which person you heard it from, the rest was different. Never the less, each seemed to end the same, someone went in, and no one came out.

Just to provoke it, to see if the legend was true, an ex-Dai Lee went into it. This story was more modern, it had happened just last year. Toph had heard of the maelstrom forest from one of her nicer guards, when she was little and need a story. Now the Dai Lee one, was told to her by someone she meet when she first snuck out.

The Dai Lee was the only one to live getting in and out of the forest. But the issue was when ever he told the story, he made himself look bolder and bolder. But the true facts that always stayed was: There were a crap load of huge ass animals, they all were blood thirstily, every ten seconds there was wind howling coming from the center and in the center, was a tree that glowed a blueish color.

Many doubted the foolish old Dai Lee, many claimed too of going into the forest.

But today was different, she was later from her 30th match. (A/N She's still the best EarthBender even if she's a little younger).

While it would take a good 30 minutes to get back from Earth rumble 6 to her house and round the maelstrom forest. It could take a good 10 minutes going directly through the maelstrom forest. She knew of the stories of the maelstrom forest, but she didn't have 30 minutes.

Toph even could see well while running, her own vibrations often messed each other up, making it fuzzier and unclear. But never the less, she couldn't mess up her 30-0 streek of not getting caught either. Toph was running though the maelstrom forest, the trees were like the ones of the swamp, (B2 E04). They all seemed to be in rows, all heading towards the center. Toph knew some of the stories just had to wrong,. She realized it when some animal seem to parch itself on her shoulder, and every time she swatted away, it just came back even more happier.

Toph also knew that she was approaching the center of the forest, the roots became closer and closer together. When she realized a strange thing. There's a heartbeat in the earth, that could be someone. Now normally she didn't really care about others. But then again, if she was the only one that could sense things using vibrations than she would be the only one to know about this person. It was decided, she was going to save this poor soul, else they would die soon.

Toph got closer and closer to the source of the heartbeat. She realized that the heartbeat was actually two and it was in the direct center of the forest. She got as close as she could go before she had to got on the "center" tree. Toph got into her horse stance, then started to tunnel down towards the heartbeat.

After Toph got to the heartbeats, she noticed a hard shell around them. It was metal, cold hard iron. After she realized they had a shell around them. She bended the earth around the shell and pulled the shell out of the ground. Now she had breathing room.

"How am I going to get 'them' out of there?" Toph asked herself.

(Ten minutes of throwing random sized rocks, boulders, and stones later.)

"ARGHH!!!(runs up to the metal shell) WHY (punch) WON'T (punch) YOU (punch) BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!(Punch thats harder than the rest)." Toph yells at the the metal shell.

The last punch makes her hand stuck in the metal shell.

"What the?(tries to get hand out of the hole she had now created) I am SO cool I can bend METAL!!!! I'm the best earthbender/metalbender ever!!!" Toph yells out to the hevens.

"Ouch will you keep it down?" Askes a voice from the metal shell.