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The Airbender Trust
Chapter One: The Eastern Air Temple
Darkness stood covering the small air temple as a shadowy figure slipped towards a temporary rock
hut. The figure gave a quick knock before moving from site of the door and pressing to the dark wall. As
soon as the door opened the figure's hand shot out. This action caused the shadows to fly at the owner,
wrapping around him and taking him down.
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Female eyes stared at him through the black cloths as the darkness tightened, squeezing the life from the man.
A second figure ran to her as the man stopped squirming. "That's it. The air temple is clear" Spoke the boy before pulling out a glider staff,
"Look what I found. We can use these staff things for fire wood". The female figure looked at the object for a
moment, "No, they are gliders that belonged to the airbenders."
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A piercing scream tore Aang from his strange dream. His eyes shot open and he airbended himself to his feet.
Looking to the source of the scream he found that sokka was on a medium sized rock while
threatening a small spider-mouse with his boomerang.
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He lowered his defensive stance and smiled at the boy's hysterics, "It's only a spider-mouse, sokka".
At this point Katara was awake and shooed the little creature away. "Stop being a baby!!!"
Sokka glared at her while getting off of the rock,
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"Did you see those teeth?!?! It was gonna eat me!!!". Aang let out a sigh as he began packing up his things.
More silent than usual, which didn't go unnoticed by the others. The waterbender walked over to him and put a hand on his shoulder,
"Aang... You okay?"
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The avatar nodded as he kept to the task at hand "Yeah, I just need to go to the Eastern Air Temple.
Someone's calling me." She looked down at the ground "right, You want to talk about it?" "Not really"
"well, then lets go"
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Once landing in the courtyard of the air temple, Aang dismounted Appa with a spring as he looked
around, "Hello? Anyone here?" He called out to anyone that could be in the temple.
He walked into the temple only to suddenly get bombarded with rocks flying at him. He dodged most of them then used air
to throw the rest back at the attacker.
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He peered down the hallway at the figure that stood before him,
"Who are you?! Why have you come here?!" The boy demanded before bending more rocks to throw. The boy threw rocks and
Aang blocked them with his earth bending. "Stop! I don't want to hurt you!"
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The Avatar yelled before dodging more rocks. Suddenly the shadows came up around them and held their movements
"STOP IT!!! THE BOTH OF YOU!!! THIS IS A SACRED AIR TEMPLE AND I
WILL NOT HAVE YOU TRYING TO KILL EACH OTHER IN IT!!!!" The female voice yelled before the shadows fell.
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A girl walked up from behind the boy holding a glider staff "What do you seek here, Firebender?" Aang blinked slightly having forgotten that he was
wearing his fire nation disguise. He blinked slightly before shaking his head "This may sound funny...
but I had a dream that the two of you were here..."
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The girl glanced towards the boy then to the newcomer "what would a firenation kid want with us?"
"And how did you even get here?" the boy added then sokka walked up just to add in "we have a flying bison"
at which the girl and boy looked ateach other. The boy pulled the cloth from over his face and head "Really?"
he then looked to the girl "Can I go see it?" She placed a hand on their hip "Have that waterboy show it to you."
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Once the two left the girl stepped towards Aang "What is an Airbender doing back here dressed like
firenation?" the boy blinked slightly "That easy to tell?"
"You must be ancient to have a flying bison" "How do you know?"
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She pointed the end of her staff at him "The fire nation destroyed all the
airbenders a 100 of years ago. Meaning that you are the avatar. Are you not?"
Aang blinked before nodding lightly "I was somehow encased in Ice when I came around.
I'm a hundred and twelve years old."
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The girl removed her hood and allowed Aang to see her pale face
"Welcome to the Eastern Air Temple, my name is Tari" "I'm Aang"
And that was the beginning of a partnership among the most unlikely of allies.