The figure soon awoke in the infirmary most of the others were standing around Aang, all except Toph who was staring at him as he sat up. "What" he said to Toph, she just kept on staring at him. She seamed as if she was thinking of what to say. "Do… do I know you?" she finally said "Do you" he said with a smile. "Is that really you Dart" "yup it's me" he said. Toph's eyes lit up "I can't believe it, it is you" the others looked over "what did you say his name was" Katara asked with out looking away from Aang. "You see after we defeated the fire lord I wandered the earth kingdom for 3 years." Toph began "I had stopped in a village and was going to buy some supplies when a fight broke out in the village square. A rather large man and a small old man had gotten in to a serious argument and it looked like it was about to get bad. I was running to step in and stop the fight but I didn't make it in time the larger man had already thrown a punch aimed straight at the old mans face. But then Dart stepped in and caught the man's fist. Then he knocked him to the ground with one kick. I sat back and watched as he led the two to an agreement. I then walked over and introduced myself. We ended up sitting in that square talking for the whole day. Then he walked with me to the next village which was another day away. But when we got to the other village we went our separate ways but not before he gave me this" she said as she reached in to her pocket. She pulled out a small glass heart, Dart smiled "I'm surprised it didn't break in your pocket" "The perfect combination of fire and earth that's what you told me remember?" Toph said "Ya I remember" he said with a laugh "so why are you here and why did you want to fight me" Aang said as he was now sitting up listing to the story "when I was little the war was getting way out of hand and my father decided that since there was no avatar I would have to take the job. My father taught me fire bending and my mother taught me to water bend. When I turned ten I was sent to the earth kingdom to learn to earth bend. That took me about a year then I traveled to the air temples and found some hidden air bending scrolls and taught my self to air bend. I was going to challenge the fire lord but I herd that the avatar had returned. I decided to let you do your job. But on the day of Sozin's Comet I learned of the fire lords plan and if I knew about it I knew you did as well. So I assumed you were going to take on the fire lords air ships, so I decided to take out the other groups of air ships." "Wait there were other air ships" Sokka asked. "Ya there were two more groups the same size as the one you took down." "And you beat them alone?" Sokka asked "Ya I thought you guys could use some help and if you didn't know about them it's a good thing I stepped in" "but that still doesn't explain why you wanted to fight me" Aang said. "I wanted to prove to myself that if I had to I could have beaten the fire lord." he answered "there's one thing I still don't understand how did you got up on the air temple." Suki asked thinking her guards were useless. "I took shadow" "who's shadow" she asked "shadow is my griffin" he said "ill show you" he walked out of the room and made his way to the out side of the temple Suki and Toph followed him while the others stayed with Aang. Then he whistled and a large Griffin with black fur covering most of his body but his wings and head which were golden feathers. He was the size of a large lion; he flew down and landed right next to them. "That's amazing" Suki said "he's huge" Toph added "he's really fast and strong" he said petting the beast's wing "then you wont have any problem leaving" Katara said as she stepped thru the door. "I think its time you left you've done nothing but hurt Aang and the others" "Katara maybe he can help us you know with the civil war and Zuko getting kicked out" Toph said trying to defend her friend. "He nearly killed Aang he has to leave" "but…" Toph started "Its fine" Dart said "here's your armor" Katara said as she pulled it out from behind her. Dart began to put his armor all four of them were silent. After he finished he opened a satchel that was on Shadow and took out a new mask and cloak he put them on and began to mount Shadow. "wait" Toph said "stay please" Dart smiled "sorry, ill see you again" "promise" "Ya" he jumped on to the griffon's back and flew away. Suki and Katara walked in to the temple as Toph just stood there and waited till she couldn't hear the wings of the griffon any more. She entered the temple and walked past the infirmary and saw Aang had fallen back asleep she walked to her room and sat on her bed. She reached in to her pocket pulled out the heart and placed it on the counter. After a few minutes she got up and left the room and walked around to find the others still in the infirmary sitting around Aang who was now sitting up "hay twinkle toes, how do you feel" she said as she approached the bed "better thanks" he said with a smile. Toph looked over to where Dart was sitting and noticed a small bag on the pillow. She walked over and picked it up. It had a note attached to it. She could feel the writing on it. "Did any one notice this she said as she tossed it to Aang" Aang caught it in his hand and read it aloud "give this to Aang if he eats it, it will heal his wounds." "Cool" he said as he opened it. Inside was a small pea shaped seed. "Are you sure that's a good idea" Katara said before Aang could put the seed in his mouth. "Only one way to find out" he said as he swallowed the seed. Almost instantly his cuts and scratches all healed over. "Wow I feel great" he said as he jumped out of the bed. "good then we can get back to the matter at hand, where are we headed" Sokka asked "I think the earth kingdom could use the help now I mean people are fighting there that means people could be dying" Aang said "all right then lets go" Katara said "I'll get Appa ready to go" Sokka said as he left the room "sounds good we'll leave tomorrow" Aang said "its to late to travel now" "ok then I'm going to bed" Zuko said as he left the room "bed good idea" Aang said. Every one left to go to bed.