Appa had let them down at the edge of the cliff. Toph was the first one to get down, and she was glad. She fell of the ground.

"Sweet, sweet earth, of how I have missed you," She smiled, making a ground angel.

Katara got off next and looked at Toph. "Toph, we only flew for three hours, it wasn't that bad."

"Maybe for you it wasn't," Toph started, getting up and dusting off her clothes. "But for me, it was bad." Sokka and Suki got off next, then Aang, who just looked around him.

"Okay, let's go. Aang do you know where an entrance to these 'secret tunnels' might be," Sokka asked, making the air quotes.

"No," Aang answered. Toph sniffed, and shifted her feet.

"Aang, I can feel some empty tunnels, but I am not sure that they are big enough to fit a person," Toph said.

"No, I know that there are tunnels here somewhere," Aang replied. He looked around and felt the rock wall in front of him.

Aang kept feeling the rocks, moving some rocks here and there, making a sound every one and a while. Toph picked at her toes, Sokka drew in the sand with his boomerang. Suki stretched and practice some fighting moves and Katara just stood looking at Aang. This went on for a hour.

After a bit, Katara spoke up. "Aang, I don't think that anything is here," She said quietly.

Aang looked over his shoulder with a sneer. "Listen! I didn't ask you to come, it is taking so long because no one is helping. If you are just going to sit here and nothing, you might as well just go!" He yelled at them.

Katara stepped back at Aang's outburst, but them stood her ground.

"Listen Aang, you have been hard to deal with enough with your moodiness and distance from the rest of us, but I am sick and tired of you exploding at us when we are just trying to help!" She yelled back at him. "You are not making this easy on any of us. So please tell us, what can we do to help?" Katara's voice went from loud to a soft, comforting voice. "What can we do?"

Aang's face changed just like Katara's voice did. His face went to a sad and sullen look. "Just find me an air bender."

Katara looked hurt, then went back to sitting down.

Just as another hour went by, the sun began to set on the horizon, Sokka got antsy. He leaned closer to Suki.

"Hey, I love Aang and everything, but this is boring, when are we going?" He asked her.

"Sokka!" She hissed. "We are helping Aang, we will stay here as long as we need to."

"But this is boring. Don't you wish this was back in the old times, you know. Back when Ozai was a crazy leader of the Fire Nation, not just crazy in prison, and we were getting chased by Fire Nation soldiers who wanted to kill us and capture Aang. Something exciting like that?" He elaborated.

"Sokka!" She gasped. "That is a horrible thing to say!" Suki hit him on the back of the head. "And besides, we are in a time of peace, nothing exciting happens during times of peace."

Suddenly, a blinding light flashed, making the entire gang shield their eyes, except for Toph, who didn't notice anything. When they could finally see, what they saw didn't make an sense.

A large glowing yellow circle in mid air.

"Nothing exciting huh, well this seems to be exciting," Sokka responded to Suki, who was not up and in a light fighting stance. Everyone was on edge.

'What in the world is that?" Katara asked.

"What is what?" Toph asked casually, picking her nose. "I cant see anything."

"There is a big yellow glowy thingy in the air," Sokka told her.

"Oh, what is it doing?" She asked again.

"Nothing, at least not yet?" Sokka replied. He pulled out his sword as Aang stood in a fighting stance next to Suki. Toph sat on the ground, not moving.

"Hey look!" Katara pointed at the circle. "There are people inside there." She said. She stepped closer and peered in, several girls, in odd clothing, with a boy and an little, weird looking creature. They all stepped forward, lowering their guard.

They all jumped back as the circle glowed brightly, radiating extreme heat. They looked at it, the lightning of the same color yellow swirling around it. Aang got up and looked closer.

"What th-" Aang started, but was cut off by something bursting out of the circle. Aang flew a few feet backward. It was all a blur. Everything happened at once. Aang feel to the ground, tackled by something blue and purple.

"Aang!" Katara yelled. She ran up to him, but was thrown to the side when she was tackled too. All she could see was purple and blue.

"Cornelia?" Hay Lin asked. She felt like she was floating, all around her was yellow. It was weird, she never felt like this in any other portal she went in.

"Hay Lin? Are you there?" Cornelia called out into the air. She couldn't see anything, it was all yellow and blurry. It was confusing. Going through a portal wasn't anything like this. It only took a second, and it was in and out. Cornelia just floated in the yellow-ness of the portal.

Finally, in the midst of the colors, she say Hay Lin, floating around. "Hey!" Cornelia shouted. They caught each other hand and got close.

"Cornelia, this is weird!" Hay Lin freaked out. Her eyes were wide in fear.

"I know, this shouldn't be happening. We need to figure out how to get out," She replied.

Hay Lin looked around. "All we need is to get out on the other side, then just jump back in and go back. No biggy."

"Yeah, but that is if we ever get out," Hay Lin reminded her. Cornelia nodded, then screamed as she was sucked out. Hay Lin screamed too.

Everything happened so fast, Cornelia couldn't even blink before the yellow disappeared and she fell into something. Or someone, because she heard a ump that wasn't from her. Then she heard the unmistakable scream from Hay Lin.

Katara looked at whoever was on top of her and saw a girl, who look not much older than her. She didn't even get a good look at her, the only thing that was on Katara's mind was Aang. Katara pushed the girl off, making the girl scream. She looked at Aang, who was still on the ground, and looked unconscious. There was a girl near Aang too, with long blonde hair.

Katara whipped the cap off of her water canteen and bent the water inside, making it whip out and begun to attack the strange girls.

Toph, as soon as Katara began to attack, immediately joined Katara, same with Sokka and Suki. They were all in fighters stance, waiting for some movement.

Cornelia looked at who she landed on, some bald kid with an arrow tattooed on his forehead. Before she knew it, something stung her back. She immediately turned around to see a tanned skin girl, manipulating water above her hand. Same with a small girl, in a strange stance, and another couple, one with a sword and another with fans. Hay Lin was off, on the ground, and looked unconscious.

Her first thought was, how was the girl manipulating the water, she couldn't unless she was a guardian. Her second was, these people were a threat, she needed to help Hay Lin

"STEP AWAY FROM HIM!" The tan girl yelled at her. Cornelia was completely surrounded. She didn't like that, and she needed to find a way to help her friend.

Cornelia slammed her hands on the ground and shouted "Earth!" Instantly, with a flash of green around her hands, she moved the earth, making the others around her unsteady, then whipping up the loose dirt around her, making a cover of dust around them. Instantly, the girl began to whip the dirt around her with the water, making her vision clearer. Cornelia didn't have a lot of time.

She ran over to her fallen friend, shaking her shoulders, trying to make her wake up.

Toph felt the vibrations of the movement around her and she was astonished. "Wait?" She asked Sokka, who was next to her. "Is that girl an Earth Bender."

"Yeah, I think so." He responded.

"Why would an Earth bender try to attack Aang?" She asked herself. Just then Sokka shook at one of Toph's arms.

"Toph can you make this dust cloud go away?" He asked her. She nodded, and bent the dust around her making it fade.

Katara got a clear look at Aang's attacker, the blonde one, and stepped forward, "Why did you attack him? What are you after?" She demanded.

The blonde haired one, who was crouched next to her friend, stood up defiantly. "We aren't after anyone!"

"Liar!" Katara screamed and went to attack. Before her water could reach her, it flew away, and Katara was pushed several feet back, everyone was, and tremors moved through the earth.

The blonde haired girl was holding her hands up, palms facing them.

The only way to get them back, Cornelia thought, was to use a telekinetic pulse. So she did. She raised her hands and sent pulses as well as tremors through the ground making them all stumble.

"Hay Lin! Wake up," She hissed behind her. Hay Lin Began to stir, the her eyes opened widely, and she got to her feet. Cornelia was still doing pulses, but they began to get weaker. Hay Lin looked around and took in what was around her.

Suddenly, Cornelia was toss to the ground, and where she stood before was a lump in the ground.

"Let me take care of this," A smaller voice shouted. A small, black haired girl stepped up and moved swiftly, making the ground around her move in sync.

"Ah" Cornelia screamed as she was vaulted back again. Hay Lin stood up straight and flew into the hair, throwing her hands out straight and making a whirlwind around them. The other were swept in and blown around inside. Then Hay Lin stopped the wind, making them fall. She ran, while the other were distracted, to Cornelia, who was kneeling of the ground.

"Come on, we need to fly out of here!" She told her. Cornelia nodded, and got up, wobbling a little. Hay Lin, put her arms around Cornelia and helped her fly, not before she blasted another wave of air in the enemies direction.

Everything was blurry in Aang's vision, but he felt a cool breeze, until it picked up, and felt like a storm. He held up his head and blinked his eyes, making everything clearer. The last thing he remembered was being attacked by something, or someone.

He looked up, amazed at what he saw. A girl with long black pigtails. She was…air bending. He looked over at Katara, who was struggling to try and attack.

"No! Wait! Katara, stop." He shouted at her. He got up, but was blown away. Finally the winds died down and he settled on the ground. He watched in horror, then, as they flew away, both of them.

The winds completely decimated. She was gone.

He got up and walked over to Katara, seething. "Why did you attack her!?"

"Hey," Katara replied. "They attacked first! They attacked you! We tried to defend you."

Aang took a sharp breath. "She was an air bender! She was who I was looking for. Katara! You ruined everything!" He stopped short, the walked to the Bison. "Come on, we are going now.

The others walked to Appa, Katara was still of the ground, shaken by Aang's outburst. She got up solemnly, and all the ride back to their home in the Earth Kingdom, was silence.

AN: Sorry that I was kind of mean to Katara, but I think that it was necessary. I had a hard time doing this chapter, I am not that good at writing action scenes, but I figured that now was a nice place to end the chapter, I have the next one already started, so it wont be long.

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