Being back at the air temple brought few surprises, one of which being that everyone knew I was now a fire bending master. Sao had grown more reluctant to confront me now however the advantages stopped there. A few of the monks started to glare whenever I walked past them. I ignored them until I came to my room and saw I had been kicked out. The elder monk came to me and said "the council has out voted me and have forced me to put you under the supervision of an air master until you leave the premises." I smiled knowing that my best friend was in the tatto ceremony right now. "so I suppose Aang will watch me?" I asked almost hysterical with laughter. "yes yes he shall but remember Aang is your boss now" my heart dropped at this, Aang was confident and loud now after years of shyness but he was still sneaky. Very sneaky.
I jumped from landing to landing, quickly and quietly. I had to get my stuff before Aang did. As I landed on the right landing. I saw Aang with my bag, bow, arrows and glider. He finished his tatto already. "Aang where are you going?" I asked naively, hoping he wouldn't know about his new joy. "I'm taking your stuff to our new room, I'm your master now" he said teasingly. I shook my head and walked past him heading towards the bottom level rooms. The room we were given was a lot better then the previous one. This one had a bigger closet, two separate beds and a grand piano in the corner of the room. I started to walk over to it and began to play a few noted. Immediately Aang said "stop or I'll restrict your food even more" I hated the food already so restricting my already limited intake was out of the question.
The next few weeks were painful memories for me. Aang abused his power and continued to find ways to try and provoke a response but all he received was a silence. After a long summers day, monk Gyatso arrived.
"get packed and dressed for a cold climate, we are to leave immediately" with that he walked out. Me and Aang both started undressing knowing we'd have to leave soon due to the urgency of the elders tone. I always knew it would happen but I didn't think it was going to be this close. I stopped undressing myself when I got to my boxers and looked up at Aang, he was at the same stage as me."You know I'm gonna annoy you from now on right?" I asked. "How? When I can do this" he blew an air current at me pinning me to the wall. Keeping the current on me, he walked up to me and poked my forehead. "Im the master here" I kicked his rib and we started rolling around on the floor each fighting as equal as the other. After a few minutes, we both laid there quietly reflecting out journey ahead. Our thoughts were interrupted by Sao and his friends. They seemed to have added a few air benders to their rank increasing their number to 5. "Well Sao to what do I owe the punishment of your appearance?" I asked lazily.
"We all believe air benders are the best therefore we must show our power of you" I smirked at this, how would five air bending student fair against two masters of an element? "I think I should show you how bad your bending is, maybe then you'll learn who is the master" I said. Within minutes, Aang and I had dispatched all of Sao's accomplices. "I wonder what horrible prank, we should do to him, Aang?" I said to Aang menacingly. "Maybe we should burn his clothes" I looked into Sao's eyes. All I saw was fear and hate. "No we'll just send him to his room naked, that will keep him in for a long time" Aang laughed and agreed. Our final prank in the air temple. Aang and I dressed quickly and ran out to see our prank in action. Monk Gyatso was waiting for us at the main bridge. "Why were you taking so long? I told you we were leaving immediately" he said rather calmly. "We were held up by a problem, it certainly won't happen again." I replied even more calmly. We all heard laughter and turned to see a naked Sao waking to his room. We could all see what they were laughing at or the lack of it. Aang and I instantly turned to monk Gyatso and said "Let's leave now." That began our journey to the south pole.
Authors note: I know it seems that I'm moving fairly quickly but there's a reason.