Welcome back again! Well, let's just jump right into it this time, huh?
To be honest, I wasn't really that tired last night. I was really just overwhelmed a bit. But I couldn't tell them that, not even Aang. What would they think if, right after they met me, I just snapped? I just had to get away. I needed some rest to clear my head a bit. But I wasn't lying about that feeling I got. It definitely didn't feel right. Like something was gonna happen. But that was yesterday, now it's morning. In fact, I should probably get up and go find the others. I opened my eyes and looked around. At first I thought it was all a dream, but no. Everything was real. Before my eyes was fire, everywhere. And smoke, I could hardly breath there was so much of it. And I couldn't see more than ten feet in front of my face. My heart raced as I sat up, coughing against the smoke. Remebering something, I gasped, but I immediately regretted it. My mouth and throat filled with smoke and bent over, coughing. The thought came back to me, and I patted the blankets, feeling for something. When I didn't find what, or more who, I was looking for, I called him. "Cosmo!" A second after, the blankets shifted and Cosmo popped out his head.
"Go! Get outside!" I told him, pointing to the door.
He got up and ran out the door. Then I got up and walked slowly and cautiously towards the door and entered the hall. I looked down the hall towards Aang's room, although I couldn't see anything, and heard a very loud crack. Then I saw a slight glowing through the smoke. But just as I was about to take a step, my eyes and tattoos flashed and wings, the same ones from the first indecent, sprouted from my back, building themselves out of thin air. "Wha-"I stuttered, coughing afterwards.
'That doesn't matter. I have make Aang's OK.' I thought, shaking my head. So I walked slowly over to Aang's room, and walked through the flaming doorway. Aang was lying on a bed, in the avatar state, surrounded by a large bubble of air. I cautiously reach out my hand towards the protective bubble. As soon as my hand touched the air-bubble, it disappeared, Aang left the avatar state, and my wings faded with a quick breeze. I covered my mouth, I knew not to gasp this time, and temporarily brought my hand back. I leaned over the mattress and shook Aang as hard as I could. He didn't move, he didn't even twitch, but I didn't have time to stay here. I grabbed him and put one of his arms around my shoulders, then left the room as quick as I could. He was really light, actually, but he seemed like the heaviest thing I've ever carried as his motionless figure dragged lifelessly along behind me. 'He'll be fine.' I thought to myself, stareing straight ahead. I got to the end of the hall and entered the room that split into multiple hallways. The others ran out of their separate hallways and all looked at me and Aang. "Is he OK?" Katara asked with a worried expression on her face.
"What happened?" Toph asked.
"There's no time to explain, what's the quickest way out of here?" I asked hurriedly.
"Follow me." Zuko said, heading down a hallway.
We all followed him in a run until we reach a doorway and exited the building. We kept going across across the clearing we had just entered, but it felt too easy. I looked behind me and found about five guys running after us. "Guys, we're being followed!" I shouted ahead of me.
They were wearing uniforms with the fire nation insignia on them, and solid white masks.
Everyone immediately looked behind us and all spotted our pursuers at once. I looked straight ahead of me and tried to go as fast as I court, but seeing as I was carrying Aang along with me, that wasn't too fast. I couldn't hear anything but the crackling of the fire so I looked back, just in time to see one of the masked men give Zuko multiple jabs in the back. Zuko blasted the man back and then fell to all fours. He wasn't getting back up, but it didn't seem like he could. "Katara! Take Aang!" I shouted ahead of me.
Katara immediately ran back and took Aang from me, putting one of his arms around her shoulders so she could carry him. I ran back and held my hand out to Zuko. "I'm fine." He said defiantly.
Then he tried to swat my hand away, but when he made to move his arm, he fell with a grunt. "C'mon, let me help you." I told him urgently, still holding my hand out.
"I told you, I'm fine!" He said loudly, trying and failing again to get up.
The masked men were getting too close. "We don't have time for this!" I'm shouted.
I grabbed his right arm and put it around my shoulders, hoisting him upright, and walked slowly forward. "Appa! Tiki!" I called.
A few seconds later both bison flew in and landed on the opposite side of the clearing from the doorway behind us. The others got on Appa, and I airbent myself and Zuko onto Tiki's head. "Yip-yip!" I shouted.
And the bison took off. Cosmo was already on Tiki. And another lemur, who looked just like Cosmo with short fur and white as the main color, was sitting on Aang with his head tilted to one side. "What did they do to me?" Zuko asked.
He pulled his arm back and thrust it forward, but nothing happened. "Urgh!" He shouted in frustration. "How did they do that? I thought only Tylee could do that!"
"Well, I guess anyone could do it if they knew enough." Katara thought aloud.
I was about to ask who Tylee's was when Sokka spoke up. "Guys? What happened to Aang?" He asked.
"I'm not sure." I said worriedly. "He was like that when I found him."
"So how are we supposed to fix him?" Toph asked.
"I don't know." I answered.
After a moment of silence as everyone wondered what to do about Aang, I finally brought up what I'd been fearing I'd have to do since I saw Aang like that. "It looks like he's got smoke in his lungs. Well, I might have an idea, but we'll need to find a town, or a spot to land for a few days. If he's got smoke in his lungs, he shouldn't be this high up anyway." I told them.
They all nodded and agreed silently, except for Zuko. In looked around to see what he was doing, and spotted him looking back at the burning palace with misty eyes. I felt bad for Zuko, though. I mean, he's been dreaming of coming back here and finally being able to return home, but when he finally does it's burned to the ground. As the burning palace got just out of eye shot, a single tear slid down Zuko's cheek.
And...done! Sorry this chapter's so short, but that's all you're gettin for now! Bye!