sorry that it took me a while to update
disclaimer - I don't own ATLA but I do own the OCs
"Where have you been?" Haruki demanded when Kya finally came back to the Mechanist's study where everyone had agreed to meet for dinner a few hours before. She held the small statue of the polar bear dog in her hands. The kids, Teo, his father, and Jenni were sitting on the floor in a circle. A pot of rice was sitting in the middle.
"I've just been looking around." answered Kya as she pocketed her rock and sat down between Xiu and Sanosuke. Sanosuke handed her her bowl of rice and she began to eat.
"So have we but we made sure to get back at the right time."
"Where are we the army?" asked Xiu. "What's next you're going to make a schedule of when we can go to the bathroom?"
Haruki shot a glare at the youngest member of the group which she ignored.
"So anything interesting happen while you were looking around?" she asked
"Not really." answered Kya. She was glad that the subject had been changed, "I was mostly trying to see if there were any Chikara Army soldiers nearby."
"And were there?" Haruki asked sharply.
Kya slapped her forehead.
"Oh no," she said sarcastically, "I knew there was something I should have mentioned."
Everyone except Haruki snorted in the rice.
"Seriously Haruki, did you really think that I would forget to mention something like that if it happened?"
"Well Sanosuke's made some improvement in his earthbending lesson today." said Jin.
Rikiya snorted, "Who knows? Maybe tomorrow we can move on to the rocks the side of your head."
He, Toshiro, Jenni, Haruki, and Aura laughed. Sanosuke scowled at the earthbender.
"Or maybe we can move on to metal." he said through gritted teeth.
"You're gonna have to wait a couple years for that, rookie." said Rikiya.
Sanosuke growled. Jin and Kya held his arms to keep him from attacking the earthbender.
"So did my dad teach you anything?" Teo asked Toshiro hastily in hopes of keeping a fight from happening.
Toshiro answered with much enthusiasm. "Oh yeah. Your dad let me help him get started on the water ring."
"With your help, it might be done in only a few days." the Mechanist said to Toshiro.
"You guys wanna try gliding tomorrow?" asked Jenni.
"You know it!" said Sanosuke, "Maybe I can get a headstart on airbending."
"You have to master earth and fire first." said Jin
"You won't need airbending to glide anyway." said Jenni, "But hey, sometimes I'm such a pro at it sometimes people actually think I'm an airbender." She chuckled. "If only."
"Just don't-"
"I won't air surf." Jenni interrupted her father, her eyes rolling. "Anyone else wanna try it out?"
"Sure."
"Why not?"
"Kay kay!"
"Totally!"
"Nah, I'm gonna help the Mechanist with the water ring." said Toshiro.
"If it gets done before we go, would it be okay if we kept it?" asked Sanosuke, "It sounds like it could be pretty useful for us."
"Of course, Sanosuke." said the Mechanist.
"It'd be an honor to help the Avatar in any way that we can." said Jenni. "In fact, there are some airbending scrolls here in the temple. You can have those too. They can teach you about the history of airbending and can teach you some cool airbending moves."
"That would be great." said Haruki, "If I can't learn from a real airbending master, it would be great to learn some moves from some ancient scrolls."
A messenger hawk landed on Elvira's outstretched arm. She took the scroll from its holder and opened it to read it. Her eyes widened for a second and a smile formed on her lips. Cari and her other soldiers sat not too far away eating dinner. With the hawk still on her arm and the scroll in her other hand, she walked to her soldiers.
"Get to bed early tonight, men." she ordered, "Tomorrow at dawn we set off for the Northern Air Temple."
I'm sorry that this chapter is short. I'm using a different computer and the one with all the stuff I was planning on putting in the story is at home
