Air

"Did you catch...it?" The irritated princess couldn't quite convince her tongue to say "him" rather than "it." Oh well, she tried. The thing ought to feel honored she even tried to grant it such...humanity. Who knows, maybe if it did it's job, she might allow it just a hint of honor. Less than even her brother had, yes, but she somehow doubted the thing would care. It was so impossibly full of itself that even just calling it "him" would keep the damn thing in line.

"Yes, princess." The pitiful excuse for a soldier was sent away with a little less power assuring hostility than she would have liked, but one slip on her part was no issue when the key to obtaining the alleged ghost boy was just inside the green walls. If there was one thing she realized, it was that the ghost boy could win the entire war for her with ease

and let her claim more power than anyone on the whole damn planet could even dream of.

Azula still didn't know what the hell to make of the green thing surrounding the area. She'd found the generator within the various, unidentifiable items that had been retrieved from the ruins of some city or another. She didn't care for the name, it was something to do with a park, she only cared that it was far more advanced than it should have been. She was no expert in the advances the world made, but it didn't take one to realize that people who still relied upon their own two feet to get from point A to point B weren't yet capable of such technology. Had the city it come from still have been intact, she would have felt threatened that they had something like this much less whatever else they were bound to have had, but as it was this was found amongst ruins and thus, Azula found that she no longer gave a damn.

It was floating in thin air, something only the air benders had ever come even close to achieving. Azula wasn't quite sure what it could do yet, so she kept her distance, small sparks and flames dancing at her fingertips ready for use.

"I have a task for you." Her voice was colder than usual, more demanding. She did not want this thing thinking it had more power than it really did.

It responded almost instantly. "BEWARE!" She hoped it meant that in a joking fashion; if that was a show of the extent of its intelligence, she'd have to teach the soldier who caught it a very messy lesson and she was never one to enjoy getting her hands covered in blood.

Our campsite was tense that night, everyone was on edge after the last ambush. Defeating that group may have been child's play for me, but that was only because I had a ghostly advantage over the fire benders. The only thing that cut through the tension were the traniing sessions going on for each of us. Katara and Toph were drilling Aang while teaching Sam and I in our respective elements. Sokka and Zuko were trying to teach Jazz and dad some basic hand to hand combat.

I took a break from my own training to watch dad and Jazz. My sister seemed to be practically flying through the air when ever she jumped over blast of fire, often flipping and clearly having more grace in the air than on the ground. I'd noticed long ago that she tended to be that way, but now it was more pronounced than ever. My mind was still questioning why when my attention was quickly grabbed by what looked like an impossible to dodge blast.

I expected to have to cut in to keep her from getting burned, but just as I started to send a shield her way, her arms went up on instinct and the flames were pushed around her.

Zuko smirked, and I could have sworn I heard him mutter something along the lines of "knew it" before he addressed the rest of the group, mainly Aang.

"Guess what, Aang. You aren't the last air bender, now you can stop moping about it when you think no one's looking." He smirked for only a second before Katara swatted him upside the head.

"Quit being a jerk, Zuko!"

Aang stepped forward towards Jazz. "Are you sure, Zuko?" I don't think he really wanted to believe it was even possible for there to be another air bender. I knew the feeling, it was the same way I felt about Vlad until he started trying to kick my ass.

Key word: trying.

"Well, she sure as hell didn't deflect that attack with fire bending. Air is the only other thing that would have deflected it without any visible bending." Zuko replied as if it should have been a given.

"How do you know it wasn't fire bending?" Sam voiced my question for me. Whatever Jazz had done, I wouldn't have been able to tell if it was from air or fire on my own.

The fire bender shrugged. "Wrong form, the fire simply wouldn't have listened to her." I think all of us had confused looks on our faces as Aang cut in to explain.

"Each element has it's own fighting style. Fire and earth tend to come from more forceful movements as opposed to the flowing nature of most air and water attacks. Most people can't pick up on the differences unless they've been around all four elements for a while like we have." It made sense once I thought about it and as I remembered the differences between what Katara was teaching me and Toph was teaching Sam. The differences were clear as day to me, but that was probably due to years of watching ghosts and trying to determine each one's specific fighting style.

I saw Toph jab Aang in the side, "Looks like you've got yourself a student, Twinkle Toes."

Could this be? An actual update less than two weeks from the last one? :P

I really am working on getting my updates in line, I swear!

Comments and feedback are as welcome as always! :D

Invisible One