BREATH LIZZY, you can do this.
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Aang kept a warry eye on the guards, careful to stay quiet as he moved. He beckoned to a small pool of water in his make-shift cell, and turning what healing Katara had taught him to himself. Hopefully, it would be good enough, because then Zaheer walked to his cell door in the airship and he dropped the water bending.
"We're moving you." Zaheer said, but Aang was busy pretending to be unconscious.
Aang's fists would have been clenched white, but he knew that this wasn't the time, or the place.
They took him to room in the temple, where Tenzin was chained in front and the airbender were chained towards the back…but they didn't seem quite…right. They chained and gagged him, while Aang tried to work out what to do.
Mako, Asami and Bolin walked in with the lava-bender. Korra's voice came over the radio.
"Mako, what's going on?"
"They're here," He said. "But so is the lava-bender."
A few moments later, Zaheer's voice came over the lava-benders radio. "Wipe them out!" A few tense moments passed and then, "stand down. We have her."
They rushed over to Aang and Tenzin, Aang stopping the unconscious act.
"I'm fine," He said, after they had gotten the gag off him. "Tenzin isn't though." He said, as his son groaned, mumbling through his gag.
"It's okay Tenzin, Asami said as they worked on Tenzin's gag. "We're going to get you out of here."
Mako walked over to the tied up airbenders….and the water that had been holding them up dripped away, revealing the water arm lady.
Aang made a mental note to try and learn their names.
She sent a blast of water at them, which Mako blocked with fire.
"Korra, it was a trick!" Mako shouted into the radio. "They're not here; don't turn yourself over to them! Chief, get Korra out of there now!"
The water arm lady used her arms like a monkey would, swinging off the ceiling to land by the lava-bender who sent lava through the stone at them. Aang brought his arm up, still impaired by the chains, bringing up a stone wall seconds before Bolin.
As Bolin and Mako, the two brothers fought them side by side, Asami took out a hair pin and began to work on their locks, Tenzin's first, on Aang's insistence. "Where are the airbenders?" She asked.
"I don't know," Tenzin said. "Zaheer moved them out of them temple.
"Will you just bury them already?!" The water bender said, just as Tenzin's shackles came free.
The lava bender was happy to oblige, turning the floor in front of them into a literal sea of lava and blocking the way out.
"Come on," Asami said, picking Aang's shackles. They came undone, and Asami and him hoisted Tenzin on to their shoulders. "We have to get back to the airship!" Asami said.
"Not going to happen, the exit's blocked." Bolin announced.
Aang left Tenzin to Asami and went to help Bolin, bending up a small wall of earth in front of the lava, pillars began to fall, and Aang couldn't help but being angry. How dare they destroy parts of this temple?
Tenzin groaned, and Aang rushed over.
"Where are Oogi and Appa?" Asami asked.
"Gone," Tenzin said. "All the bison got scared off during the attack."
"I know another way out though," Aang said. "Bolin, can you get us through that wall?"
"On it!" He said, turning and starting the beginning of a tunnel in the wall.
"Mako, take Tenzin." Aang said, moving to help Bolin. They traded off, continuing the tunnel.
They came into another room and Aang opened a hatch door, as Bolin bended up a wall of stone in front of the lava. "Through here!" Aang said, as they headed down a passage, that once a fire nation general had come out of.
Aang led them, conjuring a small fire in his hand as it got dark.
"Is it just me," Bolin said, after a few moments. "Or is it, uh, really warm in here?" He said, as lava came from behind them. "Oh, this is not good." He said, bending up another wall of earth. "Let's move it people!"
Far away, Zaheer was learning how to fly.
"We can't outrun it!" Bolin said, as the lava was creeping up behind them again.
"This way!" Aang said, bending a cavern off to the side.
The cavern opened to an open cliff.
"Now what?" Mako said.
Lava started to creep in.
Bolin jumped forward, moving to bend….and the lava move at his command, slowly sinking back and then becoming cool rock.
"Incredible, you're a lava bender." Aang said.
"I know." Bolin said, amazed. "I just found out."
"Hey, you guys need a lift?" Kai asked, floating up on a baby bison.
"Kai," Tenzin said. "You're alright."
"More or less."
Aang frowned. "We're not all going to fit on a tiny bison." He grinned, and pulled out his bison whistle. "Lucky I have this!" He blew it, and they stared. And listened to its very quiet sound. "Just wait."
And then Appa showed up, with Momo. Kai rode the baby bison and the rest of them climbed on Appa,
"Okay Appa," Aang said. "Yip-yip."
They flew down, but both Aang and Tenzin looked back at the temple. It was falling to the lava.
"No," Aang whispered, tear's streaming down his cheeks.
"Caw, caw!" Bolin shouted from Appa's back as they landed. "Caw, caw! Caw, caw!"
Aang floated to the ground.
"Hey everybody," Kai said. "There's something I got to tell you."
"How did you guys make it out there alive?" Lin asked them.
"Bolin's a lava bender." Aang said.
"I thought we were done for," Mako said. "Then out of nowhere, he lava-bends."
"I knew you had the potential for something big." Su said. "You just had to believe in yourself."
"You're right," Bolin said. "But being moment from death was a good motivator to. Oh course we would have never made it back without Kai, oh and Appa."
"Glad I could help." Kai said. "So anyway-"
"Did Zaheer get Korra?" Aang asked.
"I'm afraid so." Lin said.
"Apparently he can fly now." Su said.
"No," Aang said, he shook his head. "NO!" He said, kicking a rock. The others watched him nervously. "This is all wrong. Airbending shouldn't be used like this. He has twisted Guru Laghima's words for his own use. If what you say is true, he has unlocked powers of airbending that haven't existed for a very long time."
"I've heard the legends about his abilities," Tenzin said. "But I never imagined they were true.
"Oh, they're true."
"So what's out next move?" Tonraq asked.
"I have an idea," Kai said walking over.
"Not right now kid! We need to figure out where Zaheer took Korra." Lin snapped.
"And find the airbenders."
"Let him talk." Aang said.
Kai smiled. "Thanks. I know where the airbenders are, and I bet it's where Korra is." The other looked surprised, but not Aang.
"Well why didn't you something?" Mako asked.
"Actually," Aang pointed out. "He was trying to, and he just did."
"So where are they?" Tenzin asked. "How did you find them?"
"After I got blasted out of the sky, I woke up on the side of the mountain." Kai explained. "Where this little fellow found me." Kai continued, the baby bison walking over to him. "I tried to sneak back into the temple to see if I could rescue everyone, and that's when I saw the airship leaving. I followed it to some caves a few miles from here. That giant lady met up with some people who took the airbenders into the caves."
"Was it Ghazan and Ming-hua?" Lin asked.
"The lava bender and the water bender?" Aang asked. Lin nodded.
"No, there were four more of them." Kai said, standing up from petting the baby bison. "They didn't look familiar."
"There must be more red lotus members than we thought." Mako said.
"I couldn't fight them all on my own." Kai said.
"And it is good you did not try Kai," Aang said. "Good work though."
"So after that I came back here, hoping you guys would show up. " Kai finished.
"We need to get into those caves." Lin said.
"Appa might be able to carry all of us," Aang said.
Then Oogi showed up, flying overhead.
"Oogi!" Tenzin said, as the bison landed, purring. "I'm glad to see you to old friend."
They loaded up on the Bison, Kai on the baby and half of them on both Appa and Oogi. One of the metal benders walked up to Su, from where she was on Oogi's back.
"Su, I want to come with you." She said.
"No Kuvira, stay with the injured. We'll be back as soon as we get avatar Korra." Su said, and then they took to the sky, after Mako thanked Kai for coming back for them.
In those very caves they headed to though, avatar Korra was in chains, facing the threat of the end of the avatar cycle.
On that note, let's end the chapter.
Okay, so what I'm trying to do is write in small reminders about what is going on elsewhere.
Hope that turned out alright,
Hope you enjoyed, look out for the next chapter today.
Avatar Lizzy.