He guys here's the next chapter sorry if it took so long I've been busy. Anyways enjoy
Chapter 11: The Northern Air Temple
"He should know the truth about what happened." Tui says standing behind a spirit who sitting on the edge of a cliff side overlooking the ocean. "The past should stay the past. He doesn't have to know what happened." The figure says, who is also the same figure who was at the fire nation fortress. "It's best that he knows the truth…or do you want to repeat what happened to you." Tui says concerned. The figure swiftly turns and springs right up to his face with sharp teeth growing in his mouth and a sneer angered look. "THAT WAS NOT MY FUALT!" He shouts at Tui.
He gives him a look knowing he is right. The figure calms down as he sits again. "So will you tell him?" Tui asks. The figure gives a low grunt as he whispers. "We shall see."
That night
"So travellers the next time you think you hear a strange large bird talking, take a closer look it might not be a giant parrot…but a flying man. A secret group of air walkers who laugh at gravity and laugh at does bound by it." A story teller tells us with enthusiasm as he finishes and shows his hat to people to give him payment for the story.
As I try not to fall asleep after the story I hear what Aang has to say. "Aren't Airbender stories the best?" Aang asks. "I don't think so; Earthbender stories are amazing to me." I say feeling tired. "Was it realistic? Is that how it was back then?" Katara asks. "I laugh at gravit all the time." Aang says. "Gravity." He says chuckling.
The story teller then walks up to us as he flashes his hat in front of Sokka. "Jingle jingle." He says shaking the hat. As Sokka check his clothes he comes out empty handed. "Sorry" Sokka apologise as the guy walks away. "Aww, cheap skates." He says as I give him a rude gesture (by sticking my tongue out) at him.
"Hey thanks for the story." Aang says walking to him. "Tell it to the cap boy." The guy says grudgingly as a piece falls out of the hat. Momo then places it back as the guy sees it and smiles. "Aww, much obliged little bat thing." He says patting Momo's head as I smile and shake my head in disbelief. "It means a lot to hear Airbender stories. It must have been a hundred years you great grandpa met them." Aang says.
The guy looks at him confused. "What are you prattling about child? Great granpappy saw the air walkers last week." I hear him say making me confused and surprised.
The next morning
Aang decided that we should head out to the Northern Air Temple seeing as the path to the North Pole is in that direction as we fly on Appa over the clouds. "Hey we're almost to the Northern Air Temple. This is where they had the championship for sky bison pulling." Aang says. "Do you really think we'll find Airbenders?" Katara asks Sokka who carving something out of a piece of wood. "You want to be like you or totally honest?" Sokka ask. "Are you saying I'm a liar?" Katara says annoyed. "I'm saying you're an optimist. Same thing basically." He says.
"Sokka be nice." I say as I look to Katara and Aang. "But he's right, it wouldn't be good to get your hopes to high Aang just…don't be disappointed if there aren't any Airbenders there." I say trying to rational. Nodding at me he then shouts. "Hey guys look at this!"
I look and I can't believe my eyes. I see a huge temple covered by smaller ones that is nested on a snowy mountain that is high above the clouds. As I look I also big birds circling around the temple flying high. I look closer and see that they are not birds but people flying with winged contraptions.
Katara gasps. "They really are Airbenders." She says joyfully. I see Aang lay back with his arms crossed. "No their not." He says sounding disappointed. "What do you mean they're not? Does guys are flying." Sokka says. "Gliding maybe but not flying. You can tell by the way they move their not Airbending. Those people have no spirit." After he says that a glider glides towards us as he zooms above us as he laughs with joy.
"I don't know Aang that kid seems pretty spirited." Katara says. I see Aang opens his glider as he jumps off Appa and follows the kid. After that another person zooms past us. "We better find some solid ground before it finds us." Sokka says as I agree and we land on the temple grounds.
A few moments later
As Aang is finished showing off he lands in front of us as we see the kid Aang was chasing landing perfectly on the ground as he slows down. When stops I see him sitting on a chair with wheels. Some kids then take the glider off as he doesn't even get up making me realize that his legs are paralyzed. He then rolls his way to us. He then looks at Aang in surprise. "Hey you're a real Airbender. You must be the Avatar. That's amazing! I've…I've hear stories about you." He says excitingly. "Thanks." Aang says rubbing the back of his head.
"Wow this glider chair is incredible." Sokka says as he examines the kid's glider. "You think this is good, wait until you see the other stuff my dad design." The kid says as he leads us into the temple.
As we enter it we come to a room what looks like it used to be a meditation room is now a room filled with pipes, machinery and metal work all-around as the cogs squeak with every turn. I am a little surprised and mostly disappointed at the sight in front of me and I'm pretty sure Aang can agree with me. "Wow!" Sokka yells excited. "Yeah my dad is the master mind behind this WHOLE place. Everything is powered by hot air. It even pumps hot air current downside to give us a lift or gliding." The kid says. "A mastermind or a destroyer." I whisper so that they won't hear.
"This place is unbelievable." Aang says. "Yeah it's great, isn't it?" The kid says. "No just unbelievable." Aang retorts as I follow him to a painted wall. The wall is painted with different Airbending monks. "This is supposed to be the history of my people." Aang says to me as I put a hand on his shoulder. "I'm sure ther is other parts of the temple that remain untouched…hopefully." I say as I whisper the last bit.
We continue to explore the temple until we come across a place that has no metal contraption or any machinery. This lifts my heart a bit knowing that some of the temple remains the same. "It's nice to see one part of the temple that isn't ruin." Aang says glad at the sight. We look at a statue of a monk and admire the structure, well me mostly. That is until we hear the shouting of "Look out!" as a big boulder comes from behinds the wall as it destroys the statue and creates dust.
As the dust clears we see a man walking through the wall who looks like a real nut job. He is wearing an apron and green clothes, he has a long beard and moustache and he has hair beside the top part and he's also wearing a monocle. "What the doodle? Don't you know enough to stay away from construction sites? We have to make room for the bath house." He says.
I then look at Aang as I start to feel an anger vibe around him. "Uh oh" I say. "DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID?! YOU JUST DESTROYED SOMETHING SACRED, FOR A STUPID BATH HOUSE!" Aang shouts. "Well people here are starting to stink." The crazy guy says. "And you're just getting to the problem now?!" I think to myself. "THIS WHOLE PLACE STINKS." Aang shout as he slams his staff to the ground as it creates a gust of wind that blows the wrecking ball straight of the mountain.
"Geez remind me never to stamp on you heritage." I say being a little scared of Aang. "This is a sacred temple you can't treat it this way. I've seen it when the monks were here I know what it's supposed to be like" Aang states. "The monks? But your twelve." The guy says confused as the kid rolls up to the guy. "Dad he's the Avatar, he used to come here a hundred years ago." The kid says.
I see walk to the guy in anger as I then stand close behind him just in case. "What are you doing? Who said you can be here?" Aang questioned the guy. The guy then starts to think. "Mmm, doing here…a long time ago but not a hundred years. My people became refugees after a terrible flood. My infant son Teo was badly hurt and lost his mother." The mechanist says as I see him trying to hold back tears as continues to explain. "I needed somewhere to rebuild and I stumbled across this place and I couldn't believe it. Everywhere pictures of flying people but empty nobody home. Then I came across these fan like contraptions." He says as he pretends he is flying making me wonder if he really is nuts.
"Our gliders." Aang says as I can feel him still angry. "Yes, little light flying machines. They gave me an idea to build a new life for my son in the air then everyone will be on equal ground…so to speak. We're just in the proses of improving what's already here and after all isn't that what nature does?" He says finished with his story.
"Nature knows when to stop." Aang says. "I suppose that's true, unfortunately progress has a way of getting away from us." The mechanist admits.
Well while Sokka and Teos dad are busy bonding Teo decides that he wants to show Aang something and seeing as I'm not in the mood for the bond between the idiots I decide to follow them. Teo leads us to a hallway that is also covered with pipes and metal work.
"I just can't get over it. There's not a single thing that's the same." Aang says. "I don't know about that. The temple might be different but the creatures that live here are probably direct decedents of the ones that lived here a long time ago." Teo says as he picks up a hermit and gives it to me. I look at it and smile at how cute it is.
"I guess your right there like keepers of the ones who once lived here." I say as I hand the creature to Aang. "There is one part of the temple that hasn't changed at all." Teo says as he shows us a door with copper pipes with two air holes on either side and three see shells in a triangular formation.
"Hey it's just like the one in the other Air temple." Katara says as I understand seeing as they explain to me that they went to another Air temple before they found me. "Only an Airbender can open it, so inside it's completely untouched. Just the way the monks left it." Teo says. "I've always wonder what's it's like in there." Teo says. "I can always break it down." I say as I loosen my arms. "ZIAN!" Katara shouts at me as I look at her. "What? It will only take 10 seconds." I say as she then gives me a stern look. "I'm kidding." I say jokingly with a grin.
I then look at Aang. "Well Aang?" I ask him. He lowers his head. "I'm sorry. This is the last part of the temple that's the same as it was; I want it to stay that way." He says. "I completely understand. I just wanted you to know it was here." Teo says. "Thanks" Aang says as we walk out of the hall.
Outside the temple
As we are on the courtyard of the temple I stand and observe as Aang and Teo take Katara on her first glider run. Needless to say that she isn't bad just needs more practice but what am I saying I haven't tried it nor do I need to. "Ok Zian you're next." And spoke to soon. I look at Aang who said it as he hands me the glider. "Uh uh, no way. I'm an Earthbender; do see any wings on me? No wings no flying da bender." I then turn my back to him. "Nope, not happening, nah dah, not doing it, forget it." I say when I then for some reason feel a hand creep up on me. Before I could do anything I feel a hand push my back as I fall over.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!" I scream. As I look down I see myself falling. Thinking quickly I get the glider in position as I soar through the sky. Even though I am a little scared I look as I embrace the fun and greatness of the sky. After a while I decide it is time to land. I look and see Aang and Teo talking. Thinking of revenge I dive down to Aang. Ss he sees me his eyes widen and he runs away screaming. "I'm gonna get you AANG!" I scream as I chase Aang.
Back at the door entrance
"So you're actually doing this?" I ask Aang as he nods as he has agreed to show Teo what is behind the seashell door. "I can't believe I'm finally going to see what's inside." Teo says surprised. "Yeah! We finally get to see what's behind a big door." I say sarcastically. Aang spins in a circle as he outstretches his hands and sends wind into the air holes as the blow on the shells as they flip around. As the doors open I look with a smug thinking that it is going to be some old antique sculpture of a famous monk.
OOOOH boy am I wrong. I stand there stunned in fear as see Inside are weapons and machines of war. Spikes and death traps al around the room. What really made step back in shock is that I see a balloon that can carry a man but that is not the shocking part it is that the balloon is carrying the fire nation insignia.
"This is a nightmare." Aang says. "No this is death itself." I correct him. "You don't understand." I hear the mechanist say behind us. "You're making weapons for the fire nation." Aang says angrily as the mechanist looks at us with guilt. "You make weapons for the fire nation?!" Sokka asks him as the mechanist only lowers his head.
In a fit of rage I then charge towards him as shout in anger. This takes him by surprise as I grab his shirt and slam hard against the wall as he grunts in pain. "You're supplying weapons to the enemy?! I SHOULD KILL YOU WHERE YOU STAND! Explain, NOW!" I shout at him.
I can see him calming himself down as he starts to speak. "It was about a year after we moved here. Fire nation soldiers found our settlement. You were too young to remember this Teo, they were going to destroy everything burn it to the ground. I pleaded with them I begged them to spare us. They asked what I had to offer…I offered them my services. You must understand I did this for you." He says as I look at Teo who looks away from his father.
I look back at him with the same angered expression as I let him go. "Get out of my sight." I say as he respectfully nods and walks away. I look at the others as I walk away from them and out of the hall.
Moments later
I sit on the ledge of a bridge between two towers as I gaze upon the view in front of me. I then see Aang, Katara, Sokka and Teo walk on the bridge towards me. "There you are Zian; we've been looking for you." Katara says. I jump of the ledge and on the bridge as I look at them as we stand at the centre of the bridge. "This is bad, very bad." Sokka exclaims. "Aang what are we gonna do? How can we possibly keep them all away?" Katara asks worried.
Aang looks at us with a grin. "I'll tell you how; we have two things that they don't air power. We control the sky, that's something the fire nation can't do." He says. "And what's the second thing we have?" I ask him confused. He then looks at me and points in my direction. "You." He says as I give him a surprise look. "Really?" I say to him. "Of course, with your earth bending you can cause real damage to them. We can win." He says as I slam my fists together. "Let's do this." I say.
"I want to help." I hear as I look and see that it is the mechanist who said it. He looks at me and wonders. "If I can?" he asks. I glare at him for a few moments before giving him a smile. "Hey if you want a chance of redemption now's the time to do it." I say causing him to smile.
In the mechanists workplace
Many of us gather in the work place as we hear what Sokka and the mechanist have to say. "We finally got the war balloon working thanks to Sokka. This boy's a genius." The mechanist says as they both stand behind a table. "Thank you, you're a genius." Sokka compliments him. "Thank you." He says. I smirk as I shake my head. "You can complement each other all you want but remember we got a whole army of fire nation soldiers that will be knocking at our front door at any second." I say as this causes them to focus. "You're right." Sokka says.
He takes a model of the war balloon and starts to explain. "See the problem with the old war balloon is that you can get it air born but once you did it just kept going." Sokka says as he demonstrates by placing a candle inside the balloon and it rises up and he brings it back down. "You can put a hole on the top but then all the hot air would escape." He explains. "So the question became, how do you keep a lid on hot air?" Sokka asks. "If only we knew." Katara says sarcastically causing a few of us including myself to chuckle.
"A lid is actually the answer. If you can control the hot air you can control the war balloon." Sokka continues as he pulls a string that opens the lid on top of the balloon. "Mmm, that is actually impressive." I say with interest. "Ok we got four types of bombs; smoke, slime, fire and…" Sokka says as the mechanist finishes. "Stink. Never underestimate the power of stink."
We stand on the platform as we wait for the enemy. "They're coming!" A little girl screams. "Are we ready?" Teo asks Katara. "Yes, but where is Sokka with the war balloon?" Katara says worried. "We'll have to start without him. Ready Zian?" Aang says looking at me. I give him a smirk as I crack my knuckles. "You bet I am." I say.
Everyone who is riding a glider position themselves as they ready to take off. As soon Aang goes I grab onto him as the rest of the gliders follow behind us. I see below us a whole army fire nation soldiers that are marching up the mountain. As we come into range we start throwing bombs at them as the soldiers try to defend themselves.
"Take them out of the sky now!" I hear a fire bender say. I smirk as I let go of Aang and to the side of the mountain and slam it hard causing an avalanche. I jump off the mountain before the snow hits me and grab onto Aang again as we fly away. I look back and see most of the enemy running away. "Yeah take that!" I yell satisfied with my handy work.
Suddenly I see metal hooks shoot out from the clouds as they grapple onto the mountain. I look and see metal like machines with metal wheels that use the hooks to climb the mountain. We throw bombs at them to stop them as it does not work. "Aang drop me down!" I yell as he nods at me and we descend.
As I ready myself I see a fireball heading straight to us as it hits me in the foot. I wince in pain as I lose my grip and fall on top of the mountain on the snowy part. As I pull myself up I wince as I fall back on the ground I then see the machines heading towards me. "Zian, use your bending!" Aang shouts. "I can't my leg is injured!" I shout back.
As I see a tank shoot a fire ball at me I see Aang land in front of me as he smacks the flame balls away. "Thanks." I say as he smiles at me. "No problem" He says as to more approach us. Before they could get closer Appa lands in front of us and smacks the tanks away. Aang picks me up and places my arm over his shoulder as he carries me onto Appa and we fly back to the temple.
As we land on the platform and Aang carries off Appa as he sits me down I see Teo coming up to us. "We're out of bombs!" He exclaims to us. "You better get here with that war balloon Sokka." I say while rubbing my foot from the pain. I then look up to suddenly see the war balloon fly above us carrying three huge sacks as I grin. "Speak of the devil." I whisper.
I see the balloon drop all three of the sacks one after the other on the fire nation as they pass them. After that I see the soldiers are still advancing as I worry. I then see something metal fall out of the war balloon and into a crack of the mountain. Before I could wonder what happen a huge explosion is heard that causes a shockwave and thick smoke to appear. As the smoke disappears I see that bits and pieces of the mountain are destroyed and I also see that the fire nation soldiers are fleeing.
"Look they're retreating!" Aang yells as everyone cheers. "WE'RE GOING DOWN!" Sokka yells as I see the war balloon falling from the sky and Aang flies after them. I'm not worried though as later I see Aang returning with them as he lands with them and we all finally take a well-deserved break. "You know what? I'm really glad you guys all live here now." Aang says to Teo and his father. "I realise, it's like the hermit crab. Maybe you weren't born here but you found this empty shell and made it your home and now you protect each other." He says.
"That means a lot coming from you" Teo says causing Aang to smile. "Aang, you were right about air power. Aslong as we've got the skies we have the fire nation on the run." Sokka says as the people cheer.
I smile as I think that maybe we do have a chance at winning the war after all.
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