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Chapter 14: The Dark Cloud on the Horizon

Sokka's POV: I stood in a nervous daze while images flashed through my mind quickly. Everything was scrambled. I'd feel a tugging at my neck then a "whoosh!" as I was dragged off to see something else.

Whoosh! I found myself on a cliff, staring at a sunrise. It was beautiful, but there was a thin black line across it. I saw Mai and Zuko sitting on the side of the cliff staring at it mournfully. Both looked so sad. "It's really coming, isn't it? It's really coming to end the world." Mai said. Zuko leaned in to wrap her in a hug.

Whoosh! Ty Lee was pacing nervously in front of a concerned Teo. She looked at him in a panic before starting to babble upsettedly. "I don't know if I'll be able to do this Teo!" She cried. "Me and evil Dark Spirit Waves coming to destroy the world are very non-mixey things!" She cried while she began to fiddle with her fingers in anxiety. To stop her from shaking he wrapped her in a tight hug. "Don't worry." He whispered in her ear to comfort her. "Things will turn out all right… they have to."

Whoosh. There was Aang standing up at the front of the troops. He looked like he was giving a speech. "…how can we possibly face these Spirits? No human alone can face one, and it is impossible to kill one if it isn't in mortal form; which none of them are. Even with our four thousand some-odd men, we are still shot several soldiers for fifty of us to fight one Spirit. There's no way that we can win, and there's no way that we can stop them." I gaped as Aang said this. I know I suck at public speaking but this wasn't usually the way to boost the troop's morale. I wanted to scream at him, but I had no voice.

I flung my body straight up, my eyes were wide open, I was panting, and covered in a thin sheen of cold sweat. It was all I could do not to wake up screaming. My hair stuck to my face and my clothes were clutching my body tightly.

I was in the clearing in the woods. I remembered falling asleep here. This was the fourth night in the row that I've had these sort of prophetic dreams. This one was the worst so far. I felt tears pouring from my eyes and a cool breeze on my sweaty body sent a chill through my flesh. Grasped in a moment of fury I quickly stood up and unsheathed my sword and looked towards the clouded sky in rage.

"What is this?!" I shouted up to the clouds. "Why are you showing me this; what do you want from me!?" Nothing responded in the dead of the night. My upper lip twitched in the silence. "Answer me goddamnit!!" I screeched. Yet again there was silence and a tear slid down my cheek.

"Aaurgh!!" I shouted in frustration before throwing my meteor sword directly towards the nearest tree. There was a clank of contact as my sword bounced off it lightly, unscathed. I collapsed to the ground and the tears started to flow freely.

Needless to say, I did not get anymore sleep that night.

Katara's POV: I handed the last of the things to Aang, who was on Appa. He secured them with the last of the rope then smiled as he airbended himself down. I smiled and kissed him on the cheek, smiling at him. For one morning in the past two months, everything was good.

"Well, that's the last of it." I announced happily.

"No it's not." Toph contradicted quietly. Zuko, Mai, Ty Lee, Aang and I all looked at her in surprise. "Where's Sokka?" We all spun around, but sure enough, Sokka was nowhere to be seen. Zuko swung open the barn doors, but he wasn't inside.

"And, by the way, where's Teo also?" Once again we did the whole spinning around thing, and yet again, we noticed that we were Teo-less. Mai grumbled.

"We don't have time to look for both of them, we have to go now!" Mai said frustrated.

"Yeah, I wish that Sokka was here now so we could leave!" Ty Lee said annoyed.

"I'm here." Sokka said tiredly, walking up to us from the path to the woods. We all looked at him for a moment.

"I wish I had a million gold pieces!" Ty Lee said quickly. Mai and Toph turned to look at her with an incredulous expression on. Ty Lee smiled at them sheepishly. "Just checking." She said innocently. I rolled my eyes and smiled.

"But, what about Teo." Zuko asked. Ty Lee's expression changed and something flickered in her eyes for merely a moment. It was hard to tell if it had even been there at all.

"He already left on his glider, to make the trip easier on Anari and Appa." Ty Lee said. I turned just in time to see Toph roll her shoulder blades backwards; a gesture she usually makes when she catches someone lying. I made a mental note to ask Ty Lee about it while we were in the air.

Our travelling plans were to have all the boys on Appa, and all the girls on Anari. I can transport anyone from one bison to the other, via my awesome cloud bubbles. We quickly loaded on before taking off in the air. I didn't wait more than five minutes after takeoff before I went to sit on Anari's head, next to Ty Lee.

"So, what's going on Ty Lee?" I prodded. She turned to me looked surprised and slightly upset. "What actually happened to Teo, because according to Toph, you were lying about Teo making room for everyone."

"Damnit! I forgot about Toph's annoying lie detector-ness." She said annoyingly.

"What is it Ty Lee? You can tell me!" I said in a comforting tone. She looked sad and glanced at her thumbs that she was now twiddling. Neither of us spoke for several minutes.

"Teo and I had a fight" She finally said, continuing to stare at her feet. She refused to look me in the eyes. She slowly continued. "Then he got his glider and ran away." She said this a bit more choked up. I was shocked, I would've never expected Teo to run away.

"What happened? I asked, concerned.

"I was upset that he wasn't helping out in the war, seeing as we never saw him and I never heard about him working with the troops, so I yelled at him for not doing as much as he could, like all the rest of the guys." I looked at her.

"Not everyone can be 'Global Connections Guy' Ty Lee!" I said sadly. She shook her head and turned toward me for the first time, though I noticed she continued to stare at my forehead instead of my eyes.

"I didn't expect him to. I was just upset that he wouldn't even train with the troops. He got angry, then depressed, then he left." She said sadly. I rolled my eyes.

"Ty Lee, you scatterbrained, lovable, nincompoop, were you hiding under a rock for the past week and a half?" She glared at me, but without menace. The glare was one of confusion. She finally looked me in the eyes. Her eyes asked me to continue.

"Teo's been training the troops every day for five or six hours a day. When the troops were split into two pieces, he trained with both of them for three hours each. And do you know why they finally started to train and bunk together? Teo talked to the troops instead of just trying to stuff reason into that one General's head. He did what all of us were too stupid to do, and he got results. He probably did the most important thing for the cause so far." She just gaped at me, shame was evident on her face.

"And I yelled at him…" She whispered to herself. The beginnings of tears started to appear at the corners of her eyes.

"Don't worry." I said in an attempt at comfort. I awkwardly wrapped an arm over her shoulder and squeezed it lightly. "He loves you. He really does. And he'll come back. I promise!" I said.

She smiled sadly and nodded. I took that as my cue to leave. I climbed back up onto the saddle and pulled a small bit of water out of a passing cloud to play with. We had a three hour flight, and I didn't have anything to do.

Ty Lee's POV: He was a hero… he was a hero and he didn't tell me.

I wish he had told me. I thought he could tell me everything. We promised that we would tell each other everything. It must be the Spirit Wave. Aang said it would interfere with our teamwork and ability to not get angry with each other, but I hadn't expected this. It's all the Spirit's faults…

Who am I kidding, cuz it certainly isn't me. I know that the doubt was still there, and I was still annoyed. The Spirits might've increased it, but it was there without their help.

Still. He was a hero, and I was the last one to know…

… and I yelled at him.

Toph's POV: I was not as angry at Mai as I was a while ago when she was terrible at sympathizing with us. Now would be as good a time as any to make up. Possibly the best time. I know that Katara already apologized to her… Katara's good at that stuff, no one can stay angry at her for long. I still had yet to apologize.

I scooted over to her, feeling around that thin layer of dirt Sokka remembered to line Anari's saddle with.

"Hey, uh… Mai." I said. She looked up at me and cocked her head.

"Yeah Toph?" She asked carefully. Neither of us wanted this to erupt into a heated argument, because if it did, there'd be nowhere to storm off to and chuck rocks around. We both treaded carefully.

"I just wanted to apologize for the other day. I'm sorry we got so out of hand, and I'm sorry I screamed. I won't blame it completely on the Spirits, because I am to blame, but I have to add that those damned Spirits were at work here too. I'm still sorry!" I said. I waited for her response.

"Thanks Toph, I appreciate it. I brought it more out of hand, and I'm sorry. I was being cold and unsympathetic when I should've been considerate and consoling. I was way out of line." I heard her say. A large smile crossed over her face.

"Thanks!" I said. It felt good to get that weight off my chest. I only had one more burden left. That was Sokka's inevitable death. That weight might be harder to shove off.

Zuko's POV: After a grueling three hours of the three guys going "so what do you wanna do?" "I dunno, what do you wanna do?" we were all ecstatic to finally land and stretch our legs. The girls seemed just as eager as we were to be at the Eastern Coast of the Earth Kingdom. As we looked down, we saw the troops and their campsite in a valley. We had Appa and Anari land about three hundred yards away. Looking towards the sea, I thought I could make out a thin black streak across the horizon. Suddenly I wish that the boredom on Appa was the most of my worries.

I jumped off of Appa first, and a Water Tribe chief person came up to me. I smiled warmly at the man.

"What is it?" I ask him.

"We have set up three large tents for the eight of you. One is for the girls, one is for the boys, and one is for planning a battle strategy. We've already set up a map of the Eastern Coast for where the Spirits will be coming." I nodded.

"Thank you very much. We'll be using them in no time." The Water tribe man left and I quickly informed everyone about the tents that we had.

Now all we need is a battle strategy. I walked into the tent that someone pointed out to find Iroh staring pensively at the table with the world map on it. On the far right corner of the map over the Eastern Sea there was a long black stick, I knew what that meant. On the eastern border, by the coast there were a few pieces for each of the Three Nations. I walked over to Uncle and patted his shoulder. He looked tired.

"There must be a way…" Iroh said sadly and confusedly. I stared along with him, as if the answer would appear on the map in plain letters if we stared at it long enough. I barely noticed Aang and Sokka join the stare-fest until my eyes started hurting and I rubbed them. I heard Uncle sigh one more time.

"There must be a way…" He repeated sadly. "… but I can't think of it." It was my turn to sigh.

Teo's POV: I sat on a small ledge on a mountain. I had my glider open and ready to fly again just in case the ledge I was sitting on breaks. Although I desperately hoped that it didn't, because I've been flying for five hours straight, and was exhausted. I was hungry, and hot, and thirsty, and tired. I got only six hours of sleep last night when I found a mountain cave. This ledge is nice for a quick break, but my arms and legs still remained stiff and sore.

I tried to think about anyone besides Ty Lee, anything besides our fight. She thought I was worthless... NO! Stop it! You're thinking about her again! That's not going to help anything! You can think about her all you want after the world ends... well that's a fairly morbid thought!

I forced myself to think about the troops. I wonder how they were getting settled into the Eastern Coast. I bet that stupid General still has his foot in his mouth from when I lectured him. Maybe they're still doing morning training, only without me. It's not like they ever needed me there anyway, I just got the idea into motion. A lot of those guys seem really cool... and really my age. Fifteen year old soldiers... that's so sad. I wish I had gotten to know them more. There was this one really cool guy named Tung. He's only thirteen. He looks kind of familiar for some reason... I just can't place it though. I have a feeling it has something to do with the Final Battle in the Hundred Years War.

Why did the Spirits decide to go all genocidal on the world now? Life was getting good. We just ended a war. Now all they have to do is wait for a Solstice and they can wipe out the earth!? What gives them the right? What's with the destruction thing here!? It's becoming a pattern! Why are they allowed to just barge in here and come to destroy things?

My eyes widened and I felt an extra burst of adrenaline race through my veins. Of course! The answer was staring us right in the face. How had we not seen it before!? It was so obvious that I was shocked that I was the first one to think of it! I knew that they had probably already headed for the Eastern Coast, so I grabbed my glider and started flying east, towards the rising sun. It would take about nine hours time on a glider, but I'll make it there with a day and a half to spare. Wait... does this mean that I was "The Hushed" in the ZP? I ignored the question easily because my mind was flooded with only two thoughts and I flew at top speed towards the Eastern Coast, ignoring the screaming in my muscles and the heavy bags under my eyes. Two thoughts reverberated in my mind.

I knew how to defeat the Spirit wave! I knew how Aang and Sokka wouldn't die!

Hurray! The first good news that was here in the longest time! It feels great to have some happy feelings! Okay, all you people who asked me "Is Teo the Hushed?" the answer is in fact, yes.

Hmm... I wonder what Teo realized. Actually I already know so I'm not "hmmm-ing" but I know you guys are!