Candle's POV.

We sat waiting for them to come and get us. The room was quiet and tense, I wanted it it end so bad, but how could I end it? We sat for what seemed like hours, my tattoos had stopped glowing and we were in complete darkness. Half of me was glad I couldn't see anyone, but from time to time someone would try to talk to me.

The others were probably talking to themselves, but I didn't want any part of it. I kept on thinking about this man, who ever he is. I how could I fight someone I don't know and I don't even know what he looks like! This man also had the power over thousands of men, and I was sitting here with 5 other people. I guess I had my friends from the amazon jungle, but we were banished from the tribe. I could go see my dad and my friends in Yellowstone. But they pretty much add up to 9 more people. So about 15 people including me, the odds were against us.

I groaned while I thought about this. I could just stay here and not carry out the plan, I would be tested on but they would keep me alive. Me and Zach had been tapping the floor for the hours, and I was sure we had located it. Zach was the only person I talked to, but that was to say one or two words to each other and then going to back to work.

The door opened, there were 6 men waiting. It was now or never. I stood up, and the rush of adrenaline power through me. The 6 men dragged us out into the hall, all 6 of us stayed quiet and waiting.

We were only a few seconds away from the room. Each step that we took I could feel the vibrations in the floor. I couldn't breath each passing second I could feel myself tensing up.

There! We passed the corner and down at the end of the hallway was a locked room saying 'examination'. That was the room I had felt our things in, the only reason I had found them was because of Sapphire's blue fire. I guess it was now useful.

We walked down the hallway, the men holding us had guns. They must have been lighting guns, but Sapphire could probably deflect it easily. There were also people in the rooms around us. I counted 6 rooms alternating down the hallway. They could hold any number of people, especially since one of them was a dorm room.

I looked back at my friends, their faces were full of determination. Once I nodded Alex would move first knocking out the guy holding him and running back to our parents. By the time he got there we would have already drawn out most of the people to our hallway. I knew we were important and he, whoever he was, would not let us get away.

I nodded at Alex and almost immediately he jumped up and slammed his head into the man's neck. The man scream and let go of Alex. He bolted away, by that time all of us were free. Having slammed our heads into the men holding us. The rest of us ran down the hallway to the room marked 'examination'. Even if our bags weren't in there we would at least have our weapons and what ever may have interested them in there.

Though before we got there the whole hallway exploded with men and women. Some who could bend, other who couldn't but had lighting guns, and some were even people dressed in lab coats rushed out to fight us. I didn't want to start a fight, even though I had plan one, but you can't really ignore the feeling of lighting rushing past you left and right.

"Sapphire!" I yelled. She didn't even say anything but she ran ahead of me and deflected all of the lighting. Basically she had stopped, planted her feet into the floor, and started to trace her body. The lighting started to collect around her until there was a giant ball of blue lightning dance around her.

Really quick they started to notice that shooting at us was not going to work. So they called out the benders, Zach had not been able to learn how to metal bend and neither had I. But lucky for us the metal benders here had started to rip up the floor anyway. I airbender stuff that came at me.

"Mara, you and me need to break open that door," I pointed at the door, which now seemed a mile away.

"OK," she yelled over the noise. Zach had stopped a while back because further back one of the metal benders had pulled up enough to show some rock. It was on the wall, so that made me guess we were on the side of a mountain. Gabe, Mara, and me were the only ones left. We were gaining ground fast and before I knew it we were at the door. It was large and metal, it had a keypad but it had been damaged because of some flying piece of metal.

"Stop!" I turned around to see a non-bender pointing a lightning gun at us," Stop! Put you hands up!"

I told to Gabe, he looked really annoyed, almost angry. He looked back at me and then ran up to the non-bender and punched him in the face. The man fell to the floor knocked out cold. I sighed, no matter how much I didn't want to hurt anyone it always happens.

I turned around to see Mara, she had a blade of water in her hand. Before I could inhale the door burst open after she sliced it open. The room was dark and looked very clean compared to what was going on outside. I walked in, on the table in the middle of the room sat Sapphire's blue fire. Next to it was our swords and Mara's chap-stick.

We walked up to the table. I handed Gabe his sword, he started to strap it behind his back. I got mine, but I strapped it around my waist. Mara pocketed her chapstick and picked up Sapphire's blue fire. They appeared to be in good condition, but the rest of the rooms looked run down. When I said it looked better than outside I meant it, but the inside was still a mess. Who ever worked in here must have never heard of the concept of cleaning. It smelled like several things had died in here too.

"I want to get out of here. Gabe the explosives are outside down the hall to the right," I told him.

"Yeah, I can't argue with you there," he said and then sprinted off. Mara and I went outside, the battle had lessened. More men and women had fallen to the ground hurt. It looked like non of them were dead, which relieved me. Sapphire still had that ball of lighting around her, but was now shooting it back at the people shooting at her. Zach was running out of earth that he could pull from the wall.

"Sapphire, Zach come on!" I yelled at them. They stopped what they were doing and ran to follow us. Zach had located the room with the protective gear. Basically by feeling for which room had the most intake of people from the door. It was near the door, but I wasn't planning on going out the front door. I wanted this place to be rid from the world.

"Candle!" someone yelled from behind me. I looked back. There was Alex, but he looked like he had drained himself of all his power. He had our parents floating around him, though they were close to the ground.

"Alex, I forgot about you! What took you so long?" I asked while helping him up. He had stopped bending. Mom was helping the others walk now.

"Come on! We have people following us," I told him. Zach had blocked an area with some rock, but it was thin. We had about 2 minutes to get dress in the right gear. I met up with Gabe, who by the looks of it had already set the bomb.

"Hey, I found the others," I told him.

"Cool, the bomb is set to go off in 4 minutes. Hope you're ready for that," he said while throwing a large jacket at me.

"Yeah, I am. I don't know about the others," I looked over, they were getting the parents dressed first. I ran over and gave the jacket to my mom, who hastily put it on. I threw some snow pants at her and then a hat. Mara was looking around for a box of gloves and yelled when she found them.

We all got dressed as fast as we could and waited for the bomb to go off.

"One minute," Gabe said he had to have been counting because he didn't have a watch.

Then the whole building shook and a loud wave of sound knocked me over along with the rest of us. The bomb must have gone off.

The whole world was black and white when I woke up. I must have passed out from impact. I sat up to see what it looked like around me. For one it was really cold, colder than I have ever been in my life. Two the whole building that I was once standing in had fallen down and burned to charcoal.

"Guys?" I asked, around me was completely black. I tried to sit up until I noticed that something was holding me down. I looked at what was on me. It was Gabe, he looked like he had been trying to block me from something.

Then I remembered, the explosion was so big that it had started to knock down the building. People were yelling and Gabe had knocked me to the floor saying the whole place was going to fall.

Now that it had the place looked like a ghost town. I pushed harder and got a groan out of him. I sighed and laid back down. It would be a long time before I got him off of me again. The cold was really cold, but I could only feel it on my face. I hadn't been able to get a mask on before the explosion. At least everything else was covered. I knew that I had to get something on soon or I would lose part of my face.

People had told me that nothing should be exposed in the cold like this, but I had never imagined it being like this. Gabe was still on me and I was sure that the warmth coming form him was keeping the rest of my body warm. I pulled my hood over my face and slipped my arms back to where they were. I started to doze off before I could think of anything else to do about my face.