A/N: Its been a week or so but I finally got some time to finish and post this chapter. A lot of people have only read the first couple chapters and the number dwindled a lot for those of you who are still reading thank you.
I slipped into my bed worried about Hinako but mostly just plain exhausted. I slid to the wall and rested my head on it.
"Why does he do these things?" I asked myself. I knew the answer though, Hinako does whatever he feels like on a whim and nothing can stop him.
"Maybe he feels like he needs to do them to live." I looked up at my door as Jinora walked in.
"Maybe and maybe he does it for other reasons. I dont feel the need to ask him because it might change who he is and I dont want that." I lifted the covers and patted beside me and JInora climbed in. She curled up on me and rubbed my chest.
"Not tonight im way to tired and sleep is all im thinking about." I leaned my head away as I drapped an arm around her. She sighed and kissed my neck.
"Goodnight then Sai-Ryu." She closed her eyes and tried to sleep.
"Goodnight." I whispered as I let myself fall asleep.
I woke myself from sleep by accidentally slamming my head into the wall. I sat up fast and held my head. 'What the hell.' I thought as I went to slid off of the bed. I reached the edge and looked back at the bed only to see I was alone.
"Jinora?" I called to the dark. "Are you still here?" I stood and walked over towards the lights. I flicked them and turned to my bed. I didnt see Jinora but instead I saw a person wearing all black and their face was covered by a hood. They had a pair of nunchucks drapped over their neck and a large curved blade resting on their thighs.
"You seem well have you waited long?" They spoke and looked towards me. When I looked where the face should be all I saw was 7 bright silvery lights.
"Who are you and what are you doing in my room?" I stepped to the side and circled to where Shades bed was.
"Oh your actions wound me. Do you fear for your life? Maybe you really know who I am but you are denying it." The figure stood and it was tall, like really tall, atleast half my size taller than me. It slinked towards me and raised its sword to my throat.
"What do you want from me?" I asked as the sword traced my skin leaving a small line of blood as it went. The blade stopped and the figure laughed.
"What I want? I dont WANT anything but I do need something from you." It moved the blade to my heart. "I need you to stay alive!" It thrust the sword in me and everything went black.
I opened my eyes and screamed. I felt a tug on my shoulders and was looking face to face with Jinora.
"Sai-Ryu whats wrong, You're bleeding." She said as she balled up the blankets and pressed them to my neck. "Hurry up we have to get you to grandma Katara." She kept pressure on the blanket and pulled me up. I looked down at my hand and it was covered in blood and I had skin under my finger nails. I began to clean it from underneath them.
"What the hell happened to you Sai-Ryu?" Rina asked as we rushed past her. I shrugged as we went down the hall past her. I heard footsteps coming up from behind us and Hinako and Rina appeared on either side of me.
"Brother you look terrible what happened?" Hinako placed my arm over him and proped me up. I held my hands, palms up, infront of me and showed him my finger nails that I hadnt be able to clean. He saw the skin in them and sighed. I tried to speak but I ended up choking on my own blood and coughing it up.
I let the blood dribbled out and run down my chin onto the blanket. Jinora looked back and then turned again and started running pulling me faster. The healing hut was still being repaired so we made our way to the temporary healing room or as I liked to call it a big tent set up out on the plateau.
As soon as we entered Jinora sat me on the first cot that was available. Katara was healing a patient and had one other waiting. She looked over and motioned for Rina to take over for her. She walked over to me and pulled the blanket away revealing drying blood and fresh blood flowing over that.
She bend up some water from a bolw on the table and used it to clean the dried blood. She then moved it back and forth through a cloth until all the blood was out of the water and then she began healing me.
After she was finished she froze the water around my whole neck. I tried to speak but found I still couldnt.
"Jinora could you go get him a fresh shirt? Hinako I do believe its time to change your bandages." Katara said as she sat next to it and Hinako took his place on the cot. She began changing his bandages and washing his wounds and I took my shirt off and wiped my chest only to have more blood on the shirt.
I tried to speak again but no words came out so I stepped forward and place a hand on Kataras shoulder. She turned around and her eyes went wide, she began bending up all the water in the room and swirling it around me and she suddenly froze it leaving only my head out.
I gasped at how cold it was and struggled to try and move. I looked at Hinako and he had the same expression Katara had and his whole body shook. Jinora walked in holding up the shirt and dropped it when she saw me encased in ice.
"Grandma whats going on? Why is Sai-Ryu frozen in ice?" She walked over infront of me and her jaw dropped.
"What does that mean? I mean why would a 7 be carved into his chest?" Hinako sounded shaken and looked it.
"It looks deep and judging on how dry the blood is its been there for a while. Im sorry for freezing you Sai-Ryu but I was shocked." Katara said as she unfroze me and I rubbed my throat. I tried speaking but all that came out was a low groan.
"Grandma whats wrong why can he talk?" Jinora asked as she walked up to me.
"His vocal chords are just fine." Katara said as she began healing the gash on my chest.
"I believe that its because of me." I spun around to where the voice came from and looked upon the cloaked figure from my dream. Everyone looked at me and then to where I was looking, Jinora gasped and pointed.
"Who is that?" She shouted.
"Who is what?" Hinako asked as he slid from the cot.
"Jinora hunny what are you talking about?" Katara asked as she checked Jinoras temperature.
'So you see it too right Jinora? Then im not going crazy well thats good.' I thought to myself.
"Ah this must be the spirit seer I have heard so much about. My apologies my name is Dainanaka, I am the 7th spirit of the wind. I have come to ask for your help." The figure slowly drifted towards me and I backed away and bumped into Hinako.
"Brother whats going on why are you and Jinora acting so weird?" He tried to turn me to face him but I refused fearing that something might happen if I took my eyes off of it. I heard shuffling and a thump behind me. I looked and saw Jinora sitting on the floor, mouth open like she was trying to scream. I turned back but this time the figure stood only a foot away from me.
"Sorry but I had to take her voice as well, I cant have you going on talking about me when I am being hunted." I could still not tell if this this was a man or a woman or even human at all.
'Shit shit shit shit I need to get it away from them.' I screamed in my mind. I turned and knocked heads with Hinako and everything blanked.
I groaned and slowly blinked, looking around me I saw my room and Jinora laying next to me in my bed.
'Was that all just a dream?' I thought as I laid back down. 'In my dream I could speak.'
I let out a loud scream and JInora flew out of bed and on to the floor.
"What? Whats going on." She shouted as she looked at me. I scratched my forhead and mumbled to myself.
"So it must have been a dream right?" I sighed and looked at Jinora. "Hey has anything weird happend recently?"
"Besides you screaming for no apparent reason? No nothing much really, I meant except for Hinakos wounds keep mysteriously reopening again and again." Jinora shook herself and got back into the bed. "Seriously those two need to take it down a notch or atleast wait for his injury to fully heal."
I felt a familiar clawing on my leg and I lifted it causing Shade to fall on my hip. "That was close." I lifted her to my face and she meowed while pawing at my face. "Hey there girl you're getting alot bigger."
I looked at her and saw that she was no longer the small kitten that I had once found. She was atleast more than twice the size she was when I found her and heavier too.
"20lbs of densely muscled fury." Jinora said as she scratched her chin.
"Cute and vicious, serene yet savage. Both my girls are that way." I said with a chuckle and was given a punch and scratch for it. "Ow, that was a compliment."
"Cute and serene yes but vicious and savage? I dont think so." Jinora said as she rolled out of bed.
"Ok maybe the vicious and savage part was directed more towards Shade but-" I stopped talking as I felt Shade press her claws into my chest. Jinora picked her up and set her on the floor.
"Come on we have a busy day ahead of us." I groaned remembering that we had to pack because Tenzin was taking us to all the air temples for a vacation.
I rolled to the edge of the bed and dropped to the floor while reaching for Jinoras legs. I grabbed her ankles and pulled myself closer.
"Jinora *COUGH* go on with *COUGH COUGH* out me." I droned off amd faked my death. JInora laughed and Shade ran and headbutted me. I rolled around on the floor rubbing my head and looked Shade in her eyes. She cocked her head to the side almost triumphantly and pranced towards the door with Jinora.
"No hunting for you at the air temples then." I said then she stopped running and turned to look at me. I put on my best serious face and she just stared at me blankly. About a minute later she walked over and rubbed her shoulder into me and all me resolve faded. I scooped her up and held her to my chest.
"You're a big softy you know that?" Jinora said as she walked over. "Now get up and start packing." I stood and started packing dreading the month long of fun that Tenzin had planned for my befefit because once again I was an original air-bender. 'Horrah kill me now.' I thought as I shoved the traditional air nomad robes inside my bag.