Book 1: Fearless
Chapter 9: Silence
Aang woke up slowly. He sat up and looked around groggily, wondering where he was. He was sitting on Appa's tail, the place where he typically slept now. When he stood up and winced in pain, he remembered that he had been in a fight with some boy that he didn't know. Then he remembered his dream. If you could call it a dream. The whole thing seemed so real. He remembered every detail of what the voice had taught him about the so called "Timebending State". The whole thing still seemed kind of crazy to him. But then again, there was no other explanation as to how he had held of the boy.
The boy. His name was Kayo, Aang remembered. Nothing he knew would answer the questions that he had about Kayo. He thought of the battle. Kayo had bended light at him.
"How could he bend the light," Aang thought.
It was like nothing he had ever seen.
He put his private thoughts on hold as the others began to wake up. Sokka was sleeping beside a now extinguished fire.
"Did he sleep there all night," thought Aang.
He shook his head, smiling at the thought.
Katara was the first wake and immediately took notice that Aang was standing. She looked surprised and concerned. She ran up to him and gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek. Then she looked him in the eyes, a question written in her own.
"I'm fine," said Aang. "And I know what was wrong."
He explained to her about his dream and what the "spirit" had told him. However, he left out the facts about the Timebending State. Just before he had awoken, the "spirit" had told him not to let anyone know about it. He didn't like keeping secrets from Katara, but he had to obey the spirit if he wanted to master the Timebending State and defeat Kayo.
Toph was the next to wake up. She saw that Aang was walking, walked up to him, and gave him a good punch in the arm. As always it hurt.
"Welcome back to the world of the living, Twinkle Toes," said Toph.
"Good to be back," he said.
"So are you better, or am I dreaming that you're walking around?" she asked him.
So he delved into the story of his dream again, but once again he left out the part about the Timebending State. Toph was more skeptical about the relevance of his dream, but then again, she was more skeptical about pretty about everything.
When Sokka woke up, he saw that Aang was standing with Toph and Katara and said hi. But that was it. He was too preoccupied with trying to improve upon his plans from the night before to really care all that much about how everyone was doing.
As the next few days flew by, everyone was unusually quiet. None of them could quite figure out what to say. When darkness came on the fifth day since their fight with Kayo, they all went to sleep without a word. But the night would not stay silent with them. As the darkness became complete, light suddenly shone everywhere around them.
Major cliffy. Hope you can figure out what's going on. If you can't, go back and read chapter four. It might explain something. That's the only hint you get.
Just a warning. Then next couple of chapters will go back from the five days I jumped at the end of this chapter and cover what Zuko, Iroh, Azula, and Kayo have been doing. So I guess you'll have to keep reading if you want to know what happens to Aang and his friends. Muah hahahahah (evil laugh). Just kidding. Hope you enjoyed the chapter.