Last time

After all, who wouldn't be surprised to see a man who just yesterday was in a coma fighting at his best? Not to mention the opponent was the silver haired man from yesterday, flying overhead with, silver tipped, black angel wings?

Now

Aang drew a raspy breath as he took his stance, looking up to the shirtless winged man above him. "I will win the bet, Gin!" Aang challenged, sending a windblast the angel winged man above him.

"Not if this is the best you can give." Gin responded, lazily blocking the windblast with his right wing. Clapping his hands together with a loud smack, Gin slowly pulled his hands apart, an obsidian Bo staff appeared between his open hands, twirling the 6' pole above his head, he waited for Aang to make his move. "Hurry up, Aang, you only have two minutes left!" Gin's singsong voice mocked.

With a growl, Aang jumped off the ground, and engaged Gin in an aerial staff fight. Though Aang was, somehow, in top form, the winged man blocked every strike like they were coming at a snails pace. After a bit, Gin disarmed Aang of his staff. Aang fell back to the ground. With a look of intense focus, Aang stopped his foot on the ground as he landed, sending a large boulder at the still arial man, thrusting his right hand at Gin, he shot a large airblast. Finally, Aang trailed behind a jet of water he made with a left handed thrust.

Grinning, Gin stunned those watching with another show of physical strength; he simply destroyed the boulder with a half assed punch. The wild silver haired man inhaled the wind blast, and exhaled a small stream of fire that neutralized the water. Gin didn't even flinch as Aang burst from steam the two jets of opposing elements had created, and delivered a punch to his gut.

"...5 minutes, 28 seconds. Very good, Aang, you win. I'll help her." Gin said as they landed, ans Sat down cross legged, Aang with his back to the three hiding in the bushes. "Of course, I can only help if she lets me."

Aang nodded. "That's going to be the hard part. She's one of the proudest people I know, we're going to have to word it so we're helping, not pitying; she'll kill me for that."

"Of course she is, having a lot of pride is a common trait among those who can bend steel ." The three in the bushes each raised an eyebrow, they were talking about Toph?

Aang grinned. "True. Aren't I just the lucky Avatar? Both my elemental teacher are gifted themselves; one being the one in a million Earth Benders that become Steel Benders and the other a natural healer, not to mention each are exceedingly strong. And now I'm the first to see the great Gingetsu, Lord of the Silver Storm, since Avatar Naoto."

Gin smirked at the bald boy. "Don't forget that you are strong, Aang. The Avatar's powers become stronger as the soul and body gain a deeper connection, I give it another week, tops, before the energy build up effects your physical appearance. Besides, you forgot a few reasons when you talked about your teachers;1, you managed to get all female teachers. 2, they're both cute." Aang blushed and scratched the back of his neck.

"Well... there is that..." He laughed nervously, the two girls in the bushes blushed a bit, Sokka grinned his teeth, Gin just laughed. Uprubtly, Aang stopped laughing, and fixed Gin with a stare as hard as he could muster. "Why are you here, Gin? For you to be in this dimension again..." Aang let his words hang in the air, unfinished.

Gin sighed, his mirth dispersing instantly. "I have come to both aide your cause, and to bring you to bolster the forces of another group of fighters."

Aang's eyes widened. "Zela has made a move in this world?"

Gin snorted. "Zela made his move in this world 102 years ago."

Aang's eyes widened even further as he realized the implication in Gins words. "You mean that..."

Gin nodded. "Yes. History says Fire Lord Zozin started the 100 year war, which is partly true, but the mentality in Zozin's head was not Zoin, it was Zela."

"How did Zela manage to best a Fire Lord's mental powers? They have to be well trained in controlling themselves to wear the Crown of Fire, otherwise they'd all end up like Zhao did; consumed by the destructive nature of fire!" Aang shouted, remembering his teachings a hundred years ago, and his more recent experience with the perfect example of why Fire Benders need to have strong wills and proper training, as a image of Zhao flashed across his mind.

Gin nodded, not even blinking at Aang's loud shout. "Zela may be insane, but he's not dumb. He knew he couldn't consume Zozin's mind instantly, he started with the minds of his generals and advisors; making them push Zozin towards war. Though they were well trained in mental shielding and self control, they couldn't beat Zela when he used their natural volatile tendencies as Fire Benders. after a year of that, Zela started on Zozin's mind. Taking into account the year of not bowing to his courts requests for war on the world and his natural volatality as a Fire Bender, it's testament to the mans will power that he lasted a year before declaring war when the comet passed."

"I lost track of him a few thousand years ago, and he's began bitchin around enough for me to find him." Gin ran a hand through his silver hair. "About 1600 years ago Zela started causing problems in another plain. I have recently been summoned to that plain, and I sensed him rather easily, I followed a trace of his energy here."

Gin's silver eyes flickered to the horizon, where last nights full moon still hung in the sky. "Eternal life, with my only end possible if I get ramed through the heart... I've existed for hundreds of billions of years. In that time I have gained the hate of a countless number of people, either through killing family or they too have 'gift' of long life, of those numbers, Zela is a constant appearance. When I first met him, he was journeyman sorceror after my head. Now he's an insane power hungry Arch Mage looking to control all existence." The three hiding in the bushes were stunned. Eternal youth? Other worlds? Mind control? They could scarcely believe it.

Gin layed down on his back, hands under his head. "Zela wants the impossible; to rule everything. His conciousness has long since left his body, essiantally making him immortal, he wonders the never ending plains of existence looking for worlds to rule over. The bastard crossed me a long time ago..." Gins pupils slitted, vertically, and a expression that could only be labeled 'pissed' crossed his features. Everyone, Aang and those in the bushes, felt like they were being crushed by the silver mans aura. Suddenly it was gone as fast as it had come, and they could breath again; though those in the bushes looked at Gin with fear now. Gin sighed "He has his eyes set on this world and another world, I came to request your assistance in the battle to be in that world; In return the warriors you help there will come to aide you here."

Aang scratched his shaved bald head head. "You make it sound like I have a choice, Gin, you know I can't pass up the oppertunity to be trained by you and gain more help for our side of the war. Besides, the Avatar is sworn to your service. It was you who gave Naoto, the first Avatar, the power to bend the principle element, and made it so his reincarnations could as well."

Gin chuckled. "I forgot that Naoto swore the alliegance of the Avatar line to me..."

Aang sweat dropped. "Hmm... so how many do you have in this war group of yours?"

Gin scratched his chin thoughtfully. "At the moment? There's your group; four. There's that groups, at the moment, main members; four. I've recruited the Kyoshi Island warrior, Suki; one. Me; one. All together ten main fighters, against hoards of bastards out to kill us." The grin on Gins face could be summed up with two words; insane glee. "Sounds like fun, doesn't it?"

"That's suicide!" Sokka yelled as he stood up, blowing the group hiding in the bushes cover.

Aang jumped, plainly not having known they were there. "H-how long we're you three there?"

Gin, who hadn't seemed surprised at all, answered for the three. "Since a little before you won the bet, Aang " He sat up, looking at Sokka. "Suicide? Ever hear 'It's quality not quantity'?"

"'But quantity is a quality all it's own'." Sokka shot back.

Gin nodded, apparently he approved the retort. "Very true. You're clever, good." His gaze shifted to the group in general. "So? Aang can't say no, but you three can, will you come? And I know the girls answer already." He waved off the two girls as they opened their mouths and moved closer to Aang. "I want Sokka's answer."

"How do you plan to keep Elementai from falling to Zela while we're gone?"

Gin's crazed smile scared Sokka, espisually when he saw it, though a waterd down version, reflected by Aang. "Aang and I are going to freeze time on Elemantai."

Sokka's jaw hung near his ankles, Katara and Toph, well his general area, stared at Gin wide eyed. "That's impossible!" Sokka yelled, after he got his jaw off the ground.

Gin snorted. "Impossible? I hate that word, I really do hate that word... No Sokka, it's not 'impossible', merely very difficult; combining my power with Aangs connection to planet it's doable. Aang, the girls, and myself will just need a nap afterwards."

Sokka eyed Gin suspiciously. "Why the girls too?"

Gin cast the girls in question a mischievious look. "That's none of your business, Sokka."

Sensing more arguments to come, Toph broke in. "What did you mean when you said you'd help me? My bendins great!"

Gin chuckled. "I'm going to heal your eyes, give you back your sight." Toph's eyes widened.

'Is he serious...?'

"Don't worry; you wont lose your 'earth sight' ability, you'll just have to focus a bit more to use it." Gin's chuckles deepened at the blind girls look. "No rush, Aang and I or going to freeze time for three years, you have plenty of time to consider it."

"Well, I'll leave Aang to answer any questions that he can. I'm going to fix up the ritual site." He said as he stood up. The silver eyed man gestured for Momo to climb onto his shoulders, which the lemur did. "I'll send Momo for you when it's ready." With that, Gin pumbed his wings, and flew upstream.

There was silence for a bit, until Katara asked a question. "How were you able to fight?! You were in a coma just yesterday!" Her concern for Aang's condition rather then something about Gin made Sokka face fault, though Toph snapped out of her daze to pay attention to the answer.

The young Avatar scratched his bald head. "Wow. I was expecting something about Gin... I'm OK because Gin used some of my Avatar spirit energy to speed up the healing process."

"That's cool and all, but... WHO THE HELL IS HE?!" Sokka yelled.

(A/N)Yo!

I recently have had an idea. Who wants me to bring in Jermain and Keiko? And if I do, who wants them paired together? I'd also need to know what elements to give them.

And should I make OC's for Omi and Clay to fall in love with? If I do will they be Xiaolin or normal people? If you say yes to the OC I need a charactor description (basically it's your OC), just give me the basics of the OC, I'll email you if Ilike the idea and need a more indepth description. Also, I dont care if it's a yaoi(gay) pairing, but that be hard for me to write, so I'll be more likely to choose a straight OC. Also, if you have deviantart account and have picture of an OC posted, please give me a link.

Laters.