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Sorry for the extremely long wait. I was not intending it to take this long for me to upload a new chapter! I hope that that won't ever happen again. Well anyway, speaking of a new chapter, this chapter doesn't have any action in it whatsoever. It's a guess what you call, kinda a "filler" chapter of sorts. It just shows what happened between last chapter and what will happen in the next chapter. The next chapter should have more action in it. Well, maybe not a lot, but I am definately sure that it will not be like this chapter.

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Previously on Elements...

Tyson glanced over at the waterbender and his uncle. "We have to leave, now!"

"What? You guys?" Max asked.

"Well, yeah, but you're coming with us to. It's not safe here with them knowing who you are now." he replied to Max's question.

"But-" Max protested. He didn't want to leave his home.

"No, Max, you have to." his uncle spoke.

Max looked at him. He wasn't gonna start up this conversation again, was he?

"Look Max, I know I haven't exactly been a good uncle, but I know one thing is that you aren't safe. And if its one thing that I know about your mother is that she would want you to be safe." he explained. "Don't let your mother's death be in vain."

Max bowed his head to try and hide his tears. His uncle wasn't blaming him, he just was scared to lose him like he lost his sister. "Alright, let's go."

The airbender nodded. He stood out of his stance and lifted his arm far and high enough until his tatoo showed fully. It began to glow and then slowly began to lift itself off of his skin and enlarge until it became a glowing blue dragon. Max stood amazed.

The airbender turned towards his comrades. "C'mon guys! Let's go!"

The two other boys turned their attention from the soldiers and took off to the dragon. They got on as the airbender helped Max onto it.

Once they were all on, the airbender called out to the dragon, "Dragoon! Let's go buddy!"

The dragon roared in reply and took off for the skies. The firebenders below began firing at them, but they were quickly deflected by the energy shield surrounding them. The chief watched them go sadly. 'Max, be safe, please.' A tear ran down his face.

Max looked back his uncle, the only family he had left. 'I'm sorry, Uncle Brian.' He closed his eyes to prevent the tears from coming as he and the others with him slowly went out of sight.

Elements

Book 1: Water

Chapter 4:

A Brief Interlude

Max could no longer see the sparkling waves of the ocean as they were now replaced with fluffy clouds. Strange, he thought to himself, he didn't remember seeing clouds back at the South Pole. It was only fog that he ever really remembered seeing. He sighed and fought back the homesickness that was threatening to make itself known.

In his efforts of turning his attention to something else, he looked at his new companions.

To his left, he saw a small red-headed boy who was curled up into a ball snoozing. To his right there was a brown-haired boy kneeling over tinkering away on something. Then in front of him, controlling the dragon they were riding on, was a navy-haired boy. He was focusing intently on what was ahead of them, more than likely searching to see if any Fire Nation soldiers were around.

Max never caught their names. The escape from the Water Tribe village happened so fast that he didn't have time to ask them since getting out safely was their first priority. Well, it was better late than never.

He coughed, catching the attention of the two boys that were still awake. Sheepishly, he scratched the back of his head and spoke, "Uh, hi! I never really got to thank you guys back there. So, uh, thanks, I guess."

The brown-haired boy momentarily stopped tinkering, adjusted his glasses and smiled. "Ah, you don't have to thank us really. It was just the right thing to do at the time."

"And besides," the navy-haired one spoke, causing both of them to look in his direction, "we were coming to get you anyway."

Max's eyes widened, "You were?"

The brown-haired one looked back at him, "Of course we were, we've been looking for you for a while now."

"You've been looking for me?" Max stared at them bewildered.

Nodding and adjusting his glasses again, he replied, "Yes, we've been searching for the chosen ones of the elemental beasts. And we know that you're the chosen one of Draciel."

Max gasped. "What?" Oh no. Are they after his power? But, wait, why did they fight off the Fire Nation at the village? Were they fighting to see who would get him?!

"Hey dude!"

Max looked up to see the airbender with his head facing towards him and a big grin across it. "Relax. We're not gonna turn you over to the Fire Nation or anything. That's the last thing that we would want to do. So don't worry about it."

Max felt a weight lift off his chest. Well that was good, but still why would they help him?

As if reading his mind, the glasses boy spoke up again. "You know that you're not the only one with an elemental beast, right?"

Max nodded. "Yeah. I remember my mom," Max shifted his gaze downwards after he said that name, "telling me about them. There was five of them and each one had a power of the four elements plus energy. They also choose a person from each nation to have their powers."

"That's right!" The glasses boy nodded. "You're the host of the Water Tribe's elemental beast, Draciel." He looked over to the sleeping red-head to his right, "Daichi's the host of the Energy Being's elemental beast, Strata Dragoon and Tyson's the one who holds the Air Nomads' elemental beast, Dragoon!" He finished while looked at Tyson.

Max looked at the other elemental holders. He was amazed. So he actually wasn't the only one out there. He figured that the Fire Nation had gotten the others already, but apparently he was wrong. "Sweet! I never thought that I would actually meet you guys. I thought the Fire Nation had already gotten you."

Tyson smirked and turned his head back to the skies before them. "Well, as you can see, they haven't yet."

Max smirked in return. 'Yeah, they certainly haven't.' Sounds of metal dinging against metal came to his ears and he found himself looked back over to the brown-haired kid who told him who everyone was. He noticed that he was once again working diligently on whatever it was he had in his hands. Max slowly became entranced by him working that he almost didn't want to disturb him. But curiosity eventually got the better of him.

"Hey," he spoke, once again causing the boy to look up at him. "What are you working on?"

The boy immediately blushed, obviously not expecting the waterbender to take notice of his work. "Well," he answered sheepishly. "It's just a little something that I've been working on for the past couple of months now."

The waterbender's blue eyes gazed down at the boy's creation. It would've only looked like a hunk of metal put together randomly if he were at a certain distance from it, but from where he was at he could tell that it was bronze metal pieces put together in the form of a lemur.

"A lemur? Why a lemur?" he asked him.

The boy shrugged. "I don't know. I just felt like that was the way that I needed to build it."

"Oh. So what is it supposed to be?"

"It's going to be a device that can store information. I've even given it a personality of its own. Well, it won't exactly have it until I can find a way to make it work." he grinned, scratching the back of his head.

"Hmm. Sounds like you've got your work cut out for you." Max replied back grinning also.

"He-he, pretty much. Oh! I forgot my manners! My name's Kenny," Kenny spoke while stretching out his hand for Max to shake, "but you can call me Chief."

"Okay," Max shook Kenny's hand, "Chief. My name's Max."

Kenny smiled. "Nice to meet you, Max."

Max smiled too. It's nice to have finally found some friends and he could tell that he was going to need them more than ever in the future.

Kai's crimson eyes scanned his supplies. He needed to make absolutely sure that he had everything that they would be using on this bounty hunting trip.
Dual dao swords; check. Medical supplies; check. Food rations; check. Campsite supplies; check. Okay, everything was set. Now it was time to get going. He strapped his swords to his back and heard the door open behind him.

He turned his head to see his partner, Hilary standing in the doorway. He could see that she was prepared as well.

"We headed out?" she asked him.

He nodded and placed the backpack carrying his supplies onto his shoulders. He turned and began walking to the door, signaling their departure. They walked out of their now vacant apartment building and began following the dirt path that led to the docks. Silence enveloped the two characters as they continued on toward their destination. It ended only when their eyes had sighted the boat that they were taking.

They stopped at the edge of the dock before the plank of wood that lead to what was going to be home for however long it took to catch their bounty. The two bounty hunters took in its sorry state. It wasn't as fancy as most boats that came in every now and then (considering as it was a boat that had been last used by a fisherman and the fact that they didn't have enough money to buy one of the fancier models), but it would have to do.

Kai sighed in slight embarrassment and looked back at Hilary. "You ready?"

Hilary shrugged. "As ready as I'll ever be."

Kai nodded and walked onto the boat with Hilary following. They lifted the plank of wood, untied the boat from the dock, and unfurled the sails. Slowly it moved out from the land towards the great expanse of water before them. Their destination was a small town on the edge of the Earth Kingdom where they would search for leads about their bounty; but only if they could survive long enough on this boat to make it there in one piece.