Author comment; Aaaaand here is another chapter!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~*`~~: Chapter Four :~~`*~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"JIN!" Ally, Tane, Kin, Tom, Lyra and Damien yelled. Ally jumped into the air and shot into the water. It was freezing, but that was because they were still in arctic waters.

Ally looked around and spotted the bright orange fabric of Jin's clothing; she moved the bubbles around under her bare feet and propelled herself toward Jin, who was sinking rapidly. Her arm wrapped around Jin's waist and she air bended the air from her mouth and over Jin's nose and mouth. She wasn't about to let Monk Gyasto down.

She started swimming to the surface, her mind going foggy with the lack of oxygen, her mind flashing to when Monk Afiko had suffocated her. Suddenly a red blur was coming towards them, Ally's eyes widened as Prince Zuko came into view, he took Jin and started to help pull the unconscious girl towards the surface.

Ally let go and Zuko shot her a confused and slightly angry look; Ally ignored it and used the rest of the air around them, she created a small disk of air under Zuko's feet and lunched him and Jin upward. Ally started to sink, her mind shutting down. She saw that the disk had lunched the pair out of the water with a slight smile; Jin was safe.

"Jin!" Tane shouted in relief, as Tom and Lyra let him go. Tane skidded to Jin's side and checked for a pulse, it was very faint. Lyra moved to Jin's other side and pushed air into Jin's lungs then sucking it back out, pushed in then sucked out, - then Jin spewed out a heap of water, coughing like no tomorrow.

"Where's Ally?" Kin asked.

They turned wide eyed to the ocean, which remained calm after the commotion. "No..." Tom said weakly.

Splash, Whoosh! Ally burst out of the water in a tornado of air and landed on the ship in a gracefully crouch; her thunder bird tattoos burning a bright white, she turned to her fellow air benders and lunched them onto Snow-fire, who took off into the sky. Ally followed with an easy dodge of a spear and flipped onto Snow-fire's head. The flying lemurs following with the cat owl in the lead.

Zuko and Iroh watched silently as they flew away, "What do you want us to do Prince Zuko?" Asked one of the guards.

"We have no obligation going after the Air Benders." Zuko replied. Iroh smiled in approval, "We need this ship repaired then we go after the Avatar." Iroh's smile dropped with a heavy sigh.

Ally watched silently as Jin let Koiki put itchy paste onto the nasty burn in the middle of her back, "That looks painful." Audrey winced.

"That's why we try to keep you lot out of harm's way." Ally said quietly to the four year old, "That's what happens, or worst - even the best of us can get burnt." Ally waved to her shoulder and foot. Aurdery winced at the red scaly burns that marked Ally's body.

The sun sunk below the horizon, "Where are we going Ally?" Damien asked.

"The Air Spirit told me to go to the Northern Air Temple." Ally said, "Then he told me to look for Aang."

"Woh! Back up! What?" Tom asked wide eyes.

"The Air Spirit told me to take you all to the Northern Air Temple." Ally repeated, "Then to look for Aang."

"The Air Spirit told you?" Kin said curiously.

"How?" Tane asked

Ally shook her head, "I'm just as confused as you all are." she whispered.

The stars twinkled down on them as they continued onwards, Lyra shivered as the coldness of night started to seep through their thin clothing. "But I though only the Avatar could talk to the spirits..." Lyra said thoughtfully.

"Maybe it had something to do with Ally being possessed by the Air Spirit?" Damien offered as he started assuring the others into sleeping bags.

"Maybe..." Ally murmured, "But I suppose I've always been connected to spiritual stuff... The visions for one thing." And being contacted by Avatar Roku... Ally though pensively.

"Maybe you're a spirit in the form of a human? Like the Avatar?" Sophie asked, she was sitting by Malu and Aurdery, her eyes wide with excitement.

Ally shook her head quickly, "The Monk's would know if I was a spirit in human form... They would have told me the same day they told Aang about..." Ally trailed off with a slightly bitter scowl. Aang didn't deserve the pressure they dumped on him at the age of twelve... "Besides," Ally continued, "The visions run through the family."

Ally glanced at Sophie, who shook her head; she hadn't had any visions... yet. Not that Ally expected so; she didn't get her visions until she was nine.

Ally grimaced in sadness... a hundred years... "The Air Spirit also told me something else..."

"What is it?" Tane asked as Koiki started to bandage the bleeding old burns.

"It's been a hundred years since we were frozen..."

"WHAT?" nearly everyone gasped.

"-But... how could Aang have... what?" Lyra and Tom stumbled in shock.

"Aang was frozen like us." Ally said looking down.

"Did the Air Spirit..." asked Damien, his voice trailing off.

Ally shook her head, "It was a vision." she confirmed. Aurdery yawned. "To bed everyone." Ally heard herself call instinctively.

She got up and tucked in everyone on Snow-fire - besides the Air bending masters, who was also helping in putting everyone to bed. - Ally jumped off Snow-fire and onto a bison. After tucking those occupants in their own sleeping bags Ally skipped across to the next bison to do the same; completely ignoring the height they were at.

The Air Masters came back to Snow-fire after they had tucked everyone in; Koiki joined the Air Master group.

"We've already been to the North Air Temple, so what so special about it?" Tom asked, "No offence." He added to Tane.

"None taken, I'm rather curious as to why we need to go there." Tane looked at Ally for the answers only she had.

Ally shrugged, "The Air Spirit just said that it was going to be the safest place for me to leave you."

"So as soon as we get there you're going to look for Aang?" Jin asked while she laid down on her front, not wanting her injury to hurt too much.

Ally shrugged, "It's what The Air Spirit wants me to do..."

"Shouldn't we stick together?" Koiki said. "I thought we had already been through this, we cant be separated."

Ally looked away from the group, "I know, but Koiki; you're needed with the group and Damien, Kin, Jin, Tom and Tane need to stay with the young ones to train and protect them. It only makes sense for me to go; at least I know you'll be safe at the Northern Air Temple."

"What makes the Northern Air Temple so safe?" Tane asked, "We left because it was attacked!"

"It's been a hundred years." Ally said calmly, "think about it; we are the last Air benders, if we were frozen for all this time people would have thought we are be extinct, they'd have no reason to be at the Air Temples."

Damien looked at Ally silently, "Are you sure that you should go alone."

Ally nodded, "It would be the easiest way, besides The Air Spirit wants me to find Aang so I will, and I can't drag you all over the world, it would be unfair to the younger ones." She inclined her head to Sophie, Malu and Audrey then to the babies. "They deserve normality after all this craziness. And one person leaving wont impact them too much."

"Don't be stupid Ally;" Tom waved off, "They would be heartbroken if you leave. They love and respect you."

Ally nodded sadly and tried to avoid looking at her little cousin, "I know, but this is something I have to do."

The others looked at each other hopelessly, "Just don't leave straight away. Let them get use to the idea."

Ally nodded, "Of course."

"Wow," Tane said suddenly, his eyes sparkling.

"What? What is it?" Lyra asked.

"I haven't cleaned my room in 100 years..." Tane said thoughtfully, then he grinned. "Not looking forward to that..."

They laughed in amusement, but it was mainly because Tane's grin and laughter was contagious.