Author; HOLY HELL! I am so sorry for making you guys wait so long... It's been a bloody week! How the hell can I make up for not updating? A week's worth of chapters? BIG COOKIES? Gosh I am so sorry...

*Dodges fire balls*

Author; I said sorry! Anyway I was getting use to going back to school after a lazy holiday; the updates will be few and far between for this month. *Dodges fireballs* Okay I'll think of something...

Year 10 sucks.

Anyway enough of my pleadings for forgiveness, on with the chapter!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~*`~~:Chapter Five:~~`*~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The sun shyly rose into the air slowly, chasing away the inky black with golden blue. Casting a light pink and red on the silvery white clouds. Ally awoke with a large yawn and rubbed the sleep from her stormy blue orbs. She scanned the mountains for any features that looked familure, trying to determine how far they had travelled. By the looks of it; they would reach their destination in a few more hours.

Not bad flying.

Ally got up and looked at the others, they were still soundly asleep, Jin and Tane were snuggled together and Ally grinned at them, she knew they were in love. Ally looked around and spotted her staff with relief, shame she had lost her Kyoshi fans; they had served her well in battle.

She jumped off Snow-fire's head, free falling, enjoying the cold wind that tangling her long brown hair, and whipped around her face. She twirled her staff around into glider mode and swooped up with a whirl of laughter, rising to meet and ride along side Snow-fire. Who growled playfully, her amber eyes looking at Ally with amusement?

Suddenly two lemurs swooped around Ally, with chittering that sounded like laughter. Tom's laughter reached Ally's ears and she turned her glider sideways, looking at him with a huge smile she hadn't had in ages. It was always a reassuring smile or gentle smile or laughing at a joke, but this; this was a playful, happy, carefree grin she hadn't used in a long while.

Tom grinned and grappled his own staff, twirling it into glider mode and leaped into the air. Ally's grin turned into a competitive smile which was returned with a cocky 'take on the world' grin.

Ally flew a head of the group and Tom followed, the game Sky Tag was on; Ally looped backwards and came up behind Tom, who dived and swooped up towards Ally, who barely dodged to the right but laughing all the same. By then most of the flying lemurs were flying around them.

They twirl around each other in a controlled dive, pulling up at the last second before they hit a side of a mountain. After time some others joined in the game; Kin, Damien, Lyra, Koiki, Hori, Keoni, Malu and Hika laughed as they swooped each other. Tane and Jin joined in later.

They flew back to land on their respected flying animal. The two lemurs from earlier perched on one of Ally's shoulders.

"They really like you Ally!" laughed Sophie, as the girl patted her cat owl. Ally gave a half smile; it was Nomad traitition that if a lemur/s became attached to you they would be named by the owner. Lemurs made very loyal, intelligent pets, looks like two faces where going to join her and Snow-fire.

"what are you going to name them?" Audrey asked excitedly.

Ally looked at the one on her shoulder, its fur was snow white, with cute a black face, which held large blue eyes. Her other shoulder held a completely black furry lemur, its large round eyes had a stunning green colour.

Ally looked at the white one again, "Nyx, is the white one." Large blue eyes blinked before chittering approvingly. Ally looked at the pure black furry one with the large green eyes. "Neo is the black one." Ally said. Green eyes sparkled in approval.

"Those are nice names." Lyra said approvingly.

"Thanks." Ally grinned.

"Look!"

Ally looked up and was promptly astounded; The Northern Air temple had people gliding around the temple on gliders, the Temple had smoke rising in lazy spirals from a couple places among the towers.

"Are they flying!" Audrey exclaimed his question in delight.

Ally frowned in disappointment. "No, gliding maybe; but not flying. You can tell by the way they move."

The younger faces turned from hopeful to disappointment.

"I thought you said there wouldn't be anyone at the Air temples." Tom said in amusement.

"I never said that." Ally shot back.

"Oh, not directly; 'they'd have no reason to be at the Air Temples' that's enough to say people wouldn't be here." Tom smiled teasingly.

"Argument able at best." Ally mumbled. Tom sniggered in amusement, followed by the other Master Air-benders.

Laughter suddenly echoes around them, Ally looked around and spotted the owner of the laugh; it was a teenage boy wearing amber goggles and seated in a glider built out of a wheelchair. Ally watched unimpressed as the boy does a few fancy gliding around them, and is soon joined by a few dozen other gliders.

Ally gently air bended a glider away before it could swoop them, looking a little amused at their joyous laughter while in the air. If they think gliding was fun they should try it while air bending, Ally thought. "Alright everyone! land your bison! We don't want to be surrounded."

"Do you think we could play sky bison polo, Ally?" Sophie asked excitedly.

"Sure Sophie!" Ally laughed.

Snow-fire and the rest of the bison landed with an easy grace outside the temple. The teenager with the wheelchair glider settled down for a landing, skidding up to Ally, who just jumped off Snow-fire's back, he stopped just in front of Ally. Four people rushed up to him to remove the gliders wings.

"Hey! You're a REAL air benders!" The boy exclaimed in surprise and awe, "One of you must be the Avatar! This is amazing! I, I, I've heard stories about the air benders."

Ally shook her head, "No, the Avatar isn't with us. But we are air-benders."

"Wow." He said looking at them all. "I'm Teo, by the way."

"I'm Ally." Ally said smiling, then introduce everyone else. The two lemurs jumped onto her shoulders, Ally laughed, "And these two are Neo and Nyx, Flying lemurs. And this is Snow-fire, my Flying Ermine-wolf."

"Neat." Teo said in awe at the animals. "Come on, I'll show you around." he wheeled around and entered the temple, the air benders following silently. Ally's eyes brimmed in tears and Sophie gasped in disgust, Tane looked positively heartbroken. The main room for meditating had changed completely, what was once a beautiful room, decorated by thousands of generation was now dominated by a jungle of steam-powered machinery with many wheels, gears and pipes.

A beautiful statue of an air bender monk is dirty and befouled as does the rest of the room. Shafts of sunlight do filter in, but the steam and dust make it look shadowy.

Tom and Damien look positively angry, Tane had absolute disgust written all over his face. "My Dad is the mastermind behind this whole place! Everything's powered by hot air. It even pumps hot air currents outside to give us a lift when we're gliding." He said to them.

"This is... I can't find the words." Ally said, she wrinkled her nose in disgust at the once brilliant water fountain that had turned ghastly, with green gloop swirling in the water.

"Yeah, it's great isn't it?" said Teo, misreading Ally's tone.

"No," Tane said harshly, "It's horrible."

"Goes beyond horrible." Sophie said shakily, and burying her face in Ally's clothing. Ally picked her up, and Nyx snuggled up to Sophie while Neo curled around Ally's neck, Sophie hid her face in under Ally's chin, small wet tears stained Ally's yellow shawl.

Tane walked off sullenly and Ally hurried after him, along with everyone else. Teo looked shocked and confused.

Tane walked through a hallway that has pipes all around them; the wall was dirty and had a mural of the Sky Bison and Ermine Wolves doing an Air dance. Ally saw Tane gritting his teeth, "This is supposed to be the history of our people."

"Is there anything in the Temple that has remained the same?" Ally hissed harshly to Teo, who recoiled at her harsh stormy blue stare.

"There is the main courtyard." Teo said uncomfortably. "And there is this door which has Air bender locks."

Ally stared at him and closed her eyes, trying to meditating and calming her being.

"Teo! Someone told me that you were showing visitors around." Ally opened her eyes and looked at a middle aged man who had a bald head and weird patches of pointy hair on either side of his head. His right eye has a monocle. And his clothing was a green tunic mostly covered by the white smock.

"Hi dad." Teo mumbled.

Tane whirled around to face the man, his anger evident in his eyes. "You're the one who has destroyed this place!" He shouted, moving into an air bending stance, his staff held out in attack mode. "This is a sacred temple! You can't treat it this way. I've lived here when the monks were here!"

"When you lived here...? But your sixteen!" Teo's dad said in shock.

"Dad they... umm..."

"We were frozen a hundred years ago, just after the fire nation's first attack." Ally said stonily, though she was rather angry.

Not as angry as Tane was though, "What are you doing? Who said you could be here?" He asked, stepping menacingly toward the man.

The man looked away in sadness, "Hmmm...A long time ago, but not a hundred years, my people became refugees after a terrible flood; my son, Teo, was badly hurt and lost his mother. I needed somewhere to rebuild and I stumbled across this place. Couldn't believe it! Everywhere pictures of flying people. But empty! Nobody home! Then I came across these fanlike contraptions!"

Ally narrowed her eyes, "Our gliders," she stated with poorly hidden anger.

"Exactly Yes; they gave me an idea. Build a new life for my son, in the air! Then everyone would be on equal ground, so to speak! We're just in the process of improving upon what's already here and after all, isn't that what nature does?"

Ally held out a hand to stop Tane from air bending the man into the wall.

"Nature knows when to stop." Ally said in annoyance.

The man nodded in self disappointment, looking at the once amazing mural, "I suppose that's true. Unfortunately, progress has a way of getting away from us."

Tane forcefully made himself calm down, "You can continue on the work you have done... but the places you haven't touched, stays untouched." the last part was laced in warning.

"Of course." Teo's dad said regretfully.

Tane had somewhat calm down at midday and was teaching a few air bending moves and tactics to the children in the main courtyard. This had, thankfully, remained untouched. The Sky Bison were lounging around the courtyard while the lemurs were playing in the air or with the refugees' children. Lyra had found a few furry mountain crabs and teaching Sophie, Malu and Audrey how to care for them.

Ally was watching Teo fly around, a hand landed on her shoulder, she looked up and saw Damien. "Even though Teo's not an air bender, he really does have the spirit of one." Ally said watching the gliding, now a little impressed.

"I guess he does." Tane said walking up to them. "He said that the door to the inner air temple has remained closed."

"Let's go and see it!" Damien suggested.

"We should take Teo along... sort of to say, you know... sorry, for how we reacted." Ally said.

Tane looked sheepish.

"I can't believe I'm finally going to see what's inside!" said Teo excitedly. "Thank you." he said to Ally.

Ally blushed in embarrassment, "We're sorry for how we acted earlier."

"That's okay; I probably would have acted the same way." Teo admitted.

Ally scooped down and gave him a hug, "You'll be amazed at this room, it's a tribute place to all the Avatar's. It's called the temple Sanctuary." She let him go and slipped into her air bending stance.

"That's so cool!" Teo said in awe.

Ally laughed while she nodded then took a deep breath; rotating her wrists she started to gather as much air as possible, then stepped forwards, thrusting her palms towards each horn that had the air hole, two jets of air came forth and up the shoots. The air runs through the tubes and one by one flips the air symbols from the blue sides which had been showing, to the maroon sides which had been facing the interior of the temple. As each turns, it flips another mechanism on the outside of a door, the door swang open.

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