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Author Note: No, I am not dead…. I wonder how many people thought this update was a mistake…

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~*`~~: Chapter Fourteen: ~~`*~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It's amazing what could happen in just half a week. In that half a week; Aang, Ally, Katara and Sokka managed to free an earth kingdom village run by fire nation's soldiers.

Oh, and Ally lost her necklace. But that was over a day ago, now Ally had other problems to deal with.

Example; how to get away from an angry forest spirit that kidnapped her because its forest was burnt to the ground.

Well, Ally thought, at least I found the missing villagers. Her stormy blue eyes looked over at them, they looked quite plainly terrified. Strangely, Ally wasn't that scared, there was a soothing feel about the spirit world, though it wasn't what Ally thought it would look like, it looked like a swamp of strange yet magnificent creatures. Ally looked over at Hei-Bai, the spirit that kidnapped her. Though, Ally couldn't bring herself to regret her actions.

"That's it! He needs help!" Sokka said, and then he ran outside to where Aang was trying to reason with Hei-Bai.

Katara shouted after him, "Sokka wait!" she tried to follow but was held back by one of the villages.

Ally however dodged the villagers trying to stop her and ran out side, planning on dragging Sokka back by the ears, she brought out her fighting fans and flipped them open.

"Hei-Bai! Over here!" Sokka called at the angry spirit, he raised his boomerang, poised to attack. He threw the boomerang at the black and white spirit, to an obvious no effect. Hei-Bai charged at him.

"Sokka you idiot!" Ally shouted at him, then automatically she slipped into a fighting stance and twirled her fans in a wide arc, causing air to wrap around Sokka and yanked him towards her, she dodged his figure and then tried to dodge Hei-Bai. But dodging a spirit the size of a house was no easy task, add that it has four arms, near impossible.

And so here she was, in the spirit world, a place older then time; the first world to be born. She'd have to remember to kick Sokka in the ass, for being so stupid.

They, she and the villagers, were on a large circler pedestal, which was surrounded by swamp water; the forest trees had a never ending canopy and various sounds came from the shadows.

Ally sighed heavily again. "Is everyone alright?"

"I'm scared," a boy younger then Aurdry confessed. Ally gave a small reassuring smile at the young boy and gave him a small hug of comfort.

"It'll be alright." She told him gently.

"I need to go to the bathroom." An old man said grumpily.

Ally grimaced. Suddenly Hei-Bai growled and Ally automatically shifted her body in front of the villages and pulled the young boy behind her, despite the fact that she couldn't Air Bend in the spirit world, she had tried that already.

Hei-Bai was growling at something beyond the shadowy forest. Ally narrowed her eyes as three glowing figures came closer, each had a different colour; red, green and blue.

The colours of the elements; the Air Spirit, of course, was missing, sharing her body and all that. The element spirits all had large white glowing eyes, swirling with intense power.

They exited from the trees with out a single sound, "Calm your self Hei-Bai," said the Earth spirit in a deep tone, which rumbled with bottomless power. Ally swore Hei-Bai shivered, then to her amazement the forest spirit backed down. The spirits looked small next to the house sized spirit.

The fire spirit looked at Ally analytically, its white eyes unrelenting. She forcefully held her eyes to meet the gaze. It was like staring into the sun, without the eyes burning. "So, Storm, you've decided to bond with a mortal. Join a human's war. I don't approve of your actions - but I approve of you're choice." The fire spirits voice was like a crackle of hissing flames.

Ally was slightly confused, then suddenly a bubbling energy spread through her and what came out of her own mouth was a voice that sounded childlike, cheerful yet strangely powerful with a misty kind of tone, "I'm glade to see you too Agni, Boldern, Rain."

Ally suddenly understood, it was the Air Spirit, Storm, who had spoken.

"It's been too long." Rain murmured in the sound of trickling water that held both sharpness and coldness of ice.

"A hundred years!" Storm replied from Ally's mouth, still sounding ebullient.

"This reunion is touching." Boldern interrupted, "But to business.-"

"Always straight to the point." Storm laughed. "Some things never change."

Boldern didn't answer, merely stared. "That mortal has idled your mind." He said eventually.

"Have not." Ally frowned.

Though the spirits were small compared to Hei-Bai; that didn't mean that they weren't tall, she probably looked like a toddler in their shimmering white eyes.

Rain and Agni laughed.

"So the mortal speaks!" Rain chortled.

"I was wondering how long it would take." Agni snickered.

Ally's head cocked to the side, and the air spirits voice spoke through her lips. "I wouldn't be surprised if you bonded recently Agni, you're in a good mood of sorts."

Agni looked furious; Ally took an involuntary step back. "It's Koh; that bloody face thieving centipedes fault! He idled with Sozin's mind into thinking that the fire nation should 'share' their peace! What bull crap!" Agni spat. Then he smirked in satisfaction, "That's enough temper for one day."

Ally was somewhat reminded of Kuzon when he was once angry with his parents.

"Have you been able to find him?" Storm said, suddenly sounding very serious.

"Obviously not." Agni growled. "And to top it off the mortals have forgotten the true meaning of fire bending."

"Storm we need to discuss the solstice." Boldern interrupted. "It's just around the corner and every spirit is going to try and go to the mortal world to be apart of this war."

"I cannot help, Boldern," Storm sighed, "Ally has duties in the physical world."

"This is why you shouldn't bond with a human." Agni said sternly. "Especially one who has a destiny."

"What was I suppose to do? Let them die?" Storm snapped harshly. Suddenly a thicket of bamboo grew at an alarming rate, engulfing the villages, Ally's eyes widened with alarm but reassurance swept through her. Storm continued in a more pleasant, happy tone. "I'll send my thunder birds to help keep peace. I'll see you all soon."

Suddenly Ally felt weak as the energy that came with Storm receded. She stumbled though the thicket and emerged to see the village.

"Ally!" Aang shouted, running into her and gave her a bone crushing hug.

Ally laughed, "High Aang, good to see you."

Aang let out a shaky laugh and let go, Katara nearly knocked Ally over in a hug of her own.

"Great spirits!" Ally laughed, "It hasn't been that long has it?"

"You were trapped in the Spirit world for twenty-four hours!" Katara exclaimed.

Ally frowned, "Really? It felt shorter then that. Like five hours."

Aang nodded, "Yeah the times are different in the spirit world."

Ally nodded then grimaced, "Ummm…. I need to go to the bathroom."

"Aren't there toilets in the spirit world?" Sokka asked.

"Nope." Ally said. Before being yanked into a hug by Sokka.

"Don't you ever get dragged off by an angry spirit monster again!" Sokka said with all seriousness in the world. Ally wacked him over the head when he let go while Katara elbowed him. "Ow! What was that for?"

"For running into danger so stupidly." Ally said. "I was going to drag you inside by the ears if that spirit hadn't of taken me."

Sokka winced, "Sorry."

"At least you didn't pull a miniature air bender during a rescue." Ally said, remembering the time when the young rebellious lot of the Air Benders snuck onto a war ship and ruined the Air Masters surprise attack for a rescue mission. "Now I really need to use the bathroom." She said and ran off towards the nearest toilet.

When she returned Katara and Sokka looked horrified. "What's up?" Ally asked, "Please don't tell me Aang told you about the time when Monk Afiko threw me and Aang off a cliff when we played a prank on him."

"We could, but then we'd be lying." Sokka said in a slightly high voice.

Ally turned to Aang expectantly. "I think I've found a way to contact Roku's spirit. There's a temple on a crescent shaped island, and if I go there on the solstice I'll be able to speak with him."

"The solstice is tomorrow." Ally said, "And I don't know any 'crescent shaped island'… Except…" Ally's eyes widened as the realization hit her. "Oh, monkey crap!"

Aang nodded, "The Island is in the Fire Nation."

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