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Chapter 5:Battle of the Tornado

Ty Lee's Pov

Both me and Aang charged at the tornado in front of us. It was huge, amazingly huge. We ran down the street still with debris flying in our faces. The tornado was basically at the edge of the city now and we sped up. As we arrived at the base of the tornado we split up going on different sides of it. I jumped up on a nearby house and focused really hard on air. I closed my eyes and envisioned what I would do. I then opened my eyes and began. I started off with squaring my feet. Then closing my hands together in a praying way I took a deep breath. I flung my arms out to the left and right then smacked them together in the middle. I pulled my whole body back then pushed forward with all my strength and let out an extraordinary amount of wind toward the tornado. I looked up at the enormous tornado. It was being steered away from the town. Aang was at the base letting out small gusts of wind toward it, helping it along. I flipped down off the house and ran to his side immediately helping him. We both ran from left to right letting out gusts of air.

After what seemed hours of fighting off this tornado it finally became smaller and just became a small breeze. People hesitantly emerged from the underground caves looking around at all the damage done. Both Aang and me stood at the edge of town panting and smiling at each other. Right when we thought we would get an applause we heard a scream. "WHAT HAPPENED TO ARE BEAUTIFUL TOWN!" screamed someone down the street. Lots of eyes turned to us and before we knew it a mob had formed. They were mad at us? I looked over at Aang with a confused scared look he just shrugged and looked back at the mob. "What did we do?" I asked Aang. "I guess with some of the air bending we did, we must have destroyed some things." He said. That does sound possible but still couldn't they just be thankful that we saved them. How selfish of them! I looked down on them with disappointment. "What's going on!" Yelled someone from the mob. There was a big roar of talking then it all stopped abruptly when a fireball went up in the air. My eyes opened wide and I looked at Aang. He just held his hand out and I grabbed on. He pulled me in close basically hugging me from behind. He bent his knees and jumped using air to power it. We were jumping from house top to house top. Right when we were basically above the mob someone spotted us and pointed. "Their getting away?" The person screamed. I scanned through the clouds and spotted the fire nation soldiers. Aang noticed too and sped up. "Were going to have to go in the water." He said while trying to stay calm. "Just fill up with as much air as possible then when the time is right I'll move the water off your face so you can breath under water." He said directionally. I nodded and before I knew it we arrived at the docks. It was a small lake but it was the towns only use of water. I thought back to Aang's instructions and filled up with air. I was amazed at how much I was bringing in. I felt Aang' s chest push up against my back and knew he was doing the same. We jumped off the last house from the dock and emerged ourselves in water.

The water was freezing cold and I actually started shivering. Aang noticed and pulled me in closer. I blushed at that. Although he was really skinny he was very strong. Must be the fact that he's an earth bender. Before I knew it he was bending a giant air bubble around us and I let out air. He did as well. It was still freezing even at just below the water. I looked up and saw lots of people gathered on the dock looking for us or waiting. I soon realized that Aang was still holding on to me tightly and blushed again. I looked back up at the water top and noticed the water was moving fiercely. "Aang." I said. "Hmm?" He replied. "Look up." I said while I looked up. His head moved and he was looking up as well. "What could that mean?" I asked. He shrugged. I looked back over at the docks and saw people running off them while pointing over our heads out into the lake. I turned my head in that direction and saw it. There was a huge spinning spiral going deeper and deeper into the lake. I pushed myself up against Aang and he held on tighter. "What do we do?" I asked completely terrified. "I'm going to need to take this one." He blurted out most likely still in shock. I turned around in his arms to face him. "Are you crazy?" I basically yelled at him. "You can only air bend and I can water bend, you need to get out of the water and as far away from this as possible. I have a feeling this is a water tornado and it's a lot stronger than the other one." He said. I looked down and when I faced him again a tear was running down my face. He wiped it away with his thumb and looked at me. I gave him pleading eyes. Trying to beg him not to go. He gave me one last hug and swam out of the air bubble. I started swimming to the top then to the shore.

Aang's Pov

I hate leaving Ty back there but I'm the avatar and that means saving all people. I believe that she will do perfectly fine on her own until I get back. I used water bending to help boost me toward the spiral. I started off by spinning it the other way to slow it down. It only worked slightly but then maintained it's original form. I had to think about this. I need to move the tornado off the water to keep it from using the water. I used the water around me to bring me up to the top of the tornado and then began to push the tornado away with huge amounts of air. It took quiet a while but eventually I moved it on land. The tornado still had some water left so I quickly bent that out of the picture. I then retried to unwind it . This time though I rocketed myself inside the tornado and un did it from the inside. I was spinning so fast though that I was losing air. I slowed down and noticed that the tornado was gone but a giant air ball was suspending me in air. I looked down at the ground and scanned the area for Ty but I couldn't find her. It was such a horrible sight. Tree's were de rooted and there was debris in the water. People were tucked behind buildings and pulling their family's closer. It was an absolutely horrifying sight. I directed my attention away from the town to look for Ty Lee. I brought myself back down to the ground and searched.

After looking for about an hour I decided that I should use Toph's method of seeing. I squared my feet and closed my eyes concentrating on the ground. I felt for movement and received it. The was a grunt and then some crying coming from behind me. I opened my eyes and turned around. No one. "Help!" Came the desperate cry of a girl. I rushed over and there sat Ty Lee. She was buried underneath rocks face down. I quickly moved the rocks off of her and helped her up. As soon as she stood up she fell back down with a cry of pain. I caught her quickly and picked her up bridal style. " My ankle.." Was all she managed to get out between cry's of pain. I looked down at her ankle and noticed it was bleeding, badly. I ran into the town and looked for some sort of medical supplies. I finally found some and laid her down on the ground. I noticed it was a lot more bloodier than before and picked her up again and brought her to the docks. I bent some water out of the lake and washed away the blood. Quickly, I grabbed some medical wrap and tape. I lifted her leg up and began wrapping her ankle. She continually let out screams. I tried to calm her but it didn't work. I just ignored the screams and focused on her ankle. I finished and stood her up. She refused to stand on her right foot though. I just agreed with her and picked her up again. I was surprised no one was attacking us as we walked out of town. Not even a word came out of anyone's mouth. I looked from side to side at all the people and just kept walking forward. I walked up the mountain and arrived at the camp site. I laid Ty in her tent and started to pack up. I got rid of any evidence that we were there before grabbing my glider. When I opened it there were some holes in the wings and the tail wings were completely gone. I looked back at Ty Lee before setting out away to find a replacement for the tail wing.

It was kind of warm outside but still enough to shiver from. I then quickly searched for wood of any sort. There was still some wood left over from where I found the wood for the fire. I quickly grabbed it and placed it down. I picked up a rock and squished it in my hand and opened my hand afterward. I put my fingers an inch away from the tip and bent it straight up into a point. Now after making a knife I began to cut away extra wood. I pulled out my glider and matched up the glider and piece of wood. They were perfect matches. I pulled out some water I brought along and dug up some soil. Quickly I bent a bowl up and put what little soil I had into the bowl and ground it up real fine. Then I added in the water and used a tiny stick to stir them together. I looked up thinking about how this looked. It seemed as if I was on a cooking show… with the element. I grinned at the though but soon turned back to my concoction. "Wha la! Make shift glue!" I exclaimed to myself. I quickly attached the two pieces of wood together and after about five minutes of holding them together let go and froze the water and hardened the soil in the glue. I opened my glider and looked at my handy work. As I admired it I noticed I still had yet to patch. No big deal. I simply took off my sock and ripped it into the needed amount of fabric to help the glider go into flight. I sewed on the fabric for what seemed was hours but was only minutes. I opened the glider ran and before I knew it I was soaring through the air again heading back towards camp. "Hold on Ty, I'm coming" I mumbled to myself. I flew up and down soaring back and forth and sped up.

Zuko's Pov

It was nearly night time and instead of continuing on our journey to find our friends we just ended up being captured ourselves. Turns out the man that I was fighting earlier was an earth bender and single handedly took both Katara and me on. As of right now… well were just being lugged around in cages. Katara and me were put in the same cage. She just sat there and looked down as if in deep thought. Sometimes I really wish I knew what goes on in her head. I have only been traveling with her for a day and noticed that she's always thinking. "Any suggestions on how to escape?" She questioned under her breath while looking up. I shook my head. She returned to staring at the bottom of the cage. We wouldn't have been in this mess up if that earth bender wasn't so good. I looked over at the man that took on Katara and me. He was tall and muscular and obviously the leader of this little gang. Every time someone would report to him they would refer to him as 'general' or 'commander' even 'boss'. I looked away from him up at the sky. It was just sunset and the clouds were glimmering with colors. "It's actually very pretty." Said Katara. She too was looking up at the clouds. She must have noticed me looking. "It sure is.." I answered back.

Her eyes were glassy as if she was about to break down and cry but I noticed it was fear. "Huh." I grunted. She looked over at me clearly confused. I just shrugged and looked down. She looked at me then back at the sky. I often noticed during our travels that she looked at me a lot. I even caught her blushing when I made the fire. "So much for two day travel trip." She said with a slight laugh in her voice. "So we got side tracked. We could take on all these guys." I plainly stated. She just rolled her eyes and grinned. "Hey quite in there you two!" Yelled the man driving. There was some rustling then more talking. "What's going on?" Asked a familiar voice. "Oh nothing boss, the two in the back were just talking to much." Said the driver. I figured that voice was the boss. He came around to the side of the cage. "Hey, you two love birds keep it down. Your distracting the driver." He said with a slight laugh. Love birds? What is he talking about. I looked up at Katara and a look of disgust was on her face. "I'm not that bad looking.." I mumbled underneath my breath. "Huh?" questioned Katara. I just shook my head and looked away. Well if I'm going to be stuck in here mine as well sleep. I laid my head down and dozed off. Soon though I was waken up to a horrible surprise. "Zuko! Zuko, Wake up!" Screamed the voice of Katara.

Ty Lee's Pov

I was dreaming I knew I was. Everything is too beautiful for it to be real. I was in a field of colors. Flowers were dancing in the breeze and the sky was filled with nice puffy clouds, what a sight. My hair was down and blowing right along with the flowers. I looked down and noticed I was standing on my right foot and there was no pain. My ankle was better. I took a step forward and really got a good look at everything. Yellow tulips were a thin liner of the field and white and red roses filled in with speckles of violets all around. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I closed my eyes and inhaled, smelling all of the flowers in the field. I fell to the floor and curled up feeling better than ever. I stood up on my hands and began to dance around in the field. Then at the peak of my happiness fire began to sweep through the field and the gentle wind became fierce, whipping my hair into my face. My eyes flipped open and I was soaring through the sky, someone holding me close, I figured it was Aang and settled into his arms. The winds stayed fierce as if I was still in the burning field of flowers. It was extremely hot and it was beginning to rain. I looked forward finding it hard to keep my eyes open with the rain pelting my face and noticed that the dark clouds extended all over the sky. "It's a good thing your finally awake." Came Aang voice in my ear. He was talking right into my ear over the wind. "Why?" I semi yelled to him. I noticed that the glider was rebuilt for two people because of the long bar in the middle. "When I came back after you passed out I noticed that there were some fire nation soldiers coming toward you. They were far off but close enough. I grabbed you quickly but they saw me as I took off into the sky." Aang said kind of ashamed. I guess that would explain the fire balls flying past us. I stole a glance behind us and noticed about 5 fire nation blimps gaining on us. "What are we going to do about them?" I yelled to Aang. I glanced back at the blimps as well and he became anxious and sped up. "When we started flying there was only two!" He yelled. All I know is that we needed to land. I noticed some mountains and scanned them for a quick and easy escape route. "Down there!" I yelled as I pointed to cave down in the mountains. Aang pointed the glider straight down and I screamed. He pulled up right before we crashed into a tree and dove into the cave. I fell off the glider when we got and the cave and ended up scraping my knee. I stood up on my left foot and hopped over to the edge of the cave and looked up at the blimps. They had gone in several directions one was right over head and I jumped inside the cave and bumped into Aang. He fell over just as I turned around. "Whoa, I'm so sorry!" I exclaimed as I placed my hands over my mouth. He picked himself up and shrugged. I hopped over to him and dusted off his shoulders. He grinned at me and I gave him a sheepish smile. He noticed I was still standing / hopping on one foot and bent a stool. He held out his hand and I took it. He helped me over to the chair and after I sat he made his own chair. I looked down at my ankle and I swear horror must have over come my face. It was medically wrapped but the whole cast was red with blood. I knew that it was bad but I didn't think it was this bad. I must have passed out while Aang was carrying me back to camp. "How's your ankle feeling?" he asked probably seeing my expression after looking at my ankle. "It hurts a lot." I said softly. I looked outside and noticed that it was sunset. "Were going to need a fire." I said. Aang looked out side and nodded. "I'll be back soon with some wood." He said while he stood up and started out of the cave.

It had been about 10 min since Aang left and I was beginning to become bored. I noticed that he was able to save the food basket and I basically dove for it. I landed on my stomach with the basket inches from my hand. I extended my arm farther and just grabbed the basket. I pulled it in close and returned back to my seat awkwardly. I opened the basket and looked at what food was in the basket. There was some fruit and vegetables on one side and then on the other side were all the meats. I really wanted to eat one but I would have to cook it first and there was no fire. I pulled out a fruit and was about to take a bite when I heard something. It sounded like music. No whistling. No not even that, it was talking. I hid behind my tiny stool and watched as a group of people came into the cave. They ranged from very old people all the way to a tiny 5 year old. "We'll have camp here!" Exclaimed a muscular man. He seemed like he was the leader or something. It appeared that there were about 30 people crowding into the cave. I was surprised none of them noticed me. In a matter of minutes there were tents being set up all over the cave. Fires sprout everywhere and the cave became loud with talking. I was still watching these people when I saw Aang walk in. He noticed the people and quickly looked for me. I waved my hand and he dove over to me. He dropped a piece of wood but I caught it just before it hit the ground. "What's going on in here?" He whispered. I shrugged and quickly grabbed his hand. I was shaking crazily and I was scared at the same time. Aang pulled me closer to him and quietly made a wall that extended about 10 feet across. He closed the end closest to the strange people but left the one open that was the cave opening. "We can't leave yet, its beginning to rain." He said while looking at me closely. I dropped my head and leaned up against the cave wall. We were stuck in here where these people could easily find us. Aang came and sat next to meet and put a reassuring arm around me. "Just try to sleep, if anyone finds us I'll.." his voice trailed off. I just nodded and leaned into him. I felt his head on mine and dozed off.

I'm soooooo sorry about the lateness about posting this chapter! I have been caught up in school and doing homework.

In other news though… I hope to be posting within 2 weeks time. Just keep up and check back often for another chapter! I hope to be getting some reviews on this chapter!

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