Half way there! And it only took me... 2 years (I started in 7th grade and I'm now in 9th) I figured that since the last chapter wasfairly long, I could make this one shorter.
Party!
Chapter 5: The Four Elements
As Lisa's horse reared up, she realized that she wouldn't be able to stay on so she jumped back as far away from Umaneroku as possible. She landed safely, but her unicorn fled.
"I'm so sorry about that," the kid said, reaching a hand down to help her up. Now that the kid wasn't speeding around she could actually see who he his. If nothing else, the blue arrow gave it away.
Lisa grabbed onto the airbender's hand. He pulled her upright with a little help from his airbending.
"I'm Aang," he said, bowing.
"Do you, by any chance, know where we are?" an older boy walked over to the group, not taking his eyes off the map he was holding.
"This place won't be on any map," Lisa said. Sokka looked up at her skeptically. "You could say this is like the spirit world. There's no direct doorway or passage into here, and it's not a part of any world. Unfortunately, just as there's no direct way into here, there is no direct way out."
"Aang," a voice called over from a group of tents. "Introductions?" The owner of the voice, along with two other girls and two boys, walked over to stand behind Aang and Sokka.
"Right. This is Sokka, Toph, Katara, Zuko, Iroh, and Suki," Aang motioned to all of them in turn.
Lisa did the same, pointing out the members of her group.
"What are these animals?" Suki asked, eyeing Phantom. Alex looked beyond surprised that someone wouldn't know what a horse was.
"They're horses," Lisa explained.
"Ostrich-horses?" Toph asked, tilting her head slightly.
"Just horses," Lisa replied, shrugging.
"You remember the Earth King's bear, right? Same idea," Jeremy said, bringing Komiko up by Phantom.
"What about the ones with horns? Are they horses, too?" Zuko asked, pointing at Komiko's horn.
"The ones with horns are called unicorns, and the one with wings is a Pegasus," Alex explained.
"Let me guess, you were transported here when you walked out of your tents?" Jeremy asked, swinging one leg over Komiko's neck so that he was sitting sideways in the saddle. Apparently his legs were starting to ache from riding his horse so much.
"That's right," Iroh chimed in. "Everything in our tents are here, but nothing we left outside. I knew I shouldn't have left my teapot on the fire pit."
"Let's take another break from riding," Lisa suggested. Truthfully, she just wanted to spend some time with the Avatar characters. Too bad Jet isn't one of them.
"Good idea," Ashley commented, sliding off of Tenba. Everyone else groaned from sore legs as they slid off of their horses. Toby winced from the cuts on his back.
"Toby, I think you should've gone with the cobweb. You're bleeding again," Lisa pointed out, looking at the slowly growing red mark on the back of Toby's shirt.
Aang took notice and turned to Katara. "I know you can heal burns, but what about cuts?"
"I've never done it before, but I can try." She motioned for Toby to follow her to one of the tents.
"Another healing session?" Toby groaned.
"Just go. This won't be as bad as the Warriors one. And if it works, you won't even have a scar," Lisa told him. She would've given him a little push, but she didn't want to hurt him even more. It's one thing to inflict a little pain that will go away in a minute; it's another to take pre-existing pain and make it worse.
Toby slowly followed Katara into the tent as Ashley walked up to Lisa. "Once again, our entertainment is gone," Ashley sighed.
"If he's healed, he'll be more fun to pick on. If Katara's waterbending doesn't work, though, be careful if you're going to torment him. He hates us enough as it is," Lisa warned Ashley. Even though she was being serious, the two couldn't help but to start giggling. Nothing can be taken absolutely serious when it's about Toby.
"You know everything else about this world. Do you know the way out?" Zuko asked, a little annoyed.
"Unfortunately, no," Lisa replied, crossing her arms.
"Well, remember the prophecy? Six of seven will light your way," Kelsey added.
"And when Spottedleaf was talking to Onestar, she said that we were "the key" and that the clans had to work together," Ashley pointed out.
"Wait, you lost me at 'prophecy,'" Sokka said, pointing at Kelsey and Alex.
"Don't even try. I don't fully understand either; it's Warriors stuff," Jeremy told Sokka, who was still confused.
"But I am a warrior!" Sokka protested, now pointing at himself as the girls started giggling.
"Not that kind of warrior. They're cats. Just listen to Jeremy and stop trying to understand," Lisa said, still with amusement in her voice.
"Then what was the point of this conversation?" Zuko still seemed very annoyed. Any more and he'll probably start randomly firebending.
"The point was that even though we don't know exactly how to get out of here, we have a few clues that might help," Alex said in kind of a bored voice. As she spoke, she didn't move from her spot, leaning up on Phantom.
Katara and Toby made their way back to the group. Toby's expression was, for the most part, unreadable. At least he wasn't wincing every step. The healing had to have helped some.
"So, did it work?" Aang asked the waterbender.
"Not as well as when I heal burns, but it helped. It's going to be sore for a bit, and there'll be a mark, but at the latest it'll be healed by tomorrow," she informed anyone who was listening, which was, actually, most of the people there.
"Well, I think we're ready to start riding for a bit more," Kelsey suggested.
"That means I'll have to call Umaneroku again," Lisa commented. She, once again, sang Unwritten. Umaneroku came galloping; apparently he had calmed down quite a bit from when Aang scared him. Everyone mounted no problem. They were probably getting used to it by now.
"Bye, guys. I'll let you know when we have any other hints on how to get out of here," Lisa called back to the Avatar group as they rode away, closer to the house.
Not much time had passed when the group came upon a mouse and an orange cat.
"More surprises?" Jeremy groaned.
"Wait, aren't they…? Lisa started to ask Alex, until she saw her expression. Apparently, she was thinking the same thing.
If you haven't noticed, I like to use character-introducing cliffhangers. It gives me somewhere to start with my next chapter. Tht's the reason it's taking so long to update my Nicktoons story; it's so seperated, I didn't know where to start for the next chapter.