"Let's start with air. Now I want you to-oof!"

He never got to finish. I decided to have some fun and show him just how powerful I had become. He seemed to be indestructible anyway so I decided to test the theory.

So I picked him up and threw him into a tree.

I concentrated on keeping a straight face as both Aaron and Leslie blinked at me.

I couldn't keep my laughter in for very long though.

Feeling and controlling the air was almost as natural as breathing.

More often than not though I put too much vigor into whatever I was doing. Besides that, I was in complete control of the air. I could distinguish between what was the bending ability and what was naturally me.

Aaron didn't like the laughing so much. Eventually, as I was on my back laughing, I felt him get up and stomp over to me. I smiled to myself. Just when he was about to lean over me, I flipped up and over his head, feet first, did a little flip at the top and landed standing up facing him on the other side.

He whipped around in shock and stared at me while I tried to smile innocently.

"What…When…I don't…how did you do that?" He managed to get out after a few moments.

"I'm a bit better at air then I let on. Like this last week before crazy redhead. You weren't gone. You were there at the house the whole time. Even when I read the note. You were just hiding. But I knew you were there. I could feel you in the house."

Both starred at me before Leslie spoke up. "So, you've already mastered air then?"

"Oh, no. I've still got work to do. Like usually I would have gone a lot higher in my little stunt. My problem usually is how much air to use at certain times. But besides that, I've pretty much got it down. Oh, and I can tell if someone is in a room before I've entered it. I can feel just about everything. I think that's how I can hear you even when you're clear across the room."

After several minutes of stunned silence, Leslie once again spoke up.

"Bella, I don't think you actually hear us."

I raised my eyes at her. Did she think I was making all this up?

She quickly picked up on my confusion and skepticism and quickly rushed to explain.

"I mean I'm sure you understand what we're saying. I don't doubt that. But I don't think that you are actually hearing us. I think that, this is a little confusing so try to stay with me, but I thinkyou feel the particles of air moving around us and from that are subconsciously translating what we are saying from the air."

Well, didn't that sound all super-naturally. Yay…

I sat down across from Leslie again as Aaron went and sat down next to her again.

"Okay…so I can translate from the movement of air particles? So what…I speak air?"

Both Aaron and Leslie laughed at the ridiculous idea of air being a language. But apparently, it was a language I could fluently speak.

"I know it sounds weird, but yeah, I guess so."

Weird didn't even begin to cover it.

I looked up to find Aaron slightly glaring at Leslie.

I picked up- as in with the air- a rock and threw it at Aaron's head.

I maintained my innocent expression as Aaron turned his glare to me.

"Yes, mistress Bella?"

I returned his glare as I picked up a bigger rock and threw it at him. I didn't like being thought of superior. Ms. Bella, sure. But anything that was of a variation or hinted at being better than someone was not acceptable. So, mistress or milady I didn't like.

"Don't call me that. And what are you glaring about?"

He smiled back impishly at me-trying to appease me after the stupid mistress thing. "Well, we need to practice with water and fire as well. As amazing as your air bending skills are, it's crucial that you learn to at least control the other bending skills. So you don't burn your house down when you have a particularly bad nightmare at some point."

I understood the severity of the situation, but I couldn't help saluting him as if we were in the army.

He glared and I rolled my eyes.

"I get it. I get it. You don't need to go on some hour-long lecture about how I need to be in control and I have these all-amazing powers. I get it. So get teaching Mr. McCarthy." And then I smiled angelically at him.

He rolled his eyes but started teaching nonetheless.

"First, I want you to find the nearest water source that you can tell. It doesn't matter how big it is. It can be a little puddle or a big stream just find try to find it."

I closed my eyes to search…and then I realized I already knew. I could feel the water all around me.

There was water in the air that we breathed.

There was Water on the ground that we sat. The grass was dry; the sun touched this area so it was dry. But the water was still here, it was just farther down so we couldn't feel it.

Several miles away there was a little pond or something. I could feel all of the debris that interfered with the flow of the water.

And I could feel the giant amount of water that, I assumed the water was in water bottles or something like that, Aaron and Leslie both had in their bags.

Water was everywhere. I just couldn't feel it before.

I opened my eyes, slightly dazed, to see Aaron and Leslie looking at me with slightly worried expressions. I didn't dwell on it though. I was too excited.

"It's everywhere," I explained in a whisper; growing more animated and louder in volume as I continued. "In the air, in the ground. I can feel it farther down and it's amazing. Even where it's dry. I can feel it in the snow…that's somewhere. It was to far away to tell. I can feel it in the pond…in your bags. Its amazing Aaron."

Aaron smiled. I could see the pride in his eyes but I was watching Leslie watching me.

"Leslie? What is it? Did I do something wrong?"

Her eyes widened.

"Oh, no Bella. I just thought I something flash across you eyes. Something that signifies your strength. I've never seen it really happen before so I'm not sure."

"Signifies my strength? Like what?"

"Well, I know with the three, their eyes often change color depending on which element they use. I could have sworn I saw something blue flash across your eyes."

We were silent for a moment as we let that sink in.

"Is that bad?" I asked.

"I don't know, Bella. I honestly don't."

Aaron took over the conversation again.

"Okay. That's is most definitely something to look into, but not exactly something that we can worry about right now. But something to keep in mind. Now I want you to pick up some of the water and simply move it around in a circle around me."

I took a deep breath. I knew without saying that he meant not getting him wet. Last time we tried this exercise he had ended up soaked. I just couldn't seem to grab the particles.

I took a deep breath and closed me eyes. I concentrated on slowly bringing the water up…

I smiled as it came very easily. It was almost as easy as grabbing air. I concentrated on bringing it around the space that Aaron took up…

I started slightly when I realized that I could combine these two abilities.

I smiled as the water bending came naturally. I bended it around in a circle around Aaron; as well as under his legs, through his legs, under and around his arms, and over his head- in repeating shuffled patterns.

I didn't look up but I could nearly feel his and Leslie's shock. I didn't blame them. Especially not Aaron. Just a few weeks ago I could barley do a circle without getting him soaked. Now I was moving it with ease with him staying dry. I slowed it down and brought up a separate circle around Leslie.

It didn't last very long.

"Oh!" Both Leslie and Aaron exclaimed.

I opened my eyes to see them both slightly wet. Well, not bad for a first time using two circles.

I smiled impishly at them as they blinked at me.

"Bella…h-how? Just two weeks ago you could barley do a circle. Now you can do these fancy little tricks?" Aaron finally managed to get out after he found his voice again.

I shrugged. "My only guess is that after experiencing how unbelievable hard it is to grasp fire, that the other two I already knew became easier."

He nodded. "That makes sense. Now for fire. We have several dozen matches cause if you have to start your own fire than the entire forest would burn down. No we are going to strike the match and we want you to make the fire disappear. If you get a hang of that we might let you try to make the fire grow slightly. Here's to good luck." He stuck the match. "Give it a go Bella."

"And I thought air was hard! Good grief this is impossible!" I stormed into Aaron's house and collapsed on his couch.

After two hours of working to control my fire bending, we had to drop Leslie off at the airport. Apparently, she had spent too much time away from home. I don't know. They were talking in a different language…so they could be lying to me again.

I was currently lying on his couch. My strength-mental and physical-was nearly completely back now.

I decided I had waited long enough for my answers.

As Aaron came and sat down beside me and handed me my hot chocolate, I mentally tallied my list.

His eyes change color.

He was impossibly fast.

He never slept.

He never ate or drank anything

He was too strong.

He had a sinister look about him sometimes.

He claimed to have enhanced hearing despite the fact that he wasn't an elemental.

He had secret compartments in his house

His pictures were in black and white. Old.

And he got way to defensive when I called him out on being different.

I set my empty cup down and turned to him. He looked at me.

"Your eyes changed color again." There was a slight tightening of his eyes.

"Contacts."

"You said last time you didn't wear contacts. That it was your diet."

"That's what I just said Bella."

"No, you just said it was contacts. What diet are you on Aaron? Is it human food?"

"Of course it's-" his face smoothed out as he looked at me sharply.

"What other food is there Bella?"

"Whatever food that your kind eat."
"Don't be ridiculous." He said standing up.

"About what Aaron?" I stood up as well.

"Whatever it is that you're going on about." He glared at me with such intensity that he looked truly terrifying.

I stood my ground.

"Don't lie to me."

"I don't know what you're talking about."

I took a deep breath before I looked him in the eye and stated the very thing he didn't want to hear.

"Aaron. You are not human."

A/N: So, sorry I couldn't do anything Christmassy. It just wouldn't have flown.

Thanks to those that review. I was quite disappointed in the last chapter so this time it's going to be 4 reviews before I update. I know I have that many 'fans' out there.

Merry Late Christmas guys!

I'll try to be faster on my updates.