disclaimer: I don't own ATLA

The kids slept in two separate rooms at the temple; one for the girls and one for the boys.

Jin tossed and turned in her sleeping bag. She was having a nightmare.

Jin Jin!

"No." Jin muttered in her sleep. "Leave him alone."

A hand grabbed the princess' shoulder and started to shake her.

"Jin."

Jin didn't wake up. She continued muttering. "Please...no."

"Jin!"

Jin woke with a start at hearing Kya shout her name. She blearily looked around. Aura and Xiu were awake. At first she thought she might have talked loudly in her sleep and woke them up but when she saw them looking alert and scared. Aura was at the window looking down while Xiu was putting her knife in her boot. The sky was slightly purple meaning that it was very early in the morning. Jin was then aware of what sounded like a fight going on. She could hear screaming, running, and explosions. She quickly got up and joined Aura at the window. To her horror she saw Chikara Army soldiers attacking the people of the Northern Air Temple. The people living in the temple could hardly defend themselves from the soldiers because the attack was unexpected. All they could do was run from the soldiers and try to escape. A lot of the people, Jenni and Teo included, were in the sky on their gliders and dropping large rocks or what looked like stink bombs on the invading soldiers. Jin was confused as to why the Chikara Army would attack the temple when it hit her.

"How did they find us?" she asked her friends.

"I don't know." said Kya. She was running around the room grabbing their things and putting them in their bags. "But we have to get out of here."

"We can't just leave them!" Xiu said angrily

"They're after us. If we leave they'll leave the temple alone."

"Kya's right." said Aura. "It's the only way to save these people."

Jin and Xiu knew that that was true and reluctantly and quickly started packing.

"I'm going to get the guys." said Kya, "Be ready in two minutes."

Which was more than they needed to finish getting ready to leave. Jin hid her mother's knives in her sleeves and put on the scabbard holding her father's dual dao swords.

Just in case. she thought

When they were ready to leave they ran into the hallway to get to the boy's room. When they got there Kya was arguing with Haruki.

"I refuse to run away like a coward!" Haruki yelled

"Haruki be reasonable-" But Haruki opened his father's glider and jumped out the window. "Haruki!"

The kids all ran to the window and watched him swooping down to the ground and began fighting soldiers off with his airbender. Kya growled with frustration.

"Come on." she told the others impatiently. She and lead them into the hallway and down the strairs. "I swear his stubborness is going to kill him one of these days!"

The kids ran outside to look for Haruki and use this chance to take down as many soldiers as they could. Kya went to the bison stables to get Appa but not before telling the others that when they find Haruki run as fast as they can away from the temple.

The attack felt like great practice for Sanosuke to use his earthbending. He used the earthbending techniques Rikiya taught him and took down more soldiers than he would have with waterbending. Rikiya used earthbending and metalbending against the soldiers, either sinking the soldiers into the ground, throwing them off the mountain, or using the metal of their tanks to pin them to the ground. Jin combined her firebending with her knife throwing and sword fighting. Xiu and Aura used chi blocking on the soldiers and Xiu every now and then slashed at a soldier. Toshiro fought Water Tribe and Kyoshi style even though he didn't have any fans but he was able to take them down just the same.

After several minutes of fighting Xiu finally found Haruki. He was using his airbending and was fighting Water Tribe style. Xiu waited for him to take down the soldier he was fighting before doing what she knew she had to do.

"Sorry Haruki." she said as she snuck up behind him and chi blocked him so that he wouldn't move.

Xiu draped his limp arm over her shoulders, grabbed his staff, and dragged him away from the soldiers. Jin saw them, shot fireballs into the air to signal the others, and ran after Xiu and Haruki.

"What happened to him?" Jin asked Xiu

"She blocked my chi!" said Haruki angrily

Nice one Jin mouthed to Xiu and the young acrobat smiled.

Sanosuke, Rikiya, Aura, and Toshiro then met up with them and the seven of them ran down the slope of the mountain.

"Where's Kya?" Jin asked the others.

"She's probably waiting for us at the bottom." Rikiya answered.

Xiu started getting tired of dragging Haruki so Sanosuke and Rikiya took him.

"You do realize you could have gotten us all killed right?" Sanosuke asked Haruki

"Not now Sanosuke." said Jin, "Let's just focus on find Kya and then we'll talk."

The team kept running. They didn't want to stop in case there were any soldiers behind them and they were too full of adrenaline from all the fighting. Before long they met up with Kya, Appa, and Momo. She helped Rikiya put the still paralyzed Haruki into Appa's saddle while the others climbed on.

"Yip yip!" said Kya, snapping the reins and Appa jumped into the air. As they made their escape Kya had Appa fly around the temple before getting away.

"So that the Chikara Army knows we're not there anymore." she answered their unasked question. The kids all looked back at the temple sadly as they flew off. They were overridden with guilt from what they had brought the place. They prayed to the spirits known and unknown that nobody was seriously hurt or worse.

The soldiers fell back from the temple when they saw the bison flying off. Elvira growled in frustration that the Avatar had escaped her again. Cari approached her with the spy.

"Say goodbye to your family." she told the spy, "You're coming with us."

Shou smirked at this.

"I've said my goodbyes long ago."