Air, Water, Earth, Fire.
"Your getting better at this." Tomoko tells me as we train.
"You think so?" I ask.
"Yeah, I mean you still have a lot to learn but over the past few months you have advanced rather smoothly." She says reassuringly.
It's that point where Summer is ending and Fall is beginning however the leaves haven't quite started to change color yet and fall to the ground. But you can tell in the weather. But that wasn't what interest me at the moment. What interest me was the fact that some men, one older and two younger dressed in all white came to the Island today.
"Tomoko, who are they?" I ask.
"White Lotus, they always come four times a year to talk with Master Topden about something. I don't know what." Tomoko told me.
"Want to find out?"
"What are you hinting at?"
"I figured we could listen in, see if there is anything of interest and then sneak away before anyone notices."
Tomoko puts her fingers on the bridge of her nose. "Fine. But not a sound and it's a quick in and out."
"Agreed."
So we sneak to where they are having the meeting and hide outside of the door.
"Hows the search going?" Master Topden asks the unknown old man.
"Same as always. All we can do is confirm that he or she must have been found years ago and as we are barred from there we can only look informally."
"That's unfortunate, however if they did find him or her then at least their being trained."
"Yes but will they be ready?"
"That is the question."
We quickly squirt away before anyone could discover that we were there and head back to our room.
"Showa, they were talking about you." Tomoko said in a panic.
"Yes, yes, I know however they don't know about me so calm down." I hold her to get her to relax though I too am a little on edge.
"What do you think will happen if they find out before it's time?" She asks.
"I don't know but we will deal with that when it happens. Ok."
"Ok."
We continue with the rest of the day as if we didn't see anything however that night I have a strange dream.
I find myself in a bamboo swamp. I can't use any of my bending for some reason. I start exploring with caution. Then I come across a dragon that shows me a map of the Fire Nation and points to an Island that I know to be dead.
"What reason would I have to go there?" I ask it.
"~Because the owner of that dragon wishes to speak to you on the Solstice.~." I hear a voice but I don't see where it came from. Then I wake up.
It's like five in the morning, I don't know what to think about the dream so I wake Tomoko.
"Do you know what time it is?" She asks.
"I just had a weird dream where some spirit dragon apparently wants me to go to some Island before the Solstice."
"Ugh. Fine." I can tell she's not to happy.
"Really? You will just go? Like that?"
"I know better then to question Avatar stuff. Doesn't mean I have to be happy about it though. But if you have to talk to some spirt at some place then I really have no choice but to go with you."
"So we taking your Air Bison?"
"I am not a master so I don't get one."
"Oh. Well I hope my ship can get us there in time then."
"Why how slow is it?"
"It's the same class of Ship my Great Great Grandfather Zuko used."
"Oh boy."