Chapter 95 - Chapter 97

Dragon was walking around inside the walls of southern air temple. He was looking for Aang because the boy had missed the appointed time for their training.

He spotted a group of kids that looked to be Aang's age. So he approached them in hope for some answers.

"Excuse me, little ones. Do any of you know where Aang is?" He said and watched all kids turn around at the exact same time, it looked a little creepy how in sync they performed that.

"Aang should be with elder G-Gyatso. He's always there, I'm so jealous." The kid said and immediately forgot about Dragon again. His massive size didn't earn him any cool points with the kids.

"I see. Thank you, little one." Dragon had for some bizarre reason gotten into a habit of calling the kids here, little ones. He didn't know when it started, but now it had become a habit of his.

'He couldn't possibly still be with Gyatso. That can not be the case, he is fifteen minutes late after all.' Dragon started walking towards Gyatso's house.

The closer he came to the house, the more he realized how lax he had been with Aang and Gyatso. Because right now, he could hear loud laughter from inside the house.

He arrived at the house and walked inside. And immediately he was faced with the scene of Gyatso and Aang eating cake and laughing.

"Gyatso! I accepted this role out of respect for you. But if you do not want me to teach Aang, then you could have just said so." The more he talked, the louder he became and the more violent the winds around the house became.

"Whoops! It seems we forgot about your practice today, Aang." Gyatso said and smiled. But that smiled disappeared when he was met with Dragon's gaze.

"Aang, there is no training today. But if you don't show your face on my mountain tomorrow. Then I will just leave now instead of two years from now." He was staring at Gyatso but talking to Aang.

"We understand! Forgive us, Temple Guardian!" Gyatso said and laughed silently to himself. But he also forced Aang to bow down by using his hand to press on the boys head.

"Forgive me, Teacher!" Aang said. But he didn't mean any of it. Aang was three years old so much of the things going on in his life, he didn't understand. And that was also true for his training. He didn't know that a specific time was set up. That was Gyatso's duty.

"If I find you doing this again, there will be a price to pay." Dragon glared at the duo before walking out of the house in frustration.

'Should have stayed on my mountain.' Dragon complained like an old man already. And it didn't take long before he heard Aang and Gyatso laughing again.

'I will never leave my mountain again!' Dragon walked away with a depressing and annoying aura around him.

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Dawn of the next day arrived and Aang together with the carefree Gyatso arrived on the mountain. Gyatso looked healthy and refreshed, but Aang looked like he was still asleep.

"Wake up!" Dragon waved his hand towards the boy, and a gust of wind appeared and washed over the boy like a bucket of cold water.

"The moment you step on my mountain, training is in session. Start doing the practice exercise I showed you."

"Yes, teacher!" Aang said and started to awkwardly do the exercise because he was very tired.

Gyatso sat down and started to meditate like he always would while waiting for Aang to finish. Dragon did not join him this time. He focused completely on Aang.

"No, that is wrong!" Dragon started using his emperor tone now that he realized how relaxed Gyatso was. And since he was very annoyed at their behaviour he would break down and build up the boy as payback.

"Raise your arm two more centimetres. Your leg needs to be here instead. That stance will give you horrible results." Dragon walked around the boy with a stick and readjusted every mistake the boy did. And even Gyatso raised an eyebrow at this change of tone in the training.

'Someone's definitely annoyed.' He smiled and laughed silently and went back to meditating in silence.

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A month passed like this in the blink of an eye. Dragon and Aang met every day to train in close combat. But today was different. Dragon had cancelled their practice because a few days previously he had discovered something interesting.

Three days before during a session with Aang, he had seen an eagle flying passed his mountain. Now, this wasn't odd at all. What interested him was that this particular eagle had used wind bending while flying.

So Dragon would go out for a mini adventure to find the nest of this eagle. He really liked the idea of an eagle mount, and also he believed these eagles could give him some insight into flying.

That was one of the things that he still hadn't mastered. Flying with wind magic was easy. Flying with air bending was unbelievably difficult to master. Through a scroll Gyatso had given him, he knew flying was possible, and he also had an idea of how. But that didn't change the fact that it was very difficult to master.

Dragon's mountain was the third tallest mountain in this gigantic chain of mountains. And he believed the eagle to have its nest on the tallest mountain, so that was his destination.

The entire mountain range had a wall connecting all of them. And you could walk upon this wall, and it was, in fact, the only way to reach this temple from the outside. And it was a difficult path to walk. And that is the reason why this temple is so peaceful and safe.

Dragon arrived at the wall that was connecting all the mountains together. It was about half the size of his mountain and the narrow path on top it was dangerous to walk on.

'Do not fall down.' Dragon said to himself and he started his journey away from the temple for the first time since his arrival.

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