Chapter 117 - Chapter 119

"That's great, Toph. Now do two of them." Amell said.

The little girl fist-bumped the air and jumped up in happiness. "I did it, Master Amell!" Toph yelled while sprinting towards him. She had just managed to throw a decently sized rock using earth bending.

"Yes, very good! But no time for celebrating. Now you need to move two rocks at the same time." Amell said and adopted a strict voice.

"Okay," Toph stopped her sprint and went back to where all the rocks were placed on the ground. She took a stance a slammed her foot down on the ground and punched the air, but only one rock was launched, the other fell down hard on the ground.

"Focus. No hesitation, and make sure to stand firm. You are solid as a mountain, nothing can move you. Now do it again." He said in a firm tone of voice, and the girl started practising again.

A few hours later, Toph was again, leaning against Amell while sleeping. She found it very comfortable because of how sturdy and hard his whole body was. She said it was like sleeping against a mountain or a hard rock. So it became her new favourite place to sleep. And Amell was worried that she wouldn't wanna return to a bed after this. So maybe he just ruined some poor parents life by turning their daughter into a rock-loving maniac.

'Well, it's time to return you home, little lady.' Amell said as he looked at the cute little girl that slept against his arm. He carefully took her tiny body into his embrace and stood up. She was in deep sleep so if he was careful she wouldn't wake up.

He knew exactly where she lived, and he felt bad about taking her home while she slept, but he was feeling himself getting too attached to Toph, and he didn't wanna kidnap another parent's child. While training with Vaatu, he had discovered many things he could do through spirit bending. And one of those was entering the mind of another target. He used it on Vaatu, but it took a lot of years to beat Vaatu's mastery in spirit bending. But he did eventually do it.

He felt horrible, and he had no desire to intrude into Toph's mind at all. But the little girl was clever, so she told him nothing except her name so she could stay there with him longer. But Amell still needed to find Orlando, and eventually, return home, so he didn't wanna get too attached to Toph.

"Okay! You can do this, Amell. Just focus on the location." He once again made a vertical slit in the air and the spatial crack appeared. And with toph surrounded by cosmic energy as an extra layer of protection, he stepped inside.

Inside the town of Gaoling, there was one family that had a great social status. They were very well known within this town. They owned a big mansion, with an impressive looking backyard. And in this backyard appeared a spatial crack. It was in the dead of night that Amell landed in this backyard with Toph in hand.

'Okay, success. Now to find a bed.' He closed his eyes and gave a quick tap to the ground. The entire town came into view for him, but he focused on the inside of the mansion. He saw what looked to be Toph's room. He disappeared in a burst of speed, looking like teleportation, and in the next moment, he stood inside the room.

'It saddens me to leave you, I had a lot of fun, Toph. But I can't keep you from your parents. This is your home. Goodbye!' He said while tapping her forehead with his finger. A tiny, yet completely invisible aura surrounded her, and with that, he laid her down on her bed. And immediately her expression went from peaceful and adorable to uncomfortable but still adorable.

Amell saw it and wanted to laugh, but he smiled instead and kept the laughter inside. He disappeared like teleportation and Toph was left alone, in a bed that was too soft for her liking.

Amell appeared outside of town, "I'm sorry, Toph. Hope you didn't come to like this old man too much." He said and looked back towards the town. And once again, he dashed away which resulted in looking like teleportation because his body had since a long time ago reached the absolute peak in human performance. He was beyond human even now after years of staying still.

Amell had a reading on Orlando's energy signature already, so he followed that as he dashed across the ground. Each step would take him hundreds of meters, so it literally looked like short distance teleportation. He would appear and disappear every few hundred meters.

As he was entering the desert again, he used earth bending to solidify the ground where he stepped. His mastery in all the elements had reached at least the level of Grand Master. He needed no fancy dance move to cause a storm. A thought and he could summon a mountain. He was most likely the most powerful bender of all time.

Orlando's energy signature was coming from the middle of the desert. Very far away from where Amell appeared after escaping that temporary prison world. He had no idea how long he had been gone, but he missed Orlando immensely.

Amell finally stopped in his tracks. He closed his eyes, and cosmic energy slowly infused with his eyes. And when he opened his eyes again, a whole new world was opened in front of his eyes. And Amell saw Orlando, trapped in an iron-barred cage suspended between the mortal and the spirit world.

The world between the mortal and the spiritual was a place of great chaos. It was an endless abyss of darkness with no light and no heat. It was cold and distant and like nothing humans or spirits of this world had ever seen before. This was the space between worlds.

"Orlando! Hold on!" Amell slowly gathered an immense amount of energy around his hands. And when the energy reached the amount where it started affecting the space around him, he slammed his hands together in the direction of Orlando. And the bars on his cage vibrated and slowly a crack appeared in one of the bars. It didn't take long for the whole cage to break apart. And at the moment where Orlando's body started to fall towards the endless abyss beneath him, Amell snapped his finger and a portal appeared in that world, so Orlando's body fell through it.

The portal manifested in the mortal world and Orlando's body fell down on the sand. Amell quickly dashed towards his partner, and he sat down on his knees by Orlando's head. He started stroking his head slowly with a smile on his face. "Good morning, partner!" He said to the giant eagle.

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