Chapter 121 - Chapter 123

Amell was back on in the southern air temple. Last time he came here, he decided to stay for a year, but he barely made it a week before the Southern water tribe was attacked, so he was back to wait out his time. He enjoyed spending time Toph more than anything here, but he promised himself he would not stop searching for Aang. And this tactic wasn't necessarily the best way to search for him, but Aang's energy signature was gone so realistically he could only wait for a sign of some sort. Because he refused to believe Aang was dead.

Orlando was just coming back from a hunting trip in the mountains, and Amell heard his familiar scream above beyond one of the peaks. But then something unexpected happened, another eagle's scream appeared, and the pitch much higher than Orlando's. Amell's eyes snapped open immediately and he looked in the direction of the two screams.

"No way! This I have to see." Amell jumped up on his feet and flew over to one of the mountains located close to the Temple. And once he rose above the clouds and reached the top, he saw two eagles going at it, in a battle for death. Orlando was two times bigger and he was dominating the fight completely. And the other eagle, with gold coloured feathers, had fought long and hard but in the end, it was exhausted and Orlando just played with his opponent now.

"Orlando, stop," Amell said as he landed on the mountain top. And a chill went up through Orlando's body as he heard Amell's voice, and especially the underlying tone of anger in his voice.

"How could you beat up such a young beauty?" Amell slowly walked over to the downed and hurt eagle. He wrapped his hands in cosmic energy and slowly started to change its properties until the energy turned light green in colour.

"I'm just gonna heal those injuries, is that okay?" Amell said and smiled towards the eagle. It looked at him with some cautiousness, but eventually, it nodded and laid back down relaxed. Amell put his hands on its body and slowly through stroking its body, dispersed the energy to help heal those injuries.

Amell made quick work of it, and then quick as lightning flew up to hit Orlando on the head, kinda hard, but not enough to seriously hurt him, but he still got angry from it. "KAA!" Orlando screamed at Amell.

"You know we don't go around and randomly hurt people or anyone else. That's for barbarians, and I will not have one of those as my partner, so you apologize to her, right now!" Amell said and pointed at the golden eagle. Orlando however, refused to do something like that.

"kaa, ka!" He argued back while sitting down like a stubborn child. Amell felt his frustration growing.

"I don't care if that is how you say hello. Apologize to her or I will show you a welcome so grand you won't be able to fly for another hundred years, at least." Amell released his killing intent, and this immediately got Orlando moving.

"Kaa," He said towards the golden eagle, though in a very lazy and uncaring tone.

"Well, that's better than nothing. So, tell me where you two met." Amell said to Orlando.

"KAA!" He answered proudly.

"So you're saying she lived here on this mountain since a few decades ago, and you came and took it over. Is that true?" Amell turned towards the golden beauty lying behind him.

"ka," She answered timidly. Obviously, she wasn't as old as Orlando was, and therefore not as strong or confident as he had become after travelling with Amell.

"I see..." Amell slowly turned towards Orlando and quickly delivered an even harder punch to the head.

"KAAA!" He screamed back from being punched out of nowhere.

"You beat her up, stole her home, and then you bragged about it to me. I thought you knew me better than that. How did you think I would react? We are solving this now, sit down!" Amell said to Orlando, and having no choice in the matter, he sat down and glared at the other eagle.

"So tell me how you met and the event leading up to it, in great detail," Amell said and crossed his arms over his chest.

A few days later, Amell, Orlando and their newest addition to the group was eating dinner inside the Temple. Amell had managed to smooth things over between the two eagles and they were starting to get along, but they were still in the beginning stages of their relationship. They sparred each and every day, and of course, Orlando dominated because he refused to show mercy in even a spar.

Amell was finished eating so he was experimenting with Fire Bending. And more specifically improvements to it in the forms of hotter and more powerful flames. He discovered that through the use of spirit bending he could increase the heat to what he believed to be an indefinite amount. He didn't go crazy with it because he knew he could melt this Temple by just increasing the heat around himself through Fire Bending. And so far he had only experimented with Fire bending, and he was extremely excited for how the other elements could be improved.

While playing and experimenting with the fire, his stomach started turning. He was starting to feel ill, but he knew it was nothing physical. "Toph!" He suddenly stood up and looked towards the east. He had slight panic written across the face. Toph had just gotten hurt, he could feel it. It wasn't super serious but he felt her feel it.

"Orlando, Gold, you two stay here, I have to go, I will be back soon." Amell ran off and jumped off the edge of the temple and disappeared beyond the horizon in only seconds.

Orlando and Gold were so absorbed in their food that they just silently nodded, and immediately went back to eating without caring that Amell left.

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