Chapter 125 - Chapter 127

Orlando was flying as he had never flown before. He sensed the urgency in Amell's aura and that caused him to lose the childlike personality he usually showed. Amell started to more accurately focus in on Aang's aura to get a specific location.

'That's interesting, his location is inside the water tribe village. I wonder if they know who they are dealing with over there.' Amell opened his eyes and his eyes pierced the space between him and the water tribe village.

Amell suddenly looked in another direction, 'Fire benders? And another Grand Master at that, interesting. I wonder if they know about Aang.' Amell didn't pay them any mind and instead focused on the water tribe village.

The night sky that hung over their heads started to disappear the closer they got to the village. The night turned to early morning and the world brightened up.

Amell and Orlando arrived at the south pole after quite some time and a very familiar but tiny water tribe village became visible in front of them. They were a few hundred meters up in the air, but both of them had a perfect vision of the ground. They had arrived just in time to see a fire nation ship closing in on the village, the Grand Master was on that ship as well.

"Aang, good to see you again," Amell said as he watched the young air bender running towards the village. It looked like a battle was gonna happen soon, so Amell chose to just observe for now.

And down on the ground, the ship had now smashed through that sorry excuse for a village wall. And on the ship stood an angry-looking teenager. He looked determined, and half his face was burned from a fire bending injury.

As the front of the ship was lowered and destroyed the rest of the village, Sokka, the only male over ten years old still left in the village got knocked back a few meters by the ship bridge that lowered and destroyed his wall.

Down on the walkway came a dozen or so fire nation soldiers. And leading these soldiers was the angry-looking teenager, and he walked with pride, and his entire aura spoke of how important this was for him.

"That boy sure is interesting. His soul is twisted and caught in a major struggle similar to my own. His good side is forcefully suppressed by the boy himself. Almost like he acts evil and cruel because he thinks that's what he is supposed to be. Very interesting." Amell found the boy fascinating and he really wanted to see how he handled this exchange.

"AAAAAAAH" Sokka ran up to the teenager but got defeated with just two kicks. And Amell shook his head slowly at Sokka's lack of any skill in combat. A five-year-old Aang would decimate that poor water, tribe boy.

"I want the Avatar, I know you're hiding him, so give him up now." Said the fire nation teenager.

Sokka got back up and picked up his weapon, "AAAAH" another try, but also another failure for he was flung overhead and landed on his ass, and lost his breath for a second.

"This boy! Don't announce your location like that." Amell again shook his head at how predictable he was. He couldn't be more obvious in how he moved and attacked.

"Last chance for all of you to bring me the Avatar!" He said and glared at the villagers. His patience was running thin.

"I'M HERE!" A voice came from behind him and Aang appeared on a penguin looking animal knocked the teenager over. Aang jumped up and landed in front of the villagers. He brought forth his staff and aimed it all the fire benders.

"Who are you, and what are you doing here?" Aang asked and actually tried to look intimidating like Amell had taught him in the past. He made sure that all the villagers were safe behind him.

"My name is Zuko, and I'm looking for the Avatar. Bring him to me!" Zuko demanded.

"I'm afraid you're looking at him," Aang said with regret and guilt in his voice.

"You're the Avatar?" Katara and Sokka said from the sidelines simultaneously.

"Sorry, I should have told you," He looked at the two siblings with an apologetic expression, but he kept his guard up against Zuko.

"You can't be him, you're supposed to be a hundred years old. I trained every day for this, but you're just a kid," Zuko said with shock and disbelief. He couldn't believe that the person even his great-grandfather failed to find and capture was just a kid.

"A kid who can kick your ass." Aang took on the battle stance Amell taught him, and immediately Zuko's awareness shot through the roof. Just changing his stance caused a chill to spread through his body.

On the ship stood a short and chubby man and observed Aang, 'Whoever trained him is one scary individual,' he thought as even he felt danger from Aang now, and he had reached Grand Master status long ago.

"AAAH!" Zuko got agitated by Aang's response and attacked, but Aang was trained by Amell, so he perfectly countered and contained every flame Zuko sent out. There was no spread of the flame so the villagers were safe, and Zuko couldn't get an advantage over Aang in bending.

"Do it!" Zuko ordered and his soldiers spread out around the villagers and pointed their weapons and flame-filled fists at them. "Surrender and they shall not be harmed.

"That's dirty, but all is fair in war," Amell said and waved his hand, and multiple blasts of air appeared and knocked the soldiers unconscious.

"What!?" Zuko looked around in confusion, and then at Aang, but the boy had already moved in and he landed a strike with his fist on Zuko's face and made him crash into the snow wall.

"Zuko!" The old man on the ship let his aura out and he prepared to move in, but a hand landed on his shoulder and held him in place, "We seniors should not interfere in a fight among children, don't you think so, Grand Master?" Amell said in a whisper tone, but the killing intent inside his voice froze the old man in place.

"Who are you, Sir?" He asked Amell while slowly taking up his cup that was placed on the railing of the ship. He took a sip, and let the sweet flavour of his favourite tee calm him down.

"I am the guardian of the Avatar. Grand Master Iroh, I am not your enemy." A white chip flew with the help of air bending and landed on the railing. "We want the same thing for this world, so don't force me to do something I'll regret doing." Amell's voice drifted away and Iroh felt the grip on his shoulder disappear.

Iroh picked up the chip and sighed while observing it, 'The world might finally have a chance to pull through this nightmare.' he put away the chip and watched some soldiers carry an unconscious Zuko on board the ship.

"Retreat, this operation is a failure, retreat!" Iroh said and watched the villagers celebrating Aang and Sokka.

'Stay strong, Zuko.' He said before walking inside again.

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