The one-eyed Avatars

Chapter 4

  The bisons were flying through the skies non stop, their owners on their backs. It felt like the whole archipelago was searching for the teenager.
  Not having a bison, the Avatar had been dropped in a spot on the main island that had many small angles and rocks, caves, cavities and hollow spaces that were't visible from an air bison and better when you had a winged lemur with you, together with a few other teenagers and young adults who were aspiring airbenders and did this being a part of mountain rescue teams, Feliciano on the other hand just did this because he needed to find his brother.

  They had been searching for days already, their father still wanted to believe that he was on the island, while grandpa Roma had the same guess as Feliciano: His brother wasn't on the archipelago anymore. Their first guess had been the old ruins of the original temples, there were still some parts of the old spiritual sites nearly untouched in their old, destructed form, even in the year 328 AG, but Lovino hadn't been there, but he wasn't anywhere else either, he just couldn't be here anymore.
  He might have jumped off, but everyone found that to be very unlikely. Still, a little worry about exactly that remained in the back of Feliciano's head. There had been a lot of communication between the Western Air Temple and Air Temple Island in Republic City, all talking about where the teenager could be. The representatives from the continent were already searching, but the city was basically a jungle, it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

  In Republic City, Romeo was cramming for the school's start in two weeks in the middle of autumn, which was hard, he knew everything about the missing of his brother and was worried to death that something might have happened to his grumpy older fratello.
  The school material wasn't too complicated or hard to understand, he had to read a few works of talented diplomats and philosophers, as well as some basic knowledge about other topics, it wasn't to much all in all and he got a lot of support from one of the academy's social workers, the one who had been there as well when he travelled from the Western Air Temple to Republic City, Mademoiselle De Vriese.

  Currently the airbender was getting ready for his introduction day at school where he'd meet the other pupils of his year, most of them would be around his age and a little older, he knew that much. Manon had said that it was alright if he came with Stella since she wasn't an adult, fully-grown bison yet. He landed on what he believed was some kind of sports field. Stella simply decided to take a nap, she hadn't completely gotten used to the stranger bisons on Air Temple Island yet so she's need some time alone.

  He entered the assembly hall where all new students were, he guessed it was around 90 future pupils or so. Outside where three waving flags, one of the New Republic Territory, with the same emblem as when it had been the United Republic of Nations, one of the Earth Flower Nation, with the same emblem as it's capital city of Zaofu in the middle of the large, waving white-black-white flag, and the third flag, the flag of the earth kingdom and it's capital Ba Sing Se. Those were the three contries the new pupils came from, however the foreign ones were here for an exchange studying time.

  The headmistress of the Academy, a tall, beautiful woman with water tribe origin stepped on the podium in front of the crowd, behind her some teachers, among others her son who was the teacher for basic and advanced law, Alfred F. Jones and a few other teachers Romeo simply didn't recognise yet.
  She held a quick welcoming speech about how glad she was to welcome the academy's 122nd year's pupils, but it was brief and they were soon put into groups based on their first and most important classes, which meant Romeo was put with the other pupils with diplomacy as their most important class.
  Romeo seemed to be one of the youngest, although they weren't many in total. Just one boy looked a little younger than him, and he was coming right into his direction.

   "Nice to meet you! I'm Peter!" he said, speaking in a very odd dialect Romeo had never heard before.
   "Romeo, nice to meet you too. I'm twelve, what about you?"
  The blonde boy smiled proudly. "I'm soon twelve as well!"
  The two boys were politely interrupted. "Excuse me, I'm sorry. My name is Mr. Honda, I'll be your teacher in advanced diplomacy and basic history." A short, black haired man said.
   "I'm the teacher for basic diplomacy and basic and advanced phylosophy, Panayotis Karpusi. We'd like to begin the tour." He smiled at the pupils who all looked at the two in excitement.